Workshop
Imagining the Future in
Russia’s February Revolution
6th – 8th April 2017
University of Jena
Auditorium im Haus zur Rosen
Johannisstraße 13
Thursday, 6th April, 2017
17.00 Arrival, Welcome, Registration
18.00 Introductory Panel
Gabriele Freitag (DGO e.V., Berlin): Welcome address
Franziska Schedewie / Dennis Dierks (University of Jena): Introduction
Anton Reshetov (Russian National Library (RNB), St. Petersburg): Historical discourse on the
pages of Russian newspapers in March 1917.
20.00: Dinner at Restaurant “Stilbruch”
Friday, 7th April, 2017
9.30
Panel 1: Political party press
Chair: Gabriele Freitag (DGO e.V., Berlin)
Heinz-Dietrich Löwe (University of Heidelberg): The liberal newspaper Rech.
Lutz Häfner (University of Bielefeld): The Socialist Revolutionaries’ Central Organ “Delo Naroda”
and the conception of a social revolution of the whole people in 1917.
11.00 Coffee break
Reactions in the press across the Empire:
11.15 Panel 2: Centre and Western Siberia
Chair: Raphael Utz (University of Jena)
Anastasia Surkov (Humboldt University Berlin): “Russia free through the will of the people! The
country´s genius will lead the people to happiness!” – Reactions and expectations in Vladimir,
March 1917, as from the daily newspaper “Staryi Vladimirets”.
Margarete Zimmermann (University of Jena): “Let’s act like socialists!” Reactions towards the
February Revolution 1917 and visions of the future in the diocese Tobol’sk.
12.45 Lunch break
14.00 Panel 3: South
Chair: Dennis Dierks (University of Jena)
Jérémy Caro (University of Bremen): A Time of Political Innovation? Jewish Press in Ukraine.
Franziska Schedewie (University of Jena): Donskie Oblastnye Vedomosti.
15.30 Coffee break
15.45 Panel 4: Muslim Press
Chair: Franziska Schedewie (University of Jena)
Ingeborg Baldauf (Humboldt University Berlin): The Tashkent journal Al-Izoh after the February
Revolution.
Dennis Dierks (University of Jena): “Historical and serious days and our duties.” Tercüman’s
reporting on the February Revolution.
17.15 Student panel
Chair: Franziska Schedewie (University of Jena)
Philipp Scholz (University of Jena): Gazeta Kopeika.
20.00 Dinner at Restaurant “Saigon”
Saturday, 8th April, 2017
9.30
Panel 5: North and East
Chair: Joachim von Puttkamer (University of Jena)
Pasi Ihalainen (University of Jyväskylä): The international and national future in the Finnish party
press from the abdication of Nicholas II to the opening of the Finnish parliament in April 1917.
Alistair Dickins (University of Manchester): Between Pogroms and Class Struggle: The Conflicting
Scripts of a Local Revolution in Siberia.
11.00 Coffee break
Roundtable: Future Expectations in the Press > Preparation of an edited volume
Ca. 12.30: End of workshop
Kontakt:
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Lehrstuhl für Osteuropäische Geschichte
Historisches Institut
Fürstengraben 13
D-07743 Jena
Tel.: 0049 (0)3641 944463/ 60
Fax: 0049 (0)3641 944462
e-mail: [email protected]
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von
GRADUIERTENAKADEMIE
der Universität Jena
Dekanat der
Philosophischen Fakultät