Friday, March 28
2:00 PM – Call to Order; Mutual Introductions
Session One, 2:15-4:15 PM: Geographies of Empire, Part One: Routes of Exchange
2:15-3:10 PM – Rachel Koroloff (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Illinois), “Botanical Gardens of the 18th Century”
3:15-4:10 PM – Ilya Vinkovetsky (Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University), “From Southern China to Nizhnii Novgorod: People, Animals, and the Tea Road, 1800s-1860s”
Session Two, 4:20-5:20 PM, Interpreting the Russian Empire
Chair TBD
4:20-5:20 PM – Michael Khodarkovsky (Professor, Loyola University), “Where Russia Was ‘Ahead’ of Europe: A New Perspective on the Russian Empire”
7:00 PM – Friday Evening: Dinner for Workshop Participants at the Home of Mark Steinberg and Jane Hedges, 1502 S. Orchard St., Urbana
Saturday, March 29
Session Three, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM: Geographies of Empire, Part Two: Religion, Region, Colony
Chair TBD
9:00-9:50 AM – Aileen Friesen (SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois), “Religiousity and Colonization: The State of Orthodoxy in Omsk Diocese’s Settler Parishes”
10:00-10:55 AM – Leone Musgrave (Ph.D. Candidate, Indiana University), “Empires, Environment, Islam: North Caucasus ‘Mountaineers’ in Revolution and War, 1905-25”
11:00-11:15 AM – Coffee Break
Session Four, 11:15 AM-12:15 PM: Society in Revolution and War, Part One
Chair TBD
11:15 AM-12:15 PM – Natalie Belsky (Ph.D. Candiate, University of Chicago), “New Types of Communities: The Role of Women’s Organizations in Helping Evacuees”
12:00-2:00 PM – Lunch (Directions to Local Cafes and Restaurants will be Available)
Session Five, 2:00-2:55 PM: Society in Revolution and War, Part Two
Chair TBD
2:00-2:55 PM – Roberto Carmack (Ph.D. Candiate, University of Wisconsin), “Anti-Soviet Elements have been Activated: The Campaign Against the ‘Fifth Column’ in Kazakhstan, 1941-1945”
2:55-3:15 PM – Coffee Break
Session Six, 3:15-5:10 PM: Small Town Russia, 19th Century
3:15-4:10 PM – Eugene M. Avrutin (Associate Professor, University of Illinois), “The Velizh Affair: Ritual Murder in a Russian Border Town”
4:15-5:10 PM – Nathan Gerth (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Notre Dame), “‘A Memorial on the Grave of a Once Great Principality’: Discovering the Provincial City in Tver’ during the Mid-Nineteenth Century”
7:00 PM – Saturday Evening: Dinner for Workshop Participants at the Home of Diane and Roger Koenker, 504 Pennsylvania Ave., Urbana