[Bilimsel Haber] Graduate Student Workshop: "Russia and the Ottoman Empire: Transregional and Comparative Approaches" (Columbia University, April, 5, 2008)

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From: James H. Meyer <jhm2133 at columbia.edu>

Dear colleagues,

On Saturday, April 5, the Harriman Institute's year-long project on Russia
and Islam will present a graduate student workshop entitled "Russia and the
Ottoman Empire: Transregional and Comparative Approaches." This event is
open to the public and all who are interested are encouraged to attend. 

Please contact James H. Meyer at jhm2133 at Columbia.edu 
for further information or to receive copies of papers, which will be
pre-circulated. 

Below you will find a copy of the workshop program.
Sincerely,
James H. Meyer

RUSSIA AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: TRANSREGIONAL AND COMPARATIVE APPROACHES
Graduate Student Workshop***

SATURDAY APRIL 5, 2008
Philosophy Hall-Ground Floor, Room # 301, 
Columbia University

Presented by the Harriman Institute, Project on Russia and Islam

10:00 Coffee and opening remarks

Session 1: 10:30-12:15 "Overlapping Boundaries: the Caucasus as a site of
competition and cohabitation"
Moderator: Michael Reynolds (Princeton University)
* Irma Kreiten (Southampton University), "War and state in the Northeastern
Black Sea region: The impact of the Russian-Ottoman rivalry on processes of
political modernization (19th century)."
* Halit D. Akarca (Princeton University), "Continuity or Contingency:
Russian interest in Eastern Anatolia/Western Armenia."
* Leslie Sargent (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Armenian and
Azeri 'Muslim' subjects of the Russian empire: Perceptions of preferential
treatment, discrimination, and a 'zero sum' game in the transformation of
'political community' in the South Caucasus, 1812-1905."

Session 2: 1:45-3:30 "Russia and the Ottoman Empire: comparative approaches?
Moderator: Jane Burbank (NYU)
* Nikolay A. Antov (University of Chicago), "The Muscovite and Ottoman
Principalities - Territorial Expansion, Political Consolidation, and
Strategies of Dynastic Legitimization in Comparative Perspective (14th-16th
cc.)."
* Darin Stephanov (UCLA), "(In)visibility and the Shaping of a Monarchic
Persona in the late Ottoman and Russian Empires."
* Mustafa Tuna (Princeton University), "Fifth Column or Imperial Paranoia:
Confrontation between Russian Muslim Intellectuals and Russian Imperial
Administration in the Late Russian Empire."

Session 3: 3:45-5:30 "Transregional approaches: the Ottoman Empire, Russia,
and the USSR"
Moderator: Ryan Gingeras (Long Island University)

* Andrew Robarts (Georgetown University), "Population Movements and the
Spread of Disease across the Ottoman-Russian Frontier, 1768-1830s."
* Lale Can (NYU), "Beyond the Porte: Informal Diplomacy between Istanbul and
Bukhara under Abdülhamid II."
* Lisa Yountchi (Northwestern University), "The Politics of Historiography:
Russian, Soviet and Tajik scholars studying Central Asia."

5:30 Reception

***PAPERS WILL BE PRE-CIRCULATED. Presenters will discuss their work for
10-12 minutes, but will not be reading their papers. Persons interested in
attending this workshop who would like to receive copies of papers in
advance should contact James Meyer at <jhm2133 at Columbia.edu>

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Dr. James H. Meyer
Postdoctoral researcher
Harriman Institute
Columbia University