During the course, Russia and Russia’s foreign policy are examined through the concept of cultural statecraft. The course discusses and analyzes how culture has been used to promote Russia's foreign policy interests and what kind of political dimension and potential culture has. The cases presented in the course focus on cultural activities that occurred outside Russia's national borders.
Zoom link: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/62393552124
PROGRAMME
8.3. Tuomas Forsbeg ja Sirke Mäkinen: Introduction to Russia's Cultural Statecraft
15.3. Sirke Mäkinen: Higher Education as a Tool for Cultural Statecraft?
22.3. Julia Bethwaite: Fine Arts and International Relations: Russian Museum Diplomacy
29.3. Elina Viljanen: Soviet Legacies and Global Contexts: Classical Music and Russia’s Cultural Statecraft
5.4. Mari Pajala: Stagecraft in the Service of Statecraft? Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest
12.4. Pia Koivunen: International Events in the Service of Cultural Statecraft: The Sochi Olympics and the World Festival of Youth and Students
19.4. Pallavi Pal: Russia's Nuclear Diplomacy
26.4. Lina Klymenko: Forging Common History: Russia’s Cultural Statecraft and the Soviet Second World War Monuments in Europe
3.5. Tuomas Forsberg: Sport as Cultural Statecraft: Russia and the Kontinental Hockey League
- Opettaja: Julia Bethwaite
- Opettaja: Tuomas Forsberg
- Opettaja: Lina Klymenko
- Opettaja: Pia Koivunen
- Opettaja: Sirke Mäkinen
- Opettaja: Mari Pajala
- Opettaja: Pallavi Pal
- Opettaja: Elina Viljanen