Narratives of Closeness and Distance from Central – Eastern Europe and South – Eastern Africa. Discussion around the publication
- Online meeting on October 14th, 3:00 PM
- Language: English
- Registration required via the Evenea portal
Participants: Dr. Urszula Markowska-Manista and Shilika Chisoko
Moderator: Ruth Atim
Ruth Atim is a freelance journalist, former news editor of broadcast and online media, cybersecurity trainer, and advocate for gender equality in the tech industry. She is the founder of Gender Tech Initiative Uganda, an organization dedicated to supporting female journalists facing online harassment and promoting gender equality in technology. With a strong background in media, Ruth leverages her experience to empower women and girls in the digital landscape. Beyond cybersecurity training, she is passionate about inspiring young rural school girls to pursue science subjects and careers in STEM fields through mentorship and guidance.
Ruth is a member of Bosch Alumni Network.
Urszula Markowska-Manista, PhD – researcher in the area of education and childhoods in culturally diverse environments, conducting interdisciplinary fieldwork in a variety of contexts (the Horn of Africa, Central Africa, Central & Eastern Europe, and the South Caucasus). Her work draws on inclusive and participatory approaches, decolonial methodologies, interclusion, ‘difficult knowledge’ and sensitive topics. She has been active in the social sciences for two decades, implementing international projects and holding positions at universities in Poland and Germany. From 2016-2021 she was a director (FU Berlin 2016) and co-director (2017-2021 FH Potsdam) of the international MA Childhood Studies and Children’s Rights (MACR) programme and from 2017-2018 a head of the UNESCO Janusz Korczak Chair at the Maria Grzegorzewska University. She is currently a researcher and assistant professor at the University of Warsaw (Faculty of Education). Among her publications are books, including Konkultura: Wymiary uczestnictwa w kulturze młodych imigrantów z Ukrainy w Polsce (co-author, 2020) and Non-inclusive education in Central and Eastern Europe: comparative studies of teaching ethnicity, religion and gender (co-editor, 2022) as well as articles in journals and book chapters for Sage, Routledge, Springer and others. She is the regional editor of Bloomsbury Publishers on the subject of Childhood and Youth. In 2015, she received Polityka award for her academic activity.
Shilika Chisoko is an author, currently pursuing a Masters in English Studies at Stellenbosch University. Her research focuses on contemporary Zambian women’s short fiction and online subcultures. She is particularly interested in the ways in which individuals represent themselves online and challenge dominant narratives.
Author of the text ‘Undoing the Knots of Place and Space An exploration of the possibilities rendered by depictions of violence in selected contemporary in Zambian short fiction’ published in the volume ‘Narratives of Closeness and Distance from Central-Eastern Europe and South-Eastern Africa a Multicontextual Patchwork “.
