Bakhmeteff Archive News

Researching Russia and Islam in the Archives of Eurasia

The archival workshop organized in conjunction with the Harriman Institute’s Russia and Islam project, will take place in Butler Library, room 523, on Saturday, December 1, 2007.

Session One:  Russian-Muslim Relations in the Archives of the Russian Federation
Moderator: Dr. Richard Wortman, Columbia University

Dr. Vladimir Olegovich Bobrovnikov, 9:30-10:30am
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies
Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)
Presentation: "Islamic Responses to Imperial/Soviet Modernization of Local Muslim Communities in Private and State Archives from the Caucasus"

Dr. Dmitrii Iur'evich Arapov, 10:45-11:45
Moscow State University, Russian Federation
Presentation: TBA

Lunch, 12-1

Session Two:  Islam and Orthodoxy in the Archives and Libraries of Turkey
Moderator: Dr. Christine Philliou, Columbia University

Dr. Sukru Hanioglu, 1:30-2:30
Princeton University
Presentation: TBA

Dr. Virginia Aksan, 2:45-3:45
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
Presentation: "Looking for a Russian Needle in an Ottoman Haystack"

Coffee Break, 3:45-4:15

Dr. Adeeb Khalid, 4:30-5:30
Carleton College
Presentation: "Searching for Muslim Voices in Post-Soviet Archives"

Reception in room 522, 5:30-6:30