THURSDAY,
April 26
09:30-10:00
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)
10:00 Keynote: Ilya Gerasimov (Ab Imperio)
10:45
Clemena Antonova (Sofia University): Jewish Cityscapes in St. Petersburg, Vienna, and Istanbul as Models of In/ex/clusion
Florian Riedler (Justus Liebig University Giessen): Niš as an Imperial Border City between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans
12:00
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 (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (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)
15:00 Keynote: Heidemarie Uhl (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
15:45
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 (Stanford University): From Imperial Outpost to Multinational Capital: The Transformation of Belgrade, 1860s-1930s
17:00
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: MODERNIZATION
Chair: Gabriele Freitag (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde)
09:00
Keynote: Edhem Eldem (Boğaziçi University Istanbul)
09:45
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 moderniz ations in Sarajevo
11:00
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