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Anna Hájková on Eastern Europe and the Blind Spots of the Global Left – 4 January 2026

00:00:00 Intro to the series

00:02:30 Intro to the webinar

00:03:31 Anna Hájková‘s research and public interventions

00:10:23 Blind spots

00:14:10 Epistemic frames

00:18:13 The invisibility of anti-Eastern European racism

00:25:31 Anti-Eastern European racism on the left

00:32:47 Stalinism and left nostalgia

00:36:12 Left responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

00:40:58 “Actually existing socialism”, capitalism, colonialism

00:46:36 Decolonisation and Eastern Europe

00:49:40 The Crumbs From Your Table

00:52:45 Solidarity is not finite

00:55:47 Ukrainian nationalism

01:01:13 Gender, sexuality, history, politics

01:10:26 Q&A

Aleksandra Lewicki: East–west inequalities and the ambiguous racialisation of ‘Eastern Europeans’

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