A Special Advanced Seminar will feature new postdoctoral fellows and research leaders at CBEES who will present their new research projects:

Per Anders Rudling, Associate Professor, Lund University, and research coordinator, Södertörn University College.
Field of research: Belarus, Ukraine, nationalism, Holocaust, politics of memory in the Polish-Belarusian-Ukrainian borderlands.
Name of the project: “Ukrainian long-distance nationalism in the Cold War: covert action, multiculturalism, and migration of memory”
Bio: “Per Anders Rudling holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (2009), MA degrees in history (San Diego State University, 2003) and Russian (Uppsala, 1998). In 2010-2011 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, in 2012-2014 a postdoctoral fellow at Lund University. He taught at the universities of Oslo and Vienna (2014, 2015) and was a senior visiting fellow at the National University of Singapore (2015-2019). His book The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931, published in 2014 with Pittsburgh UP won ASEEES' Kulczycki Prize for the best monograph in Polish history in 2015.”

Oleksandr Polianichev, postdoctoral researcher
Field of research: History of the Russian Empire
Name of the project: "Russian, Little Russian, Hardly Russian: Ukraine and Empire in the North Caucasus, 1790s-1917”

Kirill Kozhanov, postdoctoral researcher in Romani studies
Name of the project: “Vlax Roma in Sweden and Russia: language, history, and culture”
Bio: Kirill Kozhanov has a Ph.D. in linguistics and has been active in the field of Romani studies for almost ten years. He has conducted intensive fieldwork in various former USSR countries, such as Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Lithuania. He led a project on creating an annotated corpus of Soviet Romani literature which is now available online. He co-edited a few collections of articles on Romani language, history and culture, the most recent was published in Graz in 2017. Recently he was an expert for the Roma Archive project representing the Romani culture in the former Soviet Union.

Julia Malitska, postdoctoral researcher
Current field of research: Diet reform movements and biopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe in 19th-20th Century.
Name of the project: “Vegetarianism in the Russian Empire: Ideas, Practices, Identities and Legacies, 1860s-1920s”
Bio: Malitska is an author of a book “Negotiating Imperial Rule: Colonists and Marriage in the Nineteenth-Century Black Sea Steppe”, which is her doctoral dissertation defended in 2017. Since her defence, she has been employed as a senior lecturer at the Department of History and Contemporary Studies and taught a number of courses on different levels in the subject of history.

Tora Lane, research leader
Name of the project: TBA