Ends of Empires: Crisis and Resilience in the Long Twentieth Century
Joint Workshop co-organised by UCL SSEES and SRC (Slavic-Eurasian Research Center) of Hokkaido University. Co-organizers: Professor Maria Rubins (SSEES, UCL) and Professor Norihiro Naganawa (SRC, University of Hokkaido)
Please join us for this joint Workshop co-organised by UCL SSEES and SRC (Slavic-Eurasian Research Center) of Hokkaido University.
Workshop programme:
12:30-40 Welcome address: Professor Richard Mole, Director of SSEES
12:40-14:00 Panel 1: Long Twentieth Century
Chair: Alena Ledeneva
Jakub Beneš, “Land Wars and the history of Empires since 1918”
Norihiro Naganawa, “Rhizomes of Insurgents, Forests of Nation-States:
Russia and the Middle East in the Aftermath of Empires”
Discussant: Yoko Aoshima
14:00-14:30 Catered lunch (Masaryk Room)
14:30-16:30 Panel 2: Religion and Nation in the Post-Ottoman Space
Chair: Peter Zusi
Bojan Alexov, “End of Empires as Ecclesiological Crisis?”
Hidemitsu Kuroki, “Trust and Mistrust in Self-Determination: Proposals
of Lebanese and Syrian Migrants to the Paris Peace Conference”
In lieu of discussant’s comments:
Maria Rubins “What Is Palestine? Who are the Palestinians? A long history of a contested concept”
Discussant: Norihiro Naganawa
16:30-16:40 tea/coffee break (Masaryk Room)
16:40-18:40 Panel 3: Decolonization and Imperial Temptation in the War
Chair: Maria Rubins
Yoko Aoshima, “Empire, Nation and Decolonisation in the Context of the
Russo-Ukrainian War”
Uilleam Blacker, “Ukraine’s Diverse Landscape of Literary Resistance and
the Russo-Ukrainian War”
Michal Murawski, “re-Colonial Russia: Architecture, Landscape and
Violence in Putin’s Paradise”
Discussant: Andrew Wilson