Workshop “Soviet and Post-Soviet Imaginings of Climate”

The workshop, Soviet and Post-Soviet Imaginings of Climate, took place on March 29–30, 2017, at King’s College, London. The event was organised by Nottingham Trent University (Department of Politics and IR), with the support of King’s College’s Russia Institute and funding from the British Association of Slavic and East European Studies (BASEES) and the Academic Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES). The conference tackled the theme of climate change as a scientific, environmental and political issue in the Soviet and post-Soviet sphere.
The workshop was divided into a day focused on the Soviet era and a day focused on the
Post-Soviet era. The keynote speakers were Jon Oldfield, University of Birmingham, and Elana
Wilson Rowe, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, respectively. The workshop enjoyed
presentations from scholars from Russia, UK, Finland, Norway, Hungary, Germany and
Australia.

Professor Tynkkynen was taking part in it and presented a paper “The Environment in Russia’s Energy Diplomacy: Utilization of ‘The Year of the Environment 2017’ in State-Controlled Mass Media”

More information on the workshop.