A workshop organized by the Centre for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies (CERCEC) as part of “Global EHESS” program, in partnership with Charles University and Nemtsov master’s program, Brīvā Universitāte (Free University in Riga, Svobodnij University) and the CEFRES.

Date: 23 September 2024
Location: Charles University
Language: English
Convenors: Françoise Daucé (CNRS/EHESS), Dmitri Dubrovski (Charles University & Brīvā Universitāte), Mateusz Chmurski (CEFRES), Daniela Kolenovská (Charles University) & Boris Melnichenko (CNRS/EHESS & Brīvā Universitāte)
Contact: boris.melnichenko@cnrs.fr

Pre-program tbc

Participants registration 9h-9h30

Conference opening 9h30-10h

Introduction by Francoise Daucé, Dmitriy Dubrovskiy,  Daniela Kolenovská, Mateusz Chmurski (20 min)

Contextualisation and presentation of panels by Boris Melnichenko (10 min)

Panel 1
Facing Radical Tests: Positionality in Observing War and Prison (10h30-12h30)

Discussant: Ioana Cirstocea or Ota Konrád (to be confirmed)

Tatyana Dvornikova, independent researcher, journalist
Valerii Miloserdov, independent researcher in Kyiv, Ukraine (pre-master level)
Joints, eyes and public services: the logic of (self)care during war

Ilshat Saetov, Research Fellow, CETOBaC, EHESS
Turco-Muslim minorities in war states: My painful conversation with the “lost Ottomans” of Bulgaria before and during World War II

Lunch 12:30–14:00

Panel 2
From Threads to Threats: Politicization Brought by War and Exile (14h-16h)
Discussant: Daniela Kolenovská (to be confirmed)

Alexandra Dunaeva, independent researcher, PhD in theater studies (Finland)
In between two nationalisms: thirty letters to my daughter

Margarita Sergeeva, PhD-student in exile (Germany)
Taxonomy of Transgressions and Exile: An Autoethnographic Account

Vadim Syrovoj, PhD-student in exile in Serbia with double identity Ukrainian/Russian
Where am I? Between Solidarity and Disunity in Serbia

Coffee break 16h-16h15

Panel 3
(Re)searching Your Place: Exploring Personal Life and Hospitality in Exile (16h15-18h15)

Discussant: Françoise Daucé

Sergey Karpov, independent researcher and documentary photographer
Using the method of documentary autoethnographic research he will present his thoughts on the experience of living in a camp for refugees.

Toma Stepanenko, independent researcher in exile in Georgia (pre-master level)
Am I the problem? Abusive relationships in the context of emigration

Read and download the theses of the conference and the abstracts of the contributions here.