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Welcome to the CBEES Annual Conference 2022:
Where are we now? Perspectives on East European Area Studies today
and the Pre-conference Keynote Roundtable:
Reconsidering East European Studies: Potentials, Limitations and (Ab)Uses
30 November -2 December 2022, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine 24 February, and the ensuing war, is devastating
for the country and its population and has far-reaching consequences for the entire
region. Today, the subject of East European area studies is undergoing a process of
violent transformation. For the past 30 years, as an area, Eastern Europe and post-soviet
states have been defined as post-communist, and the sphere belonging to the former Soviet
Union as post-soviet. “Post” has marked a transition, through a process of continuation
and negation. The war may result in an end to this condition of “post”, since it implies
the collapse of the post-soviet geopolitical consensus, which has implications for the
entire region and beyond.
The CBEES Annual Conference 2022 (1-2 December) and the Pre-conference Keynote Roundtable
(30th November) invites critical discussion about the potentials, limitations and
(mis)uses of methodologies (e.g., decolonial) 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
a new situation? The conference also seeks to critically examine the current conditions
for knowledge production within the area. How is knowledge produced, and by whom? How can
we work in and with the area today?
Pre-conference Roundtable Participants (30 November, on site and online): Tamara Hundorova
(National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), Diana Kudaibergenova (University of Cambridge),
Alena Marková (Charles University), Sarah Phillips (Indiana University) and Tomasz Zarycki
(University of Warsaw)
Conference Keynote Speaker (1 December, on site and online): Professor Vitaly Chernetsky,
University of Kansas
Conference Roundtable Participants (2 December, on site and online): Oleksii Chebotarov
(University of Vienna), Natia Gamkrelidze (Linnaeus University), Roman Horbyk (Örebro
University) and Botakoz Kassymbekova (University of Basel)
The Parallel Sessions of the conference (1-2 December) will be held only on site.
The CBEES Annual Conference and Pre-Conference Roundtable are free of charge. Registration
is only required for online participation.
For more information regarding the Pre-conference Keynote Roundtable, including
registration for online participation, please visit this link: https://bit.ly/3T93YVw
For more information regarding the CBEES Annual Conference 2022, including the full
programme, abstracts, and registration for online participation to Keynote Speech and
Conference Roundtable, please visit the conference webpage:
www.sh.se/cbeesannual2022<http://www.sh.se/cbeesannual2022>
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Join us for this engaging event!