Comparative History Days – 2019
Special Focus: Transnational History
Thursday, March 21
9:30 Registration
10: 00 – 10:15 Mikhail Krom (EUSP), Opening Remarks
10:15 – 11:00 Introductory Talk:
Samuel Hirst (Bilkent University, Ankara), Early Reflections on Teaching and Writing Transnational History
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 13:30 Panel 1: Cultural Transfers in Early Modern Europe
Chair: Mikhail Krom (EUSP)
(Time limit: 30 min. per paper, including questions and answers)
- Olga Kosheleva (Institute of World History, RAS, Moscow), Early Modern Cosmographies as Transnational Projects: Mercator’s Atlas
- Irina Gerasimova (Russian Christian Academy of Humanities, St. Petersburg), Cultural Transfer from Early Modern Italy to Russia: Musical Ideas and Technologies
- Yury Zaretsky (HSE, Moscow), First Printed Overviews of World History for “Slavonic-Russian People” (A Contribution to the Social History of Historical Knowledge Across Borders)
Discussant: Mikhail Krom
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 15:30 Library Tour: An Exhibition of Books on Transnational History
15:30 – 16:45 Panel 2: Transnational Networks of Knowledge and Activism
Chair: Samuel Hirst (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey)
(Time limit: 30 min. per paper, including questions and answers)
- Vladimir Bobrovnikov (HSE, St. Petersburg), Why did the Colonial Codification of Customary Law Fail between Muslims in Russiaʼs Caucasus and in Dutch East-Indies?
- Daria Dyakonova (University of Montreal), Transnational Communism or Transnational Feminism? Networking among Communist Women in the Early 1920s
Discussant: Samuel Hirst
17:00 – 18:00 Charles Meier (Harvard University), Video-Lecture: Process versus Place: Doing History beyond Borders
18: 30 Dinner/Reception
Friday, March 22
10:00 – 11:15 Keynote Lecture:
Matthias Middell (University of Leipzig), From Comparative to Transnational and from Transnational to Transregional History - Some Remarks on Recent Trends in Historiography
11:15 – 12:15 Panel 3: Russian Imperial Developments in a Global Context
Chair: Veljko Vujacic (EUSP)
(Time limit: 20 min. for each presentation, 10 min. for comments/discussion)
- Alexei Yepishev (HSE, Moscow), Nationalist Discourse in the Russian Literature at the Beginning of the 19th Century: The Ideas and Concepts of the State Counsellor A. S. Shishkov
Discussant: Natalia Potapova (EUSP)
- Dmitry Karasev (RANEPA, Moscow), Quantitative Pattern Matching: How to Find Well-Known World-Historical Patterns in Regional Industrialization of the Late 19th-Century Russian Empire
Discussant: Danila Raskov (St. Petersburg State University)
12:15 – 12:30 Coffee-break
12:30 – 13:45 Panel 4: Art and Ideology across Borders
Chair: Veljko Vujacic (EUSP)
(Time limit: 20 min. for each presentation, 10 min. for comments/discussion)
- Kirill Chunikhin (HSE, St. Petersburg), Shared Images of the Cold War: American Art in the Soviet Union
Discussant: Ekaterina Orel (University of Ca’ Foscari, Venice)
- Nino Gozalishvili, A Road Less Traveled: The Role of Diffusion in Studies of Populism
Discussant: Margarita Zavadskaya (EUSP)
Mikhail Krom and Samuel Hirst, Concluding Remarks
14:00 Lunch