Associate Professor Slavomír Horák traveled to several conferences and seminars

In the second half of May, Associate Professor Slavomír Horák from the Department of Russian and East European Studies had a series of international conferences, workshops, and official visits lined up.

First, in mid-May, he participated in a workshop titled Representing, Forgetting, and Heritage-Making. “The Battle of Gökdepe in Turkmenistan (1881) through the Lens of Colonial Legacies and Post-Imperial Reconfiguration”, which was linked to a presentation of the project of the same name at L’Institut d’études slaves in Paris; in addition to other experts, Oguljamal Yazliyeva, a doctoral graduate of the IMS, also spoke at this event. The following day, specifically on Tuesday, May 19, he also spoke at Université Paris-Saclay as part of the seminar Territoriality of Uzbekistan, where he gave a lecture on the topic Shifts in Karakalpak Identity and 2022 Events.

He spent the end of the month in Yerevan, where, at the invitation of the American University of Armenia, he participated in the conference The Return of the Great Game: Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Developments in the Heartland and presented a paper titled Turkmenistan Railway Geopolitics in the Contexts of the Middle Corridor Expansion, Eurasian Disruption, and Structural Challenges.

In addition, he had the opportunity to consult on a range of topics with representatives of the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Presidential Administration. During his stay, he also visited the Yerevan Center for International Education, an independent organization for Eurasian studies that is open to providing consultations to students and doctoral candidates at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, who are interested in post-Soviet, Caucasian, and Armenian studies. During the visit, the possibility of students and doctoral candidates participating in the organization’s summer and winter schools was discussed.