Ab Imperio Workshop Series
“When Postcolonial Meets Postimperial: Cross-Disciplinary Workshops Across the Atlantic”
In association with the University of Illinois at Chicago
Program
Monday, November 18
(1501 University Hall, 601 S. Morgan St.)
10:00−12:00, Panel 1. The Archaeology of Imperial Crossroads and Post-imperial Expressions
Krishan Kumar (University Professor, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia)
How Do We Think About the Impact of Empire in the Metropoles of Former Imperial Societies?
Colleen McQuillen (Associate Professor, Slavic & Baltic Department, UIC)
Street Art vs. Protest Action: The Rise of Graffiti and the Fall of a Subculture in Post-Soviet Russia
AI discussant: Alexander Semyonov (Professor, Dean, Faculty of History, National Research University−Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia)
12:30−14:30, Panel 2. The Scandal of the Imperial Encounter
Keely Stauter-Halsted (Professor and Stefan and Lucy Hejna Family Chair in the History of Poland, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Prostitution as a Violation of National Purity
Ilya Gerasimov (Executive Editor, Ab Imperio)
Diversity is Not a Vice: A Secret Story of a Patriarchal Metropolis
AI discussant: Alexander Semyonov (Professor, Dean, Faculty of History, National Research University−Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia)
15:30−17:30, Panel 3. The Mental Mapping of Spaces beyond the Empire−Nation Opposition: Regionalism
Rama Sundari Mantena (Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Sites of Political Modernity: Regionalism and Public Life in Colonial India
Sergey Glebov (Assistant Professor, History Department, Smith College and Amherst College)
In Search of a Modern Site: Siberian Regionalists between the Imperial and the National
AI discussant: Alexander Semyonov (Professor, Dean, Faculty of History, National Research University−Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia)
Tuesday, November 19
(Institute for the Humanities, 701 S. Morgan St., Lower Level / Stevenson Hall)
10:00−12:00, Panel 4. Postcolonial and Postimperial Entanglements of Nationalisms and Universalisms
Marina Mogilner (Edward and Marianna Thaden Chair in Russian and East European Intellectual History, Associate Professor of History, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago)
The Postimperial Jewish Nation: City as a Temptation and City as a Threat in Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Zionist Bildung
Liliana Riga (Program Director, MSc in Global Social Change Sociology, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh)
Remaking Empire: Institutional Templates, Practices, and Universalisms
AI discussant: Alexander Semyonov (Professor, Dean, Faculty of History, National Research University−Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia)
12:30−14:30, Panel 5. Moderated Discussion: When Exactly Does Postcolonial End and Postimperial Begin?
Moderator: Alexander Semyonov (Professor, Dean, Faculty of History, National Research University−Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia)