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As the home to the area and global studies centers and thematic programs at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Illinois Global Institute is dedicated to fostering an environment where international perspectives are integral to teaching and research.

Center for African Studies * Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies * Center for Global Studies * Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies * Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies * Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity * European Union Center * LAS Global Studies * Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies * Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center * The Program in Arms Control and Domestic and International Security

 

BODIES IN FOCUS: Emerging Scholars on Body Studies

Jan 31, 2025   10:00 - 11:30 am  
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CREES (University of Pittsburgh); CSEEES (Ohio State University); CREECA (UW Madison); ASEEES; CREES (University of Kansas); CREEES (University of Texas); CSEEES (UNC Chapel Hill); The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Harvard University); IERES (George Washington University); ISEEES (UC Berkeley); REEI (Indiana University); REEEC (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
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Russian, E. European & Eurasian Center: Co-sponsored Events

This six-part virtual event series will examine body matters within Eurasia through a variety of disciplines and themes. The body-as-method has emerged recently to provide novel insights on society, culture, and identity by foregrounding alternatives to Western traditions that marginalized the corporeal dimensions of social and personal existence.

  •        Why is the body good “to think with” on both intellectual and professional matters?
  •        How do classed, diversely abled, gendered, and raced bodies interact in the daily lives we study or inhabit through our avocations? 
  •        What is the continuously evolving relationship between the body and the body politic, whether the nation, empire, the EU, or NATO?
  •        Is research and teaching disembodying and can recentering “embodied and uncomfortable knowledge” therefore move liberation in East European and Eurasian Studies forward?

To address these questions, "Bodies in Focus" will have six virtual, recorded panels featuring speakers from various disciplines and institutions. Panelists and the audience will explore how bodies matter for the study and teaching of East European and Eurasian social and material environments, our understanding of power and equity, and for the cultivation of human capacities in our field.

January 31. Emerging Scholars on Body Studies

11:00 am - 12:30 pm (EST) | 10:00 am - 11:30 am (CST) | 8:00 -9:30 am (PST)

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Moderator: Paweł Lewicki, Independent Scholar

Speakers: Masha Beketova, Humboldt University, Berlin

                  Oksana Potapova, London School of Economics

                  Alexa Tignall-Kurmanova, UC Berkley

                  Volha Verbilovich, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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