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Historical Epistemology of Central, East and Southeast European Studies II

Second part of the workshop on historical epistemology

Date of event
17. 10. 2024, 14:00 – 18. 10. 2024, 18:45
Venue
Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS, Gabčíkova 2362/10, Prague 8

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 II

Concept and organization: Galina Babak / Riccardo Nicolosi / Jan Surman
Please note that part of the papers will be based on precirculated texts. Please contact Jan Surman to receive the link.

Program:

Thursday, October 17th

14:00-14:30 Galina Babak, Riccardo Nicolosi, Jan Surman: Introduction

14:30-16:00 Roundtable I: Chair Galina Babak (Konstanz/Prague)
Matthew Rampley (Brno): “Theory Fatigue”: On the Persistence of Positivism in Central Europe
Galin Tihanov (London): Critique and Endurance: Russian Formalism between Samizdat and World Literature

16:30-18:45 Roundtable II: Chair Riccardo Nicolosi (Munich)
Marina Mogilner (Chicago): Epistemologies of Non-national: Empire as an Analytical Challenge
Susanne Frank (Berlin): Cosmopolis vs. Centre-Periphery: Analyzing Soviet literary/cultural history without endorsing the imperial gaze
Andrii Portnov (Frankfurt an der Oder): Re-inventing Ukrainian studies after February 24, 2022

Friday, October 18th

10:00-11:30 Section I: Chair Joanna Wawrzyniak (Warsaw)
Tanja Petrović (Ljubljana): Beyond Coloniality: Modernity and Epistemologies of the (Post-)Socialist Southeastern Europe
Marco Puleri (Bologna), Alessandro Achilli (Cagliari): Intellectuals and the Nation (Yesterday and Today): Pluralism and the Responsibility of Culture

11:45-13:15 Section II: Chair: Susanne Frank (Berlin)
Heinrich Kirschbaum (Freiburg): When and where is Belarus
Galina Babak (Konstanz): Challenges of Post-Imperial Nexus: What is "Ukrainian literature" About?

13:15-14:15 In-house lunch

14:15-15:45 Section III: Chair Amanda Zadorian (Oberlin)
Magdalena Kozłowska (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
Helena Sadilkova (Prague): Romani voices, public presentations of the holocaust of the Roma and Sinti from the Bohemian Lands and the decolonial shift. Current struggles in history writing on the Romani holocaust and commemoration

16:15-18:45 Section IV: Chair Marco Puleri (Bologna)
Amanda Zadorian (Oberlin): Destabilizing the Conceptual Borders of Field Research: An Illustration from the Energy Sector
Joanna Wawrzyniak (Warsaw): Post-colonial and Decolonial Approaches in post-1989 Poland: A Bumpy Journey from Theory to (Museum) Practice
Alexander Bikbov (Paris): The Sovereign Rule of Exception: Turnover of Colonial Settings in Eulogizing and Critical Analysis of Russian (Soviet) Regime