Events / Clemena Antonova

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	Belarus: A Land that Rests on Three “Whales”	Mon, 15.11.2021	Seminars and Colloquia	Andriej Moskwin Clemena AntonovaDessislava Gavrilova-Krasteva	Belarus: A Land that Rests on Three “Whales” Mon, 15.11.2021 Speakers: Andriej Moskwin Clemena AntonovaDessislava Gavrilova-Krasteva Series: Seminars and Colloquia In Poland, as in many European countries, Belarus is a country with a rather low profile. It was only the events of 2020 that demonstrated that there is a significant, strong civic community in Belarus demanding reform. In this context, research on various aspects of Belarusian literary life, culture and art is vital: it will serve not only to demonstrate Belarus’s rich literary and artistic output, but also the achievements of the process of Europeanization, which is crucial for the future of the country. Such activities are especially important now, as Belarusian culture is being repressed by the authorities and its representatives are either unable to work or are forced to emigrate. Read more
Belarus: A Land that Rests on Three “Whales” Mon, 15.11.2021 Speakers: Andriej Moskwin Clemena AntonovaDessislava Gavrilova-Krasteva Series: Seminars and Colloquia In Poland, as in many European countries, Belarus is a country with a rather low profile. It was only the events of 2020 that demonstrated that there is a significant, strong civic community in Belarus demanding reform. In this context, research on various aspects of Belarusian literary life, culture and art is vital: it will serve not only to demonstrate Belarus’s rich literary and artistic output, but also the achievements of the process of Europeanization, which is crucial for the future of the country. Such activities are especially important now, as Belarusian culture is being repressed by the authorities and its representatives are either unable to work or are forced to emigrate. Read more
	What Did Russia Build Within—the Digital Gulag or the Cyberpunk?	Mon, 13.11.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Andrei Zakharov Clemena Antonova Kirill Rogov	What Did Russia Build Within—the Digital Gulag or the Cyberpunk? Mon, 13.11.2023 Speakers: Andrei Zakharov Clemena Antonova Kirill Rogov Series: Seminars and Colloquia After the full-scale invasion the Kremlin is pushing Russia closer to the digital Gulag, where the state controls every part of a human's life. But the cyberpunk, where the state has no monopoly access to digital data, nor any control over citizens sharing it, still dominates. How can this happen? How does the digital Gulag help the Kremlin to control society, and how does cyberpunk help those who still try to oppose Putin? Will Russia become a fully fledged digital Gulag state amd if so, when? Read more
What Did Russia Build Within—the Digital Gulag or the Cyberpunk? Mon, 13.11.2023 Speakers: Andrei Zakharov Clemena Antonova Kirill Rogov Series: Seminars and Colloquia After the full-scale invasion the Kremlin is pushing Russia closer to the digital Gulag, where the state controls every part of a human's life. But the cyberpunk, where the state has no monopoly access to digital data, nor any control over citizens sharing it, still dominates. How can this happen? How does the digital Gulag help the Kremlin to control society, and how does cyberpunk help those who still try to oppose Putin? Will Russia become a fully fledged digital Gulag state amd if so, when? Read more
	Liberalism Challenged: Debating the Causes That Weaken Liberalism, and Illiberalism’s Amplifying Feedback Loop Effect	Mon, 22.01.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Marlene Laruelle Yavor Siderov	Liberalism Challenged: Debating the Causes That Weaken Liberalism, and Illiberalism’s Amplifying Feedback Loop Effect Mon, 22.01.2024 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Marlene Laruelle Yavor Siderov Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation discusses the different forms of challenges that liberalism is facing today. It looks at the structural causes that weaken liberalism or contest its hegemonic status in the Global North. It also analyzes an amplifying feedback loop, that is, that illiberalism is not the cause weakening liberal values but a product of this weakening, which it accelerates. Read more
Liberalism Challenged: Debating the Causes That Weaken Liberalism, and Illiberalism’s Amplifying Feedback Loop Effect Mon, 22.01.2024 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Marlene Laruelle Yavor Siderov Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation discusses the different forms of challenges that liberalism is facing today. It looks at the structural causes that weaken liberalism or contest its hegemonic status in the Global North. It also analyzes an amplifying feedback loop, that is, that illiberalism is not the cause weakening liberal values but a product of this weakening, which it accelerates. Read more
	Typology and Principles of Regional Integration in Comparative Perspective	Mon, 02.05.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Mario Apostolov	Typology and Principles of Regional Integration in Comparative Perspective Mon, 02.05.2022 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Mario Apostolov Series: Seminars and Colloquia The end of the ideological Cold War divisions created a cheery sentiment of renewed unity in Europe and the world, with chances for development for all. As the stability of the bipolar structure vanished, strengthening regional integration entities seemed to become the bricks for the new organizational edifice of world society. At first, this vision was substantiated by countries coming together in various regional groupings, led by pragmatic interest, overcoming age-old perceptions of neighbours typically fighting each other. Several types of regions formed: a top-down integration as in the European Union and its institutions; a bottom-up expansion of regional supply chains as in East Asia; the more limited approach of free trade agreements as in USMCA; or simply regions without regionalism. This talk will look for common principles underpinning the various efforts at regional integration, such as the joint pursuit of peace and economic development, assistance to laggards, etc., building on existing theories (Neofunctionalism, New Regionalism and Comparative Regionalism), trying to go beyond. Read more
Typology and Principles of Regional Integration in Comparative Perspective Mon, 02.05.2022 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Mario Apostolov Series: Seminars and Colloquia The end of the ideological Cold War divisions created a cheery sentiment of renewed unity in Europe and the world, with chances for development for all. As the stability of the bipolar structure vanished, strengthening regional integration entities seemed to become the bricks for the new organizational edifice of world society. At first, this vision was substantiated by countries coming together in various regional groupings, led by pragmatic interest, overcoming age-old perceptions of neighbours typically fighting each other. Several types of regions formed: a top-down integration as in the European Union and its institutions; a bottom-up expansion of regional supply chains as in East Asia; the more limited approach of free trade agreements as in USMCA; or simply regions without regionalism. This talk will look for common principles underpinning the various efforts at regional integration, such as the joint pursuit of peace and economic development, assistance to laggards, etc., building on existing theories (Neofunctionalism, New Regionalism and Comparative Regionalism), trying to go beyond. Read more
	Decolonial Desires: Thinking through Discipline and Difference	Mon, 13.06.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Saurabh DubeJulian Strube	Decolonial Desires: Thinking through Discipline and Difference Mon, 13.06.2022 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Saurabh DubeJulian Strube Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation derived from a larger project that attends to distinct registers and divergent claims of decolonize/decolonial/decoloniality, in order to carefully unravel these notions and practices as prescient optics unto contemporary worlds. Read more
Decolonial Desires: Thinking through Discipline and Difference Mon, 13.06.2022 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Saurabh DubeJulian Strube Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation derived from a larger project that attends to distinct registers and divergent claims of decolonize/decolonial/decoloniality, in order to carefully unravel these notions and practices as prescient optics unto contemporary worlds. Read more
	Rule by Law and the Making of Ethno-Democracies	Mon, 27.06.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Rajshree ChandraDimitry Kochenov	Rule by Law and the Making of Ethno-Democracies Mon, 27.06.2022 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Rajshree ChandraDimitry Kochenov Series: Seminars and Colloquia The paper accompanying this colloquium seeks to understand a mutation in the Rule of law project, where an increasing gap between the Rule of Law and “rule by law” becomes a factor in the fashioning of modern ethno and/or authoritarian democracies. It seeks to use India as a case study to examine the conduct of law in its various modes – constitutional, exceptional and extra-legal. Read more
Rule by Law and the Making of Ethno-Democracies Mon, 27.06.2022 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Rajshree ChandraDimitry Kochenov Series: Seminars and Colloquia The paper accompanying this colloquium seeks to understand a mutation in the Rule of law project, where an increasing gap between the Rule of Law and “rule by law” becomes a factor in the fashioning of modern ethno and/or authoritarian democracies. It seeks to use India as a case study to examine the conduct of law in its various modes – constitutional, exceptional and extra-legal. Read more
	Sex/Gender in the Brain: Critical Notes on fMRI-Studies	Mon, 12.09.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Anelis Kaiser Trujillo Clemena Antonova	Sex/Gender in the Brain: Critical Notes on fMRI-Studies Mon, 12.09.2022 Speakers: Anelis Kaiser Trujillo Clemena Antonova Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this talk, Anelis Kaiser Trujillo aimed to present and discuss how sex/gender is categorized, treated, measured and discovered in (f)MRI studies, i.e., in studies that look at how women and men differ in structure and function of the brain. Central to her research is a transdisciplinary background in neuroscience and gender studies. While in neuroscience gender is a hard variable, in gender studies it is a social phenomenon, a result and a facet of human action and social structures––in short: a social construct. Kaiser Trujillo’s aim is to bridge the divide between these two epistemologically different approaches. Read more
Sex/Gender in the Brain: Critical Notes on fMRI-Studies Mon, 12.09.2022 Speakers: Anelis Kaiser Trujillo Clemena Antonova Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this talk, Anelis Kaiser Trujillo aimed to present and discuss how sex/gender is categorized, treated, measured and discovered in (f)MRI studies, i.e., in studies that look at how women and men differ in structure and function of the brain. Central to her research is a transdisciplinary background in neuroscience and gender studies. While in neuroscience gender is a hard variable, in gender studies it is a social phenomenon, a result and a facet of human action and social structures––in short: a social construct. Kaiser Trujillo’s aim is to bridge the divide between these two epistemologically different approaches. Read more
	One World? Or How Many? Haruki Murakami as a Global Author	Mon, 31.10.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit	One World? Or How Many? Haruki Murakami as a Global Author Mon, 31.10.2022 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit Series: Seminars and Colloquia The aim of this talk was to look behind the scenes and to explore the mechanisms of the creation of Haruki Murakami’s global stature. To what extent are they based on his writing, his particular topics, style, and other issues of “content”? Other aspects are worth noting, such as translation policy, marketing, and the creation of a certain authorial image. While we can, for instance, speculate about the role of the international prizes that help to determine and systematically expand his profile as a global author, the author’s own agency is not easy to discern. The talk shed light on some of these aspects, in particular on the role of (American) English and of translation in general, leading to surprising, if not upsetting conclusions. Read more
One World? Or How Many? Haruki Murakami as a Global Author Mon, 31.10.2022 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit Series: Seminars and Colloquia The aim of this talk was to look behind the scenes and to explore the mechanisms of the creation of Haruki Murakami’s global stature. To what extent are they based on his writing, his particular topics, style, and other issues of “content”? Other aspects are worth noting, such as translation policy, marketing, and the creation of a certain authorial image. While we can, for instance, speculate about the role of the international prizes that help to determine and systematically expand his profile as a global author, the author’s own agency is not easy to discern. The talk shed light on some of these aspects, in particular on the role of (American) English and of translation in general, leading to surprising, if not upsetting conclusions. Read more
	Religious Perspectives on Global Solidarity in the Era of Global Crises	Mon, 29.06.2020	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Ludger Hagedorn	Religious Perspectives on Global Solidarity in the Era of Global Crises Mon, 29.06.2020 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia All three global crises of recent times – the financial crisis of 2008, the refugee crisis, and now the coronavirus crisis – have been, among other things, tests of solidarity. But what is it that decides in a concrete situation, whether solidarity is extended to those in need or not? Especially interesting are those cases, when people feel forced to make difficult choices between solidarity to one group versus solidarity to another. The talk tried to distinguish between two concepts of solidarity, one that could be called civic solidarity (to one’s family, friends, compatriots, etc.) and another one offering a broader sense of global solidarity (to all human beings as such). Read more
Religious Perspectives on Global Solidarity in the Era of Global Crises Mon, 29.06.2020 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia All three global crises of recent times – the financial crisis of 2008, the refugee crisis, and now the coronavirus crisis – have been, among other things, tests of solidarity. But what is it that decides in a concrete situation, whether solidarity is extended to those in need or not? Especially interesting are those cases, when people feel forced to make difficult choices between solidarity to one group versus solidarity to another. The talk tried to distinguish between two concepts of solidarity, one that could be called civic solidarity (to one’s family, friends, compatriots, etc.) and another one offering a broader sense of global solidarity (to all human beings as such). Read more
	Who Is in Putin’s Army? Talking to Russian Prisoners of War in Ukraine and What We Can Learn From It	Mon, 30.01.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Kirill Rogov Peter Ruzavin	Who Is in Putin’s Army? Talking to Russian Prisoners of War in Ukraine and What We Can Learn From It Mon, 30.01.2023 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Kirill Rogov Peter Ruzavin Series: Seminars and Colloquia Peter Ruzavin is a Russian journalist, who has been reporting from Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion. Peter conducted several interviews with Russian prisoners of war in Ukrainian captivity. He believes that the conversations he had are important in giving a sense of a range of questions. Read more
Who Is in Putin’s Army? Talking to Russian Prisoners of War in Ukraine and What We Can Learn From It Mon, 30.01.2023 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Kirill Rogov Peter Ruzavin Series: Seminars and Colloquia Peter Ruzavin is a Russian journalist, who has been reporting from Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion. Peter conducted several interviews with Russian prisoners of war in Ukrainian captivity. He believes that the conversations he had are important in giving a sense of a range of questions. Read more