Empire, Violence and Collective Representations

Programm

Friday May 16, 2008 13.00-13.15 Welcome Gabor T. Rittersporn, Alain Blum, Jörg Baberowski 13.15-13.45 Panel 1: Taking A Fresh View Ulrike Huhn, Tadzio Schilling, Stefan Wiese (Berlin): Rumours and Violence in the Era of Russia’s Revolutionary Crisis, 1856-1953: Towards a New Research Agenda 14.00-15.15 Panel 2: State Action and Reaction Frithjof Benjamin Schenk (München): Railroads and Terrorism in the Russian Empire Alain Blum (Paris): Between Pressure, Intimidation and Violence: State Action and Social Sciences Academic Milieu in Ukraine, 1920-1935 15.15-15.45 Coffee 15.45-17.00 Panel 3: Empowerment and Misery Anke Hilbrenner (Bonn): Political Violence as the »Language of the Street«: Terrorism and its Spaces in the Russian Empire Alexander Sumpf (Paris): World War I in Soviet Memory (1920s) 17.15-18.30 Panel 4: Imperial Outskirts Radu Paun (Paris): Violence as Political Argument: (Re)shaping the Concept of Empire in the Balkan Orthodox World and Russian Foreign Policies (15th-early 19th Centuries) Christian Teichmann (Berlin): Overcoming a Colonial Legacy? The Bolsheviks in Central Asia, 1920-1941 19.30 Dinner Saturday May 17, 2008 9.30-10.45 Panel 5: Soviet Power, Traditions of Rule Isabelle Ohayon (Paris): Soviet Power and Tribal Authority: Kirghizia in the 1920s and 1930s Felix Schnell (Berlin): Violence and a Distant State: Collectivization in the Ukraine, 1928-32 11.00-12.15 Panel 6: All in the Ruler’s Name? Malte Griesse (Paris): Traces of Violence in Diaries of the 1930s Martin Aust (Kiel): Empire and Violence: Reflections on the Case of Stalinism from the Point of View of Imperial History 12.15-13.30 Lunch 13.30-14.45 Panel 7: Street Fighting 1905/2006 Christoph Gumb (Berlin): The Fortress: Representations of Power and the Presence of Violence. Warsaw, 1905-1906 Myriam Désert (Paris): The Russian Imperial Syndrome in the Mirror of the Riots in the French Suburbs: The Empire as Boomerang 14.45-15.15 Coffee 15.15-16.30 Panel 8: But Is It Art? Roland Cvetkovski (Köln): Seeing Violence? Preliminary Thoughts to the Relation between Aesthetics and Politics in Late Tsarist Russia and Early Soviet Union Gabor T. Rittersporn (Paris): Underground Will, Underground Representations: Splendour and Misery of the Moscow Metro, 1934-2008 16.30-17.00 Summary and Outlook