Conference presentations

 

 

Batunova, E. & Davletshina, A. From Emergency to Routine: Housing Governance after Disaster as a Normalized State. Presented at the EURA 2026 Conference “Cities Under Strain: Rethinking the ungovernable”. Venice, Italy, June 17th-20th, 2026

 

 

Batunova, E. & Davletshina, A. Resilience as a Function of Memory: Rethinking Soviet Housing Legacy in Gyumri. Presented at the ASIAC XIX Annual Conference, Venice, Italy, 15-18 December 2025.

 

 

Batunova, E. & Davletshina, A. Layers of Urban Resilience: Reinterpreting Soviet Built Legacies in Gyumri. Presented at the international seminar “Urban Resilience and Built Heritage”, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia, 3 November 2025.

 

 

Batunova, E. & Davletshina, A. Everyday assets under pressure: Housing governance and resident well-being in Daugavpils and Narva. Presented at the 20th International Academic Conference “Social Sciences for Regional Development 2025,” Daugavpils University, Daugavpils, Latvia, 17-18 October 2025.

 

 

Davletshina, A. & Batunova, E. Governance Models & Everyday Resilience: Reassessing Post-Soviet Housing in Narva (Estonia) and Daugavpils (Latvia). Cities After Transition. 11th International Urban Geographies of Post-Communist States Conference, Tirana, 22-25 September 2025.

 

 

Batunova E. Rethinking approaches to residential heritage preservation in the face of urban shrinkage in a European context. International conference “20th-Century Housing Heritage in Europe: Conserving, Participating and Adapting”. TU Wien, Austria, 28- 30 November 2024.

 

 

Batunova, E. Urban Shrinkage and the Future of Built Heritage: a Resilience Perspective. 60th ISOCARP World Planning Congress “Reinventing The (In)visible Cities'.” Siena, Italy, 8- 12 October 2024.

 

 

Publications

 

 

Batunova, E., & Davletshina, A. (2026). Everyday assets under pressure: Housing governance and resident well-being in Daugavpils (Latvia) and Narva (Estonia). In V. Meņšikovs (Ed.), Proceedings of the 20th International Scientific Conference "Social Sciences for Regional Development 2025": Part 1. Issues of Sociology and Social Psychology (pp. 5–11). Daugavpils University Academic Press "Saule".

 

 

Batunova, E. (2026) COVID-19 challenges and governance response in Russian cities. Insights from Rostov-on-Don. Cities 173: 106952

 

 

Batunova, E. (2024) Urban Shrinkage and the Future of Built Heritage: A Resilience Perspective. In Proceedings of the 60th ISOCARP World Planning Congress. ISOCARP, 2024. https://doi.org/10.47472/pGfMPXop.

 

 

Blog posts

 

 

Batunova, E. The Long Afterlife of Reconstruction: Living with an Unfinished Post-Earthquake Landscape in Gyumri, Armenia 

https://cities-building-culture.com/index.php/en/blog/the-long-afterlife-of-reconstruction

 

 

Batunova, E.  Heritage Under Pressure: Three Messages from the 2025 Venice Biennale

https://cities-building-culture.com/index.php/en/blog/heritage-under-pressure-three-messages-from-the-2025-venice-biennale 

 

 

Batunova, E. Interview from Venice. The Ethics of Adaptation: What Venice Teaches Us About Residential Heritage

https://cities-building-culture.com/index.php/en/blog/the-ethics-of-adaptation-what-venice-teaches-us-about-residential-heritage