13.30-14.30 Conference Opening
Martin Schulze Wessel (LMU, Munich)
Opening remarks
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Northwestern University, Evanston)
Jewish Apples and Muslim Oranges in the Russian Basket: Options and Limits of a Comparative Approach
14.30-15.00 Coffee Break
15.00-17.30 Panel I: Jews and Muslims and their Encounter with the Imperial and Soviet States
Chair: Christoph Neumann (LMU Munich)
Vladimir Levin (Hebrew University, Jerusalem):
Common Problems, Different Solutions: Jewish and Muslims Politics in Late Imperial Russia
Franziska Davies (LMU Munich):
Jews and Muslims as Soldiers of the Tsar: The Army and the Challenge of Difference
David Schick (LMU, Munich):
The Jews in the Economic Policy of the Russian Empire: The Example of Odessa (1855-1894)
18.00 Dinner
20.00 Evening Lecture
Michael Stanislawski (Columbia University, New York):
The Jewish and Muslim Enlightenments in Russia: A Comparison
Chair: Michael Brenner (LMU Munich)
Friday, June, 21st
9.00-12.0 Panel II: Depicting Difference: Visual and Discursive Representations of Jews and Muslims in Late Imperial Russia and the Early Soviet Union
Chair: Heléna Tóth (LMU Munich)
Vladimir Bobrovnikov (Institute for Oriental Studies, Moscow)
Constructing Religious Minorities in the Russian Caucasus, 1860s-1920s: “Aliens’” Clergy and Congregations of Dagestani “Native” Muslims and Jews
Yvonne Kleinmann (University of Leipzig)
The Power of Documentation: Ethnographic Representations of Jews and Muslims in the Late Russian Empire
David Shneer (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Documenting the Ambivalent Empire: Soviet Jewish Photographers in Birobidzhan and the Soviet East
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-16.00 Panel III: The Making of National and Religious Identities
Chair: Guido Hausmann (LMU Munich)
Ellie Schainker (Emory University, Atlanta):
A View of the Confessional State from Below: Converts from Judaism and Confessional Choice in Nineteenth-Century Imperial Russia
David E. Fishman (Jewish Theological Seminary, New York):
Yiddish and the Formation of a Secular Jewish National Identity in Czarist Russia
Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, Minnesota):
From Muslim Anticlericalism to Soviet Atheism: The Uzbek intelligentsia through the Revolution, 1917-1929
Michael Khodarkovsky (Loyola University, Chicago):
“Who Are We And Why?” Imperial, Islamic, and Ethnic Identities in the Russian Empire