Dr. Tatsiana Astrouskaya

Bild: Astrouskaya
Research and Transfer
Tandem Postdoc 'Digital History

tatsiana.astrouskaya@herder-institut.de
Tel.: +49 6421 184-238

ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5536-8601

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Fields of activity:

  • Jewish History in Eastern Europe
  • Dissent and Samizdat in the Eastern Bloc countries
  • Memory Studies
  • Digital History

Awards:

  • The International Congress of Belarusian Studies Award 2022
  • The Frantsischak Bahushevich Award 2022 (Pen International - Belarus)

Publications:

Monographs

  • (2019) Cultural Dissent in Soviet Belarus (1968–1988). Intelligentsia, Samizdat and Nonconformist Discourses (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2019), 12 reviews in 5 languages.
  • (2022) Belarusian translation:  Kul’tura i supratsiŭ: intelihentsyia, inshadymstva i samvydat u savetskai Belarusi (1968-1988) (Viasna: Białystok). OpenAccess: https://kamunikat.org/usie_knihi.html?pubid=62238. The International Congress of Belarusian Studies Award 2022, The Frantsischak Bahushevich Award 2022 (Pen International - Belarus). Russian translation (2024, forthcoming) 

Chapters and Articles

  • (2024) Afterword. Larysa Heniush and the History of Belarusian Samvydat. In Larysa Heniush, Rukapisny zbornik (London: Skaryna Press) (March 2024, forthcoming)
  • (2023) Belarusian Underground Culture. In Mark Lipovetsky et al. The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture (New York: Oxford University Press), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197508213.013.51
  • (2023) Between Resistance and Complicity. Conceptualizing the Discursive Ambivalence of Belarusian Culture of the “Long 1970s”. In Andriej Moskwin and Aliaksandr Raspapou. Białoruś. Od powstania słuckiego po białoruską rewolucję (1920-2020). Dyskurs oporu (Poznan: Adam Mickiewicz University Press) (in print)
  • (2023) Memory and Placemaking:  Competing Memory, Forgetting, and Distorted Rediscovery in Eastern European Cities (with E. Zejmilovich et al.). In Carlos Smaniotto Costa et al. Dynamics of Placemaking. Volume 1. Placemaking in Practice – Experiences and Approaches from Pan-European Perspective (Leinden&Boston: Brill), 83-102 (in print) 
  • (2023) “Will the World Save Us? The Cultural Roots of Political Opposition in Belarus.” Belarus Research Network on Neighborhood Policy. http://belarusnetwork.org/publications/will-the-world-save-us-the-cultural-roots-of-political-opposition-in-belarus/.
  • (2022) “In Schoolbooks and on Telegram. What Is the Place of Ukraine and Ukrainians in the Memory Politics of Post-Soviet Belarus?” Journal of Applied History, Vol. 4, 9–27 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/25895893-bja10033.
  • (2022) “Not a Day Without a Line.” Studying the Petitions of Soviet Refuseniks with the Visualization Tools in R”, Michelle Chesner et al. eds. Jewish Studies in the Digital Age (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2022), 269–298, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110744828-013.
  • (2022) “Wieder „Jüden werden“: Das Erstarken der jüdischen Emigrationsbewegung im sowjetischen Minsk“, Münchener Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur 1, 83–98, https://www.jgk.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/muenchner-beitraege/2022_1/index.html. 
  • (2022) “Jüdische Migration aus der UdSSR und die Refusenik-Bewegung“, Copernico: Geschichte und kulturelles Erbe im östlichen Europa, March 15, https://www.copernico.eu/de/themenbeitraege/juedische-nachkriegsmigration-aus-der-udssr-und-die-refusenik-bewegung. 
  • (2020) (with A. Liavitski) “The Phenomenon of Culture is the Phenomenon of Bread”: The Debate on Culture in Belarus (1988–1991), Baltic Journal of Art History 19, Spring: 101–128, DOI: https://doi.org/10.12697/BJAH.2020.19.04.
  • (2018) Located on the Archipelago: Towards the New Definition of Belarusian Intellectuals. In Kacandes, Irene and Yuliya Komska, eds. Eastern Europe Unmapped. Beyond the Borders and Peripheries (New York and Oxford: Berghahn), 81–103. 
  • (2015) Promoting the Marginality: the Borderland Status of Belarusian Intellectual Elites. Scholar Forum, 17: 4–5.
  • (2014) Ideologiia beloruskogo gosudarstva kak obrazovatel’nyi proekt [The Ideology of the Belarusian State as an Educational Project] In Shparaga, Ol’ga and Ales’ Smolenchuk, eds. Belarus’ v evropeiskom kontekste: aktual’nye diskussii o natsiestroitel’stve (Vilnius: EHU Press, 2014), 53–59.
  • (2012) Iak navchati istorii [How to Teach History]. Ukraina Moderna, no. 19: 29–33. 
  • (2011) A History Textbook: an Object of Manipulation or the Platform for Europeanization?  In Doucette, Siobhan et al. Returning Belarus to Europe: Past and Future (Warszawa: Oficyna Wydawnicza Uczelni Łazarskiego), 149–160. 
  • (2010) Genealogiia istoricheskoi pamiati belorusov i obrazovatel’nye praktiki [The Genealogy of the Historical memory of Belarusians and Educational Practices]. Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies, https://belinstitute.com/be/article/genealogiya-istoricheskoy-pamyati-belorusov-v-kontekste-obrazovatelnykh-praktik. Lithuanian: Baltarusių istorinės atminties genealogija ir mokyklino švietimo praktikos.  In Istorijos politikos modeliai ir kryptos: Europos Sajungos, Lenkijos, Rusijos ir Baltarusijos istorios politika (Vilnius: Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla, 2014), 221–281.
  • (2008) The Specificity of National Identity in the Epoch of Globalization (with Anatol Liahchylin). Limes: Culture Regionalistics, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2008): 108–113, https://doi.org/10.3846/2029-0187.2008.1.108-112. Republished in: Gesis: Social Sciences Eastern Europe (Berlin, June 2009): 4–6.
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