Veranstaltungen

Эмилия Кустова (Страсбургский университет): Длинная история сталинских депортаций: на пересечении коллективного и индивидуального (1940-1991)

Montag, 2.06.2025, 16.50-18.20, Raum N.316 | Monday 2 June 2025, 4.50-6.20 pm, room N.316

Обратившись к истории депортаций, обрушившихся на страны Балтии и Западную Украину после их оккупации СССР в 1940-х годах, мы предложим по-новому взглянуть на сталинские массовые принудительные перемещения населения. Для этого мы совместим «историю сверху», в основе которой лежат решения и действия государственных институтов разного уровня, и «историю снизу», в центре которой стоит индивидуальный опыт жертв депортаций, их жизненные траектории и отношения, сохранявшиеся или возникавшие в ссылке и за ее пределами. Weiterlesen "2.06.2025 | Gastvortrag von Emilia Koustova (University of Strasbourg): Writing a long history of the Stalinist deportations, at the intersection of the collective and the individual (1940-1991) (Vortrag auf Russisch)"

Montag, 23.06.2025, 16.50-18.20, Raum N.316 | Monday, 23 June 2025, 4.50-6.20 pm, room N.316

This presentation will explore the formation and current status of Islamic manuscript collections in Dagestan, focusing on private libraries, mosque-based waqf collections, and state archives. It will highlight three primary trajectories of private Islamic libraries—transformation, destruction, and conservation—and discuss the impact of state policies, social changes, and recent efforts to localize, digitize, and study these collections. Special attention will be given to the evolving approach to studying Islamic literary heritage in private and mosque collections.
Dr. Shamil Shikhaliev is currently based at the Institute of Iranian Studies, where he works on the research project “Probing the Horizons of a Daghestani Polymath: ‘Alī alGhumūqī and His Library (1878–1943)” (Principal Investigator: Dr. Paolo Sartori), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). His research interests include codicology, palaeography of Islamic manuscripts, Caucasian Arabic epigraphy, the history of the Islamic literary tradition in the eastern Caucasus, Islamic law, Sufism, reformism, and the broader history of Islam in the region.

Montag, 07. Juli 2025, 16.50-18.20, Raum N.316 | Monday, 7 July 2025, 4.50-6.20 pm, room N.316

How do Russian history museums shape national narratives under Putin’s rule? This discussion explores museum propaganda in contemporary Russia (2000s–2025) within the framework of Authorised Dictatorial Discourse (ADD)—a concept developed by Minjae Zoh (2020) and inspired by Laurajane Smith’s Authorised Heritage Discourse (AHD). Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative analysis, Anastasia Serikova will examine how state-driven narratives are embedded in museum exhibitions, discussing case studies, research methodology, and the broader implications of historical memory control in authoritarian contexts. Join us for an insightful discussion on the intersection of history, propaganda, and power in Russian museums.

Anastasia Serikova is a history and sociology, graduate student at Bielefeld Graduate School. She has been researching difficult heritage since 2016, with both her undergraduate and graduate work dedicated to this field. During her master’s studies at the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture (2019–2021), she published extensively and received several academic awards. Her thesis, “The Interpretation of Dissonant Heritage in Museum Institutions in Russia and Germany”, won the European Museum Academy’s “Master Study of the Year 2021.” Her current research focuses on the discourse of difficult heritage in democratic and authoritarian
contexts, using grounded theory.