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We are excited to release the recording of Hamid Ismailov’s literary reading from his book The "Dead Lake". Our PhD candidate, Verena Zabel, moderated the event and conducted an interview with the famous Uzbek writer-in-exile. The event was part of our RTG’s second annual conference, "Environmental and Cultural Destruction in Imperial Spaces".

Our Research Training Group has just published the proceedings of the lectures held during the first three years of our project (2020–2023) <https://doi.org/10.6094/978-3-910380-04-2>.

Our Research Training Group is very pleased that our PhD students, under the coordination of Professor Elisabeth Piller, launched the website “Imperial Moments. An Anthology” <https://www.imperial-moments.org>.

Two years after Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Prof. Dietmar Neutatz sat down for an interview to give his analysis of the complex situation in both countries.

"‘The Empire and I’. Individuals in Empires and Postimperial Spaces" Third annual conference of the RTG 2571 ‘Empires’ (Freiburg) 28 November - 30 November 2024, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany The third annual conference of the RTG Empires will explore the relations between individuals and empires and postimperial spaces. Analysing individuals in empires allows us to explore how empires shaped the lives of their subjects, but it also enables us to analyse how these subjects shaped empires on an individual basis.