Historical Epistemology of Central, East and Southeast European Studies

0577670 - MÚA 2024 RIV eng U - Conference, Workshop Arrangement
Babak, Galina - Surman, Jan - Nicolosi, R.
Historical Epistemology of Central, East and Southeast European Studies.
[Munich, 19.10.2023-20.10.2023, (K-WRD 16/13)]
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) LQ300772201
Program: Prémie Lumina quaeruntur
Institutional support: RVO:67985921
Keywords : history of science * historical epistemology
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
https://imagesofscience.wordpress.com/historical-epistemology-of-cesee-studies/

East European Studies is in an epistemological crisis. The Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine forces us to question analytical models and their epistemic premises that defined East European Studies in recent decades. Currently, a possible way out of the epistemological – and not only structural – crisis is often seen in the call for “decolonization,” “decentering,” and “provincialization” of Russia’s epistemic dominance in East European Studies, understood in its narrow sense as “Russian and Eurasian Studies.” We believe that the current crisis calls for more fundamental considerations. We want to examine the epistemic conditions of the methods and theories that have been applied within the framework of CESEE Studies over the last three decades. “Decolonizing” CESEE Studies not only means reforming curricula and syllabi, challenging established canons, or shifting the focus to “peripheral” areas of research. It means, first and foremost, doing political and historical epistemology, that is, reflecting on the epistemic, institutional, and political conditions of the emergence and development of theories, methods, and practices in CESEE Studies.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0346798