Tatsiana Astrouskaya beim Belarus Colloquium 2026 der FernUni Hagen
Program
Belarus Colloquium: Knowledge Production vis à vis authoritarian rule, 6.– 7. July 2026 in Hagen.
In recent years, Belarus has become a site for examining the relationship between authoritarian power, violence, and knowledge production. Systematic repression against scholars, universities, and research institutions, alongside forced academic exile and the fragmentation of scholarly communities, has reshaped the conditions under which knowledge is produced, circulated and legitimized.
The colloquium aims to foster a critical academic discussion on the entanglements of violence and knowledge production in authoritarian contexts, with particular attention to long-term effects of repression, methodological constraints, and the conditions of knowledge production in exile.
Program
In the Panel 1: Regimes of violence and epistemic control Censorship, self-censorship, coercion, loyalty, and institutional control as mechanisms of epistemic exclusion, silencing, and marginalization
present
- Hanna Vasilevich (Bolzano): Structural and institutional challenges faced by Belarusian researchers in exile
- Tatsiana Astrouskaya (Marburg): The science of silence: how we learn to gag ourselves – and others.