Conference. Cultural Encounters: Istanbul and Refugees from the Russian Empire (1919-1923)
On June 3, 2022, the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, Pera Museum, Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul, and Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies, Columbia University hosted the international symposium Cultural Encounters: Istanbul and Refugees from the Russian Empire (1919-1923)
Program
10:00am | Welcome
Özalp Birol (Pera Museum)
Ipek Cem Taha (Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul)
10:15-11:15am | The Encounter in Context: Istanbul Under the Armistice
Chair: Holger Klein
- Valentina Izmirlieva (Columbia University), “The Four Paradoxes of Istanbul’s Beyaz Ruslar Moment”
- Vladimir Alexandrov (Yale University), “Frederick Bruce Thomas and Being Black in Constantinople”
- Edward Kasinec (Hoover Institution, Stanford University), “American Elite Philanthropy, Anna V.S. Mitchell and The Constantinople/Istanbul Russians, 1920-1929”
11:45am-12:30pm | The Byzantine Legacy Rediscovered
Chair: Valentina Izmirlieva
- Holger A. Klein (Columbia University), “From Russia to Byzantium: Thomas Whittemore’s Intellectual Formation and the Work of the Byzantine Institute of America”
- Sergey A. Ivanov (Moscow Higher School of Economics), “Byzantium as Seen by the White Russians in Constantinople”
1:30-2:30pm | Artists in Transcultural Dialog
Chair: Vladimir Alexandrov
- Ayşenur Güler (Independent Researcher, London) [Via Zoom], “Findings on Gritchenko’s Sojourn in Istanbul (1919-1921)”
- Ekaterina Aygün (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich), “Union of Russian Painters in Constantinople (1921/1922-1923) as an Émigré Artists’ Collective”
- Nadia Podzemskaia (ITEM, CNRS-ETS, Paris), “Constantinople/Istanbul in the First Half of the 1920s, through the Eyes of the Émigré Artists from the Russian Empire”
3:15-4:00pm | Spotlight: Iraïda Barry – A Meeting of Two Archives
Cengiz Kahraman (Istanbul Photography Museum) and Valentina Izmirlieva present two archives of Iraïda Barry’s life and work – one in Istanbul, the other in New York
4:00-5:30pm | Roundtable Discussion (Closed Doors)
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Editor's note:
Recording of the panel 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiYGube5X6M
Recording of the panel 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj1kp1QjkgM
Recording of the panel 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynMXuaH5yN4
Recording of the panel 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKYRf3HTDI8
November 23, 2022