Decolonization in Focus: Panel V

MODERATOR:

Caress Schenk
Associate Professor of Political Science
Nazarbayev University

SPEAKERS:

Shoshana Keller
Chair and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History
Hamilton College

Irina Roldugina
UCIS Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Pittsburgh

Louis Porter
Assistant Professor of History
Texas State University

Panel V. Syllabus Design and Critical Pedagogies in the Classroom: How Do We Teach Differently?

The Russian war in Ukraine has had innumerable impacts, from personal to political, local, national, and global. One of the many sea changes wrought by the war has been the reckoning within Slavic/Russian & Eurasian Studies over the outsized role Russia has played and continues to play in the field and what could and should be done about it. The invited panelists in this series will consider the relationships of power that have long dominated the region, how they have impacted the field of study, and what, if anything, could and should be done about it.

The series will consist of six wide-ranging panels featuring speakers from a variety of disciplines and institutions. Panelists and participants will be encouraged to consider why decolonizing Russian & Eurasian studies matters, how to implement concrete change in their classrooms, and how to conceive of the future of expertise within the field.