Doctoral seminar 2022-2023 IDEM: Identities, memories and creations: minorities (ethnic, religious, gendered, sexual) in the Eurasian space

Doctoral seminar 2022-2023 IDEM: 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, notably 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.

SEMINAR SCHEDULE

- Wednesday, November 9, 2022 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in Salle 5.05 at the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris and by videoconference (Link Zoom).

• Antoine Nivière : "Orthodoxy in Ukraine, between split and reconfiguration: the religious stakes of the current conflict"
• The discussant: Kathy Rousselet.

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- Wednesday, November 30, 2022 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in Room 5.05 at the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris and by videoconference (Link Zoom).

• Catherine Géry: "L'"Archipel noirˮ des écrivaines russes (1759-1896)",
• The discussant: Olga Blinova

- Wednesday, January 25, 2023 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in Room 5.05 at the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris and by videoconference (Link Zoom).

• Dany Savelli: "Minorities within minorities: Agni Yoga, a sectarian movement of Russian emigration, and Siberian, Ossetian and Kalmyk émigré groups in France in the 1920s and 1930s",
• The discussant.e to be defined

- Wednesday, February 15, 2023 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in Room 5.05 at the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris and by videoconference (Link Zoom).

• Youlia Sioli : "Filles d'émigrationˮ en France (1920-1940) : (petites) écrivaines de la littérature "mineureˮ ? "
• The discussant: Anna Foscolo
• Françoise Defarges: "Trangression as an attempt to escape minorization : l'exemple de Lidia Zinoviéva-Annibal, femme écrivain russe (1866-1907)"
• The discussant : Olga Blinova

- Wednesday, March 15, 2023 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm by videoconference (Link Zoom).

• Leonid Livak: "Russian Jews in occupied France"
• The discussant: Luba Jurgenson

- Wednesday, April 19, 2023 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Room 5.05 at the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris and by videoconference (Link Zoom).

• Anne Grynberg: "Jews and Poland: diversity of transgenerational approaches"
• The discussant: Isabelle Némirovski

- Wednesday June 7, 2023 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm in Room 5.05 at the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris and by videoconference (Link Zoom).

• Liz Escalle-Dyachenko : "Inscribing lesbian subjectivities in the canon of contemporary Russian poetry? Stratégies d'écriture et imaginaires des auteurs/autrices de l'anthologie Ле Лю Ли [Lé Lu Li, 2008]"
• The discussant: Arthur Clech
• Arthur Clech, "Kharitonov, a Russian Genet? the triptych of "gay, Jewish and nationalˮ questions in his work and the translatability of "The Flying Leavesˮ (tr. Arthur Clech)"
• The discussant: Nicolas Aude