Monday, 15 June 2009
09.00
Introduction
The Principal, University of Aberdeen
Panel I: Captivity and Bondage in Imperial Russia
Chair: Robert Frost
09.30
ALESSANDRO STANZIANI (Paris)
‘Slavery and Bondage in the Russian Empire, 17th-19th Centuries’
10.00
HANS-HEINRICH NOLTE (Hanover/Germany)
‘Captives (Yasyri) in Russia’
10.30
PETER B. BROWN (Rhode Island)
‘The Demise of the Crimean Khanate and the Demise of Serfdom: Was There a Relationship?’
11.05
Break
Panel II: Forms and Comparisons of Slavery
Chair: Alessandro Stanziani
11.20
NUR SOBERS KHAN (Cambridge/UK)
‘Ottoman Slaves: A Paragon of 16th-century Social and Economic Integration? The Court Registers of Galata’
11.50
CHARLES L. WILKINS (Winston-Salem, NC)
‘Slavery and Household Formation in Ottoman Aleppo, 1640-1700’
12.30
Lunch
Panel III: Late Medieval Slaveries
Chair: Peter Brown
14.00 BULAT R. RAKHIMZYANOV (Kazan’)
‘Ransom for the Grand Prince: One Military Medieval Event as a Beginning of Russian Imperial History’
14.30
LAWRENCE N. LANGER (Connecticut)
‘Slavery in the Appanage Era: Rus’ and the Mongols’
15.00
JUKKA KORPELA (Joensuu/Finland)
‘“i polona mnogo privedoša v Novgorod” – Finnish Slaves in East European Slave Trade?’
15.30
Break
16.00
Discussion, 1st day papers
17.00
Key note DON OSTROWSKI (Harvard)
‘Interconnectedness: The Integration of Early Modern Russia into World History’
19.00
Dinner
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Panel IV: Slaving, Trade and Demography
Chair: Don Ostrowski
9.00
OLEKSANDER HALENKO (Kyiv)
‘The Traffic of Slaves from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus into Ottoman Territory as Reflected in the Ottoman Customs and Market Regulations of the 16th Century’
9.30
ALEKSANDR LAVROV (Paris)
‘How Many Captives from Eastern Europe Lived in the 17th-century Crimean Khanate?’
10.00
ZÜBEYDE GÜNEŞ YAĞCI (Balikesir/Turkey)
‘Black Sea Slave Trade According to İstanbul Port Customs Register, 1606-1608’
10.45
Break
Panel V: Slavery and Trans-cultural Contacts
Chair : Karin Friedrich
11.00
ALEKSANDRA PORADA (Warsaw; Wrocław)
‘Poles in the Caucasian Corps, 1830-early 1860s: Personal Freedom, Political Independence, Captivity and Slavery as Ideas and Experience’
11.30
WILL SMILEY (Cambridge/UK)
‘Contacts through Captivity: Russian Prisoners and Ottoman Reforms’
12.00
BRIAN BOECK (Chicago)
‘Ransom as Cross-Cross Cultural Business: Don Cossack and Tatar Brokers 1650-1750’
12.45
Lunch
Panel VI: Slavery and Identity
Chair: Oleksander Halenko
14.15
HUSEYIN OYLUPINAR (Edmonton/Canada)
‘The Theme of Captivity in Ukrainian Dumy: Identity Construction in the 17th Century.’
14.45
BRIAN L. DAVIES (San Antonio/TX)
‘The Prisoner’s Tale: Russian Captivity Narratives and Perceptions of the Ottoman-Tatar Dar-al-Islam’
15.15
CHRISTOPH WITZENRATH (Aberdeen)
‘Redemption from Captivity in Muscovite Culture’
15.50
Break
Panel VII: After Slavery? Chair: Paul Dukes
16.15
KELLY O’NEILL (Harvard)
‘The Role of the Russian Empire in the End of Slavery in the Black Sea’
16.45
DMITRY V. SHLAPENTOKH (South Bend/IN)
‘Slaves and Prisoners as a Symbol of Russia’s Perennial Struggle against East and West: The Case of Vasilii Ian’s Writings’
17.15
Final Discussion
19.30
Dinner