Ab Imperio Annual Seminar:
EMPIRE STUDIES – A ROADMAP FOR THE 2010s
Kazan, October 7-11, 2010
Supported by a charitable contribution from the OSI Assistance Foundation
PROGRAM
October 8, Hayall Hotel, Small Conference Hall
PANEL 1, 10.00-11.40
Alexander Semynov (St. Petersburg, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Ab Imperio)
Where Does the Roadmap Lead?
Viktor Kaploun (St. Petersburg, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, European University at St. Petersburg)
Towards the Genealogy of Civic Republicanism in Russia: the Concepts of “Society” and “Civil Society” in the Intellectual
Culture of the Russian Enlightenment (late 18th – early 19th century)
Ilya Gerasimov (Kazan, Ab Imperio)
How the Other Russia Was Made: A History of Progressivist Obshchestvennost’, cc. 1907-1917
PANEL 2, 11.55-13.35
Vladimir Bobrovnikov (Moscow, Institute for Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences)
Islamic vs. Russian Studies on the Making of the Modern Caucasus: Confession of an Orientalist
Marina Mogilner (Kazan, Ab Imperio)
The Case of Dysfunctional Colonialism, Or the 19th-Century Physical Anthropology of “Fresh Brains,” in Russia and Beyond
Olga Yu. Bessmertnaya (Moscow, Institute for Oriental Cultures and Antiquity, Russian State University for the Humanities)
Window to the “East–West”: A (Late-)Imperial Biography, or “Novelistic History”
PANEL 3, 15.30-17.10
Sergey Glebov (Amherst, MA, USA, University of Massachusetts; Ab Imperio)
The Ghost of Colonization: Reform and Native Mobilization in North-Eastern Siberia, 1907-1913
Vladimir Rozhanskii (Irkutsk, Center for Independent Social Research and Education)
Decolonization without Separatism. The Case of Eastern Siberia
Andrey Makarychev (Nizhny Novgorod, Academy of Public Administration)
Russian Imperial Discourse: Ordering, Bordering, and Dislocations
PANEL 4, 10.00-11.40
Benjamin Schenk (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany)
Mastering Space? The Ambivalent Impact of Railway Building in Tsarist Russia
Nicholas Brenton Breyfogle (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)
Confronting Catastrophe: The 1861-62 Lake Baikal Earthquakes and the Meanings of Nature in Imperial Russia
Аndriy Portnov (Ukraina Moderna international journal in humanities, Kiev, Ukraine)
Almost a Capital without History. Yekaterinoslav-Dnipropetrovsk, 1795-2005
PANEL 5, 11.55 – 13.35
Kevin Platt (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Why Russian Culture?
Mirja Lecke (Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany)
The Odessa School. Russian Literature on the Periphery
Serguei Oushakine (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA)
Post-Colonial or Post-Imperial: Sites of Memory in Belarus
PANEL 6, FINAL DISCUSSION 10.00-11.40
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