Sessions

April 16-17, 2005
Whitney Humanities Center
53 Wall Street, New Haven

Session I
Saturday Morning, 9:00-12:00

Romanov Russia

Robert Crews
Department of History, Stanford University
“Muslim Heterodoxy and Imperial Power”

Adeeb Khalid
Department of History, Carleton College
“Self-Definition of Russian Islam”

Aleksei Miller
Department of History, Central European University
“The Romanov Empire and the Jews”

Theodore R. Weeks
Department of History Southern Illinois University
“Religion, Nationality, or Politics: Catholicism in the Russian Empire, 1863-1905”

Commentator
Laura Engelstein
Department of History, Yale University

Session II
Saturday Afternoon, 2:00-5:00

Habsburg Austria-Hungary

John-Paul Himka
Department of History, University of Alberta
“Religion and Nation in Habsburg Galicia”

Larry Wolff
Department of History, Boston College
“Religious Considerations in Letters from Galicia:
The Observations of Franz Kratter and the Reforms of Joseph II”

Marsha Rozenblit
Department of History, University of Maryland
“On the Cult of Franz Joseph: Jews and the Habsburg Monarchy in the Nineteenth Century”

Pieter Judson
Department of History, Swarthmore
“Catholic Dynasty, Liberal State: Struggle, Accommodation,
and Community in Habsburg Austria, 1848-1918”

Commentator
Ivan Szelenyi
Department of Sociology, Yale University

Session III
Sunday Morning, 9:00-12:00

Ottoman Empire

Dimitris Livanios
Department of History, Brown University
“Making Borders, Unmaking Identities:
Frontiers and Nationalism in the Balkans, 1774 - 1913”

Karen Barkey
Departments of History and Sociology, Columbia University
“Ottoman Toleration: The Construction of Mechanisms of
Inter-Religious, Inter-Ethnic Peace”

Bruce Masters
Department of History, Wesleyan University
“Between Religion and Ethnicity:
Definitions of Community in Syria at the End of the Ottoman Empire”

Commentator
Mark Mazower
Department of History, Columbia University

Session IV
Sunday Afternoon, 2:00-5:00

Comparative Perspectives

Abbas Amanat
Department of History, Yale University

Paul Bushkovitch
Department of History, Yale University

Stathis Kalyvas
Department of Politics, Yale University