The decolonization of education and research in Belarus and Ukraine: theoretical challenges and practical tasks
Result description
A conference held at the European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania) in late September 2023 brought together scholars and practitioners from countries directly implicated by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The conference's rationale was to re-examine the social structures and content of knowledge production and dissemination in countries that used to be categorized as "the post-Soviet region" at a time when the former metropole weaponizes the humanities for justifying the war and re-colonizing newly occupied territories. With reference to the agenda formulated by such decolonial scholars as Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Madina Tlostanova, and Walter Mignolo - to "decolonize the mind" and to delink from hegemonic narratives and structures of power-knowledge imposed from the imperial centre - the participants discussed possibilities for future cooperation in a de-centred, horizontal manner, and they attempted to outline new epistemologies that derive from re-discovering themselves and communicating their emergent identities outwards. Standing as a decolonizing gesture itself, the conference created a multilingual space where participants communicated in their mother tongues to express perspectives embedded in their local experiences. The conference was co-sponsored by the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) and Charles University (Prague) with the financial support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, administered by the American Council of Learned Societies.
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Result code in IS VaVaI
Result on the web
https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=8qmLn5OH2-
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The decolonization of education and research in Belarus and Ukraine: theoretical challenges and practical tasks
Original language description
A conference held at the European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania) in late September 2023 brought together scholars and practitioners from countries directly implicated by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The conference's rationale was to re-examine the social structures and content of knowledge production and dissemination in countries that used to be categorized as "the post-Soviet region" at a time when the former metropole weaponizes the humanities for justifying the war and re-colonizing newly occupied territories. With reference to the agenda formulated by such decolonial scholars as Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Madina Tlostanova, and Walter Mignolo - to "decolonize the mind" and to delink from hegemonic narratives and structures of power-knowledge imposed from the imperial centre - the participants discussed possibilities for future cooperation in a de-centred, horizontal manner, and they attempted to outline new epistemologies that derive from re-discovering themselves and communicating their emergent identities outwards. Standing as a decolonizing gesture itself, the conference created a multilingual space where participants communicated in their mother tongues to express perspectives embedded in their local experiences. The conference was co-sponsored by the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) and Charles University (Prague) with the financial support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, administered by the American Council of Learned Societies.
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Classification
Type
Jimp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Canadian Slavonic Papers
ISSN
0008-5006
e-ISSN
2375-2475
Volume of the periodical
65
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3-4
Country of publishing house
CA - CANADA
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
478-484
UT code for WoS article
001122692200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85179953913
Basic information
Result type
Jimp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
OECD FORD
Political science
Year of implementation
2023