Přehodnotit znalosti a vědecké přístupy? Baltské státy, Ukrajina, Bělorusko a Moldávie mezi střední Evropou a bývalým sovětským prostorem.
Konference pořádaná výzkumnými skupinami CEM a Est s podporou francouzského ministerstva pro výzkum a vysokoškolské vzdělání a Národního centra pro vědecký výzkum (CNRS) – Humanitní a společenské vědy.
Datum: 12. – 13. února 2025
Místo: INALCO a Institut slovanských studií (Paříž)
Vědecká rada: Olga Bronnikova, Mateusz Chmurski, Anna Colin-Lebedev, Iryna Dmytrychyn, Galyna Dranenko, Catherine Géry, Alexandra Goujon, Catherine Gousseff, Paul Gradvohl, Luba Jurgenson, Emilia Koustova, Éric Le Bourhis, Anne Le Huérou, Florent Parmentier (tbc), Ioana Popa, Nadège Ragaru, Kathy Rousselet, Clara Royer, Laurent Tatarenko.
Organizační výbor: Olga Bronnikova, Françoise Daucé, Paul Gradvohl, Valéri Kossov, Emilia Koustova, Nadège Ragaru, Kathy Rousselet, Clara Royer, Tatyana Shukan.
CEFRES v zastoupení: Pavlo Khudish, Valeriia Korablyova
Program
Středa, 12. února
Dopoledne
Zahájení zástupců MESR, CNRS (W. Berthomière), MAE, INALCO, Léa Dupuis INSHS-réseaux
Úvod
1/ Conséquences de la guerre sur la construction des savoirs
Yurchuk Yuliya (Södertörn University), Rethinking humanities in the shadow of Russo-Ukrainian war. The case of memory studies and Ukraine
Ousmanova Almira (European Humanities University, Vilnius), The production of knowledge as a “crime”: Belarusian scholars under the condition of political repression, war, exile and deterritorialization (2020 – 2024)
Trencsényi Balázs (CEU Vienna/Budapest), Contextualizing, Transnationalizing, Decolonizing? Repositioning Ukrainian History as Emergency Pedagogy
Ragaru Nadège (Sciences Po) Penser/classer : l’Ukraine et ses attaches dans les rayonnages des librairies parisiennes
Diskuze: Anna Colin-Lebedev et Ioulia Shukan
Odpoledne
2/ Décolonial
Bogumił Zuzanna (University of Warsaw), Central Europe at the Crossroads: A Polish (De)Colonial Perspective on Between-ness of the West and East
Korablyova Valeriia (Université Charles), Strategic inter-imperiality: de-centering Eastern Europe, creolizing the theory
Riabchuk Mykola (Institute of Political and Nationalities’ Studies, Kyiv), Mapping “Nowhere Nations”: Imperial Knowledge and Challenges of Decolonization
Robert-Bœuf Camille (Université de Vilnius), La géographie pour comprendre les espaces ruraux lituaniens en 2024 : entre postcolonialisme et fantômes géographiques
Diskuze: Romain Bertrand; Hamit Bozarslan
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Čtvrtek, 13. února
Dopoledne
3/ Disparition d’empires et reconfiguration de la science
Daucé Françoise, Kirtchik Olessia (EHESS), Gouvernance numérique et souveraineté à l’Est de l’Europe
Górny Maciej (Académie polonaise des sciences), Cordon sanitaire through science: 19th and 20th century approaches to the limits of Russia in the times of war
Smalkyte Justina (USHMM), Le « passé subalterne » et les « conflits mémoriels » : récits historiens sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale en Lituanie après 1990
Diskuze: Jean-Frédéric Schaub, Ioana Popa, Sylvie Archaimbault
Odpoledne
4/ Frontières/Limites
Dmytrychyn Iryna (Inalco), Dranenko Galyna (Sorbonne Université), « Frontières-cicatrices » : les traces d’un effacement du réel et du savoir sur l’Ukraine dans le roman de Sofia Andrukhovych Amadoca (2020)
Moutier-Bitan Marie (Université de Caen), Décloisonner les études sur la Shoah en Moldavie et en Ukraine de l’Ouest : réflexions autour des usages du fleuve-frontière Dniestr dans les politiques
génocidaires nazie et roumaine.
Segal Raz, Csősz László, Khudish Pavlo, Jews and Roma in the Subcarpathian Region. Uncovering Entangled Histories and their Contemporary Significance
Diskuze: Luba Jurgenson, Béatrice Von Hirschhausen
Kulatý stůl: Fait(s) religieux et frontières politiques aux confins de l’Europe médiane et orientale : perspectives croisées sur un champ en renouvellement
Ivan Almes, Denys Brylov, Ovidiu Olar, Kathy Rousselet, Laurent Tatarenko et Maksym Yaremenko
Presentation of the conference
This two-day conference will focus on developments in humanities and social sciences (HSS) in and about Belarus, Ukraine, Moldavia and the Baltic states. These states, formerly Soviet republics, all belonged to different empires (Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire) before 1917, depending on the era, and form part of a buffer zone torn between East and West. Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine prompted us to rethink our knowledge of Ukraine and accelerate its “decolonization”, in order to study Ukrainian history and society in their specificity and in their relations with the countries of Central Europe. Decentering knowledge about Belarus and Moldavia is also considered. In the Baltic States, this process had begun much sooner, but the current situation raises new questions. These three countries are also becoming a place for Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian scientists to find refuge.
Aim of the conference
- To study the evolution of the region’s territorial boundaries, as past and present scientific practices define them. HSS have never ceased to draw and question large ‘regions’, supposedly sharing geographical, historical, political, cultural and linguistic characteristics: Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Mitteleuropa, Middle or Central Europe, post-Soviet space. Their names and outlines speak volumes about both the objects defined and the observers. Belarus, Ukraine, Moldavia and the Baltic States have been studied as parts of different spaces, depending on the era, the country and the discipline. How is this question of perimeters coped with in these countries, but also in their European neighbors (notably Poland) and in former Soviet republics turned into sovereign States? What is the situation in France?
- To grasp the challenges facing the HSS in Belarus, Ukraine, Moldavia and the Baltic States, with a particular focus on the way in which research articulates national spaces within larger or contrasting groupings (national and transnational minority groups; authoritarian contexts, war and research in exile; decolonization and the appeal of a national tale or narrative; political agendas, particularly rapprochement with the European Union; the place of expertise and its relationship to research, etc.).
- To examine research on Belarus, Ukraine, Moldavia and the Baltic States carried out by researchers in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia over the last three decades. Whereas in the USSR, knowledge and expertise of its internal geo-cultural areas were largely centralized, how are these mutating today in the states that were formerly Soviet republics? Have the relationships forged between institutions during the Soviet era disappeared? To what extent is research now focusing more on circulations and connections between countries, far from Moscow, and how does this new horizontality in knowledge production affect the content of knowledge? To what extent is the perspective of “decolonization” actually used, and comparative studies of this process emerging? How are the relations between Belarus, Ukraine, Moldavia and the Baltic States and the rest of the former USSR being studied?
We’d like the conference to end with a round-table discussion entitled “Humanities and Social Sciences for European Neighborhood and Enlargement Policies”, with representatives from our two areas at the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs. The proceedings will be partially published.