ESEHMay 8

#Symposium - 40 years after #chornobyl, the MWNO and the Aleksanteri-instituutti - Aleksanteri Institute want to reflect on historical constellations and aftereffects of man-made disasters with a focus on nuclear, military and petrocultures in Eastern Europe and Northern Eurasia from the Cold War until today.

May 28th, 2026, 12:45 pm EET
Helsinki and online

You can consult the program of the symposium here: https://mwseasteurope.hypotheses.org/files/2026/05/Program-28th-of-May-Man-Made-Disasters.pdf

To participate, please, register in advance: https://shorturl.at/5kKCT

#mwno #MWS #environmentalhistory #chernobyl #NuclearHistory

de.hypothesesMar 31

The city of Grozny, located in the North Caucasus, is home to Russia's most colonial and most fascinating archive.

Walter Sperling argues that colonial archives in former imperial peripheries not only help us discover the voices of subalterns: They also allow us to study the metropolis and its knowledge production from a decentered perspective 👇

https://decentarch.hypotheses.org/2144

#MWNO #DecenteredArchive #Archive #USSR

A Small Mosque and the Big Russian Archive: Towards a Postcolonial History of Knowledge Production

Like some colleagues, I have conducted research not only in the Russian capitals, but also in the multiethnic Volga provinces.[1] But it was in the Caucasus that I truly grasped the extent to which...

The Decentered Archive
Nanette Rissler-PipkaMar 31
The first day at the #dh #digitalhisory spring school #DHTbilisi was filled with project presentations by the participants: 17 fascinating people and ideas from the south Caucasian region. #MWNO @MaxWeberStiftung
Nanette Rissler-PipkaMar 30
@Mareike2405 and Moritz are kicking off the #dh #digitalhistory spring school in #TBILISI #georgia at the @MaxWeberStiftung branch office of #MWNO #DHTbilisi
de.hypothesesNov 24

How does Russia’s war on Ukraine affect historical research?

As Ukrainian archives face existential threats and Russian ones become inaccessible, the traditional geography of (post-)Soviet research is shifting. The new "Decentered Archive" blog invites reflection on the profound impact of the war on archives, fieldwork, and the production of knowledge itself.

Read the newest contributions on Environmental History before and after 2022 👇

https://decentarch.hypotheses.org/

#MWNO #WarAgainstUkraine