Irina Sandomirskaja, Professor of Cultural Studies at Södertörn University, is the featured guest on the new, second season of Scholarly Zeit Guest, a podcast hosted by Tatiana Efremova and Mark Lipovetsky. In this episode, titled “Instrumentalizing Critique/Critiquing Instrumentalization,” they discuss the difference between literary and area studies departments, question whether our field could have predicted post-Soviet crises, and explore the dangers of affective appropriation of history (as well as ways of looking beyond it).
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