(En)Countering Epistemic Imperialism

Venue: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Ilse-Zimmermann-Saal, Pariser Straße 1, 10719 Berlin

Organized by Zaal Andronikashvili, Moritz Gansen, Ivana Perica, Matthias Schwartz, Katrin Trüstedt, Nina Weller

Contact: theorycese@zfl-berlin.org (registration)

Research project(s): Semi-Peripheral Theory

For this session of the working group Semi-Peripheral Theory | Tendencies of Contemporary Theory Production in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, our guest will be Tereza Hendl (University of Augsburg).

Text for the discussion:

Tereza Hendl, Olga Burlyuk, Mary O’Sullivan, Aigerim Arystanbek: “(En)Countering Epistemic Imperialism: A Critique of ›Westsplaining‹ and Coloniality in Dominant Debates on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine”, in: Contemporary Security Policy 45.2 (2024), 171–209

Tereza Hendl is a philosopher and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Augsburg, as well as a board member of the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation. Her research lies at the intersection of moral philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of technology, feminist philosophy, and public health ethics. She focuses in particular on global health equity, East-West hierarchies of knowledge, epistemic injustice, solidarity, and the legacy of Russian and German imperial formations. She is a co-founder of the Central and Eastern European Feminist Research Network and the RUTA Association.