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The RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asia Studies in Global Conversation
A call to explore freedom
Andreas Umland@umland.eurosky.social · 3d agoCfP: The RUTA Association Annual Conference, Bukovina Region, 8-11 July, 2027 (Deadline: 15 November 2026) @associationruta.bsky.social @aseees.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social @balticbasees.bsky.social @dgoberlin.bsky.social @ukrainianstudies.bsky.social @isanet.bsky.social @asn-org.bsky.social
The anthem of the Crimean Tatars. Lyrics by Noman Çelebicihan, Crimean Tatar poet and politician. President of the independent Crimean People’s Republic. Killed by Bolshevik forces in 1918. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeZN...
Qırımtatar Milliy Gimni - Ant Etkenmen (lyrics) Kırım Tatarlarının ulusal marşı
YouTube video by Crimean Music l Qırım Muzıkası
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Looks like we couldn’t have chosen a more timely topic: RUTA 2027 will explore freedom. What does it take to achieve and defend it? Where do its limits and tensions lie? And what can we learn from those who have thought and fought for freedom before us? ruta-association.org/conference/f...
There is a new Russian atrocity every day in Ukraine. It is crucial not to become desensitised; to stop and think: what is the meaning of what we see? We see genocide and epistemicide unfolding before our eyes.
The RUTA Association@associationruta.bsky.social · last wk.The RUTA Association stands in solidarity with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and calls on the international academic community to respond decisively to Russia’s continued attacks on Ukrainian civilians, research institutions, and intellectual life.
CfP: The RUTA Association Annual Conference, Bukovina Region, 8-11 July, 2027 (Deadline: 15 November 2026) @associationruta.bsky.social @aseees.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social @balticbasees.bsky.social @dgoberlin.bsky.social @ukrainianstudies.bsky.social @isanet.bsky.social @asn-org.bsky.social
Freedom: what it is(n’t) - Ruta
"Then I am joyful, then I am rich, when my heart shall walk in freedom!" wrote Taras Shevchenko, one of Ukraine’s most prominent writers. He knew very well
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Crucial conversations at the UFF about gender and empire, the importance of Ukrainian cinema and its correcting of Russian-Soviet colonial narratives, and the countering of the disturbingly stereotypical portrayal of Central & Northern Asian and East-European women in Western film & media production
A fascinating talk incoming, you’re very welcome to join 😍.
The RUTA Association@associationruta.bsky.social · last wk.Our next RUTA webinar on 28 October will bring together the author collective of a crucial forum on decolonial dialogues in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Madina Tlostanova and Yuliya Yurchuk will serve as discussants, and Assel Tutumlu will moderate. Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register for this very interesting event on 4th November. I'll be speaking at one of the panels and listening to my friends speak about the cultural and art developments.
Kazakhstan at 35: A Symposium on a Transforming Nation
A hybrid symposium hosted in partnership with the British Embassy in Astana. Held at KCL and kindly sponsored by the Caspian Policy Center.
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Feels like a strangely apt day to be doing the final final proofs on this text, reflecting on Diana Kudaibergen’s powerful book on the often nonlinear, long, back-and-forth, multi-generational struggle to take down dictatorship. Soon out in Central Asian Survey. Do read the book.
Tereza Hendl@terezahendl.bsky.social · 2y agoSitting down with @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social’s vital book and putting the finishing touches to a text that reflects on some of the lessons from a sequence of major protest Springs: Prague Spring, Arab Spring and Qazaq Spring and the mass uprisings and challenges to dictatorship they involved
An important message of support for the everlasting struggle of Ukrainian academia to survive.
The RUTA Association@associationruta.bsky.social · last wk.The RUTA Association stands in solidarity with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and calls on the international academic community to respond decisively to Russia’s continued attacks on Ukrainian civilians, research institutions, and intellectual life.
The full statement can be read here
The RUTA Association@associationruta.bsky.social · last wk.We stand in solidarity with Ukrainian scholars, librarians, archivists, and cultural workers who carry and produce generations of knowledge about Ukrainian history, culture, language, and self-determination. Read more on our website: ruta-association.org/news/stateme...
Our call to action with the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation
The RUTA Association@associationruta.bsky.social · last wk.Russia has once again demonstrated that its war is also a war against Ukraine’s memory, language, culture, and future. We call on the international academic community to respond decisively to Russia’s continued attacks on Ukrainian civilians, research institutions, and intellectual life.
The RUTA Association stands in solidarity with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and calls on the international academic community to respond decisively to Russia’s continued attacks on Ukrainian civilians, research institutions, and intellectual life.
Our next RUTA webinar on 28 October will bring together the author collective of a crucial forum on decolonial dialogues in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Madina Tlostanova and Yuliya Yurchuk will serve as discussants, and Assel Tutumlu will moderate. Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Just attended an interesting and much-needed event problematising the persistent invisibility of East European women—mainly Polish and Ukrainian—in the (armed) resistance, including against Nazi Germany. We also discussed the incredible contemporary and freely accessible‼️Archive of Public Protest
Ragozin moved at full speed into active disinformation soon after the full-scale invasion. Latvian authorities have been extremely patient with him for a very long time. He kept testing that patience, and now he can reap what he sowed. www.politico.eu/article/latv...
Latvia moves to expel Russian journalist who used to work for BBC
Leonid Ragozin made remarks widely interpreted as making excuses for the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine and hybrid attacks in Europe.
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The full special issue done in a dialogue rather than separate papers is available OPEN ACCESS here - brill.com/view/journal... @uclssees.bsky.social
Central Asian Affairs Volume 13 Issue 3: Special Issue: Looking Back, Moving Forward: Interdisciplinary Decolonial Dialogues on Central Asia and Eastern Europe: A Special Forum, edited by Nodira Kholm...
"Volume 13 (2026): Issue 3 (Aug 2026): Special Issue: Looking Back, Moving Forward: Interdisciplinary Decolonial Dialogues on Central Asia and Eastern Europe: A Special Forum, edited by Nodira Kholmat...
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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen@dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 2w agoSave the date and share widely! On 28th October we come together to celebrate our big special issue on decolonial dialogues in Eastern Europe and Central Asia at the @associationruta.bsky.social! Join online <3
For registration and more information about our next RUTA webinar, "Looking Back, Moving Forward," see: ruta-association.org/event/ruta-h...
RUTA hosts online launch of the special forum "Looking Back, Moving Forward: Interdisciplinary Decolonial Dialogues on Central Asia and Eastern Europe" - Ruta
RUTA will host the online launch of the special forum Looking Back, Moving Forward: Interdisciplinary Decolonial Dialogues on Central Asia and Eastern Europe,
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Save the date for our next RUTA webinar, bringing together the author collective of a crucial transregional forum on decolonial dialogues in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, with Madina Tlostanova and Yuliya Yurchuk as discussants, and Assel Tutumlu as moderator. The registration page will open soon
Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen@dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 2w agoSave the date and share widely! On 28th October we come together to celebrate our big special issue on decolonial dialogues in Eastern Europe and Central Asia at the @associationruta.bsky.social! Join online <3
RUTA founder Dr Tereza Hendl and RUTA member Dr Joanna Karolina Malinowska have been awarded a grant from GLOHRA to organise a workshop exploring the European East–West health gap. Applications to join the hybrid workshop are due by 9 October and include a brief motivation statement.
Joanna Karolina Malinowska@malinowska.bsky.social · 2w ago@terezahendl.bsky.social and I are very happy to finally share the full programme of our workshop, “Mind the Gap: Engaging Europe’s East in Global Health Debates”! 29–30 October Berlin or online Free participation Apply until 9 October: www.globalhealth.de/news/view/mi... #philsci
“Authoritarian consolidation in Georgia has produced multiple mechanisms of control over the university: legal, institutional and financial, and ideological” warns Maia Barkaia in her text on academic (un)freedom. One thinks of the increasingly global parallels… allegralaboratory.net/academic-fre...
Academic Freedom under Authoritarian Consolidation: A View from Georgia - Allegra Lab
It has been almost two years since Georgia’s protests began on November 28, 2024.
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RUTA grew out of academic solidarity networks that emerged as a response to the shock of Feb. 24, 2022. Each year, it holds an international conference in Ukraine, centring Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation.
The RUTA Association@associationruta.bsky.social · 3w agoWe are glad to announce that the theme of our next RUTA Conference (in early July 2027) is “Freedom: What It Is(n’t)” Even under the harshest conditions, the human desire for freedom persists. Yet freedom has long been understood as something more complicated than simply liberation from oppression.
A reminder that registration for our workshop, “Mind the Gap: Engaging Europe’s East in Global Health Debates”, closes on 9 October 2026! Participation is free, with both in-person and online options. In-person participation at Charité in Berlin :) www.globalhealth.de/news/view/mi...
Mind the gap: engaging Europe’s East in global health debates
Scientific Workshop in Berlin
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Joanna Karolina Malinowska@malinowska.bsky.social · 2mo agoI’m very happy to be organising this workshop with @terezahendl.bsky.social. Bringing the health concerns of Europe’s East – understood in a broad, transregional sense – into global health debates is especially important to me. Join us in Berlin or online (apply by 9 October)!
The Pitfalls of Campism: Global Perspectives @associationruta.bsky.social speakers: Ladan Rahbari — University of Amsterdam Robin Yassin-Kassab — author of еhe Road from Damascus; The Blood Between Us Rafael Uzcategui — Laboratorio de Paz Mariia Vorotilina — curator and activist
Ukraine Solidarity Information@ukrainesolidarity.bsky.social · 6mo agoOnce again, we will meet in Ukraine and hold our discussions on freedom in the society that is fighting for it. I can also share, ahead of the full CFP, that one of the sub-themes will be For Your Freedom and Ours!, exploring transnational liberation movements and their lasting intellectual heritage
The theme of our next RUTA conference is freedom—what it is and what it isn’t. Who are the theorists, dissidents, and artists from the RUTA regions of Europe's East, Baltic, Caucasus, Central & Northern Asia—and globally—whose work we build on when we think about what freedom and oppression entail?
The RUTA Association@associationruta.bsky.social · 3w agoWe are glad to announce that the theme of our next RUTA Conference (in early July 2027) is “Freedom: What It Is(n’t)” Even under the harshest conditions, the human desire for freedom persists. Yet freedom has long been understood as something more complicated than simply liberation from oppression.
As you prepare for the next edition of RUTA, we encourage you to use the time before the Call for Papers opens to develop trans-regional panels. Keep an eye on our social media and website for the official CFP launch. We look forward to exploring what freedom is, and what it isn’t, with you.
We are glad to announce that the theme of our next RUTA Conference (in early July 2027) is “Freedom: What It Is(n’t)” Even under the harshest conditions, the human desire for freedom persists. Yet freedom has long been understood as something more complicated than simply liberation from oppression.
There are ~2000 Ukrainians trapped inside the occupied city of Oleshky, Kherson region. They are deprived of food, in what is painfully reminding Ukrainians of another man-made famine, almost a century ago: the Holodomor. 📽️Full video here🔗 emmanuellechaze.substack.com/p/we-need-to...
Russia has manufactured yet another famine on the European continent, and the continent is merely watching Ukrainians die of starvation—yet again. Absolute abdication of intervening in genocide, let alone preventing it. Where is any action beyond empty words of “concern”?
The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · last mo.Some 6,000 people — 200 of them children — are right now starving to death in a humanitarian catastrophe orchestrated by Vladimir Putin's Russia.