2024 Summer International Symposium Slavic-Eurasian Research Center

Slavic-Eurasian Research Center 2024 Summer International Symposium
The Crucible of a New World? Russia’s Borderlands at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Date: July 18-19, 2024
Venue: Hokkaido University, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Room 403 In-Person Only
Language: English
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Program

July 18 （Thursday）

9:20- 9:30（GMT+9）	Opening Remarks

9:30-11:30（GMT+9）	Session 1: “Tradition and Modernization”

Speakers:		Tetsu Akiyama (Hokkaido University of Education) “Nomadic Central Asia Facing “the Age of Nationalism”: A Comparative Analysis of Qazaq and Qirghiz Elites”
		Andrei Cusco (Romanian Academy) “The Orthodox Church, the National Question, and the Spectre of 'Separatism' in Early Twentieth-Century Bessarabia (1905-1914)”
		Masumi Isogai (Chiba University) “Cooperation on the "Morality" of Muslim Women among Muslim Intellectuals and the Islamic Religious Administration in Russia”
Discussant:		Jin Noda (SRC/Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)【Online】
Moderator:		Motoki Nomachi (SRC)

13:00-15:00（GMT+9）	Session 2: “Nationality Issues in the New Context”

Speakers:		Darius Staliūnas (Lithuanian Institute of History) “Successes and failures of the tsarist nationality policy in the late imperial period (the case of Lithuania and Belarus)”
		Yoko Aoshima (SRC) “Drifting Apart: Native Language Education Policies in the Polish and Baltic Provinces at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century”
		Ivan Sablin (Heidelberg University/Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana) “Community Building in (Post)Imperial Parliaments: Buryat Deputies and Imperial Transformations”
Discussant:		Tomohiko Uyama (SRC)
Moderator:		Viktoriia Antonenko (SRC)

15:30-18:00（GMT+9）	Session 3: “Globalization: Society, Economy, Infrastructure”

Speakers:		Jennifer Keating (University College Dublin)【Online】 “Pastoralists, global markets and frictions of empire in early twentieth century Central Asia: A view from the Karkara valley”
		Yukimura Sakon (Kyushu University) “The Arrival of Globalization in the Russian Far East: The Russian Empire and Traffic Changes on the Eve of World War I”
		Anton Kotenko (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) “Peripheral Modernity: The Image of Towns of the Western Borderlands as Hubs of Innovations, 1909–14”
		Akifumi Shioya (University of Tsukuba) “Khan, Entrepreneurs and Empire: Imperial Russian Developement Projects in Khiva, 1908-1917”
Discussant:		David Wolff (SRC)
Moderator:		Jasmina Gavrankapetanović-Redžić (SRC)

July 19（Friday）

10:00-12:00（GMT+9）	Session 4: “Protest, Conflict, Violence”

Speakers:		Sarah Slye (Independent scholar) “Networks of Rebellion in the Caucasus, 1900-1916”
		Anke Hilbrenner (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) “About Jews and other anarchists: Terrorism in the southwestern borderlands of the Russian Empire and the revolution of 1905”
		Stephanie Ziehaus (University of Vienna) “The Blagoveshchensk Anti-Chinese pogroms 1900 and beyond: the role of Baikal Cossacks in the Amur region”
Discussant:		Norihiro Naganawa (SRC)
Moderator:		Daisuke Adachi (SRC)

13:30-15:30（GMT+9）	Session 5: “From Russia's Borderlands to the World”

Speakers:		Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (UC Santa Barbara) “Muslim Displacement from Late Tsarist and Early Soviet Central Asia”
		Roman Katsman (Bar-Ilan University) “Ukraine – Siberia – The Land of Israel: Avraham Vysotsky in 1908-1920”
		Catherine Gibson (University of Tartu) “Bounds of Empathy: Intra-Imperial Humanitarianism in the Baltic Provinces”
Discussant:		Taro Tsurumi (University of Tokyo)
Moderator:		Akihiro Iwashita (SRC)


16:00-18:00（GMT+9）	Session 6: “New Political Projects”

Speakers:		Wiktor Marzec (University of Warsaw)【Online】 “Post-imperial Statehood and Interface Peripheries of the Russian Empire”
		Mirlan Bektursunov (Kyoto University) “Seeing Soviet Through Lineage: Kyrgyz Lineages and Early Soviet Rule”
		Oleksandr Polianichev (Södertörn University) “A Ukrainianizing Empire? Tsarist Governance and “Little Russian” Patriotism in the North Caucasus, 1906–1917”
Discussant:		Sayaka Kaji (Iwate University)【Online】
Moderator:		Hyunjoo Naomi Chi (Hokkaido University)

Slavic-Eurasian Research Center 2024 Summer International Symposium

The Crucible of a New World?

Russia’s Borderlands at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Date: July 18-19, 2024

Venue: Hokkaido University, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Room 403 In-Person Only

Program

Venue: Hokkaido University, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Room 403
In-Person Only

　Program