Decolonizing Eastern Europe. Panel discussion with Epp Annus, Franziska Davies, and Darya Tsymbalyuk
Panel discussion Decolonizing Eastern Europe with Epp Annus, Franziska Davies, and Darya Tsymbalyuk took place on March 16, within the framework of Kyiv Perennial 2024. Shifting the focus of decolonial discourse from West to East, this panel looks at Eastern Europes pitfalls in the postSoviet, socialist context. The panelists will discuss the Russian Empire and the USSR with regard to Ukraine and nonRussian communities still living within the Russian Federation, and how the Russiancentric view of Eastern Europe contributed to an underestimation of the destructive potential of Russian imperialism. Different meanings, similarities, and intertwinings of decolonization processes in the Ukrainian, Baltic, and Georgian contexts will be brought into focus, as well as the ways in which colonial violence affects the bodies of those under attack, and therefore, why decolonial work is embodied and experienced within bodies. More:
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