Nazarbayev UniversityLev Gumiliov Eurasian Evnei Buketov
in partnership withNational University Karaganda State
University
International Conference
On the Periphery of Collapsing Empire:
National Minorities and the 1917 Revolution
November 4-5, 2017
Senate Hall, Block C1, Nazarbayev University, Astana
Preliminary program
November 3 (Friday) – Arrivals, accommodation, dinner
November 4 (Saturday)
9.30-10.00 – Registration
10.00 – Shigeo Katsu, President of Nazarbayev University. Welcome speech (TBC)
10.30 – Introductory remarks of conveners
11.00-12.00 – Keynote speech of Zhulduzbek Abylkhozhin, Chingiz Valikhanov Institute of History and Anthropology (Almaty). 1917 October Revolution: to the issue of productive and counter-productive historiographic paradigms (40 min). Q&A session
12.00-13.00 – Lunch
13.00 – 14.00 - Keynote speech of Jeremy Smith, University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu). Understandings of nationality before and after 1917 (40 min), Q&A session
14.00-15.40 – Panel 1. 1917 Revolution and autonomist movements in Russia
Chair: Beatrice Penati, Nazarbayev University
Discussant: Jeremy Smith, University of East Finland
Dina Amanzholova, Institute of Russian History of RAS (Moscow). 1917 Revolution and the problems of ethno-political development of the peoples of Central Asian region of Russia (20 min)
Ivan Sablin, Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg). An Imperial Revolution: Buryat-Mongols, Kazakhs, and Koreans in 1905–1917 (20 min).
Natalya Ablazhei, Institute of History of Siberian Branch of RAS (Novosibirsk). Siberian Regionalists’ Regional and National Projects (20 min)
Discussant (20 min)
Q&A (20 min)
15.40-16.00 – Coffee-break
16.00-18.00 – Panel 2. Religion in the revolutionary process
Chair: Svetlana Kovalskaya, Lev Gumiliov Eurasian National University (Astana)
Discussant: Alexander Morrison, Oxford University
Rozaliya Garipova, Nazarbayev University. 1917 Revolution, Muslim Religious Authority and Family Law (20 min)
Daniel Scarborough, Nazarbayev University. Revolution and Canon Law: Disputed Canonicity in the Diocesan Congresses of 1917 (20 min)
Nikolay Tsyrempilov, Nazarbayev University. Russian Tsar as Bodhisattva: Buryat Buddhist Responses to 1917 Revolution (20 min)
Discussant (20 min)
Q&A (20 min)
November 5 (Sunday)
10.00-11.00 - Keynote speech of Niccolo Pianciola, Lingnan University (Hongkong) (40 min). Layers and Vectors of Violence in Revolutionary Central Asia, Q&A session
11.00-12.40 - Panel 3. Violence and Protest in Revolutionary Politics
Chair: Alima Bissenova, Nazarbayev University
Discussant: Niccolo Pianciola, Lingnan University (Hongkong)
Arailym Musagaliyeva, Lev Gumiliov Eurasian National University (Astana). Deportation as Political Violence (the Case of North Caucasian Peoples) (20 min)
Alexander Morrison, Oxford University. Dorogovizna and Settler Violence in Wartime Semirechie: the Lepsinsk Bab’i Bunty, April 1916 (20 min)
Maria Blackwood, Harvard University. Factions and Factionalism in Early Soviet Kazakhstan (20 min)
Discussant (20 min)
Q&A (20 min)
12.40-13.30 – Lunch
13.30-14.30 - Keynote speech of Svetlana Kovalskaya, Lev Gumiliov Eurasian National University (Astana). S. A. Piontkovskii, a Historian and Victim of 1917 Revolution (40 min), Q&A session
14.30-16.10 –Panel 4. The Revolution as History
Chair: Rozaliya Garipova, Nazarbayev University
Discussant: Zauresh Saktaganova, Evnei Buketov Karaganda State University
Martin Beiswenger, Higher School of Economics (Moscow). Classical Eurasianism and the Russian Revolution of 1917: P.N. Savitskii and L.P. Karsavin (Two Case Studies) (20 min)
Alima Bissenova, Nazarbayev University. The Nationalist Vanguard or Cultural Brokers between the Colonial Regime and the People? (20 min)
Beatrice Penati, Nazarbayev University. What went wrong? North Caucasian emigres in Europe and the search for responsibilities in the revolution and civil war (20 min)
Discussant (20 min)
Q&A (20 min)
16.10-16.30 – Coffee-break
16.30-17.00 – Closing remarks
19.00 – Dinner
November 6 (Monday) – Departures