Institute for Slavic Studies at LMU Munich and Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague present following workshop:
Historical Epistemology of Central, East and Southeast European Studies
Concept and organization: Galina Babak / Riccardo Nicolosi / Jan Surman
Program:
Oct 19, 2023
- 9:30–9:45 Welcome and introduction
- 9:45–10:30 Marina Mogilner (University of Illinois at Chicago): Epistemologies of Non-national: Empire as an Analytical Challenge
- 10:30–11:15 Susanne Frank (Humboldt University of Berlin): Centre-Periphery, Cosmopolis, Entanglements: Tools of Analyzing Imperial Constellations in a Historical Perspective
- 11:15–11:45 coffee break
- 11:45–12:30 Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw): Post-colonial and Decolonial Approaches in post-1989 Poland: A Bumpy Journey from Theory to (Museum) Practice
- 12:30–14:00 lunch break
- 14:00–14:45 Stanislav Holubec (Czech Academy of Sciences): East Central Europe within the World Economy: Postcolonial and Post-Imperial Settings
- 14:45–15:30 Amanda Zadorian (Oberlin College): Destabilizing the Conceptual Borders of Field Research: An Illustration from the Energy Sector
- 15:30–16:00 coffee break
- 16:00–16:45 Victoria Shmidt (University of Graz): Options and Limits of Historicizing Network Epistemologies in Central Eastern Europe: Toward Critical Revision of Race Science
- 16:45–17:30 Barbara Sonnenhauser (LMU Munich): What We Get is What We (Want to) See. How Expectations Shape Language Families and Linguistic Areas
Oct 20, 2023
- 10:00–10:45 Marco Puleri (University of Bologna): Russophonia as an Epistemic Challenge: Reflections on the Studies of Russian-language Writing in the Post-Soviet Era
- 10:45–11:30 Roman Dubasevych (University of Greifswald): Rethinking the “Zeitenwende”. Deprovincializing Ukrainian Studies
- 11:30–12:00 coffee break
- 12:00–12:45 Anton Saifullayeu (University of Warsaw): Beyond Colonial Shadows: Exploring Paths to Decolonizing the Past in Ukraine and Belarus
- 12:45–14:30 lunch break
- 14:30–15:15 Magdalena Kozłowska (University of Warsaw): To Give the Margins a Voice. On Studying East European Minorities Approaches towards the Concept of the East. The Case of Jews in Interwar Poland
- 15:15–16:00 Lea Horvat (University of Jena) & Aleksandar Ranković (University of Vienna): What We Can Do Together: Heritage Scholars and the Postmigrant Update of a Post-Yugoslav Framework
- 16:00–16:30 coffee break
- 16:30–17:15 Alexander Bikbov (University of Bochum): The Sovereign Rule of Exception: Turnover of Colonial Settings in Eulogizing and Critical Analysis of Russian (Soviet) Regime
- 17:15–18:00 Closing discussion
Website of the workshop: https://www.slavistik.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/ws_historical_epistemology/index.html
