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Upcoming events:
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Using archives and libraries to research histories of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, 6th July 2023 14:00-16:00 UK time
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We are co-hosting a virtual workshop on conducting historical research in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. You'll get practical tips, hear from researchers who have worked extensively across the region, and have the opportunity to ask questions. Attendees will hear about collections held at the British Library and learn about how to do remote research. They will also have the opportunity to attend breakout sessions run by researchers with experiences of working in Ukraine, the Baltic states, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Poland, and South-East Europe.
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You can register for this event here and see full details in the below poster.
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Past events:
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Peripheral Histories Virtual Roundtable on Digital Spatial Methods
Monday 6th December 2021 15:00-16:30 GMT (London time); 10:00-11:30 EST (New York), held on Zoom
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Join us for a virtual roundtable on how to integrate digital spatial methods into teaching and researching Eurasia. Our event will bring together scholars who use digital spatial methods in their research and teaching on Eurasia. They will explore some of their favorite resources as well as give insight as to how and when to use these methods for the best effects.
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Participants:
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Seth Bernstein (University of Florida)
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Ihor Doroshenko (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig, Germany/Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt at the University of Leipzig)
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Katja Wezel (University of Göttingen/University of Latvia, Riga)
Moderator: Susan Grunewald (University of Pittsburgh)
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This event was live tweeted, please click here to find a summary of the discussion
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BASEES Graduate Workshop: Using archives and research libraries in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Wednesday 8th December 2021 16:00-18:00 GMT, held on Zoom
Register for this online workshop on conducting historical research in Eastern Europe and the former USSR. You'll get practical tips, hear from researchers who have worked extensively across the region, and have the opportunity to ask questions. Organised by BASEES postgraduate representative Jessica Lovett, with the support of Peripheral Histories and the Eurasian Regions Study Group.
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BASEES Eurasian Regions Study Group Webinar: Siberia in the Late Tsarist and Early Soviet Era
9th June 2021 18.00 BST (London time), held on Zoom.
Join us for a discussion of modern Siberia, featuring an international panel of researchers:
Tatiana Saburova (Indiana University): Photography in Geographical Imagination and Exploration of Siberia in Late Imperial Russia
Aleksandr Korobeinikov (Central European University): "The Land of the Future": Resource Imagination and Knowledge Production in Post-Imperial Yakutia, 1915-1930
Nadia Mamontova (University of Northern British Columbia): Soviet geopower, Indigenous people and the role of geological research in the administrative policy in Siberia (1920s-1930s)
Diego Repenning López (University of Bristol): Grigorii Z. Eliseev, Tomsk University and Siberian Peripherality
Chair: Siobhán Hearne (Durham University)
Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/E53UzpHqkh
This event was live-tweeted. Please click here for a summary of the discussion:
Virtual Roundtable - Teaching Peripheral Histories
Tuesday 1st December 2020, 16:00-17:30 GMT
The Peripheral Histories? project is all about highlighting peripheral spaces, actors and events; examining the changing status of and relations between ‘centres’ and ‘peripheries’; and exploring the ways in which borderlands have been remade in particular historical circumstances. We firmly believe that these discussions belong in the classroom, so this autumn we ran a special series of posts on teaching diverse histories of Eurasia. You can read the full series here.
In our next virtual roundtable, we will bring together scholars who centre the diversity of Eurasia in their history courses to reflect on key themes and issues raised in our teaching series. We will be discussing primary sources, languages, transnational/transimperial connections, and how to balance breadth and depth when teaching peripheral histories.
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Ian Campbell (University of California, Davis)
Kelly O’Neill (Harvard University and director of the Imperiia project)
Zbigniew Wojnowski (University of Roehampton)
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Moderator: Jo Laycock (University of Manchester)
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This virtual roundtable will be held on Zoom at 16:00-17:30 GMT on Tuesday 1st December 2020. In order to join, please email peripheralhistories@gmail.com for an invite code.
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This event was live-tweeted. Please click here for a summary of the discussion:
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Virtual Roundtable - Peripheral Histories: Regions, Localities, and Borderlands in Eurasia in Historical Perspective
Tuesday 16th June 2020, 15:00-16:30 BST
Since 2016, Peripheral Histories? has been publishing cutting-edge scholarship on regional, liminal, and provincial spaces in the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Eurasia and promoting dialogue between early career and more established scholars working on the region. While Moscow and St. Petersburg have thus far dominated scholarship in our field, our project has been shifting the focus and challenging the perception that ‘peripheries’ were ever ‘peripheral’. In this virtual roundtable, we will reflect on the core questions of the project: How have certain regions come to be understood as peripheral and what are the consequences of this for historical writing? How do notions of peripherality affect identities, conflicts, and understandings of centre/periphery in the region of the former Soviet Union? Which conceptual frameworks and sources can be used to deepen our knowledge of ‘peripheral’ regions, and what are some of the challenges of working in under-explored archives? How can digital humanities tools enhance our understanding of ‘peripheral’ actors, events, and processes?
This roundtable was originally scheduled for BASEES 2020, but as the conference has unfortunately been postponed, we invite you to join us online instead. We will be discussing how we can continue to share and support each other's research in light of the current crisis.
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Catherine Gibson (University of Tartu)
Botakoz Kassymbekova (Liverpool John Moores University)
Jo Laycock (University of Manchester)
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Moderators: Siobhán Hearne (Durham University) and Alun Thomas (Staffordshire University)
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This event was live-tweeted. Please click here for a summary of the discussion: