Session One, 9:30am-12:00pm:
Russian-Muslim Relations in the Archives of the Russia and Georgia
Moderator: Richard Wortman, Columbia University
Vladimir Olegovich Bobrovnikov, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
“Islamic Responses to Imperial/Soviet Modernization of Local Muslim Communities in Private and State Archives from the Caucasus”
George Sanikidze, Institute of Oriental Studies, Georgian Academy of Sciences
“Orthodoxy versus Islam: Russian Imperial Policy towards Georgia's Muslims during the 19th Century”

Dmitry Yurievich Arapov. Moscow State University
“Islam in the Archives of Russia” (in Russian with interpreter)

Lunch, 12-1:30

Session Two, 1:45-4:30:
Islam and Orthodoxy in the Archives and Libraries of Turkey and Central Asia

Moderator: Christine Philliou, Columbia University

Michael Khodarkovsky, Loyola University Chicago
"How Useful Are the Ottoman Archives to a Historian of Russia?"

Virginia Aksan, McMaster University
“Looking for a Russian Needle in an Ottoman Haystack”

Adeeb Khalid, Carleton College
“Searching for Muslim Voices in Post-Soviet Archives”