The Kremlin\u2019s war on Ukraine has evoked such strong reaction in Canadian academia that scholars may remove the word \u201cRussian\u201d from at least one program title. That\u2019s just one way the conflict is leaving a potentially permanent mark on the university sector. The fallout includes a surge of support for Ukrainian scholars fleeing the war; a rupture in collaboration between Canadian and Russian researchers; and changes in how Russian and Ukrainian history and literature are taught.<\/p>\n
Maria Popova, a political science professor at McGill University, said the war has prompted \u201ca deep debate\u201d about course and research content, structure and titles that imply support for Russian imperialism or portrayal of Ukraine as inferior. \u201cA lot of people working on Russia, Russian politics, literature, history, have not looked into Russian imperialism very much and have indeed perpetuated Russian imperialist positions in this field,\u201d she said. \u201cThere has to be a decolonization of the field and that\u2019s one of the things we\u2019ll be dealing with.<\/p>\n