Demodernization - A Future in the Past

Yakov M. Rabkin, born and educated in the Soviet Union, is Professor of History at the University of Montreal. His areas of interest include Russian/Soviet history, science and technology studies, and contemporary Jewish history. Author of several books and hundreds of articles, he served as an expert witness for the Standing Committee on External Affairs and International Trade of the Parliament of Canada and cooperated with the OECD and other international organizations on issues of science and technology policy.

Mikhail Minakov is Principal Investigator for Ukraine at Kennan Institute/Wilson Center for International Scholars and DAAD Visiting Professor at Europe University Viadrina (ORCID 0000-0002-0619-7321). He is Editor-in-chief of Kennan Focus Ukraine and Ideology and Politics. From 2001 to 2018 Dr. Minakov worked as Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. His research interests focus on ideology, social experience, social and political imagination, as well as long term epistemological tendencies in modernity. He authored over hundred articles and research papers and several books including Kant's Concept of the Faith of Reason (2001), History of Experience (2007), Photosophy (2017), and Development and Dystopia (2018).