Projects

The Centre Cannot Hold? Neo-Modernity,New Monumentality and Other Zombie Urban Utopias

2015/2016 International Workshop

This project explore the aesthetics, politics, economics and affects of centrality and monumentality, from their 20th century golden age to their contemporary inheritances, afterlives, ruins and appropriations. 

Squatting, Schwarzwohnen, Favelas: Illegal Housing as a Global Phenomenon

2016/2017 International Workshop

This project will bring together global scholarship on squatting. Conceptual and intellectual parallels shall be established between Eastern Europe and other global areas.

Lexicon(s) of Russianness

2017/2018 International Workshop

In contemporary discourse inside and outside Russia, ‘Russianness’ has become a rhetorical and conceptual point of contention. Starting with the premise that there is no single ‘fundamental’ Russian cultural formation—all relationships are historically produced and need to be made—we propose to examine the strategies of discursive constructions of Russianness and the Russian identity as enacted through cultural production in the geographically, chronologically and culturally distinct locations (across Russia and diaspora)