Pesci, E. (discussant), Panel 1A-1: Social Policy in Authoritarian Regimes: Regime Type, Gender, Agency and Structure in Eurasia and Beyond. Aleksanteri Conference 25.10.2023

Pesci, E. (chair), Roundtable 1B-5: Revisiting Ethnography in Times of War and Crises, Aleksanteri Conference 25.10.2023.

Heusala, A-L. (discussant), Panel 1A-6: The Political Economy of Informality, Public Opinion and Political Change: Evidence from Central Asia, Aleksanteri Conference 25.10.2023

Polese, A. (presenter) What is Informality? (Mapping) “the Art of Bypassing the State” in Eurasian Spaces – and Beyond. Panel 1A-6: The Political Economy of Informality, Public Opinion and Political Change: Evidence from Central Asia, Aleksanteri Conference 25.10.2023.

Miklossy, K. (chair), Panel 1B-6: East-West Knowledge Transfer, Mobility and Integration: Historical and Global Perspectives, Aleksanteri Conference 25.10.2023.

Aitamurto, K. (discussant), Panel 1B-10: Study of the Subjective Experience of Refugeehood: Reassembling the Post-Soviet Self, Body and Space, Aleksanteri Conference 25.10.2023.

Miklossy, K. (chair), Mäkinen, S. (speaker), Neumann, M.  (speaker), Professor of Modern History, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom and  Morris, J.  (speaker),  Professor of Global and Russian Studies, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark, PLENARY II: ROUNDTABLE, The End of Area Studies, or a Brand New Beginning? Aleksanteri Conference 25.10.2023.

Miklóssy, K. (speaker), Roundtable 2A-4 Ideologies Behind Colonization and Decolonization, Aleksanteri Conference 26.10.2023

Polese, A. (speaker), 2B-1: Book Discussion: The Scopus Diaries and the (il)logics of Academic Survival: Questions and (unorthodox) Answers About Publications, Networking, (fake) Bibliometrics and Research Careers, Aleksanteri Conference 26.10.2023.

Heusala, A-L. (speaker), with Chair/Discussant:  Kahn, J. Professor of Law SMU Dedman School of Law, USA,  Muravyeva, M. (speaker), University of Helsinki, Bowring, B. (speaker), Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, Shpakovskaya, L.  (speaker), Aleksanteri Institute,  Koroteev, K.  (speaker), Agora International Human Rights Protection Group and  Henderson, J. (speaker), professor emerita,  London, Roundtable 2B-3: Russian Law at the Crossroads of Decoloniality/Book Discussion: Foundations of Russian Law,  Aleksanteri Conference 26.10.2023.

Gel´man, V. (discussant), Panel 2B-6:Elections, Parties & Elites,  Aleksanteri Conference 26.10.2023.

Mäkinen, S. (chair), Panel 2B-13: Russia, the World, and the Road to War: Global Visions & Imagining Eurasia, Aleksanteri Conference 27.10.2023

Polese, A. (presenter), Panel 3A-1: Conceptualizing Informality and Corruption, Informality Versus Shadow Economy: Reflecting on the First Results of a Manager’s Survey in Kyrgyzstan, Aleksanteri Conference 27.10.2023.

Mäkinen, S. (chair), Panel 3 A-4: Russia’s Development from Electoral to Closed Authoritarianism: Implications for Research, Aleksanteri Conference 27.10.2023.

Gel´man, V. (speaker) with Dr. Stephen G. F. Hall (speaker), University of Bath, England, 3A-10: BOOK TALK, The Authoritarian International: Tracing how Authoritarian Regimes Learn in the Post-Soviet Space, Aleksanteri Conference 27.10.2023.

Urinboyev, R. (speaker), with Chair Curro, C. Postdoctoral Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute and Slade, G. (speaker), Associate Professor of Sociology, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, PLENARY VI: ROUNDTABLE, From Prisons to Organized Crime, Aleksanteri Conference 27.10.2023.

Pesci, E. (presenter), Panel 3B-7: What’s in a Job? Rethinking Labour, Work, Employment and Migration in Central Asia. The Making of Unemployment in Central Asia: Employment Policies in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, Aleksanteri Conference 27.10.2023.

Heusala, A-L., Kangaspuro, M., Harjanne A., Hautala, H. (speakers), Kirjanjulkistamisen paneelikeskustelu: Venäjä vihrein silmin (Ajatuspaja Visio). Rosebud Sivullinen, Helsinki, 10.2.2023.  https://www.youtube.com/live/IsAwrqw7RmA?feature=share

Karshiev, M.  (presenter) Agreeing to Disagree: Public Advisory Councils in Local Governance in Uzbekistan.  4A Panel – Policy and Governance in Eurasia, Aleksanteri Conference 2022 – New Era of Insecurity,  27.10.2022. 

Pesci, E.  (presenter) Activating the Unemployed? Contextualizing Employment Support Policies Between Global Activation and Implementation Challenges: The Case of Kyrgyzstan. 4A Panel – Policy and Governance in Eurasia, Aleksanteri Conference 2022 – New Era of Insecurity, 27.10.2022. 

Heusala, A-L. , Aitamurto K., Eraliev, S., Miklossy, K., Mitikka, E., Zavadskaya M., Korteniemi. E., Österberg, I., Rajasalmi, M.,  The Organising committee for Aleksanteri Conference 2021 – Eurasia and Global Migration, University of Helsinki 27.-29.10.2021.

Eraliev, S., Zavadskaya, M., Zeleva, O. (speakers), COVID-19 in Russian and Eurasian Societies. Panel talk in the Think Corner, the University of Helsinki.  June 11, 2020.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6X3o9apgAg

Cleuziou, J., Eraliev, S., Urinboyev, R. (speakers)The COVID-19 Pandemic and Central Asian Migrants in Russia. Online talk at Central Asia Program, IERES, the George Washington University. July 16, 20.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU55rzSfd_c.

Eraliev, S. 2020. Voices on Central Asia platform: Central Asian Labor Migrants Amid Lockdown in Russia. https://voicesoncentralasia.org/central-asian-labor-migrants-amid-lockdown-in-russia/)

Eraliev, S. 2020. World Bank relieses grim economic projection for Central Asia and Caucasus.
https://eurasianet.org/world-bank-releases-grim-economic-projections-for-central-asia-and-the-caucasus

Gelman, V. 2020. “I Don’t Know What Will Happen with Putin’s Daughters” – interview for Meduza https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/01/07/i-don-t-know-what-will-happen-with-putin-s-daughters

Aitamurto, K. and Eraliev, S. ( presenters): The Role of Religious Communities for Uzbek Migrants in Moscow, EASR Conference 2019, Tarto, Estonia. 26.6.-30.6.2019.

Heusala, A-L. (presenter): Parallel Legal Orders in a Hybrid System – the Case of Russia. Russian Readings: Russia as a Multicultural State – History, Policy and Practice. University of Oxford, UK. 22.-24.6.2019.

Eraliev, S. (presenter): Religiosity of Central Asian Migrants in Russia. Russian Readings: Russia as a Multicultural State – History, Policy and Practice. University of Oxford, UK. 22.-24.6.2019.

Heusala, A-L. (presenter): Comprehensive security’ and the evolution of security policy in Russia – the case of migration. 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations: ‘The Politics of International Studies in an Age of Crises’. Institute Barcelona D’Estudis Internacionales, Barcelona, Spain. 15.9.2017.

Aitamurto, K. (presenter): Religious identity and solidarity among Central-Asian migrants in Moscow. Seminar of the Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. 23.5.2017.

Heusala, A-L. (presenter): Migration, Shadow Economy and Parallel Legal Orders in Russia – an overview of the research project. Seminar of the Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. 23.5.2017.

Xеусала, A-Л (presenter): Российские реформы – балансирование между национальной безопасностью и глобализацией.   Пленарное заседаниe, Международная научно-практическая конференция «СОЦИАЛЬНЫЕ ОСНОВАНИЯ ПРАВА И ПОЛИТИКИ: история, теория, практика».   Организаторы: Российская академия народного хозяйства и государственной службы при Президенте Российской Федерации, Юридический факультет имени М. М. Сперанского; Институт государства и права Российской академии наук; Социологический институт Российской академии наук. Москва 21 – 22 апреля 2017 года.

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