Almira Ousmanova

Almira Ousmanova is a Belarusian philosopher, cultural theorist and gender scholar. sle lives and works in Lithuania since 2005. She is professor at the Academic Department of Social Sciences, she is Head of the Laboratory for Studies of Visual Culture and Contemporary Art at the European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania).

The project

Title: Reshaping the field, reframing the discourse:  new challenges for the scholars of postsocialist region in France  in 2020-2022.

The main objective of the given research project is to explore the epistemological shifts, conceptual challenges and methodological concerns, that scholars in France, who are specialized on the studies of Eastern European region and postsocialist transformations, have faced during last two years. The chronological framework of the given research project is defined by two major political challenges – first, the political crisis in Belarus, that started in 2020, and then, in 2022, the beginning of full-scale war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine.
 

Hosting institution: CERCEC - Centre d’Études des mondes Russe, Caucasien Et Centre-européen (CNRS/ EHESS)

Selective Bibliography

• “The Im/mediacy of the War”, Topos, 1/2023,   pp.121 – 139
• “Аўтарытарызм i патрыярхат,  альбо чаму пратэстуюць беларускі” (Belarusian –  pp.50 – 53); “Authoritarianism and Patriarchy, or Why Belarusian Women Take Issue” (English – pp.54 – 57)// // pARTisankA: альманах сучаснае беларускае культуры.  # 35. HAU Hebbel am Ufer , 2021.
• “Debates on Postsocialism and the Politics of Knowledge in the Space  of Multiple “Post-s”,  in Russian Sociological Review, 2020, Vol. 19, No.3, pp. 44 – 69
• «Digital Multitude: the Multiple that takes over the One» // New Eastern Europe (Poland), December, 2020
• Danah Abdulla, Teresa Cisneros, Andrea Francke, Lolita Jablonskiene, Ieva Mazuraite-Novickiene, Achille Mbembe, Almira Ousmanova, Ieva Pleikiene, Marquard Smith, and Michelle Williams Gamaker. Decolonizing: The Curriculum, the Museum, and the Mind. Vilnius; National Art Academy, 2020
• “Jacques Derrida on The Territory of Ghosts”, ATHENA: Philosophical Studies, 2018, Vol. 13, pp.96 – 123