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How does political activism look in today's Russia? What challenges do 2021 Anti-Putin protesters face? What are the prospects for the current oppositional movement? Our panel will discuss answers to these questions proposed by Russian political scientists, sociologists, and organizers.Â
This event is part of the 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute, organized every summer by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS).Â
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Protests in support of Alexei Navalny and political prisoners, 01/31/2021, Krasnodar. Russia. Source: WikiCommons.
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Svetlana Erpyleva is a sociologist, a researcher with Public Sociology Laboratory, Centre for Independent Social Research (Russia), and a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. She received her PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki. Her research is focused on protest movements, political involvement, political socialization, youth and children's political participation and cognition in Russia and abroad.
Jan Matti Dollbaum is a postdoctoral researcher at Bremen University, specializing in activism and civil society in Russia. Dollbaum is the co-author (with Morvan Lallouet and Ben Noble) of the upcoming book Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? (Oxford University Press, 2021 - available in August 2021).
Anastasia Kalk is a Ph.D student in the Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research and a 2021-2022 visiting scholar at the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Her research focuses on the history of political thought, critical, feminist theory and studies of social movements. She has published articles and comments on the histories of Russian and global feminist protests in lenta.ru, republic, BBC among other places. She is an author of the book "Feministkii Samizdat 40 let Spustya" (Feminist Samizdat. 40 Years After), a collection of research commentaries and new edition of the Soviet dissident journal "Woman and Russia."
Morvan Lallouet is a PhD candidate at the University of Kent, researching Navalny and the Russian opposition. Lallouet is the co-author (with Jan Matti Dollbaum and Ben Noble) of the upcoming book Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? (Oxford University Press, 2021 - available in August 2021).
