Seminar Series
This three-year interdisciplinary and international research
project explores the origins and manifestations of ethnic violence in
the borderlands region of East-Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.
The Project is centered at the Watson Institute for International Studies
at Brown University in collaboration with several other institutions
in the United States and Europe. The following seminars will be held
this year at the Watson Institute. The series will culminate in a workshop
in spring 2004.
Most sessions will take place at 6:00 p.m. in the McKinney Conference Room at the Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street. Please note: This is a small, informal workshop; papers will be available in advance. Participants will be expected to have read the papers to enliven the seminar discussion.
Seminar Series: Spring 2005
Tuesday, 1 February at 6pm
Jeffrey Burds
Associate Professor of Russian and Soviet History
Northeastern University
�The Soviet War Against �Fifth Columnists': The Case of Chechnya , 1940-1943�
Tuesday, 15 February at 6pm
Eyal Ginio
Institute of Asian and African Studies
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
�Paving the Way for Ethnic Cleansing: Eastern Thrace (Dogu Trakya) During the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913�
Tuesday, 8 March at 6pm
Mark Mazower
Professor of History
Columbia University
�The Muslim Exodus from Salonika , 1912-1924�
Tuesday, 19 April at 6pm
Jochen Hellbeck
Assistant Professor of History
Rutgers University
�Life and Fate: Cosmologies of Stalingrad �
Tuesday, 3 May at 6pm
Mark von Hagen
Professor of Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian History
Columbia University
�The Practice of Wartime Occupation in the Borderlands: The Eastern Front in World War I�
Seminar Series: Fall 2004
Tuesday, September 21 at 4:00 pm
Opening Seminar and Welcome
McKinney Conference Room and South Common Room
Tuesday, September 28 at 6:00 pm
Theodore R. Weeks
Associate Professor, Russia and Eastern Europe, and
Director of Graduate Studies
History Department
Southern Illinois University
The 1905 Revolution in Vilnius
Tuesday, October 19 at 6:00 pm
Ben Lieberman
Professor of History, Fitchburg State College
National Hate Narratives and Ethnic Violence in the Shatter-Zone of Empires
Thursday, November 11 at 6:30 pm
Ian Beilin
Professor of History, Fordham University
Posen/Poznan 1918-1920: Max Kollenscher, the Jüdischer Volksrat and the Struggle for Jewish National Independence
Monday, December 6 at 6:00 pm
Philipp Ther
Junior Professor, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder
The Position of the ‘In-Between Lands’ in Modern European History
Seminar Series: Spring 2004
Wednesday, February 11
Patrice Dabrowski
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Watson Institute for International Studies
“Hutsul
Highlanders and the ‘Discovery’ of the Galician Borderlands”
Wednesday, February 18
Holly Case, Ph.D. candidate in History at Stanford University and assistant
professor of History at Cornell University as of Fall 2004.
“Interethnic
Relations in the Courtroom: Ethnic crime and punishment in Hungarian
Northern Transylvania during WWII”
Wednesday, March 10
William Hagen
Professor of History
University of California, Davis
“The
Moral Economy of Ethnic Violence: The Pogrom in Lwow, November 1918”
Wednesday, March 24
Christoph Mick
Staff member of the Institute of East European History and Area Studies,
University of Tübingen, Germany
“The
Ethnization of Stalinism: The role of ethnic categories during the Sovietization
of Western Ukraine 1944-1950”
Wednesday, April 14
Omer Bartov
John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History
Department of History and Watson Institute for International Studies
“Interethnic
Relations in the Holocaust as Seen Through Postwar Testimonies: Buczacz,
East Galicia, 1941-44”
Note Location: Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street, McKinney Conference
Room.
Wednesday, April 28 CANCELLED
Anatoliy Kruglashov
Head of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine
“Diversity withering away: The Current Ethnic Situation in Ukrainian
Bukovina”
Wednesday, May 5
Keith Brown
Assistant Professor (Research)
Watson Institute for International Studies
“‘Do You Know Who Goce Delcheff Is?’ Border maintenance
and long-distance nationalism among Pennsylvania Macedonians, 1903-1948”
Seminar Series: Fall 2003
Wednesday, October 1
Opening/Introductory session & light reception
Second Floor South Common Room, Watson Institute
Wednesday, October 8
Marci Shore
Assistant Professor of Modern East European History
Department of History
Indiana University
“Children
of the Revolution: A Warsaw Family Story”
Wednesday, November 12
Timothy Snyder
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Yale University
“Polish
Counter-Intelligence in Soviet Ukraine, 1926-1939”
Wednesday, December 3 Note time: 6:00 p.m.
Dimitris Livanios
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of History
Brown University
“Making
Borders, Unmaking Identities: Frontiers and Nationalism in the Balkans,
1804-1913”
Wednesday, December 10 Note time: 6:00 p.m.
Peter Holquist
Associate Professor at Cornell University and co-editor of KRITIKA:
Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History.
“War
and International Law in the Shatter Zone of Empires. The Russian Perspective
(1863-1917)”
