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- Ukrainian History, Ukrainian Studies, Eastern European Studies, History of food and nutrition, History of Science, History of Consumption and Consumer Culture, and 7 moreHistory of Imperialism, History of Eastern Europe, Imperial History, Environmental History, History of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Colonial History, and Empiresedit
- My current research interests have two overlapping directions. The first direction concerns imperial, post-/neoimperi... moreMy current research interests have two overlapping directions. The first direction concerns imperial, post-/neoimperial histories of Eastern Europe with a focus on Ukraine and the Northern Black Sea Steppe. The second is about entangled histories of science, food, environment and empire in the 19th and 20th century East Central Europe.edit
New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire extends our understanding of the gendered workings of empires, colonialism and imperialism, taking up recent impulses from gender history, new i ...
Research Interests: History, Gender History, African History, Imperial History, History of Sexuality, and 13 moreColonialism, Asian History, Global History, Black Sea region, Empire, History of the British Empire, Russian Empire, Russian Imperial History, History and culture of the Black Sea region, History of Colonialism, History of Gender and Sexuality, Forge, and Colonialism and Imperialism
Between Change and Stagnation: Social Estates and Autocracy in Imperial Russia : Review on a book: Alison K. Smith. For the Common Good and Their Own Well-Being: Social Estates in Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2014)
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Міграція, адаптація та акультурація естонських шведів на Півдні Російської імперії (1781 - перша половина 19 ст.) : аналіз шведської історіографії [= The Migration, Adaptation and Acculturation of the Estonian Swedes in the South of the Russian Empire (1781 - the first half of the 19th century): ...more
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Міграція, адаптація та акультурація естонських шведів на Півдні Російської імперії (1781 - перша половина 19 ст.) : аналіз шведської історіографії [= The Migration, Adaptation and Acculturation of the Estonian Swedes in the South of the Russian Empire (1781 - the first half of the 19th century): ...more
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Міграція, адаптація та акультурація естонських шведів на Півдні Російської імперії (1781 - перша половина 19 ст.) : аналіз шведської історіографії [= The Migration, Adaptation and Acculturation of the Estonian Swedes in the South of the Russian Empire (1781 - the first half of the 19th century): ...more
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The thesis reconstructs the processes of migration, adaptation and acculturation experienced by a group of Estonian Swedes in the South of Russian Empire during the period of 1781–1871
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Unlike British or American vegetarian movements which arose during the 19th century, organized vegetarianism did not emerge in the Russian empire until the turn of the century. By the 1910s, a network of vegetarian circles flourished... more
Unlike British or American vegetarian movements which arose during the 19th century, organized vegetarianism did not emerge in the Russian empire until the turn of the century. By the 1910s, a network of vegetarian circles flourished across the empire. Odessa presents a fascinating case study for examining dietary reform and vegetarianism. Using diverse sources, the article explores the evolution and implementation of grassroot vegetarian activism in the city of Odessa by focusing on its institutionalization and infrastructure, as well as on ideas, practices and activists. It scrutinizes the motives that guided actions, unfolds alliances and challenges that arose, and how these played out in practice, and identifies popularization strategies for vegetarian ideas, and forms of vegetarian consumption. The study sheds light on an unknown page of the history of Odessa and the Black Sea Region, as well as enriching existing knowledge of the histories of imperial and European borderlands
Research Interests: History, Eastern European and Russian Jewish History, Eastern European history, Food History, History Of Food Consumption, and 15 moreMicrohistory, Empire, Historia, History of Gastronomy, History of Consumption, Black Sea, Jews, Ethical vegetarianism, Microhistory and History of Everyday Life, History of Ukraine, History and culture of the Black Sea region, History of Cooking and Food Culture, History of Odessa, History of the Russian Empire, and History of Food and Gastronomy
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Особливості релігійної культури шведських колоністів Півдня Російської імперії у 18-19 ст. [The Specifics of the Swedish Colonists’ Religious Culture in the South of the Russian Empire in the 18th-19th centuries]
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The thesis reconstructs the processes of migration, adaptation and acculturation experienced by a group of Estonian Swedes in the South of Russian Empire during the period of 1781–1871.
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История шведских колонистов Юга Российской империи конца 18-19 ст. в архивах Украины [= The History of the Swedish Colonists of the Southern Russian Empire in the 18th-19th centuries in the Ukrainian Archival Funds]
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In this article, I tackle and reflect on the vegetarian movement of the Russian empire in its making, branding, and imagining by examining the All-Russian Vegetarian Congress in Moscow in 1913. By scrutinizing its organization, agenda and... more
In this article, I tackle and reflect on the vegetarian movement of the Russian empire in its making, branding, and imagining by examining the All-Russian Vegetarian Congress in Moscow in 1913. By scrutinizing its organization, agenda and resolutions, the study brings to the surface and explores the ideological imaginaries and the dynamics of vegetarian collective action. I discuss the organization and convening of the congress, analyze the discursive activity around it, as well as hint at its implications for the fledgling vegetarian activism. I also contextualize the event within a broad reform-oriented social movement space, as well as spotlight the diversity of understandings of vegetarianism. The case study hints at the manifestations of movement making and branding, as well as unfolds the ideological foundations that were given preferences and why this was so. The congress apparently favored the ethical strand of vegetarianism and aimed at life reform in a broader sense. However, it did not really succeed in bringing about the long-awaited consolidation and unification of the vegetarians in the country.
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Особливості геостратегічної політики Російської держави у 18 столітті [The Russian Geostrategic Policy in the 18th century]
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Research Interests: History, Geography, Imperial History, Social History, Migration History, and 13 moreSocial and Cultural History, History of Estonia, Swedish History, Black Sea region, East European History, History of Migration, Imperialism, Ukrainian History, Russian Empire, Colonization studies, History of Sweden, History of the Baltic Sea Region, and Steppe
Unlike the British, American, or Central European vegetarian movements, which emerged in the nineteenth century, organized vegetarianism did not emerge in the Russian Empire until the turn of the century. By the 1910s, enthusiasts had... more
Unlike the British, American, or Central European vegetarian movements, which emerged in the nineteenth century, organized vegetarianism did not emerge in the Russian Empire until the turn of the century. By the 1910s, enthusiasts had formed vegetarian societies and developed an infrastructure in many of the empire’s cities. Drawing on mainstream literature and utilizing a variety of primary sources, this article examines vegetarian eating establishments started by vegetarian activists in the early twentieth century. It uncovers the rationale behind its emergence, ideological framework and disputes, and the mechanisms that brought it to life, showcasing the collective efforts to promote a vegetarian dietary regimen and worldview. I argue that vegetarian canteens appeared as multifunctional venues resulting from a fledgling vegetarian activism. Finally, the study unveils what was served and eaten in the vegetarian canteens of the early twentieth century, shedding light on urban veget...
Research Interests: Eastern European Studies, Gastronomy, Imperial History, Food History, Social Activism, and 15 moreHistory Of Food Consumption, Vegetarianism, Russian History, Social History, Social and Cultural History, East European History, Vegetarian diets, Ukrainian History, Russian Empire, Russian Imperial History, History of food and nutrition, History of 19th and 20th Century East Central Europe, Social History of Vegetarianism, History of restaurants, and History of Food and Gastronomy
This article examines how The Vegetarian Review, the monthly periodical founded in Kishinev and published in Kiev from 1910–1915, and the emerging vegetarian activism, enabled, re-affirmed and empowered each other. The focus of the... more
This article examines how The Vegetarian Review, the monthly periodical founded in Kishinev and published in Kiev from 1910–1915, and the emerging vegetarian activism, enabled, re-affirmed and empowered each other. The focus of the article is on the periodical’s emergence, logistical aspects of its production, ideological settings, form, content, rationale, (re)presentational strategies, as well as the imaginaries constructed and articulated on its pages. By bridging the fields of periodical studies with the history of social activism in Eastern Europe, the role of the advocacy journal in promoting reform agenda and its potential for forging a community of values and a shared identity formation are discovered. Vegetarianism, as the study showcases, had been defined, debated, advocated, invented and negotiated on the pages of The Vegetarian Review through interaction between scribes, editors, readers, practitioners and activists; and its genre fostered, staged and empowered these exposures.
Research Interests: Media History, Imperial History, Eastern European and Russian Jewish History, Jewish History, Periodical Studies, and 15 moreVegetarianism, Russian History, Social History, Social and Cultural History, Central and East European Studies, Press and media history, Ukrainian History, Russian Empire, History of the printing press, History of periodicals, History of Eastern Europe, History of 19th and 20th Century East Central Europe, Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, Social History of Vegetarianism, and Jewish History In Eastern Europe
Unlike British or American vegetarian movements which arose during the 19th century, organized vegetarianism did not emerge in the Russian empire until the turn of the century. By the 1910s, a network of vegetarian circles flourished... more
Unlike British or American vegetarian movements which arose during the 19th century, organized vegetarianism did not emerge in the Russian empire until the turn of the century. By the 1910s, a network of vegetarian circles flourished across the empire. Odessa presents a fascinating case study for examining dietary reform and vegetarianism. Using diverse sources, the article explores the evolution and implementation of grassroot vegetarian activism in the city of Odessa by focusing on its institutionalization and infrastructure, as well as on ideas, practices and activists. It scrutinizes the motives that guided actions, unfolds alliances and challenges that arose, and how these played out in practice, and identifies popularization strategies for vegetarian ideas, and forms of vegetarian consumption. The study sheds light on an unknown page of the history of Odessa and the Black Sea Region, as well as enriching existing knowledge of the histories of imperial and European borderlands.
Research Interests: Eastern European and Russian Jewish History, Eastern European history, Food History, History Of Food Consumption, Microhistory, and 15 moreVegetarianism, Social History, History of Gastronomy, Ukrainian History, Russian Empire, History of Consumption, Ethical vegetarianism, Vegetarianism as a Social Movement About Animals, Microhistory and History of Everyday Life, History of Ukraine, History and culture of the Black Sea region, History of Cooking and Food Culture, History of Odessa, History of the Russian Empire, and History of Food and Gastronomy
New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire extends our understanding of the gendered workings of empires, colonialism and imperialism, taking up recent impulses from gender history, new imperial history and global history. The... more
New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire extends our understanding of the gendered workings of empires, colonialism and imperialism, taking up recent impulses from gender history, new imperial history and global history. The authors apply new theoretical and methodological approaches to historical case studies around the globe in order to redefine the complex relationship between gender and empire. The chapters deal not only with 'typical' colonial empires like the British Empire, but also with those less well-studied, such as the German, Russian, Italian and U.S. empires. They focus on various imperial formations, from colonies in Africa or Asia to settler colonial settings like Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, to imperial peripheries like the Dodecanese or the Black Sea Steppe. The book deals with key themes such as intimacy, sexuality and female education, as well as exploring new aspects like the complex marriage regimes some empires developed or the so-called 'servant debates'. It also presents several ways in which imperial formations were structured by gender and other categories like race, class, caste, sexuality, religion, and citizenship. Offering new reflections on the intimate and personal aspects of gender in imperial activities and relationships, this is an important volume for students and scholars of gender studies and imperial and colonial history.
Research Interests: History, Gender History, African History, Imperial History, History of Sexuality, and 12 moreColonialism, Asian History, Global History, Black Sea region, Empire, History of the British Empire, Russian Empire, Russian Imperial History, History and culture of the Black Sea region, History of Colonialism, History of Gender and Sexuality, and Colonialism and Imperialism
Research Interests: History, Imperial History, Social History, Migration History, Social and Cultural History, and 11 moreHistory of Estonia, Swedish History, Black Sea region, East European History, History of Migration, Imperialism, Ukrainian History, Russian Empire, Colonization studies, History of Sweden, and History of the Baltic Sea Region
Research Interests: History, Imperial History, Eastern European history, Scandinavian history, Swedish History, and 9 moreEast European History, Imperialism, Ukrainian History, Russian Empire, History of Sweden, Russian Imperial History, History of the Baltic Sea Region, History of Ukraine, and History and culture of the Black Sea region
Шведський етнос на Півдні Російської імперії (кінець 18 ст. - 1861):історіографічний аспект [The Historiography of the Swedish Ethnic Group in the South of the Russian Empire (the end of the 18th century - 1861)]
Акліматизація шведських мігрантів на Півдні Російської імперії [The Acclimatization of the Swedish Migrants in the South of the Russian Empire]
Шведське населення на Півдні Російської імперії : передумови, причини та хід міграції [= Swedish people in the South of the Russian Empire: Preconditions, Reasons and Process of Migration]
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Open access: http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1092923&dswid=-7744 After falling under the power of the Russian Crown, the Northern Black Sea steppe from the end of eighteenth century crystallized as the Russian... more
Open access: http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1092923&dswid=-7744
After falling under the power of the Russian Crown, the Northern Black Sea steppe from the end of eighteenth century crystallized as the Russian government’s prime venue for socioeconomic and sociocultural reinvention and colonization. Vast ethnic, sociocultural and even ecological changes followed. Present study is preoccupied with the marriage of the immigrant population from the German lands who came to the region in the course of its state orchestrated colonization, and was officially categorized as “German colonists.” The book illuminates the multiple ways in which marriage and household formation among the colonists was instrumentalized by the imperial politics in the Northern Black Sea steppe, and conditioned by socioeconomic rationality of its colonization. Marriage formation and dissolution among the colonists were gradually absorbed into the competencies of the colonial vertical power. Intending to control colonist marriage and household formation through the introduced marriage regime, the Russian government and its regional representatives lacked the actual means to exert this control at the local level. On the ground, however, imperial politics was mediated by the people it targeted, and by the functionaries tasked with its implementation. As the study reveals, the paramount importance was given to functional households and sustainable farms based on non-conflictual relations between parties. Situated on the crossroads of state, church, community, and personal interests, colonist marriage engendered clashes between secular and ecclesiastical bodies over the supremacy over it. The interplay of colonization as politics, and colonization as an imperial situation with respect to the marriage of the German colonists is explored in this book by concentrating on both norms and practices. Another important consideration is the ways gender and colonization constructed and determined one another reciprocally, both in legal norms and in actual practices. Secret divorces and unauthorized marriages, open and hidden defiance, imitations and unruliness, refashioning of rituals and discourses, and desertions – a number of strategies and performances which challenged and negotiated the marriage regime in the region, were scholarly examined for the first time in this book.
After falling under the power of the Russian Crown, the Northern Black Sea steppe from the end of eighteenth century crystallized as the Russian government’s prime venue for socioeconomic and sociocultural reinvention and colonization. Vast ethnic, sociocultural and even ecological changes followed. Present study is preoccupied with the marriage of the immigrant population from the German lands who came to the region in the course of its state orchestrated colonization, and was officially categorized as “German colonists.” The book illuminates the multiple ways in which marriage and household formation among the colonists was instrumentalized by the imperial politics in the Northern Black Sea steppe, and conditioned by socioeconomic rationality of its colonization. Marriage formation and dissolution among the colonists were gradually absorbed into the competencies of the colonial vertical power. Intending to control colonist marriage and household formation through the introduced marriage regime, the Russian government and its regional representatives lacked the actual means to exert this control at the local level. On the ground, however, imperial politics was mediated by the people it targeted, and by the functionaries tasked with its implementation. As the study reveals, the paramount importance was given to functional households and sustainable farms based on non-conflictual relations between parties. Situated on the crossroads of state, church, community, and personal interests, colonist marriage engendered clashes between secular and ecclesiastical bodies over the supremacy over it. The interplay of colonization as politics, and colonization as an imperial situation with respect to the marriage of the German colonists is explored in this book by concentrating on both norms and practices. Another important consideration is the ways gender and colonization constructed and determined one another reciprocally, both in legal norms and in actual practices. Secret divorces and unauthorized marriages, open and hidden defiance, imitations and unruliness, refashioning of rituals and discourses, and desertions – a number of strategies and performances which challenged and negotiated the marriage regime in the region, were scholarly examined for the first time in this book.
Research Interests: Historical Anthropology, Gender History, History of Sexuality, Microhistory, History of Everyday Life, and 12 more19th Century German History, Empire, Family history, Imperialism, Russian Empire, Colonization studies, Microhistory and History of Everyday Life, History of Ukraine, History and culture of the Black Sea region, History of Gender and Sexuality, History of the Russian Empire, and History of Marriage and Divorce
In the spring of 1782 a group of peasants of Swedish origin reached their destination on the right bank of Dnipro River in Ukraine. The village they founded became known as “Gammalsvenskby” (Russian “Staroshvedskoe,” English “Old Swedish... more
In the spring of 1782 a group of peasants of Swedish origin reached their destination on the right bank of Dnipro River in Ukraine. The village they founded became known as “Gammalsvenskby” (Russian “Staroshvedskoe,” English “Old Swedish Village”). In the 1880s links were established with Sweden and Swedophone Finland where the villagers were seen through a nationalistic-romantic prism and in broad circles became known as a brave group of people who had preserved their Swedish culture in hostile surroundings; in the terminology of this volume, a “lost Swedish tribe”. The village remained largely intact until 1929, when in the aftermath of the Russian revolution a majority of the villagers decided to leave for Sweden. When they arrived, there was disappointment. Neither Sweden nor the lost tribe lived up to expectations. Some of the villagers returned to Ukraine and the USSR.
This book offers an alternative perspective on Gammalsvenskby. The changing fortunes of the villagers are largely seen in the light of two grand top-down modernization projects – Russia’s imperial, originating in the latter half of the eighteenth century, and the Soviet, carried out in the early 1920s – but also of the modernization projects in Sweden and Finland. The story the book has to tell of Gammalsvenskby is a new one, and moreover, it is a story of relevance also for the history of Russia, Ukraine, Sweden and Finland.
This book offers an alternative perspective on Gammalsvenskby. The changing fortunes of the villagers are largely seen in the light of two grand top-down modernization projects – Russia’s imperial, originating in the latter half of the eighteenth century, and the Soviet, carried out in the early 1920s – but also of the modernization projects in Sweden and Finland. The story the book has to tell of Gammalsvenskby is a new one, and moreover, it is a story of relevance also for the history of Russia, Ukraine, Sweden and Finland.
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This book explores Eastern European consumer cultures in the twentieth century, taking a comparative perspective and conceptualizing the peculiarities of consumption in the region. Contributions cover lifestyles and marketing strategies... more
This book explores Eastern European consumer cultures in the twentieth century, taking a comparative perspective and conceptualizing the peculiarities of consumption in the region. Contributions cover lifestyles and marketing strategies in imperial contexts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; urban consumer cultures in the Interwar Period; and consumer and advertising cultures in the Soviet Union and its satellite republics. It traces the development of marketing throughout the century, and the changes in society brought about by democratization and the 'Americanization' of consumption. Taken together, the essays gathered here make a valuable contribution to our understanding of consumption and advertising in the region.
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In this special section, the histories of dietary reform have been approached and explored from different perspectives. The essays weave together threads of the history of dietary advice and nutritional standards with social history,... more
In this special section, the histories of dietary reform have been approached and explored from different perspectives. The essays weave together threads of the history of dietary advice and nutritional standards with social history, women’s history and food history, covering the elements of life reform and women’s movements, the establishment of communist food ideology, the development of modern food safety and food security, etc. Three peer-reviewed articles focusing on the case studies of Estonia, Bulgaria and the Russian empire are built on previously untapped sources and offer original perspectives on the topic. As the contributions suggest, the entangled histories of dietary reform efforts proved to be a valuable and novel prism through which to study the region and the history of Europe in general.
Research Interests: Social Movements (History), Eastern European history, Food History, Modernity, History Of Food Consumption, and 15 moreVegetarianism, History of Estonia, History of Communism, Russian Empire, Food Quality and Safety, History of diet and nutrition, history and culture of Bulgaria, History of Sweden, History of food and nutrition, History of the Baltic Sea Region, History of Ukraine, Food and Eating In Communist Bulgaria, History of 19th and 20th Century East Central Europe, Lebensreform, and life reform movement
The Russian assault on Ukraine has brought about the largest war of invasion and annihilation in Europe since the end of World War Two, leading to massive loss of human life and the destruction of communities, the natural environment, and... more
The Russian assault on Ukraine has brought about the largest war of invasion and annihilation in Europe since the end of World War Two, leading to massive loss of human life and the destruction of communities, the natural environment, and cultural heritage sites, enacting multiple changes on all levels – in the region and globally. Along with the ongoing reconfiguration of the security architecture in Europe and beyond, and the opening of homes and hearts to Ukrainians, the war has unleashed new and existential concerns about the global economy and democracy, as well as altered approaches to cultural and identity politics. Finally, the international response to the war showed solidarity with Ukraine and revitalised discussions about peacebuilding. The aim of the 2023 CBEES Annual Conference is to expose, map and discuss the implications of some of these changes for the region's future. The conference focuses on critical discussion of the multiple effects and consequences of the Russian war on Ukraine but is also open for broader comparative historical perspectives on the impacts of wars and military conflicts in the history of the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe, including Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Research Interests: Military History, Area Studies, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, Russian Studies, and 15 moreMedia Studies, Transnationalism, Geopolitics, Baltic Studies, Security Studies, Politics, Ukrainian Studies, Caucasus, Central Asia, Authoritarianism, Central and Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Imperialism, Displacement, and Russian war in Ukraine
EARLY CAREER SCHOLARS CONFERENCE organized by the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (Marburg, Germany) and the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies at Södertörn University (Stockholm, Sweden) Venue:... more
EARLY CAREER SCHOLARS CONFERENCE
organized by the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (Marburg, Germany) and the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies at Södertörn University (Stockholm, Sweden)
Venue: Herder Institute, Marburg (Germany), September 18–19, 2023
organized by the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (Marburg, Germany) and the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies at Södertörn University (Stockholm, Sweden)
Venue: Herder Institute, Marburg (Germany), September 18–19, 2023
Research Interests: Cultural History, Multiculturalism, History of Ideas, Soviet History, Gender History, and 15 moreUrban History, Environmental History, Imperial History, Eastern European history, Transnational History, Modernity, Global History, Social History, History of Everyday Life, Biopolitics, Modernism, Central and Eastern Europe, History of vegetarianism, History of Ukraine, and life reform movement
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and the ensuing war, is bringing about far reaching consequences for the entire region and beyond. The subject of East European area studies is currently undergoing a process... more
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and the ensuing war, is bringing about far reaching consequences for the entire region and beyond. The subject of East European area studies is
currently undergoing a process of critical reassessment. For the past 30 years, as an area, Eastern Europe and post-Soviet states have been defined as post-communist, and the space belonging to the former Soviet
Union as post-Soviet. “Post” has marked a transition through a process of continuation and negation. The war may end this condition of “post”, implying the collapse of the post-Soviet geopolitical consensus.
The conference invites critical discussion about the potentials, limitations and (mis)uses of methodologies that challenge hegemonic approaches in East European Studies/area studies. What is happening to area studies? Where are we now, as a consequence of the war? What new theoretical and methodological instruments do we need in this new situation?
The transformation of the region also poses serious challenges to scholars. Continual redefinition of the “areas” of study reproduces the hierarchies of geopolitical entities, languages and cultures reflected in the
distribution of resources, academic interests and practices. Knowledge production always risks becoming ensnared in hegemonic structures (imperial, patriarchal, authoritarian) and non-academic interests and
discourses (e.g., policy- and profit-making). This conference seeks to critically examine the area's current conditions for knowledge production. How is knowledge produced, and by whom? How can we work in and
with the area today?
The conference aims to cover the following aspects, among others:
• War and its impact on area studies.
• What will happen to the dominance of Russia in area studies?
• How the “area” is currently defined.
• Challenges to knowledge production in the region in the face of the war.
• Critical perspectives on knowledge production, knowledge regimes, politics and academic freedom.
• New imperialism, anticolonialism, decolonisation and other perspectives on area studies.
• Training for specialists in area studies – problems and the future.
• Language(s) in area studies.
• Loci of knowledge production: hierarchies and precarity.
• Academia and professional ethics.
• The politics of funding and its impact on the state of knowledge in the region.
• Interrelationships between history and memory.
• Teaching and cooperation with/in Eastern European Studies.
• Knowledge production, policymaking and activism.
currently undergoing a process of critical reassessment. For the past 30 years, as an area, Eastern Europe and post-Soviet states have been defined as post-communist, and the space belonging to the former Soviet
Union as post-Soviet. “Post” has marked a transition through a process of continuation and negation. The war may end this condition of “post”, implying the collapse of the post-Soviet geopolitical consensus.
The conference invites critical discussion about the potentials, limitations and (mis)uses of methodologies that challenge hegemonic approaches in East European Studies/area studies. What is happening to area studies? Where are we now, as a consequence of the war? What new theoretical and methodological instruments do we need in this new situation?
The transformation of the region also poses serious challenges to scholars. Continual redefinition of the “areas” of study reproduces the hierarchies of geopolitical entities, languages and cultures reflected in the
distribution of resources, academic interests and practices. Knowledge production always risks becoming ensnared in hegemonic structures (imperial, patriarchal, authoritarian) and non-academic interests and
discourses (e.g., policy- and profit-making). This conference seeks to critically examine the area's current conditions for knowledge production. How is knowledge produced, and by whom? How can we work in and
with the area today?
The conference aims to cover the following aspects, among others:
• War and its impact on area studies.
• What will happen to the dominance of Russia in area studies?
• How the “area” is currently defined.
• Challenges to knowledge production in the region in the face of the war.
• Critical perspectives on knowledge production, knowledge regimes, politics and academic freedom.
• New imperialism, anticolonialism, decolonisation and other perspectives on area studies.
• Training for specialists in area studies – problems and the future.
• Language(s) in area studies.
• Loci of knowledge production: hierarchies and precarity.
• Academia and professional ethics.
• The politics of funding and its impact on the state of knowledge in the region.
• Interrelationships between history and memory.
• Teaching and cooperation with/in Eastern European Studies.
• Knowledge production, policymaking and activism.
Research Interests: Area Studies, Russian Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Ukrainian Studies, East European studies, and 11 morePostcolonial Theory, Central and Eastern Europe, Decolonial Thought, Knowledge Production, New Imperialism, Imperialism, Russian Empire, Decolonization, Decolonizing Knowledge Production, Anticolonialism, and Russian war in Ukraine
The aim of the workshop is to examine new avenues for interdisciplinary research on the histories of dietary reform, with a specific focus on the Baltic region and East Central Europe, through the lens of dissemination, circulation,... more
The aim of the workshop is to examine new avenues for interdisciplinary research on the histories of dietary reform, with a specific focus on the Baltic region and East Central Europe, through the lens of dissemination, circulation, fusion and motion. By focusing on people, ideas, institutions and objects, and using transnational and trans-imperial lenses, this workshop seeks to explore the ways in which the local, regional, the European, and the global are imagined and experienced from the perspective of dietary reform.
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Ever since World War I spelled the end of the old imperial order in much of today’s Europe and dramatically redrew its political map, there has been a widespread assumption that empire – as a major organizing framework of power relations... more
Ever since World War I spelled the end of the old imperial order in much of today’s Europe and dramatically redrew its political map, there has been a widespread assumption that empire – as a major organizing framework of power relations – was doomed to give way to a model of international arrangements based on the principle of national selfdetermination. As newly emerged successor states eagerly dissociated themselves from all things “imperial”, the idea of “nation” came to dominate the political lexicon of the following century. Still, throughout much of the 20th century, the global space continued to be dominated by old empires and saw the emergence of new ones. Moreover, as many scholars contend, hegemonies, inequities, networks, imaginaries, and idioms embedded in imperial visions and practices of the past endure in our ostensibly post-imperial, post-colonial, and national present.
As Ann Laura Stoler suggested, imperial pasts are not just “leftovers”, “traces”, and “legacies”, but “durabilities” that are very much alive in the modern world.
The year of 2021 is a symbolic occasion on which to talk about the relevance of “imperial” for Baltic and East European studies. It marks three hundred years since the proclamation of the Russian Empire and thirty years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, regarded by many scholars an imperial formation. With this double anniversary in mind, the conference aims to revisit the complex histories of Eastern and East Central Europe, the Baltic Sea region, the Caucasus, and Central Asia and better understand their no less complex present, by looking at both the historical
experiences of multi-ethnic imperial formations, such as those of the Russian, Habsburg, German, Ottoman, Qajar, or Soviet, and at the tangible and intangible effects they continue to have on the present.
As Ann Laura Stoler suggested, imperial pasts are not just “leftovers”, “traces”, and “legacies”, but “durabilities” that are very much alive in the modern world.
The year of 2021 is a symbolic occasion on which to talk about the relevance of “imperial” for Baltic and East European studies. It marks three hundred years since the proclamation of the Russian Empire and thirty years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, regarded by many scholars an imperial formation. With this double anniversary in mind, the conference aims to revisit the complex histories of Eastern and East Central Europe, the Baltic Sea region, the Caucasus, and Central Asia and better understand their no less complex present, by looking at both the historical
experiences of multi-ethnic imperial formations, such as those of the Russian, Habsburg, German, Ottoman, Qajar, or Soviet, and at the tangible and intangible effects they continue to have on the present.
Research Interests: History of Central and Southeastern Europe, Modern European History, History of Central Asia, History of Russia and Eurasia, History of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, and 4 moreHistory of the Baltic Sea Region, History of Eastern Europe, History of 19th and 20th Century East Central Europe, and Comparative History of Empires
EnvHistUA Research Group is organizing this scholarly conference in order to advance and consolidate the environmental history of Ukraine as a research field and address related challenges.The event aims to bring together scholars to... more
EnvHistUA Research Group is organizing this scholarly conference in order to advance and consolidate the environmental history of Ukraine as a research field and address related challenges.The event aims to bring together scholars to discuss epistemological aspects and practical
implications of researching and writing environmental histories of Ukraine that go beyond the realm of disasters and catastrophes. An imperative aspect of this endeavour involves writing, rethinking and diversifying the existing historical narratives about Ukraine’s environment. Our starting point is to expose, conceptualize and analyze the multifacetedness of nature–culture, human/society – environment interactions and developments through time and across Ukrainian lands. Secondly, we place great emphasis on transnational, trans-imperial, transborder, and global nexuses Ukraine’s environments were a part of. This epistemological approach holds the potential to unveil hitherto untold narratives, thereby enriching the fabric of history. Finally, the event
engages with the question of what environmental history can offer to Ukrainian and European studies, as well as global studies, and vice versa. This knowledge is invaluable in addressing present and future environmental challenges sustainably and responsibly.The workshop welcomes original papers on Ukraine’s environments across periods, which build on various methodologies and approaches and comprehensively engage with primary historical sources. Possible contributions may include, but are not limited to the following topics:
● science-politics nexus and historiographical debates;
● epistemologies, knowledge regimes and technologies;
● methodological implications of Ukraine’s environmental history;
● plants and animals;
● agriculture and food systems;
● diseases, epidemics, epizooties;
● deforestation, soil erosion, water pollution;
● ecology, geography, and climate,
● landscapes and waterscapes etc;
● colonial/imperial encounters, extractions, acts of violence and silence;
● nature, nation and political imagination;
● environment and culture;
● transborder entanglements and circulations.
implications of researching and writing environmental histories of Ukraine that go beyond the realm of disasters and catastrophes. An imperative aspect of this endeavour involves writing, rethinking and diversifying the existing historical narratives about Ukraine’s environment. Our starting point is to expose, conceptualize and analyze the multifacetedness of nature–culture, human/society – environment interactions and developments through time and across Ukrainian lands. Secondly, we place great emphasis on transnational, trans-imperial, transborder, and global nexuses Ukraine’s environments were a part of. This epistemological approach holds the potential to unveil hitherto untold narratives, thereby enriching the fabric of history. Finally, the event
engages with the question of what environmental history can offer to Ukrainian and European studies, as well as global studies, and vice versa. This knowledge is invaluable in addressing present and future environmental challenges sustainably and responsibly.The workshop welcomes original papers on Ukraine’s environments across periods, which build on various methodologies and approaches and comprehensively engage with primary historical sources. Possible contributions may include, but are not limited to the following topics:
● science-politics nexus and historiographical debates;
● epistemologies, knowledge regimes and technologies;
● methodological implications of Ukraine’s environmental history;
● plants and animals;
● agriculture and food systems;
● diseases, epidemics, epizooties;
● deforestation, soil erosion, water pollution;
● ecology, geography, and climate,
● landscapes and waterscapes etc;
● colonial/imperial encounters, extractions, acts of violence and silence;
● nature, nation and political imagination;
● environment and culture;
● transborder entanglements and circulations.
Research Interests: Historical Geography, Maritime History, Food Systems, History of Technology, Environmental History, and 14 moreHistory of Science, Ukrainian Studies, Eastern European history, Cultural Landscapes, Colonialism, Ecology, Energy and Environment, History of Imperialism, Environmental Sustainability, Human-Animal Studies, Central and Eastern Europe, Ukrainian History, History of Agriculture, and Colonialism and Imperialism
HERDER INSTITUTE for Historical Research on East Central Europe ____PROGRAM 1/2 PROGRAMPROGRAM EARLY CAREER SCHOLARS CONFERENCE Negotiating Modern Ways of Life: Life-Reform Movements in Central and Eastern Europe since 1900 organized by... more
HERDER INSTITUTE for Historical Research on East Central Europe ____PROGRAM 1/2
PROGRAMPROGRAM
EARLY CAREER SCHOLARS CONFERENCE
Negotiating Modern Ways of Life:
Life-Reform Movements in Central and Eastern Europe since 1900
organized by the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (Marburg, Germany)
and the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies at Södertörn University (Stockholm, Sweden)
Venue: Herder Institute, Marburg (Germany), September 18–19, 2023
PROGRAMPROGRAM
EARLY CAREER SCHOLARS CONFERENCE
Negotiating Modern Ways of Life:
Life-Reform Movements in Central and Eastern Europe since 1900
organized by the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (Marburg, Germany)
and the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies at Södertörn University (Stockholm, Sweden)
Venue: Herder Institute, Marburg (Germany), September 18–19, 2023
Research Interests:
The Russian assault on Ukraine has brought about the largest war of invasion and annihilation in Europe since the end of World War Two, leading to massive loss of human life and the destruction of communities, the natural environment, and... more
The Russian assault on Ukraine has brought about the largest war of invasion and annihilation in Europe since the end of World War Two, leading to massive loss of human life and the destruction of communities, the natural environment, and cultural heritage sites, enacting multiple changes on all levels – in the region and globally. Along with the ongoing reconfiguration of the security architecture in Europe and beyond, and the opening of homes and hearts to Ukrainians, the war has unleashed new and existential concerns about the global economy and democracy, as well as altered approaches to cultural and identity politics. Finally, the international response to the war showed solidarity with Ukraine and revitalised discussions about peacebuilding.
The aim of the 2023 CBEES Annual Conference is to expose, map and discuss the implications of some of these changes for the region’s future. The conference focuses on critical discussion of the multiple effects and consequences of the Russian war on Ukraine, but is also open for broader comparative historical perspectives on the impacts of wars and military conflicts in the history of the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe, including Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Presenters are invited to contribute papers to one of the streams below:
-- authoritarianism, democratisation and historical legacies of state building;
-- (neo)imperialism and securitisation;
-- the influence of war on cultural life and societies;
-- conservatism, anti-gender, and changes in the context of the war;
-- environmental destruction and energy concerns;
-- geopolitical shifts, regionalism, and European integration;
-- migration and lived experiences of refugees;
-- knowledge production and decolonisation;
-- crisis responses and societal resilience
Organising committee: Dr. Yulia Gradskova (academic content and coordination); Dr. Julia Malitska (academic content and coordination); Dr. Irina Seits (administrative coordination)
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Tatiana Zhurzhenko, researcher at ZOiS (Center for East European and International Studies (Berlin, Germany), and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna.
Dr. Andreas Umland, analyst at the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Stockholm, Sweden), and Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine)
The aim of the 2023 CBEES Annual Conference is to expose, map and discuss the implications of some of these changes for the region’s future. The conference focuses on critical discussion of the multiple effects and consequences of the Russian war on Ukraine, but is also open for broader comparative historical perspectives on the impacts of wars and military conflicts in the history of the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe, including Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Presenters are invited to contribute papers to one of the streams below:
-- authoritarianism, democratisation and historical legacies of state building;
-- (neo)imperialism and securitisation;
-- the influence of war on cultural life and societies;
-- conservatism, anti-gender, and changes in the context of the war;
-- environmental destruction and energy concerns;
-- geopolitical shifts, regionalism, and European integration;
-- migration and lived experiences of refugees;
-- knowledge production and decolonisation;
-- crisis responses and societal resilience
Organising committee: Dr. Yulia Gradskova (academic content and coordination); Dr. Julia Malitska (academic content and coordination); Dr. Irina Seits (administrative coordination)
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Tatiana Zhurzhenko, researcher at ZOiS (Center for East European and International Studies (Berlin, Germany), and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna.
Dr. Andreas Umland, analyst at the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Stockholm, Sweden), and Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Research Interests: Military History, Eastern European Studies, Comparative Politics, Geopolitics, War Studies, and 12 moreGenocide Studies, Baltic Studies, Security Studies, Totalitarianism, Empire, History of War, Authoritarianism, Ukraine, Imperialism, Decolonization, Security and Defence Studies, and Russia's war in Ukraine
Since the late 19th century, a wave of issue-oriented life-reform movements has developed across Europe and America, particularly in the areas of nutrition, clothing, consumption, housing, healthcare and moral reform. Such movements... more
Since the late 19th century, a wave of issue-oriented life-reform movements has developed across Europe and America, particularly in the areas of nutrition, clothing, consumption, housing, healthcare and moral reform. Such movements became a corollary and a critique of industrialisation, urbanisation, mass communication, and socie