Wisconsin Russia Project
Third Young Scholars Conference
June 2-3, 2022
Day 1 – Thursday, June 2, 2022
8:00 Coffee
8:30 Welcome and Introduction
8:45-10:30 Plenary I-Civil Society, Public Opinion, and Social Processes
10:30-10:45 Coffee
10:45-12:15 Parallel Sessions I
12:15-1:30 Buffet Lunch
1:30-3:00 Parallel Sessions II
3:00-3:15 Coffee
3:15-4:45 Parallel Sessions III
Day 2 – Friday, June 3, 2022
8:30 Coffee
9:00-10:30 Plenary II-Education
10:30-10:45 Coffee
10:45-12:15 Plenary III-Russia and the South
12:15-1:30 Buffet Lunch
1:30-3:00 Plenary IV-Legal Institutions
3:00-3:15 Closing Remarks
Day 1 – Thursday, June 2, 2022
Day 1 – June 2, 2022
8:00 am CDT Coffee, tea, and pastries: Outside Room 235 Pyle Center
8:30 am CDT Welcome and Introduction: Zoom link (Room 235 Pyle Center)
8:45 – 10:30 am CDT Plenary I (Room 235 Pyle Center)
Day 1-June 2, 2022
8:45 – 10:30 am CDT
Plenary I Zoom link
(Room 235 Pyle)
Civil Society, Public Opinion, and Social Processes
| Chair: Ted Gerber, UW-Madison |
| Discussant: Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University |
Grigory Hakimov
(University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Defining “Grazhdanskoe Obschestvo” (Civil Society) in Russian Presidential Discourse: A Conceptual History Approach
Marharyta Fabrykant (Virtual)
(HSE University; Belarusian State University)
Perceived vs. Actual Consensus on Views and Values in Contemporary Russia, 2014 – 2021
Arseny Verkeev
(Wisconsin Russia Project, UW-Madison)
Perceptions of Crime in Russia: Do US-Developed Indicators Help?
Ivan Sumaneev (Virtual)
(European University at Saint Petersburg)
An improbable choice: Incentives to join opposition political parties in Russia
Anna Pestova (Virtual)
(CERGE-EI)
Food Supply, Poverty and Public Health during the Transformation Crisis of the 1990s in Russia
Day 1 – June 2, 2022
10:30 am – 10:45 am CDT
Coffee Break (Outside Room 235 Pyle Center)
10:45 am – 12:15 pm CDT
Parallel Sessions I
Day 1-June 2, 2022
Parallel Session I Zoom link
10:45 am-12:15 pm CDT
A. State and Society (Room 235 Pyle)
| Chair: Aistė Mickonytė, University of Graz |
| Discussant: Kathryn Hendley, UW-Madison |
Kathleen Gergely
(Indiana University)
Regime Priorities in the Russian Federation: Evidence from Regional Replacements, 2005-2021
Eleonora Minaeva (Virtual)
(Center for Comparative History and Political Studies, Perm State University, Russia)
The Factors of Electoral Mobilization at the Local Level in Russia: 2016 – 2018
Dmitrii Kofanov (Virtual)
(University of Barcelona)
Does Past Labor Coercion Cause Conflict?: Evidence from the Late Russian Empire
Dmitri Trifonov (Virtual)
(Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Board independence in Russian state companies: the effect of institutional innovations
Day 1-June 2, 2022
Parallel Session I Zoom link
10:45 am-12:15 pm CDT
B. Place, Memory, and Belonging (Room 335 Pyle)
| Chair: Anton Shirikov, UW-Madison |
| Discussant: Ted Gerber, UW-Madison |
Ekaterina Mikhailova
(University of Geneva)
Performing Slavic (Dis)Unity at the Russia-Belarus-Ukraine tri-border point over time
Adam Lenton
(George Washington University)
The imperial origins of sub-nationalism: state expansion and national identity in Russia’s ethnic republics
Marat Iliyasov
(Wisconsin Russia Project, UW-Madison)
Clash of collective memories in post-war Chechnya
Wojciech Cendrowski
(University of Warsaw)
The Buddhist Topography of a post-Soviet city. The case of Ulan-Ude.
Day 1 – June 2, 2022
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm CDT
Buffet Lunch
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm CDT
Parallel Sessions II
Day 1-June 2, 2022
Parallel Session II Zoom link
1:30 pm-3:00 pm CDT
A. Identity Politics (Room 235 Pyle)
| Chair: Marat Iliyasov, WRP, UW-Madison |
| Discussant: Natalia Savelyeva, CEPA, Public Sociology Laboratory |
Sergey Katsuba (Virtual)
(University College Dublin)
Censorship, Discrimination and Violence: A Socio-Legal Analysis of the Effects of the Russian “Gay Propaganda Law”
Ekaterina Travova (Virtual)
(CEBI, University of Copenhagen)
For God, Tsar and Fatherland? The Political Influence of Church
Dinara Urazova
(Northwestern University)
Postmodern identity through the lens of Vladislav Surkov’s writings
Alfiya Lyapina
(Wisconsin Russia Project, UW-Madison)
Refugee, labor migrant, student, or…? Strategies of Syrian migrants & refugees in surviving and obtaining migration statuses
Day 1-June 2, 2022
Parallel Session II Zoom link
1:30 pm-3:00 pm CDT
B. Demography and Health (Room 335 Pyle)
| Chair: Kathryn Hendley, UW-Madison |
| Discussant: Cynthia Buckley, University of Illinois |
Laura Eras
(Free University Berlin, LMU Munich)
Assortative Mating on Education in Russia, 1991-2017
Victor Postonogov
(University of Michigan – Ann Arbor)
The Interrelationships between Alcohol Consumption and Marriage
Michael Zaslavsky
(UW-Madison)
The Drivers of Decline: Russian Regional Fertility, 1991-2019
Iana Nakhimova
(Wisconsin Russia Project, UW-Madison)
Physical activity among young adults in Russia, 1996-2020: Predictors and Policy Impact
Day 1 – June 2, 2022
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm CDT
Coffee Break (Outside Room 235 Pyle Center)
3:15 pm – 4:45 pm CDT
Parallel Sessions III
Day 1-June 2, 2022
Parallel Session III Zoom link
3:15 pm – 4:45 pm CDT
A. Political Economy and Public Policy (Room 235 Pyle)
| Chair: Paul Dower, UW-Madison |
| Discussant: Barry Ickes, Penn State (virtual) |
Andrey Yushkov
(Indiana University)
How Pervasive is the Soft Budget Constraint in the Russian Regions?
Venera Albaeva
(Wisconsin Russia Project, UW-Madison)
Elimination of pension indexation: labor market consequences
Hamid Ait El Caid
(Corvinus University of Budapest)
Exploring the “limitations” of Russia’s migrant integration policy: Analysis of ‘MIPEX’ Russia between 2014 and 2019.
Dima Kortukov
(Indiana University)
Electoral Reform and Elite Defection in Autocracies: Evidence from the USSR
Day 1-June 2, 2022
Parallel Session III Zoom link
3:15 pm – 4:45 pm CDT
B. Crisis, Conflict, and Change (Room 335 Pyle)
| Chair: Yoshiko Herrera, UW-Madison |
| Discussant: Graeme Robertson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Valeria Umanets
(Wisconsin Russia Project, UW-Madison)
Political Participation of Women in Russia: From State Supported Feminism to Putin’s Machismo
Alina Kontareva
(Wisconsin Russia Project, UW-Madison)
Russia’s Platform Economy After the War in Ukraine
Daniil Kashkarov
(Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economic Institute (CERGE-EI), Prague)
Childcare Provision and Female Labor Supply in Russia: Evidence from the Household Survey Data
Maria Ukhvatova
(St Petersburg State University)
The Symphony is Over? The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Russian Orthodox Church–State Relations
Day 2 – Friday, June 3, 2022
Day 2 – June 3, 2022
8:30 am CDT Coffee, tea, and pastries: Outside Room 235 Pyle Center
9:00 am – 10:30 am CDT Plenary II (Room 235 Pyle Center)
Day 2-June 3, 2022
9:00 am – 10:30 am CDT
Plenary II Zoom link
(Room 235 Pyle Center)
Education
| Chair: Iana Nakhimova, WRP, UW-Madison |
| Discussant: Paul Dower, UW-Madison |
Aleksei Egorov (Virtual)
(National Research University Higher School of Economics)
Universities’ internal governance and their efficiency – evidence from empirical analysis
Akmaral Karabay
(Nazarbayev University)
Comparative study of English Medium Instruction policies in Higher Education in the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan
Ksenia Romanenko (Virtual)
(Institute of Education, HSE University)
Higher education in single-industry towns: cooperation, autonomy, and experience of field trips as a research tool
Anna Khoruzhenko
(University of Michigan)
Spillover effects of the All-Russian Olympiad for high school students
Day 2 – June 3, 2022
10:30 am – 10:45 am CDT
Coffee Break: Outside Room 235 Pyle Center
10:45 am – 12:15 pm CDT Plenary III (Room 235 Pyle Center)
Day 2-June 3, 2022
10:45 am – 12:15 pm CDT
Plenary III Zoom link
(Room 235 Pyle Center)
Russia and the South
| Chair: Yulia Khalikova, WRP, UW-Madison |
| Discussant: Yoshiko Herrera, UW-Madison |
John C. Stanko
(Indiana University)
Examining Latent Non-Coercive Russian Influence on Kazakhstan via International Partnership Networks in Higher Education
Sofya Ragozina (Virtual)
(Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
The Political Agenda in the Virtual Space of Russian Muslims: Building Identity and Striving for “True” Representation
Pengshan Pan
(University of Pittsburgh
Foreign Mining, Labor Welfare and Local Trust: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan Gold Mine
Daria Vorobyeva (Virtual)
(OSCE Academy in Bishkek)
What’s next? Aspirations of post-February 2022 Russian migrants in Kyrgyzstan
Day 2- June 3, 2022
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm CDT
Buffet Lunch
1:30 pm –3:00 pm CDT Plenary IV (Room 235 Pyle Center)
Day 2-June 3, 2022
1:30 pm– 3:00 pm CDT
Plenary IV Zoom link
(Room 235 Pyle Center)
Legal Institutions
| Chair: Peter Krug, University of Oklahoma Law School |
| Discussant: Peter Solomon, University of Toronto (virtual) |
Fedor Voskresenskii (Virtual)
(Moscow State University)
The features of the Judicial Branch functioning in the contemporary Russian political system
Julian Waller
(George Washington University)
The Perils of Authoritarian Presidentialism: Stumbling Towards Authoritarian Constitutionalism in Eurasia
Yulia Khalikova
(Wisconsin Russia Project, UW-Madison)
How Authoritarian Courts Use International Law: Evidence from Russia
Adel Khusnulgatin
(University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management)
A Friend in Trouble. Police Nepotism in Russia.
Day 2- June 3, 2022
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm CDT
Closing Remarks
The Wisconsin Russia Project is funded by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York, which made the Young Scholars Conference possible. The Project also receives support from the International Division, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, and the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.