Ends of Empires: Crisis and Resilience in the Long Twentieth Century

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