Over the last years, a growing number of independent student groups have formed at universities in the Russian Federation. Their aim is to open spaces of critique – scientific, social, political, cultural – that they find inexistent in the official academic landscape. They work under difficult circumstances, for their engagement is scrutinised by university and state authorities. In this complex landscape of firm rules pervaded with grey zones, a wide array of meetings, publications etc. are organised with great efforts. However, such work often gets brutally interrupted. Since a couple of weeks, four members of the independent student journal DOXA are under house arrest in Moscow waiting for criminal proceedings. While officially they are charged with inciting minors to protest, it is clear that their investigative work and support of student rights are behind these charges. To grasp the situation of pursuing student activism in the rough terrain of post-Soviet academia in Putin’s Russia, we asked several student organizations to present their work, their ideas and their discussions at an international webinar jointly organised by the Faculty Centre for Interdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies (University of Vienna), the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Science, and the Online-Platform History of Science in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (HPS.CESEE).
On Monday, June 7th, 18:00 CET/19.00 MSK/12 pm EDT, we will discuss student rights and students' influence on inner-university regulations, on anti-harassment policies, political pressure, summer schools, gender studies etc. with representatives of the following organizations:
- the student journal DOXA (Moscow)
- the “MSU Initiative Group” at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)
- Media “Veter”, Kazan Federal University
- the Higher School of Equality, Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg Campus
Please follow this link to register: https://univienna.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L4brU5EKRd2mbqcUqtZJRA
Organisers:
Faculty Centre for Interdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna; Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Science; Online-Platform History of Science in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (HPS.CESEE)
in cooperation with
Research Platform “Transformations and Eastern Europe”, University of Vienna; Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET), University of Vienna; Department of East European History, University of Vienna; ERC-Projekt "NTAutonomy. Non-territorial Autonomy“, University of Vienna
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