International conference "Empire and Nationalism in World War I"

Organizing Committee

10:00am Opening of the conference: Valery Monakhov (SPbU), Marianna Shakhnovich (SPbU), Alexander Semyonov (SPbU)

10:30am Introductory remarks by editors of the volume "Empire and Nationalism at War"

11:00am Session 1. The Great War: The Transformation of State Policies and Nationalism

Aleksei Miller (Central European University, Hungary) "The Impact of WWI on the Mobilization of Nationalism in the Western Borderlands"
Eric Lohr (American University, USA) "'War Nationalism' and 'War Nationality'"

1:00pm Lunch

2:00pm Session 2. Imperial or Colonial? Theoretical Frameworks for Understanding Historical Dynamics of War and Revolution

Marina Mogilner (Ab Imperio Journal, Kazan) "Russian Military Anthropology in the Early 20th Century: From Army-as-an-Empire to Army-as-a-Nation"
Joshua Sanborn (Lafayette College, USA) "War of Decolonization? Russian Empire and Its Aftermath in Comparative Context"

4:00pm Coffee break

4:30pm Session 3. Approaches to Managing Imperial Diversity

Alexander Semyonov (SPbU) "Imperial Revolutions of the Early 20th Century"
Liudmila Novikova (Moscow State University) "War and Revolution from a Regional Perspective"

9:30am Session 4. Approaches to Managing Imperial Diversity

Ilia Gerasimov (Ab Imperio Journal, Kazan) "Russian Progressivism Goes to War: Self-Mobilization of Imperial Educated Society and Pre-Configuration of Political Change"
Sergey Glebov (Smith College, USA) "Russian Intellectuals Go Post-Colonial: Critique of Eurocentrism in Post-World War I Eurasianism"

11:30am Coffee break

12:00pm Session 5. The Great War and the Imperial Borderlands

Marco Buttino (University of Turin, Italy) "Central Asia, 1916–1924: A Variety of Local Revolutions and the Building of the Bolshevik Order"
Vladimir Bobrovnikov (Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) "Freedom and Shariat in Russia's North Caucasus, 1914–1921"

2:00pm Lunch

3:00pm Session 6. Legacy and Memory of the Great War

Jeremy Smith (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) "The National Question and the Civil War in the Borderlands"
Vera Tolz, Ewa Ochman, Thomas Balkelis (University of Manchester, UK) "Memory of WWI and of the Post-Imperial Order in the Baltic States, Poland and Russia"

5:00pm Coffee break

5:30pm Commentary: David McDonald (University of Wisconsin—Madison, USA), Mark von Hagen (Arizona State University, USA), Boris Kolonitsky (EUSP)

6:30pm Final discussion