2021-2022 IDEM doctoral seminar: Identities, memories and creations: minorities (ethnic, religious, gendered, sexual) in the Eurasian space

IDEM 2021-2022 doctoral seminar: Identities, memories and creations: minorities (ethnic, confessional, gendered, sexual) in the Eurasian space coordinated by Dominique Samson and Olga Blinova.

Our societies are still largely heirs to norms and values produced by a dominant order, particularly religious or political, claiming universality. History, literature and the arts, gender have often been the work of the "civilizer" anxious to perpetuate a world that resembles it, to the exclusion of all others, which must be denounced, hidden or eradicated. For several decades now, the emergence of "minorities" in the public arena - and therefore of new fields of study - has challenged societal models and assigned roles. As a result, these groups or communities are proving to be a challenge for governments and public opinion alike. In addition to the difficulty of defining a minority, whose recognition may also imply specific rights, do the members of these minorities themselves identify themselves as such?
At a time when many powers are retreating into what they call "traditional values" in the face of shifting identities in society and art alike, diversity once again appears as a threat to political stability and social cohesion. At this transdisciplinary doctoral seminar, the challenge is to analyze how "minoritized" and marginalized human groups (from colonization through repression to erasure) construct and evolve.

SEMINARPROGRAM

Sessions will take place on Wednesdays from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in Salle 5.22 at the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris.

- Wednesday October 20, 2021 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in Salle 5.22 at the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris

• Introduction to the seminar by the two organizers and brief presentation of all speakers and participants (tour de table).

- Wednesday November 17, 2021 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in hybrid: Salle 5.22 at the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris or by distance

• Caroline Damiens, "Writing a history of cinematic spectacle from Siberia: in the footsteps of itinerant projectionists in Soviet Yakutia".

- Wednesday, December 8, 2021 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in Room 5.22 at the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris

• Cécile Folschweiller,"Communist childhood in Romania and Moldavia: memories and narratives".

- Wednesday, February 2, 2022 from 5:30pm to 7:50pm in hybrid: Room 5.22 at the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris

• Arnaud Bikard, "La représentation de l'identité non-juive et son questionnement dans l'œuvre yiddish moderniste de Moyshe Kulbak (1896-1937)".
• Greta Sala, "La communauté LGBTQIA+ de Syrie entre Révolution et exil : vers la construction de narrations nouvelles".

- Wednesday March 16, 2022 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in Room 5.22 at the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris and distancially with this link.

• Dominique Samson,"Russians, but not too much? De trois peuples autochtones minoritaires de la Sibérie (sub)arctique".

- Wednesday, April 6, 2022 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in Room 5.22 at the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris and distanciel with this link.

• Marie Stachowitsch, "The local council of the Russian Orthodox Church of 1917-1918: conciliar decisions implemented by a minority in exile".

Organization:
Dominique Samson (CREE)
Olga Blinova (CREE)

Contacts:
dominique.samson@inalco.fr
blinova.olga.aleksandrovna@gmail.com