If you’re skipping AAA this year and going to ASEEES (the Association for Slavonic, East European and Eurasian Studies) instead, there’ll be some anthropologists there too.
We’ll be talking to some non-anthropologists about area studies, critique, canons, continents and Montenegritude. All fellow AAA-AWOLers welcome.
http://tinyurl.com/jsswu7j <http://tinyurl.com/jsswu7j>
Towards a Critical (East European) Area Studies
Saturday November 19, 10:00-11:145am
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Chair: Padraic Kenney
Participants: Wendy Bracewell, Jan Kubik, Philippa Hetherington, Michał Murawski, Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, Tim Beasley-Murray
Where are (East European) area studies now? How reflexive have we really been about the definitions and genealogies of our “areas”? What can we do to convert reflexivity into frontier-shifting and boundary-dismantling? How long will we hold onto bounded "container" concepts of areas, in a world where previously tighter ties between cultural and geographical units are loosed? How does the current practice of area studies challenge or reproduce inequalities in the circulation and production of knowledge, particularly between academic systems in the Global North and those in regions that are studied in area studies programs? How do we translate the pieties of comparativity and interdisciplinarity into our daily empirical work and teaching? What heterodox, counter-canonical mappings and imaginaries of area can we drawn on? What can area studies learn from Balkan Balkanologija, from Soviet Amerikanistika, from Negritude and Montenegritude, from Gombrowicz’s Transatlantyk (read alongside Gilroy’s Black Atlantic), from the Białystok-born International language of Esperanto? The purpose of this roundtable is to generate a boundless, disobedient, but not necessarily undisciplined discussion about Critical Area Studies from an East European perspective.
This roundtable is linked to a book project, entitled Anti-Atlas: The Little Guide to Critical (East European) Area Studies
Image: Jan Dziaczkowski, Piazza Del Duomo, from the Keine Grenze series (2008).
Dr Michal Murawski
www.michalmurawski.net <http://www.michalmurawski.net/>
<http://www.michalmurawski.net/>Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow
Department of Russian
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
Tel: +44(0)7980 207 018
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www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/fringe-centre
twitter.com/murawski_michal
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