16:30 – 18:45. Session 4: Islam and the Imperial Regime: Testing the Limits of Toleration
Ashirbek Muminov (IRCICA, Lev Gumiliov Eurasian National University) - The Akmolinsk School of Islamic Theology Rozaliya Garipova (Nazarbayev University) - “Between Imperial Law
and Islamic Law: Why Muslim Women Could Not Remarry”
Lala Aghamirze Aliyeva (Baku State University) - “Roots and Depth of the Religious Tolerance in Azerbaijan with an Emphasis on the Russian Imperial Period”
Aitzhan Nurmanova (R. B. Suleimenov Institute of Oriental Studies) –
“Aspects of Religious Intolerance in the eyes of local theologians of the late 19th – early 20th c.”
Discussant: Paul Werth (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) Sunday, October 7
9:30 – 10:00. Coffee
10:00 – 12:00. Session 5: The Soviet Regime and Religions:
Determining the Limits of Freedom
Zauresh Saktaganova (Yevnei Buketov Karaganda State University) –
“State-Religion Relations during the Soviet Period: The Case of Kazakhstan”
Arailym Musagaliyeva (Lev Gumiliov Eurasian National University) –
“From Illegality to Legality: Religious Communities of the Germans in Northern Kazakhstan, 1960-70s”
Nikolay Tsyrempilov (Nazarbayev University) - “Dandaron’s Affair in the Context of the Rise and Fall of the Soviet Buddhology, 1950- 1970s”
Discussant: Randall Poole (College of St. Scholastica) 12:00 – 13:00 Closing Remarks and Summation
Nazarbayev University in partnership with
Yevney Buketov Karaganda State University and Lev Gumiliov Eurasian National University
RELIGIOUS [IN]TOLERANCE IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
Conference Program
Friday, October 5 – Sunday, October 7 Block C4 Room 268
Nazarbayev University Astana, 2018
Friday, October 5
13:00 – 13:30. Opening Speeches:
Daniel Pugh, Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Zauresh Saktaganova, Professor of Yevnei Buketov Karaganda State University
Gulnara Musabalina, Head of History of Kazakhstan Department, Lev Gumiliov Eurasian National University
13:30 – 14:30. Keynote Speech: Randall Poole (College of St.
Scholastica) - "Faith, Freedom, and the Varieties of Russian Religious Experience"
14:30 – 14:45. Coffee Break
14:45 – 16:45. Session 1: Religious Toleration Between Church and State
Daniel Scarborough (Nazarbayev University) - “Missionaries of Official Orthodoxy”
Scott Kenworthy (Miami University, Ohio) - “The Law of Separation of Church from the State and from Schools (Jan. 1918) and the Freedom of Conscience in the Soviet Union”
Svetlana Kovalskaya (Lev Gumiliov Eurasian National University) -
“Privileges to Orthodox Christianity as Part of the Religious Policy of the Russian Empire in the Kazakh Steppe”
Discussant: David Moon (The University of York / Nazarbayev University)
Dinner (location TBA)
Saturday, October 6 9:00 – 9:30. Coffee
9:30 – 10:30. Keynote Speech: Paul Werth (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) “Trajectories of Toleration in the Russian Empire—With a View to the East”
10:30 – 12:30. Session 2: Tolerance under Duress: Religious Experience in the Early 20th c.
Norihiro Naganawa (Hokkaido University) - “Tatars' Experience of Imperialist Wars”
Pavel Shabley (Kostanay Branch of Chaliabinsk State University) -
“Behind the Curtain of “Official Religious Tolerance”: Adat, Shariah and Ideas of Kazakh Muftiate, late 19th – early 20th c.”
Halit Akarca (Nazarbayev University) “Revival of Christianity or Establishment of an Imperial Order? Religious Life in Trabzon under the Russian Military Occupation”
Discussant: Zauresh Saktaganova (Yevnei Buketov Karaganda State University)
12:30 – 14:00. Lunch
14:00 – 16:00. Session 3: Conflict and Coexistence in the Western Borderlands
Curtis Murphy (Nazarbayev University) - “Enlightened Tolerance Meets Multi-Religious Reality: The Statute on the Jews of 1804”
Maria Magdalena Przeciszewska (National Library, Poland) - “The Russian Press in the Congress Kingdom of Poland and the Tolerance Edict of 30 April 1905”
Mikhail Akulov (Nazarbayev University) - “Mennonites in the Revolutionary Era”
Discussant: Scott Kenworthy (Miami University, Ohio) 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
