Lecture – Ukraine at the Borderlands of European Universalism

In the wake of Balkan wars in 1990s the French philosopher of 'borders of Europe', Étienne Balibar, formulated his well-known thesis that these events manifested the limits of European universalism. Varied discursive mechanisms were adopted by of European actors to represent Balkan peoples as undeserving to belong to Europe: violent, barbaric, oriental, premodern, backward, postcommunist etc. The lecture aims at re-visiting Balibar's remarks in the context current war in Ukraine.

16 November 2022, 4.00-5.30pm
Online lecture (Zoom)
Lecture in English

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Łukasz Moll is a sociologist and philosopher, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław (Poland). His research interests are the idea of Europe, border studies, and the commons. Member of the editorial board of the international peer-reviewed journal "Praktyka Teoretyczna". Author of the monograph on nomadic European identity ("Nomadyczna Europa. Poststrukturalistyczne granice europejskiego uniwersalizmu", Toruń 2021).

The lecture is part of the lecture series “Border Realities: Transformation of the border and new conceptual challenges”. The series is organised by the UniGR-Center for Border Studies (University of Luxembourg) and the Centre for Regional and Borderlands Studies at the Institute of Sociology (University of Wrocław).

Contact
Sylwia Zawadzka (Université de Wrocław)
sylwia.zawadzka@uwr.edu.pl

Denise Rodrigues Marafona (Université du Luxembourg)
denise.rodriguesmarafona@uni.lu