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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’

“Actually Existing Socialism” (en), “Race” (en), Anna Hájková (en), Anti-Eastern European Racism (en), Anti-LGBTQ+ Politics (en), Anti-Trans Politics (en), Colonialism (en), Colour (en), Decolonisation (en), Eastern Europe (en), Ethnicity (en), Gender (en), History (en), Holocaust History (en), Imperialism (en), Racialisation (en), Sexuality (en), The Left (en), The Left in Europe (en), The Russian Invasion of Ukraine (en), Transphobia (en), Whiteness (en)

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"Actually Existing Socialism" (en), "Race" (en), Anna Hájková (en), Anti-Eastern European Racism (en), Anti-LGBTQ+ Politics (en), Anti-Trans Politics (en), Colonialism (en), Colour (en), Decolonisation (en), Eastern Europe (en), Ethnicity (en), Gender (en), History (en), Holocaust History (en), Imperialism (en), Racialisation (en), Sexuality (en), The Left (en), The Left in Europe (en), The Russian Invasion of Ukraine (en), Transphobia (en), Whiteness (en)