AACaPS intends to provide an online update of the scholarly activities of our members from time to time. Below we feature the recent publications, conference attendances and other news of select members.
Slobodanka Millicent Vladiv-Glover (Monash University)
Slobodanka attended the ‘100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution’ conference at Deakin University in November 2017. She has recently been chief editor of three special journal issues:
- Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover and Geza Horvath (Eds.), “Structure, Object, Narrative: Towards a Revised Theory of Discourse Part II”, The Dostoevsky Journal: A Comparative Literature Review, Vol 17, 2016
- Kaarina Aitamurto, Sanna Turoma, Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (Eds.), Special Issue: “Politics of Religion and Patriotic Production of Culture in Contemporary Russia”, Transcultural Studies: A Journal in Interdisciplinary Research, Vol 12, No 1, 2016
- Maja Soboleva and Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover (Eds.) Special Issue: “What is Philosophical Knowledge?” Transcultural Studies: A Journal in Interdisciplinary Research, Vol 12, No 2, 2016
A revised edition of her book Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture (with M Epstein and A Genis, Berghahn Books, 2015) has been released, and she has also contributed chapters to two bilingual monographs.
Nick Fischer (Monash University)
Nick’s book Spider Web: The Birth of American Anticommunism (2016, University of Illinois Press) was reviewed by the New York Review of Books.
Roger Markwick (University of Newcastle)
Roger contributed an article, ‘Violence to Velvet: Revolutions – 1917-2017‘ to a special issue of the Slavic Review (Vol 76, No 3, 2017)
Ludmilla Antypenko
Ludmilla has had a busy year, speaking at conferences in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sofia, Bulgaria and Zurich, Switzerland and Amsterdam, Holland. Her papers explored language and nationhood in the post-Soviet world, the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, representations of Ukrainian migrants and linguistic topics. She has also edited a volume, in which she also contributed a chapter on language legislation in Ukraine and South Africa.
- Ludmilla A’Beckett and Theodorus du Plessis (eds), In pursuit of societal harmony. Reviewing the experiences and approaches in officially monolingual and officially multilingual countries (SunMedia, 2017)
Kirill Nourzhanov (The Australian National University)
Kirill concluded his term as AACaPS president, and was the primary organiser of our 13th biennial conference ‘A Century of Revolutionary Change – 1917-2017’. He contributed an article to Nationalities Papers (Vol 45, No 1, 2017) entitled ‘From hero worship to organized oblivion: representations of the People’s Front in Tajikistan’s national memory’, and authored a chapter on Kazakhstan and the Eurasian Economic Union in a book edited by fellow AACaPS members Graeme Gill and Milenko Petrovic (and Steven Fish), A Quarter Century of Post-Communism Assessed (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
Kirill continues to work on an Australian Research Council-funded monograph on Afghanistan-Central Asia security dynamics, with Distinguished Professor Amin Saikal and Kieran Pender.
Alexandr Akimov (Griffith University)
Alexandr was appointed AACaPS president in 2017. He had an article published in Economic Modelling with J Kakhkharov and N Rohde, ‘Transaction costs and recorded remittances in the post-Soviet economies: Evidence from a new dataset on bilateral flows’ (Vol 60, No 1)
Members wishing to have their news featured in future updates should email aacapsassociation [at] gmail [dot] com.
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