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Displaced Perspectives Seminar: Open Sessions

May 4th, 2 pm - 4 pm  Trauma: meeting with artist  Lia Dostlieva  (hybrid) We’re meeting in person in room 105, and Lia Dostlieva will join online.  Lia Dostlieva  (born in Donetsk, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian artist, cultural anthropologist, and essayist whose work explores themes of memory, trauma, and social vulnerability. She works across multiple media—including photography, installations, video, and textile sculpture—and focuses on issues such as  collective trauma, postmemory, decolonial narratives, and the visibility of marginalised groups .  Lia Dostlieva has exhibited internationally at major institutions and participated in the Ukrainian Pavilion at the  60th Venice Biennale . Her practice often combines artistic production with research and writing, reflecting her academic background in cultural anthropology.  May 11th, 2 pm - 4 pm  Chornobyl: meeting with  Dr Jonathon Turnbull  (hybrid) We’re meeting in person in room 105, and Jonathon Turnbull will join online.  Jonathon Turnbull  is a more-than-human geographer from Newcastle upon Tyne with a broad interest in the geographies of nature. His research examines how environmental knowledges are produced and contested across diverse geographical contexts from the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine to the rumen of livestock cattle in Europe and India. We will focus on Jonathon’s upcoming book, in which he explores the ‘return of nature’ to the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine, the site of the world's worst nuclear catastrophe of 1986. This work is currently being prepared for publication as a monograph, provisionally titled  Radioactive Resurgence , which explores how the Zone has come to be understood simultaneously as a post-apocalyptic wasteland and a thriving nuclear nature reserve, and how more-than-human life endures after nuclear catastrophe. June 1st, 2 pm - 4 pm  Post-industrial urban ecologies: meeting with artist Karolina Uskakovych and screening of her latest movie, White Cliffs of Vinnytsia (2026).   We’re meeting in person in room 105, and Karolina Uskakovych will join online.  The territory of the Vinnytsya Chemical Plant stretches along the railroad tracks, not far from the central city railway station. Founded in 1920, Khimprom was one of Ukraine's largest chemical enterprises and went bankrupt in the late nineties, leaving behind a toxic legacy – a phosphogypsum stack known locally as the "white mountains." In her project, Karolina Uskakovych returns to her hometown to explore the landfill ecosystem through archival work, visual research, collaboration with experts, and the conceptualisation of post-industrial urban ecologies. What is the ecosystem that forms on the phosphogypsum stack? What is its cultural and ecological significance? Do the "white cliffs" pose a threat of environmental pollution, or have they become a haven for wildlife within the industrial zone? Can these roles coexist? We will discuss the decolonial rethinking of the urban landscape and the creation of artistic visions for post-industrial ecosystems. June 8th, 2 pm - 4 pm  The Post-Soviet: meeting with artist Lada Nakonechna . In person, room 105. Lada Nakonechna is a Ukrainian contemporary artist whose practice spans drawing, installation, performance, and video. Her work critically examines systems of power, visibility, and representation, often focusing on how political and social structures shape everyday life. A significant strand of her practice addresses migration, displacement, and the experience of refugees , particularly in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Nakonechna explores the instability of identity and belonging under forced movement, as well as the emotional and bureaucratic realities faced by displaced people. Her works frequently reflect on absence, erasure, and the fragility of personal and collective memory. She is a member of the groups R.E.P. and Hudrada. June 15th, 2 pm - 4 pm  Home: meeting with Yuriy Biley from Open Group . In person, room 105. Open Group is a Ukrainian contemporary art collective founded in 2012 in Lviv by six artists: Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Anton Varga, Stanislav Turina, Roman Khimei, and Andriy Rachynskyi (As of August 2023, Open Group consists of three people: Yuriy Biley, Anton Varga, and Pavlo Kovach Jr.). The group works collaboratively across installation, performance, video, and participatory practices. Their work often explores collective authorship, communication, and the construction of social space , frequently involving audiences directly in the creation or activation of artworks. Open Group is particularly known for its interest in everyday interactions, institutional critique, and the boundaries between artist and viewer . In recent years, their practice has increasingly addressed the impact of war, displacement, and shifting identities in Ukraine , reflecting on how communities are formed and reshaped under conditions of crisis. Their projects often engage with testimony, shared experience, and the role of language and storytelling. Open Group has represented Ukraine at major international platforms, including the Venice Biennale, where their work has drawn attention for its subtle yet powerful engagement with contemporary social and political realities. June 22nd, 2 pm - 4 pm  Memory: meeting with Mykola Ridnyi.   In person, room 105. Mykola Rydnyi (born in Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work explores the intersections of memory, history, and political reality . Working across video, installation, sculpture, and photography, he examines how personal and collective memories are shaped by ideology, media, and urban space. A central focus of Rydnyi’s practice is the construction and erosion of memory in post-Soviet contexts , particularly in eastern Ukraine. He often engages with archives, testimonies, and fragmented narratives to reveal how histories are mediated, forgotten, or manipulated. His works address themes such as trauma, propaganda, and the legacy of Soviet and post-Soviet transformations , as well as the ongoing impact of war on collective consciousness. Rydnyi is a co-founder of the SOSka group and has been closely involved with independent art initiatives in Kharkiv, contributing to critical cultural discourse in Ukraine. His films and installations have been shown internationally, including at major exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale, where his work has been recognised for its nuanced engagement with memory, image-making, and political subjectivity.   The meetings are part of the seminar series  Displaced Perspectives: Ukrainian Art and Cultural Resilience in Times of War .

Ort: Osteuropa Institut FU Berlin Garystr. 55 Raum 105

04.05.2026 - 22.06.2026

Workshop during the Long Night of Science at FU Berlin - Human energy and the sense of movement

Energy is a concept that crosses from the natural world to the human body and back. The Soviet academician (but also a prince and old believer) Aleksei Ukhtomsky claimed that modern physics borrowed all its concepts from the human body and its actions: mass, force, pressure, impulse, speed… In the early twentieth century the direction of influence switched: physics and the natural sciences fed into human experience and avant-garde art. The concepts of impulse, movement and force become interiorised: feeling impulse in our body, we experience agency; sensing our own movement, we feel alive; experiencing resistance to our action, we become aware of the real world. Like energy, the concepts of impulse, movement and force travel between scientific theories and cultural beliefs. Making impulse, movement and force part of human experience, early twentieth-century culture re-appropriated physical concepts. It opened up ways to new art practices, including modern dance. Both talks will be followed by practical workshops in which we will sense our movements. The workshop is devised to suit everybody of all ages; no particular training is required.  I. Irina Sirotkina, Mastering impulse in science and dance Originally derived from bodily functions (heart pulse, breath), the concept of impulse entered the neurosciences and psychology. Emerging in the early twentieth century, free dance explored and embodied the concept of impulse. Before going on stage, Isadora Duncan awaited an impulse coming from the universe of music into the source of movement, which she located in the solar plexus. Her many followers in Imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union claimed that, with no impulse, movement is dead. New, free dance, transformed the everyday notion of impulse as an uncontrolled, unconscious, often asocial behaviour, into a positive and liberating force which connects the dancer’s body to the cosmos and makes energy flow between performers and the audience. In the movement workshop we will practice bodily impulse in the manner of early twentieth-century dancers.  II. Roger Smith, Force and the ‘sixth sense’ What constitutes the proverbial ‘sixth sense’, additional to the traditional Aristotelian five senses? Through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were several candidates, from sexual appetites to the ability to communicate with the dead, but more often the sense of movement and sense of force. Being alive is a continuous cycle of action (self) and resistance (world), subjectively experienced as one force versus another. It is often noted that feeling movement against resistance, we know reality, through participation in the play of forces making the world. In the womb, the foetus has its first sensations from the rhythm of the mother’s heart and breath, and from movement and its containment. The modern term for the force sense is kinaesthesia (or, in physiological terms, proprioception). In Soviet Russia, kinaesthesia was discussed, in language introduced by I. M. Sechenov (in the 1860s) as central to ‘the dark sense’, our sense of being embodied and active in material reality. The feeling for movement has a place in modern culture, in dance but also in walking and in sports like climbing.  Irina Sirotkina is Honorary Professor at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University and a practitioner of early modern dance as inspired by Isadora Duncan.  Irina Sirotkina's most recent book is  Dancing Freedom: Modern Dance in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia  (Bloomsbury 2026). Roger Smith is Honorary Professor at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, and Reader Emeritus at Lancaster University.  Roger Smith has published  The Sense of Movement: An Intellectual History  (Process Press, 2019),  Kinaesthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience  (Routledge 2023) and, most recently,  Modern Soul Experience in Psychology and Philosophy  (Routledge 2026). Jointly they published  The Sixth Sense of the Avant-garde: Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Arts in Revolutionary Russia  (Bloomsbury 2017).

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin Habelschwerdter Allee 45 Rostlaube, Raum 32/102

06.06.2026 | 17:00 - 19:30

Rustam Samadov | Transformations of Gender Relations in Central Asia

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Hörsaal A Garystraße 55 14195 Berlin

11.02.2026 | 14:15 - 15:45
04.02.2026 | 14:15 - 15:45
28.01.2026 | 14:15 - 15:45
21.01.2026 | 14:15 - 15:45

Linker Antisemitismus?

Ort: Hörsaal /Thielallee 67

20.01.2026 | 19:00

Aleksey Oshchepkov | Changes in Migration Patterns in the Post-Soviet Space after 02.2022

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Hörsaal A Garystraße 55 14195 Berlin

14.01.2026 | 14:15 - 15:45
07.01.2026 | 14:15 - 15:45
17.12.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45
10.12.2025 | 16:30

Susanne Strätling | Kulturelle Kartographie der frühen Sowjetunion

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Hörsaal A Garystraße 55 14195 Berlin

03.12.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45
26.11.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45

Workshop mit der Regisseurin Eva Neymann

Ort: Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin Seminarzentrum Silberlaube Raum L 113

24.11.2025 | 09:00 - 12:00

FÄLLT AUS! Robert Kindler | Mobilität und Ordnung. Anmerkungen zur sowjetischen Geschichte

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Hörsaal A Garystraße 55 14195 Berlin

19.11.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45

Aglaya Glebova | Oilscapes of Socialist Realism

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Hörsaal A Garystraße 55 14195 Berlin

12.11.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45

Alexander Libman | Transformations of Authoritarianism in the Post-Soviet Eurasia

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Hörsaal A Garystraße 55 14195 Berlin

05.11.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45

1st European RASA Conference

Ort: Henry-Ford-Bau, Garystr. 35, 14195 Berlin (Friday: Hall D, Saturday: Hall A )

31.10.2025 - 01.11.2025
29.10.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45

Theocharis Grigoriadis | The Political Economy of Brain Drain

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Hörsaal A Garystraße 55 14195 Berlin

22.10.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45

Buchvorstellung und Diskussion | „Marx gegen Moskau" von Dr. Timm Graßmann

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Raum 121 Garystr. 55 14195 Berlin

14.10.2025 | 18:00

Conference | Beyond Empires – Fokus Osteuropa

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Garystr. 55 14195 Berlin

09.10.2025 - 10.10.2025

Erstsemestereinführung | MA Osteuropastudien

Ort: Hörsaal A Osteuropa-Institut Garystraße 55

08.10.2025 | 10:00

Russlands ‚heiliger Krieg‘ mit Prof. Dr. Katharina Bluhm und Prof. Dr. Regina Elsner

Ort: Katholische Akademie in Berlin Hannoversche Str. 5 10115 Berlin

07.10.2025 | 19:00 - 21:00
07.10.2025 | 13:00 - 14:00

Conference | (Un)Safe Plurality: Ukraine and Beyond

Ort: Free Universität Berlin Institute for East European Studies Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

29.09.2025 - 01.10.2025

Kurzfilmfestival | Central Asia: At the Crossroads

Ort: SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA Lindower Str. 20/22, Haus C 13347 Berlin

27.09.2025 - 28.09.2025

Workshop | Russia’s Right-Wing and the War

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin Edwin-Redslob-Straße 29 14195 Berlin

26.09.2025
15.09.2025 - 26.09.2025

Absolvent*innenfeier

Ort: Hörsaal A, Garystr. 55

11.07.2025 | 14:00
10.07.2025 | 10:00 - 17:00
04.07.2025 - 13.07.2025

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften | Logistik von Protestcamps

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin Rostlaube Raum K31/102

28.06.2025 | 17:00 - 21:00

Internationale Tagung | I̶m̶p̶r̶i̶m̶a̶t̶u̶r̶. Gatekeeping, Buchmarkt und Publikum

Organisiert von Melina Brüggemann, Florian Fuchs, Michael Gamper, Jutta Müller-Tamm, Cornelia Ortlieb und Susanne Strätling, Projekt Obscured, Unrecognized, Forgotten. Negative Circulation in Literature, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies" Was auf dem Buchmarkt – und in der Folge in Wohnzimmern, Seminarräumen und Bibliotheken – zirkuliert, was in Buchläden und auf Messen verkauft, in Salons und Literaturhäusern verhandelt, in Verkaufsstatistiken erfasst oder gar für Literaturpreise nominiert wurde und wird, das hat nach einer langen Reihe von Prüfungen das Gütesiegel der Imprimatur erhalten: Es durfte verlegt und gedruckt werden. Was aber macht diese Prüfungen aus? Wie laufen sie ab? Was wird geprüft? Nach welchen Kriterien wird geprüft? Wer darf prüfen? Was streicht der Lektor an? Was die Verlagsgutachterin? Was der Zensor? Inwieweit verändert sich der Inhalt im Lauf dieser Prüfungen? Und was passiert schließlich mit den Texten, die aussortiert werden, die die Prüfung nicht bestehen und die Druckfreigabe nicht erhalten? Die Tagung wendet sich den Mechanismen zu, die seit dem 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart für die Leser:innen grundsätzlich unsichtbar geblieben sind, weil sie vor der Schwelle der Drucklegung stattfanden. Sie untersucht die Institutionen und Praktiken, in und mit denen Texte auf ihre Veröffentlichung hin bewertet und entweder weiterprozessiert oder aber aus der literarischen Wertschöpfungskette ausgeschieden oder gar nie in sie hineingenommen wurden. Gefragt wird, welche Bedingungen und Faktoren Meinungsbildung und Entscheidungsfindung bestimmen. Dabei kommen ganz unterschiedliche Akteur:innen und Strukturen des literarischen Gatekeeping in den Blick: von Kompilator:innen, Redakteur:innen und Verleger:innen über literarische Influencer:innen und Literaturagent:innen bis hin zu religiösen und politischen, staatlichen und nicht-staatlichen Zensurbehörden. Es werden aber auch die unterschiedlichen Logiken des Selektierens beleuchtet, in denen das ökonomische Kalkül der Verkaufbarkeit mit anderen Wertmaßstäben austariert werden muss. Zentrales Erkenntnisinteresse der Tagung ist es, durch eine Untersuchung der vielfältigen Begutachtungs- und Gatekeeping-Prozesse im Buchmarkt seit der Moderne jene Segmente des Literaturmarkts in den Fokus der Aufmerksamkeit zu rücken, welche in den diversen Selektionsstufen aussortiert werden und deshalb jenseits des öffentlichen Lesehorizonts und letztlich im Status einer bloß potentiellen Literatur verbleiben.

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" Raum 00.05 & 00.07 Otto-von-Simson-Straße 15 14195 Berlin

26.06.2025 - 27.06.2025
12.06.2025 | 17:00 - 19:00

Löwenthal Lecture 2025 | Return and Return Intentions of Ukrainian Refugees

Ort: Hörsaal A Osteuropa-Institut Garystr. 55 14195 Berlin

11.06.2025 | 16:00

Transcribing Violence: Art, Nature, Politics

Ort: taz Kantine Friedrichstraße 21 10969 Berlin

24.05.2025 | 16:00
15.05.2025 - 16.05.2025

Workshop: Ukraine’s Resilience and Recovery: Social Dimension

Ort: Seminar center (Seminarzentrum) of Freie Universität Berlin Room number L115 Silberlaube (ground floor) Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 14195 Berlin

05.05.2025 | 08:40 - 17:45

Book Presentation | "The Assault on the State" by Jeffrey Kopstein (UC Irvine)

Ort: Room L 115 Seminarzentrum Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26

30.04.2025 | 12:00
12.02.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45
11.02.2025 | 17:00 - 22:00

Manuela Boatca | Siebenbürgen zwischen Kolonialität und Interimperialität

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Hörsaal A Garystraße 55 14195 Berlin

05.02.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45
29.01.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45
22.01.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45
15.01.2025 | 10:00 - 11:30
08.01.2025 | 14:15 - 15:45
04.12.2024 | 14:15 - 15:45
27.11.2024 | 14:15 - 15:45
13.11.2024 | 14:15 - 15:45
06.11.2024 | 14:15 - 15:45

Susanne Strätling | Derussifizierung. Kulturelle Praktiken einer politischen Agenda

Ort: Osteuropa-Institut Hörsaal A Garystraße 55 14195 Berlin

23.10.2024 | 14:15 - 15:45
10.10.2024 | 10:00 - 15:00
07.10.2024 | 18:15 - 19:45
07.10.2024 | 10:00 - 12:00

Studentisches Film-Screening: "Qas" von Aisultan Seit

Ort: OEI-Fachschaftsraum, Garystr. 55, Raum 109

17.07.2024 | 16:00

Sommerfest 2024!

Ort: Hörsaal A, Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

12.07.2024 | 16:00 s.t.

Menschen im Schatten der Umweltzerstörung – Ein Jahr nach der Kachowka-Katastrophe

Ort: Libereco-Geschäftsstelle Berlin Brunnenstraße 9, Hinterhof/Souterrain 10119 Berlin

09.07.2024 | 17:00 - 18:30

3rd Annual Conference of DFG-Network "Russian Ecospheres": Scales of Ecology

Ort: GWZO Leipzig Conference Room 4th floor, Entrance A, Specks Hof Reichsstraße 4-6, 04109 Leipzig

05.07.2024 - 07.07.2024

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften am OEI | Neue Perspektiven auf Osteuropa

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin Silberlaube Raum K 25/11 Fabeckstraße 25, 14195 Berlin

22.06.2024 | 17:00 - 20:30

Löwenthal Lecture 2024: Prof. Judith Pallot "Is There a Post-Communist Prison System?"

Ort: Hörsaal A, Institute for East European Studies, Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

19.06.2024 | 16:00

Georgien zwischen Widerstand und Isolation | Anmeldung bis 14. Juni!

Ort: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Eberhard-Lämmert-Saal Meierottostr. 8 10719 Berlin

17.06.2024 | 19:00
12.06.2024 | 10:00 - 19:30

Jetzt bewerben: Entdecke Osteuropastudien mit uns!

Bewerbungsfrist: 15. August 2024

24.04.2024 - 15.08.2024

Vortrag von Ekaterina Shulman

Ort: Henry Ford Bau, Hörsaal C

14.02.2024 | 12:15 - 13:45

VL "Energy Empires" - Alexander Libman (Freie Universität Berlin)

Wintersemester 2023/24 18.10.2023-14.02.2024 Mi 14:00-16:00  Garystr. 55 / Hörsaal A

07.02.2024 | 14:00 - 16:00

VL "Energy Empires" - Samuel Rogers (Freie Universität Berlin)

Wintersemester 2023/24 18.10.2023-14.02.2024 Mi 14:00-16:00  Garystr. 55 / Hörsaal A

31.01.2024 | 14:00 - 16:00
26.01.2024 | 09:00 s.t.

VL "Energy Empires" - Matthias Schwartz (Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin)

Wintersemester 2023/24 18.10.2023-14.02.2024 Mi 14:00-16:00  Garystr. 55 / Hörsaal A

24.01.2024 | 14:00 - 16:00

Studentische Schreibwerkstatt

Ort: OEI, Raum 55-302a

18.01.2024 | 12:00

VL "Energy Empires" - Ilya Kalinin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Wintersemester 2023/24 18.10.2023-14.02.2024 Mi 14:00-16:00  Garystr. 55 / Hörsaal A

17.01.2024 | 14:00 - 16:00