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Workshop München

The Tsarist/Soviet Empires and the History of Modernity in Asia

12.09.2017 at 13:00  – 13.07.2017 at 19:00 

Vom 12. bis 13. September 2017 veranstalten der Lehrstuhl "Russland-/Asienstudien" an der LMU München und die Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien den Workshop "The Tsarist/Soviet Empires and the History of Modernity in Asia". International renommierte Historikerinnen und Historiker diskutieren dabei das Konzept multipler Modernen anhand von Verflechtungen und Austauschprozessen zwischen dem russischen Kaiserreich beziehungsweise der Sowjetunion und Asien.

Zeit: Dienstag, 12.09.2017, 13:00-20:00 Uhr und Mittwoch, 13.09.2017, 9:30-19:00 Uhr
Ort: München, Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien, Maria-Theresia-Straße 21, Bibliothek

Konzept
The conference seeks to examine entanglements between Tsarist/Soviet and Asian modernities since the late 19th century. In Eurasia, Russia’s rise to great power status anticipated Japan’s (or later, China’s and India’s) transformation from an object of European expansion to a competitive, ‘modern’ rival. In postwar Asia (notions of) modernity were not only influenced by the ‘Western’ model, but also and, arguably, even stronger by developments in the Soviet Union (China and Japan). Though the history of modernities in Asia cannot, of course, be reduced to Tsarist/Soviet influences, they may provide a starting point to the analysis of modernity beyond its Western shape.

Programm
Tuesday, September 12
13:00
Welcome & Introduction
13:30-17:00
Panel I: Transfers & Learning
Federico Brusadelli (Rome)
The Tsar’s Mirror. The “Account of the Reforms of Peter the Great” by Kang Youwei (1858-1927). A Russian Model to Save the Chinese
Rotem Kowner (Haifa)
Overlooking the Obvious: The Tsarist and Soviet Impact on the Japanese Quest for Modernity of State and Empire
ca. 14:30-15:00
Tea & Coffee
Joonseo Song (Seoul)
The Role of Russia in the Modernization of Korea during the Early 20th Century
Natalia Ryzhova (Vladivostok)
China as Source for the Russian Far East Modernization
ca. 16:00-17:00
Discussion
Chair/Discussant: Moritz Florin (Erlangen)
18:00-20:00
Public Evening Lecture
Ronald G. Suny (Chicago/Ann Arbor)
Modernizing Imperialisms: The Making and Breaking of Nations in the Tsarist and Soviet Empires
Wednesday, September 13
09:30-12:00
Panel II: Knowledge and Technology
Markku Kangaspuro (Helsinki)
Mapping Soviet Modernization
Shuxi Yin (Hefei)
Sovietization of Engineering Education in China
ca. 10:30-11:00
Tea & Coffee
Sandy Xu (Berlin)
Who were the Peasantry in the Soviet Union and Maoist China?
Greg Bankoff (Hull)
What happened to the Second World? Dealing with Earthquakes in Postsocialist Kazakhstan
ca. 12:00-13:00
Discussion
Chair/Discussant: Sören Urbansky (Munich/Cambridge)
14:30-16:00
Panel III: Agency & Theory
Elke Hartmann (Munich)
To the people - to the women! Russian inspirations for Ottoman Armenian revolutionaries
Anastasia Fedorova (Moscow)
Marxist Historiography and Media in 1950s Japan
ca. 15:30-16:00
Tea & Coffee
Milinda Banerjee (Munich/Kolkata)
Modernity and the Ambivalent Place of the Political: Dialectical Responses of Bengali Naxalite Revolutionaries to Soviet and other Transnational Communist Visions, ca. 1969-74
ca. 16:30-17:30
Discussion
Chair/Discussant: Helena Holzberger (Munich)
18:00-19:00
Round Table
with Stefan Plaggenborg (Bochum), Andreas Renner (Munich), Joonseo Song (Seoul), Ronald G. Suny (Chicago/Ann Arbor) and David Wolff (Sapporo)
Chair/Discussant: Frank Grüner (Bielefeld)

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