Jörn Happel, Professur für Geschichte Osteuropas und Ostmitteleuropas, elmut-Schmidt-Universität / Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg (HSU/UniBw H)
Freitag, 28. Oktober 2011
18.00 Welcome of participants
18.30 Key Note lecture:
Prof. em. Dr. Roger Bartlett (University College London): The Beginnings of the Russian Debate on Serfdom: Johann Georg Eisen
19.30 Apéro riche
Samstag, 29. Oktober 2011
9.15 Prof. Dr. Frithjof Benjamin Schenk (Universität Basel): Introduction
9.30-11.00 First Panel: 1861: Contexts and Legacies
Chair: Prof. Dr. Frithjof Benjamin Schenk (Universität Basel)
Prof. Dr. Michail Dolbilov (University of Maryland, USA): Bureaucratic Visions of the Agrarian Reform and Their Legacies after 1861
Prof. Dr. Willard Sunderland (University of Cincinnatti, USA): The Non-Russian Emancipations: Abolition in the Imperial Context, 1800-1917
11.00-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-12.45 Second Panel: 1861 in Historiography
Chair: Dr. Alexis Hofmeister (Universität Basel)
Dr. Beate Eschment (Forschungsstelle Osteuropa, Bremen): The Abolition of Serfdom in 19th Century Russian Historiography
Prof. Dr. David Moon (Durham University, UK): Rethinking 1861: Russian Serfdom and its Abolition in Recent Historiography
12.45-14.30 Lunch Break
14.30-16.00 Third Panel: Peasants and Writers Commemorate 1861
Chair: Dr. Jörn Happel (Universität Basel)
Dr. Julia Herzberg (Rachel Carson Center, LMU München): Narrating Slavery: Serfdom in Peasant Writing
Prof. Dr. Thomas Grob (Universität Basel): Lev Tolstoj and Ivan Bunin Imagining the Russian Peasant and his Emancipation
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-18.00 Fourth Panel: Landmarks in the History of 1861 as a "Lieu de Mémoire"
Chair: Sandrine Mayoraz, M.A. (Universität Basel)
Carla Cordin, M.A. (Universität Basel): Commemorating the Abolition of Serfdom in Russia in 1911
Dr. Alexander Dmitriev (Vysschaja schkola ekonomiki, Moskau): 100 Years Later: Remembering 1861 in the Soviet Union during the Thaw
19.00 Dinner
Sonntag, 30. Oktober 2011
9.15-10.45 Fifth Panel: Identity Formation and International Contexts
Chair: Bianca Hoenig, M.A. (Universität Basel)
Prof. Dr. Andrei Zorin (University of Oxford): The Construction of the Mythology of the "Golden Age of Russian Nobility" after 1861 (The Cases of Tolstoy and Vyazemsky)
Prof. Dr. John MacKay (Yale University, USA): Slavery, National and International: The Changing Functions of Uncle Tom´s Cabin in Russia and the Soviet Union
10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.00 Final Discussion