Post-Soviet Legacies in the Global Context - a discussion with Professor Manuela Boatcă
Monday, January 26, 2026 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm CET/GMT+1Online
We warmly invite you to a public meeting of the newly established working group, Post-Soviet Legacies in the Global Context. Convened as part of FG DeKolonial, an association for antiracist, postcolonial, and decolonial thought and practice, the group seeks to explore the wide-ranging and often understudied global impacts of Soviet legacies extending well beyond the geographical boundaries of the former USSR to regions in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. We are interested in the translation and applicability of postcolonial and decolonial perspectives to post-Soviet contexts and examining the conceptual and empirical challenges this entails.
Please register by January 24, 2026 via email ([email protected]) to receive access information.
Post-Soviet Legacies in the Global Context was convened in late 2025 by BCB migration studies professor Agata Lisiak and students Ina Constantin and Mariia Krychevska, alongside Dr. Céline Barry (TU Berlin) and Dr. Dina Bolokan (University of Bath). Their first event took place in cooperation with the Invisible University of Ukraine and featured lectures by Prof. Łukasz Stanek (University of Michigan) and Dr. Tatsiana Shchurko (University of South Florida). If you’re interested in learning more about the group or getting involved, please contact the convenors.
Manuela Boatcă is Professor of Sociology and Head of School of the Global Studies Programme at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She has a degree in English and German languages and literatures and a PhD in sociology. She was Visiting Professor at IUPERJ, Rio de Janeiro in 2007/08 and Professor of Sociology of Global Inequalities at the Latin American Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin from 2012 to 2015. She has published widely on world-systems analysis, decolonial perspectives on global inequalities, gender and citizenship in modernity/coloniality, and the geopolitics of knowledge in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. In 2018 she was awarded an ACLS collaborative fellowship alongside literary scholar Anca Parvulescu (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), for a comparative project on inter-imperiality in Transylvania. The resulting co-authored book, titled “Creolizing the Modern. Transylvania Across Empires” was published in 2022.
Email: [email protected]