Workshop 12-23 November 2010
Final Programme [download as pdf]
Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction
University of Oxford, History Faculty
Friday 12 - Saturday 13 November 2010
Friday 12 November
12:30 Welcoming & Introduction
12:45 Panel I - Overview Panel
12:45 - Early Modern sources: Clare Griffin - Using Manuscripts to Research Russian History - The Case of 17th Century Medical Texts
13:05 - Early Revolutionary sources: Andy Willimott - Researching Soviet Social History in the 1920s
13:25 - Early Stalinism sources: Jon Waterlow - ‘But there was no humour in the 1930s!’ - Researching Around the System
13:45 - Post-Stalinist sources: Alessandro Iandolo - Using 1950s-1960s Sources: the Case of Soviet Policy in West Africa
14:05 - Discussion
14:25 COFFEE BREAK
14:40 Panel II - Racial and Medical Histories
Chair: Jon Waterlow, Merton College, Oxford
14:40 - Daniel Beer - The Human Sciences in Revolutionary Russia: Using Specialist
and ‘Thick’ Journals
15:00 - Simon Pawley - More ‘History from the Side’: Researching Social History of Medicine of the Late Imperial and Early Soviet era.
15:20 - Discussion
15:30 Keynote Address - Catriona Kelly
16:00 - Discussion
16:15 COFFEE BREAK
16:30 Roundtable Discussion
17:15 END
Saturday 13 November
N.B. - Coffee will NOT be provided at the start of the day! However, ‘Coffee Republic’ cafe is located just along from the History Faculty building!
10:00 Panel III - Music, Visual Art & Film
Chair: Andy Willimott, UEA
10:00 - Claire Knight - Silence in the Archives
10:20 - Joshua Walden - Sonic Sources and the Study of Béla Bartók’s ‘Romanian Folk Dances’
10:40 - JJ Gurga - Whose voice is it anyway? Film Dubbing in the Soviet Republics
11:00 - Seth Graham - A Russianist’s Adventures in Central Asian Cinema
11:20 - Discussion
11:35 COFFEE BREAK
11:50 Panel IV - Memory
Chair: Robert Gildea, Worcester College, Oxford
11:50 - Catherine Merridale
12:10 - Alexandra Wachter - Insecurities, Indoctrination and Release: Chances and Challenges in Using Eyewitness Accounts from the Former Soviet Union
12:30 - Polly Jones - Myth, Memory, Fandom: Konstantin Simonov and his Readers in the 1950s and 1960s
12:50 - Discussion
13:05 LUNCH
14:05 Special Talk: Working with Archives and Libraries in Georgia
Dr Timothy Blauvelt, Country Director, Georgia, American Councils for International Education
14:30 - Discussion
14:40 Panel V - Reading Between the Lines: Beyond the Text of Printed Sources
Chair: David Priestland, St Edmund Hall, Oxford
14:40 - Samantha Sherry -The Elusive Censor: The Difficulties of Researching Soviet Censorship
15:00 - Simon Huxtable - Newspapers Beyond Text: Mapping Komsomol’skaya
pravda, 1950-1964
15:20 - Alex Titov - Research in Private vs. Institutional Archives: Difference in Approaches, Unity of Aims
15:40 - Discussion
15:55 COFFEE BREAK
15:10 Roundtable Discussion
16:45 END
Organisers:
Andy Willimott (UEA), Jonathan Waterlow (Merton College, Oxford), Samantha Sherry (Edinburgh)