2023-2024 IDEM doctoral seminar: Identities, memories and creations: minorities (ethnic, religious, gendered, sexual) in the Eurasian space

Doctoral seminar 2023-2024 IDEM: Identities, memories and creations: minorities (ethnic, confessional, gendered, sexual) in the Eurasian space coordinated by Dominique Samson and Olga Blinova.

Seminar description

Our societies are still largely heirs to norms and values produced by a dominant order, notably religious or political, claiming universality. History, literature and the arts, and 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 to what they call "traditional values" in the face of shifting identities in society and art alike, diversity is once again emerging as a threat to political stability and social cohesion. In this transdisciplinary doctoral seminar, the challenge is to analyze how "minoritized" and marginalized human groups (from colonization through repression to erasure) construct and evolve.

Seminar program

- Wednesday, October 25, 2023 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in Room 3.08 at the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins Paris 13ème and by videoconference (Link Zoom).

• Leonid Livak (Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada), "When a Russian describes a French catastrophe: Michel Ossorguine, witness to the 1940 debacle",
• The discussant : Alexandre Lavrov (Professor at Sorbonne University, Paris, France).

- Wednesday, November 22, 2023 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in Room 3.08 at the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins Paris 13ème and by videoconference (Zoom link).

• Mikhail Bashkirov (Research Partner at UMR Sirice, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), "Les minorités métisses en Sibérie : enjeux ethnographiques, sociaux et culturels ",
• The discussant: Dominique Samson (Senior Lecturer at Inalco).

- Wednesday January 31, 2024 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins Paris 13ème and by videoconference (Lien Zoom).

• Audrey Kichelewski (Associate Professor at the University of Strasbourg), "Jewish testimony in the trials of Nazi collaborators tried in Communist Poland: between invisibilization and discredit".
• The discussant : Simon Perego (Senior Lecturer at Inalco)

- Wednesday March 6, 2024 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm in room 6.07 of the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins Paris 13ème and by videoconference (Zoom link).

• Adrien Nonjon (PhD student at CREE, Inalco, Paris, France), "Far-right feminism & alterfeminist discourse: l'exemple de l'organisation ukrainienne Срібло Троянди (La Rose d'Argent)",
• Discussant : Magali Della Sudda (Chargée de recherche au CNRS (Centre Emile Durkheim) et coordinatrice de l'ANR GILETSJAUNES).

- Wednesday April 24, 2024 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins Paris 13ème and by videoconference (Lien Zoom).

• Michel Niqueux (Professor Emeritus, University of Caen, France), ""I have always suffered for being a womanˮ: Julia Danzas (1879-1942), "an outstanding Russian womanˮ (É. Fouilloux)",
• the discussant(s): remains to be defined.

- Wednesday, May 15, 2024 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins Paris 13ème and by videoconference (Lien Zoom).

• Pauline Walkiewicz (PhD student at CREE, Inalco, Paris, France), "Being a woman artist during the interwar period: how to exist in the artistic field in France and Poland? Le témoignage autobiographique de Zofia Stryjeńska (1891-1976) et la fortune critique de Mela Muter (1876-1967) et Zofia Piramowicz (1880-1958)",
• Le/la discutant(e): reste à définir.
• Olga Blinova (Chercheuse associée au CREE, Inalco, Paris et au GEO, Université de Strasbourg, France), "Les médiatrices de la littérature russe du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours ",
• La discutante : Catherine Géry (Professeur à l'Inalco, Paris, France).
  

- Wednesday, June 12, 2024 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins Paris 13ème and by videoconference (Lien Zoom).

• Anna Shcherbakova (Lecturer at the University of Rennes 2), Kateryna Tarasiuk (Doctoral student at the University of Grenoble-Alpes) & Elmira Kakabaïeva (Journalist, socio-anthropologist and writer from Kazakhstan), "Literary feminism in Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan from the 1990s to the present".