Please join the Black Sea Networks Initiative and the Harriman Institute for a two-day international conference organized by Valentina Izmirlieva, Sophie Pinkham, and Mark Andryczyk.
PROGRAM
Friday, April 27, 2018
9:15 - 9:30 AM | Opening Remarks
Valentina Izmirlieva (Columbia University)
Rory Finnin (Cambridge University)
9:30 - 10:45 AM | “Races, Spaces, Places”
Keynote address by Charles King (Georgetown University)
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Media and Ideology
Vsevolod Samokhvalov (University of Liege), “Why is Crimea So Special?: The Role of the Black Sea Region in Russia’s Identity”
Sophie Pinkham (Columbia University), “Putin’s Crimean Rhetoric and Imperial Nostalgia”
Moderator: Valentina Izmirlieva (Columbia University)
12:30 - 2:00 PM | Lunch break
2:15 - 4:30 PM | Ecology and War
Carlos Cordova (Oklahoma State University), “The Transformation of the Crimean Plains: From Prehistory to 2014 and Beyond”
Johanna Conterio (University of Sydney), “The Landscape Shock: Climate and Health on the Southern Coast of Crimea, 1928-1941”
Mara Kozelsky (University of South Alabama), “Crimea in War and Transformation”
Moderator: Rory Finnin (Cambridge University)
4:30 – 5:00 PM | Coffee break
6:00 - 7:30 PM | Inaugural Shevelov Memorial Lecture in Ukrainian Studies
Valentina Izmirlieva (Columbia University), “The Cult of St. Volodymer and the Theft of History”
Saturday, April 28, 2018
9:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Toward a History of Crimea
Owen Doonan (California State University Northridge) & Jane Rempel (University of Sheffield), “The Emergence and Development of the North Anatolian—Crimean Communication Corridor in Antiquity”
Victor Ostapchuk (University of Toronto), “Between Pride and Prejudice: Warfare and Violence in Crimean Tatar History”
Oleksandr Halenko (National Academy of Science, Kyiv, Ukraine), “Why Crimea Matters for Ukraine”
Moderator: Mark Andryczyk (Harriman Institute)
12:00 – 1:00 PM | Lunch break
1:15 – 3:15 PM | Workshop “Teaching Crimea”
3:15 – 3:30 PM | Coffee break
3:30 AM - 5:45 AM | The Case of the Crimean Tatar
Maria Sonevytsky (Bard College/University of California Berkeley), “The Past as Prolific Symbolic Resource: Crimean Tatar Folk Ensembles and the Plasticity of Tradition”
Idil Izmirli (George Washington University), “Islam, Islamic Institutions and Politics of Persecution in Pre- and Post-Occupation Crimea”
Austin Charron (University of Kansas), “Crimean Regional Identities Before and After Annexation and Displacement”
Moderator: Sophie Pinkham (Columbia University)
5:45 – 7:00 PM | Reception
7:00 - 9:15 PM | Screening and Discussion of the Film Khaitarma (2013, dir. Akhtem Seitablaev)
Moderator: Yuri Shevchuk (Columbia University)
