The conference is part of the project “Knowledge Exchange and Academic Cultures in the

Humanities: Europe and the Black Sea Region, late 18th – 21st Centuries.” This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 r

esearch and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 734645.

Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University

Between Dependencyand Independency of Academic Cultures.

The Interwar Black Sea Region

Friday, 4 October 2019, 9:00-18:00Saturday, 5 October 2019, 10:00-18:00

Contact information

Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National Universityhttp://onu.edu.ua/uk/2, Dvoryanska, Odessa, Ukraine, 65082

Yana Volkova (volkova.yana@onu.edu.ua)Phone: +380632696557

BETWEEN DEPENDENCY AND INDEPENDENCY

OF ACADEMIC CULTURES. THE INTERWAR

BLACK SEA REGION

Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University

Dvoryanskaya str., 2, Odessa, Ukraine

FRIDAY, 4 OCTOBER, 2019

9:00 Registration of Participants

9:15 Welcome speech by Viktor Glebov (Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National

University)

9:30 Conference Opening by Karl Kaser (University of Graz)

9:45–10:45 Keynote by Oleg Dyomin & Yana Volkova (Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University) “Northern Black Sea coast of the interwar period in the geopolitical context of the Euro-Asian borderland”

10:45–12:00 Panel 1: Ethnic issues in the previously multinational space:

the case of the Ottoman Empire

Chair: Yana Volkova (Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University)

Evgeniia Shahin & Ioannis Grigoriadis (Bilkent University)

“First native construction of the Gagauz identity: Mihail Ciachir’s History of

the Gagauz”

Mihail Pokas (Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University)

“The evolution of the political and legal system of Turkey in the late XIX -

early XXI centuries: movement in a circle or in a spiral?”

Yuliya Tarasiuk (Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University)

“Intercultural and political ties between Gagauz people in the BSR after

World War I”

12:00 Coffee Break

12:25–13:45, Panel 2: Knowledge transfer in ethnology and ethnography

Chair: Dominik Gutmeyr (University of Graz)

Adrian Stoicescu (Nicolae Iorga Institute, Bucharest)

“From folklore to folk tradition – the dawns of ethnological research in

Romania”

Maria Mateoniu (Nicolae Iorga Institute, Bucharest)

“The ‘ethnographic’ museums in Romania in the first half of the 20th century.

From the founding moments to collection and exhibition programs”

Oksana Mykytenko (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

“The ‘Rubbers Ethnology’, or Petr Bogatyryov’s functional and structural

method”

13:45 Lunch Break

14:45–16:00 Panel 3: The flow of scientific and technological ideas from

Europe to the BSR

Chair: Olga Brusylovska (Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University)

Anastasiya Pashova (SWU Blagoevgrad)

“The influence of the International League for ‘New Education’ on the

Bulgarian education science”

Milena Angelova (SWU Blagoevgrad)

“‘Model village program’, agrarian sociologists and transformation of the

peasantry in Bulgaria – international patterns and national specifics (1920s–

1940s)”

Emin Dadashov (National Museum of History of Azerbaijan)

“The importance of education in Europe for increasing the intellectual

potential of Azerbaijan in 1918–1920”

16:00 Coffee Break

16:25–17:45, Panel 4: Germany and German diasporic communities and

scientific exchange with the BSR countries

Chair: Kristina Popova (SWU Blagoevgrad)

Evelina Kelbecheva (American University in Bulgaria)

“Together in the complex of the defeated countries – German cultural

influence in interwar Bulgaria”

Markus Wien (American University in Bulgaria)

“Transfer of technology and ideology. The role of German know-how and the

Nazi agrarian ideology in the Bulgarian model farm program”

Mykola Shevchuk (Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University)

“Training of pedagogical staff for the German schools in the Odessa region of

Soviet Ukraine in the 1920–1930s”

SATURDAY, 5 OCTOBER, 2019

10:00–11:40, Panel 5: Science, ideology and power in the Soviet space

Chair: Claudia-Florentina Dobre (Nicolae Iorga Institute, Bucharest)

Kristina Popova (SWU Blagoevgrad)

“The concept of the ‘two sciences’ in the Soviet science politics and its

implementations”

Alla Kondrasheva & Stavros Parastatov (Pyatigorsk State University)

“Soviet historical science in the face of totalitarianism (1917–1939)”

Marina Aroshidze & Nino Aroshidze (Batumi Shota Rustaveli

University)

“The fate of scientists and artists in the period of the red terror”

Manuchar Loria & Tamaz Phutkaradze (Batumi Shota Rustaveli

University)

“Ethno-cultural aspects of Soviet film making. The ideological 1930s”

11:40 Coffee Break

12:00–13:15, Panel 6: The role of emigration communities in the

exchange of knowledge

Chair: Ioannis Grigoriadis (Bilkent University)

Biljana Ristovska-Josifovska (INH Skopje)

“Emerging of institutional structures in the interwar period as predecessors of

the Macedonian academic system (The role of emigration communities in the

exchange of knowledge)”

Dragi Gjorgiev (INH Skopje)

“Far away from home: the Russian colony in Skopje (1922–1938)”

Stefanos Kordosis (International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki)

“Tracks of knowledge across time and along the Black Sea shores. The case of

Basil Vatatzès’ History of Nadir Shah”

13:15 Lunch Break

14:15–15:30, Panel 7: The role of women in interwar science

Chair: Denys Kuzmin (Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University)

Dali Dobordjginidze (Batumi Shota Rustaveli University)

“Women’s independent ‘Self’”

Shamil Rahmanzade (Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences)

“Elimination of illiteracy among women in the Azerbaijan SSR in the 1920s

and 30s as an integral part of Soviet emancipatory politics”

Petar Vodenicharov (SWU Blagoevgrad)

“The movement for new education in the interwar period. Women’s access to

science on the edge of different epochs and cultures”

15:30 Coffee Break

15:45–17:00, Panel 8: Local national cultures and sciences within the

context of Soviet domination

Chair: Sergii Glebov (Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University)

Irada Baghirova (Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences)

“The science of Azerbaijan in the period of the Great Terror”

Tamar Siradze (Batumi Shota Rustaveli University)

“Cultural changes in Georgia in the interwar period”

Hrant Ohanyan (Matenadaran Yerevan)

“Manifestations of Socialist Realism in Soviet Armenian periodical press in the

1920s–30s”.

17:00 Conclusions and Closing of Conference