Invitation to Our Discussion Event on "The Russian War on Ukraine and the Changing World Order: Colonial Legacies, Epistemic Injustice, and Increasing Heterarchy".

The Chair of International Politics invites you to join our discussion event with Professor Valeria Korablyova on "The Russian War on Ukraine and the Changing World Order: Colonial Legacies, Epistemic Injustice, and Increasing Heterarchy". 

Valeria Korablyova is Assistant Professor, Department of Russian and East European Studies; Leader of Ukraine In A Changing Europe Research Centre, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. She works on post-Soviet transformations in Ukraine and the region, with a special focus on mass protests, performative politics, and complex colonial/imperial legacies. 

Dr. Korablyova received her habilitation (D. of Sc.) degree in 2015 from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine.  She has been a research fellow and/or visiting professor at Stanford University, IWM in Vienna, University of Basel, JLU Giessen, and others. Her most recent publications include: ‘Why Is Ukraine Important? Challenging the colonial and Cold War Legacies in European social sciences’ in Soziologie (vol. 52, no. 3, 2023); “Russia VS. Ukraine: A Subaltern Empire Against The “Populism of Hope” in Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Studia Territorialia (# 2 2022); “Who Owns the Ukrainian State: The Elites – People Tensions After 1991” in Regions of Conflicts in Eastern Europe (Harrassowitz, 2023); and the special Topos issue “Transformations of Society and Academia in the Wake of the Russian War in Ukraine: Urgent Notes” (#2 2022).

The event will take place on January 10, 2024, at 4:40 PM, HSZ/0204/U, Hörsaalzentrum, Bergstr. 64, Dresden. The event will be held in the English language.