Scholarly ZEIT GUEST is a video podcast about new ideas and trends in Slavic Studies, cohosted by Prof.Mark Lipovetsky and Dr.Tatiana Efremova at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. The sixth episode features a conversation with Irina Sandomirskaja, Professor of cultural studies at Södertörn University, Sweden. We talk about the difference between literary and area studies departments, discuss whether our field could have predicted post-Soviet crises, and explore the dangers of affective appropriation of history (as well as ways of looking beyond it).
This episode was produced with the help of Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning. We are also grateful to Will Roane and the production company Team Zebra Squad Alpha for technical support.
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0:00 Teaser
0:48 Intro
02:22 Decolonization of Slavic Studies in North America vs. Europe
04:53 Scholarship vs. strategic knowledge
09:44 Why did the war and other crises come unpredicted by our field?
12:03 A possibility for things to be different
15:04 Critique as a foundational method of scholarship
17:47 The enigma of the Soviet subjectivity
20:25 Memory vs. restoration
24:50 Affective appropriation of history
27:29 Discovering of affects in subjects, not objects
29:11 Political instrumentalization of affect
31:45 Materiality and commodification of the thing
36:55 The language of the present moment
39:48 Slow down and refurbish
23 май 2024
