Russia, Islam and Eurasia: A Workshop
Thursday, 04 October 2007, 6:00pm–7:30pm
1219 International Affairs Building
A discussion to be led by
Jane Burbank (NYU)
Charles King (Georgetown)
Steve Kotkin (Princeton)
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Orthodox Sharia? Church and Police Enforcement of Religious Confession in the Russian Empire (Metropolitanate of Kiev), 1820-1917
Friday, 26 October 2007, 5:00pm–6:30pm
1219 International Affairs Building
Nadia Kizenko (SUNY Albany)
Please RSVP to russia-islam@harrimaninstitute.org
This talk is organized by the Russian History Workshop.
Enquiries may be addressed to Mark Mazower: mm2669@columbia.edu
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"Lost Worlds of Imperial Cities: From Sarajevo to Jaffa"
Wednesday, 31 October 2007, 10:30am–1:00pm
1501 International Affairs Building
Participants:
Robert Donia, Research Associate, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Michigan; author of "Sarajevo, A Biography"
Adam LeBor, correspondent for The Times of London and the Economist; author of "Jaffa: City of Oranges"
Robert Geraci, Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia, author of "Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia."
Moderated by Mark Mazower, Professor of History, Columbia University; author of "Salonica, City of Ghosts"
Welcoming Remarks by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Director, Harriman Institute
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On the Educational Front Lines: Muslim Cultural Reform in Rural Russia, 1890-1910
Thursday, 01 November 2007, 6:00pm–7:30pm
1219 International Affairs Building
James Meyer (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harriman Institute)
Please RSVP to russia-islam@harrimaninstitute.org
Enquiries may be addressed to Mark Mazower: mm2669@columbia.edu
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CANCELLED! Exotic Peoples at Russian Coronations
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 6:00pm–7:30pm
1219 International Affairs Building
Richard Wortman (History Department, Columbia University)
Please RSVP to russia-islam@harrimaninstitute.org
Enquiries may be addressed to Mark Mazower: mm2669@columbia.edu
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Russo-Arab Ties in Historical Perspective: A Workshop on Imperial Russia, Islam, and the Ottoman Arab Lands
Friday, 15 February 2008, 9:00am–5:00pm
Lehman Suite, 406 International Affairs, 420 W. 118th Street
PROGRAM
9:00-9:30 Coffee and Welcome Remarks by Mark Mazower, Director of the Project on Russia and Islam at the Harriman Institute
Morning Session: Russian Interest in the Arab World in the Nineteenth Century
9:30 – 12:00
Moderator: Christine Philliou (Columbia University)
Alexander Knysh (University of Michigan)
“Arabic and Islamic Studies in Nineteenth-Century Russian Academia”
Efim Rezvan (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg)
“Abdel Aziz Davletshin and His Secret Mission in Arabia (1898)”
Svetlana Kirillina (Moscow State University)
“Islam and its Adherents in the Eyes of a Russian Monk: The Pilgrim-Writer Meletii in the Ottoman Arab Lands of the Late Eighteenth Century”
Afternoon Session: Using “Muslim Sources” to Write Russian and Soviet History
2:00-4:30
Moderator: Robert Crews (Stanford University)
Allen Frank (Independent Scholar)
"Islamic Sources of Imperial Russian and Soviet History: Some Typological and Methodological Issues"
Alexandre Papas (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS,
Paris) - Ohio State University)
"Islamic Literary Sources for the Modern History of Central Asia: The
Case of Poetry"
Shovosil Ziyodov (Beruni Institute for Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent)
"Muslim Sources on the History of Central Asia from the Period of the Russian Conquest"
This Workshop is part of the Harriman Institute Research 2007-2008 Theme, Russia and Islam: Religion, the State and Modernity during and after the Age of Empire.
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Graduate Student Workshop: Russia and the Ottoman Empire: Transregional and Comparative Approaches
Saturday, 05 April 2008, 10:00am–6:00pm
Graduate Student Lounge, Philosophy Hall, Room #301
Presented by the Harriman Institute, Project on Russia and Islam
See attachment for full program schedule.
Papers for this conference will be pre-circulated. Presenters will discuss their work for 10-12 minutes, but will not be reading their papers. Persons interested in attending this workshop who would like to receive copies of papers in advance should contact James Meyer at jhm2133@columbia.edu.
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EMPIRE, CONQUEST AND FAITH: THE RUSSIAN AND OTTOMAN INTERACTION, 1650-1920
Thursday, 24 April 2008, 6:00pm–Saturday, 26 April 2008, 3:30pm
Kellogg Center, Room 1501 IAB
Please address all inquiries to Mark Mazower at mm2669@columbia.edu
Conference Program
Thursday 24 April, 6pm
Exotic Peoples at Imperial Russian Coronations A Lecture by Richard Wortman (Columbia University)
Location: 523 Butler Library
Friday 25 April
10am-12.00
Location: 1501 International Affairs Building
Session 1: the Danubian Principalities and the Crimea
Commentator: Robert Crews (Stanford Univ.)
A View from the Edge: Observing Istanbul's Nizam-i Cedid from Bucharest
Christine Philliou (Columbia U)
Bearing Arms for the Empire: Crimean Tatars as Soldiers and Subjects
Kelly O’Neill (Harvard Univ.)
1.30-3.30pm
Session 2: the Caucasus and Central Asia
Commentator: Stephen Kotkin (Princeton U.)
The Empire in Practice: Islam and Russian Colonists in Tsarist Azerbaijan
Nicholas Breyfogle (Ohio State Univ.)
The Ottomans and Russians in the North Caucasus: Why the Latter Succeeded Where the Former Did Not
Michael Khodarkovsky (Loyola University Chicago)
Religion and Subjecthood in the North Caucasus in the Age of Catherine II
Sean Pollock (Columbia U.)
Alchemy as a Mode of Colonial Governance in the Russian Caucasus, 1840-1865
Dana Sherry (Stanford)
4-6pm
Session 3: Russo-Ottoman Geopolitics
Commentator: Rashid Khalidi (Columbia U)
An Unorthodox Protectorate: British Policy towards the Ecumenical Patriarchate during the Crimean War
Jack Fairey (National University of Singapore)
The Impact of the Crimean War on Ottoman non-Muslim Religious Communities
Candan Badem (Okan University, Istanbul)
How Russia Became a Muslim Power: Imperial Russia, the Hajj, and Great Power Rivalries
Eileen Kane (Columbia U)
Saturday 26 April
10.00am-12.00
Location: 1501 International Affairs Building
Session 4: Imperial Reform of Religious Institutions
Commentator: Jane Burbank (NYU)
Toleration Through Establishment: The Domestication of the 'Foreign
Confessions' in Imperial Russia, 1810-1857
Paul Werth (University of Nevada)
Learning from Confrontation: the Struggle of Muslim Peasants and Russian Bureaucrats over Muslim Education in the Late Russian Empire
Mustafa Tuna (Princeton University)
The state, the spiritual assemblies, and Muslim community leadership in late imperial Russia
James Meyer (Columbia U)
1.30-3.30pm
Session 5: War and Religious Identities
Commentator: Gulnar Kendirbai (Columbia University)
Disputes between the Ottoman and Romanov Empires over Naturalization and Loss of Subjecthood
Eric Lohr (American University)
A Nation of Generals and Assassins: Rethinking the North Caucasian Diaspora in the Late Ottoman Empire
Ryan Gingeras (Long Island Univ.)
Obligation or Opportunity: the Ottomans and Russia's "Muslim Question"
Michael Reynolds (Princeton University)
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