International Research Seminar
"IDENTITY, BORDERS AND BORDERLANDS IN WARTIME
AND TRANSITIONAL PERIODS"
21-22 May 2018, Belgorod, Russia
Organised by
International Academic Center of Neighborhood & Identity Studies and
the Tractus Aevorum journal editorial team
(both Belgorod National Research University)
Venue: Belgorod National Research University, the Studencheskaia campus
(Studencheskaia st., 14), STUDiIA (room 453)
21 MAY
9:40-10:00
Welcome by Victoria Tarabaeva (Director, Pedagogical Institute, Belgorod National Research University) and Andrei Papkov (Dean, Faculty of History and Philology, Belgorod National Research University)
PANEL 1. Moderator – Mikhail Gratsianskii (Moscow State University)
10:00-15.00 Nikolay Bolgov (Belgorod National Research University)
LATE ANTIQUITY AS A CLASSICAL TRANSITIONAL EPOCH
Tassilo Schmitt (University of Bremen)
QULCHA AND COLCHIS. HOW TO IDENTIFY A COUNTRY AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD?
Mikhail Gratsianskii (Moscow State University)
NEW BORDERS, OLD IDENTITIES: REGIONAL DYNAMICS IN THE FIFTH-CENTURY ROMAN EMPIRE
11.30-12.00 Coffee break
Elena Litovchenko (Belgorod National Research University)
SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS AS A FLEXIBLE THINKING PERSON OF THE FIFTH-CENTURY GAUL
Michael Sommer (University of Oldenburg)
THE EMPEROR CAPTIVE: VALERIAN AND THE BATTLE OF EDESSA (AD 260)
13.00-14.00 Lunch
Victoria Vasilenko (Belgorod National Research University)
PRESENTATION OF THE TRACTUS AEVORUM JOURNAL (10 min)
Panel participants
CONCLUDING DISCUSSION OF THE IDENTITY AND BORDERLANDS IN THE LATE ANTIQUITY
15.00-17.00 Belgorod National Research University tour and city tour
19.00-21.00 Dinner
22 MAY
9:00-13:00 Tour to the Prokhorovka Battlefield Museum and Memorial
13:30-14.30 Lunch
PANEL 2. Moderator – Arkadii Sedykh (Belgorod National Research University)
15.00-18.30
Valérie Toureille (Cergy-Pontoise University) video-conference
WAR AND PACIFICATION ON THE FRONTIER IN THE HUNDRED YEARS` WAR
François Pernot (Cergy-Pontoise University) video-conference
THE LOTHRINGIAN EUROPE: A "MILITARY BORDER TERRITORY" BETWEEN FRENCH SOVEREIGNS AND HABSBURG MONARCHS, 16th–18th CENTURIES
Arkadii Sedykh (Belgorod National Research University)
THE IDENTIFICATION STRATEGIES OF BILINGUALS IN BORDERLANDS DURING CONFLICTS
16.30-17.00 Coffee break
Ian Turner (Belgorod National Research University)
THE UNION OF THE CROWNS: THE END OF THE REIVERS?
CONCLUDING DISCUSSION
19.00-21.00 Dinner
Discussants:
Gregory Simons (Uppsala University)
Elena Semicheva (Belgorod National Research University)