Workshop: Historical Epistemology of Central, East and Southeast European Studies

Historical Epistemology of Central, East and Southeast European Studies

Workshop at LMU Munich, October 19-20, 2023

Concept and organization: Galina Babak / Riccardo Nicolosi / Jan Surman
Institute for Slavic Studies at LMU Munich / Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

Venue: Seidlvilla, Nikolaiplatz 1b, Munich

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