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J o i n t C o n f e r e n C e o f t h e

Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris ( s C i e n C e s P o )

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pANEL EU8Center-Periphery Relations: Islam under the Soviets and the Russians

CHAIRIsabelle Ohayon(CERCEC/CNRS, France)< isabelle.ohayon@cercec.cnrs.fr >

PAPERSKonstantin Kilibarda(York U, Canada)< kole@yorku.ca >Islamic Socialism on the Soviet Frontier:Anticolonial Strategies in Muslim Central Asia, 1917-1928

Asal Khamraeva-Aubert(EHESS, Paris, France)< assale_kh@yahoo.com >Ideology and Practice of the Raionirovanie: From the Imperial Experience to the Creation of the Uzbek SSR

Eduard ponarin(European U at St. Petersburg, Russia)< edp@eu.spb.ru >Islam and Nationalism in Post-Imperial Context: The Case of Tatarstan

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova(Miami U, Ohio, US)< sharfafg@muohio.edu >Putin’s Federalism: A View from Two Muslim Republics

DISCUSSANTNiccolo pianciola(U of Trente, Italy)< niccop@gmail.com >

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pANEL BK1Culture and Music in Imperial and post-Imperial Contexts

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PAPERSAdam mestyan(Central European U, Hungary)< mestyan_adam@phd.ceu.hu >Comparative Cultural History of Empires:Political Aesthetics in Ottoman and Habsburg Contexts (1805-1914)

Ardian Ahmedaja(U für Musik und darstellende Kunt Wien, Austria)< Ahmedaja@mdw.ac.at >Between “Alla Turca” and “Alla Franga”:Globalization Processes and Local Musical Cultures in Albania since 1912

Catherine Baker(U College London, UK)< cbakertw1@googlemail.com >“Backwards or Balkan” or “Glamorous and Global”:Locating the “East” in Ex-Yugoslav Popular Music

marijana mitrovic(Ethnographic Institute, Belgrade, Serbia)< pansjao@yahoo.com >Eurovision Song Contest and Fluctuating Boundaries of National Identity

DISCUSSANTAnne madelain(EHESS, Paris, France / Editor in chief of “Au Sud de l’Est”)< madelain@ehess.fr >

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pANEL N5Jewish Minority

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PAPERSKati Vörös(U of Chicago, US)< kvoros@uchicago.edu >Christians and Jews in St. Stephen’s Empire:Catholicism and the Emergence of Modern Antisemitism in Hungary

Brigitta E. Gantner(Touro College Berlin, Germany)< gantneresz@gmail.com >Between the Cultures: Jewry in the Border Territories in the “Habsburg” Hungary 1867-1914

Olivia Gomolinski(SciencesPo, Paris, France)< ogomolinski@free.fr >Stalin and the Jewish Question: A Bolshevik Government

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pANEL R8Speaking about cultural diversity: conceptual transfers and transformation in contemporary Russian discourse about nationalism and nationalities

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PAPERSmischa Gabowitsch(Princeton U, US)< mgabowit@princeton.edu >Nationalism

Vladimir malakhov(Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)< vmalachov@yandex.ru >Tolerance

Alexander Osipov(Center for Independent Social Research, Moscow, Russia)< aosipov1@gmail.com >Minorities

Henri Duquenne(SciencesPo, Paris, France)< henriduquenne@yahoo.fr >Nationalism in Contemporary Russian Communist Ideology

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pANEL E2French Empire

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PAPERSCarolyn J Eichner(U of South Florida, US)< eichner@chuma1.cas.usf.edu >Civilizing the Colonies/Civilizing the Metropole:French Feminist Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, 1870-1914

Alice Goheneix(SciencesPo, Paris, France)< alice.goheneix@sciences-po.org >“Francophonie” as a Post-Colonial Imperialist Temptation:An Illegitimate Prosecution?

Frédérique Schillo(SciencesPo, Paris, France)< frederique@schillo.fr >Suez, 1956: le dernier acte de l’impérialisme français

Vincent martigny(SciencesPo, Paris, France)< vmartigny@yahoo.fr >French “Cultural Resistance” as a Form of Anti-Imperialism

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pANEL R6Religion and Identity in the Post-Soviet Space I

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PAPERSNatalka Boyko(SciencesPo, CERI, Paris, France)< natalka@club-internet.fr >The Religious Factor at Stake in the (Re)Definition of the (Plural) National Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine

Xavier Le torrivellec(Inalco, Paris, France)< xavier@letorrivellec.fr >Holy Russia and Modern Fate: Islamic Practices and Identity Constructions in Volga-Urals Region

marat Shterin(King’s college, UK)< marat.shterin@kcl.ac.uk >The (Re)Emergence of Religious Minorities in Post-Communist Russia

DISCUSSANTKathy Rousselet(SciencesPo, CERI, Paris, France)< rousselet@ceri-sciences-po.org >

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pANEL EU1The North Caucasus: Russia’s Troubled Frontier

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PAPERSJohn Russell(U of Bradford, UK)< J.Russell@bradford.ac.uk >Ramzan Kadyrov: Twenty-first century satrap or Chechenya’s nation builder?

Aglaya Snetkov(U of Birmingham, UK)< asnetkov@hotmail.com >A Russian like any other? The “new” image of Chechens in the “new” Russian Polity

Laurent Vinatier(SciencesPo, Paris, France)< vin-laurent@netcourrier.com >A new Chechnya abroad: socio-political renewal in Diaspora

DISCUSSANTAnna matveeva(London School of Economics, UK)< A.Matveeva@lse.ac.uk >

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pANEL OE2Legacies of the Ottoman Period: Nations, Millets and Minorities

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PAPERSAnna mirkova(Sofia U, Bulgaria)< ammirkova@gmail.com >Imperial Legacies, National Imperatives:Muslim and Christian Critiques of Bulgarian Modernity

Günay G. Ozdogan(Marmara U, Turkey)< ozdogang@ttmail.com >Secularization of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey:Torn Between Communal Pressures and State Authority

Ioannis moutsis(SOAS, U of London, UK)< imoutsis@soas.ac.uk >An Ottoman Muslim Community under British Colonialism:The Cypriot Moslems 1915-1931

Christos Iliadis(Essex U, UK)< christosiliadis@yahoo.gr >Efforts in Constructing a Millet Community in a Western National State:Antagonistic Discourses and Minorities in Greece

Eden Naby(Harvard U, US)< frye@fas.harvard.edu >Millet or Nation? Assyrian Survival in the Middle East

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pANEL E5Empire

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PARTICIPANTSBertrand Badie(SciencesPo, France)< bertrand.badie@sciences-po.fr >

Olivier Roy(CNRS, EHESS, France)< Olivier.Roy@ehess.fr >

Artemy magun(European U at St. Petersburg, Russia)< amagun@eu.spb.ru >

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pANEL R11The Sounds and Images of Soviet Multi-Nationality

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PAPERSCloé Drieu(Inalco, Paris, France)< Cloe.drieu@free.fr >Visual Narration and the Birth of a Nation: Uzbek Cinema, 1924-1937

Gabrielle Chomentowski(SciencesPo, Paris, France)< gabrielle.chomentowski@sciences-po.org >The Freindship among Peoples through Soviet cinema the policy of nationalities in the USSR from 1928 to 1941

Azade-Ayse Rorlich(U of Southern California, US)< arorlich@college.usc.edu >International Film Festivals, National Identity,And Dialogue of Cultures: The “Golden Minbar”

DISCUSSANTEugénie Zvonkine(U Paris 8, France)< ezvonkine@gmail.com >

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pANEL N1Theory of Nationalism

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PAPERSpeter Rutland(Wesleyan U, US)< prutland@wesleyan.edu >Nationalism Through the Prism of American Political Science

Brendan O’Leary(U of Pennsylvania, US)< boleary@sas.upenn.edu >TBA

Valery tishkov(Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Moscow, Russia)< tishkov@iea.ras.ru >TBA

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pANEL EU3Religion and Identity in the Post-Soviet Space II

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PAPERSAshirbek muminov(Institute of oriental Studies, Kazakhstan)< muminov598@yahoo.com >Self-Identifiaction and Re-Islamization Processes in Contemporary Central Asia

Aurélie Biard(SciencesPo, Paris, France)< biardaurelie@yahoo.fr >The Religious Factor in the Reifications of ‘Neo-Ethnic’ Identities in Kyrgyzstan

Silvia Serrano(U of Clermont-Ferrand, France)< serrano.sil@gmail.com >Religion and National Discourse in Contemporary Georgia

DISCUSSANTAlexander Iskandaryan(Caucasus Media Institute, Yerevan, Armenia)< iskand@caucasusmedia.org >

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pANEL CE6Imperial Soviet Past and National Memories in post-Soviet Borderlands: Anthropological Enquiries about Collective Remembering in the Baltic States and across the Finnish-Russian Border

CHAIRpascal Bonnard(SciencesPo, Paris, France)< pascal.bonnard@sciences-po.org >

PAPERSEva-Clarita Onken(U of Tartu, Estonia)< econken@ut.ee >The politics of History Teaching in Multi-Ethnic Estonia

Eva Fisli(SciencesPo, Paris, France) < eva.fisli@sciences-po.org >Jocelyn parot(SciencesPo, Paris, France) < jocelyn.parrot@helsinky.fi >National Pilgrimages in the Fallen Empire: An Anthropological Analysis of Finnish and Hungarian Pilgrimages to former battlefields and WWII Memorials in Post-Soviet Russia

Neringa Klumbyte(Miamy U, US)< klumbyn@muohio.edu >Nostalgia and the Post-Soviet Counterpublics in Rural Lithuania

Aleksejs Shnitnikov(U of Latvia, Latvia)< shnitnikov@hotmail.com>Cultural Trauma in Latvians’ Memories and Political Ideologies

DISCUSSANTLaura Assmuth (U of Helsinky, Finland)< laura.Assmuth@helsinki.fi >

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pANEL BK5From the Millet System to a National Environment: the Greek Orthodox Minority in Turkey and the Muslim Minority in Greece, 1830s to the Eve of World War II

CHAIRKostantinos tsitselikis(U of Macedonia, Geece)< ktsitselikis@yahoo.com >

PAPERSDimitris Kamouzis(King’s College London, UK)< dimitris.kamouzis@kcl.ac.uk >The dissolution of an empire: Greek irredentism and the Rums of Istanbul, 1918-1922

paraskevas Konortas(U of Athens, Greece)< pakonort@yahoo.com >Greek Orthodox in Turkish National Historiography

Stefanos Katsikas(U of Nottingham, UK)< Stefanos.Katsikas@nottingham.ac.uk >Muslim Minority in Greek National Historiography

Giannis Bonos(EHESS, Paris, France)< giannis_bonos@hotmail.com >On Muslim migration from Western Thrace, Autumn 1928: meeting propaganda and public opinion questions on the Greek-Turkish borders

DISCUSSANTNadine Akhund (Columbia U, US)< edara@aol.com >

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pANEL R1Language Policy and Resistance in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union

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PAPERSDilyara Usmanova(Kazan State U, Tatarstan, Russia)< dusmanova2000@mail.ru >Debates over Language in the Muslim Community and the Tatar Press (1905-1917)

Benjamin Guichard(U Paris-1, France)< guichard.b@gmail.com >Censorship and Language Politics in Late Imperial Russia:Surveillance and Containment

Jeremy Smith(U of Birmingham, UK)< j.r.smith@bham.ac.uk >The Battle for Language: Opposition to Khrushchev’s Education Reform in the Soviet Republics, 1958-1959

petru Negura(Free International U, Moldova)< petreneg2001@yahoo.fr >The Dispute on Language and the Literary Heritage in Soviet Moldavia from the Post-war years until de-Stalinization

DISCUSSANTJuliette Cadiot(EHESS, Paris, France)< Juliette.Cadiot@ehess.fr >

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CHAIRDominique Colas(SciencesPo)

WELCOMING STATEMENTSDominique Arel(ASN President)

Richard Descoings(SciencesPo, Director)

Bruno Latour(SciencesPo, Scientific Director)

KEYNOTEmark Beissinger(Princeton U, US)< mbeissin@princeton.edu >

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pANEL EU6Politics of Empire and Massive Deportation

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PAPERSJuliette Denis(U Paris 10, France)< juliette.denis@gmail.com >About the Collaboration with the Nazis and the Soviet Repression in the North Caucasus and Crimea: What Have Deported Peoples Been Punished for?

Aude merlin(U Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)< Aude.Merlin@ulb.ac.be >Deportation and its Consequences: The Turkish Speaking World in North Caucasus, Through the Example of the Balkars and Karatchai

Sophie tournon(Inalco, Paris, France)< sophietournon@yahoo.fr >The Soviet Empire, creator of identities? The Case of the Muslims Deported from Meskhetia, Georgia

Aurélie Campana(U Laval , Canada)< aurelie.campana@pol.ulaval.ca >Wiped off the map: the Crimean Tatar nationalist Struggle from 1956 to Present

DISCUSSANTJean Radvanyi(Inalco, Paris, France)< radva@ext.jussieu.fr >

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pANEL OE1Nationalism, Religion and Education in the Late Ottoman Empire

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PAPERSKostantinos tsitselikis(U of Macedonia, Geece)< ktsitselikis@yahoo.com >Forced Migrations of Muslims in South-Eastern Europe in Comparative Perspective:The Case of Greece 1878-1913

Nadine Akhund(Columbia U, US)< edara@aol.com >Muslim Representation in the Three Ottoman Vilayets of Macedonia: Military Power and Administration 1878-1913

Ayla Göl(U of Aberystwyth, Wales, UK)< ayg@aber.ac.uk >“Umma” vs Nation: Emergence of Turkish and Arab Nationalism at the End of the Ottoman Empire

Didem turkoglu(Bogazici U, Turkey)< didem.turkoglu@gmail.com >Educating the Empire in the Age of Nationalism: Looking at the Competition over Education in the Ottoman Empire through Robert College

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pANEL CE1Romania Between the Ottomans and the Habsburgs:a Nation-State under Construction

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PAPERSCorina-maria palasan(U of Bucharest, Romania)< koritza24@yahoo.com >What Kind of Modernity? Images of the Ottoman Empire in Gazeta de Transilvania, 1839-1848

Kinga-Koretta Sata(Babes-Bolyai U, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)< kingasata@yahoo.com >Hungarian and Romanian Constructions of the Nation and State in the Habsburg Monarchy in the First Half of the 19th Century

Silvia marton(U of Bucharest, Romania)< silviamarton@yahoo.com >“Subcontracting” Nation-Building:The Foreign Prince in the Romanian Parliament, 1866-1867

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pANEL R2Russophone Minorities in the Post-Soviet States

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PAPERSJennie Schulze(George Washington U, US)< jschulze@gwu.edu >Building the Estonian Nation: The Role of the EU, Russia, and Language Policies

Kristine Uzule(U of Birmingham, UK)< kxu578@bham.ac.uk >Shifts in the Russian National Identity After the Collapse of the Soviet Empire: The Latvian Case

Antonina tereshchenko(U of Cambridge, UK)< at275@cam.ac.uk >Emerging and Contested Citizenship Identities of the Donbas Youth

DISCUSSANTBhavna Dave(SOAS, UC London, UK)< bd4@soas.ac.uk >

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pANEL R7Post-Soviet Space: Cooperation Between Russia and “Extra-Regional Actors”?

CHAIRAnne de tinguy(Inalco/SciencesPo, CERI, Paris, France)< detinguy@ceri-sciences-po.org >

PAPERSVictor-Yves Ghebali(Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland) < ghebali@hei.unige.ch >The frozen conflicts in Moldova and Georgia: the ambiguous role of the Russian Federation as a mediator and party

mikhaïl troitskiy(MGIMO U, Moscow, Russia) < mikhailtroitskiy@gmail.com >Pressurizing Russia or Stabilizing Eurasia? US Policy in the Post-Soviet Space

Isabelle Facon(Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, Paris, France)< i.facon@frstrategie.org >Russia and its competitors in its former empire: China as a special case?

Emmanuelle Armandon(SciencesPo, Paris, France) < emmanuellearmandon@yahoo.fr >International organizations and Russia’s role in the peaceful outcome of the Crimean issue

Nicole Jackson(Simon Fraser U, Canada) < nicole_jackson@sfu.ca >The Promotion of Alternative Political Orders: Russia’s Influence on Domestic and Regional Governance in Post-Soviet Central Asia—From Empire to a New Model of Capitalist Autocracy?

DISCUSSANTOlga Gille-Belova(U of Bordeaux, France)< olgagille@aol.com >

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pANEL EU4Soviet Power, Society and Nationalism in South Caucasus on the Eve of the Perestroika: The 1970s and the 1980s in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan

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PAPERSKetevan Rostiashvili(Tbilissi State U, Georgia)< rkety@hotmail.com >Social and Economic Development in Georgia in the 1970s and the Issues of Corruption

Zardusht Alizadeh(Baku School of Journalism, Azerbaijan)< zardusht@gmail.com >The Transformation of the Elite in Azerbaijan before the collapse of the Soviet Union

Alexander Iskandaryan(Caucasus Media Institute, Yerevan, Armenia)< iskand@caucasusmedia.org >Social and Political Changes in Armenia in the1980s.

Arsene Saparov(CNRS, Paris, France)< a.saparov@googlemail.com >Political Institutions and Autonomies in the Soviet South Caucasus and Their Impact on Modern Conflicts: A Comparative Assessment

DISCUSSANTthornike Gordadze(IFEA Caucasus Observatory, Baku, Azerbaijan)< thornike_gordadze@yahoo.fr >

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pANEL U2Language Policy in Ukraine

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PAPERSJuliane Besters-Dilger(U of Fribourg, Switzerland)< juliane.besters-dilger@slavistik.uni-freiburg.de >Language Policy and Mass Media in Ukraine

Volodymyr Kulyk(Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, Ukraine)< v_kulyk@hotmail.com >Language Policy in Ukraine: What People Want the State to Do

Dominique Arel(Chair of Ukrainian Studies, U of Ottawa, Canada)< darel@uottawa.ca >TBA

Oksana Ostapchuk(Lomonosov Moscow State U, Russia)< ostapczuk@yandex.ru >Imperial Politics of Language contra its National Emancipation:Ukrainian in the middle XIX-th

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pANEL CE4Ethnic Minority Representation in National Parliaments’

CHAIROlivier Ferrando(SciencesPo, Paris, France)< Olivier.Ferrando@sciences-po.org >

PAPERSOleh protsyk(European Center for Minority Issues, Germany)< protsyk@ecmi.de >Ethnic Representation in National Parliaments: Note on Comparative Research Agenda

marius matichescu(U of Montpellier, France)< marius.matichescu@gmail.com >Parliamentary Representation of Minorities in Romania

Andrei Volentir(Moldovan Institute of European Studies, Moldova)< volentir@gmail.com >Legislative Recruitment of Minorities in Moldova

DISCUSSANTmichael Edinger(U of Jena, Germany)< tpa6@wanadoo.fr >

Karen Bird(McMaster U, Canada)< tpa6@wanadoo.fr >

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pANEL R4Elites and Russian Empire in the 18th and 19th Centuries

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PAPERSSeymour Becker(Rutgers U, US)< SeymourB@nyc.rr.com > Political Reform Projects for a Multi-Ethnic Empire: The Reign of Alexander I

tatiana Artemyeva(State Pedagocial U of Russia, Saint-Petersburg, Russia)< tatart@mail.ru >The Russian Nobility in Search of Identity

Igor Fedyukin(U of North Carolina, US)< fedyukin@yandex.ru >Baltic Nobility and the Imperial State: The “Germans”at the Noble Cadet Corps in 1730s-1760s

Valeriya mobek(Rostov State U of Economic, Russia)< vpichoug@mail.ru >Between ethnicity and loyalty: metamorphoses of national andpolitical identity (case of Polish professors Chershenevich and Zaleski)

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pANEL E1Reluctant Legacies: Impact of Imperial National Accommodation onto a Nation’s post-Empire Ideas of the State-Nation Relationship

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PAPERSJan Ruzicka(Aberystwyth U, UK) < jrr06@aber.ac.uk >Kamila Stullerova(U of Alberta, Canada) < kamilas@ualberta.ca >The life and death of the Czechoslovak Republic as an offspring of the modes of Czech and Slovak incorporation in the Habsburg Empire

Ali Bilgic (Aberystwyth U, UK) < abb06@aber.ac.uk >Othering an Empire: the Failure of the Ottoman Empire is the success of the Republic?

Vincent Keating (Aberystwyth U, UK) < vck06@aber.ac.uk >Scotland, Britain and Empire: The role of identity and Empire in contemporary Scottish foreign policy preferences

Güldem Gökçek(NYU, US) < gg6@nyu.edu >troy mcGrath(Russian State U for the Humanities, Moscow)< troymcgrath@yahoo.com >Re-Establishing Empire: Collapsed Empires Reinventing Themselves as Regional Power Centers

Joshua Walker(Princeton U, US) < jww@princeton.edu >Theorizing Imperial Legacy: Understanding Contemporary International Relations Through a Nation’s Imperial Past

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pANEL CE8The Roma under the Habsburgs, the Ottomans and the Russians:From the Empires to Present Day

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PAPERSDavid Crowe(Elon U, US)< crowed@elon.edu >Habsburg Policies towards the Roma and their Historic Implications

Elena marushiakova(Ethnographic Institute and Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria)< studiiromani@geobiz.net >Policies towards Gypsies/Roma in the Ottoman Empire and their Contemporary Dimensions

Vesselin popov(Ethnographic Institute and Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria)< studiiromani@geobiz.net >Policies towards Gypsies/Roma in the Russian Empire and their Contemporary Dimensions

DISCUSSANTAndré Liebich(Graduate School of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland)< liebich@hei.unige.ch >

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pANEL EU7Post-Soviet Migrations: The Imperial Legacy

CHAIRJulien thorez(CNRS, Paris, France)< julienthorez@hotmail.com >

PAPERSElena Y. Sadovskaya(Center for Conflict Management, Kazakhstan)< esa2004@mail.ru >Changing Contours of the Post-Soviet Migratory System:Globalization versus Regionalization

michael Rywkin(City College of New York, US)< mrywkin@aol.com >Central Asia: Migrations, Remittances, and Their Consequences

Adeline Braux(SciencesPo, France)< adeline.braux@sciences-po.org >Sophie massot(SciencesPo, France)< sophiealdric@yahoo.fr >Azerbaijani and Uzbek Migrants in Moscow: A Distant “Near Abroad”

Elena tyuryukanova(Institute for Socio-Economic Studies of Population, Moscow, Russia)< turuk@home.relline.ru >Labour migrants from CIS in Russia: new challenges and search of responses

DISCUSSANTAnne Le Huérou(Havre U, France)< anne.le-huerou@univ-lehavre.fr >

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pANEL CE7Ethnicity and Borders from the Habsburg Empire to the Cold War

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PAPERSJohn paul Newman(U of Southampton, US)< jpdn@soton.ac.uk >“Soldiers and Lawyers”: Ex-Habsburg Officers and Their Role in the Development of the Croatian Radical Right 1918-1941

mitchell Young(London School of Economics, UK)< M.Young@lse.ac.uk >Two Nations, Two Empires: Ethnonationalist Mobilization during the Transition from Ottoman to Habsburg Rule in Nineteenth Century Bosnia

Robert Knight(Loughborough U, UK)< R.G.Knight@lboro.ac.uk >Ethnic Politics at the Austrian-Yugoslav Border:The Habsburg Empire in the Cold War

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pANEL R5National-Cultural Autonomies in Putin’s Russia

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PAPERSAnne Gazier(U Paris 10, France)< anne.gazier@wanadoo.fr >Legal Framework of National-cultural Autonomies in Putin’s Russia

Elena Filippova(Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Moscow, Russia)< elena_filippova89@yahoo.fr >National-cultural Autonomies in Post-Soviet Russia: A Dead-End Political Project

Bill Bowring(U of London, UK)< b.bowring@bbk.ac.uk >The Future of NCA in the Russian Federation: A Tatar Case Study

Françoise Daucé(U of Clermont-Ferrand, France)< daucef@yahoo.fr >The Creation of the Tatar NKA and its Political Consequences in Post-Soviet Moscow

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pANEL U3Nation Ukraine

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PAPERSGeorgiy Kasianov(Institute of Ukrainian History, Kyiv, Ukraine)< kasianov@irf.kiev.ua >The Ukraine and Empire Question Ukrainian Historiography and Public Debate

Serhy Yekelchyk(U of Victoria, Canada)< serhy@uvic.ca >Singing Goodbye to the Empire? Ukrainian Pop Culture and the Strange Case of Verka Serdiuchka

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pANEL E4Empire Military

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PAPERSRobert E. Blobaum(West Virginia U, US)< robert.blobaum@mail.wvu.edu >The End of Empire: The Russian Evacuation of Warsaw, 1915

Evangelos Liaras(MIT, US)< liaras@mit.edu >Ottoman Legacies in Civil-Military Relations

timothy Blauvelt(American Councils for International Education, Georgia)< timblauvelt@mail.ru >Military Administration and Islam in the North Caucasus, 1858-83

Alfred J. Rieber(Central European U, Hungary)< riebera@ceu.hu >The Military as Glue and Solvent of Eurasian Empires

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pANEL EU5Politics, Memories and Official Histories in Post-Soviet Central Asia

CHAIRCatherine poujol(Inalco, Paris, France)< cpoujol34@numericable.fr >

PAPERSYelena Zimovina(Buketov Karaganda State U, Kazakhstan)< zimelena@yandex.ru >Forming and Development of the Diasporas in the Frame of the Courses ‘History of Kazakhstan’ and ‘History of Central Asia’

Olivier Ferrando(SciencesPo, Paris, France)< Olivier.Ferrando@sciences-po.org >Teaching History in Central Asia: Official History vs. Ethnic Minorities Memory

Sergey Abashin(Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)< absergey@gmail.com >On Imperial Heritage: Uzbek History Textbooks

Emil Nasritdinov(American U of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)< emilzn@gmail.com >Aigoul Abdoubaetova< aigoul78@hotmail.com >Erkindik—The Kyrgyz Statue of Liberty

DISCUSSANTAnne Bazin-Begley(SciencesPo Lille, France)< bazinbegley@gmx.net >

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pANEL CE5Can the Strong Make It Up with the Weak?Dealing with the Asymmetric Past

CHAIRGeorge mink(Institut des Sciences du Politique, U Paris 10, France)< mink@u-paris10.fr >

PAPERSpawel machcewicz(U Mikolaj Kpernik, Poland)< machcewicz@poczta.onet.pl >Politics of History in Poland: History of “Glory” versus History of “Shame”

mariusz Sielski(SciencesPo, Paris, France)< mariusz.sielski@sciences-po.org >Polish and Russian Dissent Over History: Coping with the Imperial Spectre

philippe perchoc(SciencesPo, Paris, France)< p.perchoc@gmail.com >Forgiving after the Empire: Insights from Baltic-Russian Relations since 1990

DISCUSSANTJean-Charles Szurek(Institut des Sciences du Politique, U Paris 10, France)< jean_charles.szurek@u-paris10.fr >

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pANEL U1Nation-Building in Belarus

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PAPERSDavid marples(U of Alberta, Canada)< david.marples@ualberta.ca >History, Memory, And World War II in Belarus, 1939-1945

tatiana Hlukhava(SciencesPo, Paris, France)< tkasperski@gmail.com >The Chernobyl Nuclear Accident and Identity Strategies in Belarus

tatyana Shukan(SciencesPo, Paris, France)< Tania.shukan@gmail.com >Youth Movements’ Nationalism in Belarus: Discourse and Activist Practices

Anna Zadora(Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Strasbourg, France)< anna_zadora@hotmail.com >Belarusian Identity Projects: Contention Through History Narrative

DISCUSSANTAlexandra Goujon(U of Bourgogne, France)< goujona@club.fr >

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pANEL N2Borders and Democracy:What is New in the Context of Globalization?

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PAPERSStefano Bianchini(U of Bologna, Italy)< stefano.bianchini@unibo.it >State Partitions and Democracy

Rada Ivekovic(U de Saint-Etienne, France)< rivekovic@hotmail.com >Translating borders, Partitions of the minds

Anna Krasteva(New Bulgarian U, Sofia, Bulgaria)< anna.krasteva@gmail.com >New Minorities, Migration and Borders

Cosmin Radu(U of Manchester, UK)< yotile@yahoo.com >Enduring Commodities, Border Tricksters and the Predatory State:Contraband at the Romania-Serbia during the Embargo in Former Yugoslavia

DISCUSSANTFrancesco privitera(U of Bologna, Italy)< francesco.privitera@unibo.it >

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pANEL R9The emergence of capital cities: an overview of nation-making process from the late Russian Empire to the Post-Soviet Era

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PAPERSFabienne Chevallier(DOCOMOMO, France)< fabienne-chevallier@wanadoo.fr >Urban history and nation-building in Helsinki and Tallinduring the late Russian Empire (1800-1917)

Sophie Lambroschini(Xorus group, France)< sophie_lambro@yahoo.fr >Kyiv: from capital of the Ukraine to “Ukraine capital”

Cécile Gintrac(U Paris 7, France)< Cecile.gintrac@gmail.com >Revamped Capitals: Presidential Power and Urbanism in Central Asia.Comparing Astana, Ashgabat, and Tashkent

Adrien Fauve(SciencesPo, Paris, France)< adrien.fauve@sciences-po.org >From Almaty to Astana: from Empire towards nation?Post-soviet Kazakhstan’s political geography looked overa comparative overview of capital cities shifting

DISCUSSANTtaline ter minassian (U Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France)< talintermi@hotmail.com >

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pANEL EU9Chinese Nation at the Cross-Road : Historical Background and Recent Developments?

CHAIR Jean-Louis Rocca(Ateliers franco-chinois en sciences sociales, Tsinghua U, Beijing, China)< roccabeijing@gmail.com >

PAPERSLi Shaobing(Nankai U, Tianjin, China) < li2005@nankai.edu.cn >From Empire to Modern Nation-State: The Rise and Impact of Chinese Nationalism, 1900-1937

Li Lifan(Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China) < llf888@sass.org.cn >The Innovation of the CCP’s Policy Discourse and the Rebuilding of Nationalism in China During the Reform Years, 1979-2008

André Laliberté(U of Ottawa, Canada)< Andre.Laliberte@uottawa.ca >The Chinese Unitary State and its Multinational Society: The Shadows of Empire and Still-Born Federalism

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pANEL CE3History and Memory in Post-Communist Central Europe CHAIRtBA

PAPERSSylvia Stancheva(U of Sofia, Bulgaria)< sstanchevabg1@yahoo.com>National Identity and (Re)presentation of Historyin Museums in post-Socialist Bulgaria

Andrei poama(SciencesPo, Paris, France)< andrei.poama@sciences-po.org >Kaja Skowronska(SciencesPo, Paris, France)< kaja.skowronska@sciences-po.org >What’s in a Nation? Social Scientists and the Redefinition of National Identitiesin post-communist Poland and Romania (1990-2007)

Robin Ostow(U of Toronto, Canada)< robinostow@hotmail.com >Displaying Germany: Multiple Narratives of a Twenty-First Century Nation

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pANEL E3Empire, Nation, and Film

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PAPERSRashit Yangirov(Foundation Russia Abroad, Moscow, Russia)< ryangirov@gmail.com >Russian Imperial Myth in Film: History and Propaganda

Irina papkova(Central European U, Hungary)< irinka3@aol.com >Saving the Third Rome: “The Fall of the Empire”, Byzantium and Putin’s Russia

Nedin mutic(U of Oslo, Norway)< mrmutic@gmail.com >Performing Identities: Bosnian Post-War Cinema

Rozita Dimova(Free U Berlin, Germany)< rozita@zedat.fu-berlin.de >The “New” Language of the “Old” Nation: Cinematography in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Consolidation of National Identity after 1996

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pANEL BK3Imperial Legacies and the Building of a Nation-State (2):The Case of Croatia

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PAPERSOzan Erözden(Yildiz Technical U, Turkey)< ozanerozden@hotmail.com >Slash of Civilizations: Sinjska Alka in Croatia and the History of an Attempt to Build a Modern National Identity on a Medieval Vision of the World

John E. Ashbrook(Sweet Briar College, US)< jashbrook@sbc.edu >International Politics, Counterinsurgency and Ethnic Cleansing:The Case of the Krajina, 1990-1995

Ivana Djuric(U of Nottingham, UK)< avxid@nottingham.ac.uk >Collective Selfhood Re-Conceptualized: The Rhetoric of Violence, Ethno-Political Mobilization and the First Parliamentary Elections in Croatia (April-May 1990)

DISCUSSANTGeorges prévélakis(U Paris 10, France)< prevelakis@mac.com>

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pANEL E6The European Union as a Substitute for Empire:Between Integrationin Central Europe, Protectorates in the Balkans and a shared neighbourhood with Russia

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PARTICIPANTSJacques Rupnik(SciencesPo, CERI, Paris, France)< rupnik@ceri-sciences-po.org >

Dominic Lieven(London School of Economics, UK)< d.lieven@lse.ac.uk >

Jan Zielonka(U of Oxford, UK)< jan.zielonka@sant.ox.ac.uk >

pierre Hassner(SciencesPo, CERI, Paris, France)< hassner@ceri-sciences-po.org >

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pANEL EU2Civic and National Identities in the Post-Soviet Empire

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PAPERSYekaterina Oziashvili(CUNY Graduate Center, US)< YOziashvili@gc.cuny.edu >Nation-Building in post-Soviet States: Comparing Nation-Building in Georgia and Russia

Oxana Shevel(Tufts U, US)< oxana.shevel@tufts.edu >Citizenship Policymaking in Post-Soviet Russia:Between Identity and Realpolitik

Julie Fairbanks(U of Akron, US)< julie13@uakron.edu >Negotiating Identity in Post-Soviet Adygea

Salvatore di Rosa(Ghent U, Belgium)< salvatore.dirosa@ughent.be >Imperial Revival, Ideologies of Resistance and Identity Formation in the North Caucasus: The Kabardino-Balkar Case Study

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pANEL BK2Imperial Legacies and the Building of a Nation-State (1):The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina

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PAPERSNina Caspersen(Lancaster U, UK)< n.caspersen@lancaster.ac.uk >Between Pariah and Reluctant Engagement: International Responses to De Facto States in the Balkans and the Caucasus

Sylvie Ramel(U de Genève, Switzerland)< Sylvie.Ramel@ieug.unige.ch > International Power(s), State- and Nation-Building in Bosnia-Herzegovina:From Neo-Colonial International Community to Post-Hegemonic Europe?

Kerstin Bree Carlson(U of California, Berkeley, US)< kerstin.carlson@gmail.com >Living Under Law: Bosnian Legal Reform and the Question of Bosnian Sovereignty

Azra Hromadzic(U of Pennsylvania, US)< azra@sas.upenn.edu >Equal and Separate: International and Local Discourses of Reconciliation in Postconflict Bosnia and Herzegovina (Case Study of the Gymnasium Mostar)

DISCUSSANTXavier Bougarel(CNRS, Paris, France)xbougarel@yahoo.fr

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pANEL R10Local Politics and Imperial Projects: Moscow and the Periphery in 1906, 1914, and 1945

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PAPERSJane Burbank(New York U, US)< jane.Burbank@nyu.edu >The Stolypin Land Law, Local Knowledge, and Politics of Loyalty:A view from Kazan Province

Corrine Gaudin(U of Ottawa, Canada)< gaudin@uottawa.ca >Local Disputes in national context. Rural Echoes of World War I:War Talk in the Russian Village”

Jessica Allina-pisano(U of Ottawa, Canada)< jallinap@uottawa.ca >State Power and local economies in the Soviet periphery:Collectivization in a Magyar village of Zakarpatska Ukraina”

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pANEL N4Territory, Territoriality, Territorialism

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PAPERSStefan Wolff(U of Nottingham, UK)< stefan@stefanwolff.com > The Centrality of Territorial Self-Governance for the Sustainability of Conflict Settlements

Gareth Stansfield(U of Exeter, UK)< g.r.v.stansfield@ex.ac.uk >The Spectre of Territorialism in Iraq: Kirkuk and the Disputed Territories

Zsuzsa Csergo(Queen’s U, Canada)< csergo@queensu.ca >Wither Territorialism? National Interest in New European Democracies

DISCUSSANTmarc Weller(U of Cambridge, UK)< mw148@cam.ac.uk >

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