【Workshop（12/11）】SSEES-SRC Workshop “Ends of Empires: Crisis and Resilience in the Long Twentieth Century”

Date：Monday, December 11, 2023

Venue：SSEES, UCL (Masaryk Room)

Program：
12:30-40 Welcome address
　　　Professor Richard Mole, Director of SSEES

Panel 1: 12:40-14:00 Long Twentieth Century
　　　Chair: Alena Ledeneva
　　　Jakub Beneš, “Land Wars and the history of Empires since 1918”
　　　Norihiro Naganawa, “Rhizomes of Insurgents, Forests of Nation-States: Russia and the Middle East in the Aftermath of Empires”
　　　Discussion moderator: Alena Ledeneva
14:00-14:30 Catered lunch (Masaryk Room)

Panel 2: 14:30-16:30 Religion and Nation in the Post-Ottoman Space
　　　Chair: Peter Zusi
　　　Bojan Alexov, “End of Empires as Ecclesiological Crisis?”
　　　Hidemitsu Kuroki, “Trust and Mistrust in Self-Determination: Proposals of Lebanese and Syrian Migrants to the Paris Peace Conference”
　　　In lieu of discussant’s comments:
　　　Maria Rubins “What Is Palestine? Who are the Palestinians? A long history of a contested concept”
　　　Discussant: Norihiro Naganawa
　　　16:30-16:40 tea/coffee break (Masaryk Room)

Panel 3: 16:40-18:40 Decolonization and Imperial Temptation in the War
　　　Chair: Maria Rubins
　　　Yoko Aoshima, “Empire, Nation and Decolonisation in the Context of the Russo-Ukrainian War”
　　　Uilleam Blacker, “Ukraine’s Diverse Landscape of Literary Resistance and the Russo-Ukrainian War”
　　　Michal Murawski, “re-Colonial Russia: Architecture, Landscape and Violence in Putin’s Paradise”
　　　Discussant: Eric Gordy

Contact：Norihiro Naganawa < luch[at]slav.hokudai.ac.jp >([at] read as @)