Tuesday, October 3
9:00 Welcome
Sandra Dahlke (Max Weber Foundation)
Edik Minasyan (YSU, Yerevan)
Hagop Yacoubian (AUA, Yerevan)
9:30 Introduction
Helena Holzberger (Munich/Tbilisi) / Arpine Maniero (Munich)
10:00 Keynote Lecture with Discussion, Chair: Oliver Reisner (Tbilisi)
Elke Shoghig Hartmann (Berlin)
Rethinking Infrastructures – Perspectives, Aims and Challenges
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.30 Panel 1: Structuring States, Chair: Andreas Hilger (Tbilisi)
Reinhard Nachtigal (Freiburg i. Br.)
An Epoch of Russian Dominance: The Slow Integration of the Southern Caucasus in the 19th Century as a Matter of Infrastructure
Evgeniya Prusskaya (Tbilisi)
Islamic Infrastructure in the South Caucasus Under the Tsarist Rule
Christoph Neumann (Istanbul)
Infrastructures in the Caucasus, Infrastructure in Between Empires – an Ottoman(ist) View
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30 Panel 2: Travel and Trade, Chair: David Jishkariani (Tbilisi)
Michel Abeßer (Freiburg i. Br.)
Infrastructural Power for Whom? Exchange Courts, Imperial Clients and the Caucasian Borderland
Vahram Ter-Matevosyan (Yerevan)
Infrastructural Constraints and Development Trajectories in the Imperial Peripheries: Russian Armenia vs. Turkish Armenia in the Travel Notes of Levon Sargsyants, 1888
Mkhitar Gabrielyan (Yerevan)
Culture and Trade “Open” the Borders of Empires: Case of the Town Akhaltsikhe
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Panel 3: Urban Development, Chair: Mikayel Malkhasyan (Yerevan)
Mariam Urdia (Tbilisi)
Mtkvari as Urban Transport: Traditons, Lost Opportunites and Potental
Hamlet Melkumyan (Yerevan)
Urban Development of Metsamor Atomic City in Soviet Armenia: Tracing the Complexities of Colonization and Decolonization Discourses
Tamar Qeburia (Tbilisi)
Manganese Ferroalloys Factory During the First Five-Year Plan
17:30 – 17:45 Coffee Break
18:00 – 19:00 Documentary with Introduction and Discussion, Chair: Phillip Schroeder (Düsseldorf)
Evelina Gambino (Cambridge)
A State in a State
19:30 Dinner for the participants of the conference hosted by the Max-Weber-Foundation
Wednesday, October 4
9:00 – 10:30 Panel 4: Shaping Environment, Chair: Naira Sahakyan (Yerevan)
Mikayel Malkhasyan (Yerevan)
The Demographic Policy of the Russian Empire in the Kars Oblast, 1877-1917
Tyson Sadleir (New York City)
Russian Imperialism and the Bridges of the Darial Gorge, 1769-1917
Anush Hovhannisyan (Yerevan)
Turkish Water Policy in Araks-Kura Basin: Instrument of Cooperation or Conflict?
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 13:00 Panel 5: Structuring Culture, Chair: Suren Manukyan (Yerevan)
Nzhdeh Yeranyan (Yerevan)
Archaeology and the Cultural Heritage of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh)
Haykuhi Muradyan (Yerevan)
Cultural Infrastructure of Early Soviet Armenia (1920s-1930s): Political, Cultural and Ideological Aspects
Commentary on the Conference
Ronald Grigor Suny (Ann Arbor / Michigan)
Concluding Discussion
Chair: Helena Holzberger
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:30 Visit of Matenadaran (Central Archive for Manuscripts)
17:00
Round Table on the question of the Southern Caucasus as a research landscape for Western East-European and Eurasian History: Edita Gzoyan, Andreas Hilger, Vahagn Poghosyan, Tamar Qeburia, Oliver Reisner, Andreas Renner, Vahram Ter-Matevosyan
Chair: Arpine Maniero
American University of Armenia
40 Marshal Baghramyan Ave, Yerevan
19.00 Reception hosted by AUA
Thursday, October 5
10:00 Visit of the Genocide Museum and Memorial
13:00 Lunch and Excursion to Etchmiadzin