The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has brought intellectual issues brought to the fore. In the lecture “Russia’s War as an Epistemological Challenge: ‘Banal Imperialism(s)’ in (Inter-)Disciplinary Knowledge Production,” Valeriya Korablyova (Prague) discusses several of these key problems of knowledge production. Russia’s claim to speak on behalf of others needs to be challenged by exposing and denouncing russocentrism. Discussing how “cultural imperialism outlives the political phenomenon of colonization,” Korablyova argues that the lingering rhetoric resonance of imperialism in Western Europe conditions a European continued recepitivy toward’s Putin’s rhetoric.
The video was recorded by the “Video-Team Geschichte” at Bielefeld University: Anna-Lea Krampe, Nikita Malinovskii, Moritz Schädler.