The Politics Of Knowledge Production
Feminist Reflections on Russia's War against Ukraine
This event explores questions surrounding voice, expertise and silence in debates of and about war, catalysed by the speakers reflections, expertise and experiences on Russia’s war against Ukraine. Even though debates in academia and elsewhere have been saturated with discussions about the war, we want to problematize the subjects and the narratives that have dominated these discussions. Against this, we want to discuss the politics and materiality of feminist interventions in the war or the lack of them thereof.
Meet the speakers and chair:
Vjosa Musliu (she/her) is an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Her research focuses on international interventions, EU external relations and the way the EU creates and maintains its relations with its ‘others’ and how such practices also creep into academic work. Her book titled Europeanization and Statebuilding as Everyday Practices. Performing Europe in the Western Balkans(Routledge Studies on Intervention and Statebuilding) was published in 2020. She is a co-author (with Gëzim Visoka) of the edited volume Unravelling Liberal Interventionism. Local Critiques of Statebuilding in Kosovo (Worlding Beyond the West Series). She is also a co-editor of the Routledge Studies on Intervention and Statebuilding Series.
Maryna Shevtsova is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND Fellow at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Senior FWO Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium. She was a Swedish Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Lund (2020) and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Florida, USA 2018/19. Her publications include books LGBTI Politics and Value Change in Ukraine and Turkey: Exporting Europe? (Routledge, 2021) and LGBTQ+ Activism in Central and Eastern Europe. Resistance, Representation, and Identity (with Radzhana Buyantueva, Palgrave Macmillan 2019). She is currently working on an edited volume on the ongoing War in Ukraine (2014-2022) bringing together diverse contributions by Ukrainian feminist scholars and activists.
Olga Burlyuk is Assistant Professor of Europe’s external relations at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Affiliate of the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES). Olga does research on EU efforts to transform third states and societies, with a specific focus on Eastern Europe and Ukraine. She co-edits the Special Forum “The responsibility to remain silent? On the politics of knowledge production, expertise and (self-)reflection in Russia’s war against Ukraine” (with Vjosa Musliu; Journal of International Relations and Development) and the book “Migrants academics’ narratives of precarity and resilience in Europe” (with Ladan Rahbari; Open Book Publishers).
Chair: Elena B. Stavrevska is a feminist peace scholar whose work examines issues of intersectionality and political economy in conflict-affected societies, feminist and decolonial approaches to peace, as well as coloniality of knowledge in relation to the post-Yugoslav space. She is a lecturer in International Relations at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol and a member of the YugoslaWomen+ Collective. Prior to joining SPAIS, Elena worked as a research officer at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, a visiting research fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Bard College Berlin, and a work-package coordinator and researcher in the EU-funded project Cultures of Governance and Conflict Resolution in Europe and India at the Central European University. Her work has appeared in different edited volumes and international peer-reviewed journals, such as International Peacekeeping, Politics & Gender, Third World Quarterly, and Civil Wars.
Image credit: Pawel Czerwinski
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