Workshop on Studying Russia’s War(s)

Conceptual and Methodological Innovations

October 6, 2023 in Lossi 36-103

10.00 Opening

• Andrey Makarychev (Professor of Regional Political Studies, UT Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, project coordinator)

10.30 New Approaches to Security and Insecurities
Moderator and discussant - Igor Gretskiy, International Center for Defense and Security, Tallinn

• Yulia Kurnyshova (University of Copenhagen)
• Oleksiy Kolesnikov (UT)
• Shota Gvineria (Baltic Defence College)

11.30 - 11.45 Coffee break

• Dumitru Minzarari (Baltic Defence College)
• Stefano Braghiroli (UT)
• Ana-Maria Albulescu (UT)

12.45 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 New Facets of Discursivity in Times of War

• Sanshiro Hosaka (UT)
• Anselm Schmidt (UT) online

15.00 - 15.15 Coffee break

15.15 Within the Black Box: Peering into Russian Domestic Dynamics

• Natalia Kovyliaeva (UT)
• Azniv Tadevosyan (UT)
• George Spencer Terry (Baltic Defence College)

16.15 Summing up

The brainstorming and exploratory workshop is jointly held by the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, the University of Tartu and the Estonian Academy of Sciences.