On ‘Decentering’ and Reimagining Slavic and East European Studies from the Periphery

Activity Type: 
Lecture
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Presenter: 
Dr. Sunnie Rucker-Chang
Date: 
Friday, February 24, 2023 - 17:30 to 19:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
Hybrid

On ‘Decentering’ and Reimagining Slavic and East European Studies from the Periphery” will be delivered by Sunnie Rucker-Chang, Associate Professor at the Department of Slavic and East European Studies at Ohio State University. Dr. Sunnie Rucker-Chang writes on racial and cultural formations, minority-majority and minority-minority relations in Southeast Europe. Her work has appeared in Critical Romani Studies, EuropeNow! - A Journal of Research and Art, Interventions: Journal of Post-Colonial Studies, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Slavic and East European Journal, and Slavic Review. She is currently finishing a monograph examining the politics of Blackness in former Yugoslav states that challenges conventional ideas of race and racialization in the Balkans and connects the region to broader trends in European Studies.
This is a hybrid event.

UCIS Unit: 
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Other Pitt Sponsors: 
Graduate Organisation for the Study of Europe and Central Asia
Is Event Already in University Calendar?: 
Yes