RSS Feed https://cas.au.dk/en/global-studies en-gb Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:08:54 +0200 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:08:54 +0200 TYPO3 EXT:news news-36051 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:15:00 +0200 Writing the New Citizen: Russophone Perspectives on Identity in Kazakhstani Children’s Literature https://cas.au.dk/en/currently/events/event/artikel/writing-the-new-citizen-russophone-perspectives-on-identity-in-kazakhstani-childrens-literature Guest lecture by Dr. Nina Friees In the ongoing debate about identity in post-Soviet Kazakhstan, contemporary children’s literature has taken on a potentially trailblazing role. It maps social discourses on identity while offering young readers alternative ways of imagining who they are and where they belong. Through imaginative and often fantastical narratives, these works present visions of identity that are strikingly open, tolerant, and creative—perhaps more so than one might expect in an authoritarian context.

Dr. Nina Friess is a researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin. She holds a PhD in Slavic Studies and is a co-founder of the project Russophone Voices. She also co-organizes the Colloquium for Children’s Literature. Her research focuses on Russophone literatures, children’s literature, and Memory Studies.

All interested staff and students are welcome.
This event is organized by the Global studies research program.
Contact: Birgitte Beck Pristed, birgitte.pristed@cas.au.dk

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]]> Globale Studier Mette Brynolf Cáceres Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:15:00 +0200 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200 Aarhus University M1, build. 1427-149 (AU Conference Center, Frederik Nielsens Vej 2-4) Aarhus University M1, build. 1427-149 (AU Conference Center, Frederik Nielsens Vej 2-4) 1777374900 1777384800 1777374900 1777384800 news-36133 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:15:00 +0200 PhD Dissertation Seminar (pre-Defence) Ekaterina Shatalova https://cas.au.dk/en/currently/events/event/artikel/phd-dissertation-seminar-pre-defence-ekaterina-shatalova Imagined Weapons: War Narratives in Russian Children’s and Young Adult Literature, 2014 Opponents:
Dr. Nina Frieß (Centre for East European and International Studies, Berlin) 
Dr. Mateusz Świetlicki (University of Wrocław)

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, children’s books have become an explicit battleground in domestic culture wars – simultaneously instrumentalised as tools of patriotic mobilisation and subjected to intensified censorship that has made even naming the conflict legally risky. This dissertation examines how war and war-caused displacement are represented in contemporary Russian children’s and young adult literature published since 2014, tracing the textual and visual strategies through which authors and publishers navigate, resist, or reproduce official narratives under conditions of self-censorship and securitisation.

All interested staff and students are welcome.
Contact: Ekaterina Shatalova, eshatalova@cas.au.dk

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]]> Globale Studier Mette Brynolf Cáceres Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:15:00 +0200 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200 Aarhus University M1, build. 1427-149 (AU Conference Center, Frederik Nielsens Vej 2-4) Aarhus University M1, build. 1427-149 (AU Conference Center, Frederik Nielsens Vej 2-4) 1777446900 1777453200 1777446900 1777453200 news-35763 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0200 Global Studies Alumni event - You are all invited! https://cas.au.dk/en/currently/events/event/artikel/default-22e671cd93 We celebrate our alumni for the third year in a row at Global Studies! Sign up and join us! We celebrate our alumni for the third year in a row at Global Studies with all the programs that have its home in our current department and their predecessor programs, including Arab and Islamic Studies. Sign up and join us! Come alone or contact some of your former classmates and bring them along.

GLOBAL STUDIES – Arab and Islamic Studies, Brazil Studies, China Studies, European Studies, GLAS, India and South Asia Studies, International Studies, Japan Studies, Russia Studies, and related former study programs – will have their third alumni event. 

MEET former fellow students and enjoy exchanging news from your fields, and ideas for future collaborations.

FIND current students for internships, ‘erhvervs-‘ MA thesis or PhD thesis, student jobs and more.

NETWORK for new job opportunities and business insights. We are looking forward to seeing you all reuniting and getting to know other GS alumni and current students

PLEASE SIGN UP BEFORE OCTOBER 19: 
https://event.au.dk/events/global-studies-alumni-event-2026

QUESTIONS? 
If you have any questions, please forward them to GS department secretary: Bende Ingvorsen: bi@cas.au.dk

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