Join us for our next RUTA webinar with @magdamatache.bsky.social and @madelinepotter.bsky.social. We will discuss their paradigm shifting new books that revisit Romani histories, rethink how they’re theorised with and envision pathways toward racial justice
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RUTA continues to stand in solidarity with the Georgian civil resistance movement for democracy and freedom from Russian interference and occupation
Our next webinar will be a conversation among remarkable thinkers Adrian Ivakhiv, Kateryna Botanova, Kateryna Filyuk, Lesia Kulchynska, Taras Polataiko, Maria Sonevytsky, Oleksiy Vasyliuk and Olya Zikrata about reviving multispecies relations with the land
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Due to numerous requests, we are pleased to announce that the abstract submission deadline has been extended by two weeks. We encourage all interested contributors to take advantage of this extra time to finalize their submissions. We look forward to receiving your contributions by Nov 30
Last week to send us abstracts for our next conference of the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation exploring the role of rooted and embodied knowledges as catalysts of change and shifts in power
This is the last week to send us your abstracts and art proposals for our next RUTA conference, that will be exploring the role of rooted and embodied knowledges as catalysts of change and drivers in shifts in power. The deadline for abstract submission is on Friday, Nov 15
And then when one takes a look at the regional allocation of the funding and how contributions are taken from ERC countries across Europe’s East and West, yet, the majority of the funds is then awarded to Western institutions, one wonders how to describe such a research funding redistribution system
On the power and injustice of the foreign gaze: “But it is also about power – the kind that distances people. That foreign audience might be a powerful policymaker, a set of academics, or a philanthropist. The question is always: who is looking, from where, and what gets distorted in the process?”
Some Baltic solidarity magic and my FB post on Latvian withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention can be read on the Estonian Feministeerium website.
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“Historically, anti-Istanbul Convention disinformation has been one of the tools in Russia’s propaganda arsenal”
Gender studies scholars & social justice advocates across Europe’s East have been raising alarms about the synergies of anti-gender, fascist and imperial mobilisation for a long time now
A reminder about tomorrow’s RUTA webinar, that will explore our approaches to understanding family history, its personal and collective significance, and how we can translate these stories into our contemporary lives and practices in the context of multiple crises.
See the registration link below
Strong women heading towards Ukraine! The RUTA Association annual conference! Not to be missed! This is where new ideas are born! And networks that will move us towards better worlds.
Yup. That’s the one.
This is simply how African migrants are tricked and threatened into Russian military service
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Join us for this key RUTA webinar. So far, debates on Indigenous liberation have largely focused on Western settler colonialism. This is an opportunity to hear from scholars and activists from Indigenous nations of the Caucasus, Central and North Asia, who have resisted Russian-Soviet colonialism
Much awaited new book by @epp-annus.bsky.social, filling international knowledge gaps regarding Baltic environmental thought and its global dimensions “Estonian intellectuals cared deeply about their local environments, but they also took inspiration from environmentalist works of global importance“
Scenes from #Brussels today
My new book The Folly of Realism is officially released. Three years since the invasion of Ukraine, this book provides clarity on how we got here and a vision of what's next.
Here’s the book; shorturl.at/FjMbQ
Great initiative by @ponarseurasia.bsky.social. Journalists, please note the easy links to experts available for commentary.
There are people still hoping that it's a negotiating strategy. It's not. There doesn't seem to be much strategy.
Our open letter in solidarity with Qazaq activists, journalists and researchers is still open for signatures. Please share widely and join us in supporting freedom of expression and assembly in Qazaqstan
An important article about the student protests in Serbia
It is hard to overstate how concerning this planned institutionalized racial profiling is, especially in the context of the ongoing disproportionate drafting of Central Asian migrants and Indigenous peoples into russia’s war against Ukraine 1/n www.biometricupdate.com/202502/st-pe...
The Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service public report 2025 just dropped 🔥
Take a look at the report many professionals in the field worldwide consider a mandatory reading: www.valisluureamet.ee/en.html
Groups of masked attackers target journalists and government critics during Tbilisi protests
Tonight’s protests in Tbilisi were characterised by violent attacks on protesters, government critics, and journalists.
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Macron has managed to turn the opening of the renovated Notre Dame into a meeting between Zelensky and Trump. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Tbilisi right now, after the most vicious assault of the regime in the morning. They need to go. And watching this amount of angry crowd, I’d start packing. #GeorgiaProtests
📷 Ezz Gaber
Elders are also protesting, despite the violence of the Moscow backed government and the risk of mass arrests. The younger protestors are shielding them from the water cannons and rubber bullets. All of Georgia remains defiant. #GeorgiaProtests
Dear academic friends and colleagues, please join us in signing our open letter with the RUTA Association and expressing our support and solidarity with Georgian students and scholars in their ongoing fight for academic freedom, sovereignty, democracy and justice ruta-association.org/news/open-le...
