420008 SE East European and Slavic Studies: Impacts of Heritage on Research (2022S)

East European and Slavic Studies in non-Slavic ‘Western’ countries traditionally have a significant number of heritage scholars. Ongoing migration flows and diasporic communities to and in ‘the West’ form human resource pools with knowledge and interest in the Slavic and East European languages, literatures and cultures. This shows in Slavic and East European Studies departments on student level already and translates into research careers and topics.
The PhD seminar explores and discusses the impacts of heritage on research in the Slavic and East European Studies regarding knowledge production, positionality and multilingualism. The specific questions raised in the seminar range from (trans-)national ‘insider’ knowledge and reciprocal knowledge transfers, multilingual utilization of research literature and of terminological range, simultaneous and/or translatory participation in different scientific communities, but also includes questions of exclusion and methodological nationalism heritage scholars experience outside of the Slavic/East European countries (and vice versa of non-heritage scholars in the Slavic/East European countries themselves).
All participants are required to present a text excerpt from their research (15-20 pages) that will be discussed in the seminar in regard to questions of heritage in (one's own) research, but also with general peer feedback.
Participants do not have to have heritage background of any kind, but should be PhD students in East European or Slavic related studies.