List of participants
Tatyana Intigrinova. The Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation. “The advantages and constraints of multi-sited field comparison”
Alexandrina Vanke. Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia. “The male bodyness in the space of social distinctions”
Prahallad K Kar. B.J.B. Autonomous College, India. “Poverty and deprivation among rag pickers: a sociological study in the urban centers of Cuttack and Balasore”
Andreea-Roxana Zamfira. University of South-East Europe LUMINA, Romania. “Cultural values, political identities and voting behaviors under multidisciplinary scrutiny. Theoretical and methodological challenges of comparing eight countries”
Melanie Tolentino. Central Luzon State University, Philippines. “A Multi-Sited Case Study on Social Vulnerability to Climate Change of Selected Rainfed Farming Communities in the Philippines”
Premalatha Karupiah. Universiti Sains Malaysia. “Beyond Social Construction of Beauty: The Social Construction of Thinness”.
Penchan Sherer & Moshe Sherer. Mahidol University, Department of Society and Health, Thailand. “Attitudes towards Dating Violence: A Comparison Study between Israeli and Thai Youth”
Amandine Regamey. CERCEC / University Paris I, France. “Comparing Violence – Organ Theft Legends in Chechnya and South America”
Tatiana Karabchuk. National research University Higher School of Economics, Russia. “Job stability in Russia and Germany”
Hans Peeters & Gert Verschraegen. K.U.Leuven / University of Antwerp, Belgium. “Commensuration and the comparative analysis of pension adequacy”
Andrea Mazzarino & Natalia Sarakhanova. Brown University, USA. “Notions of Corporate Responsibility and their Cultural Contexts: Case Studies from Russia and the United States”.
Linda Cook & Meri Kulmala. Brown University, Dept. of Political Science, USA & Aleksanteri Institute, Finland. “The Political Economy of Health Care in Russia: State and Markets, Migrants and Mothers”
Balazs Feher, Agnes Szabo, Nora Miklos, Adam Szabo. Political Ideology Lab, Eotvos Lorand University (Faculty of Education and Psychology), Hungary. “How to compare old and emerging democracies? – Taking into account of context and time factors”
Laura Henry and Masha Tysjachniouk. Bowdoin College, USA. “Global Environmental Governance: Transnationalism and Localism in Russia’s Forests”
Desmond Wee. Keimyung University, Korea. “An ‘I’ for an eye: Looking back at visual research”
Svetlana Tulaeva & Minna Pappila. University of Eastern Finland. “Transnational Corporations in Russia: the Conflicts of Laws”
Kristina Puzarina. University of Mannheim, Germany. “Where are you from?” or shifts in cultural identity: the case of Turkmen students studying abroad”
Maria Pettersson. Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. “The Development of Wind Power in Sweden and Denmark: A Comparison of the Regulatory Frameworks”
Soili Nysten-Haarala. Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. “Why is the role of private governance growing more important in today's global business?”
Biswajit Chanda. SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom. “Legal pluralism and family law reform in Bangladesh”
Petra Heyse. Universiteit Antwerpen, IPrA, Belgium. “The role of the internet in transnational marriage/love, self-representation and imagination”
Juergen Feldhoff. Bielefeld University, Faculty of Sociology, Germany. “How does the institutional context (international funding programs, competitive grant and fellowships), and the market conditions, and pressures influence the choice of research designs?”
Irina Krutiy. INPO Micar, Russia. “Transnational networks as new form of sociality”
Erik Hagoort. Academy of Art and Design, Netherlands. “Encounter”
Claudia Zbenovich. Hadassah College, Israel. “Russian Soviet Cultural Values through Family Communication: A Discourse Analysis of Child-Rearing Practices in Modern Russia and in Israel”
Javier Hernandez. University od Edinburgh, UK. “Financial services and social structures: A comparative study”
Olga Echevskaya & Alla Anisimova. Novosibirsk State University, Russia. “"Sibiryak": community, nationality or a state of mind? Exploring the narratives and variations of Siberian identity”
Tünde Komáromi. Folklore Archive Institute of Romanian Academy, Romania. “Concepts of Evil in Contemporary Russian and Romanian Orthodoxy”
Dorit Geva. Central European University, Hungary. “The Two Exceptions? Comparing France and the United States and Rupturing National Myths”
Tsypylma Darieva. University of Tsukuba, Japan. “Anthropology and Explicit Use of Comparison. One Order, Different Outcomes?”
Ella Paneyakh. Institution for the Rule of Law, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia. “Bureaucracy, Closure and Legitimized violence: How to Study Law Enforcement in Russia “
Tanya Zaharchenko. Interdisciplinary international collaborative research team working on the Memory At War project. “How Memory Becomes Identity: The Curious Case of Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands”
Molly Flynn. Interdisciplinary international collaborative research team working on the Memory At War project. “Staging Memory: The Performance of Cultural Memory in Contemporary Russia”
Tom Rowley.Interdisciplinary international collaborative research team working on the Memory At War project. “Remembering the Dissidents in Contemporary Russia and Ukraine”
Michele Rivkin-Fish & Elena Trubina. Department of Anthropology UNC- Chapel Hill, US & Ural State University, Russia. “Comparative Frames and the Framing of Collaboration: Reflections on the Making of Dilemmas of Diversity”
Patrick Vander Weyden. University of Ghent, Belgium. “Ethnicity and voting behavior in multi-ethnic societies. Testing theories and methodologies”
Liudmila Kirpitchenko. Monash University, Australia. “Comparing Academic Mobility and Migration”
Elena Zdravomyslova & Anna Temkina. European University at St. Petersburg, Russia. "Множественные объекты - единый концепт? (как помыслить гендерный порядок в России")
Constance McDermott Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University, UK. “Equity in Certification”
Anna-Maija Matilainen. University of Eastern, Finland. “Russian forest companies, corporate social responsibility, and company stakeholders”
Carina H. Keskitalo. Department of Social and Economic Geography. “Aapting to climate change: cases from northernmost Europe”
Alexander Kustov. Mannheim University, Germany. “Beyond Methodological Nationalism: the Case of Glocal Community of Couchsurfing in St. Petersburg”
Polina Ermolaeva. Kazan Federal University. “Cross-cultural case studies of the environmental practices among the USA and Russian students: interpretation and problems of data comparability”
Alejandra Montané. Universitat de Barcelona. “A comparative study of the role of higher education in Equal Opportunities policies”
Panelists of the roundtables
"Complexities of the Transnational Northern Projects: New Challenges for Social Researchers"
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"Challenges of the multi-sited and comparative research"
Monica Tennberg. Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland. “Three aspects of security in the Barents region”
Daria Kovalevskaya and Olga Mikhaylova. Barents Institute, Norway. “Case Study: The Shtokman Project. The Socio-Economic Capacity of the Murmansk Region in the Framework of the Development of the Shtokman Project”
Vladimir Didyk and Ludmila Ivanova. Institute for Economic Studies, Kola Science Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia. “Lessons learnt from NAPROLD project”
Nafisa Yeasmin. Centre for Economic Development, Transport and Environment, Finland. “Immigration and Changing Humans’ Attitudes in Rovaniemi – a case study”
Md Waliul Hasanat. Arctic Centre, Finland. “Soft-law Cooperation in International Law: The Arctic Council’s Efforts to Address Climate Change”
Tore Andersson. ETS, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. “The Swedish nature conservation movement and the Sámi”
Victoria Tevlina. University of Tromsø, Barents Institute, Norway. “Trans-national comparison of the state-family mutual relations in Russia and Norway”
Urban Wrakberg. Barents Institute, Univ. of Tromso, Norway. “Comparative Perspectives on Northern Raw Material Industry”
Nils-Gustav Lundgren. Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. “Northern Sweden and the attitudes to the present globalization process among citizens. Who is positive and who is negative?”