{"id":14157,"date":"2021-02-03T12:05:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T10:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/?page_id=14157\/"},"modified":"2021-10-13T15:54:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T12:54:31","slug":"international-conference-belarus-2020-beyond-path-dependency-break-past","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/en\/conferences\/international-conference-belarus-2020-beyond-path-dependency-break-past\/","title":{"rendered":"International Conference \u201cBelarus 2020 and beyond: Path Dependency or Break with the Past?\u201d (archive)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":14229,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-admission.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14157","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"info_blocks":[{"name":"About the conference","content_left":false,"content_right":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text_block","text":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 15.0pt 0cm 15.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Political development<span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">s<\/span><\/span><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"> in Belarus before, during and after the Presidential election on August 9, 2020 were marked by the protests of unexpected scale and duration. They have brought <\/span><span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">back questions of the Belarusian regime to the agenda of European politics and academic research. 26 years of Lukashenko&#8217;s rule, hundreds of thousands of protesters, and the regime&#8217;s extremely brutal response have prompted researchers and practitioners to look back into the factors of regime stability, public mobilisation, and the effects of external pressures on and incentives for regime transformation in post-Soviet countries. Though the end result of current events in Belarus remains unclear, there is an agreement among scholars that it would be almost impossible to come back to \u2018business as usual\u2019 in relations between the<\/span><\/span><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"> authorities and Belarusian society as well as between Belarus and its external partners, especially Russia.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; background: white;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Seeking to enhance research and academic discussion on political developments in Belarus Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University invited scholars and researchers to the Conference on political developments after the 2020 Presidential elections in Belarus <strong><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">Belarus 2020 and beyond: Path Dependency or Break with the Past?<\/span><\/span><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201d<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">, which took place in Vilnius and online on <strong>7-8 October, 2021.<\/strong> The aim of the conference was to analyse the processes in Belarus in 2020-2021, which had shaken the foundations of Europe\u2019s longest-lasting authoritarian regime.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Find #BYConferenceVilnius and #VUTSPMI on social media to see the main insights and ideas of the participants of the conference.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; background: white;\"><em>The event was organized by the Institute of International Relations and Political Science (Vilnius University) and Konrad-Adenauer Foundation (Liaison Office of the Foundation in Lithuania).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-15460 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/kas-belarus-LOGO21-1-1024x508.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/kas-belarus-LOGO21-1-1024x508.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/kas-belarus-LOGO21-1-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/kas-belarus-LOGO21-1-768x381.png 768w, https:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/kas-belarus-LOGO21-1-650x322.png 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/p>\n"}]},{"name":"Program of the conference","content_left":false,"content_right":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text_block","text":"<p><strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">7 OCTOBER 2021, THURSDAY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>09:00-09:30 Opening of the conference<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Margarita \u0160e\u0161elgyt\u0117, Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarusian Opposition Leader<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Rimvydas Petrauskas, Rector of Vilnius University<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Linas Linkevi\u010dius, Lithuania&#8217;s\u00a0ambassador-at-large for\u00a0migration<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Jakob W\u00f6llenstein, Director Country Office Belarus\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">(Konrad Adenauer Foundation)<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>09:30-10:30\u00a0<span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Keynote speech \u201cRepression and Protests in Authoritarian Regimes: Explaining the Interactions of Governments, Dissidents and Third Parties\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><em><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Prof. Em. Karl Dieter Opp, University of Leipzig and University of Washington<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Moderated by:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"> Ain\u0117 Ramonait\u0117, Vilnius University<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>10:45-12:00\u00a0<span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Panel\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">\u201cThe Digitalization of the Protests in Belarus\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Volha Davydzik (<\/em>Lingan Normal University)<em>, Antonina Stebur<\/em> (independent researcher and curator),<\/span> <span class=\"JsGRdQ\">\u201c<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Digital Dimension and Reconfiguration of Political Life in Belarusian Protests of 2020-2021\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Hanna Liubakova*<\/em> (Atlantic Council),<\/span> <span class=\"JsGRdQ\">\u201c<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Belarus Protests: How Telegram Shaped the Protest Movement\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Henadz Korshunau<\/em> (European Humanities University), \u201c<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">#Belarus2020 &#8211; Denunciation of the Social Contract and Expansion of Horizontal Sociality\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>Moderated by: <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">J\u016brat\u0117 Kavaliauskait\u0117, Vilnius University<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>12:15-13:30\u00a0<span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Panel \u201cThe Effect of the Protests on the Nation Building in Belarus\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Aliaksei Kazharski<\/em> (Charles University),<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"> \u201cBelarus\u2019 New Political Nation? 2020 anti-authoritarian Protests as Identity Building\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Juljan Jachovi\u010d*<\/em> (Vilnius University), \u201c<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Reinforcing the National \u201cIdentity: Changes in Belarusian Identity Building Social Practices\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Tatiana Shchyttsova*<\/em> (European Humanities University), \u201c<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Constituents of Solidarity in the Belarusian Protest Movement 2020: between Ethics and Politics\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Moderated by: <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Nerija Putinait\u0117, Vilnius University<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>13:30-14:45 Lunch break<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>14:45-15:45\u00a0<span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Keynote speech \u201cBelarusian Revolution in Feminist Terms: Domestic Violence, Care Strike and Sisterhood\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><em><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Prof. Olga Shparaga, European College of Liberal Arts in Belarus<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Moderated by:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"> Dovil\u0117 Jakni\u016bnait\u0117, Vilnius University<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>16:00-17:15\u00a0<span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Panel \u201cThe Role of Ethnic Minority and Diasporas in Political Protests\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Magdalena Lesi\u0144ska*, Marta Jaroszewicz*<\/em> (University of Warsaw), \u201c<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Exit and Voice: Strategies of Political Mobilization of Belarusian Diaspora in Poland\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Peter Vermeersch<\/em> (KU Leuven), \u201c<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">National Minorities in Perilous Times: the Politics of Being Belarusian in Poland, and Being Polish in Belarus\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Kiryl Kascian*<\/em> (International Centre for Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity Studies), \u201c<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Mistreatment of Belarus\u2019s Polish Minority after the Presidential 2020 Election as a Tool to Counter Poland Support for Changes in Belarus\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Volha Verbilovich<\/em> (University of Massachusetts Amherst),<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"> \u201cFragile Social Contract: Persons with Disabilities and Retirees Political Protest in Belarus 2020\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>Moderated by: <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">And\u017eej Puk\u0161to, Vytautas Magnus University<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>17:30-18:45 <span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Panel\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">\u201cProtest, Mobilization and Social Composition of the Belarusian Uprising\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Michael Richter<\/em> (University of Bremen),<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"> \u201cBelarus 2020: A Middle Class Uprising that Failed because of the Working Class\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Irmina Matonyt\u0117*<\/em> (General Jonas \u017demaitis Military Academy of Lithuania), <em>Tatsiana Chulitskaya*<\/em> (Vytautas Magnus University), \u201c<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Political Crisis in Belarus and Female Political Activism: from Creativity to Captivity\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>Moderated by:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"> Vilija Navickait\u0117, Vilnius University<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>19:00 Networking event<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">8 OCTOBER 2021, FRIDAY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>09:00-10:00\u00a0<span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Keynote speech \u201cWhy and How Countries Democratize?\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><em><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Prof. Daniel Treisman, University of California (UCLA)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><strong>Moderated by:<\/strong> <span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Laurynas Jonavi\u010dius, Vilnius University<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>10:15-11:30\u00a0<span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Panel \u201cThe Response of the Regime \u2013 The End Justifies the Means\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Tomas Dapkus*<\/em> (Vilnius University), \u201c<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Counterrevolutionary Strategies by the Belarusian Regime: From the Bulldozer Revolution to the Streets of Minsk\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Aryna Dzmitryieva<\/em> (European University),<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"> \u201cProtesters and Police Brutality under Authoritarianism\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Be\u0101te Livdanska<\/em> (R\u012bga Stradi\u0146\u0161 University), \u201c<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Civil Society Organizations as Agents of Europeanization: the Case of Belarus amidst 2020 Political Crisis\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>Moderated by:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"> Laurynas Jonavi\u010dius, Vilnius University<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>11:45-13:00\u00a0<span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Panel \u201cThe Response of the Regime \u2013 Narratives about the Protests\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Andrei Kalavur*<\/em> (Masaryk University),<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"> \u201c2020-2021 Media Landscape in Belarus: State-Run Media Discourses as Signaling of Institutional Strength\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Viktor Denisenko*<\/em> (Vilnius University),<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">\u00a0\u201cCoup in Belarus\u201d: Transformation of the Narrative in Official Rhetoric of Minsk\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Nerijus Maliukevi\u010dius*<\/em> (Vilnius University), <em>Maksimas Milta<\/em> (Yale University), \u201c<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Fortress Belarus. Representations of the Enemy Image in the Media Controlled by the Lukashenko Regime\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<strong> Moderated by: <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Inga Vinogradnait\u0117, Vilnius University<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>13:00-14:30 Lunch break<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>14:30-15:45\u00a0<span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Panel \u201cInternational Repercussions and Consequences of the Protests\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Tatsiana Kulakevich, Aaron Augsburger<\/em> (University of South Florida), \u201c<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Contested Elections, Protest, and Regime Stability: Comparing Belarus and Bolivia\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Mariju\u0161 Antonovi\u010d*<\/em> (Vilnius University),<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"> \u201cThe Belarusian Political Crisis: an Instance of Poland\u2018s Foreign Policy\u2018s Failure?\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Ibrahim Kone<\/em> (Jilin University),<\/span> <span class=\"JsGRdQ\">\u201c<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Hedging and the Survival of the Regime: Belarus in the Aftermath of 2014\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>Moderated by:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"> Linas Kojala, Eastern Europe Studies Centre<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>16:00-17:15\u00a0<span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Panel \u201cThe Aftermath of Protests: the Impact on the State and Society\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Piotr Rudkouski<\/em> (Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies), \u201c<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">The Risk of a New Autocracy after Lukashenko \u2014 High or Low?\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Vytis Jurkonis*<\/em> (Vilnius University), \u201c<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Ownership of the Country as a Precondition of Non-Violent Struggle in Belarus\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>Be\u0101te Livdanska, M\u0101ris Cepur\u012btis<\/em> (R\u012bga Stradi\u0146\u0161 University),<\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">\u00a0\u201cFuture of Belarus-Russia Relations: Russia\u2019s Acquisition of Belarus State \u2013 Owned Enterprises as a Tool for Closer Political Integration\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>Moderated by: <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Laurynas Jonavi\u010dius, Vilnius University<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> <em>All moderators and participants marked with * will join the conference at the venue.<\/em><\/p>\n"}]},{"name":"Keynote speakers","content_left":false,"content_right":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text_block","text":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14687 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Karl-Dieter-Opp-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Karl-Dieter-Opp-2.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Karl-Dieter-Opp-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Karl-Dieter-Opp-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Karl-Dieter-Opp-2-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/sozweb.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de\/de\/personen\/prof-dr-karl-dieter-opp.html\"><strong>Karl Dieter Opp\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Leipzig in Germany and Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Cologne. The author of more than 140 articles, author or editor of twenty-five books, including\u00a0<em>The Rationality of Political Protest. A Comparative Analysis of Rational Choice Theory\u00a0<\/em>(with Peter and Petra Hartmann);\u00a0<em>Social Institutions. Their Emergence, Maintenance and Effects<\/em>\u00a0(edited with Michael Hechter and Reinhard Wippler);\u00a0<em>Origins of a Spontaneous Revolution<\/em>\u00a0(with Peter Voss and Christiane Gern);\u00a0<em>Social Norms<\/em>\u00a0(edited with Michael Hechter); and\u00a0<em>Political Protest and Social Movements. A Multidisciplinary Introduction, Critique and Synthesis<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danieltreisman.org\/\">Daniel Treisman<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danieltreisman.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14713\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Daniel-Treisman-Profile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Daniel-Treisman-Profile.jpg 396w, https:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Daniel-Treisman-Profile-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Daniel-Treisman-Profile-343x400.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is a professor of political science at the\u00a0University of California, Los Angeles\u00a0and a research associate of the\u00a0National Bureau of Economic Research.\u00a0His latest book,\u00a0<em>The Return: Russia\u2019s Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>was one of the\u00a0<em>Financial Times\u2019\u00a0<\/em>\u201cBest Political Books of 2011.\u201d Since 2014, he has been the director of the\u00a0<em>Russia Political Insight<\/em>\u00a0Project, an international collaboration funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, to investigate political decision making in Putin\u2019s Russia. He is the editor of\u00a0<em>The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin\u2019s Russia<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>(Brookings Institution Press 2018).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15271 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Copy-of-Untitled-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"252\" \/><strong>Olga Shparaga<\/strong><\/span> is a philosopher and professor at the\u00a0European College of Liberal Arts in Belarus, as well as a member of the <em>Coordination Council<\/em> in Belarus. From 2006 to 2014 she was a co-editor of the intellectual journal <em>Novaja E\u016dropa<\/em>. Olga Shparaga is a member of the editorial boards of <em>Ideology and Politics Journal<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Interlocutor<\/em>\u00a0and <em>pARTisan, <\/em>as well as of the international philosophical book series<em> Libri Nigri<\/em>. Prof. Shparaga is the author of several books:\u00a0<em>Community-after-Holocaust: on the way to the inclusion society<\/em>, <em>Wake of Political Life: An Essay on the Philosophy of the Public Sphere<\/em>, and <em>The Face of the Revolution is Female<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n"}]},{"name":"Participants","content_left":false,"content_right":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text_block","text":"<p><strong>Panel \u201cThe Digitalization of the Protests in Belarus\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/statusproject.net\/antonina-stebur\/\">Antonina Stebur<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 curator, researcher. Graduated from the European Humanities University, a co-founder of the research group Spaika.media<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.lt\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiMs8SisZTzAhVJnaQKHUFyDQEQFnoECA0QAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fby.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fvolha-davydzik-017ab146&amp;usg=AOvVaw0x1HJZEHKhWofx900tmaFI\">Volha Davydzik<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 master in philosophy, researcher at joint Sino-Belarusian centre of philosophy and culture (Lingnan Normal University, China), graduated from the European Humanities University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/expert\/hanna-liubakova\/\"><strong>Hanna Liubakova<\/strong><\/a> is a journalist from Belarus and non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council. She works as a journalism trainer and mentor. She started her career at the only independent Belarusian TV channel Belsat where she worked as a correspondent and TV presenter. Hanna has reported from various countries and regions, including Belgium, UK, Poland, France, and Chechnya. She was a recipient of the V\u00e1clav Havel Journalism Fellowship at Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty in Czechia, as well as a World Press Institute Fellowship in the United States. Hanna received a degree in Art History from The Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland in 2010 and a Master of Art with distinction in International Journalism from Brunel University in London in 2017. She was awarded the Peter Caws Prize for best postgraduate dissertation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panel \u201cThe Effect of the Protests on the Nation Building in Belarus\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belgradeforum.org\/speaker\/aliaksei-kazharski\/\">Aliaksei Kazharski<\/a><\/strong> received his PhD from Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia) in 2015. As a doctoral student, he spent time as a guest researcher at the University of Oslo (Norway), University of Tartu (Estonia) and the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (Austria). He has also been a visiting researcher at the University of Vienna and has worked as a researcher and lecturer at Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) and Comenius University in Bratislava. Aliaksei\u2019s doctoral dissertation was published by Central European University Press as a monograph in 2019 (Eurasian Integration and the Russian World: Regionalism as an Identitary Enterprise). He has also contributed to the work of regional think tanks and debate platforms such as the GLOBSEC Policy Institute and Visegrad Insight. Aliaksei\u2019s main areas of research have been Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, regionalism and regional integration, and identity in international relations. He has published his scholarship on these subjects in Geopolitics, Problems of Post-Communism and other academic journals with an international impact.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/en\/zmogus\/juljan-jachovic-2\/\"><strong>Juljan Jachovi\u010d<\/strong><\/a> graduated from Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science bachelor\u2019s program and master\u2019s program in Eastern European and Russian studies. Studied under the exchange programs at the universities of Tartu (2012), Tbilisi (2013), and Lisbon (2020). Doctoral student of the Vilnius University, preparing a dissertation on the topic of the \u201cReconstruction of Belarusian National Identity\u201d in the 2014-2019 period.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. habil. in Philosophy <a href=\"https:\/\/en.ehu.lt\/staff\/tatiana-shchyttsova\/\">Tatiana Shchyttsova<\/a><\/strong>, Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Research Leader at the Centre for Research of Intersubjectivity and Interpersonal Communication at the European Humanities University, Vilnius. Editor-in-chief of the journal for philosophy and cultural studies <em>Topos<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Panel \u201cThe Role of Ethnic Minority and Diasporas in Political Protests\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.migracje.uw.edu.pl\/zespol\/magdalena-lesinska-2\/\">Magdalena Lesi\u0144ska<\/a><\/strong>, assistant professor in the Centre of Migration Research at University of Warsaw (CMR UW), Head of Postgraduate Studies \u201cContemporary International Migration\u201d. Her areas of expertise are migration policy in Poland and CEE countries, diaspora studies, transnational political and public participation of migrants, including voting rights. Currently she is Principal Investigator in project entitled \u201cDiaspora policy in the context of post-accession emigration. Comparative perspective of Poland, Hungary and Lithuania\u201d, funded by the National Science Centre in Poland. Her previous works have been published e.g. in Journal of Sociology, Ethnopolitics, International Migration, Central and Eastern European Migration Review (CEEMR).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.migracje.uw.edu.pl\/zespol\/marta-jaroszewicz-4\/\">Marta Jaroszewicz<\/a><\/strong>, assistant professor in the Centre of Migration Research at University of Warsaw (CMR UW) since October 2019 and a leader of the NCN-funded project \u201cSecuritisation (de-securitisation) of migration on the example of Ukrainian migration to Poland and internal migration in Ukraine\u201d. In the past long-term researcher at the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) where among others she held a position of the senior research fellow, head of department, and project\u2019s team leader. Previously worked also for the International Organization for Migration (Mission in Ukraine) as a project manager, and seconded national expert at the European Commission (Directorate General Neighborhood). Her research interests include: links between migration and security, policies\u2019 diffusion, impact of external actors on the national policies, migration policies in the EU\u2019s eastern neighborhood and at the Eurasian area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petervermeersch.net\/\"><strong>Peter Vermeersch<\/strong><\/a> is a professor of politics at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the KU\u00a0Leuven, Belgium. As a postdoctoral researcher he worked, among others, at the Center\u00a0for European Studies, Harvard University. At the Faculty of Social Sciences in Leuven he\u00a0has led the research group LINES (Leuven International and European Studies). His\u00a0research focuses on minority politics, nationalism, democratization, and restorative\u00a0justice. His work has appeared in a range of academic journals, and he has published\u00a0several academic books.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icelds.org\/member\/kiryl-kascian\/\">Kiryl Kascian<\/a><\/strong> is a board member at the International Centre for Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity Studies and a consultant with the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum. He holds a doctoral degree in law (<em>dr. iur.<\/em>) from the University of Bremen. In the past, he taught at several universities in Czechia and Germany. He has also been a guest scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle\/Saale and the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava among others. He provided his country- and region-specific expertise, <em>inter alia<\/em>, for the Office of OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, the Equal Rights Trust, and the Minority Rights Group Europe. His research interests include inter-ethnic relations, constitutionalism, electoral behavior, and security issues with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hse.ru\/en\/org\/persons\/36529733\">Volha Verbilovich<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology, UMASS Amherst. Her research project covers the 2020 social and political uprising in Belarus. She works with the concepts of post-socialism and neoliberalism and addresses social movement theories, disability, aging, and gender issues. She graduated from the Belarusian state university and got a Master&#8217;s Degree in Sociology at the Higher School of Economics. She also worked as a senior lecturer for the School of Media and a research fellow for the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research at the HSE. Fields of interest: social theory, disability, aging, communication studies, ethnography, and qualitative research.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Panel \u201cProtest, Mobilization and Social Composition of the Belarusian Uprising\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ism.lt\/en\/lecturers\/irmina-matonyte\/\">Irmina Matonyt\u0117<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is professor of political science at Military academy of Lithuania, Vilnius. Previously she taught and carried out interdisciplinary academic research projects (in the fields of political science, sociology, communication and management) at ISM University of Management and Economics (Vilnius), Lithuanian Social Research Center, European Humanities university (EHU, Belarusian university in exile in Vilnius), Kaunas University of Technology, and Vilnius University. Her research interests include post-communist elites\u2019 structure and behavior, civil society development, national and regional security, public policies (local, national and European level), and political communication. Since 2006, Irmina has been actively engaged in the research concerning the regime transformation in Belarus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr.\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sympa-by.eu\/en\/users\/chulitskaya-tatiana\"><strong>Tatsiana Chulitskaya<\/strong><\/a> is a senior researcher at the Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) (Lithuania). She got her PhD in social sciences from Vilnius University in 2014. Her research interests are public administration, public policy analysis, civil society and civic participation in non-democratic regimes, reforms in the post-Soviet states and Belarusian studies. Tatsiana has been recently involved in several international research projects including the EU-STRAT project focused on Eastern Partnership (EaP) program analysis. She has a number of academic and research publications. From 2011, Tatsiana also cooperates with the Belarusian informal educational project and think tank School of Young Managers in Public Administration (SYMPA) (Belarus) within which she is in the position of an academic director.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forschungsstelle.uni-bremen.de\/en\/3\/20110606111622\/20200917105403\/Michael_Richter.html\"><strong>Michael Martin Richter<\/strong><\/a> is a research fellow at the Centre for East European Studies in Bremen, a PhD student at the University of Bremen within the EU\u2019s Horizon 2020 Innovative Training Network (ITN) (MSCA grant), as well as a visiting scholar at the SWP in Brussels. He holds master degrees from the College of Europe, the University College London (UCL) and the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow as well as bachelor degrees from the ESB Business School and the Jagiellonian University. He collected professional experience at the Polish Embassy in Moscow, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, PwC, and Ecolab. He is passionate about political economy issues, particularly in the pan-European context, and enjoys publishing his analyses and comments in diverse European and international outlets.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Panel \u201cThe Response of the Regime \u2013 The End Justifies the Means\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/enforce.spb.ru\/en\/team\/6219-aryna-dzmitryieva\"><strong>Aryna Dzmitryieva<\/strong><\/a> is a Researcher at the Institute for the Rule of Law at the European University at St. Petersburg, Russia. She is also a PhD candidate at the University of Eastern Finland. Aryna Dzmitryieva\u2019s research is primarily focused on the study of the Russian judicial and law enforcement system, legal professions, and reforms of judicial and law enforcement systems in Eastern Europe. She is an author of articles on criminal\u00a0justice in Russia, policing, and Constitutional\u00a0justice. She also co-authored \u201cRussian Judges as a Professional Group. A Sociological Study\u201d and \u201cLegal Education in Russia and Abroad: between University, Profession, State, and Market\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panel \u201cThe Response of the Regime \u2013 Narratives about the Protests\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kf.vu.lt\/struktura\/darbuotojai\/viktor-denisenko\">Viktor Denisenko<\/a><\/strong> finished PhD studies in Vilnius University Faculty of Communication in 2016. Topic of his doctoral dissertation research was \u201cThe Image of the Baltic States in Russian Periodical Press in Context of Geopolitical Changes (1991-2009)\u201d. He is Associated Professor in Vilnius University (Faculty of Communication) and General Jonas \u017demaitis Military Academy of Lithuania. His scientific interests are propaganda, information warfare, political communication. He is the author of the book \u201cIn Encirclement of Propaganda\u201d (Vilnius University, 2021).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/en\/zmogus\/nerijus-maliukevicius\/\">Nerijus Maliukevi\u010dius<\/a>&#8216;<\/strong> research focuses on information warfare, strategic communication, conflict management as well as Russian studies. He is the author of two books about Russian information warfare strategies. He works as researcher and lecturer in the Institute of International Relations and Political Science (Vilnius University). His PhD thesis focused on the potential and spread of Russian informational geopolitics in Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/maksimasmilta\/?originalSubdomain=lt\">Maksimas Milta<\/a> <\/strong>is a master\u2019s student in European &amp; Russian Studies at Yale University. His areas of interest include sanctions, higher education and democracy, small state studies. In 2013-2021, Maksimas worked at the European Humanities University, leading communication and development portfolio of the Belarusian University-in-Exile. He is a frequent commentator of Belarus affairs and a host of the Talaka weekly documentary on the Lithuanian National TV. Maksimas is a ReThink.CEE fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the US and an Associate Analyst at the Eastern Europe Studies Center. He holds a master\u2019s degree in political science from Vilnius University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panel \u201cInternational Repercussions and Consequences of the Protests\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tatsianakulakevich.com\/\">Tatsiana Kulakevich<\/a><\/strong> is a researcher on Eastern Europe born and raised in Belarus. She is a Lecturer at the University of South Florida School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, research fellow and affiliated faculty at the USF Institute on Russia. Dr. Kulakevich\u2019s analyses appeared in media and academic journals, including The Washington Post, The Conversation, The Globe Post, The New Eastern Europe, International Migration, SAIS Review, Journal of Belarusian Studies, and East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/arts-sciences\/departments\/school-of-interdisciplinary-global-studies\/people\/aaronaugsburger.aspx\">Aaron Augsburger<\/a><\/strong> is Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies and affiliate faculty at the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of South Florida.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ibrahim-kon%C3%A9-62067a97\/?originalSubdomain=ml\"><strong>Ibrahim Kone<\/strong><\/a> is a Ph.D. student in International Relations at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Jilin University China. His area of interest includes security studies, IR Theories, and Foreign Policy Analysis.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Panel \u201cThe Aftermath of Protests: the Impact on the State and Society\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/belinstitute.com\/en\/author\/piotr-rudkouski\">Piotr Rudkouski<\/a><\/strong> is the academic director of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS). He is the author of four books and over 100 articles or expert papers. In Oct 2020 \u2013 Sept 2021, he coordinated a BISS project on scenarios of political developments in Belarus, which resulted in a research paper \u2018Toward a New Belarus. Transformation Factors\u2019.<\/p>\n"}]},{"name":"Recordings of keynote speeches","content_left":false,"content_right":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text_block","text":"<ul>\n<li>Opening of the conference and the keynote speech \u201cRepression and Protests in Authoritarian Regimes: Explaining the Interactions of Governments, Dissidents, and Third Parties\u201d by<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>prof. em. <strong>Karl Dieter Opp<\/strong>, University of Leipzig and University of Washington. Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TSPMI\/videos\/664204251209299\/\">here<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Keynote speech \u201cBelarusian Revolution in Feminist Terms: Domestic Violence, Care Strike, and Sisterhood\u201d by prof. <strong>Olga Shparaga<\/strong>, European College of Liberal Arts in Belarus. Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TSPMI\/videos\/678656446439750\/\">here<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Keynote speech \u201cWhy and How Countries Democratize?\u201d by prof. <strong>Daniel Treisman<\/strong>, University of California (UCLA). 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