The theme of the research seminar is Media, Culture, and Geopolitics. In addition to the traditional East-West relations, the seminar will highlight geopolitical representations of Russian and Chinese relations as well as the Global South in media and culture.
We also welcome researchers whose work is related to fields outside Russian, Eastern European or Chinese studies. Proposals may relate, for example, to analysis of media and cultural texts from a geopolitical viewpoint, critical approach to the concept of geopolitics, and theoretical discussions of geopolitical analysis.
The organizers recognize that media and geopolitical analysis has focused on the deepened East-West rift, and particularly welcome studies that deal with the equally important relation between Russia and China and these countries interpellation of the Global South.
The seminar will mark a forthcoming edited volume titled Culture and Geopolitics: Narrating Eurasian Worlds (eds. Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus, Saara Ratilainen ja Sanna Turoma, Lexington). The volume examines the interaction of culture and geopolitics in Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia from the viewpoint of feminist geopolitics, mundane geopolitics, ecocritical geopolitics and other theoretical frames of critical and popular geopolitics.
Come to share your research and develop new multidisciplinary research ideas and projects together!
Submit your proposal for a short, 5-7 minute research presentation by 20 September to katja.lehtisaari@tuni.fi. Please send a title for your presentation and 1-2 sentences about the topic. Your talk can be in Finnish or English. You can also register as a participant without presenting. This is an in-person event.