The Unpredictable Past? Reshaping Russian, Ukrainian, and East European Studies
Volodymyr Kravchenko, Marko Robert Stech The launch of an unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in February 2022 was a jolting turn of events for the majority of Western scholars studying Eastern Europe. Moreover, the dramatic unfolding of the subsequent all-out Russo-Ukrainian war helped unmask an array of fundamental deficiencies—and even outright flaws—in the dominant Western perceptions of Russia and...
CfP: Divided Memories, Shared Memories Poland, Russia, Ukraine: History Mirrored in Literature and Cinema
Deadline: April 30, 2018. International Conference Geneva, 13-14 December 2018 Divided Memories, Shared Memories Poland, Russia, Ukraine: History Mirrored in Literature and Cinema In Central and Eastern European countries, memorial questions appeared right after the demise of the communist regimes in 1989–1991, revealing long-denied processes. The phenomenon of the rise of repressed memories along with the rewriting of history, and...
1918-2018 : Sorties d’Empire. Sur les traces de l’Empire russe
novembre 2017 – juin 2018 Après le centenaire de la révolution russe, 2018 est celui de la mort des empires continentaux, dont seul l’empire russe s’est reconstitué, avant de disparaître en 1991. Ces ateliers seront consacrés aux multiples reconfigurations qui ont accompagné son éclatement, recomposition, disparition. Dans une perspective comparative, seront examinées les relations de conflit et de dépendance, de...
