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SUMMARY:East of when\, post where? 'Eastern Europeanness' and travelling r
 acial imaginaries - Špela Drnovšek Zorko\, Catholic University Eichstät
 t-Ingolstadt
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DESCRIPTION:We cordially invite you to attend this year’s keynote lectur
 e for the seminar series Thinking from the East: Postsocialist Geographies
  and the Geopolitics of Knowledge. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Špela Dr
 novšek Zorko\, an anthropologist of race\, migration\, and memory whose w
 ork spans Central and Eastern Europe\, contemporary Britain\, and the Yugo
 slav region. Špela’s talk will be an excellent conclusion to a fruitful
  term filled with conversations about race and raciality in Eastern Europe
 \, migration and exclusion\, and the various registers from which we speak
  as scholars of the region. Her publications on the articulations of race 
 and genealogies of encounter among former Yugoslav migrants in Britain and
  her recent elaboration of a research methodology of ‘postness' may be o
 f particular interest. This talk will take place on Wednesday\, January 7t
 h at 5:30pm in the Classroom\, Department of Architecture\, University of 
 Cambridge (see below for directions) and will be simultaneously streamed v
 ia Zoom at the link http://www.tinyurl.com/speladz. All are welcome to att
 end.\n\nAmidst a flourishing literature on race and the 'Eastern European'
  region\, including work on the racialisation of East-West migration\, his
 torical (re-)assessments of racial subjectivities\, and decolonial approac
 hes to the geopolitics of whiteness\, I take a small but necessary step si
 deways to think about postcolonial Britain as the condition for claim-maki
 ng by 'Eastern European migrants'. I do so in relation to the figure of th
 e post-war migrant - and the politics of presence evoked in the phrase "we
  are here because you were there" - to tease out how postcolonial migratio
 n shapes the possibilities for migrants from Eastern Europe to be thought 
 of as historical subjects in Britain as a (b)ordered society\, as well as 
 the multiple routes through which the 'postness' of their presence interve
 nes in broader discussions about racialisation.\n\nŠpela Drnovšek Zorko 
 is a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Waseda University\, Tokyo\, where she is 
 investigating current intersections between borders\, racialisation\, and 
 new formulations of East-West relations. Her interdisciplinary research ex
 plores the politics of race\, migration\, and memory through the lens of d
 iasporic postsocialism and global encounters with ‘postness’\, with a 
 specific emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe\, contemporary Britain\, a
 nd the Yugoslav region. She obtained her Marie Curie-funded PhD in Anthrop
 ology at SOAS\, University of London (2012-2017) and was previously a Leve
 rhulme Early Career Fellow in the Warwick Department of Sociology (2017-20
 20). Špela is affiliated with the Dialoguing Posts and NODE UK-Japan netw
 orks and is a convenor of the British Sociological Association Diaspora\, 
 Migration and Transnationalism study group. In the past she worked as a tr
 anslator\, with a particular predilection for translating Slovenian poets 
 into English.\n\nDirections: The Department of Architecture is located at 
 Scroope Terrace\, and someone will be on hand to welcome and guide attende
 es until the talk begins. The Classroom is located on the first floor\, vi
 a the yellow staircase.\n\nThis talk is part of the seminar series Thinkin
 g from the East (?): Postsocialist geographies and thegeopolitics of knowl
 edge. These seminars are our attempt to challenge a pervasive absence in t
 his university: that of the “postsocialist\,” “Eastern European\,”
  “Central Asian\,” “Balkan\,” “postsoviet\,” (etc.) subject. A
 t the epistemic margins of the European project\, we see something more th
 an our own peripherality: we see colonial logics at work\, ones that seeks
  to suppress not only certain kinds ofknowledge\, but also certain kinds o
 f people. This seminar series will engage with the very exciting emerging 
 literature that highlights the colonial logics that sustain a certain kind
  of Eastern European subject\, while erasing (or worse) others (particular
 ly Muslim and Roma Europeans)\; writing that speaks against ‘colorblindn
 ess’ and assimilation in the region\; and scholarship that builds bridge
 s and solidarity with other knowledges that are marginalized in the academ
 y. In doing so\, we hope to build a network ofresearchers in and around Ca
 mbridge working to challenge epistemic erasure and imagine other worlds. T
 he series will continue in Michaelmas 2023. 
LOCATION:The Classroom\, Department of Architecture (1st floor yellow stai
 rs) or livestreamed at tinyurl.com/speladz
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