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Welcome and registration 

Panel: LGBT Representations and Experiences

• Kadri Aavik (Tallinn University, Estonia) The personal is political: intimate citizenship and the experiences of transgender people in Estonia
• Radzhana Buyantueva (University of Newcastle, UK) Implications to the development of LGBT activism in Russia
• Mariya Grant (University of Edinburgh, UK)
  Locating Non-Heterosexual and Non-Cisgender Kazakhs Within Their Social and Historical Context

Chair: Siobhan Hearne (ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´)

Panel: Pregnancy, Abortion and Childbearing

• Yuliya Hilevych and Chizu Sato (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
  Abortion cultures during the Cold War in Soviet Ukraine
• Natalia Mitsyuk (Smolensk State Medical University, Russia)
  Woman’s body is not a female business: the medicalization of pregnancy in Russia (18th-20th centuries)
• Marianna Muravyeva (Higher School of Economics, Tampere, Finland)
  Emancipated Mothers: Gender, Mother-Abuse and Traditional Values in post-Soviet Russia

Chair: Nick Baron (ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´)

Keynote address: Dr Sarah Badcock (ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´, UK)

Panel: Gender, Sexuality and National Identities

• Emil Edenborg (Södertörn University, Sweden)
  Interrogating “the gay divide”: Russian sexual politics and the everyday bordering of Europe
• Benedetta Macripo (University of Bologna, Italy)
  Lithuanian National Identity in Transition: a Gender Perspective

Chair: Yuliya Hilevych (Radboud University)

Coffee

Panel: Gender and Sexuality in Advertising

• Maria Kochneva (Higher School of Economics, Russia) Female images in perfume advertising in Russian magazines for young women: the stigmatization of teenage girls
• Tim Veith (University of Siegen, Germany) Masculinity and Bodies in the Polish Magazine in the 1990s
• Olga Boitsova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) and Ekaterina Orekh (St Petersburg State University, Russia) Pink and blue in the USSR and Post-Soviet Russia: Discourse on colours of children’s clothes and its reception

Chair: Marianna Murayeva (Higher School of Economics)

Panel: Gendered Representations in Art and Literature

• Gabriella Elina Imposti (University of Bologna, Italy)
  Doctors and patients in Russian literature by women writers
• Irina Marchesini (University of Bologna, Italy)
  Gender, Hybridity and the Construction of Literary Characters. The Case of Sasha Sokolov’s Palisandriia
• Mariia Semashyna (Central European University, Hungary) The Politics of Whimsy: Writing and Rewriting of the Body in the Diaries of Daniil Kharms
• Kate Martin (ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´) The Baba and the Bolshevichka - Representing Women and Literacy in Literature and on Screen in the Early Soviet Union

Chair: Sarah Badcock (ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´)

Panel: Intersections of Race and Ethnicity in Studies of Gender and Sexuality

• Christine Weis (De Montfort University, UK)
  ‘Fertile’, ‘docile’ – yet undesired. The ethnic stratification of Central Asian women in the Russian surrogacy markets
• Marina Yusupova (University of Manchester, UK)
  Russian Masculinities and Cultural Construction of Whiteness: Gendering Race, Religion and Citizenship

Chair: Radzhana Buyantueva (University of Newcastle)

Panel: Gendered Labour and Discrimination

• Hannah Parker (University of Sheffield, UK) 'I want to become a happy mother': the Rights of Working Mothers ​in the early Soviet State
• Elena Brodaela (European University Institute, Italy) Women’s access to political power: legal and political debates on electoral gender quotas in Romania
• Barbara Havelkova (University of Oxford, UK) The post-socialist ‘few bad apples’ theory of anti-discrimination law
• Humay Akhundzade (European University St Petersburg, Russia) “Hired daughters” or strangers in family: sick-nurse labour for elders in the Azerbaijani families

Chair: Kate Martin (ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´)