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Shaping the Periphery, Enabling Movement – Infrastructure in the Caucasus from the Early 19th Century to the Late Soviet Period
October 3, 2023 @ 9:00 am - October 4, 2023 @ 8:00 pm +04
About the Event:
The conference aims to explore the development of infrastructure in the greater region of North and South Caucasus, a longtime border zone between the Russian, Ottoman, and Persian empires. It is intended to contribute to a better understanding of regional development, power relations, and intraregional interactions, as well as conflicts, violence, and peace processes.
Shaping the Periphery, Enabling Movement: Infrastructure in the Caucasus From the Early 19th Century to the Late Soviet Period
The conference will take place in person from October 3-5 in Yerevan, Armenia, with the option of online attendance.
Meeting-ID: 656 702 5397
Passcode: 2021
Program
Tuesday, October 3
9:00am Welcome
Sandra Dahlke (Max Weber Foundation)
Dr. Edik Minasyan (Yerevan State Unniversity, Yerevan)
Dr. Hagop Yacoubian (American University of Armenia, Yerevan)
9:30am Introduction
Helena Holzberger (Munich/Tbilisi) / Arpine Maniero (Munich)
10:00am Keynote Lecture with Discussion
Chair: Oliver Reisner (Tbilisi)
Elke Shoghig Hartmann (Berlin)
Rethinking Infrastructures – Perspectives, Aims, and Challenges
10:45 – 11:00am Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30am Panel 1: Structuring States
Chair: Andreas Hilger (Tbilisi)
Reinhard Nachtigal (Freiburg i. Br.)
An Epoch of Russian Dominance: The Slow Integration of the Southern Caucasus in the 19th Century as a Matter of Infrastructure
Evgeniya Prusskaya (Tbilisi)
Islamic Infrastructure in the South Caucasus Under the Tsarist Rule
Christoph Neumann (Istanbul)
Infrastructures in the Caucasus, Infrastructure in Between Empires – an Ottoman(ist) View
12:30 – 2:00pm Lunch break
2:00 – 3:30pm Panel 2: Travel and Trade
Chair: David Jishkariani (Tbilisi)
Michel Abeßer (Freiburg i. Br.)
Infrastructural Power for Whom? Exchange Courts, Imperial Clients, and the Caucasian Borderland
Vahram Ter-Matevosyan (Yerevan)
Infrastructural Constraints and Development Trajectories in the Imperial Peripheries: Russian Armenia vs. Turkish Armenia in the Travel Notes of Levon Sargsyants, 1888
Mkhitar Gabrielyan (Yerevan)
Culture and Trade “Open” the Borders of Empires: the Case of Akhaltsikhe
3:30 – 4:00pm Coffee break
4:00 – 5:30pm Panel 3: Urban Development,
Chair: Mikayel Malkhasyan (Yerevan)
Mariam Urdia (Tbilisi)
Mtkvari as Urban Transport: Traditons, Lost Opportunites and Potental
Hamlet Melkumyan (Yerevan)
Urban Development of Metsamor Atomic City in Soviet Armenia: Tracing the Complexities of Colonization and Decolonization Discourses
Tamar Qeburia (Tbilisi)
Manganese Ferroalloys Factory During the First Five-Year Plan
5:30 – 5:45pm Coffee break
6:00 – 7:00pm Documentary with Introduction and Discussion
Chair: Phillip Schroeder (Düsseldorf)
Evelina Gambino (Cambridge)
A State in a State
7:30pm Dinner for the participants of the conference hosted by the Max-Weber-Foundation
Wednesday, October 4
9:00 – 10:30am Panel 4: Shaping Environment, Chair: Naira Sahakyan (Yerevan)
Mikayel Malkhasyan (Yerevan)
The Demographic Policy of the Russian Empire in the Kars Oblast, 1877-1917
Tyson Sadleir (New York City)
Russian Imperialism and the Bridges of the Darial Gorge, 1769-1917
Anush Hovhannisyan (Yerevan)
Turkish Water Policy in the Araks-Kura Basin: Instrument of Cooperation or Conflict?
10:30 – 11:00am Coffee Break
11:00am – 1:00pm Panel 5: Structuring Culture,
Chair: Suren Manukyan (Yerevan)
Nzhdeh Yeranyan (Yerevan)
Archaeology and the Cultural Heritage of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh)
Haykuhi Muradyan (Yerevan)
Cultural Infrastructure of Early Soviet Armenia (1920s-1930s): Political, Cultural and Ideological Aspects
Commentary on the Conference
Ronald Grigor Suny (Ann Arbor / Michigan)
Concluding Discussion
Chair: Helena Holzberger
1:00-2:00pm Lunch break
2:30pm Visit to Matenadaran (central archive for manuscripts)
5:00pm
Round table on the question of the Southern Caucasus as a research landscape for Western East-European and Eurasian History: Edita Gzoyan, Andreas Hilger, Vahagn Poghosyan, Tamar Qeburia, Oliver Reisner, Andreas Renner, Vahram Ter-Matevosyan
Chair: Arpine Maniero
American University of Armenia
40 Marshal Baghramyan Ave, Yerevan
7:00pm Reception hosted by AUA
Language: English
