BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1741@dslw.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260220T103142 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260327T130000 SUMMARY:"Where Silence Speaks. (In)audibility as a cultural phenomenon and scholarly challenge in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe" DESCRIPTION:The question “Who speaks?” has been prominent in humanities research for several decades: Addressing the positionalities of speaking subjects and their embeddedness into cultural hierarchies has strongly con tributed to discussions of\, among others\, gender\, (post-)coloniality an d sexualities in studies of both histories and cultures in Eastern and Sou th-Eastern Europe. This study day is set to address this question’s impl icitly omnipresent counterpart: Who doesn’t speak and why? \\r\\nIn a s eries of workshops\, we address the production\, perpetuation and the chal lenging of silences in historical constellations and cultural production i n Eastern Europe. By which mechanisms have certain groups (women\, LGBTQ+\ , indigenous groups) or forms of cultural and artistic activity been exclu ded from the production of knowledge and denied entry into the so-called c anon? How do members of marginalized groups challenge hegemonic discourses that deny them the capacity to speak? And how can researchers and student s engage ethically with such silences and the individuals behind them\, es pecially in times of war? The workshops within this event tackle these que stions drawing on case studies from Ukraine\, Poland\, Russia and Bosnia ’s Roma population.\\r\\nYou can sign up via the online form [https://do cs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScnVJVKUfnkw39EYROPuwy0dhewYA_iYQCD_JHh-LFR GRCHhQ/viewform] (deadline: 13 March 2026) and select your preferred worki ng groups.\\r\\nFurther information\, including details on the program and working groups\, can be found on the event flyer. X-ALT-DESC:

The question “Who speaks?” has been prominent in humaniti es research for several decades: Addressing the positionalities of speakin g subjects and their embeddedness into cultural hierarchies has strongly c ontributed to discussions of\, among others\, gender\, (post-)coloniality and sexualities in studies of both histories and cultures in Eastern and S outh-Eastern Europe. This study day is set to address this question’s im plicitly omnipresent counterpart: Who doesn’t speak and why? \;

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In a series of workshops\, we address the production\, perpetuation an d the challenging of silences in historical constellations and cultural pr oduction in Eastern Europe. By which mechanisms have certain groups (women \, LGBTQ+\, indigenous groups) or forms of cultural and artistic activity been excluded from the production of knowledge and denied entry into the s o-called canon? How do members of marginalized groups challenge hegemonic discourses that deny them the capacity to speak? And how can researchers a nd students engage ethically with such silences and the individuals behind them\, especially in times of war? The workshops within this event tackle these questions drawing on case studies from Ukraine\, Poland\, Russia an d Bosnia’s Roma population.

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You can sign up via the online form (deadline: 13 Marc h 2026) and select your preferred working groups.

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Further informat ion\, including details on the program and working groups\, can be found o n the event flyer.

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