KFG workshop | Anti-Westernism of Knowledge Production in Russian Social Science during Russia’s War against Ukraine (13. - 14.11.2024)

The KFG Junior Fellow Workshop on November 13th and 14th, 2024 was organized by Junior Fellow Dr. Ivan Kislenko on “Anti-Westernism of Knowledge Production in Russian Social Science during Russia’s War against Ukraine”.

Venue: Seidlvilla, Max-Gorbach-Saal, Nicolaiplatz 1b, 80802 München

November 13, 2024

10:00-10:30
Welcome and Round of Introductions with Kiran Klaus Patel (Munich) and Ivan Kislenko (Belgorod)

10:30-12:30
Academic Sanctions and Abuse of Academic Freedom in Russia
Caroline von Gall (Frankfurt): Academic Freedom and Sanctions Against Russian Scientific Institutions
Dmitry Dubrovsky (Prague): Academic Freedom as a Human Right and Its Violation in Russia
Margarita Zavadskaya (Helsinki): From Cooperation to Rejection? Political Logic of Sanctions in Academia

12:30-13:15
Lunch break

13:15-15:15
Historical Prerequisites for Scientific Anti-Westernism: Soviet and Post-Soviet Contexts
Olessia Kirtchik (Paris): Social Sciences Under Dictatorship: Soviet Union as Failed Technocracy
Ivan Kislenko (Belgorod): Justification Practices of Soviet Sociology Uniqueness in Late- and Post-Soviet Doctoral
Dissertations of Two Academies
Alexander Dmitriev (Prague): Human and Social Sciences in Russia in the 1990s-early 2000s: Fragments of a Disciplinary Panorama

15:15-15:45
Coffee break

15:45-17:15
Anti-Western Tendencies in Russian Social Sciences (Online-Session)
Katerina Guba and Artur Pecherskikh (St. Petersburg): Identifying (Anti)Westernism of Knowledge Production in Russian Sociology: Text-as-Data Approach.
Mikhail Sokolov (Madison): Assimilationism and Nativism in Four Social Sciences: Results of a Survey of Russian Academics

18:00
Keynote Lecture - Room K201, Schellingstr. 12, 80799 München - School of History
Alexander Libman (Berlin): Social Sciences in Russia before the War: Integration, Isolation, Political Impact

November 14, 2024

10:00-11.00
Keynote Lecture
Theodore Gerber (Madison): Three Wars and the Practice of Social Science: Ethical, Scientific, and Practical Aspects of Collaboration and Cancellation in a Troubled World

11:00-11:30
Coffee break

11:30-13:00
The Role of Expert Community in Marginalization of Subaltern Topics
Guzel Yusupova (Berlin): Studying Diversity in Autocratic Context: Sensitivity and Research Ethics
Ivan Kislenko (Belgorod): Sovereignizing Science? Appropriation of Decolonial Language and Marginalization of Epistemic Justice in Russian Social Science

13:00-13:45
Lunch break

13:45-14:30
Roundtable “The Future of Russian (Social) Science: Between Anti-Westernism and Possible Normalization?” and Concluding remarks

For additional information, please refer to the workshop poster below. 

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