Manifest einer Gartenlosen / Befragungen am Nullpunkt

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, lecture hall, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 3, 10117 Berlin

Organized by Yaraslava Ananka (Leipzig University), Susi Frank (HU Berlin), Heinrich Kirschbaum (University of Freiburg), Nina Weller (ZfL)

Contact: Nina Weller

Presentation of Tania Arcimovich: Manifest einer Gartenlosen (Berlin: edition.fotoTAPETA 2025), translated by Tina Wünschmann, and Iryna Herasimovich, Nadine Menzel, Nina Weller (eds.): Befragungen am Nullpunkt. Unabhängige Kultur in Belarus zwischen Repression und Aufbruch (Zürich: Edition Schublade 2025)

with Tania Arcimovich, Iryna Herasimovich, Nadine Menzel, Nina Weller

Belarus Lectures

The event is part of the interdisciplinary lecture and discussion series “Belarus Lectures” that offers insights into the historical and current key issues of Belarusian cultural and literary shortly while also exploring the political situation in contemporary Belarusian culture. During the winter semester 2025/26, it will also be offered as a public lecture series and as a university course.

The series is a cooperation between the Institut für Slawistik und Hungarologie at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Akademisches Netzwerk Osteuropa (akno e.V.), the University of Freiburg, Leipzig University, and the ZfL. It is funded by the European Union and the Zeit Stiftung Bucerius.

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