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The Poverty of Cultural History: Decolonization, Race, and Politics In Post-Socialist Studies

Every year the Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) holds its annual conference. This year, between two and four thousand people attended, and there were over 200 panels, round tables, and virtual presentations that brought together international and interdisciplinary scholars from across generations covering everything from History to Anthropology, Sociology, and Literary […]

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The Passing of Egmont Fassbinder, a Pioneer of German Gay Liberation Movement 

Reviving the Spirit of Liberation Amidst Rainbow Capitalism Purple is a merely rainbow color, sisters. The color of revolution is red! Egmont Fassbinder This quote from the 1970s is from the last correspondence I had with Egmont Fassbinder. Fassbinder, a cousin of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, one of the pioneers and catalysts of the New German Cinema […]

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Common Labor Struggles? The Eco-Social And Decolonial Question Of Climate Crisis

The means of production have become the means of climate production, so how can we – all kinds of exploited workers around the world – seize these very means and address both the eco-social and decolonial question of the climate crisis? “Allied Grounds,” the Berliner Gazette project 2023, will explore this bundle of issues, as […]