Viktorya Sukovata

PhD and doctor habilitata in cultural theory, professor of theory of culture and philosophy in the Science Department, Kharkiv National […]

• Vladislav Staf

  PhD student at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle & Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV).

• Eugenia Seleznova

  Doctoral Researcher at Central European University, Vienna. Eugenia studies the impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war on LGBTQ+ Ukrainians, with a focus on the spatiotemporal component of the war-inflicted injustices they are subjected to. Her research interests include queer migration, Eastern European coloniality, and queer (non)belonging.

• Eva Ievgeniia Babenko

  Is a Doctoral Researcher at Åbo Akademi University, Turku. Her research interests include mediation and reconciliation efforts with the long-term occupied territories of Donbas and the role of conflicting identities in overcoming the consequences of war. She is also researching Russian propaganda in Donbas and the post-colonial perspective of wars in former Soviet countries.

• Liisamaija Hautsalo

  Finnish Musicologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Sibelius Academy.

• Gergely Fazekas

  Musicologist and an Associate Professor at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music.

• Iveri Kekenadze Gustafsson and Nana Sharikadze

  Iveri Kekenadze Gustafsson is a classical pianist and incoming PhD researcher in European Studies at Lund University. Nana Sharikadze, Assoc.Prof; PhD, Musicologist Tbilisi State Conservatoire.

• Cecila Ferm Almqvist and Kristi Kiilu

  Cecila Ferm Almqvist is a Professor in Music Pedagogy at Södertörn University, and a visiting Professor in Education at Gothenburg University. Kristi Kiilu is a Professor and a head of Music Pedagogy and curriculum coordinator at Estonian Music and Theater Academy.

• Samuli Korkalainen

  Music researcher at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki and President of the Finnish Society for Hymnology and Liturgy, as well as pastor, church musician, and LGBTQIA+ activist.

• Ann Werner

  Senior Lecturer in Musicology and Associate professor in Gender Studies at Uppsala University.

• Rüdiger Strempel

  The Executive Secretary of HELCOM.

• Monica Quirico

  Affiliated scholar at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University, Stockholm.

• Akvilė Giniotaitė

  PhD student in Educational Studies at Vilnius University.

• Ekaterina Kalinina et al

  Ekaterina Kalinina is an Associate Professor at the Department for Media Studies at Stockholm University. Five anonymous Russian co-authors.

• Oleksandra Keudel

  Kyiv School of Economics, CBEES Fellow (August-December 2023).

• Yuchen Li

  Yuchen Li, a master’s student of Social Studies of Gender at Lund University, transcribed the recorded version of the roundtable.

• Hansalbin Sältenberg et al

  Hansalbin Sältenberg holds a PhD in Gender Studies, Södertörn University.

• Marta Grzechnik

  Assistant Professor at the Institute for Scandinavian and Finnish Studies, University of Gdańsk.

• Lelde Luika

  Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University.

• Alar Kilp

  Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia.

• Galyna Kutsovska

  PhD student at the Department of History at Uppsala University.

• Stefan Jonsson

  Professor in Ethnic Studies and Head of the Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University, Sweden.

• Liubov Kuplevatska

  Ukrainian scholar currently based at Lund University, the Center for Languages and Literature, via a grant for Ukrainian scholars from the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation. Associate Professor at the Kharkiv National University in Kharkiv, February 2022.

• Alexandra Brankova

  PhD candidate at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies & Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University.

• Tatiana Sokolova, Oldouz Nejadibabadaei and Bartira Fortes

  PhD-students in environmental studies.

• Mladen Dolar

  Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana. His principal areas of research are psychoanalysis, modern French philosophy, German idealism and art theory. He has lectured extensively in US and across Europe, and published widely in scholarly journals, collected volumes and books.

• Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

  Professor in Political Aesthetics at the University of Copenhagen. Research focus on the politics and history of the avant-garde, the politics of contemporary art and the revolutionary tradition.

• Rebecka Katz Thor

  A writer and senior lecturer at REMESO Linköping University and in Aesthetics at Södertörn University. She is co-chair of Memory Studies Association Nordic and participating researcher in the project Distrusting Monuments – Art and the War in Former Yugoslavia. Her research focus is on cultural memory studies, contemporary art, monuments and museums in relation to difficult pasts.

• Gal Kirn

  Assistant Professor and Research Associate at the department of sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and affiliated with Södertörn University, and part of the international research group Partisan Resistances, University of Grenoble. Research focuses: art, politics and memory in the period of the national liberation struggle and socialist Yugoslavia.

• Cecilia Sjöholm

  Professor of Aesthetics at Södertörn University and project leader of the research project Distrusting Monuments. Art and the war in Former Yugoslavia (funded by the Baltic and East European Studies Foundation). She studies the relation between art and politics in contemporary culture. She has published extensively on art, psychoanalysis and critical theory.

• Thomas Borén

  Professor of Geography Stockholm University. Chair of the Steering Committee of the Urban and Regional Planning Programme, Stockholm University. Founding Director of Stockholm University Higher Seminar in Urban and Regional Planning (SUHSIS).

• Sune Bechmann Pedersen

  Docent (Reader) in History and Senior Lecturer in Digital History at the Department of History, Stockholm University. He specialises in 20th century European history: the transnational history of media, memory, tourism, European integration, and the Cold War.

• Kara D. Brown & Aimee Herring

  Kara D. Brown: PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Education Foundations and Inquiry Program Department of Leadership, Learning Design and Inquiry at the University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on language policy, minority schooling and teacher migration and she has conducted studies in Estonia. Aimee Herring: PhD-student in Anthropology and Presidential Fellow at the University of South Carolina. Research focus on migration, language and belonging, and with a particular interest in Baltic Studies.

• Maria Silina

  PhD, is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of History of Art at UQAM, Montreal and a Visiting Fellow at CBEES, Södertörn University, Stockholm (2023). They participate in several research projects that address Communist culture and media, museum studies, and contemporary art activism.

• Anastasiia Chupis

  A PhD-student at Zaporizhzhia National University and a scholarship holder at Södertörn University. Research focus: war and peace studies, peacebuilding, reconciliation, and the involvement of vulnerable categories in this process. She has management experience from international technical assistance programs and NGO-projects in Ukraine.

• Johanna Mannergren Selimovic

  Associate Professor in Peace and Development Research, a Senior Lecturer and currently a Research Coordinator at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, CBEES, at Södertörn University. Her research concerns peace processes with a focus on the politics of memory, transitional justice, gender, and everyday peace.

• Anna Schwenck, Aleksej Tikhonov, David-Emil Wickström

  Anna Schwenck (Siegen University), Aleksej Tikhonov (UZH Zurich), David-Emil Wickström (Popakademie Baden-Württemberg)

• Pēteris F Timofejevs and Louis John Wierenga

  Pēteris F Timofejevs Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Umeå University. He has written on Europeanization of foreign aid policy in Central and Eastern Europe and European NGOs working with development cooperation. Currently, his research is focused on radical right parties in the Baltic Sea area, their positions in foreign and environmental policies and their youth organizations. Louis John Wierenga Lecturer in International Relations at the Baltic Defence College, PhD fellow at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu and Research fellow at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA). His research interests include populist radical right parties – specifically leadership and party structure, social media and discursive opportunity structures, youth organizations and transnational networks. Currently, Wirenga is part of a project entitled, “Making Tomorrow’s Leaders” which is a Swedish Research Council project analyzing youth organizations of far-right parties.

• Marina Svensson

  A Professor of Modern China and since 2016 the director of the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University and responsible for the PhD-programme. She conducts interdisciplinary research and focuses on a range of different topics related to contemporary Chinese society, such as: human rights, cultural heritage, journalism and media, China’s digital society, documentary film and photography and digital ethnography.

• Oleg Antonov and Parviz Mullojonov

  Oleg Antonov Visiting researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University. He holds a PhD in political science. Parviz Mullojonov Is a Political Scientist, Senior Adviser of the International Alert office in Tajikistan and former Chairman of the Board of the Tajik branch of the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation); one of the active country’s civil society activists since the middle of 90’s. Mullojanov is a former member of the Inter-Tajik Dialogue, a civic initiative during the civil war in Tajikistan and former member of the EUCAM (EU and Central Asia Monitoring) research group. He worked for various international agencies and organizations such as Human Rights Watch/Helsinki, UNCHR, UNDP and ADB. He received his PhD in Islamic studies at the University of Basel (Switzerland).

• Edward Lemon

  Research Assistant Professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, Washington DC. His research focuses are on the transnational dimensions of authoritarianism, including transnational repression and authoritarian regional organizations, with a focus on post-Soviet Central Asia, Russia, and China. He has also conducted research on security issues, including violent extremism and political violence. He has spent over three years conducting research in Tajikistan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan; he speaks Russian and Tajik.

• Nurlan Aliyev

  Holds a PhD in Philosophy and Security Studies. His research area is primarily focused on Russia’s foreign and security policy, the Arctic, post-Soviet countries, strategic studies, and asymmetric warfare. He is a lecturer at the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw. His book project is supported by the Visegrad Fund Scholarship for 2021–2023.

• Oleg Antonov and Olena Podolian

  Oleg Antonov Visiting researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University. He holds a PhD in political science. Olena Podolian Holds a PhD in Political Science and is a Postdoctoral Researcher at CBEES, Södertörn University. Her research interests are: Post- Soviet regime change, state identity, war, Ukraine.

• Odeta Rudling

  Is a project administrator at the Horizon project "Europast" at the University of Lund. I hold a doctoral degree (Dr. Phil) from university of Greifswald, Germany (2019), just finished my Post-doc position at the Department of History at Lund university (12/12 2021-30/06 2023) and started working as project administrator at East and Centraleuropean Studies (Öst och Centraleuropakunskap) in April (2023). I also currently teach contemporary history at the Department of History.

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  Leo Granberg

  Professor Emeritus at the University of Helsinki and Uppsala University.

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  Ella Pertrini

  PhD-Candidate in Sociology at the Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS) at CBEES, Södertörn University

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  Paul Tap

  Research Assistant at the Department of International Studies and Contemporary History, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj. His research interests lie in direct democracy, political parties and surveillance.

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  Sylwia Koziel and Ylva Spånberger Weitz

  Sylwia Koziel holds a PhD in Social Work, and is a Senior Lecturer at Södertörn University. Main research areas: Child welfare, participation and perspectve, and international social work. Ylva Spånberger Weitz holds a PhD in Social Work, and is a Senior Lecturer at Södertörn University. Her main research interests are school social work and young people's participation in welfare services.

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  Ines Soldwisch

  Holds a PhD in History at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf. Research focus: History of Science, History of History and Cultural History.

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  Olga Bubich

  Is a Belarusian freelance journalist, photographer and memory researcher temporary based in Berlin as an ICORN Fellow. She is the author of the photobook The Art of (Not) Forgetting (2022) dedicated to the elusive nature of memory and ways to resist it.

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  Annamaria Olsson

  Founder of a NGO offering support and activities for refugees in Berlin. Essayist and human right activist.

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  Svitlana Odynets

  Is a journalist and essayist and she holds a PhD in Ethnology. Currently a Project Researcher at the University of Gothenburg.

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  Alyona Hurkivska

  PhD-Candidate in Political Science . at the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies and . a guest researcher at Södertörn University’s programme for scholars at risk.

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  Lisa Källström

  Holds a PhD and is a researcher in the field of visual rhetoric at the Department of Culture and Education at Södertörn University. Currently working on the project “Pippi Beyond the Border” funded by The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies together with Ines Soldwisch, Heinrich Heine University.

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  Alexander Generalov

  Russian lawyer with background in a range of charity and oppositional non-governmental organizations and currently is also an independent researcher of the Russian anti-war movement.

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  Inga Koroleva (pseudonym)

  Russian civil right activist that for safety reasons wants to be anonymous.

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  Alexandra Talaver and Yulia Gradskova

  Alexandra Talaver is a PhD-Candidate at the Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Vienna. Yulia Gradskova is an Associate Professor in History and a Research Coordinator at CBEES, Södertörn University.

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  Elena Rodina

  Holds a PhD from the Department of Media, Technology, and Society at Northwestern University. Her research examines the intersection of journalism and activism.

• Hugo Faber et al

  Hugo Faber, PhD-candidate in Political Science, The Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University Florence Fröhlig, PhD and Director of Studies, The Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University Viviane Griesinger, PhD-candidate in Environmental Studies, The Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University Tatiana Sokolova, PhD-candidate in Environmental Studies, The Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University Ksenia Zakharova, PhD-candidate in Environmental Studies, The Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University

• Zane Šime

  Zane Šime is an Academic Assistant at the EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies Department on the Bruges campus of the College of Europe.

• Paulina Rytkönen, Marcus Box, Tommy Larsson Segerlind. Youssouf Merouani

  Paulina Rytkönen is Senior Lecturer in Business Studies and Associate Professor in Economic History at Södertörn University. Marcus Box is Senior Lecturer in Business Studies and Associate Professor in Economic History at Södertörn University. Tommy Larsson Segerlind is Senior Lecturer in Business Administration and Director of the bachelor program Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Market EnterForum, at School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University. Youssouf Merouani is a PhD-candidate in Economic History at Lund University.

• Klaudia Kosicińska

  Is a PhD-candidate in Anthropology at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

• Achim Klüppelberg

  PhD-candidate in History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

• Yuliya Krylova-Grek

  PhD and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

• Emma Rönngren

  PhD-candidate at IRES Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University.

• Elena Palenova

  Elena Palenova is a Russian journalist based in Stockholm, and a PhD student in Environmental Studies, Södertörn University.

• Dragoș Șamșudean

  Dragoș Șamșudean is a PhD-candidate at the Department of International Relations and Contemporary History, Babeș-Bolyai University in Romania.

• Hans Gutbrod

  Teaches at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Seton Hall University and regularly writes on issues of commemoration.

• Albena Shkodrova

  Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr-University of Bochum. She is the author of the monographs Communist Gourmet: The curious story of food in the People’s Republic of Bulgaria (CEU Press, 2021) and Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria (Bloomsbury, 2021) and of numerous academic and non-academic articles on the history of food, Cold war and gender in Bulgaria and South-Eastern Europe. She is a member of the editorial board of Food and History Journal, of the RG Modernity and Society 1800–2000 of KU Leuven and is a fellow of the Centre for Russian Studies at KU Leuven.

• Ester Bardone and Anu Kannike

  Ester Bardone is a Lecturer in Ethnology at the Institute of Cultural Research, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research interests include rural tourism, small-scale rural entrepreneurship, heritage production in Estonia and changes in Estonian food culture. Anu Kannike is an Ethnologist and Senior researcher at the Estonian National Museum. She has worked at the University of Tartu, the University of London, Tallinn University before the Estonian National Museum. Anu Kannike is the co-author of the books 101 Estonian Foods (2016) and 100 Years of Estonian Life (2018). Has published on the history and modernity of Estonian everyday culture, especially on home culture and food culture, and museology.

• Alexandra Biktimirova and Victoria Kravtsova

  Alexandra Biktimirova is a student at the HSE University in Moscow and a feminist activist. Research interests center on the intersections of feminism and Islam in the Volga-Ural region in Russia, as well as globally. Coordinated the exhibition Feminist Translocalities in Kazan in 2020. Research interests are gender, muslim women, and relationships between discourses of power and marginality. Victoria Kravtsova is a Feminist researcher, NGO-worker and activist. Born in Smolensk, Russia. Initiated Feminist Translocalities – a queer feminist network between the former USSR, Germany, and sometimes other locales, as wel l as a platform for supporting projects - publications, exhibitions, seminars, podcasts etc. Research interests include the intersections of feminist, antiracist and decolonial struggles in the countries of the former USSR.

• Vladyslav Yatsenko

  PhD in Military History, M. S. Grushevsky Institute for the Study of Ukrainian Written Sources, The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Kharkov National University.

• Viacheslav Kudlai

  PhD in Social Communications, Associate Professor, Information Activity Department, Mariupol State University. Research focus on social network, youth, public opinion, information and communication technologies, information society.

• Sergiy Kurbatov

  PhD at Kyiv National Economic University & National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine. Former guest researcher at Uppsala Centre for Russian Studies, Uppsala University His academic interests include the process of internalization of contemporary universities, the problem of ranking of universities, influence of education on state policy and state-building in post-Soviet states, the processes of shaping elite, cross-ethnical relations and electoral behavior in Ukraine.

• Aleksandra Reczuch

  PhD-candidate in Ethnology at the Baltic and Eastern European Graduate School. Her research interests include populism, political anthropology, gender, and identity. She has conducted ethnographic research in Greece, Slovenia, Poland, and Ukraine, focusing on the role of identity and state policies. Currently, she is working on a thesis entitled: On possibilities of Left and Feminist Populism in the Postsocialist Context.

• Roman Privalov

  PhD-candidate in Political Science at BEEGS, Södertörn University. He writes on space policy and space imagination in Russia, on politics of post-Soviet space nostalgia and on critical issues of, as well as global prospects for international space exploration.

• Andrej Kotljarchuk and Nikolay Zakharov

  Andrej Kotljarchuk, PhD in History, Senior researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at Södertörn University. Nikolay Zakharov, PhD in Sociology, Senior lecturer at Södertörn University.

• Dmytro Drozdovskyi

  PhD and an Academic fellow of the Department of Foreign and Slavic Literatures at Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Scientist, literary critic, writer, editor, and translator. Since 2012, he has been working as managing editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian magazine of translations Vsesvit. Drozdovskyi is a member of the Supreme Council of the Writer’s Union of Ukraine.

• Adrien Nonjon

  PhD-candidate in History at the Research Center Europe(s) Eurasia at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, Paris. Research focus: the Ukrainian far right and the different political and cultural dynamics. His PhD-project is devoted to the concept of Intermarium in its different incarnations.

• Victoria Vitanova-Kerber

  PhD-candidate at the Institute for the Study of Religion, Universität Leipzig. Currently investigating the mechanisms of negotiating the relationship between religion and politics in late Socialist Bulgaria.

• Anna Ozhiganova

  PhD, Senior researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences. She is a member of the Association of Medical Anthropologists (AMA). Her research interests concerns the intersections of religion, health and alternative social movements, as well as the teaching of religion in the post-secular societies.

• Andreas Anton and Ina Schmied-Knittel

  Andreas Anton is PhD in Social Sciences and researchers at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene, Freiburg, Germany. He focuses on occultism and parapsychologyical topics in the GDR and has a research interest in anomalistics and conspiracy theories. Ina Schmied-Knittel is PhD in Social Sciences and researchers at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene, Freiburg, Germany. Research focus is on the sociology of knowledge and religion; Specifically, she deals with social discourses and cultural patterns of interpretation of occult phenomena and extraordinary experiences such as near-death experiences.

• Anna Tessmann

  PhD in the Study of Religions and Postdoctoral researcher at Mainz University. Her research focus is in comparative study of religions; new religious movements; Soviet and post-Soviet esotericism and astrology; zoroastrianism; ancient and; contemporary Iranian religions, and didactics of Persian and Russian languages.

• Olena Podolian and Sergiu Gherghina

  Olena Podolian is Research Assistant at the CBEES, Södertörn University. PhD in Political Science. Her research interests embrace change of regime and nationalism in the formerly communist Europe. Sergiu Gherghina is Senior lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Glasgow. Research interests: party politics, political participation, legislative behaviour, direct democracy, and Central and Eastern European politics

• Oscar Nygren

  PhD-candidate in History at Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS) at Södertörn University. Researching the Swedish engagement in the Baltic region within the League of Nations in the interwar period.

• Thomas Keating

  Postdoctoral researcher at Tema Technology and Social Change at Linköping University. Investigates problems that arise in the relationship between man and technology such as how to preserve the memory of sites for final disposal of nuclear waste in Sweden in the distant future.

• Klaus Richter

  PhD in History and a Reader in Eastern European History at the University of Birmingham. He is also the Director of the Institute for German and European Studies (IGES). Research interest: the social history of Poland and the Baltics, Germany’s relations with Eastern Europe, and the history of nationalism and ethnic conflict.

• Elin Viksten

  Freelancing science journalist with an interest in nature conservation and environmental issues, especially biodiversity. Based in Stockholm.

• Roman Balandiuk

  Interdisciplinary researcher with a PhD degree from the Institute of Pedagogy of the National Academy of the Educational Sciences of Ukraine.

• Maria Mårsell

  Maria Mårsell is a PhD Student in comparative literature at Södertörn University. Her PhD project, with the working title Peace and Future. The Potential of Utopia in the writings of Frida Stéenhoff, Elin Wägner and Hagar Olsson, explores the utopian potential in peace as a literary theme.

• Cecilia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

  Cecilia Sá Cavalcante Schuback is a doctoral student in Aesthetics at BEEGS, Södertörn University.

• Manne Wängborg

  A Swedish diplomat and writer, former Consul General of Sweden in Kaliningrad, Russia, and Deputy Secretary-General of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission.

• Anna Schwenck

  Cultural sociologist in the Collaborative Research Center “Transformations of the Popular” at Siegen University. Her postdoc project deals with the nexus between popular music, populism and political violence in Germany and South Africa. Drawing on the results of her PhD, she is about to complete a book on Russia‘s flexible authoritarian regime and its legitimacy among promising youth from the provinces.

• Samuel Faber

  PhD-Candidate in History at Stockholm University. His research is focused on modern urban history and the neoliberalization of housing policies in Sweden and Denmark.

• Anna Tarasenko and Meri Kulmala

  Anna Tarasenko: Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg, Russia) and Visiting Researcher, at Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki). Research interests: a regional dimension of social policy reforms in Russia, new public management reforms and non-profit sector development, outsourcing of social services. Meri Kulmala: Senior Researcher and Director of Helsinki Inequality Initiative at the University of Helsinki. Research interests: social in/justice, in/equality, a welfare state, social policy, child welfare, co-creative research methodologies.

• Dan Karlholm

  Professor in Art History at Södertörn University. His research interests include art historiography, political aesthetics and repercussions of the Anthropocene on the humanities.

• Kristy Beers Fägersten, Leena Romu, Anna Nordenstam and Margareta Wallin Wictorin

  Kristy Beers Fägersten: Professor of English Linguistics Head of English Department at Södertörn University. She is a member of the networks SwiSca (Swearing in Scandinavia) and NNCORE (Nordic Network for Comics Research). Anna Nordenstam: Professor History of Ideas, and Religion, Department of Literature, Gothenburg University. Current Project “Feminist Swedish Comics as Medium for Political Activism and Critique” (project leader), financed by the Swedish Research Council 2019–2022. Leena Romu: PhD-candidate in Translation and Literary Studies, School of Language, Tampere University. Margareta Wallin Wictorin: PhD in Art History and Visual Studies, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies , Karlstad University. Current research interest: popular prints and imagery, press images, book illustrations, comics and graphic novels, and contemporary art, often with educational, feminist and postcolonial perspectives.

• Anna Grinberg

  Hanken School of Economics. Student in the interdisciplinary Master’s School in Russian and East European Studies coordinated by the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki.

• Augustė Nalivaikė

  PhD-candidate and Lecturer at the Civil Society and Sustainability Research Group, Kaunas University of Technology.

• Paulina Rytkönen

  Associated Professor in Economic History and Senior Lecturer in Business Studies at Södertörn University. Her research focuses on a wide variety of historical and contemporary topics concerning global, national, and local food systems, rural entrepreneurship, innovations, self-employment and economic growth in rural areas.

• Martina Urbinati

  Holds a MA in social sciences at the University of Bologna and was a trainee at the Centre of East European and International Studies (ZOiS). Her main research interests include urban memory and conflicting interpretations of the historical past in Eastern Europe and the Baltic States.

• Matthew Blackburn

  Researcher at the Institute of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University. He completed his doctoral thesis on nationalist discourses and the imagined nation in Post-Soviet Russia at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on political legitimation, memory politics, nationalism and identity politics in the Post-Soviet space. His recent publications include ‘Mainstream Russian Nationalism and the “State-Civilization-Identity”’ (Nationalities papers) and ‘Political Legitimacy in Contemporary Russia’ (Russian Politics) (2020).

• Yulia Gradskova and Martin Englund

  Yulia Gradskova is Associate Professor at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University. Martin Englund is PhD-candidate in History at BEEGS, the Baltic and East European Graduate School at Södertörn University.

• Sofia Beskow

  Doctoral Student in Sociology at Baltic and East European Graduate School, Södertörn University. Research areas: Social movements, radical nationalism and repression.

• Tatiana Sokolova, Wouter Blankestijn and Ksenia Zakharova

  Tatiana Sokolova, Wouter Blankestijn and Ksenia Zakharova, PhD-candidates in Environmental Studies at the Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS) at Södertörn University.

• Vasileios Kitsos

  Doctoral student at the school of Social Sciences & the Center for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES).

• Cagla Demirel and Martin Englund

  Cagla Demirel is PhD-Candidate in Political Science at BEEGS, the Baltic and East European Graduate School at Södertörn University. Martin Englund is PhD-candidate in History at BEEGS, the Baltic and East European Graduate School at Södertörn University.

• Simo Mannila

  Simo Mannila is adjunct professor of sociology, University of Helsinki. Member of the Planning Group for Ukrainian studies, University of Helsinki.

• Gunilla Gunner and Carola Nordbäck

  Gunilla Gunner is an Associate Professor in Church History at Åbo Akademi University, and Senior Lecturer and Researcher at Södertörn University, the Department of the Study of Religions. Carola Nordbäck is an Associate Professor in Church History at Åbo Akademi University and Senior lecturer in History at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSV), Mid Sweden University.

• Edward Kasinec and Nathaniel Knight

  Edward Kasinec is a Research Associate, Harriman Institute, Columbia University and, since 2014 Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His career includes service as Reference Librarian/Archivist and Staff Advisor in Exhibitions in several prestigious institutions. Since 1969, Kasinec has published more than two hundred refereed articles and books. Nathaniel Knight is a Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Seton Hall University. Has published extensively on issues of ethnicity, race and the history of the human sciences in Imperial Russia.

• Didar Kassymova and Elmira Teleuova

  Didar Kassymova is an Assistant Professor at KIMEP University, in Almaty, Kazakhstan and author of Historical Dictionary of Kazakhstan. Elmira Teleuova is an Assistant Professor of al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan. Research interest: history of nomadic customary law.

• Jörg Hackmann

  Alfred Döblin Professor of East European History at the University of Szczecin, Poland and in 2020, a Visiting Scholar at CBEES, Södertörn University.

• Barbara Törnquist-Plewa

  Professor of Eastern and Central European Studies at Lund University in Sweden. Her main research interests are nationalism, identity, collective memories and cultural heritage in Eastern and Central Europe. Currently she is member of the research project “Lessons from Communist and Nazi History” financed by Wallenberg Foundation.

• Alexandra Allard

  PhD student in Economics at Södertörn University, with affiliations to Örebro University as well as the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN). Her main academic interests are environmental economics, with a focus on marine environments, and behavioral economics.

• Paulina Pukyté

  Interdisciplinary artist, writer and curator based in London and Vilnius. She writes critical and satirical articles on art and cultural issues, as well as experimental literature, poetry and plays. She makes site-specific interventions, still and moving image and conceptual projects using found artefacts, questioning human perception, memory, habits and cliche.

• Kati Roover

  Multidisciplinary artist living and working in Helsinki. In her works she approaches environmental changes through poetic imagination, creating works that combine her research with a broad range of perspectives. She works with moving image, sound, photography, text and installations.

• Giedre Jankeviciute

  Senior research fellow at the Art History and Visual Culture Department of the Lithuanian Institute for Culture Research and she also teaches at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Her current field of interest lies in the artistic culture of occupied countries, which she explores by focusing on the situation of Lithuania in the middle of the 20th century.

• Jan Miklas-Frankowski

  Assistant professor at the Institute of Media, Journalism and Communication at the University of Gdansk. Focusing on; work of Czesław Miłosz; contemporary Polish reportage, particularly Polish-Jewish relations; and, memory of Polish Jews and the Holocaust.

• Elisabeth Kovtiak

  Belarusian researcher and curator, a PhD candidate at the Charles University, Prague. Academic interests include collective memory and its manifestations in art and in public space, the role of art in political activism, national identity in transitional post-socialist societies.

• Annika Toots

  PhD candidate at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture of the Estonian Academy of Arts. Research interest: contemporary art that deals with the materialization of time and representations of the landscape, focusing mainly on photography.

• Lia Dostlieva and Andrii Dostliev

  Lia Dostlieva Ukrainian artist, essayist, cultural anthropologist and researcher at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Focusing on trauma, postmemory, commemorative practices, and agency and visibility of vulnerable groups and how to process “difficult knowledge” and “difficult past”. Andrii Dostliev Independent Ukrainian artist, curator, and photography researcher currently based in Poland. His primary areas of interest are memory, trauma, identity – both personal and collective, and various aspects of queerness. Works in various media.

• Zuzanna Hertzberg

  Interdisciplinary artist, artivist, andresearcher with a PhD degree from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Her art includes painting, performance, textiles, and collages using archival materials. She is interested in the search for identity in minority heritage, especially women’s.

• Rasa Goštautaitė

  PhD student at Faculty of History, Vilnius University. Her dissertation focuses on the contested nature of the Soviet-era heritage in Lithuania and other post-communist states,looking into the politics and management practices related to the legacy of this type.

• Annagreta Dyring

  Swedish writer and Honorary Doctor at Stockholm University.

• Karin Winroth

  Associate Professor in Business Studies, Södertörn University.

• Alesia Rudnik

  PhD-candidate in Political Science at Karlstad University, and a research fellow at the Belarusian think-tank in exile Center for New Ideas.

• Michał Wawrzonek

  Professor in the Institute of Political and Administrative Sciences, at Jesuit University in Cracow.

• Alla Marachenko

  PhD in Sociology, affiliated to the Graduate School for Social Research, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw). At the Center for Urban History, Lviv she works in a project on the multicultural heritage of the two Ukrainian cities of Uman and Lviv. She is in charge of the project’s sociological component, such as the research of awareness and request of the cities’ population on local history, on current intercultural stereotypes, and opportunities for improving interaction of residents with problematic monuments. Interests: comparative research, Jewish studies, memory studies, multicultural urban heritage.

• Tymofii Brik

  Assistant Professor of Policy Research, at Kyiv School of Economics.

• Andriy Fert

  PhD-candidate at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine with a focus on state-church relations.

• Håkan Nilsson

  Full Professor in Art History at Södertörn University.

• Martin Englund

  PhD-candidate in History at Baltic and East European Graduate School, Södertörn University.

• Eva Schwarz

  Phd in Philosophy and Director of the Centre for practical knowledge at Södertörn University.

• Julian G. Waller

  Julian G. Waller is a Ph.D Candidate at George Washington University and an Associate Research Analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses.

• Sophia Nilsson

  Communications Officer at Södertörn University with a focus on the area studies conducted at CBEES, and the University at large, on the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe.

• Gorica Popovic

  MA in Political science at the University of Vienna, with focus on International security and Eastern Europe; Research focus: Eastern Europe and Western Balkans, rise of authoritarianism, political participation and opposition in authoritarian regimes; Baltic security; nuclear non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament.

• Maciej Sychowiec

  Ph.D. student at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. In his PhD thesis, he deals with the variation in creditworthiness among advanced democracies. Other research interests include populism, quality of government, Central-Eastern Europe and the Baltic Sea countries.

• Per A. Rudling & Erkki Tuomioja

  Per A. Rudling, Associate Professor, Department of History, Lund University, and Research Associate, Center for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University. Erkki Tuomioja, Ph.D., Chairman, Historians Without Borders, Member of Parliament.

• Leila Alieva

  Affiliate of REES, Oxford School for Global and Area Studies (OSGA), previously Senior Common Room Member and Academic Visitor at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, with a PhD from Moscow University. Originally from Azerbaijan, she founded and directed two ”think-tanks” in Baku, and held fellowships at Harvard University, UC Berkeley, Kennan Institute (Washington, DC) the NATO Defence College (Rome), IFK (Institut Für Kulturwissenschaften) Vienna. Her research and publications cover Azerbaijan, the Caucasus, Russia, the broader Former Soviet Union; and range thematically from energy security and conflicts, to democracy in the oil rich states, as well as issues around integration into the EU (ENP and EaP) and NATO.

• Anna-Maria Sörberg

  Freelance writer based in Stockholm, Sweden.

• Katarina Giritli-Nygren and Angelika Sjöstedt Landén

  Katarina Giritli-Nygren is Professor in Sociology at Mid-Sweden University. Angelika Sjöstedt Landén is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Mid Sweden University, Sweden.

• Mercedes Barros and Natalia Martinez

  Mercedes Barros is Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, and at the Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Teaching at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Natalia Martínez is Assistant Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and Assistant Professor in the area of Feminisms, Gender and Sexualities (FemGeS) at the María Saleme de Burnichón Research [Centre of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities (CIFFyH), National University of Córdoba.

• Graciela Di Marco

  Professor, PhD in Social Sciences and Director at the Centro de Estudios sobre Democratización y Derechos Humano, CEDEHU and Escuela de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de San Martín.

• Paula Biglieri

  Director of the Cátedra Libre Ernesto Laclau, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires.

• Jenny Ingridsdotter

  PhD in Ethnology, currently working at Umeå University with the project “Migration and Settler Colonialism: The Makings of Heritage among Swedish Descendants in Argentina”.

• Ana Fiol

  PhD in Social Sciences. Currently a lecturer at Facultad Lationoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. Journalist and a feminist activist.

• Alev Özkazanç

  Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies. Since June 2019 visiting scholar at Wolfson College, University of Oxford.

• Anna Sedysheva

  PhD-candidate at the Polish Academy of Sciences’ Graduate School for Social Research in Warsaw, Poland.

• Erzsébet Barát

  Associate Professor Director of TNT, Gender Studies Research Group Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged.

• Jenny Gunnarsson Payne

  Full Professor in Ethnology at the department for Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University.

• Edward Lemon and Oleg Antonov

  Edward Lemon is DMGS-Kennan Institute Fellow at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School in Washington D.C. and a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center. Oleg Antonov is a visiting researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University.

• Michaela Grančayová

  PhD student at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2015, she graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava, where she studied English and Arabic. In her PhD thesis, she deals with the role of Egyptian women in the democratization processes within the Arab Spring. Among the topics of her interest is the Arab Spring, Arab feminism, Egypt, Arabic diglossia, modern trends in Islam, radicalism, populism, Islamophobia and Muslim women in European politics.

• Witness Seminar

  The Institute of Contemporary History (SHI) is a multidisciplinary research institute at Södertörn University conducting research in modern political history, particularly on the Nordic countries, Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe. Founded in 1999, the SHI has a strong track record in securing source materials and initiating new areas for research through its well-known witness seminars, regularly published in the open access series "Issues in Contemporary History" (Samtidshistoriska frågor).

• Linda Kaljundi and Kristina Jõekalda

  Linda Kaljundi is Associate Professor of History and a Senior Researcher at Tallinn University. Kristina Joekalda is Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture, Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. Her research focuses on the history of art historiography and heritage preservation in the 19th and 20th century in the context of nationalism studies. 

• Camilla Larsson

  PhD-candidate in Art History at the School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University. She is also a curator and writer.

• Andrii Nekoliak

  PhD-candidate at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia. He is working on a PhD project concerning memory politics and law in Poland, Ukraine, and Estonia.

• László Mód

  Assistant Professor, University of Szeged, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology.

• Edita Štulcaitė

  Currently working with her PhD project. She has a MA in Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Marburg and a BA in Political Science and European Ethnology from the University of Tübingen in Germany. Her work focuses on current developments in post-Soviet countries as well as contemporary social movements and activism.

• Paul Sherfey and Jiří Woitsch

  Paul Sherfey is PhD-candidate in ethnology at Södertörn University. His dissertation project Cultivating Revolutionary Subjectivities: Politics, Heritage and Desire explores informal activism, using the case of collective gardens as a transnational political practice. Jiří Woitsch is PhD in Ethnology and History. Director of the Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and also the editor-in-chief of the ethnological journal Český lid.

• Ojars Eriks Kalnins

  Member of the Latvian Parliament. Former Latvian Ambassador to the United States, and Director of the Latvian Institute. Previously an activist of the American Latvian Association and the World Association of Free Latvians.

• Marie Láníková

  PhD candidate in Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Masaryk University, Brno. Her research focuses on the relationship between women’s organizations and expertise under state socialism in Czechoslovakia.

• Julia Malitska

  Received her PhD in History in 2017 with the dissertation Negotiating Imperial Rule: Colonists and Marriage in the Nineteenth-Century Black Sea Steppe. PhD in History and a project researcher at Södertörn University, Sweden. She currently completes her project on the history of dietary reform and vegetarianism in the late Russian empire. Her current research interests include imperial, post-imperial and new imperial histories of Ukraine and Eastern Europe, as well as intertwined histories of science, politics, food and environment.

• Mikhail Iampolski

  Professor in Comparative Literature at New York University, and a specialist in aesthetics and philosophy, critical theory, art history and theory, film studies, culture theory and Russian cultural history.

• Ove Bring

  Professor emeritus in International Law at the Swedish Defense College. Previously worked as an expert and international law adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Professor of International Law at Uppsala University and Stockholm University. Member of the Permanent Arbitration Court in The Hague since 1999.

• Michela Romano

  MA in Interdisciplinary research and studies on Eastern Europe, University of Bologna. Research focus: Russophone identities, Baltic cultures and minority issues.

• Cagla Demirel

  PhD-Candidate in Political Science at BEEGS, Södertörn University. Graduated in International Relations at Karadeniz Technical University in 2010. Her research interests are peace and conflict research, collective and competitive victimhood, identity politics, and reconciliation processes. She was also a PhD representative at Peace Research in Sweden (PRIS) from 2020 to 2022.

• Emily Russell

  Assistant researcher on the Consequences of Contention project, at the University of Michigan and has been affiliated at research centers in Reykjavik, Iceland and Delhi, India. A Beinecke Scholar and member of the national Dramatists Guild.

• Iulia Demidenko

  Historian and Art Historian, Deputy Director for Research of the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg.

• Polina Barskova

  Associate Professor of Russian literature, Hampshire College. Scholarly publications include articles on Nabokov, the Bakhtin brothers, early Soviet film, and the aestheticization of historical trauma. Current project: “The Ruin Screams: Poetics of the Spatial Representation During the Siege of Leningrad.”

• Stefan Ingvarsson

  He was cultural attaché in 2015 at the Swedish Embassy in Moscow. Various previous assignments as a writer, translator, moderator and also director of the Stockholm Literature Festival.

• Dzmitry Pravatorau

  Postgraduate student of International Relations at the University of Queensland, Australia. Area of interest is Baltic studies: in particular, geographic and geopolitical images of the Baltic States in the popular imagination in Russia.

• Brendan Humphreys

  PhD in Political Science and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute – Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies and the Helsinki Institute of Urban and Regional Studies (Urbaria).

• Jaakko Turunen

  PhD in Political Science, Södertörn University BEEGS/CBEES and Uppsala University, Dept. of Government.

• Annika Öhrner

  Assoclate Professor in Art History, and a faculty member of Södertörn University

• Susanna Rabow-Edling

  Associate Professor in Political Science and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, IRES.

• Paulina Rytkönen and Nadir Kinossian

  Paulina Rytkönen is Associate Professor at Södertörn University in Sweden and Nadir Kinossian is Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Germany.

• Joakim Ekman

  Full Professor in Political Science and a Project Researcher at CBEES, Södertörn University.

• Annemari Andersén

  Project leader of the EU Interreg Central Baltic-financed project Archipelago Business Development. Works at the Department for Research and Development at Yrkeshögskolan Novia in Turku, Finland. MA in business administration and 20 years of experience working as a consultant for industrial companies.

• Susanna Lidström

  Freelance writer based in Stockholm. Reports for various publications and takes great interest in the environments of the archipelago, where she also enjoys spending time for recreation.

• Christian Widholm

  Historian and lecturer in Tourism Studies at Södertörn University. Widholm has published several works on Swedish nationalism and the mass media. Some of his recent publications deal with how childhood memories influence heritage entrepreneurs and how nostalgia influences the world of sports.

• Nadir Kinossian

  Senior Researcher since 2015 at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig, Germany. He has worked in academia, consultancy, and municipal administration in Norway, Britain, and Russia. Research interests include urban governance, regional development, and cultural landscapes.

• Paulina Rytkönen et al

  Paulina Rytkönen is senior lecturer in business studies and associate professor in economic history at Södertörn University, Tommy Larsson Segerlind is senior lecturer in business administration and director of the bachelor program Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Market EnterForum, at School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, Gustaf Onn is a Doctoral Student in Tourism Studies, School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies, Södertörn University, Lars Degerstedt is senior lecturer in Media Technology, School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies, Södertörn University, Mauri Kaipainen is professor emeritus of media technology at Södertörn University.

• Håkan Tunón, Marie Kvarnström, Joakim Boström and Anna-Karin Utbult Almkvist

  Håkan Tunón is a senior research officer at the Swedish Biodiversity Centre (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) with a focus on traditional knowledge and customary use of biological diversity.; Marie Kvarnström is a senior programme officer at the Swedish Biodiversity Centre with a focus on traditional knowledge and customary use of biological diversity.; Joakim Boström is an icebreaker deck officer and fisherman in Kalix Archipelago; Anna-Karin Utbult Almkvist is a farmer in Sankt Anna archipelago and convenor of archipelago farmers in the National Association for the Swedish Archipelago.

• Peter Handberg

  Swedish author and translator of numerous titles. His latest book was Världens yttersta platser – Judiska spår [The world’s outermost places – Jewish traces], 2019. In 2020 he was awarded Doblougska priset [Dobloug price] from the Swedish Academy.

• Ayşe Gül Altınay

  Ayşe Gül Altınay is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender). She received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology, with a Women’s Studies Certificate, from Duke University in 2001 and has served as Associate Editor of the European Journal of Women’s Studies (since 2009), Marie Jahoda Visiting Chair in International Gender Studies at Ruhr University-Bochum (2012), Visiting Faculty Fellow as part of the “Women Mobilizing Memory” Working Group at Columbia University Center for the Study of Social Difference (2014-2016) and Researcher in the CEU – Sabancı University Joint Academic Initiative on Gendered Memories of War and Political Violence (with Andrea Petö, 2011-2015). At Sabancı University, she has contributed to the development of the Cultural Studies BA and MA Programs, the Gender Studies PhD program, Gender Forum and SU Gender, as well as the Sexual Harassment Policy Statement and Committee. Altınay’s research and writing have focused on militarism, nationalism, violence, memory, gender, and sexuality. Among her books are The Myth of the Military-Nation: Militarism, Gender and Education(Palgrave Macmillan, 2004); Ebru: Reflections on Cultural Diversity in Turkey(Metis, 2007, with Attila Durak); Violence Against Women in Turkey: A Nationwide Survey(Punto, 2008, with Yeşim Arat); The Grandchildren: The Hidden Legacy of Lost Armenians in Turkey(Transaction, 2014, with Fethiye Çetin, trans. Maureen Freely), Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories: Feminist Conversations on War, Genocide and Political Violence (Routledge, 2016, with Andrea Petö), and and the forthcoming volume Women Mobilizing Memory (Columbia University Press, 2019, co-edited with Maria Jose Contreras, Marianne Hirsch, Jean Howard, Banu Karaca and Alisa Solomon). Her co-authored book with Yeşim Arat, Türkiye’de Kadına Yönelik Şiddet(Violence Against Women in Turkey) was awarded the 2008 PEN Duygu Asena Award.

• Aliaksei Kazharski

  Aliaksei Kazharski is a researcher and lecturer at Comenius University in Bratislava and Charles University in Prague.

• Réka Geambașu

  Senior lecturer at Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, with a focus on the issues of gender and work, and on gender inequalities.

• Clas Zilliacus

  Professor emeritus of comparative literature, at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.

• 

  Piret Ehin

  Piret Ehin is Senior Researcher and Deputy Director for Research at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia. She is also the founding Director of the Centre for EU-Russia Studies at the same institution. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Arizona (2002). Her main research interests include democracy, legitimacy and political support, European integration and Europeanization, and international relations in the Baltic Sea region. Her work has appeared in the European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Common Market Studies, Cooperation and Conflict, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties and the Journal of Baltic Studies. She has led international consortium projects, including a Horizon 2020 Twinning project UPTAKE.

• Kamil Calus

  Graduate of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Eastern Europe and Asia Studies and Journalism and Social Communication). PhD candidate in the Institute of Eastern Studies of Adam Mickiewicz University. Regular contributor to the Nowa Europa Wschodnia bimonthly. Editor of the "Spojrzenie na Wschód" quarterly. Focus on; Domestic, foreign and security policy of Moldova, as well as, Moldovan economic and energy policy, investment climate.

• Bjarne Lindström

  Independent consultant and former director of Statistics and Research Åland (ÅSUB) and the Nordic Institute of Regional Research (NordREFO). His research focuses on economic and regional development, region building, and regional autonomy.

• Paul Sherfey

  PhD candidate in ethnology at Södertörn University. His dissertation project Cultivating Revolutionary Subjectivities: Politics, Heritage and Desire explores informal activism, using the case of collective gardens as a transnational political practice.

• Anna Hedén and Thomas Lundén

  Anne Hedén is historian and journalist, focusing on political and social movements and currently affiliated to Arbetarrörelsens arkiv [Swedish Labour Movement’s Archive and Library] and Stockholm University. Thomas Lundén is Professor emeritus of human geography, CBEES, Södertörn University, with a focus on border studies and minorities.

• Taras Martynenko

  PhD candidate in history at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. His thesis focuses on the social behavior of the population of Lviv during World War II. Focus on genocide studies, local history and public memory.

• Liudmila Voronova and Emil Edenborg

  Liudmila Voronova, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the Department of Journalism, Södertörn University. Her research interests lie within the intersection of gender media studies, political communication research, and comparative studies of journalism cultures. Emil Edenborg, PhD, is a research fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. His research interests include questions of gender and sexuality, as well as nationalism, borders and geopolitics.

• Agnieszka Halemba and Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz

  Agnieszka Halemba, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw.

• Vello Pettai

  Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Tartu and Director of the V-Dem Regional Center for Eastern Europe and Russia.

• Caroline Mezger

  Researcher at the Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien, Institut für Zeitgeschichte - München, and former CEU student.

• Oleg Antonov and Artem Galushko

  Oleg Antonov is a visiting researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University. Artem Galushko is a researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University, funded by a Swedish Institute scholarship.

• Derya Keskin

  Derya Keskin received her PhD in Development Studies from Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey, and an MA from the Ohio State University in Columbus, USA. She worked as an assistant professor of Labor Sociology in the Department of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations at Kocaeli University, Turkey from January 2012 to September 2016. She was dismissed from her position through a governmental decree issued under the State of Emergency for signing a petition titled “We will not be a party to this crime,” also known as the Peace Petition which was a call directed to the State to end the civil deaths in the southeastern part of the country and to restart the peace process. Her work has been published in journals related to education, labor and the Middle East. Her research interests include women’s labor, gender and social policy, religion and women, migration, higher educa-tion, academic work and problems in social research. She continues her work within the Kocaeli Acade-my for Solidarity as the founding member with the other Peace Signatories also dismissed from Kocaeli University for the same reason.

• Yasemin Gülsüm Acar

  Social psychologist whose research interests include political protest and its consequences, political solidarity, politicization and social identity, and intergroup relations/conflict. She received her PhD from Claremont Graduate University in 2015, where she specialized in social identity and identity politicization through collective action. Her current research focuses on group-based perceptions of contemporary political dynamics in Turkey.

• Radoš Vidaković

  MA-student in political science at the University of Vienna.

• Hans Gunnar Adén

  Sweden’s ambassador to Georgia 2006 – 2009.

• Julieta Rotaru

  Senior researcher in Romani Studies at CBEES, Södertörn University. Project researcher (2018–2021) in “Mapping the Roma communities in the 19th century Wallachia”, funded by the Foundation for Baltic And East European Studies. PhD in philology with a focus on Vedic and Sanskrit languages, Romani linguistics and the history of the Roma people.

• Tomas Sniegon

  Historian and senior lecturer in European Studies at the University of Lund, Sweden. Currently working on a project about Soviet dictatorship, financed by The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences.

• Marina Henrikson

  PhD in Russian Studies from the University of Manchester, UK. Currently a freelance journalist with a focus on questions concerning human rights and the foreign policies of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

• Kimmo Granqvist

  Professor in Romani Studies at CBEES, Södertörn University, and lecturer in Romani language and Culture at the University of Helsinki. He has twenty years of experience in theoretical and participatory research with Roma communities. Since 2018 he is the editor of the Romani Studies journal.

• Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov

  Elena Marushiakova is a holder of ERC Advanced Grant 2015, “Roma Civic Emancipation Between the Two World Wars”, and President of the Gypsy Lore Society. She is affiliated to the School of History at the University of St. Andrews. She has published widely on Roma in Bulgaria, Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe. Vesselin Popov works at the School of History at the University of St. Andrews. Conducts research in frames of ERC Advanced Grant 2015, “Roma Civic Emancipation Between the Two World Wars”. Has published widely on Roma in Bulgaria, Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe.

• Sofiya Zahova

  Postdoctoral researcher at the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Language, University of Iceland. Focuses on the field of Romani Studies and South Eastern European history.

• Sławomir Kapralski and Paweł Lechowski

  Slawomir Kapralski is professor of sociology at the Pedagogical University of Kraków and a lecturer at the Centre for Social Studies in Warsaw. Paweł Lechowski is ethnographer with a focus on Roma communities.

• Lynette Šikić-Mićanović

  Senior research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar in Zagreb, Croatia. PhD in anthropology with a focus on gender and social inequality. She conducts qualitative research work with marginalized groups.

• Viorel Achim

  Senior researcher at the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Romanian Academy, Bucharest. His research fields include the history of the Gypsies (Roma), ethnic minorities in Romania between 1918-1948, population policy in Romania during WW II, and the Holocaust.

• Maryia Rohava

  Maryia Rohava is a PhD-candidate at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo in Norway. Her PhD-project concerns "Political Rituals under Autocratic Rule in Belarus, 1995-2015: Symbols, Performances and Popular Beliefs". Maryia Rohava has a background in Political Science (B.A.), and completed her research Master’s degree in European Studies at Maastricht University with the financial support of the Open Society Foundations. Before joining University of Oslo, she worked as a research assistant on EU multilevel governance at the European Institute of Public Administration in Barcelona. She gained experience in civil society empowerment and civil rights advocacy at the Eastern Europe Studies Centre in Lithuania and through participation in international election observation missions in Belarus, Georgia and Lithuania.

• Anders Björklund

  Former professor of ethnology and director of the Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm. Research focus on museum practices and the acquisition, preservation and repatriation of material culture.

• Johan Hegardt

  Associate Professor in Archaeology, Uppsala University, works in the fields of art history, archaeology, museums and heritage studies, and cultural studies. Currently, Hegardt is associated with the Department of Culture and Learning, Södertörn University, Sweden.

• Mechella Yezernitskaya

  PhD candidate in history of art at Bryn Mawr College, US.

• Edward Kasinec

  Research associate at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University. Visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Has published more than 200 refereed articles and books.

• Arnoldas Stramskas

  PhD candidate at the Department of Philosophy and Social Critique, Vyautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Focus on contemporary political philosophy with an emphasis on micropolitics and minor spaces.

• Agneiszka Kozik

  PhD candidate, Institute of Applied Social Sciences, Warsaw University. Main areas of research: social and visual anthropology, ethnography, art critique.

• Gilda Hoxha

  PhD in political science, University of Tirana. Research interest in social movements and democratic dialogues.

• Levke Aduda and Stefan Ewert

  Levke Aduda is PhD and research assistant at the University of Greifswald. Research focus: mediation in intrastate conflicts. Training to become a certified mediator. Stefan Ewert is PhD and researcher at the University of Greifswald. Focus on Baltic Sea regional policy and rural development policy. In his PhD, he analyzed higher education policy in the Baltic States and academic networks.

• Zuzana Maďarová

  PhD, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava. Focus on political subjectivities of women and gender aspects of political communication. Her thesis analyzed the invisibilization of women and competing narratives of November 1989. Expert at the European Institute for Gender Equality in 2017.

• Olesya Khromeychuk

  A Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Her current research focuses on the participation of women in military formations during WWII and in the ongoing conflict in the Donbas region.

• Agnieszka Mrozik

  Assistant professor since 2012 at the Postgraduate Gender Studies Programme at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where she has lectured on feminist criticism, media discourse, and popular culture analysis.

• Simo Mannila and Natalia Kharchenko

  Simo Mannila is adjunct professor of sociology, University of Helsinki. Member of the Planning Group for Ukrainian studies, University of Helsinki. Natalia Kharchenko is executive director of the Kyiv International Institute for Sociology. Conducts quantitative social research.

• Eva Karlberg

  PhD candidate in sociology at Baltic and East European Graduate School, Södertörn University. She studies transnational organizing in the women’s movement, comparing Poland and Sweden.

• Nadja Douglas

  Is a researcher at the Berlin-based Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS). She focuses in her work on the dynamics between civic initiatives and state power structures, regional conflicts and civil-military relations in the post-Soviet region. She holds a Master's degree in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris and a PhD from Humboldt University Berlin. Her thesis deals with public control of armed forces in the Russian Federation and was published in 2017 by Palgrave Macmillan.

• Aksana Ismailbekova

  Aksana Ismailbekova is a lead researcher for Kyrgyzstan in the project “Informal Governance and Corruption –Transcending the Principal Agent and Collective Action Paradigms”, funded by the British Academy (BA) – DFID Anti-Corruption Evidence Program (ACE) and led by the Basel Institute on Governance (2016-2017). Ismailbekova was research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) (Center for the Modern Orient) in Berlin (2011-2015), where she was a member of the competence network “Crossroads Asia.” She conducted her doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany (2006-2012).

• Tom Junes

  Tom Junes is a historian and holds a Ph.D. from the KU Leuven (Belgium). He is a member of the Human and Social Studies Foundation in Sofia and currently a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. As a postdoctoral researcher he has held fellowships in Warsaw, Vienna, Budapest, Helsinki, Potsdam, Jena and Sofia. His research interests cover Eastern European history, Cold War history, and the history of youth and student movements. He is the author of Student Politics in Communist Poland: Generations of Consent and Dissent.

• Irina Seits

  PhD candidate in aesthetics at Södertörn University. MAs in history and fine arts. Research interests: history of modernist architecture of the 1920s and formation of the contemporary living space.

• Robert Bird

  Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. Primary area of interest is the aesthetic practice and theory of Russian/Soviet modernism. He has published books on Viacheslav Ivanov and Andrei Tarkovsky, as well as essays on Russian film and video art.

• Mikhail Evsevyev

  PhD in art history from St. Petersburg State University, where he has lectured for over 40 years at the departments of the History of Fine Arts and the History of Russian Art, docent. His academic interests are connected to the written sources on the art of the first quarter of the 19th century as well as to the history of arts during the era of the 1917 Russian Revolution and the “war communism” period.

• Rosario Napolitano

  PhD candidate in international studies at University of Naples “l’Orientale” with the project “Soviet in the Baltic States: from Daniel-Sinyavsky’s trial until the dissolution of the USSR”.

• Jussi Lassila

  Senior research fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. His core areas of expertise are Russian domestic politics, in particular identity politics, nationalism, populism and political communication.

• Sabine Hark

  Professor of gender studies at Technische Universität Berlin. Member of the editorial board of the journal Feministische Studien. Interest in gender research as a critical ontology of the present, gender-sensitive science sociology and university research, feminist knowledge production, and queer theory.

• Riikka Palonkorpi

  She recieved her PhD in history at the University of Tampere in 2012. Her thesis is entitled ”Science with the Human Face: The Activity of the Czechoslovak Scientists Franticek Corm and Otto Wichterle during the Cold War”. Her publications include: Palonkorpi, Riikka, Věda s lidskou tváří: Činnost československých vědců Františka Šorma a Otty Wichterleho během studené války. Nakladatelstvi Akademia 2017; Palonkorpi, Riikka, Mole holes in the Iron Curtain: the success story of the Krtek animated films. In: Competition in Socialist Society. Miklossy, K. & Ilic, M. (eds.). New York: Routledge 2014;Nisonen-Trnka, Riikka, The Prague Spring of Science: Czechoslovak Natural Scientists Reconsidering the Iron Curtain. In: 1948 and 1968: dramatic milestones in Czech and Slovak history. Cashman, Laura (ed.). Routledge 2009. Palonkorpi is currently working as a senior advisor at the University of Helsinki.

• Maxim Grigoriev

  Born in Moscow and raised in Stockholm. He has studied comparative literature at Södertörn University and worked as a translator of Russian literature and as a freelance critic and novelist. His prize-winning collection of short stories Städer [Cities] appeared in 2014.

• Viktoriya Sukovata

  PhD and doctor habilitata in cultural theory, professor of theory of culture and philosophy in the Science Department, Kharkiv National Karazin University, Ukraine. Focus: visual arts and gender studies, the Cold War, Soviet and post-Soviet cultural studies.

• Rene Mäe

  Currently completing his PhD in sociology at Tallinn University. Visiting PhD student at the University of Tartu and Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. He has taught courses on cultural sociology and sociological research methods at Tallinn University and the Estonian Academy of Arts.

• Paromita Chakrabarti

  Associate professor of English and Director of Global Research Initiatives at H R. College, University of Mumbai. Her research areas include diasporas, Marxist cultural studies and postcolonial studies, gender, ethnicity, and race.

• Per-Arne Bodin

  Professor of Slavic literatures at Stockholm University. His main research interests are Russian poetry, Russian cultural history (especially the importance of the Russian Orthodox tradition) and Polish literature after the Second World War.

• Tihomir Topuzovski

  Tihomir Topuzovski received his doctoral degree from the University of Birmingham UK and was a guest researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University. He is currently collaborating on research looking at the politicization of space and artistic practices displaying a new understanding of temporary urbanism.

• Rajni Mujral

  Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Thapar University, Patiala, India. She has published on Salman Rushdie, Meena Alexander, and in the fields of the carnival, the grotesque, and disability.

• Vahagn Avedian

  Vahagn Avedian has a Ph.D. in history, specializing in research concerning the fields of genocide, human rights, peace and conflict and democracy.

• Donnacha Ó Beacháin Abel Polese,

  Donnacha Ó Beacháin is Director of Research at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University and Abel Polese is a Research Fellow at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University.

• Tora Lane

  Project researcher at Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) and the Department of PhD in Russian Literature, Associate Professor and a Senior Lecture at the Department for Slavic Studies at Stockholm University, and a project leader of Writing and Thinking at the Margins at CBEES, Södertörn University (funded by the Baltic and East European Studies Foundation).

• Johannes Heuman

  Researcher at the Hugo Valentin Centre in Uppsala and the Centre Alberto Benveniste in Paris. Currently works on a project on Jewish-Muslim relations during the postwar era in France.

• Weronika Grzebalska

  is a sociologist and independent analyst whose work focuses on militarism, security, right-wing politics, and gender in Central Europe. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the Polish Academy of Sciences where her dissertation explored the post-1989 paramilitary organizing in Poland. Currently, she is a Rethink.CEE Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, working on the gendered implications of changing national defense policy and civil-military relations in post-2014 Central Europe. She also lectures on military issues at the American Studies Center and the Gender Studies program in Warsaw. In the past, she was a fellow at the Trajectories of Change Program of the ZEIT-Stiftung, a Kosciuszko Foundation fellow at Clark University (United States), member of the FEPS Young Academics Network, and a president of the Polish Gender Studies Association.

• Charlotte Bydler and Dan Karlholm

  Charlotte Bydler, Lecturer in art history at the School of Culture and Education at Södertörn University. Research interests comprise injustice, violence and political subjects. Project leader of “A New Region of the World? Towards a Poetics of Situatedness”. Dan Karlholm, Professor of art history, Södertörn University, where he co-founded the Art History Department in 2003. Research interests: historiography, including the history and theory of art history in Sweden and Germany.

• Epp Lankots

  Architectural historian and researcher at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Institute of Art History. Research interests include material culture and architecture in Estonia during the Soviet period.

• Susanna Witt

  Senior lecturer in Russian literature at the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages, Finnish, Dutch and German at Stockholm University, and affiliated researcher at Upp-sala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Specialist in Boris Pasternak’s poetry and prose.

• Aleksei Semenenko

  Associate professor at the Slavic Department of Stockholm University. PhD in Russian Literature from Stockholm University. Author of several books and works on translation, literature and semiotics.

• Karin Grelz

  Researcher at the Institution for Slavic Languages at Stockholm University. Research interests: the Russian poet Marina Tsvetajeva and Lidija Ginzburg.

• Sven-Olov Wallenstein

  Professor of philosophy at Södertörn University. Translator of works by, among others, Baumgarten, Winckelmann, Lessing, Kant, and Hegel. Author of numerous books.

• Alexandra Dmitrieva and Zhanna Kravchenko

  Alexandra Dmitrieva, PhD in sociology, currently working as an expert for several grassroots NGOs specializing in groundwork with drug. Previously a researcher at the Department of Sociology, St. Petersburg State University. Zhanna Kravchenko, Associate professor in sociology and senior lecturer in social work at the School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University. Research focus: public policies in Russia and Sweden.

• Irina Seits and Ekaterina Kalinina

  Irina Seits is PhD-candidate at Södertörn University. MAs in history and fine arts. Research interests: history of modernist architecture of the 1920s and formation of the contemporary living space. Ekaterina Kalinina is Postdoctoral researcher at Department of Art and Cultural Studies at Copenhagen University, Denmark and project manager at the Swedish organization Nordkonst. Research focus: Russian patriotism, biopolitics, nostalgia and national identity.

• Stephan Collishaw

  Author, selected as one of the British Council’s 20 best young British novelists in 2004. Has published the novels The Last Girl (2003), Amber (2014) and The Song of the Stork (2016).

• Maksym Kyiak

  PhD, worked at various academic and governmental institutions in Ukraine and abroad. After becoming a PhD, became involved in public diplomacy and science. Has represented Ukraine at the CAHROM Committee in the Council of Europe. Is the Co-Founder of the Global Ukraine INGO, a world-wide network of global leaders. He is also working now on postdoctoral research on information society and its influence on religion.

• Maili Vilson

  PhD fellow in Political Science at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies and at the Centre for EU-Russia Studies (CEURUS), University of Tartu, Estonia. Her main research interests include the European Neighborhood Policy, EU foreign policy, democratization, and transition studies. She has published on the Europeanization of foreign policy of EU member states and on the Eastern Partnership.

• Mark Brody

  Mark Brody is an independent researcher, working for various EU-related think tanks. He graduated in International Relations and has worked as a journalist, photographer and researcher.

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  Per Ekman

  Per Ekman is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Uppsala University. He studies political autonomy in Georgia and Ukraine, and has previously worked in Georgia.

• Anna Krakus

  Assistant professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She specializes in the fields of Polish cinema and literature, and in the study of Polish secret police files from the socialist period.

• Antony Kalashnikov

  PhD candidate in History at the University of Oxford. His current project, “Stalinist Self-Representation and the Politics of Future Memory”, explores the self-representations of officials and events in the Stalin era.

• Marina Khmelnitskaya

  Post-doctoral researcher at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies “Choices of Russian Modernisation”. Her research interests include Russian politics and policy-making, experts, policy ideas, historical institutionalism, and housing policy.

• Dragana Cvetanovic

  PhD candidate in sociolinguistics at the Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies and the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki. Her doctoral thesis concerns language, identity, and performance in Finnish and Serbian rap lyrics.

• Francisco Martínez

  PhD in Anthropology, currently teaching at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Awarded several scholarships in various countries. He has edited three books, curated three exhibitions, and worked as a correspondent in Russia, Germany, Turkey, and Portugal.

• Dmitry V. Dubrovskiy

  Associated Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow since 2008, but was declined to renew the contract February 25, 2022, apparently on political grounds, as he is seen as a “foreign agent”. An expert on human rights in Russia, he has focused on issues relating to xenophobia, ultra-right nationalism, hate crimes, and hate speech as they relate to freedom of conscience and freedom of speech.

• Ausra Padskocimaite

  PhD candidate in Public International Law at the Faculty of Law and the Uppsala Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS), at Uppsala University.

• Ulyana Kaposhka and Sofie Bedford

  Sofie Bedford has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stockholm University. Currently she is a researcher at Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University (UCRS) and affiliated with the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. Her main ongoing project focuses on the concept of ‘opposition’ in electoral authoritarian states. Sofie is a part of Baltic Worlds Scientific Advisory Council and she is the contact person for the online election coverage. Ulyana Kaposhka holds a Master of Science in International and European Relations from Linköping University, Sweden. Her main research interests include societal and political development in the post-Soviet countries, specifically Belarus and Russia, as well as conflict dynamics in the South Caucasus. Ulyana is currently an intern at Uppsala Centre for Russian and European Studies, Uppsala University, where she works with Dr. Sofie Bedford within the project ‘Building Sustainable Opposition in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes’ (2015-2017).

• Mark Gamsa

  Associate professor at Tel Aviv University, where he teaches at the Department of East Asian Studies and is also involved in the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies.

• Agnes Gagyi

  A social movement researcher, working on Eastern European movements from a global historical perspective. She is member of the Budapest-based public sociology working group “Helyzet”.

• Jolanta Aidukaite

  Senior research fellow at the Lithuanian Social Research Centre. She holds a doctoral degree from Stockholm University, and has published extensively on the topics of social policy and urban community mobilization.

• Tatiana Golova

  PhD in sociology from the University of Magdeburg, Germany. She works on social movements, political radicalism, and cultural sociology. Among her publications is Hate Crime in Russia (2010).

• Dominika V. Polanska and Grzegorz Piotrowski

  Dominika V. Polanska, associate professor of sociology at Södertörn University and researcher at the Centre for Urban Studies at Uppsala University; Grzegorz Piotrowski, guest researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University.

• Michaela Pixova and Arnost Novak

  Michaela Pixová, PhD, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague and Arnošt Novák, PhD, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague

• Mats Lindqvist

  Professor of ethnology, Södertörn University. He studies individual and everyday cultural processes and practices related to fundamental social change. He focuses on working class identity, the culture of market economy, and nationalism.

• David J. Trimbach

  Currently completing his PhD in Geography at the University of Kansas (USA). His research focuses on citizenship (in theory and practice), migration, borders, and political power.

• Paul Oliver Stocker

  PhD at Teesside University’s Centre for fascist, anti-fascist, and post-fascist studies. His research relates to the British radical right and fascist conceptions of empire. He also has a focus on the legacy of fascism and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.

• Magnus Berencreutz

  Phil. licentiate in human geography at Stockholm University. His main fields of research are early modern landscape history, political geography, economic geography and economic archeology.

• Jessica Giandomenico

  PhD in political science at Uppsala Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Her research interests focus on the Western Balkans, EU foreign policy, power theory, elections, and social transformation.

• Lena Lennerhed

  Professor in History of Ideas at Södertörn university. She has written books and articles about the history of sexuality and history of abortion. Her book on illegal abortions in Sweden, Historier om ett brott, was published in 2008. Her ongoing research is about abortion and psychiatry in Sweden 1938-1975.

• Elzbieta Korolczuk

  Is a sociologist, an activist and commentator, working at Södertörn University, Sweden, and teaching at the Institute for Advanced Study, Political Critique in Warsaw. She has published on social movements, civil society and gender (especially motherhing/fatherhing and assisted reproductive technologies). Between 2001-2014 she was a member of Warsaw based informal feminist group Women’s 8 of March Alliance. She is also engaged in the activities of the Association “For Our Children” fighting for the changes in the Polish child support system and serves as a board member of “Akcja Demokracja” Foundation.

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  Michal Smrek

  Doctoral candidate in Political Science at Uppsala University. He is currently also pursuing Master studies in Statistics. His research interests lie within the field of political recruitment

• Roland Kostić

  PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University, Sweden. He is currently employed as a Research Director for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University.

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  Faradj Koliev

  Faradj Koliev is a PhD Candidate in political science at Stockholm University. His primary research interests are global governance, international political cooperation, international organizations, and the use of social sanctions in world politics.

• Patrice Poutrus

  Lise Meitner senior fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. His research focus is on migration and media representation.

• Deborah Paci

  PhD in history, researcher at the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, with interests in cultural studies and island studies.

• Irina Korgun

  HK research professor at Asia-Pacific Research Center at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea.

• Maria Chernova and Alexander Abramov and Alexander Radygin

  Alexander Radygin, Director at the Institute of Applied Economic Research, the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Moscow. He is also head of the Research Department and a board member at the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, Moscow. Alexander Abramov, Professor at the Institute of Applied Economic Research, RANEPA. His main research interests span over the development of financial markets in Russia, with a special focus on institutional investors including pension and mutual funds. Maria Chernova, Researcher at the Laboratory of Institutions and Financial Markets Analysis at the Institute of Applied Economic Research, RANEPA. Financial markets and financial risk management are her main research filed.

• Mi Lennhag

  PhD candidate in political science at Lund University. Her PhD project examines corruption in post-Soviet states and includes extensive fieldwork and interviews with ordinary citizens. She is also a journalist and photographer, focusing on Eastern Europe.

• Susanne Oxenstierna

  Holds a doctorate in economics and works as a deputy research director at the Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI. She is a specialist on the Russian economy.

• Olga Golubeva

  PhD, Senior Lecturer, Department of Business Administration, Södertörn University. For 18 years, she has been working in the financial sector including Vostok Nafta, Calyon bank and Swedbank. Dr. Golubeva’s research interests include foreign investment decision-making, valuation of companies, financial and banking systems.

• Leo Granberg and Ann-Mari Sätre

  Leo Granberg, Scholar at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, and visiting researcher in Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University. Ann-Mari Sätre, Associate professor in Economics and senior lecturer/researcher at Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, and International partner at the Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.

• Anton Oleinik

  Professor of sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland (St. John's, Canada) and leading research fellow at the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia).

• Ildikó Asztalos Morell

  Associate professor in sociology at Mälardalen University and is currently affiliated with the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies as senior research fellow. Her current research explores processes of marginalization in rural Hungary from an intersectional perspective.

• Don Kalb

  Professor of sociology and social anthropology at the Central European University, Budapest, and senior researcher at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He was a distinguished visiting professor at the Advanced Research Collaborative at CUNY/Graduate Center, New York, in 2014/15.

• Piotr Piotrowski

  The Polish art historian, critic, and curator Piotr Piotrowski passed away May 2015. He was the chair of the Modern Art History Department at Adam Mickiewicz University, in Poznań, where he was also the director of the Institute of Art History from 1999 to 2008.

• Renata Ingbrant

  PhD in Slavic languages and literature and associate senior lecturer at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stockholm University. Her research interests include feminist, gender and masculinity studies; contemporary Polish literature and women’s literature.

• Henrik Ohlsson

  Henrik Ohlsson is a Central Asia specialist and co-founder of the Stockholm based think tank Eurasia Forum.

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  Ann-Judith Rabenschlag

  PhD in History and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History at Stockholm University. Current research concerns historical semantics (discourse analysis, conceptual history); migration, integration, intercultural communication; identity building in societies and nations. She has a focus on modern European history.

• Andrej Kotljarchuk

  is a senior researcher, associate professor and director of operations at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University. He is a leader of the ongoing research project “Memory Politics in Far-Right Europe: Celebrating Nazi Collaborationists in Post-1989 Belarus, Romania, Flanders and Denmark”, supported by The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies.

• Kateryna Mishchenko

  Writer, editor, and translator of German in Kyiv. Born in Poltava, she studied German and literary studies at the Kyiv Linguistic and Hamburg University. Lecturer in history of literature at Kyiv Linguistic University and translator in human rights and social spheres. Co-founder of the Ukrainian publishing house Medusa.

• Gustav Strandberg

  PhD student in philosophy at Södertörn University. He is writing a dissertation on the political thought of Jan Patočka with the provisional title “Abyssal Politics – the political thought of Jan Patočka”. His main areas of study are phenomenology and political philosophy.

• Jean-Luc Nancy

  In 1973, he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Kant. Nancy was then promoted to Maître de conférences at the Université des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg. In the 1970s and 1980s, Nancy was a guest professor at universities all over the world. In 1987, Nancy received his Docteur d’état which was published 1988 as L’expérience de la liberté.

• Ewa Majewska

  PhD in philosophy. Since 2003 lecturer at the Institute for Gender Studies at the University of Warsaw. In 2013/14 senior visiting fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. She has published two monographs and some 30 articles. Currently a visiting fellow at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry in Berlin.

• Leonard Neuger

  Professor of Polish language and literature, and translator. Researcher at the Institute of Polish Literature and Culture at the University of Silesia (1974–1982) in Katowice, where he founded Solidarity. Interned and imprisoned 1981–82. Researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Stockholm University, and its director since 2003. Author of over 200 scientific papers and critical essays.

• Ludger Hagedorn

  PhD and research leader at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. From 2005 to 2009 he was a Purkyne Fellow at the Czech Academy of Sciences. His main interests include phenomenology, political philosophy, modernity, and secularization. As a lecturer, he has worked at the Gutenberg University of Mainz, at Södertörn University and for several years at Charles University in Prague. Recently, he has also taught for New York University in Berlin.

• Lars Fredrik Stöcker

  PhD in history and civilization. Currently postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University. He focuses on early marketization in the USSR and the role of Western people and organizations in the implementation of market-oriented economic reforms in the Estonian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republics.

• Tetyana Bureychak

  Independent researcher and GEXcel International Collegium open position fellow affiliated with the Unit of Gender Studies, Linköping University since June, 2012. Her research interests lie in feminist and gender theories, critical studies of men and masculinities, nationalism, gender politics, and consumer and visual culture.

• Daria Dmitrieva

  Culture researcher, PhD, with interests in modern culture, popular culture, comics, visual culture, and culture theory. Founder and director of the cultural center “PUNKTUM” (http://www.punktum.ru ). Head of publishing house “IZOTEKA”. Lecturer at the Russian State University of the Humanities, Moscow.

• Ekaterina Vikulina

  PhD in cultural studies and lecturer at the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). Research areas: visual culture studies, media, photography, gender and the culture of the Soviet “Thaw”. Member of the Art Critics and Art Historians Association.

• Ilkin Mehrabov

  PhD candidate at Karlstad University’s Department of Geography, Media and Communication. Originally from Azerbaijan, with previous studies in Turkey, obtaining degrees in electrical-electronics engineering and media and cultural studies. His thesis focuses on mediatization and surveillance.

• Madina Tlostanova

  Professor of postcolonial feminism at the Department of Thematic Studies (Gender studies) at Linköping University. Previously professor of philosophy at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, also previously professor of history of philosophy at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. The author of eight scholarly books, over 250 articles and two postcolonial novels, Tlostanova focuses on non-Western gender theory, decolonial and postcolonial theory, and postsocialist studies.

• Kjetil Duvold

  PhD in political science. Positions at Södertörn, Humboldt, Vytautas Magnus, and Vilnius universities. Among his books is Making Sense of Baltic Democracy: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania between the Soviet Union and the European Union (2010).

• Mose Apelblat

  Former official at the European Commission. In recent years he worked as policy coordinator for public administration reform and good governance in the candidate countries. Regular commentator on EU affairs as well as other issues.

• Krister Eduards

  Former counselor at the Swedish Embassy in Moscow.

• Sara Granath

  Theatre critic and former senior lecturer in comparative literature, Södertörn University.

• Julia Malitska, Olena Podolian & Yuliya Yurchuk

  Yuliya Yurchuk, PhD in history, CBEES, Södertörn University. She conducts memory studies in Ukraine, and focuses on the representations of the past and their effects on the present and future. Julia Malitska is doctoral student in history at School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University and examines Russia's imperialism and colonization of Azov and Black Sea region in the 19th century. Olena Podolian is a doctoral student in political science at Södertörn University and studies regime change, challenges for democracy and state-building in former Soviet countries with a focus on Ukraine and Estonia.

• Ann-Marie Ekengren

  Professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg. Her main research areas are foreign policy decision-making, international relations, and party politics.

• James Wesley Scott

  Professor of geography at the Karelian Institute at the University of Joensuu and research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning. He focuses on urban and regional development policy, geopolitics, and border studies.

• Barbara Törnquist-Plewa & Magdalena Góra

  Barbara Törnquist-Plewa is Professor of Eastern and Central European Studies; director for the Centre for European Studies, Lund University, Sweden. Magdalena Góra is Assistant professor at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Cracow. PhD in political science.

• Oksana Shmulyar Gréen & Andrea Spehar

  Oksana Shmulyar Gréen is PhD in sociology and senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg. ANndrea Spehar is PhD in political science and senior lecturer at the University of Gothenburg; researcher at the Centre for European Research (CERGU).

• Anne Wæhrens

  PhD in history, currently employed at Metropolitan University College in Copenhagen. Her dissertation deals with the role and function of the memory of the Holocaust in the EU and the European Parliament.

• Ferenc L. Laczó

  PhD in history, researcher at Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena. His research interests are cultural and intellectual history, modern Europe, and Jewish history.

• Edward Kanterian

  Senior lecturer at the University of Kent.

• Sara Feldman

  PhD, currently holds a post-doctoral position at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan.

• Margaret Tali

  Mobilitas plus postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Current research deals with the complex memories of WWII in the Baltic States in practices of contemporary art and documentary film.

• Katja Lehtisaari

  Postdoctoral researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.

• Ilya Kalinin

  Associate professor in the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University.

• Elina Kahla

  She is a fellow at the Center of Excellence in Russian Studies funded by the Academy of Finland (2012–2017), and the director of the Finnish Institute in St. Petersburg.

• Jenny Björkman & Johan Eellend

  Jenny Björkman and Johan Eellend are both PhD:s in history.

• Elena Johansson

  PhD and researcher at School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University.

• Kristiina Silvan

  Postdoctoral Fellow in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood and Russia research programme at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. She earned her PhD in Political History at the University of Helsinki in February 2022. Her PhD dissertation is titled Legacies of the Komsomol: Government-Affiliated Youth Activism in post-Soviet Belarus and Russia. Currently, she works primarily on state–society relations in Central Asian states, especially Kazakhstan, and Russia’s role in the Central Asian region.

• Charlotte Bydler

  PhD, is a lecturer at the department of art history and research coordinator in the cultural theory field, Center for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University, Sweden.

• Ekaterina Tarasova & Karin Edberg

  Karin Edberg is a doctoral student in sociology at BEEGS (Baltic and East European Graduate School), Södertörn University. Her dissertation aims to discuss local responses; resistance, normalization and legitimization, to new energy infrastructures. Ekaterina Tarasova is a doctoral student in political science, also at BEEGS, Södertörn University. Her research is devoted to the study of antinuclear movements and mobilisation in Russia, Poland and Sweden.

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  Linas Eriksonas

  Linas Eriksonas is a founding member of the Demos institute of critical thought. Linas holds a doctorate from the University of Aberdeen and has been involved in a number of academic and public sector-related consultancy projects.

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  Roman Horbyk

  PhD in media and communication. Previously connected to universities in Kyiv, Aarhus, Amsterdam, and Hamburg. Senior lecturer at Södertörn University, and a postdoctoral researcher at Umeå University in Media and Communication Studies. Roman Horbyk was born in Kyiv, Ukraine. He has worked as a journalist.

• Fredrik Nilsson

  Professor of ethnology and director of Centrum för Danmarksstudier (Center for Denmark Studies), Lund University.

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  Alena Ledeneva

  Professor of politics and society, University College London.

• Kristian Petrov

  Associate professor of history of ideas, Södertörn University.

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  Johanna Lindbladh

  PhD in Slavic languages, Lund University (2003).

• Alla Marchenko Sergiy Kurbatov

  Alla Marchenko is associated researcher, Faculty of Sociology, National University of Kyiv. Sergiy Kurbatov is research fellow at Institute of Higher Education, National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine and guest researcher at Uppsala Centre for Russian Studies, Uppsala University.

• Péter Balogh & Vassilis Petsinis

  Péter Balogh is PhD candidate in Human geography, Stockholm University and connected to CBEES, Södertörn University. Dr Vassilis Petsinis is Visiting Researcher at the Herder Institut (Marburg, Germany). His main specialization is Ethnopolitics and European Politics with a regional focus on Central and Southeast Europe.

• Daniel Kral

  Postgraduate research student in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London.

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  Adrià Alcoverro

  PhD student in history at the Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University.

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  Susanne Nylund Skog

  Associate professor and researcher at the Institute for Language and Folklore in Uppsala.

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  Piotr Wawrzeniuk

  Associate Professor at the Swedish Defence University’s Department of Military History.

• Håkan Tunón et al

  Senior research officer at the Swedish Biodiversity Centre. Co-authors: Weronika Axelsson Linkowski, Marie Kvarnström, Ann Norderhaug, Jörgen Wissmans and Bolette Bele.

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  Madeleine Bonow

  PhD in Human Geography and lecturer at Södertörn University.

• León Poblete & H. Richard Nakamura

  LEÓN POBLETE is PhD candidate at the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. H. RICHARD NAKAMURA is assistant professor at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

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  Karolina Zurek

  Senior researcher in law at SIEPS, Swedish Institute for European Policy Research, and postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law at Stockholm University.

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  Dominika Polanska

  PhD in sociology, CBEES, Södertörn University.

• Lyudmyla Pavlyuk

  Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism at Ivan Franko National University in Lviv, Ukraine. Her research field is the analysis of discursive constructions of national identity and representation of conflict in mass media.

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  Yuri Andrukhovych

  Yuri Andrukhovych is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator.

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  Mykola Riabchuk

  Political and cultural analyst in Kyiv, his last book “Glechschaltung. Authoritarian Consolidation in Ukraine, 2010-2012” was published in both Ukrainian and English.

• Johnny Rodin & Pelle Åberg

  Johnny Rodin is senior lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University. Pelle Åberg is PhD in political science, and senior lecturer at Södertörn University and Ersta Sköndal University College.

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  Aija Lulle

  PhD in human geography at University of Latvia.

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  David Williams

  DAAD postdoctoral fellow at the University of Konstanz. PhD in comparative literature from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

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  Irina Kotkina

  PhD from Moscow State University for Humanities.

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  Carl Marklund

  PhD in political science and project researcher in “Transnational Art and Heritage Transfer and the Formation of Value: Objects, Agents, and Institutions” at CBEES, Södertörn University.

• Norbert Götz

  Professor at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University, Sweden. Conducts research on transnational history, spatial imagination, humanitarian efforts, and global civil society. Leads a project on regionalism in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean regions.

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  Evelina Kelbecheva

  Professor of history at the American University in Bulgaria.

• Valters Bolevics, Jan Sjölin & Tatjana Volkova

  Valters Bolevics, PhD, Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration, Jan Sjölin, associate professor, the Baltic International Academy in Riga and Tatjana Volkova professor, BA School of Business and Finance, Latvia.

• Lina Håkansdotter

  Archealogist, Gothenburg University

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  Johan Rönnby

  Professor of Maritime Archaeology, MARIS, Södertörn University

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  Madeleine Hurd & Steffen Werther

  Madeleine Hurd is assistant professor in history, Södertörn University and Steffen Werther is PhD in history, also at Södertörn University.

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  Mai-Brith Schartau

  Associate professor of political science at Södertörn University. Director for the former German Studies Research Unit.

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  Licia Cianetti

  Licia Cianetti is a PhD student at UCL-SSEES (School of Slavonic and East European Studies) London. Her primary research interests are minorities, democratic representation and power. Her PhD research deals with the political representation of Russian-speaking minorities in Latvia and Estonia and their access to the policy-making process."

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  Arba Murati

  Arba Murati is an election expert. She has worked in election observation missions and electoral assistance projects in Albania, Bulgaria, Kenya, Egypt, Congo DRC and Guinea Conakry.

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  Blagovesta Cholova

  Blagovesta Cholova is Phd /teaching assistant at the Centre d’études de la vie politique (CEVIPOL) at Université libre de Bruxelles ( Free university of Brussels), Belgium. She is a member of the IPSA, ECPR and ABSP associations. Her research focuses on Populism and political parties in Central and Eastern Europe and especially in Bulgaria. Her Phd thesis is on the Right-wing populist parties in Bulgaria.

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  Herta Schmid

  Professor emerita at Potsdam University. Professorships at universities in Bochum, Munich and Potsdam in Slavic literary studies, especially Russian, Polish and Czech.

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  Henriette Cederlöf

  Henriette Cederlöf is a PhD student in Russian literature at BEEGS (Baltic and Eastern European Graduate School). She is currently completing her thesis about the 1970s fiction of the Strugatsky brothers.

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  Robert Chandler

  English translator of Russian Literature and poetry.

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  Sasha Tsenkova

  Professor of planning and international development, University of Calgary, Faculty of Environmental Design, Canada.

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  Natalia Murray

  In 1998 she completed her doctoral thesis at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. At present Natalia is writing her second PhD thesis, at the Courtauld Institute (where she is also lecturing on twentieth-century Russian Art), on the development of proletarian art in Russia after the 1917 Revolution.

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  Kenneth J. Knoespel

  McEver Professor of Engineering and the Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech. He has a joint appointment with the School of History, Technology and Society and an adjunct appointment in the College of Architecture.

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  Arne Jarrick

  Professor of history at Stockholm University. Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Professor Arne Jarrick is currently conducting a project on cultural dynamics and the global history of law at the Center for the Study of Cultural Evolution, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies.

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  Axel Kronholm

  Freelance journalist, Stockholm.

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  Anna Kharkina

  PhD in history and philosophy. Previously an archivist at the Swedish Center for Architecture and Design (ArkDes); currently involved in the research project “Transnational Art and Heritage Transfer and the Formation of Value: Objects, Agents, and Institutions” at Södertörn University. Anna Kharkina previously worked in various cultural institutions in Russia and as a freelance curator and writer.

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  Yury Bit-Yunan

  PhD and lecturer on literary criticism at the Russian State University for the Humanities.

• Yulia Gradskova Irina Sandomirskaja Nadezda Petrusenko

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  Bo G. Hellers

  Professor in building engineering, Royal College of Engineering, Stockholm.

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  Andrei Plesu

  A Romanian philosopher, essayist, journalist, literary critic and art critic.

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  Francesco Zavatti

  PhD, is presently a researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies and at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University, Sweden. He is a historian of contemporary European history, specialized in the history of East-Central Europe and of Romania in particular, and interested in transnational history and memory studies. His most recent research article on the memory politics of the Romanian far-right was published in Memory Studies in early 2021.

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  Simon Larsson

  Researcher, Department of Science and Ideas History, Uppsala University.

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  Freek van der Vet

  The author is a PhD candidate at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.

• Nadezda Petrusenko

  Currently a lecturer in history at Örebro University. She received her doctoral degree in 2018 at Södertörn University. Her research interests include gender history, historiography, and the history of terrorism in Russia.

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  Cristian Norocel

  Is affiliated postdoctoral researcher to the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN), in the University of Helsinki (Finland), and adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, in Stockholm University (Sweden).

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  Arseniy Svynarenko

  Arseniy Svynarenko is Ukrainian born sociologist and youth researcher, lives and works in Finland.

• Riikka Nisonen

  PhD, is researcher in the Aleksanteri Instititute (The Finnish Centre of East European and Russian Studies) of the University of Helsinki. She recieved her PhD in history at the University of Tampere in 2012.

• Niklas Nilsson

  Niklas Nilsson is a Doctoral Candidate in Political Science at Södertörn University and Uppsala University. He is currently a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University.

• Per Eklöf

  Freelance journalist and photographer, Stockholm

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  David Gaunt

  Professor emeritus of History, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University. Member of the Academy of Europe section for history and archeology, the editorial board of Social History and International Genocide Studies and the Workshop for Armenian-Turkish Studies.

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  Inga Aalia & Kjetil Duvold

  Inga Aalia, holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Vilnius and a master’s degree from the University of Oslo. Kjetil Duvold, PhD in political science. Positions at Södertörn, Humboldt, Vytautas Magnus, and Vilnius universities.

• Sven Rücker

  Received his PhD in philosophy from Freie Universität Berlin in 2010, where he is currently teaching. His dissertation “Das Gesetz der Überschreitung: Eine philosophische Geschichte der Grenzen” will be published by Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2012.

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  Hannah Lutz

  Recently completed an MA in comparative literature and gender studies at Åbo Akademi University in Finland.

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  Jakob Norberg

  Is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of German at Duke University.

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  Eneken Laanes

  A senior research fellow at the Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.

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  Vsevolod Bashkuev

  A historian, and research fellow at the Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan studies, Ulan–Ude, Russia.

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  Olaf Haagensen

  PhD student at the University of Agder (Norway), working on a dissertation on Holocaust literature from the period 1990–2010. He is also a literary critic in the Norwegian weekly newspaper Morgenbladet.

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  Per Bolin

  Associate professor of history and research director at CBEES. Specializes in the modern history of the Baltic states, particularly Latvia and Lithuania.

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  Påhl Ruin

  Freelance writer, based in Stockholm. He has previously worked and lived in Vilnius. He has earlier reported for Swedish publications from Tokyo and Vienna and worked for several years in Stockholm. Frequently published in Baltic Worlds.

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  Jan Christensen

  Associate professor of history, Gothenburg University.

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  Håkan Blomqvist

  PhD, director of the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University.

• Mike Dennis

  Is Professor of Modern German History, School of Law, Social Sciences and Communications, University of Wolverhampton.

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  Lars Johannsen

  Ph.D., Department of Political Science and Government, Faculty of Business and Social Science, Aarhus University.

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  Yuliya Yurchuk

  PhD in history at Centre for Baltic and East European studies, Södertörn University.

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  Nicholas Aylott

  Senior lecturer in political science, research leader, Södertörn University, Stockholm.

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  Kutte Jönsson

  Associate professor of sport philosophy and sport ethics, Department of Sport Sciences at Malmö University.

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  Anders Nordström

  Anders Nordström has a Ph.D. in political science and is post doctoral researcher at CBEES since 2010. His main specialization is European politics, transnational regulation and international organizations monitoring of states with a focus on the Council of Europe and the Eastern Enlargement of this organization.

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  Kevin Deegan-Krause & Tim Haughton

  Kevin Deegan-Krause (to the right) is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wayne State University. Tim Haughton (to the left) is Senior Lecturer in the Politics of Central and Eastern Europe at the University of Birmingham and the 2011-12 Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

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  Bo Petersson

  Professor of political science and professor of international migration and ethnic relations (IMER), Culture and Society, Malmö University.

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  Vassilis Petsinis

  Visiting Researcher at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies (University of Tartu) courtesy of a research stipend from the Swedish Institute.

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  Lars Kleberg

  Professor emeritus of Slavic languages, writer, translator.

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  Ann-Mari Sätre

  Associate professor of economics, senior lecturer/ senior researcher at UCRS , Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

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  Nancy Westman

  A journalist focusing on the arts.

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  Markku Kivinen

  Director Aleksanteri Institute, Professor in Sociology.

• Jukka Pietiläinen

  PhD, senior research at Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki. He is currently finishing a book on Russian magazines and starting article on fraud in Russian elections.

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  Iveta Jurkane

  Doctoral student in Sociology, BEEGS.

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  Yulia Gradskova

  Research Coordinator at CBEES and a researcher at the Department of Gender Studies, Södertörn University. Research interest: decolonial approach, gender studies, particularly “women of the East”, postsocialist culture studies.

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  Sven Hort

  Professor of sociology, Södertörn Universty.

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  Sara Bergfors

  Journalist and AD for Baltic Worlds, Stockholm.

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  Pärtel Piirimäe

  Associate professor of history at the University of Tartu. Has been a research fellow at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge.

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  Kathrin Bernard

  Freelance writer, Berlin.

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  Ekaterina Kalinina

  An Associate Professor at the Department for Media Studies at Stockholm University, working with the questions the uses of communication and media tools by civil society activists. She is also interested in memory studies and published extensively on post-Soviet nostalgia. She runs the NGO Nordkonst, which aim is to contribute to a stronger international cooperation in the Baltic and the Nordic regions.

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  Katri Pynnöniemi

  PhD in international relations; researcher at the Finnish Institute of Foreign Affairs, Helsinki.

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  Per Jönsson

  Editor at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), Stockholm, foreign affairs reporter for the daily Dagens Nyheter 1980—2010.

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  Teresa Kulawik & Renata Ingbrant

  Teresa Kulawik, Professor of Gender Studies, Södertörn University and Renata Ingbrant, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stockholm University.

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  Maria Janion

  Professor of literature Maria Janion is seen as an archaeologist of Polish culture and national identity, and is recognized as the nestor of gender studies in Poland.

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  Tomaž Deželan

  Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana; researcher at the Centre for Political Science Research at the same faculty.

• Helmut Müller-Enbergs & Thomas Wegener Friis

  Helmut Müller-Enbergs, adj. professor, University of Southern Denmark; Guestprofessor, University of Gotland; Senior Researcher The agency of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi records (BStU). Thomas Wegener Friis, associate professor and network coordinator at the Centre for Cold War at the Department for History and Civilization, University of Southern Denmark

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  Jonas Harvard

  Manager for the Nordic Spaces programme, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University.

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  Johan Öberg

  Research Officer, Faculty Office for Fine and Applied Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

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  Stefanos Katsikas

  PhD, lecturer in history, Department of History, Goldsmiths, University of London.

• Magnus Ljunggren

  Professor Emeritus of Russian at the University of Gothenburg.

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  Benjamin Stanley

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  Michael Rießler

  PhD in general linguistics.

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  Fredrik Eriksson

  PhD in history, researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University. Has written on agricultural policy and the Swedish Conservative Party.

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  Gunnar Åselius

  Professor of military history at the Swedish National Defence College in Stockholm.

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  Egle Rindzevičiūtė

  Associate Professor in Criminology and Sociology, the Department of Criminology and Sociology, Kingston University London, UK.

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  Björn Rombach

  Professor of business administration at the School of Public Administration, University of Gothenburg

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  Josefina Lundblad-Janjić

  Holds a PhD in Russian Literature and is a Lecturer in Russian at the Swedish Armed Forces School for Interpreters.

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  Karl Schlögel

  Professor emeritus of East European History at European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). Historian and writer, lives in Berlin. Among his books: Moscow 1937 (Polity Press 2012), The Scent of Empires. Chanel No 5 and Red Moscow (Polity Press 2021), Ukraine. A Nation on the Borderland (Reaktion Books 2022).

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  Birgit van der Leeden

  German author.

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  Jacob Christensen

  Jacob Christensen is lecturer in social science at the department of Social Work, UC Lillebælt.

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  Ingmar Oldberg

  Research associate at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) since 2009, member of its Russia and Eurasia programme, formerly Deputy Director of Research at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI).

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  Barbara Lönnqvist

  Professor of Russian at the Åbo Akademi University and associate professor of Slavic languages at Stockholm University.

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  Tilo Schabert

  Professor emeritus of political science at the University of Erlangen.

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  Madeleine Granvik

  Human geographer, PhD in landscape planning and assistant professor in planning for sustainable development and management of urban-rural interactions.

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  Uffe Østergaard

  Professor of European history at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, and former director of the Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

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  Florence Fröhlig

  PhD in ethnology, Södertörn University. Focus on memory and mourning processes. Postdoctoral researcher in the Norface project TRANSWEL, and project researcher in “NuclearLegacies: Negotiating Radioactivity in France, Russia, and Sweden”.

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  Karl Molin

  Professor of history at Stockholm University.

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  Péteris Timofejevs Henriksson

  Senior lecturer in political science at Södertörns University. His research focuses on Europeanization of Central and Eastern European countries.

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  Robert Hislope

  Robert Hislope (Ph.D., Ohio State, 1995) teaches comparative politics at Union College (Schenectady, New York).

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  Adam Michnik

  Editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, where he sometimes writes under the pen names Andrzej Zagozda or Andrzej Jagodziński. In 1966–1989, one of the leading organizers of the illegal, democratic opposition in Poland. He is the recipient of many awards, including a Knight of the Legion of Honour.

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  Slavenka Drakulic

  Croatian writer and publicist currently living in Sweden.

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  Mats Bergquist

  PhD in political science. Chancellor of Växjö University and Chairman of the Board of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.

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  Rikke Petersson

  Former lecturer in Swedish language and literature at the University of Munster, Germany 1982–2004.

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  Ulf Persson

  Professor of mathematics at Chalmers University, Gothenburg.

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  Anja Schnabel

  PhD in German literature (Hanover) on Peter Weiss. Lecturer at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense.

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  Natalia Poltavtseva

  Associate Professor. Reader at the Russian Anthropological School, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow. Senior Researcher at the Russian Institute for Cultural Research, Moscow.

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  Pertti Joenniemi

  Senior Research Fellow, DIIS

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  Peter Johnsson

  Peter Johnsson is a foreign correspondent. Working for Nordic media and based in Warsaw he has covered the countries in East-Central Europe since 1980. He is the author of several books on Poland and polish history.

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  Anna Storm

  Postdoc at CBEES. Her dissertation Hope and Rust: Reinterpreting the Industrial Place in the Late 20th Century was published in 2008.

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  Matthew Kott

  Holds a PhD in history. Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University.

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  Gunnar Wetterberg

  Head of research at Saco, The Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations. Author of a biography of Axel Oxenstierna. Holds an honorary doctorate from Lund University.

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  David Kirby

  Professor at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. Among his publications are Finland in the Twentieth Century (1979), Northern Europe in the Early Modern Period (1990) and The Baltic World 1772–1993 (1995).

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  Karin S Lindelöf

  Ethnologist who completed her PhD in 2006 with the thesis If we now are going to be like Europe – the creation of gender and normality among young women in the Poland. Postdoc at Stockholm University.

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  Björn Kumm

  Björn Kumm is a Swedish journalist and author.

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  Kristoffer Morén

  Freelancejournalist with interest for environmental questions.

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  Thomas Borchert

  DPA-corresepondent.

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  Angela Oker-Blom

  Visual artist and freelance journalist.

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  Anaïs Marin

  Anaïs Marin is a French political scientist based in Helsinki.

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  Torgny Hinnemo

  Journalist with a background in Soviet studies. Author of several books.

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  Geir Flikke

  Senior Fellow, Department for International Politics, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

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  Sofie Bedford

  An Associate Professor in Political Science and an Affiliated Researcher at IRES Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University. Her PhD project was conducted at Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS) at Södertörn University and focused on processes of Islamic revivalism and community mobilization in Azerbaijan. She has since continued her research on religious, political and civic activism, especially in the Azerbaijani context but also in comparison to other authoritarian states, Belarus in particular.

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  Emelie Lilliefeldt

  Emelie Lilliefeldt is a PhD candidate at Stockholm University and in the Baltic and East European Graduate School, Södertörn University. Her research covers party organization and party behavior in Europe.

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  Åsa Bengtsson

  Åsa Bengtsson (Pol.dr, Docent) is an Academy Researcher at Åbo Akademi University in Finland. She specializes in public opinion and electoral research.

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  Ann-Catrin Östman

  Lecturer at Åbo Akademi University (Turku, Finland).

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  Claudia Kraft

  Professor of East and Central European History at Erfurt University.

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  Hanna Söderbaum

  PhD student in economic history, Uppsala University.

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  Péter Balogh

  Péter Balogh’s research focuses on geopolitical narratives in Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Regional Studies, CERS-HAS, where he is critically analysing how and why the notion of ‘Central Europe’ has been changing over the past years.

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  Klaus Misgeld & Karl Molin

  Klaus Misgeld is professor of history and former research director at the Labor Movement Archives and Library (ARAB). Karl Molin is professor in history, Stockholm University.

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  Ann-Cathrine Jungar

  Ann-Cathrine Jungar is associate professor at Södertörn university and Director of Studies of BEEGS (Baltic and East European Graduate School).

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  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, former President of the USSR.

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  Archie Brown

  Archie Brown is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1991 and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2003. His most recent book is The Rise and Fall of Communism (2009).

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  Irina Sandomirskaja

  Professor of cultural studies at CBEES, Södertörn University.

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  Margareta Tillberg

  Associate Professor in Art History, Uppsala University. Adjunct Professor, Stockholm University. She defended in 2003 her doctorate on Russian art and artists, Coloured Universe and the Russian-Avantgarde. M.V. Matiushin on Colour Vision in Stalin’s Russia 1932. Main research interests concern art in the widest sense possible (including theory and practice of visual culture, design, architecture, media) in Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, applying interdisciplinary perspectives. August 2024 Margareta Tillberg died at the age of 63 years.

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  Sergey Zhuravlev & Jukka Gronow

  Together Gronow and Zhuralev have written a history of pre-war Soviet fashion.

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  Philip Hanson

  Professor emeritus of the political economy of Russia and Eastern Europe.

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  Gudrun Persson

  PhD in history.

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  Pontus Reimers

  Editorial consultant.

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  Michel Ekman

  PhD, researcher and literary critic.

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  Lena Jonson

  Lena Jonson, an associated research fellow of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the former head of the Russia Program at UI. Among her recent books in the field addressed here is Waiting for Reform under Putin and Medvedev (2012), jointly edited with Stephen White (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan).

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  Sven Eliaeson

  Professor in political science.

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  Oksana Udovyk

  PhD student in the Södertörns högskola, engaged in the project called RISKGOV. This project is dealing with environmental risks management in the Baltic Sea.

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  Johnny Rodin

  PhD in political science, Södertörn University.

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  Ilja Viktorov

  PhD in Economic History, 2007.

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  Maija Runcis

  Associate professor, history, Södertörn University.

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  Hans Wolf

  Freelance writer.

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  Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen & Tanya Jukkala

  Illkka Henrik Mäkinen is professor of sociology at Södertörn University, director of the Stockholm Centre on Health of Societies in Transition (SCOHOST). Tanya Jukkala is doctoral student in sociology at Baltic and East European Graduate School (BGEES) Södertörn University.

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  Michael Gentile

  Professor, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway

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  Anders Hammarlund

  Associate professor, cultural historian, and music ethnologist.

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  Irka Cederberg

  Irka Cederberg is a journalist and a Bachelor of Science in Social Work.

• Michael Bradshaw

  Professor Human Geography, University of Leicester, UK.

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  Markus Huss

  Assistant Professor of German at the Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German, Stockholm University. Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council of Baltic Worlds.

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  Helene Carlbäck

  Helene Carlbäck, associate professor of history, Södertörn University.

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  Anders Hellner

  Senior adviser at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Stockholm)

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  Marielle Vitureau

  Baltic States correspondent, Radio France Internationale and AFP

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  Tove Stenqvist

  Journalist at Sydsvenska Dagbladet, Malmö Sweden.

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  Anna Danielsson

  Journalist, specializing in labor market issues.

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  MarieLouise Samuelsson

  Freelance journalist currently focusing on research policy and research funding.

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  Peter Lodenius

  Former editor-in-chief of the Swedish-language weekly magazine Ny Tid [New Times] (Helsinki).

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  Unn Gustafsson

  Freelance writer.

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  Matti Peltonen

  Professor of social history at the Department of Social Science History, University of Helsinki.

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  AnuMai Kõll

  Is legally responsible for the publication Baltic Worlds. Professor in Baltic History, Culture and Society, and director of CBEES at Södertörn University.

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  Barbara Czarniawska

  Holds a chair in management studies at GRI, School of Business, Economics and Law, at the University of Gothenburg.

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  Kristian Gerner

  Professor of history at Lund University.

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  Steve Sem-Sandberg

  Author and critic. Has published a dozen novels, investigative stories, and collections of essays.

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  Vesa Oittinen

  Professor of Russian philosophy and intellectual history at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.

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  Rebecka Lettevall

  Associate professor of the history of ideas at Södertörn University, Pro-vice chancellor of Södertörn University.

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  Thomas Lundén

  Professor of human geography, CBEES. Editor of the year-book Ymer.

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  Torbjörn Nilsson

  Professor Emeritus in History at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University.

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  Anna Rotkirch

  Associate professor of social policy and women’s studies at the University of Helsinki.

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  Arne Bengtsson

  Foreign correspondent at the Swedish news agency Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå (TT), where he covers the Baltic countries.

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  Ann-Louise Martin

  Worked for 25 years in the Arts and Science Department at the Swedish Radio.

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  Anders Mellbourn

  Visiting professor at CBEES, Södertörn University, editor-in-chief Sändaren.

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  Martin Hårdstedt

  Associate professor of history at Umeå University.

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  Guje Sevón

  Professor of economic psychology at Stockholm School of Economics.

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  Johan Eellend

  Ph.D, works at CBEES, Södertörn University.

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  Torbjörn Eng

  Ph.D. in history, leads the international and multidisciplinary research program ”Nordiska rum” (Nordic Spaces) at CBEES (Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, at Södertörn University.

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  Anna Janowiak

  Graduated in international relations at Adam Mickiewicz University of Pozna´n and is completing a Ph.D. in European Social History at Ca’Foscari University of Venice

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  Thorsten Nybom

  Professor of history at Örebro University and vice rector there.

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  Anders Björnsson

  Editor-in-chief of BW 2008-2012.

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  Per Högselius

  Ph.D in innovation studies, researcher at the Department of History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

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  Laura Kolbe

  Professor of European History at the University of Helsinki.

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  Risto Alapuro

  Research professor at the Academy of Finland.

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  Lennart Samuelson

  Associate professor of economic history at the Stockholm School of Economics.

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  Sune Jungar

  Professor of Nordic history at Åbo (Turku) Academy University.

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  Andrea Petö

  Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, a Doctor of Science of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her works have appeared in 16 different languages. In 2005, she was awarded the Officer’s Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary by the President of the Hungarian Republic and the Bolyai Prize by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2006.

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  Li Bennich-Björkman

  Johan Skytte professor in political science at Uppsala University.

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  Karl Magnus Johansson

  Associate professor of political science at Södertörn University.

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  Beate Feldmann

  Doctorand in ethnology at CBEES, Södertörn University.

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  Antje Wischmann

  Currently visiting professor in Scandinavian studies at the University of Tübingen, lecturer at the Department for Northern European Studies at the Humboldt University Berlin.

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  András Bozóki

  Professor of political science at the Central European University in Budapest.

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  Slava Gerovitch

  Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  Jens E. Olesen

  Professor of Scandinavian and Finnish history at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University in Greifswald.

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  Susanne Lundin

  Professor of ethnology at Lund University.

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  Bernd Henningsen

  Professor of Scandivian studies, director of the Department of Northern European Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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  Max Engman

  Professor of history at Åbo (Turku) Academy University.

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  Ragni Svensson

  Illustrator Baltic Worlds. Board member of the artist collective Detroit since 2007.

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  Brian Manning Delaney

  Translator Brian Manning Delaney has developed a Style Guide for Baltic Worlds, based on a modified version of the Chicago system.

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  Ninna Mörner

  Editor-in chief, Baltic Worlds.