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SECTION VI: MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES CONCERNING COMMUNIST STUDIES

List of Conferences and Scholarly Events on the 1917 Russian Revolutions, 2016-2017

Compiled by Gleb J. Albert, Bernhard H. Bayerlein, and Charlotte Shaw

For a regularly updated list of conferences, exhibitions, talks and events on the 1917 revolutions, also see https://1917.hypotheses.org/

• Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 7-9 January 2016:

XLII Conference of the Study Group of the Russian Revolution Northumbria University

https://basees.org/study-group-of-the-russian-revolution

• Munich, Germany, 2-4 June 2016:

The Culture of the Russian Revolution and Its Global Impact: Semantics – Performances – Functions

Third Annual Conference of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies https://networks.h-net.org/node/10000/discussions/124717/annual-conference-culture- russian-revolution-and-its-global-impact

• Würzburg, Germany, 16-17 July 2016:

Krieg und Frieden im Spiegel des Sozialismus (1914-1918)

Kurt-Eisner-Verein für politische Bildung in Bayern e.V.; in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Dr.

Frank Jacob, City University of New York http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-28828

Conference report: http://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-6772

• Lausanne, Switzerland, 14-16 September 2016:

The International Echoes of the Commemorations of the October Revolution (1918- 1990)

Université de Lausanne, Twentieth Century Communism

http://wp.unil.ch/october17commemoration/files/2016/06/Programme.pdf

• Dublin, Ireland, 21-22 October 2016:

The 2016 Globalizing the History of Revolutions Conference. Revolutions in the Age of Acceleration

Dr Mark Jones, Irish Research Council Elevate Fellow, University College Dublin & Free University of Berlin

https://www.academia.edu/29207444/

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• London, United Kingdom, 27 October 2016 – 23 November 2017:

Social Histories of the Russian Revolution (Lecture Series) Russian History Study Group

http://socialhistories1917.wordpress.com/

• Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 5-7 January 2017:

XLIII Conference of the Study Group on the Russian Revolution Northumbria University

https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2017/01/xliii-conference-of-the- study-group-on-the-russian-revolution/

• Berlin, Germany, 16-17 February 2017:

Weltkrieg. Spaltung. Revolution. Sozialdemokratie 1916–1922 Archiv der sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-32022

• London, United Kingdom, 25-26 February 2017:

Western Europe and the Russian Revolution. Import and Export of Ideologies, Politics, Communities

London School of Economics

https://basees.org/conferences/2016/11/16/western-europe-and-the-russian-revolution- import-and-export-of-ideologies-politics-communities

• Ann Arbor, United States, 10 March 2017:

Revolutionary Longings: The Russian Revolution and the World, 1917-1929 Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan

https://lsa.umich.edu/eihs/news-events/all-events.detail.html/30822-3792840.html

• Tampere, Finland, 16-18 March 2017:

Reform and Revolution in Europe, 1917–19: Entangled and Transnational Histories Finnish Historical Society, University of Tampere and the Finnish Centre of Excellence in the History of Society

http://www.uta.fi/yky/en/his/conference/1917/index.html

• Paris, France, 25 March 2017:

Autour de 1917: La Russie, de guerres en revolutions (1914-1921)

L’Association Française des Russisants et l’Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne (UMR S- IRICE, CRHS et Département des langues)

http://eurorbem.paris-sorbonne.fr/IMG/pdf/congres_flyer.pdf

• Cambridge, United Kingdom, 31 March – 2 April 2017:

BASEES Annual Conference Fitzwilliam College

http://www.basees2017.org/

• Paris, France, 3-4 April 2017:

Théoriser le politique face à l’experience Soviétique Université Paris Nanterre

https://sophiapol.hypotheses.org/20646

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• Jena, Germany, 6-7 April 2017:

Zukunftserwartungen in der russischen Februarrevolution / Imagining the Future in Russia´s February Revolution

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Historisches Institut, Lehrstuhl für Osteuropäische Geschichte

http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-31660

• Oxford, United Kingdom, 13-14 May 2017:

Beyond 1917: Socialism, Power and Social Change H-Socialisms

• Budapest, Hungary, 15-16 May 2017:

The Centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution(s). Its Significance in World History Centre for Russian Studies, Eötvös Loránd University

http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-31269?language=en

• Paris, France, 18-19 May 2017:

100 ans de la Révolution d’Octobre Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS)

Organisation : Perrine Simon-Nahum (CNRS-ENS / CIEPFC – USR République des Savoirs) et Danilo Scholz (EHESS)

http://www.ens.fr/agenda/100-ans-de-la-revolution-d-octobre/2017-05-18t070000

• Vancouver, Canada, 26-28 May 2017:

Echoes of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Decades of Radicalism and Red Scares in the Labour Movements of the Pacific Northwest

2017 Pacific Northwest Labour History Association Conference

http://www.cclh.ca/2017-pnlha-conference-echoes-1917-russian-revolution-decades- radicalism-and-red-scares-labour

• Tartu, Estonia, 4-6 June 2017:

The Russian Revolution and Its Legacies. Taking Stock a Century Later Second Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies https://sisu.ut.ee/tartuconference/call-papers

• London, United Kingdom, 10 July 2017:

Must Britain Travel the Moscow Road? The British Left and the Russian Revolution Knowledge Centre, The British Library

https://www.bl.uk/events/must-britain-travel-the-moscow-road-the-british-left-and-the-russian- revolution

• Würzburg, Germany, 10-11 July 2017:

Die Russische Revolution und ihre Wahrnehmung in Bayern, Deutschland und der Welt

Prof. Dr. Frank Jacob in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kurt-Eisner-Verein für politische Bildung http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-33542

• Budapest, Hungary, 31 August – 3 September 2017:

Fifth European Congress on World and Global History: "Ruptures, Empires, Revolutions"

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European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) http://research.uni-leipzig.de/~eniugh/congress/call-for-papers/

• Basel, Switzerland, 13-15 September 2017:

Russia 1917 and the Dissolution of the Old Order in Europe. Biographical Itineraries, Individual Experiences, Autobiographical Reflections.

International Conference organized by the Universities of Basel and Geneva Landgut Castelen, Kaiseraugst (near Basel)

https://dg.philhist.unibas.ch/bereiche/osteuropaeische-geschichte/projekte-konferenzen- initiativen/konferenzen/revolution-1917/

• Essex, United Kingdom, 15-16 September 2017:

Re-thinking the Russian Revolution of 1917 as a global event in local contexts University of Essex, Department of History

• Prague, Czech Republic, 19-21 September 2017:

1917 – Revolution in War, Society in Revolution. 4th conference from the series Hobnailed Years in the Battlefields 1914–1918

Military History Institute Prague, Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic

• Linz, Austria, 21-23 September 2017

Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down – Revolutions and Labour Relations in Global Historical Perspective

53^rd International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH) http://www.ith.or.at

• Moscow, Russian Federation, 21-23 September 2017:

Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Century: Imperial – Inter/national – Decolonial / Revolutionäre Biographien im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Imperial – inter/national – dekolonial

German Historical Institute, Moscow

• Paris, France, 23-24 September 2017

Les utopies scientifiques en Union soviétique. Fiction, science et pouvoir (1917-1991) Colloque international organisé par Grégory Dufaud (CNRS/Cermes3), Ioulia Podoroga (Univ. Genève/IEA Paris), Alexei Yurchak (Univ. of California, Berkeley) et Larissa Zakharova (EHESS/CERCEC)

http://calenda.org/330595

• Tutzing, Germany, 27-29 September 2017 1917 - Epochenjahr der Weltgeschichte?

Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing; Lehrstuhl für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte, Universität Passau

https://www.apb-tutzing.de/programm/tagung/39-4-17

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• Moscow, Russian Federation, 28-29 September 2017:

The Russian Revolution of 1917 and its Historical Footprint

Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO); Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

http://www.historians.ie/1917-civil-war-conferences-in-moscow-september-2017

• Bochum, Germany, 28-29 September 2017:

Die Philosophie der Russischen Revolution. Ein Rückblick nach hundert Jahren Seminar für Slavistik/Lotman-Institut für Russische Kultur; Lehrstuhl für Osteuropäische Geschichte; Forschungsstelle für Russische Philosophie und Ideengeschichte (Ruhr- Universität Bochum); Forschungsnetzwerk "Russische Philosophie"

• São Paulo, Brazil, 2-4 October 2017:

1917-2017 Centenário da Revolução Russa. Cem anos que abalaram o mundo Departamento de História (FFLCH) da Universidade de São Paulo

http://cemanosrevolucaorussa.fflch.usp.br/

• St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, 2-4 October 2017:

III Foro Internacional “Russia and Iberoamerica in a globalizing world. History and Modernity. Rusia e Iberoamerica en el mundo globalizante: historia y perspectivas”

Saint Petersburg University (SPbGU), Latin America Institute of the Academy of Sciences and Bering-Bellingshausen Institute for the Americas

http://iberorus.spbu.ru/es/page/forum2017

• Florence, Italy, 5-7 October 2017:

The Peripheries of the European Revolutionary Process(es) 1917–1923 European University Institute Florence

https://europeanrevolutionblog.wordpress.com/

• Paris, France, 12-14 October 2017:

One Century After the Bolshevik Revolution: Towards a “French History” of Soviet Heritage? 1917-2017

Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Institut CGT d'Histoire Sociale de la Métallurgie, Maison des Métallos, Musée archéologique du Val d'Oise (Conseil

départemental du Val-d'Oise) http://calenda.org/387349

• New York, United States, 13-15 October 2017:

America’s Seminal Red Scare: The United States and the Perception of the Russian Revolution

Prof. Dr. Frank Jacob (New York) in cooperation with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, New York Office

• Preston, United Kingdom, 14-15 October 2017:

The Red and the Black: The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR), University of Central Lancashire https://theredandtheblack.wordpress.com

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• Paris, France, 19-21 October 2017:

Les trajectoires d’Octobre 1917 : Origines, échos et modèles de la révolution | Trajectories of October 1917: Origins, Reverberations and Models of Revolution CERCEC, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS); Laboratory of Excellence Tepsis (Transformation de l’État, politisation des sociétés, Institution du social)

http://www.cercec.fr/trajectoires-octobre-1917.html

• Stockholm, Sweden, 19-21 October 2017:

1917-2017. Hundred Years of Russian Revolution in Art and Aesthetics

Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) and the School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University

http://www.sh.se/1917russianrevolution

• Moscow, Russian Federation, 20-21 October 2017:

Man in the Age of Cataclysms. The Experience of 1917

National Research University Higher School of Economics, Faculty of Humanities, School of Philology

https://1917.hypotheses.org/552#more-552

• Missoula, United States, 20-22 October 2017:

Reflections of the Revolution: The October Revolution and Global Order, 1917-2017 University of Montana

http://www.umt.edu/sell/cps/revolution/default.php

• Grenoble, France, 26-27 October 2017:

Construction and deconstruction of the 1917 Revolution Memory in Contemporary Russia

Université Grenoble Alpes (France), Institut des Langues et Cultures d'Europe, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie (ILCEA4)

https://eurasianresearchers.com/conference-cfp-construction-and-deconstruction-of-the- 1917-revolution-memory-in-contemporary-russia-universite-grenoble-alpes-france-institut- des-langues-et-cultures-deurope-amerique-afrique-a/

• Moscow, Russian Federation, 26-28 October 2017:

Religion and Russian Revolution

Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA); School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES)

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/110166/religion-and-russian- revolution

• Weimar, Germany, 27-28 October 2017

Verheißung und Bedrohung: Die Oktoberrevolution als globales Ereignis 16. Internationales Symposium der Stiftung Ettersberg

Stiftung Ettersberg

http://www.stiftung-ettersberg.de/workspace/dokumente/symposium-2017-programm.pdf

• Lisbon, Portugal, 2-4 November 2017:

III International Congress Karl Marx. Centenário da Revolução de Outubro Instituto de História Contemporânea da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

https://centenario1917.wordpress.com/

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• Prague, Czech Republic, 3 November 2017:

100 Years Since the Creation of the Soviet State Security Organization Cheka (1917- 2017)

Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security in the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic; Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague

• Athens, Greece, 3-4 November 2017:

Art and Ideology 100 Years since the October Revolution Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences

https://artrevolution2017.wixsite.com/conference/call-for-papers

• Berlin, Germany, 3-5 November 2017:

Perspektiven auf den Roten Oktober. Einhundert Jahre Russische Revolution Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

https://www.rosalux.de/veranstaltung/es_detail/FYKX9/perspektiven-auf-den-roten-oktober/

• Rouen, France, 7-8 November 2017:

L’exception politique en révolution. Pensées et pratiques (1789-1917) Laboratoire GRHis (Normandie Université, UniRouen)

https://1917.hypotheses.org/278#more-278

• Prague, Czech Republic, 7-10 November 2017:

Za obzory revoluce v Rusku. Narativy, prostory, koncepce. 100 let od události / Beyond the Revolution in Russia. Narratives – Spaces – Concepts. A 100 Years since the Event Students of History Association of Faculty of Arts of Charles University under the auspices of Institute for the Study of Strategic Regions - Charles University, The Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Faculty of Arts of Charles University and Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes

http://www.ffabula.cz/en/events/conference/beyond-revolution-russia/call-papers/

• Buenos Aires, Argentina, 7-11 November 2017:

Jornadas a 100 años de la Revolución Rusa: Vigencia de la Revolución Rusa

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales and En Defensa del Marxismo

• Gießen, Germany, 9-11 November 2017:

Regional Revolution(s): 1917 and its Consequences in the Province Gießener Zentrum östliches Europa, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung

• London, UK, 9-12 November 2017:

Revolutions Against Capital, Capital Against Revolutions? 14^th Annual Historical Materialism Conference

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/fourteenth-annual-conference

• Madrid, Spain, 15-17 November 2017:

Collapsed Empires: The Consequences of 1917 in the Mediterranean and the World Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Project: “Collapsed empires, post-colonial nations and the construction of historical consciousness. Memory infrastructures since 1917” (HAR2015- 64155-P)

https://www.ucm.es/collapsedempires/international-conference

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• Singapore, Singapore, 16-17 November 2017:

The Asian Arc of the Russian Revolution: Setting the East Ablaze?

Universite Paris Sorbonne Cité; National University of Singapore http://blog.nus.edu.sg/eastablaze/

• Philadelphia, United States, 16-18 November 2017:

The Legacy of the Russian Revolution. An Interdisciplinary Conference Chestnut Hill College

https://networks.h-net.org/node/6077/discussions/151825/cfp-legacy-russian-revolution- interdisciplinary-conference

• Tel Aviv, Israel, 26-30 May 2018:

The 3rd Meeting of the Notre Dame Workshop on the History of 1917 Revolution Program in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Notre Dame; Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies at Tel Aviv University