You are cordially invited to attend a workshop at Columbia Global Centers | Europe in Paris (CGC|E), entitled "Re-shaping the Margins of Europe: Russian-Soviet and Ottoman-Turkish Transformations 1900-1930". This event takes place on July 2-4, 2012 and is co-sponsored with the Donald and Vera Blinken European Institute.

The workshop aims to understand how concepts of Europe were (re-)shaped by the conflicts that brought the Soviet Union into being out of the Russian Empire, and the Republic of Turkey out of the Ottoman Empire.  It will also explore the ways in which these concepts shaped those transformations.

Programme

5:30pm Registration

6:00pm Opening (Tarik Amar, Christine Philliou)

6:15pm-7:15pm Keynote address: Katerina Clark (Yale)

Tuesday, July 3

9:30am: Registration / Breakfast

10:00am-12:00pm:  Panel 1: Subjectivities

Commentator/Discussant: Victoria de Grazia (Columbia/BEI)

Participants:

• Kutlughan Soyubol (PhD candidate, CUNY Graduate Center): Turkey Psychoanalyzed, Psychoanalysis Turkified: Reflections on Izzettin Sadan
• Jochen Hellbeck (Rutgers): Soviet Subjectivity at War: Forging the Red Army Hero in Battle

12:00pm-1:30pm: Lunch Break

1:30pm-3:30pm: Panel 2: Governance/Governmentality

Commentator/Discussant: Peter Holquist (Penn)

• Ugur Umit Ungor (Utrecht University): State Violence under Kemalism and Stalinism: Common Themes and Analogies
• Ekaterina Pravilova (Princeton): Contested antiquities: treasure troves, property, and archaeology in Imperial Russia

3:30pm-3:45pm: Coffee Break

3:45pm-5:45pm: Panel 3: Temporalities

Commentator/Discussant: Rashid Khalidi (Columbia)

Participants:

• Muge Gocek (University of Michigan): The Past in the Present, the Present in the Past: Memoirs as an Analytical Lense into Ottoman and Republican History
• Dragan Kujundzic (University of Florida, Gainesville): Bosnia and the Imperial Limits of Europe

Wednesday, July 4

9:30am: Registration / Breakfast

10:00am-12:00pm: Panel 4: Spaces and Boundaries

Commentator/Discussant: Katerina Clark

Participants:

• Ilya Gerasimov (Ab Imperio):  Visions of a Progressivist Russian Empire and the Limits of Its ‘Internal Decolonization
• Michael Reynolds (Princeton): Reversing the Second Image: Imperial Legacies in the Early Soviet Union and the Early Turkish Republic

12:00pm-12:30pm: Cocktail-Lunch

12:30pm-1:30pm: Plenary Session

End of workshop