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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 27px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);" class=""><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History </b></span></div>
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<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b style="caret-color: rgb(36, 36, 36); color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;" class=""><font size="4" class="">February 9, 2024:<i class=""> "</i></font></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><i class=""><b class="">Indigenous
turn and environmentalism in the </b></i></font></span><span style="text-align: center; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><i class=""><b class="">last decades of the USS</b></i></font></span><span style="text-align: center; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><i class=""><b class="">:
rethinking colonial amnesia</b></i></font></span><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="4" style="text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">”</i></b></font></div>
<div style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Linda Kaljundi</font></div>
<div style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-align: start; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font face="Times" class="">Estonian Academy of Arts / Fulbright Visting Professor at MIT</font></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.693334px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" class=""><span style="line-height: 17.120001px;" class="">The 1970s and 1980s witnessed a boom of interest in indigenous peoples living in the
territories of the </span><span style="line-height: 17.120001px;" class="">erstwhile Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. This rediscovery of the indigenous took various forms ranging from expeditions and (artistic) research to various forms of cultural representation.
In analyzing the practices and works of late Soviet Estonian writers, filmmakers, artists, conservationists, etc., I will focus on two sets of questions. On the one hand, why did they take such a serious, scientific interest in the indigenous people, and why
did their works have such a great appeal to a wider audience? On the other hand, what was left unsaid? How much did these more privileged authors reflect on the environmental problems faced by indigenous communities? How did their projects relate to the legacies
of Russian colonial expansion? Today, when the invisibility of Russian colonial history has become particularly acute, the borderlands of the former empire offer perspectives for thinking through the roots of this colonial amnesia as well as the strategies
of unlearning. </span></font></p>
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<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">For more information please visit : <a href="https://history.mit.edu/lectures-and-seminars/seminar-on-environmental-and-agricultural-history-seah/" class="">https://history.mit.edu/lectures-and-seminars/seminar-on-environmental-and-agricultural-history-seah/</a></div>
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