BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5224@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260520T161715 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260526T113000 SUMMARY:Tamar Koplatadze: "Post-Soviet Ecopoetics & Retroactive Anticolonia lism" DESCRIPTION:This talk introduces two interlinked theoretical concepts throu gh which to analyze decolonial cultural movements in Central Asia (and pot entially beyond)\, especially those concerned with ecocritical themes. It first proposes the conceptual framework of “retroactive anticolonialism ” as a marker of the recent turn in Central Asian cultures towards postc olonial revisionism and activism. Building on ecocriticism and ecomusicolo gy\, Tamar Koplatadze further proposes the concept of “post-Soviet ecopo etics” – the ecomusical language of environmental solidarity – as a particularly potent decolonial manifestation of Central Asia’s supraethn ic retroactive anticolonialism.\\r\\nTamar Koplatadze is Associate Profess or of Postsocialist Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford. Sh e is the author of “Postcolonial Identities in Central Asian and Caucasi an Literature” (OUP)\, the first monograph on postcolonial literature fr om the Caucasus and Central Asia. Her current book\, “Post-Soviet Ecopoe tics”\, examines ecocritical culture from the former post-Soviet space\, notably Central Asia and Siberia.\\r\\nDuring the talk\, a sandwich lunch and coffee will be served. Kindly register to thomasfritz.maier@unibas.ch [mailto:thomasfritz.maier@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:

This talk introduces two interlinked theoretical concepts thr ough which to analyze decolonial cultural movements in Central Asia (and p otentially beyond)\, especially those concerned with ecocritical themes. I t first proposes the conceptual framework of “retroactive anticolonialis m” as a marker of the recent turn in Central Asian cultures towards post colonial revisionism and activism. Building on ecocriticism and ecomusicol ogy\, Tamar Koplatadze further proposes the concept of “post-Soviet ecop oetics” – the ecomusical language of environmental solidarity – as a particularly potent decolonial manifestation of Central Asia’s supraeth nic retroactive anticolonialism.

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Tamar Koplatadze is Associate Professor of Postsocialist Literature and Culture at the Uni versity of Oxford. She is the author of “Postcolonial Identities in Cent ral Asian and Caucasian Literature” (OUP)\, the first monograph on postc olonial literature from the Caucasus and Central Asia. Her current book\, “Post-Soviet Ecopoetics”\, examines ecocritical culture from the forme r post-Soviet space\, notably Central Asia and Siberia.

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During the talk\, a sandwich lunch and coffee will be served. Kindly register to thomasfritz.maier@unibas.ch< /p> DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260526T130000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR