European Studies Council: “The Imperial Plow: Settler Colonialism in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union”

The European Studies Council presents a two day conference: 

“The Imperial Plow: Settler Colonialism in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.” 

Register here:  https://bit.ly/YaleImperialPlowConf

• 9:00 Panel 3: Settler Administrations
  • Discussant: Doug Rogers (Yale)
  • Chair: Nurfadzilah Yahaya (Yale)
  • Aminat Chokobaeva (Nazarbayev Univ.), “’Peaceful Cohabitation is Only Possible on the Condition of Creating National Minority Districts’: Ethnic Conflict, Administrative Reforms, and Resource Distribution in Stalinist Central Asia”
  • Victoria Donovan (Univ. of St. Andrews), “Mapping the ‘Wild Field’: The Cartographic Pre-history of Settler Colonialism in the Ukrainian Steppe”
  • Alexander Semyonov (Amherst College), “Tensions of the Colonizing and Federalizing Empire: The Debates in the Russian Imperial State Duma, 1906-1911”
• 11:00 Panel 4: Beyond Russians
  • Discussant: Hannah Shepherd (Yale)
  • Chair: Mieka Erley (Colgate Univ.)
  • Aileen Friesen (University of Winnipeg), “State Violence, Mennonite Settlers, and Structures of Power in the North Caucasus”
  • Jonathan Dekel-Chen (Hebrew Univ.), “Civilizing the Steppes: Accidental Jewish Surrogates for Colonialism”
  • Oleksandr Polianichev (Södertörn Univ.), “’Little Russians’ as Hardly Russians: The Colonization of Circassia and the Origins of Russia’s Ukrainian Question”
• 1:45 Panel 5: Settler Colonial Encounters
  • Discussant: Peter Rutland (Wesleyan)
  • Chair: Nari Shelekpayev (Yale)
  • Abby Schrader (Franklin and Marshall College), “Disordered Bodies in the Borderlands: Gender, Sex, Ethnicity, and the Problem of Setting Siberia”
  • Chechesh Kudachinova (Mannheim Univ.), “Golden Pocket Watches and the ‘Russian House’: Exploring Settler Colonialism in the Altay Mountains, 1870s-1910s”
  • Marina Mogilner (Univ. of Illinois - Chicago), “The Problem of ‘Settler Colonialism’ through the Lens of the Multan Case”