Workshop Program
* All sessions, unless otherwise noted, in 308 Main Library (1408 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801).
Friday, June 22
9:30 – 9:45 AM Welcome and Introduction
- John Randolph, Director, REEEC (University of Illinois)
- Adele Lindenmeyr and Melissa Stockdale, AWSS Workshop Organizers
9:45 – 11:30 AM Session 1: Individual Lives and Representations
Chair: Melissa Stockdale (University of Oklahoma)
- Galina Ulyanova (Institute of Russian History, Moscow) – participating remotely, “The Empress Mother Maria Feodorovna during the Great War and Revolution”
- Boris Kolonitsky (European University, St. Petersburg) – participating remotely, “Керенский как «женщина»: Делигитимация политика в условиях революции”
- Stuart D. Finkel (Dartmouth University/University of Florida), “Philanthropy, Politics, and Public Action: The Several ‘Lives’ of Ekaterina Peshkova in Revolutionary Russia”
- Discussant: Adele Lindenmeyr (Villanova University)
1:30-2:30 PM UIUC Library Resources on Russia’s Great War and Revolution
323 C Main Library (1408 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801)
- Annabella Irvine, Research Associate, Slavic Reference Service
2:45-3:15 PM Coffee Break
3:15-5:00 PM Session 2: Gender, Religion and Revolution
Chair: Adele Lindenmeyr (Villanova University)
- Katy Turton (Queen’s University, Belfast) – participating remotely, “Gender, Memory and the February Revolution”
- Christine Worobec (Northern Illinois University), “Lived Religion Gendered: Representations and Practices of Russian Orthodoxy”
- Discussant: John Randolph (University of Illinois)
Saturday, June 23
9:15-10:45 AM Session 3: Experiencing War and Revolution through the Lens of Gender
Chair: Steven Jug (Baylor University)
- Denis Davydov and Olga Kozlova (Казанский государственный технический университет им. А.Н. Туполева) – participating remotely, “Трансформация социального статуса сельской женщины в период 1914-1922 гг. (по материалам Казанской губернии)”
- Pavel Vasilyev (Van Leer Jerusalem Institution) – unable to attend, paper presented by Adrienne Harris, “Gendered Bodies on Trial: Exploring Litigation Strategies in the Early Soviet People’s Court”
- David Borgmeyer (St. Louis University), “Natalia Goncharova and the Avant-Garde’s Take on Russia’s Great War and Revolution”
- Discussant: Ronald Bobroff (Oglethorpe University)
10:45-11:15 AM Coffee Break
11:15 AM-12:45 PM Masculinities and Russia’s Great War
Chair: Katherine McElvanney (Queen Mary University of London)
- Ronald Bobroff (Oglethorpe University), “Masculinity and July 1914: A gendered factor in Russia’s decision for war”
- Steven Jug (Baylor University), “Reconnoitering Masculine Subjectivities among Soldiers, Officers, Guards, and Legionnaires on Russia’s Fronts, 1914-1921”
- Discussant: Melissa Stockdale (University of Oklahoma)
2:00-3:30 PM Women as Economic and Political Actors
Chair: Christine Worobec (Northern Illinois University)
- Tony Heywood (University of Aberdeen) – unable to attend; paper presented by Adele Lindenmeyr, “Morals, Money, and Men: The Wartime Employment of Womeon on Imperial Russia’s Railways, July 1914 – March 1917”
- Katherine McElvanney (Queen Mary University of London), “Women and the Early Soviet Press, 1917-1922”
- Discussant: Stuart Finkel (Dartmouth University/University of Florida)
3:00-4:15 PM Coffee Break
4:15-5:30 PM Final Discussion and Future Planning
Chairs: Melissa Stockdale and Adele Lindenmeyr