New Thinking about the Old Empire: A Celebration of Laura Engelstein’s Career

Event time: 
Friday, May 2, 2014 - 3:00pm to Saturday, May 3, 2014 - 5:45pm
Location: 
Hall of Graduate Studies See map
320 York Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 
May 2-3, 2014
Yale University
Hall of Graduate Studies
Friday Session HGS 401; Saturday Sessions HGS 211
320 York Street New Haven, CT
The conference organizers would like to thank the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund at Yale University for their generous financial support.
 

Friday, May 2 – HGS room 401
3-5:15: Knowledge and Power
 
Chair: Vladimir Alexandrov, Yale University
Anna Graber, Yale University
James Heinzen, Rowan University
Francine Hirsch, University of Wisconsin
Peter Holquist, University of Pennsylvania
Discussants: Stephen Kotkin, Princeton University
Daniel Orlovsky, Southern Methodist University
 
Saturday, May 3 - HGS room 211
9-11:15 Empire and Faith
Chair: Andrey Ivanov, Boston College
Elizabeth Bospflug, Yale University
Nicholas Breyfogle, Ohio State University
Sarah Cameron, University of Maryland
Robert Crews, Stanford University
Eileen Kane, Connecticut College
Discussant: Paul Bushkovitch, Yale University
 
12:45-3:00 Selves and Stories
Chair: John Ackerman, Cornell University Press
Anna Fishzon, Williams College
Faith Hillis, University of Chicago
Irina Paperno, University of California-Berkeley
Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University
Richard Wortman, Columbia University
Discussant: Barbara Engel, University of Colorado-Boulder
 
3:30-5:45: Culture and Politics
Chairs: John Ackerman, Cornell University Press;
Katerina Clark, Yale University
Ziva Galili, Rutgers University
Kyrill Kunakhovich, Harvard University
William Rosenberg, University of Michigan/European University
Kristin Roth-Ey, University College, London
Discussant: Katie Trumpener, Yale University