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Conference Titled `The Caucasus at the Imperial Twilight: Nationalism,
Ethnicity, and Nation-Building, from 1870s to 1920s’ to be held in
Tbilisi, Georgia.
The University of Utah and Tbilisi State University announce the program
of the 4th Turkish Studies Project of the University of Utah Conference
which will be held at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University from
June 6 to 8, 2013.
With 14 panels and over 70 speakers the conference will examine the
formation and evolution of ethnic and national identities in the
Caucasus, focusing on interstate and inter-empire competition in the
South Caucuses in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Various panels
will discuss the formation of new states and nations as they relate to
the collapse of three imperial orders, the Ottoman Empire, Tsarist
Russia, and Qajar Iran.
Some of the questions raised in the conference will include: What were
the social and political origins of nation-building in the Caucasus? How
did the conflict between three empires shape the social and political
formations in the Caucasus? What are the legacies of these three
empires? What were the long-term consequences of World War I? How nation
and state-building process took place in the region?
This conference is the fourth in a series initiated by the Turkish
Studies Project at the University of Utah. The previous three
conferences focused on the Berlin Treaty of 1878; the origins and
consequences of the Balkan Wars; and the examination of the social and
political implications of World War I on the nations and people of the
empires. The purpose of the Tbilisi conference is to build shared
memories, examine different historiographies and bring scholars from the
region to compare narratives of their state and nation making processes.
The conference will be open to the public and can be followed on twitter
@tbilisi2013TSP.
Below is the full program of the conference.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5
Reception & Keynote Lectures (17:20-20:10)
Welcoming Remarks
Keynote Session
Chair: Peter Sluglett (President of MESA; National University of Singapore)
Keynote Speakers:
Gerard Libaridian (University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Retired)
Hakan Erdem (Sabanci University)
THURSDAY, JUNE 6
Panel I: Empires & Nationalism (8:20-11:00)
Chair: Metin Hulagu (President, Turkish Historical Society)
Norman Stone (Bilkent University), The concept of Empire: Britain,
Russia and the Ottoman Empire.
Peter Sluglett (National University of Singapore), The British, the
Ottomans & the Russians in North Iran & the Caucasus, 1917-21.
Feroz Ahmad (Yeditepe University), From Empire to Republic.
Michael Reynolds (Princeton University), Shattering Empires.
Zafer Toprak (Bogazici University), Ankara & the First Congress of the
Peoples of the East in Baku, 1920.
Tetsuya Sahara (Meiji University), Incorporation into the Capitalist
World System & Ethnic Violence: A Comparison between the Ottoman Empire
& Tsarist Russia.
PANEL II: SUBJECTS & CITIZENS OF EMPIRE (11:10-13:10)
Chair: David Matsaberidze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University)
Mehmet Ã-. Alkan (Istanbul University), Ethnic Identity, Political
Identity & Nationalism: `Living Together in Diversity’ during the Second
Constitutional Period.
Serhun Al (University of Utah), Millets into Minorities: Ottomanism &
Imperial Citizenship.
Erdem Sönmez (Bilkent University), Ahmed Rıza: An Intellectual between
Two Generations of Constitutionalism.
Umut Uzer (Istanbul Technical University), Between Turkism, Westernism &
Islam: Ali Bey Huseyinzade & his Impact on Nationalist Thought in Turkey
& the Caucasus.
Richard Antaramian (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Bridging
Empires: Rooted Cosmopolitans, Revolutionaries, & Political Culture in
the Borderlands.
PANEL III: GREAT POWERS & THE CAUCASUS (14:00-16:00)
Chair: Nigar Maxwell (Institute of History, Azerbaijan National Academy
of Sciences)
Masoumeh Daei (Payame Noor University, Tabriz), The Role of the Caucasus
in the Competition between Russia, England & the Ottoman Empire for a
Transit Corridor for the Commerce of Iran in the 19th Century.
Moritz Deutschmann (European University Institute, Florence), Caucasians
in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution.
Michael B. Bishku (Georgia Regents University Augusta, USA), Disunity &
Conquest: The South Caucasus’ Experience with Independence, 1917-1920.
Houman A. Sadri (University of Central Florida) & Phikria Asanishvili
(Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University), The Great Game & the
Evolution of Ties between Georgia & Persia.
Babak Rezvani (University of Amsterdam), Irano-Russian wars and their
ethno-political consequences in the South Caucasus.
PANEL IV (A): THE CIRCASSIANS (16:10-18:10)
Chair: Sevtap Demirci (Bogazici University)
Isa Blumi (Georgia State University, USA), Breaking with Empire: The
Possibilities of Violence in the Ordering of Imperial Collapse.
Walter Richmond (Occidental College, Los Angeles), Russo-Turkish
Competition & the Origins of Circassian National Identity.
Eugeniy Bakhrevskiy (Russian Strategic Studies Center, Moscow), The
History of the Caucasus in the 19th & 20th centuries & Modern
Conceptions of `Genocide.’
Georgy Chochiev (North Ossetian Institute for Humanitarian & Social
Studies), Constructing Circassia in Istanbul: North Caucasian Diasporic
Nationalism in the Early Second Constitutional Period.
Mehmet HacısalihoÄ?lu (Yildiz Teknik Universitesi), Memory of Wars
against Russia in Trabzon.
PANEL IV (B): MAKING OF GEORGIAN NATIONALISM (16:10-18:35)
Chair: Francesco Mazzucotelli (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart)
Tedo Dundua & Giorgi Zhuzhunashvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State
University), Changing the Imperial Pattern: Life in South-West Georgia
under the Ottomans & the Russians (1870-1914).
Revaz Gachechiladze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University), The
Effects of the Wars of the 19th & 20th centuries on the Emergence of
Modern Nations in the South Caucasus.
David Matsaberidze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University), The
Formation & Consolidation of the Georgian Nation: The European Way of
Nation-Building?
Giuli Alasania (Ivane Javakhishvili State University, Vice-Rector of
International Black Sea University), The Making of the Georgian Nation
by Interaction & Confrontation with Empires.
Salome Dundua (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University), Religious
Minorities & Nation-Building in Georgia.
Mariam Chkhartishvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University),
Conceptualizing the Georgian Nation.
FRIDAY, JUNE 7
PANEL V: MAKING OF GEORGIAN STATE (8:20-10:20)
Chair: Asbed Kotchikian (Bentley University)
Maia Manchkhashvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University), The
Political Basis of the Fight of the Georgian People for Independence in
the 1910s.
Zviad Abashidze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University),
Nation-Building & Ethnic Accommodation in an Ethnically Fragmented
Society: The Georgian Experience in 1918-21.
George Khelashvili (Centre for Social Sciences Tbilisi State
University), Realism, Socialism & Nationalism: The Sources of Georgia’s
Foreign Policy, 1917-1921.
Malkhaz Matsaberidze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University),
Between Empires: Problems of State-Building in the States of the South
Caucasus (1918-1921).
Maia Mestvirishvili, Khatuna Martskvishvili, Luiza Arutinov & Natia
Mestvirishvili (Tbilisi State University), Then & Now: Historical Trends
& Current Tendencies of Citizenship Representation in Georgia.
PANEL VI (A): AZERBAIJAN IN TRANSITION (10:30-12:30)
Chair: Edibe Sözen (Hasan Kalyoncu University)
Zaur Gasimov (Leibniz-Institute of European History), Azerbaijani
Discourses on National Language at the Beginning of the 20th century in
the Media: The Satirical `Molla Nasraddin,’ `Füyüzat’ & Some Other
Journals.’
Ozan Arslan (Izmir University of Economics), The Ottoman Military
Expedition to Azerbaijan in 1918 & Memories of a Multi-Actor
State-Building Process.
Mustafa Mirzeler (Western Michigan University), Re-remembering Karabagh:
History vs. Memory.
Adil Bagirov (Karabag Foundation, Kafkas University), Conflict
Resolution & the Role of History.
Irada Baghirova (Institute of History, Azerbaijan National Academy of
Sciences), Social Changes in Russian Empire & the Role of Political
Organizations in the Formation of 20th Century Azerbaijani National
Identity.
PANEL VI (B): THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN (10:30-12:30) (SOME PAPERS OF
THIS PANEL WILL BE IN RUSSIAN)
Chair: George Khelashvili( Centre for Social Sciences Tbilisi State
University),
Nigar Maxwell (Institute of History, Azerbaijan National Academy of
Sciences), Turkish Influence on Azerbaijan Independence 1918-1920.
Sevinj Aliyeva (Institute of History, Azerbaijan National Academy of
Sciences), Mountain Republic & the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan:
The Creation of a Single State.
Djabi Bahramov (Institute of History, Azerbaijan National Academy of
Sciences), The Oil Factor in the foreign policy of Soviet Russia
&Rrelations with the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan in 1918-1920.
Shamil Rahmanzade (Institute of History, Azerbaijan National Academy of
Sciences), Decision of the Zakatala Council in 1918 in the Context of
Ethno-Political Identity.
Ilgar Niftaliyev (Institute of History, Azerbaijan National Academy of
Sciences), Karabakh Conflict: Hot and Cold Phases (1918-1994).
PANEL VII: ARMENIAN-OTTOMAN RELATIONS (13:40-15:40)
Chair: Gerard Libaridian (University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Retired)
Brad Dennis (University of Utah), The Spread & Development of Armenian
National Liberationism in the Caucasus & Eastern Anatolia 1870-1898: A
Reassessment.
Ramazan Erhan Güllü (Istanbul University), The Crises of the Armenian
Church in Russia (1903-1905) & its Impact on Ottoman-Armenian Relations.
Garabet K Moumdjian (Independent Historian), Armenian-Young Turk
Relations, 1895-1914: Trying to Explain Issues Pertaining to the ARF
`Aye’ & the Hnchag `Nay’.
Erman Sahin (SOAS, United Kingdom), Armenian- Russian Rapprochement &
the Campaign for Reforms in Eastern Anatolia 1912-1914.
Onur Ã-nol (Birkbeck College, University of London), Judgment in the
Caucasus: The First Phase of the Dashnaktsutiun Trial (1907-1910).
Panel VIII: Redefining Armenian Identity (15:50-17:50)
Chair: Zafer Toprak (Bogazici University)
Ruzanna Tsaturyan & Mkhitar Gabrielyan (Yerevan State University),
Unifying the Divided: Nation-Building & Armenian Ethnography in the late
19th & early 20th centuries.
Mehmet Arısan (TED University), Disavowing Family Resemblances: The
Formation of Azerbaijani & Armenian National Identities.
Michael Gunter (Tennessee Tech University), Conceived in Genocide? The
Armenian Massacres in World War I & the Birth Pangs of Modern Turkish &
Armenian National Identities.
Eyal Ginio (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Debating the Nation in
Court: the Torlakyan Trial (Istanbul, 1921).
Anush Hovhannisyan (Institute of Oriental Studies, NAS, Armenia),
Remembering for the Future: The Project on Personal Memories of the Past
in Armenia & Turkey.
SATURDAY, JUNE 8
PANEL IX: TREATIES & MEMORIES (8:20-10:20)
Chair: Ali Husseini (University of Utah)
Kemal Cicek (Ipek University), The Role & Impact of the Internal
Security of Eastern Anatolia on the Minority Politics of the Unionists
During WW I.
Candan Badem (Tunceli University), Southwest Caucasus in the Struggles
between Bolshevism, Menshevism, Kemalism & the Dashnaks, 1919-1921.
Sevtap Demirci (Bogazici University), From Sèvres to Lausanne: The
Armenian Question.
Ara Papian (Head of Modus Vivendi Centre, Yerevan, Armenia), Woodrow
Wilson’s Arbitral Award on the Turkish-Armenian Boundary.
Matt Haydon (University of Utah), The Search for Identity: An
Armenian-American’s Perspective & Power through Victimization.
PANEL X: NATIONALISM: TURKS & KURDS (10:30-12:30)
Chair: Pamela J. Dorn Sezgin (University of North Georgia, USA)
Kezban Acar (Celal Bayar University), Imperial Rivalry & Border
Politics: Russian & Ottoman Policies toward the Kurds in the 19th century.
Tibet Abak (Russian Academy of Sciences), Russian-Kurdish Relations,
1908-1914.
Levent Küçük (Ardahan University), The Caucasian Frontier between
1914-1918 in the Georgian Press.
Hakan Ã-zoÄ?lu (University of Central Florida), Kurds in the Caucasus.
Ä°brahim Ã-zdemir (Hasan Kalyoncu University), Major Social Problems of
Ottoman Kurdistan during 1900-1916 according to Said Nursi.
PANEL XI (A): LITERATURE & NATIONALISM (13:40-15:40)
Chair: Kemal Cicek (Ipek University)
Ruben Melkonyan (Department of Oriental Studies, Yerevan State
University), The Memory of the Armenian Genocide in Modern Turkish
Literature.
Serdar Poyraz (University of Montana), The Georgian Connection: Mehmed
Tahir Münif Pasha (1830-1910), Mirza Fathali Akhundzadeh (1812-1878) &
the Politics of Alphabet Reform in the Ottoman Empire.
Mertcan Akan (Ege University, Izmir), The Caucasus through the Eyes of a
British Traveler in the 19th century.
Hakan Erdagoz (University of Utah), What Ã-mer Seyfettin Saw: The
Literary & Intellectual Grassroots of Turkish Nationalism.
Kadir Dede (Hacettepe University), Ã-mer Seyfeddin as a Patriotic
Agitator: Miroslav Hroch’s Social Preconditions & Phase B of Turkish
Nationalism.
PANEL XI (B): LITERATURE, ART & THE NATION (13:40-15:40)
Chair: Hakan Ã-zoÄ?lu (University of Central Florida)
Ahmet Seyhun (Winnipeg University), Ottoman Islamist Intellectuals
during the Second Constitutional Period (1908-1920).
Pamela J. Dorn Sezgin (University of North Georgia, USA), Imam Shamil’s
Enduring Legacy: Islam, Pan-ethnicity, Transnationalism, & the Arts in
Constructing Political Memory.
Inanc Atilgan (Vienna, Austria-Turkish Forum of Sciences), Cum grano
salis; On the Dilemma of Franz Werfel.
Dominika Maria Macios (Cardinal Stefan WyszyÅ?ski University, Warsaw),
The Caucasus in Polish Art, Literature & Press Between 1870 & 1920.
Can Ozcan (University of Utah), Memoirs as Representations of the
History: Discourse Analysis of the Selected Memoirs on 1915.
PANEL XII: TRANSFORMING & TRANSFORMED EMPIRES (15:50-17:50)
Chair: Feroz Ahmad (Yeditepe University)
Ramazan Hakki Ã-ztan (University of Utah), Developmentalism &
Modernization: Regional Imperatives after the Collapse of the Ottoman,
Romanov, & Qajar Empires.
Serkan Keçeci (London School of Economics & Political Science), Between
Imperial Centre & Periphery: A. M. Dondukov-Korsakov & His Position on
`Non-Russians’ In the Caucasus (1882-1890).
John Bragg (New Jersey City University), Sheikh `Ã-mer Lütfi & the
Maladministration of Caucasian Refugees in Late Ottoman Zile.
Elena Kobakhidze (North-Ossetian Institute for Humanitarian & Social
Studies), The Central Caucasus in Imperial Policy in the Late 19th &
early 20th centuries: The Practice of `Russification’ as a Prologue to
the `National Question.
Gozde Yazici Corut (University of Manchester), Mobility & the New
Allegiance of the Muslims of the Kars Oblast on the Russian-Ottoman
Frontier.
CONCLUDING REMARKS (17:55-18:15)
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
