Wednesday, November 13, 2013

2013 Ab Imperio Annual Seminar



Ab Imperio Workshop Series “When Postcolonial Meets Postimperial: 
Cross-Disciplinary Workshops Across the Atlantic”
In association with the University of Illinois at Chicago


Ab Imperio Interdisciplinary Workshop
“Postimperial and Postcolonial Crossroads:
The Scandal of the City”
Chicago, November 18–19, 2013
Cosponsored by Ab Imperio, UIC History Department, UIC Institute for the Humanities,
and the Hejna Foundation
Venue: 1501 University Hall, 601 S. Morgan St. /
Institute for the Humanities, 701 S. Morgan St., Lower Level / Stevenson Hall 

Program

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November 18, Monday
1501 University Hall, 601 S. Morgan St.
 
10:00 –12:00, PANEL 1. The Archaeology of Imperial Crossroads and Post-imperial Expressions
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Krishan Kumar (University Professor, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia)

How Do We Think About the Impact of Empire in the Metropoles of Former Imperial Societies?


Colleen McQuillen (Associate Professor, Slavic & Baltic Department, UIC)

Street Art vs. Protest Action: The Rise of Graffiti and the Fall of a Subculture in Post-Soviet Russia

Ab Imperio Discussant:
Alexander Semyonov (Professor, Dean, Faculty of History, National Research University−Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia)


12:30 – 14:30, PANEL 2. The Scandal of the Imperial Encounter
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Keely Stauter-Halsted(Professor and Stefan and Lucy Hejna Family Chair in the History of Poland, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Prostitution as a Violation of National Purity
Ilya Gerasimov (Executive Editor, Ab Imperio)    
Diversity is Not a Vice: A Secret Story of a Patriarchal Metropolis

Ab Imperio Discussant:
Alexander Semyonov (Professor, Dean, Faculty of History, National Research University−Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia)

15:30 –17:30, PANEL 3. The Mental Mapping of Spaces beyond the Empire−Nation Opposition: Regionalism
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Rama Sundari Mantena (Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Sites of Political Modernity: Regionalism and Public Life in Colonial India
Sergey Glebov (Assistant Professor, History Department, Smith College and Amherst College)
In Search of a Modern Site: Siberian Regionalists between the Imperial and the National

Ab Imperio Discussant:
Alexander Semyonov (Professor, Dean, Faculty of History, National Research University−Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia)

November 19, Tuesday
Institute for the Humanities, 701 S. Morgan St., Lower Level / Stevenson Hall
 
10:00–12:00, PANEL 4. Postcolonial and Postimperial Entanglements of Nationalisms and Universalisms
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Marina Mogilner  (Edward and Marianna Thaden Chair in Russian and East European Intellectual History, Associate Professor of History, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago)
The Postimperial Jewish Nation: City as a Temptation and City as a Threat in Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Zionist Bildung
Liliana Riga (Program Director, MSc in Global Social Change Sociology, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh)
Remaking Empire: Institutional Templates, Practices, and Universalisms
Ab Imperio Discussant:
Alexander Semyonov (Professor, Dean, Faculty of History, National Research University−Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia)

12:30–14:30, PANEL 5. Moderated Discussion: When Exactly Does Postcolonial End and Postimperial Begin?
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Moderator:
Alexander Semyonov (Professor, Dean, Faculty of History, National Research University−Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia)

This event will be broadcast live at http://tv.abimperio.net.

Monday, November 4, 2013

Tales of Two Empires:
Ottoman and Russian Imperial Studies, Compared

Amherst College,
November 1-2, 2013

Organized by Sergey Glebov (Amherst, Smith),
Monica Ringer (Amherst),
and the journal Ab Imperio

with support from Amherst, Smith, and Mount Holyoke Colleges, the Center for Russian Culture at Amherst College, The Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at Amherst College, and Five Colleges, Inc.

 

Program


Friday, November 1st (Octagon Building, Babbott Room)

2:30 pm Sergey Glebov, Opening Remarks

2:45 pm – 4:15 pm Session 1. Chair: Monica Ringer

Alexander Semyonov (Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg, Russia), Empire as a Context-Setting Category

Dina Khoury (George Washington University), Citizenship and Difference in the Ottoman Empire: Possible Agendas
 
4:15 pm – 4:30 pm Coffee break

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Session 2. Chair: Nadya Sbaity

Omnia El Shakry (University of California-Davis), Colonial Modernity and the Human Sciences in Egypt: Some Methodological Considerations

Marina Mogilner (University of Illinois-Chicago), Mapping Empire Through Race: Human Sciences and Political Modernity in Imperial Russia


Saturday, November 2nd (Octagon Building, Babbott Room)

9:00 am – 11:00 am Session 3. Chair: Alexander Semyonov

Thomas Kuhn (Simon Fraser University), The Meaning of Difference. Looking for the Imperial in Late Ottoman Governance, 1839-1918

Sergey Glebov (Smith/Amherst Colleges), Between the Imperial and the National: Regionalism and Ethnography in Imperial Russia

Robert Geraci (University of Virginia), Economics and Empire: Trade, Industry, and Ethnic Diversity in Tsarist Russia

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Session 4. Chair: Adi Gordon

Ilya Gerasimov (Executive Editor, Ab Imperio), The Persistence of the “Union and Progress” Slogan in Transatlantic Progressivism

Janet Klein (Akron University), Unintended Consequences: Ottoman Empire and the Kurdish “Tribes”

Willard Sunderland (University of Cincinnati) The Imperial Emancipations: Abolition and Empire in Tsarist Russia

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Final discussion