Presentations

May 7, 2026. Olga Simonova and Eeva Kuikka launch their new books! Join us for a book launch held at Tampere University, celebrating three recent academic publications that explore Russian media, culture, and literature across different periods and perspectives. For more information and registration link, please click here.

November 20-23, 2025. Eeva Kuikka participated in a roundtable titled ”Literary (Colonial) Encounters: Indigenous Authors in Dialogue with Russian Imperial Discourses” at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies in Washington, D.C.

October, 29, 2025. Tatu Laukkanen, Arja Rosenholm ja Olga Simonova presented the research project ”Revealing Official and Alternative Gender Discourses: Women’s (Self) Representations in Russia’s Wars, 1914–2024 at a seminar of the Tampere Research Coalition of Russian and Chinese Media (TaRC) at Tampere University.

October, 24-26, 2025. Olga Simonova gave a presentation ”Girls’ Maturing on the First World War Front in Russian and Soviet Women’s Literature” at the conference ”Girl, Interrupted: Testimonies, Silences and Self-Censorship in European Women’s Life Writing” at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

September, 29, 2025. Olga Simonova and Tamara Polyakova prepared a digital poster presenting the project at the TeamUp event on Cultural Memory and Social Change at the University of Turku.

 

Image: Still from the film Wings, 1966, dir. Larisa Shepitko