Privatdozent Dr Ivan Sablin

Selected Presentations

• African Countries of Socialist Orientation in Soviet Legal Commentary, Conference “Comparing Colonial Discourses: Africa and the Caucasus in Russian Thought,” University of Padua, October 18–19, 2023.
• The USSR Supreme Soviet in 1955–1991: Functions of a State Socialist Parliament, History on the Edge Public Lecture, Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, January 18, 2023.
• Non-Russian Women Deputies in the Late Soviet Parliaments, Conference “Socialist Constitutionalism and Diversity Management since the 1970s,” Heidelberg University, May 12–13, 2022.
• The State Duma, Parliamentarism, and Anti-Parliamentarism in the Russian Empire, 1905–1917, The 23rd International Conference on the History of Concepts “Global Modernity: Emotions, Temporalities and Concepts Berlin,” April 7–9, 2022.
• Russia in the Global Parliamentary Moment, 1905–1918: Competing Visions of Imperial Transformations and Subalternity, Guest Lecture, Department of East European History, University of Zurich, October 7, 2021.
• Inner Asian Origins of the Informal Soviet Empire Mongolia’s Political and Legal Transformations, 1921–1940, Symposium “Inland Empires in Modern World History,” University of Oxford, July 22–23, 2021 (via video call).
• The Concept of “Civic Peace” and Parliamentary Bodies during the Russian Revolution and the Civil War, Congress of the International Association for the Humanities “Cultural Transformations,” June 22–24, 2021 (via video call).
• Concepts of Parliament in and after the Russian and Qing Empires (with Egas Moniz Bandeira), Research Seminar of the Department of International Organizations and Global Security Studies, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, June 21, 2021 (via video call).
• When Subalterns Speak: Performing class and ethnicity in the Russian State Duma, 1906–1917, International Conference “Oratory and Representation: Parliamentary discourses and practices in the 19th century,” March 6, 2020 (via video call).
• A Public Sphere without a State: Newspapers in the Russian Far East, 1920, Workshop “Creating Spaces, Connecting Worlds: Dimensions of the Press in the Middle East and Eurasia,” University of Zurich, October 31–November 2, 2019.
• A Spiritual Perestroika: Religious Contact in Late Soviet Parliaments, 1989–1991, Workshop “Decolonising National and Religious Culture: New Perspectives on Russia’s Imperial History and Heritage,” Ruhr University Bochum, October 17–18, 2019.
• Minority Women and Revolutionary Parliaments: The Cases of Russian and Soviet Assemblies in 1917–1922 and 1989–1993, Conference “Entering the Parliamentary Stage – Women in Parliament and Politics in International Comparison,” German Bundestag, Berlin, March 6–8, 2019.
• Post-Imperial Debates in Russia and China and the Making of the Mongolian Constitution, 1905–1924 (with Jargal Badagarov), The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) 50th Annual Convention, Boston, MA, December 6–9, 2018.
• Building a Post-Imperial Nation: Parliaments and Diversity Management in and after the Russian Empire, 1905–1922, Conference “Nation and Minority, Sovereignty and Secession,” University of Oxford, November 23–24, 2018.
• Buddhism as a “Traditional Religion” of Russia: Diversity Management and Desecularization in Law and Public Education, Workshop “Traditional Religions, Secularisms, and Revivals: Buddhism and Shamanism in Northern Eurasia,” Ruhr University Bochum, March 9–10, 2018.
• A Settler Revolution: Post-Imperial Citizenship in the Russian Far East, The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) 49th Annual Convention, Chicago, November 9–12, 2017.
• A Revolution for Asia: Koreans and Buryat-Mongols between the Russian Imperial Revolution and the Soviet New Imperialism, 1917–1926, International Conference “The Asian Arc of the Russian Revolution: Setting the East Ablaze?” Yale–National University of Singapore College, Singapore, November 16–17, 2017.
• Towards a Non-Ethnic Soviet Federation: Bolshevik Regionalism in the Russian Far East, 1917–1926, Second Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies “The Russian Revolution and Its Legacies: Taking Stock a Century Later,” University of Tartu, Estonia, June 4–6, 2017.
• Alternative Russia: Socialist Coalitions and Democracy in the Russian Far East, 1920–1922, Beyond 1917: Socialism, Power, and Social Change in Global Perspective, University of Oxford, May 13–14, 2017.
• Discussing Democracy: Ideas, Institutions, and Practices in North and East Asia, 1905–1917, Aleksanteri Institute Visiting Fellows Research Seminar, University of Helsinki, December 8, 2016.
• Dismantling Russian Democracy: Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Restoration in the Far East, 1921–1922, The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) 48th Annual Convention, Washington, DC, November 17–20, 2016.
• North Asia between the Second and the Fourth World: Indigenous Writers on the Soviet State and North America (with Lilia Boliachevets), Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), University of Virginia, November 16, 2016.
• Buddhist Internationalism and the Soviets in Post-Colonial Asia, The 17th Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) Annual Conference, Princeton University, November 3–6, 2016.
• Diversity Management and the Russian Empire: Autonomy and Decentralization in the Global Imperial Crisis, 1905–1924 (with Alexander Semyonov), Conference “Law, Empire, and Global Intellectual History,” University of Heidelberg, Germany, June 19–21, 2016.
• Soviet and Buddhist: Religious Diplomacy, Dissidence, and the Atheist State, 1945–1991, Bordering Religions in (Post-)Cold War Worlds, Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 16–18, 2016.
• The Second or the Fourth World: Critique of Communism and Colonialism in Contemporary North Asian Literatures (with Lilia Boliachevets), Princeton Conjunction Annual Interdisciplinary Conference “Imperial Reverb: Exploring the Postcolonies of Communism,” Princeton University, May 13–15, 2016.
• Illusive Tolerance: Buddhism in the Late Soviet State, Conference “Human Rights after 1945 in the Socialist and Post-Socialist World,” German Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland, March 3–5, 2016.
• Pacific Russia after Empire: The Far Eastern Republic and Transnational Governance, The 130th American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, January 7–10, 2016.
• Mapping Ambiguity: Interpretation as a Parameter in GIS, Workshop “Scientific Computing and Computational Humanities,” University of Heidelberg, Germany, November 23, 2015.
• Politics in the Composite Space of Empire: Nationality, Locality and Supranational Identities in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union (roundtable with Ronald Suny, Jeremy Smith, and Alexander Semyonov), The IX International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES) World Congress, Makuhari, Japan, August 3–8, 2015.
• Post-Imperial Autonomism and Federalism in Siberia and Mongolia, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference (BASEES), University of Cambridge, UK, March 28–30, 2015.
• Multidimensional Borderland: (Post-)Imperial Spaces of the Baikal Region, 1911–1924, International Conference “Emergent Trends on the China–Russia Border,” University of Cambridge, UK, March 16–17, 2015.
• Buryat-Mongol Regions in Soviet Russia and the Far Eastern Republic, 1920–1922, Workshop “The Hulunbuir and Transbaikalia Playground: Microphysics of Power on the Sino-Russian Border,” Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, January 29–30, 2015.
• Transcultural Printing in Imperial and Soviet Siberia, International Workshop “The Global History of the Book (1780 to the present),” University of Oxford, UK, December 4–5, 2014.
• After Empire: National and Transnational Projects in Siberia and Mongolia, EAST Seminar, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 30, 2014.
• Siberian Intellectuals and Mongol Nationalism in Post-Imperial Asia, 1911–1924, Fourth European Congress on World and Global History, École normale supérieure, Paris, France, September 4–7, 2014.
• Siberian Indigenous Socialist Revolutionaries and Nationalists in State and Autonomy Building, 1911–1924, International Conference “Changing Patterns of Power in Historical and Modern Central and Inner Asia,” Ulaanbaatar University, Mongolia, August 7–9, 2014.
• Siberian and Mongolian Socialists, Buddhists and Nationalists in Post-Imperial Boundary Construction, 1905–1937, The Inaugural Conference for the Imperial and Global History Network “Networks in Imperial and Global History,” University of Exeter, UK, June 19–20, 2014.
• The Battleground of Nationalisms: Disentangling Eurasian Empires at the Siberian Front, International Scholarly Conference “Russia in the First World War,” Higher School of Economics, Moscow, June 3–5, 2014.
• Graphic Representations of Space during the Russo-Japanese Rivalries, 1904–1922, The 4th International Conference “Visualizing Asia in the Modern World,” Yale University, May 10–11, 2013.
• Gosudarstvennaia i lokal’naia identifikatsiia korennykh narodov Chukotki v kontekste sovetizatsii, 1919–1945 gg. [National and local identity of Chukotka's indigenous peoples in the context of Sovietization], Undergraduate and Graduate Student Conference “Konstruiruia «sovetskoe»? Politicheskoe soznanie, povsednevnye praktiki, novye identichnosti,” European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 19–20, 2013.
• Geoinformatsionnyi analiz konstruirovaniia granits v Baikal’skom regione, 1917–1923 [GIS Analysis of Boundary Construction in the Baikal Region, 1917–1923], The 20th International Student, Postgraduate and Young Scientist Conference “Lomonosov”, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, April 8–12, 2013 (Best Paper in Historical Informatics Award).
• Buryat, Buddhist and Socialist: Conflicting Identities and Disentanglement Projects in the Baikal Region, 1917–1923, International Conference “Identity and the Nation in 20th Century Asia,” Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, July 20–21, 2012.
• Re-entangling Social Spaces of the Baikal Region: Multidimensional Identities in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century, Workshop “Space and Social Relations in Historical Perspective,” University of Edinburgh, UK, June 7, 2012.