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74661-01 - Seminar: Decentralizing Decolonial Feminisms: Perspectives From Eastern European Arts and Activism (3 KP)

Semester Frühjahrsemester 2025
Angebotsmuster einmalig
Dozierende Anna Hodel Laszlo (anna.hodel@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn)
Inhalt This course is jointly taught by Anna Hodel and Lilit Khandakaryan (Groningen University).

This course explores decolonial feminist practices, discourses, and transformative theoretical approaches in Eastern European contexts, with a particular focus on the visual and performative arts, and literature and their intersections with activism. Through critical engagement with post-socialist Eastern European perspectives, the course invites students to explore alternative frameworks rooted in local histories, cultural contexts, and lived experiences and to understand how these voices contribute to the decentralization and dewesternization of feminist and decolonial narratives. Additionally, the course examines the positioning of post-socialist Eastern European voices within the broader feminist dialogue between the Global North and South, assessing how these perspectives challenge and contribute to existing global feminist frameworks.
After a few brief spotlights on the socialist feminist 20th century (including Alexandra Kollontai and early Soviet feminism in the 1920s, feminist movements in literature and art in the 1960s, for example in Yugoslavia and Poland), the seminar focuses primarily on the post-socialist period, following the development of movements and artistic positions and networks in Eastern Europa after 1990/91 that combine female and decolonial perspectives. The focus is, amongst others, on international women's networks in the wars in Yugoslavia, Chechnya and Georgia, feminism and the New Ukraine since 1991, feminist poetry in the post-Soviet space, the female face of the Belarusian protest movement 2020/2021, feminist anti-war resistance in the context of the Russian war against Ukraine, artists of the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art and of Queering Yerevan.

EXKURSION / STUDY TRIP:
Following the course and creditable via a Learning Contract with additional 3 CP, an excursion to GEORGIA and ARMENIA will take place. Students will have the opportunity to visit local art institutions, alternative art education spaces, and have meetings with artists, activists, and art collectives. The plan is to carry out the excursion sometimes in the 2nd and 3rd week of June 2025.
Lernziele Students will finish the course with a nuanced understanding of (post-socialist) Eastern European decolonial feminist thought, art, and activism. They will also develop academic skills for critically engaging with decolonial feminist practices and discourses.
Literatur A detailed reading list will be announced at the beginning of the semester. Initial insights can be gained, for example, in:

Rajan, R.S. and Park, Y.M., 2000. Postcolonial feminism/Postcolonialism and feminism. In H. Schwarz and S. Ray, eds. A Companion to Postcolonial Studies. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Mohanty, C.T., 2003. Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Azoulay, A.A., 2019. Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism. London: Verso.
Harutyunyan, Angela. 2017 The Political Aesthetics of the Armenian Avant-Garde: The Journey of the ‘Painterly Real’. Manchester Univ Press.

Tlostanova, M. (2018) What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet? DecolonialArt from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire, by Madina Tlostanova, Durham and London: University Press.

Nikolay R. Karkov & Zhivka Valiavicharska (2018): Rethinking East European Socialism: Notes Toward an Anti-Capitalist Decolonial Methodology, Interventions, DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2018.1515647

Tlostanova, M., Thapar-Björkert, S., & Koobak, R. (2016). Border thinking and disidentification: Postcolonial and postsocialist feminist dialogues. Feminist Theory, 17(2), 211–228.

 

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen No requirements. All texts and materials will be available in translations (to English resp. German).
Unterrichtssprache Deutsch
Einsatz digitaler Medien kein spezifischer Einsatz
HörerInnen willkommen

 

Intervall Wochentag Zeit Raum
wöchentlich Montag 16.15-17.45 Nadelberg 8, Seminarraum 13

Einzeltermine

Datum Zeit Raum
Montag 17.02.2025 16.15-17.45 Uhr Nadelberg 8, Seminarraum 13
Montag 24.02.2025 16.15-17.45 Uhr Nadelberg 8, Seminarraum 13
Montag 03.03.2025 16.15-17.45 Uhr Nadelberg 8, Seminarraum 13
Montag 10.03.2025 16.15-17.45 Uhr Fasnachstferien
Montag 17.03.2025 16.15-17.45 Uhr Nadelberg 8, Seminarraum 13
Montag 24.03.2025 16.15-17.45 Uhr Nadelberg 8, Seminarraum 13
Montag 31.03.2025 16.15-17.45 Uhr Nadelberg 8, Seminarraum 13
Montag 07.04.2025 16.15-17.45 Uhr Nadelberg 8, Seminarraum 13
Montag 14.04.2025 16.15-17.45 Uhr Nadelberg 8, Seminarraum 13
Montag 21.04.2025 16.15-17.45 Uhr Ostern
Montag 28.04.2025 16.15-17.45 Uhr Nadelberg 8, Seminarraum 13
Montag 05.05.2025 16.15-17.45 Uhr Nadelberg 8, Seminarraum 13
Montag 12.05.2025 16.15-17.45 Uhr Nadelberg 8, Seminarraum 13
Montag 19.05.2025 16.15-17.45 Uhr Nadelberg 8, Seminarraum 13
Montag 26.05.2025 16.15-17.45 Uhr Nadelberg 8, Seminarraum 13
Module Modul: Ethnographien (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie)
Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master Studienfach: Slavistik)
Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master Studienfach: Englisch)
Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master Studienfach: Deutsche Philologie)
Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master Studienfach: Französistik)
Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master Studienfach: Hispanistik)
Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master Studienfach: Italianistik)
Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master Studienfach: Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft)
Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master Studienfach: Latinistik)
Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master Studienfach: Nordistik)
Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Masterstudium - Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät)
Modul: Literatur im Zusammenspiel der Künste und Medien (Master Studiengang: Literaturwissenschaft)
Modul: Literaturtheorie (Master Studiengang: Literaturwissenschaft)
Modul: Slavische Kulturwissenschaft (Master Studienfach: Slavistik)
Modul: Slavische Literaturwissenschaft BA (Bachelor Studiengang: Osteuropa-Studien)
Modul: Slavische Literaturwissenschaft BA (Bachelor Studienfach: Osteuropäische Kulturen)
Modul: Slavische Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master Studienfach: Slavistik)
Modul: Theorien der Geschlechterforschung (Master Studienfach: Geschlechterforschung)
Modul: Theory and General Anthropology (Master Studienfach: Anthropology)
Prüfung Lehrveranst.-begleitend
An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich
Wiederholungsprüfung keine Wiederholungsprüfung
Skala Pass / Fail
Belegen bei Nichtbestehen nicht wiederholbar
Zuständige Fakultät Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch
Anbietende Organisationseinheit Fachbereich Slavistik

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