Beyond Moscow
Rethinking the International and Transnational Dimensions of the Soviet Republics
28-29 September 2023
Scuola di Procida per l'Alta Formazione (Università di Napoli L’Orientale)
Ex Conservatorio delle Orfanelle di Terra Murata
Via San Michele 1, Procida
Organizers: Riccardo Mario Cucciolla (Università di Napoli L'Orientale) and Aleksandr Voronovici (Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena)
The event is organized with the funds of the Università di Napoli L'Orientale and a generous grant of the University of Toronto
Conference Programme
Day 1 - 28 September
8:30 Welcome and Coffee
8:45 Greetings
Giuseppe Cataldi (Head of the Department of Human and Social Sciences at the Università di Napoli L’Orientale)
9:00–10:45 Panel - The (Para)Diplomacy and International Ambitions in the Soviet Western Republics
Chair:
Lynne Viola (University of Toronto)
Discussant:
Mark Kramer (Harvard University)
Papers:
Alexandr Voronovici (Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena)
“Communist Ukrainian International”: Soviet Ukrainian International Ambitions and the East European Contested Borderlands in the 1920s
Saulius Grybkauskas (Lietuvos Istorijos Institutas)
Duty for Moscow, Benefits for Native Republic. Soviet Baltic Representatives Abroad
Jeremy Smith (Zayed University) and Michael Loader (University of Glasgow)
Negotiating with Khrushchev’s Moscow: The Cases of Latvia and Georgia
10:45–11:15 Coffee Break
11:15–13:00 Panel – The Soviet Republics and the International Cultural Encounters
Chair:
Paolo Wulzer (Università di Napoli L’Orientale)
Discussant:
Fabio Bettanin (Università di Napoli L’Orientale)
Papers:
Simo Mikkonen (University of Jyväskylä)
National revival through cultural contacts with Finland? Soviet Estonia and Karelia in comparison
Noemie Cadeau (ENS de Lyon Université Jean Monnet)
Chingiz Aitmatov and Afro-Asian Movements: An Internationalist Figure During the Cultural Cold War
Nathalie Moine (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
The Three Revolutions, Algiers 1973: How Soviet Azerbaidjan exported modern ballet in revolutionary Algeria
Stefan Kirmse (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient)
Across the Southern Border. Everyday International Encounters in the Ukrainian, Uzbek and Armenian SSRs, 1960-1980
13:00–14:30 Lunch
14:30–16:15 Panel – Decolonization and development agendas of the Soviet Republics
Chair:
Anatoly Levshin (Princeton University)
Discussant:
Sabine Dullin (Sciences Po)
Papers:
Niccolò Pianciola (Università di Padova)
Kazakhstan and China before and after the Sino-Soviet Split, 1949-1976
Masha Kirasirova (New York University Abu Dhabi)
Late 1950s Decolonization and the Thaw in the Eastern International
Davlatbegim Mamadshoeva (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Writing the “Soviet East” into the history of Soviet development assistance in Afghanistan
Aleksandr Korobeinikov (Central European University)
“The Future of the Republic is Inextricably Linked with Gold”: Postcolonial Subjectivity, Resource Imagination, and Socioeconomic Visions of the Future in Early Soviet Yakutia
16:15–16:45 Coffee Break
16:45–17:45 Keynote speech by Mark Kramer (Harvard University)
20,00 Dinner
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Day 2 - 29 September
9:00–10:30 Panel – Science and Environment
Chair:
Sabine Dullin (Sciences Po)
Discussant:
Vera Tolz (University of Manchester)
Papers:
Gabriela Radulescu (Technische Universität Berlin)
Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Astronomy and Science Diplomacy in Soviet Armenia
Isaac McKean Scarborough (Universiteit Leiden)
From Kiev to Vienna: Soviet Gerontology on the International Stage
Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University)
The Nevada-Semipalatinsk Movement: Challenging or Conforming to the Constraints of Communist Authority?
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:45 Panel - Diasporas and Religion
Chair:
Riccardo Mario Cucciolla (Università di Napoli L’Orientale)
Discussant:
Adriano Roccucci (Roma Tre University)
Papers:
Angelika Pobedonostseva-Kaya (Historian, Saint Petersburg)
Soviet Armenia and Azerbaijan Competition and Cooperation over Soviet Kurdish projects
Dmitry Asinovskiy (Central European University)
Between Moscow, Leipzig and Baku: Soviet Azerbaijan and the Iranian emigrants in the 1950s-1970s
Vassily Klimentov (European University Institute)
‘Communist Muslims’ or ‘Muslim Communists’: Soviet Muslim Advisers in the Afghan War
Simona Merlo (Roma Tre University)
The Vatican and Ukraine during the Pontificate of John Paul II
12:45–14:15 Lunch
14:15–15:45 Panel - Prepare for Impact: Sovereignty and Transnational Frameworks in a collapsing USSR
Chair:
Alexandr Voronovici (Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena)
Discussant:
Vladislav Zubok (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Papers:
Sabine Dullin (Sciences Po)
The sovereignty to survive. The Republic of Yakutia-Sakha in the face of Soviet collapse, 1980'-1990'
Riccardo Mario Cucciolla (Università di Napoli L’Orientale)
The Southern Front legacies: the initiatives of Soviet Uzbekistan with India and Afghanistan during perestroika
Carolina De Stefano (LUISS Guido Carli)
A "new" Russia's foreign policy. Andrey Kozyrev's MID amid the Union's disintegration and the emergence of the CIS
15:45–16:15 Coffee Break
16:15–17:45 Roundtable and Final Remarks
Fabio Bettanin, Riccardo Mario Cucciolla, Sabine Dullin,
Mark Kramer, Anatoly Levshin, Adriano Roccucci, Vera Tolz,
Lynne Viola, Alexandr Voronovici, Vladislav Zubok
Pagina creata il 23/08/2023