Transimperial Histories of (Post)Colonial Entanglements in Russian-Ottoman Borderlands, 1850s-1950s

Workshop Program 10 February 2025 13h30-14h: Arrival (coffee/tea) 14h-16h30: Regimes of (Im)mobility: The role of mobility and borders in transimperial history, including the entangled history of (forced) migrations, displacement and refugee regimes Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky – panel chair İlkay Yilmaz, „Mobility Control and the Use of Passports in the Late Ottoman Empire (1876- 1908)“ Artem Kharchenko, Transimperial Perspectives of the Northern Black Sea Region: Jews, Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, Crimean Tatars and other Communities Lina Tsrimova, Caucasus in Exile: Towards a Transnational History of the Expulsion of the North Caucasian Mountain Dwellers (19th-20th Century) Samuel J. Hirst, Regimes of Trade: Turkey, the Soviet Union, and the Rules of International Exchange, 1956–1962 16h30: Coffee Break 18h30: Workshop dinner: Ristorante Lungomare Krausenstraße 11, 10117 Berlin 11 February 2025 9h30 -10h: Arrival (coffee/tea) 10h -12h30: Regimes of Land and Settlement: The entangled history of colonization projects and related legal regimes, including land reform and policies regarding nomads and tribal societies. Nazan Maksudyan – panel chair Masha Cerovic, The empire as project: Romanov land reform and Ottoman law in the borderlands Oleksandr Polianichev, Plants Across Empires: Towards an Environmental History of the Russian-Ottoman Borderland Mehmet Polatel, Ethno-religious concerns in land policies Alexander Balistreri, The Anatolian-Caucasian Borderlands as a Historical Laboratory. Comparing Approaches to the Land Question 12h30-14h: Lunch (Buffet at CMB) 14h-15h30: Regimes of (Un)freedom: Notions of freedom, subjecthood, and unfreedom in transimperial history, including the persistence of slavery and its transimperial enforcement, forced labor, coercive gender regimes, and practices of imposed subjecthood or, “protection” Alex Balistreri – Panel chair Stefan Kirmse, ‘Blood Libel in the Caucasus (1850-1890): A Transimperial Approach’. Aikaterini Lykoudi, Russian-Ottoman Relations & the Karaite Question in Late Imperial Russia 15h30 -16h: Coffee Break 16h-18h: Closing discussion. Methodologies: Using innovative research methods, uncovering and reinterpreting sources, and discussing new theoretical approaches to transimperial RussianOttoman history.