This workshop is a response to ongoing discussions on what bearing contemporary decolonial reflections have on ‘area’ programmes such as European Studies. Originally proposed as a research event to place Europe's (post)coloniality centre stage (in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and the racialised fissures that the pandemic exposed), the event has now evolved into a workshop on decolonising European Studies as a disciplinary field.

Decentre the European canon

A key aim of the workshop is to exchange ideas on how to decentre the European canon and essentialised conceptions of Europe as well as the solid geographies envisioned and implemented by traditional area studies. With panels dedicated to the major areas of instruction within the department of European Studies, we hope the discussions generated will segue to exchanges, particularly during the round table session on day 2, on how to talk about and teach ‘Europe’ through our combined and multiple disciplinary frames in the coming years.

Participants

Participants include European Studies faculty, colleagues from the faculties of Law and Economics and other departments within UvA Humanities, and scholars from universities other than UvA, promising to make the workshop’s discussions generative and meaningful.

• Grazina Bielousova (University College London and Vilnius University)
• Gulnaz Sibgatullina (European Studies, UvA)
• Mansur Gazimzianov (European Studies, UvA)
• Anna Bernard (King’s College London)
• Linde Luijnenburg (European Studies, UvA)
• Yolanda Rodríguez Peréz, (European Studies, UvA)
• Sneha Gaddam (Faculty of Economics)
• Andro Rilovic (European Studies, UvA)
• David Hollanders, (European Studies, UvA)
• Hanna Eklund (University of Copenhagen)
• Simon Waswa (University of Amsterdam)
• Wiebe Hommes (University of Amsterdam)
• Beste Isleyen (Political Science, UvA)
• Hanna Muehlenhoff  (European Studies, UvA)
• Andrew Telford (European Studies, UvA)
• Karin van Leeuwen (Maastricht University)
• Nuri Kurnaz (European Studies, UvA)
• Robin de Bruin (European Studies, UvA)

Format

Participants will not present papers but respond to core questions that will be posed to all panellists.

Organisers

• Sudha Rajagopalan
• Gulnaz Sibgatullina