Colloquium Vilnense: Contextualizing Belarus
The European Humanities University (EHU) presents Colloquium Vilnense seminar series “Contextualizing Belarus: Belarusian Studies as Interdisciplinary Area Studies”, to be conducted with scholars from Sweden, Belarus, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, and other countries on May 26–27.
The aim of the Colloquium is to create a forum for discussions about what Belarusian Studies are today and what new approaches and themes are needed to revitalize this field at EHU, in order to strengthen EHU’s place in a global network of scholars.
The Colloquium will assume that Belarusian Studies are in need of a critical revamp that can take the field beyond a chronological story of Belarusian lands understood as the territory of today’s Republic of Belarus. The Colloquium will focus on a broad understanding of interdisciplinary area studies that combines a regional and transnational perspective with various disciplinary issues. One aim will be to test the approach discussed.
The Colloquium will start with a public discussion and proceed the next day with six working sessions dedicated to particular approaches and issues in the field of Belarusian Studies.
Seminar series are organized jointly by Olga Sasunkevich and Felix Ackermann in cooperation with the EHU Media Department, EHU Department of Social and Political Sciences, EHU History Department, the EHU Center for Gender Studies, the EHU Jewish Studies Center, the EHU Center for German Studies, and Faculty of History of Vilnius University.
See full program of events here.