Alexa von Winning (Tübingen)
Performing Market Reform: Local Entrepreneurship Initiatives in 1990s Belarus
27.05.2026 17:15 – 18:45
Historicum Room K302, Schellingstr. 12, Munich
Colloquium “Europe's History of the Present: Universalism and Particularism”
The KFG colloquium continues with its next session on Wednesday, May 27th, with a lecture by Junior Fellow Alexa von Winning on "Performing Market Reform: Local Entrepreneurship Initiatives in 1990s Belarus".
Alexa von Winning is Assistant Professor at University of Tuebingen, where she also obtained her PhD. Her first book came out with Oxford University Press: Intimate Empire. The Mansurov Family in Russia and the Orthodox East, 1855-1936 (2022). Her current research examines economic discourses and practices of "becoming capitalist" in Russia and Belarus. She has been a fellow at Imre-Kertész-Kolleg (Jena), the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (Urbana-Champaign), and the German Historical Institute (Moscow).
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