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
	Berdyaev and the Russian Idea	Mon, 09.10.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova George Pattison	Berdyaev and the Russian Idea Mon, 09.10.2023 Speakers: Clemena Antonova George Pattison Series: Seminars and Colloquia Nikolai Berdyaev was strongly cosmopolitan, and his philosophy can be seen as a variant of German idealism. At the same time, he strongly identified as Russian and defined his thought in terms of its relation to Russian religious and intellectual traditions. A question to be addressed in this colloquium was, therefore, what implications this relation has for the overall evaluation of Berdyaev both as a philosopher and as a point of reference for the contemporary crisis of Russian culture. Read more
Berdyaev and the Russian Idea Mon, 09.10.2023 Speakers: Clemena Antonova George Pattison Series: Seminars and Colloquia Nikolai Berdyaev was strongly cosmopolitan, and his philosophy can be seen as a variant of German idealism. At the same time, he strongly identified as Russian and defined his thought in terms of its relation to Russian religious and intellectual traditions. A question to be addressed in this colloquium was, therefore, what implications this relation has for the overall evaluation of Berdyaev both as a philosopher and as a point of reference for the contemporary crisis of Russian culture. Read more
	Bringing Beauty into Life: How Soviet Workers Discovered Aesthetics after Stalin	Mon, 22.05.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Serguei OushakineFranz Graf	Bringing Beauty into Life: How Soviet Workers Discovered Aesthetics after Stalin Mon, 22.05.2023 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Serguei OushakineFranz Graf Series: Seminars and Colloquia In his talk, Oushakine focused on one aspect of late Soviet materiality: by reading closely materials published in the 1960s–1970s, he showed how Soviet sociologists, urbanists, and designers tried (though ultimately failed) to transform new mass apartments into an effectively constructed material ecosystem. Material aesthetics - not ideology - was seen as a major force that could productively shape the perceptions and demands of the Soviet individual. Read more
Bringing Beauty into Life: How Soviet Workers Discovered Aesthetics after Stalin Mon, 22.05.2023 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Serguei OushakineFranz Graf Series: Seminars and Colloquia In his talk, Oushakine focused on one aspect of late Soviet materiality: by reading closely materials published in the 1960s–1970s, he showed how Soviet sociologists, urbanists, and designers tried (though ultimately failed) to transform new mass apartments into an effectively constructed material ecosystem. Material aesthetics - not ideology - was seen as a major force that could productively shape the perceptions and demands of the Soviet individual. Read more
	Byzantium and the Origins of Eurasia	Mon, 28.06.2021	Conferences and Workshops	Alexey Lidov Clemena Antonova Sergey Ivanov Valentina IzmirlievaEndre Sashalmi, Ivan Foletti, Ivan Christov, Vladimir Cvetković	Byzantium and the Origins of Eurasia Mon, 28.06.2021 Speakers: Alexey Lidov Clemena Antonova Sergey Ivanov Valentina IzmirlievaEndre Sashalmi, Ivan Foletti, Ivan Christov, Vladimir Cvetković Series: Conferences and Workshops The aim of this international conference, organized under the auspices of the “Eurasia in Global Dialogue” Programme, was to offer a better understanding of contemporary developments in Eurasia by looking at their origins in Byzantium. The focus fell on the history of the reception of the Byzantine heritage in Russia and Eastern Europe. While addressing a wide range of topics in intellectual history, politics, aesthetics, religion, etc., all papers engaged with the contested nature of the concept of “Eurasia.” Read more
Byzantium and the Origins of Eurasia Mon, 28.06.2021 Speakers: Alexey Lidov Clemena Antonova Sergey Ivanov Valentina IzmirlievaEndre Sashalmi, Ivan Foletti, Ivan Christov, Vladimir Cvetković Series: Conferences and Workshops The aim of this international conference, organized under the auspices of the “Eurasia in Global Dialogue” Programme, was to offer a better understanding of contemporary developments in Eurasia by looking at their origins in Byzantium. The focus fell on the history of the reception of the Byzantine heritage in Russia and Eastern Europe. While addressing a wide range of topics in intellectual history, politics, aesthetics, religion, etc., all papers engaged with the contested nature of the concept of “Eurasia.” Read more
	Czernowitz as a Cultural Palimpsest	Mon, 09.11.2020	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Igor Pomerantsev	Czernowitz as a Cultural Palimpsest Mon, 09.11.2020 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Igor Pomerantsev Series: Seminars and Colloquia Dissidents can be not only people, but towns. The architecture of Czernowitz in the Soviet empire was dissident. Walking past these buildings, living in them, you could not help but be infected by their spirit. It was a dissident town which gave us, its inhabitants, lessons in beauty, liberty, duty. Czernowitz was a quotation, from another epoch. Read more
Czernowitz as a Cultural Palimpsest Mon, 09.11.2020 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Igor Pomerantsev Series: Seminars and Colloquia Dissidents can be not only people, but towns. The architecture of Czernowitz in the Soviet empire was dissident. Walking past these buildings, living in them, you could not help but be infected by their spirit. It was a dissident town which gave us, its inhabitants, lessons in beauty, liberty, duty. Czernowitz was a quotation, from another epoch. 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
	Europe and Russia After the Liberal World Order	Mon, 31.05.2021	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Ivan Krastev Timofei Bordachev	Europe and Russia After the Liberal World Order Mon, 31.05.2021 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Ivan Krastev Timofei Bordachev Series: Seminars and Colloquia The relationship between Europe and Russia after the end of the Cold War emerged within the rules and practices of the Liberal World Order. This order was based on certain universal freedoms and global American leadership and ultimate power dominance. Recently it has been under stress, and now there are serious reasons to believe that it is coming to an end, under pressure from a change in the global composition of powers. Both Russia and Europe are looking for new roles within changing international politics. Read more
Europe and Russia After the Liberal World Order Mon, 31.05.2021 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Ivan Krastev Timofei Bordachev Series: Seminars and Colloquia The relationship between Europe and Russia after the end of the Cold War emerged within the rules and practices of the Liberal World Order. This order was based on certain universal freedoms and global American leadership and ultimate power dominance. Recently it has been under stress, and now there are serious reasons to believe that it is coming to an end, under pressure from a change in the global composition of powers. Both Russia and Europe are looking for new roles within changing international politics. Read more
	Hagia Sophia as Symbol and Hostage of Actual Politics	Mon, 12.10.2020	Seminars and Colloquia	Alexey Lidov Ayşe Çağlar Clemena Antonova	Hagia Sophia as Symbol and Hostage of Actual Politics Mon, 12.10.2020 Speakers: Alexey Lidov Ayşe Çağlar Clemena Antonova Series: Seminars and Colloquia On 10 July 2020, by a decree of the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the basilica of Hagia Sophia – the central monument of the Byzantine Empire and the entire Orthodox world – was turned from a museum into a mosque. The conversion attracted worldwide attention and the leaders of the US, the EU and Russia, as well as most international institutions, appealed to Erdoğan not to go ahead with the plan. However, all the warnings were ignored and the first festive Muslim service was held on 24 July, with the country’s leadership in attendance. In this talk, various aspects of the conversion of Hagia Sophia, including political, religious, cultural and art-historical issues of this most significant event, were discussed. Read more
Hagia Sophia as Symbol and Hostage of Actual Politics Mon, 12.10.2020 Speakers: Alexey Lidov Ayşe Çağlar Clemena Antonova Series: Seminars and Colloquia On 10 July 2020, by a decree of the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the basilica of Hagia Sophia – the central monument of the Byzantine Empire and the entire Orthodox world – was turned from a museum into a mosque. The conversion attracted worldwide attention and the leaders of the US, the EU and Russia, as well as most international institutions, appealed to Erdoğan not to go ahead with the plan. However, all the warnings were ignored and the first festive Muslim service was held on 24 July, with the country’s leadership in attendance. In this talk, various aspects of the conversion of Hagia Sophia, including political, religious, cultural and art-historical issues of this most significant event, were discussed. 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
	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