Panel Announced: Rooted knowledges, ways of belonging, and local practices of care

We are very excited to share one of the panels that will be featured at our upcoming RUTA conference.

Bringing together scholars and practitioners working across the RUTA region(s), the session explores tensions between global knowledge production, imperial epistemologies, and local practices of care.

The discussion will focus on rooted and embodied forms of knowledge, their connections to place and community, and the long-lasting disruptions caused by imperial violence. Across contexts ranging from Muhu Island in Estonia to Crimea and Kazakhstan, participants will reflect on what becomes possible when research, art, and cultural heritage are grounded in lived experience and local worlds.

The panel will examine practices of local sensemaking, world-building, and activism, while asking what cannot be seen from a distance, and how scholarship and artistic practice change when they remain accountable to the communities and landscapes they speak from.

Speakers: Seye Abimbola, Aigerim Kapar, Kadri Tüür, Emine Ziyatdin

Moderator: Epp Annus