Lately, a special issue of the journal "Perekrestki" on politics and society after the accident of Chernobyl came out.

http://www.ehu.lt/publishers/publications/scientific/0017540/data/tpl-print_ddc/catelement/

The project took part in the conference "Unity amidst Variety. Intellectual Foundations and Requirements for an Enlarged Europe", which took place in Warsaw from 17.6. to 19.6. Further information about the program on 

 http://www.dhi.waw.pl/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/Veranstaltungen/Konferenz_Einheit_in_der_Vielfalt_Programm_DE_190510.pdf

VIII. World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies, 26.-31. July 2010, Stockholm, Sweden

PANEL: XV.09 ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER AS DRIVING FORCE FOR POLITICAL AND SOCIAL MOBILISATION? THE AFTERMATH OF CHERNOBYL

Room 461

CHAIR: Buus, Stephanie (Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden) DISCUSSANT: Kasperski, Tatyana

(European Humanities University Vilnius, Belarus)

PANELISTS AND PAPERS:

Leukhina, Anastasiya (National University "Kiev-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine)
Socio-Political Mobilization in Ukraine After Chernobyl

Arndt, Melanie (Center for Contemporary History Potsdam, Germany)
Insecurity and Uncertainty as Foundation? German Chernobyl Initiatives and their Dedication to Mitigate the Consequences of the Chernobyl Disaster in Belarus.

Stepanov, Andrei (European Humanities University, Belarus)
The Interplay of Nuclear and Chernobyl Discourse in Belarus (1986-2009)

Ivanova, Evgenia (European Humanities University, Belarus)
Being Political in the Post-Chernobyl Context: Gender Perspectives on Citizenship

 Further information can be found on http://www.iccees2010.se/sidor/programme_20100606.pdf

42nd National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 18.-21. November 2010, Los Angeles,California

Panel "Nuclear Power: From War to Disaster, the Case of Chernobyl"

Chair: Tatiana Kasperski (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (France))

Presenters:

 Melanie Arndt (The Centre for Research on Contemporary History (Germany)): "From Peace Movement to 'Children of Chernobyl': Discourses of War and Security in Germany and Belarus in the Aftermath of Chernobyl"
Evgenia Ivanova (U of Oxford (UK)): "War for Men, Disaster for Women? (Bio)politics of Chernobyl"
Anastasiya Leukhina (Kievo-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine)): "Anti-Nuclear Movement and Civil Society Development: the Case of Post-Chernobyl Ukraine"

Discussant: Andrei Stepanov (European Humanities U (Lithuania))

Panel "Coping With Crisis: Popular Responses to Catastrophe in the USSR"

Chair: Joerg Baberowski (Humboldt U of Berlin (Germany))

Presenters:

Douglas Northrop (U of Michigan): "Seismic Cultures on the Eurasian Frontier"
Robert Kindler (Humboldt U of Berlin (Germany)): "Survival of the Fittest? Famine in Kazakhstan, 1930-34"
Tatiana Kasperski (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (France)): "War Against the Invisible Enemy: The Chernobyl Disaster's Aftermath in Collective Representations and Everyday Practices in Belarus"

Discussant: Matthew Payne (Emory U)

Summer school “Societies coping with risks: Environmental challenges and social mobilisation”

supported by the German Volkswagen foundation (Vilnius/Druskininkai, Lithuania, 20-30 August 2010) 

!!!!The Summer School Program is published below!!!!! 

Description:
Contemporary societies are facing multi-facetted environmental challenges. Natural disasters, such as hurricanes (Katrina), tsunamis (Asia 2004), earthquakes (Haiti) and floods (Transcarpathia), technogenic catastrophes, such as those involving nuclear reactors (Chernobyl), chemical plant explosions (Bhopal and Toulouse) and oil and chemical spills (Baia Mara) highlight the importance of properly managing the environmental risks which are (re)emerging as a result of climate change, resource depletion and the development of science and technologies. Social mobilisation as a response to such disasters and environmental risks is the focus of this year’s summer school, organised by the international interdisciplinary research project “Politics and Society after Chernobyl”. The school intends to create a space where participants will be able to discuss the impact of environmental challenges on social and political processes, institutions and values. The range of issues to be discussed will be concentrated around (but not limited to) the experiences of post-socialist countries.

The following questions will guide our discussions:

• How do (post-socialist) societies respond to environmental problems?
• How do environmental challenges stimulate / determine / shape social and political development?
• What are social reactions to disasters? What comes after the initial shock, emergency relief efforts and humanitarian aid? How do social interactions change in the post-disaster context? Which memories do they produce?
• What is the role of social mobilisation in societies coping with environmental risks?
• How does social mobilisation contribute to the visibility of environmental risks in the public sphere?
• How do environmental challenges influence mobilisation patterns? 
• How are identity issues involved in environmental movement initiatives?

The list of questions is not final and will be adjusted to the interests of the participants and lecturers involved.