Belarus—Faces of Resistance preserves the memory of the Belarusian protests of 2020 by documenting a series of transnational collaborative events which took place on Chicago’s South Side in 2019–2023. The book contains material from roundtables, exhibits, interviews, seminars, and commentaries, dedicated to the situation in Belarus before, during, and after the protests which errupted in response to the contested presidential elections in August, 2020. This collection should help the international community understand the 2020 Belarusian protests: their history, context, dynamics, global interconnectedness, as well as their aftermath and impact. The volume assembles a range of perspectives coming from the participants on the ground, expert observers, artists, cultural critics, students, politicians, and scholars of the region, reflecting on the events in a variety of forms and media.
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Acknowledgements
Preface
David R. Marples
My Existential Journey through the Belarusian Revolution
Andrei Kureichik
Introduction
Olga V. Solovieva
Part 1
Belarusian Protests in a Local and Global Perspective
“What Is Happening in Belarus?” Roundtable with Ales Bialiatski, Michael Mc Faul, and David R. Marples
Olga V. Solovieva
Part 2
Representing Belarusian Protests
Belarus—Faces of Resistance. Photographs, Drawings, and Film Stills from the Exhibit at Southspace Gallery, June 24–September 30, 2022
Oliver Okun
Mapping Belarusian Protests: “Be Water” (August 11, 2020) and “Women’s March” (August 29, 2020)
Julia Turner and Geoffrey Goldberg
Part 3
The Art of Resistance in Belarus
Belarus: Photography, Art, and the Faces of Resistance. Catalogue of the University of Chicago Regenstein Library Exhibit
Megan Browndorf
Part 4
Belarussian Protest in Local and Transnational Contexts
The Cultures of Protests in Cotemporary Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia
Olga V. Solovieva
“Work of Archives and Cultural Institutions as Protest”—2019 Roundtable with Serguei Parkhomenko, Ales Bialiatski, and Vasyl Cherepanyn
Yuliya Ilchuk and Olga V. Solovieva
“About the Local and What All Hold in Common”: Interview with Ales Bialiatski
Olga V. Solovieva
Part 5
Aftermath: The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize
Ales Bialiatski, Together: On the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize and East Slavic Solidarity
Olga V. Solovieva
Knowledge—Memory—Freedom: The Relevance of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize
Adam F. Kola
Part 6
The Future of the Past: Envisioning Belarusian Democracy
“Diasporic Narratives and Memories”: University of Chicago Students Designing a New Concept of the Museum of Multi-Ethnic Belarusian Emigration
Bożena Shallcross and Olga V. Solovieva, with Theodor Anderson, Joy Chan, Esha Deokar, Kaila Etienne-Best, Theresa Fonseca, Arianne Nguyen, Katherine Sinyavin, and Aaron Unger
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Olga V. Solovieva is Researcher in Comparative and Slavonic Literatures at the Center of Excellence IMSErt at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. She is the author of Christ’s Subversive Body: Practices of Religious Rhetoric in Culture and Politics (2018) and The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently (2023), and co-editor of Japan’s Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm (2021).