29/01/2026
We are excited to invite you to the international winter school ‘Slavic – Caucasian – Asian – Baltic – Soviet Entanglements: Revisiting Disciplinary Borders’!
This interdisciplinary Winter School examines the shifting boundaries of Slavic, Soviet, Caucasian, Asian, and Baltic Studies in light of current geopolitical transformations and the academic “decolonization” of Slavic and East (Central) European Studies. Building on the insight that inherited disciplinary frameworks – often shaped by Cold War logics and Soviet- or Russian-centered perspective – no longer suffice to analyse post-Soviet dynamics, the program foregrounds voices long marginalized within traditional scholarly paradigms. Key questions include: How can postcolonial and decolonial approaches be adapted to the study of former Soviet spaces? What new intellectual, literary, and cultural alliances are emerging across these regions? How do practices of multilingualism, canon formation, and resistance reshape categories of identity and affiliation?
The Winter School fosters collaborative, transdisciplinary approaches that combine close literary and cultural analysis with historical, political, and sociological perspectives. By mapping overlaps, frictions, and redefinitions between post-Soviet, postcolonial, and transregional currents, provides a platform to formulate new answers to pressing questions about academic and cultural identity, discipline borders, and knowledge production across former Soviet spaces (and beyond).
📅12-14 Feb 2026
📍Wilhelmstr. 50, 72074 Tübingen (rooms 037 and 426)
❗Visitors are kindly requested to register in advance at slavistik[at]uni-tuebingen.de
👩💻Organizers: Dr. Aleksandra Konarzewska, Anastasiia Sergeeva
