Tomáš Glanc
Born in 1969 in Prague, Tomáš Glanc currently is a professor at Zurich University, Switzerland. His research is focused on East European culture, modern art and literature of the East European countries, samizdat ([clandestine] self-publication), unofficial media and cultural practices, poetic performances in Eastern Europe, Slavonic ideology, contemporary Russian art and literature.
He has authored and edited a few books, numerous articles and a variety of materials on these topics; he also hosted a number of radio and TV programmes, podcasts, etc. He has acted as an organizer of conferences and exhibitions, including "Poetry and Performance Acts: an East European perspective" (together with Sabine Hänsgen, various modifications of that exhibition were displayed in 9 European countries. He curated exhibitions by a number of contemporary Russian artists and contributed to two large exhibitions at Prague's DOX art-center.
Tomas was also a visiting professor at the Humboldt University, Berlin, a visiting scholar at the Basel University, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Eastern Europe at the Bremen University, director of the Czech Cultural Center in Moscow and director of the Institute of Slavic and East European Studies at the Charles University in Prague.
He has authored and edited a few books, numerous articles and a variety of materials on these topics; he also hosted a number of radio and TV programmes, podcasts, etc. He has acted as an organizer of conferences and exhibitions, including "Poetry and Performance Acts: an East European perspective" (together with Sabine Hänsgen, various modifications of that exhibition were displayed in 9 European countries. He curated exhibitions by a number of contemporary Russian artists and contributed to two large exhibitions at Prague's DOX art-center.
Tomas was also a visiting professor at the Humboldt University, Berlin, a visiting scholar at the Basel University, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Eastern Europe at the Bremen University, director of the Czech Cultural Center in Moscow and director of the Institute of Slavic and East European Studies at the Charles University in Prague.
Good Bye to Russian Studies, or Business as Usual? Slavic Studies at a Crossroad
The key word of this assembly is post-truth. Any academic research, including humanitarian studies, traditionally deals - if not with truth - with at least some systematic and structured research of specific disciplines striving, through logical reasoning and application of proven methods, to understand the nature and functioning of things, invariably taking into account the subject of this process and its self-correction. But as we know, "the devil is in the details" - logic exists in an infinite number of versions, as do the methods and telos (goal, purpose, essence) of the process itself. Using specific examples, the paper purports to reveal differences and conflicts that have emerged lately in the Slavic studies, largely due to the developments in Russia and in Eastern Europe. They bear on the political dimension of scholarly learning in culture and are related to such notions as westplaining, decolonization, cultural imperialism, social activism and autonomy of an aesthetic object.
Tomáš Glanc
Born in 1969 in Prague, Tomáš Glanc currently is a professor at Zurich University, Switzerland. His research is focused on East European culture, modern art and literature of the East European countries, samizdat ([clandestine] self-publication), unofficial media and cultural practices, poetic performances in Eastern Europe, Slavonic ideology, contemporary Russian art and literature.
He has authored and edited a few books, numerous articles and a variety of materials on these topics; he also hosted a number of radio and TV programmes, podcasts, etc. He has acted as an organizer of conferences and exhibitions, including "Poetry and Performance Acts: an East European perspective" (together with Sabine Hänsgen, various modifications of that exhibition were displayed in 9 European countries. He curated exhibitions by a number of contemporary Russian artists and contributed to two large exhibitions at Prague's DOX art-center.
Tomas was also a visiting professor at the Humboldt University, Berlin, a visiting scholar at the Basel University, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Eastern Europe at the Bremen University, director of the Czech Cultural Center in Moscow and director of the Institute of Slavic and East European Studies at the Charles University in Prague.
He has authored and edited a few books, numerous articles and a variety of materials on these topics; he also hosted a number of radio and TV programmes, podcasts, etc. He has acted as an organizer of conferences and exhibitions, including "Poetry and Performance Acts: an East European perspective" (together with Sabine Hänsgen, various modifications of that exhibition were displayed in 9 European countries. He curated exhibitions by a number of contemporary Russian artists and contributed to two large exhibitions at Prague's DOX art-center.
Tomas was also a visiting professor at the Humboldt University, Berlin, a visiting scholar at the Basel University, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Eastern Europe at the Bremen University, director of the Czech Cultural Center in Moscow and director of the Institute of Slavic and East European Studies at the Charles University in Prague.
Good Bye to Russian Studies, or Business as Usual? Slavic Studies at a Crossroad
The key word of this assembly is post-truth. Any academic research, including humanitarian studies, traditionally deals - if not with truth - with at least some systematic and structured research of specific disciplines striving, through logical reasoning and application of proven methods, to understand the nature and functioning of things, invariably taking into account the subject of this process and its self-correction. But as we know, "the devil is in the details" - logic exists in an infinite number of versions, as do the methods and telos (goal, purpose, essence) of the process itself. Using specific examples, the paper purports to reveal differences and conflicts that have emerged lately in the Slavic studies, largely due to the developments in Russia and in Eastern Europe. They bear on the political dimension of scholarly learning in culture and are related to such notions as westplaining, decolonization, cultural imperialism, social activism and autonomy of an aesthetic object.