Our People in Cambridge

The ‘White Nights’ festival has been an object of research for several years. This year, one of our colleagues presented his research into this event at the renowned University of Cambridge in Great Britain.

Yulia Papushina, Associate Professor at the Department of General Management, spoke on ‘Soviet and non-Soviet in the Apprehension of Urban Art Festival: the Case Study of the Festival “White Nights in Perm” – 2012’ at the BASEES (British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies) 2014 Annual Conference, which took place on April 5-7, 2014, at the University of Cambridge.

This conference is one of the most respected expert forums on various aspects of development of Eastern Europe and post-Soviet states. The conference organizing body, BASEES, has existed since 1989 and brings together two national associations of researchers of Russian and Eastern Europe. The conference attracted over 400 participants, who presented on the whole spectrum of social sciences, from economics to political science, from philology to architecture studies.

The Higher School of Economics was represented at the conference with separate presentations by Valeria Kasamara and Natalia Ikonnikova, and as part of the panel ‘Politics: Between political protest and civic apathy: limits of political participation in Russia’.