Friday, 21 January
09:30 Welcome by the organizers
10:00 Keynote by Margarita Díaz-Andreu Garcia (University of Barcelona/ICREA, Barcelona)
10:30-12:30 Panel 1: Perspectives on Border Regions
Denis Volkov (HSE University/MSLU, Moscow): Intellectual versus Political? Russia's Late Imperial Archaeology and the Russian Cause
Igor Ermachenko (Herzen University, Saint Petersburg): Scientific-Enlightenment Aspects of the Imperial Discourse on "Russian China" (in Russian)
Aleksandr Musin/Maria Medvedeva (IHMC RAS, Saint Petersburg): Imperial Archaeology "versus" Colonial Archaeology: The Imperial Archaeological Commission between Russian Society and Tsarist Bureaucracy, Second Half of the 19th - Beginning of the 20th Century
Chair: Tobias Haberkorn (JLU Gießen)
12:30-14:00 Panel 2: Mobile Actors
Vitalij Fastovskij (JLU Gießen): "They Broke Like Thieves Into the Royal Tombs:" Mobile Actors and the Transregional Circulation of Anti-Imperial Oriental Knowledge
Pınar Üre (TOBB University, Ankara): Nature as an Archaeological Testament: Pyotr Chikhachyov’s Expeditions in the Ottoman Empire (1853-1877)
Chair: Vera Tolz (Manchester University)
14:00-15:00 Break
15:00-16:30 Panel 3: Photographic Politics
Svetlana Gorshenina (Collège de France, Paris): Photographic Politics in the Governorate of Turkestan: How the "Our" Turkestan Should be Represented
Maria Medvedeva (IHMC RAS, Saint Petersburg): The Journey of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich of Russia to the East (1858-1859) in Photographs: Between Politics, History, and Culture (in Russian)
Chair: Thomas Bohn (JLU Giessen)
16:30-17:00 Final Discussion
Chair: Margarita Díaz-Andreu Garcia (University of Barcelona/ICREA,Barcelona)