Thursday, April 26
9:30-10:00 Opening
DHI Moscow: Welcome
Gabriele FREITAG (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde): Welcome
Eszter GANTNER (Herder Institute Marburg) / Ulrich HOFMEISTER (Vienna University): Introduction
10:00-13:00 Panel 1: Cityscapes
Chair: Julia OBERTREIS (Verband der Osteuropa-Historikerinnen und -historiker / Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Keynote: Ilya GERASIMOV (Ab Imperio)
Clemena ANTONOVA (Sofia University): Jewish Cityscapes in St. Petersburg, Vienna, and Istanbul as Models of In/ex/clusion
Florian RIEDLER (Giessen University): Niš as an Imperial Border City between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans
Gulchachak NUGMANOVA (Research Institute of the Theory and History of Architecture and Town Planning, Moscow): Imperial Power, Imperial Identity and Kazan Architecture: Visualizing the Empire in Nineteenth Century Russian Province
Robert BORN (GWZO Leipzig): Divide et impera? Imperial Representation in the Banat Capital during the 18th Century and its Legacy
15:00-18:00 Panel 2: Afterlife of Empires
Chair: Piro REXHEPI (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen)
Keynote: Heidemarie UHL (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Nilay ÖZLÜ (Boğaziçi University Istanbul): The Imperial Palaces in comparative perspective during the 19th and early-20th centuries: The Topkapi Palace, the Kremlin Palace, and the Hofburg Palace
Jovana KNEŽEVIĆ: (Standford University): From Imperial Outpost to Multinational Capital: The Transformation of Belgrade, 1860s-1930s
Olga ZABALUEVA (Linköping University): (De)constructing imperial heritage: Moscow Zaryadye in times of transition
Nikolina ŠIMETIN ŠEGVIĆ / Filip ŠIMETIN ŠEGVIĆ (Zagreb University): Zagreb: The (Un)usual Case of a Local Imperial Centre?
Friday, April 27
09:00-12:00 Panel 3: Modernisation
Chair: Gabriele FREITAG (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde)
Keynote: Edhem ELDEM (Boğaziçi University Istanbul)
Alexis HOFMEISTER (Basel University): Four situative cosmopolitan cityscapes – one paradigm? Ethnic and non-Ethnic spaces in late Imperial Riga, Salonika, Triest and Odessa
Aida MURTIĆ (Heidelberg University): Reconfiguring the urban and the monumental: (Bi)imperial modernisations in Sarajevo
Michel ABESSER (Freiburg University): Imperial Cities Merging - Rostov and Nakhichevan in the 19th and early 20th century”
Attila AYTEKIN (Middle East Technical University Ankara): From Imperial City to National Capital: ‘Cosmopolitanism’ and Its Demise in Belgrade and Ankara
12:30-13:30 Conclusion
Eszter GANTNER (Herder Institute Marburg) / Ulrich HOFMEISTER (Vienna University): Concluding remarks