Please join the Harriman Institute and Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History for the conference Eurasia Decentered: Internal and External Souths from Muscovy to Present.

Kritika hosts:

• Jeff Sahadeo (Carleton University), Editor
• Greg Afinogenov (Georgetown University), Editor
• Krista Goff (University of Miami), Editor
• Stephen Bittner (Sonoma State University), Special Topics Editor
• Michael David-Fox (Georgetown University), Executive and Founding Editor
• Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania), Founding Editor

Conference Program

Day One | Friday, April 19, 2024

12:45-1:00 PM | Opening Remarks

1:00-2:30 PM | Panel: Muscovy, Crimea, Eurasia

• “Rethinking Crimean Khanate’s Perceptions with Muscovy: Slave Raids and Dependency”
  • Turkana Allahverdiyeva (University of Bonn)
• “Iqțā’, suyūrghāl, takhan? Decentering Immunity in Late-Medieval Eurasia”
  • Angus Russel (Cambridge)

3:00-4:30 PM | Panel: The Ottoman World

• “Souvenirs and Spiritual Inheritance: Trans-Imperial Impacts of Russian-Orthodox Christian Pilgrimage to the Ottoman Holy Lands in the Late Imperial Period”
  • Luke Jeske (University of North Carolina)
• “Ottoman-Ukrainian Relations and Visions of Post(Imperial) Order on the Black Sea, 1914-1922”
  • Azat Bilalutdinov (Columbia University)

Day Two | Saturday, April 20, 2024

8:30-10:00 AM | Panel: Africa

• “The Scent of Surur: Sensing Russia through Nubia”
  • Eugene Clay (Arizona State University)
• “Anti-Apartheid and Soviet Nationalities Policy”
  • Hilary Lynd (University of California, Berkeley)

10:30 -12:00 PM | Panel: South Asia

• “Russian Central Asia, a View from Simla: The Trans-Imperial Exchange of Knowledge and Expertise”
  • Roman Osharov (University of Oxford)
• “Soviet Science on Indian Soil: Empire and Territoriality in the Indian Ocean World”
  • Asif Siddiqui (Fordham University)

1:30 – 3:00 PM | Panel: Internal Souths

• “Soviet-Turkish Friendship on the Line: Cooperation and Enmity on the Georgian-Turkish Border, 1920s-30s”
  • Harrison King (University of California, Berkeley)
• “Ginning for Fabric Fabrikas: Control in Ginning and Transportation of Soviet Tajikistan’s Raw Cotton Supplies”
  • Nicholas Seay (Ohio State University)

4:00 – 5:30 PM | Panel: Conceptualizing North-South Relations

• “Alexandria-Odessa: Reciprocity, Realism, and Reimagining of the North-South Cultural Relations”
  • Maria Mileeva (Courtauld Institute)
• “The Cultural Cringe in Economic Theory: Structuralism, Imperialism, and the Specter of the West in the Soviet Union and Latin America”
  • Alessandro Iandolo (University College London)

5:30 – 6:00 PM | Concluding Remarks

Image: The Emir of Bukhara, 1911