The series aims to address urgent questions for the study of Slavonic cultures as well as Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia more generally in the context of Russia's ongoing war on Ukraine.
Among other subjects, this international and multi-disciplinary series will examine various imperial legacies, marginalised discourses, and postcolonial (or decolonising) frames, with a particular emphasis on Ukrainian perspectives.
The talks will take place fortnightly in Michaelmas and Lent Terms on Thursday (NB: Except for 23 November event), from 5.30pm, in the Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.
Michaelmas Term 2022
13 October 2022
Olesya Khromeychuk (Ukrainian Institute, London)
(Re)discovering Ukraine in the Context of Russia’s War’
27 October 2022
Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov (Center for European Policy Analysis),
Laurie Bristow (Hughes Hall, Former UK Ambassador to Russian Federation)
‘Relations with Russia Now and in the Future’
10 November 2022
Sasha Dovzhyk (UCL SSEES)
‘Ukrainian Cassandras’
23 November 2022
Emily Greble (Vanderbilt University)
‘The Centre at the Periphery: Rethinking Slavonic Studies through Muslim Narratives’
Lent Term 2023
26 January 2023
Adalyat Issiyeva (McGill University)
‘Out of Silence: Listening to the (Muted?) Voices of Russia's Subjects’
Olenka Pevny (University of Cambridge)
‘“Invisible Rus”: The Omitted History of Eastern Europe’
23 February 2023
Michael Moser (University of Vienna)
‘Revisiting the History of the Ukrainian Language’
9 March 2023
Clare Cavanagh (Northwestern University)
‘Portable Provinces: The Postcolonial Vision of Czesław Miłosz’