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GERMANS OF SIBERIA: HISTORY AND CULTURE

 

WITH A SPECIAL SECTION DEVOTED TO “HISTORY AND CULTURE OF MENNONITES: ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF ETHNO-CONFESSIONAL GROUPS”

 

Program of the 4th International Scholarly-Practical Conference

Omsk, June 2-4, 2010

 

Conference Sponsors

F. M. Dostoevsky Omsk State University

University of Winnipeg, Chair in Mennonite Studies

 

Conference Co-Sponsors

Fresno Pacific University (USA)

Omsk State Museum of Regional History

Russian Academy of Sciences

International Union of German Culture

Omsk Branch of Archeology and Ethnography Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Institute of Culture

Institute of Culture and History of Germans of North-Eastern Europe (Germany)

 

Conference Organizing Committee

Bureau of the Organizing Committee:

Tomilov, Nikolai Arkadyevich – Director of the Omsk Branch of Archeology and

Ethnography Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Siberian Branch of the Russian Institute of Culture, Head of the Chair of Ethnography and Museum Business of F. M. Dostoevsky Omsk State University, Professor, PhD in History – Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee.

Smirnova, Tatyana Borisovna – Associate Professor of the Chair of Ethnography and

Museum Business of F. M. Dostoevsky Omsk State University, PhD in History Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee.

Loewen, Royden – PhD, Head of the Chair of Mennonite Studies, Professor of Winnipeg

University (Canada), Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee.

Toews, Paul – PhD, Professor of Fresno Pacific University (USA), Co-Chair of the

Organizing Committee.

Blinova, Anna Nikolayevna – Research Associate of the Omsk Branch of Archeology

and Ethnography Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Senior Lecturer of the Chair of Ethnography and Museum Business of F. M. Dostoevsky Omsk State University, Candidate of Sciences in History – Deputy Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee.

Vezner, Natalya Nikolayevna – Research Associate of the Russian Branch of the Institute

of Culture – Academic Secretary.

 

Organizing Committee:

Eisfeld, A. - Head of the Gottingen Branch of the Institute of Culture and History of

Germans of North-Eastern Europe, PhD, Philosophy Department of Munich University (Gottingen).

Barbashina, E. R. – Associate Professor of the Chair of Philosophy of Novosibirsk State

University, Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy (Novosibirsk).

Blaginin, V. M. – Deputy Head of the Administration of Azov German National

Municipal district of Omsk region, member of the Council of the German National-Cultural Autonomy of Omsk region (Azovo).

Wibe, P. P. – Director of Omsk State Museum of Local History, head of the Sector for

the Preservation of Cultural Heritage of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Institute of Culture, Candidate of Sciences in History (Omsk).

Herman, A. A. – Head of the Chair of (Latest) Modern National History of the Saratov

State University, Chair of the Board of the International Association of Russian Researchers of History and Culture, Professor, PhD in History (Saratov).

Martens, G. G. – Chairman of the Federal National-Cultural Autonomy of Russian

Germans, Chairman of the International Union of German Culture (Moscow).

Karusenko, S. N. – Academic Secretary of Omsk Branch of the United Institute of

History, Philology and Philosophy of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the Chair of Ethnography and Museum Business of the F. M. Dostoyevsky Omsk State University, Candidate of Sciences in History.

Strunin, V. I. – Rector of the F. M. Dostoyevsky Omsk State University, Professor, PhD

in Physics and Mathematics (Omsk).

Fedorov, L. P. – Chairman of Committee on Culture of the Azov German National

Municipal District of Omsk region, member of the Council of German National-Cultural Autonomy of Omsk region (Azovo).

Friesen, Aileen - Ph.D. candidate, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Friesen, Rudy, Independent Scholar, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Letkemann, Peter - Ph.D., Independent Scholar, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Penner, Peter - Ph.D., Professor of History, Emeritus, Mount Allison University,

Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. 

Werner, Hans - Ph.D. Professor of History, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg,

Manitoba, Canada.

 

PLENARY SESSION

Tomilov, N. A. (Russia, Omsk)

Interaction of cultures and civilization processes in Siberia

Loewen Royden (Canada, Winnipeg) and Toews Paul (Fresno, USA)

'Siberia in the Imagination and Writing of North American Mennonite History

Smirnova, T. B. (Russia, Omsk)

Germans of Siberia as a Diaspora group (peculiarities of formation, identity, cultural reproduction).

Eisfeld, Alfred (Germany, Gottingen)

Germans of Russia and Ukraine in national policy of the Russian Communist Party/Bolsheviks in 1920-1924.

German, A. A. (Russia, Saratov)

Volga Germans in Siberia during the first months after deportation (September-December, 1941)

 

SECTION I: GENERAL ISSUES AND REGIONAL ASPECTS OF THE HISTORY AND PRESENT-DAY CONDITION OF RUSSIAN GERMANS

 

Barbashina, E. R. (Russia, Novosibirsk)

Issue of individual and collective dignity as a factor of ethno cultural identification of Russian Germans

Kurske, V. S. (Russia, Moscow)

Peculiarities of national identity of present-day Russian Germans (based on results of an all-Russian poll )

Wolf, E. L. (Russia, Tomsk)

Perspectives and variations of formation of “Russian Germans” ethno social community (rehabilitation aspects)

Bekhter, A. R. (Germany, Hukkelhofen)

Significance of migration organizations (Migrantenselbstorganisationen) in integration work in Germany (example of Heinsberg Kreis in Northern Rein-Westfalia).

Griese Hartmut Martin (Deutschland, Hannover)

Integration der Russlanddeutschen - Aspekte und Widersprüche im aktuellen sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskurs in Deutschland

Eichelberg, Eugen (Deutschland, Düsseldorf)
Ein ungenutztes Potential der Zuwanderer in Deutschland

Savoskul (Russia, Moscow)

Adaptation models and factors of Russian Germans in Germany

Korolyeva, I. V. (Russia, Omsk)

Lingua social issues of Russian Germans adaptation in the process of integration with indigenous population of Germany

Kloberdanz (USA, Fargo)

Volga Germans in North Dakota: adaptation and integration with the local community

Krieger V. (Germany, Heidelberg)

Comparative analysis of the educational level and social-professional structure of the German population of Siberia in 1970s-1980s

Vashkau, N. E. (Russia, Volgograd)

International projects of the Volgograd German Historical Research Center on study of Russian Germans history

Erokhina, O. V. (Russia, Uryupinsk)

Documents of the State Archive of Rostov region on entrepreneurship of Germans of Don region till 1914

Zaitsev, G. S. (Russia, Tuymen)

Germans in the History of Cossacks

Konev, E. V. (Russia, Novokuznetsk)

Germans in socio-economic and public life of Southern Kuzbass during the second half of the 20th century

Krott I. I. (Russia, Omsk)

German entrepreneurship in Western Siberia in late 19th-early 20th centuries: features of the historical portrait of J. I. and G. I. Schwartz

Mazurova, M. R. (Russia, Novosibirsk)

Context and content analysis of materials of family archives of Russian Germans

Nedzelyuk, T. G. (Russia, Novosibirsk)

Methods and techniques of micro historical analysis in research of confessional culture

Plokhotnyuk, T. N. (Russia, Stavropol)

Protestant religious associations in North Caucasian: An analysis of the religious policy of the Russian Empire in a poly-ethno confessional region in the 19th – early 20th centuries.

Pazhit, Y. Y. (Russia, Moscow)

Germans in mid-Urals during the Great Patriotic War

Prais, I. P. (Russia, St. Petersburg)

Village of Lauve, Saratov region and its residents

Sulimov, V. S. (Russia, Tobolsk)

Influence of A. I. Arngoldt on development of public education in Tobolsk gubernia in early 20th century

Erlich, K. V. (Germany, Hamburg)

Literary and political activity of Dominic Holman

Frank, E. V. (Russia, Samara)

Russian Germans – a nation at the crossroads

Furman, E. L. (Russia, Volgograd)

Co-op movement in German colonies of Volga region in 1905s-1930s.

Shevyrdin, S. A. (Russia, Perm)

History of Russian Germans in the 20th century based on materials of the Perm State Archives of Modern? History

Baakh, S. V. (Russia, Omsk)

Ethno cultural aspect of Russian Germans self-organization

Erofeyenko, O. V. (Poland, Warsaw)

Causes and consequences of migration of Germans to Russia and from Russia during the 16th - 20th centuries: Population Ratios

Kostyuk M. P. (Ukraine, Lutsk)

Study of history and ethnography of Volynia Germans in the last quarter of the 20th – early 21st centuries

Markdorf, N. M. (Russia, Novokuznetsk)

Return from captivity

Okhotnikov, A. Y. (Russia, Novosibirsk)

Resettlement of Siberian German collective farms in the mid of 1940s in the collective memory of Kulunda residents

Balovneva, A. N. (Russia, Tomsk)

Influence of forced migrations on ethnic composition and demographic situation of Tomsk region (1941-1956)

Alishina, G. M. (Russia, Tomsk)

Issues of choosing adaptation strategies by migrants under conditions of foreign ethnic surrounding (example of German settlers of Tomsk region in late 19th-early 20th centuries)

Ozerova, O. A. (Russia, Omsk)

Repressive policy of Western Siberia party leadership against Germans and Kazakhs in Omsk region in 1928-1939.

Stepanov, M. G. (Russia, Abakan)

Modern Russian historiography of repressive actions toward the German population of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945)

Chebatoreva, V. G. (Russia, Moscow)

History of Russian Germans in national historiography (1990s-2009s)

Shaidurov, V. N. (Russia, St. Petersburg)

European communities in Siberia: common and different in formation and development (examples of Germans, Poles,] and Jews)

Simonov, N. (Deutschland)

Ein interkulturelles Forschungsprojekt über Sozialpsychologische Aspekte der Identität von Spätaussiedlern Deutschland und irischen Heimkehrern in Irland. Erste Ergebnisse der qualitativen Analyse.

Savoskul (Russia, Moscow)

Peculiarities of adaptation of Russian Germans in Westfalia

 

SECTION II: HISTORY AND CULTURE OF MENNONITES: ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF ETHNO-CONFESSIONAL GROUPS

 

CANADA, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, THE UNITED STATES

Carter, Sara (University of Alberta, Canada, Edmonton) and Hildebrandt, Mary (Canada, Edmonton)

Tante Tin's Gift: Family, War, Exile, Trauma and Memory in Katharina (Hildebrand) Kruger's Memoir.

De Graaf, Tjeerd (Mercator European Research Centre, Fryske Akademy, The Netherlands, Paterswolde)
The Status of an Ethnic Minority in Eurasia: Mennonites and their relations with the Netherlands, Germany and Russia

Derksen Siemens, R. (University of British Columbia, Canada, Vancouver)

‘Writing Through the Flowers’: Masked Messages in Letters from Stalin’s Russia, 1930-38

Dyck, Johannes, Institut für Theologie und Geschichte am Bibelseminar, Germany, Bonn.

Root of Dry Ground: Revival Patterns of German Free Churches in the USSR after World War II

Earl, Linda (Canada, Strathclaire) and Wiens, Kathleen (University of California Los Angeles, USA, Los Angeles )
Economic Narratives Revisited: Female Contributions to Family Sustainability in Omsk

Epp, Marlene (Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, Canada, Waterloo)

The Transnational Labour of Mennonite Midwives in Siberia, Asiatic Russia, and Canada

Fast, Victor (Germany)

To be Announced

Freund, Alexander (University of Winnipeg, Canada, Winnipeg)

Memories of Violence and Migration: Recent Kazakh German Immigrants in Canada and Their Narratives of War and Displacement in the 20th Century

Friesen, Aileen (University of Alberta, Canada, Edmonton

Confronting Diversity: ‘Germans’, ‘Russians’ and the Colonization of Western Siberia

Klippenstein, Lawrence (Mennonite Heritage Centre, Canada, Steinbach)

Family and Religion in Mennonite Agricultural Settlements in Siberia

Kroeker, Peter (McMaster University, Canada, Hamilton) and Bruce Ward, (Laurentian University, Canada, Sudbury)

Gulag Ethics: Russian and Mennonite Prison Memoirs in Siberia

Neufeldt, Colin (Concordia University College of Alberta, Canada, Edmonton)

The Experience of Mennonite Kulaks in Spetsposeleniein in the Omsk, Tomsk, and Narym Regions during the First Five-Year Plan, 1928-1932

Pilipenko, Xenia (University Vienna, Austria, Vienna)

Push Factors in the Migration of Mennonites from Kazakstan to Germany, 1989-1991

Sawatsky, Walter (Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, USA, Elkart)

Inter-relationships Between Mennonites and Slavic Evangelicals in Siberia and Central Asia.

Werner, Hans (University of Winnipeg/D.F. Plett Historical Research Foundation, Canada, Winnipeg)

Land, Weather and Markets: Siberia in the Mennonite Imagination

 

RUSSIA, URKAINE, KAZAKHSTAN, TASHKENT

Bobyleva, S. I. (Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk)

Specific features of Mennonite daughter colonies settlement in Ukraine (example of Borosenko settlement)

Beznosov, A. I. (Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk)

Self-defense or offence? Participation of Germans and Mennonites in the Civil war of 1918-1921.

Beznosova, O. V. (Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk)

Foreign among foreign? Mennonites of Russian Empire through the eyes of the surrounding population..

Weiss, A. I. (Russia, Slavgorod)

Transition of Siberian Mennonites to Baptists. Its causes and results.

Dyck, P. F. (Kazakhstan, Kostanai)

Axiological basis for evaluation of ethno confessional culture of Mennonite settlements.

Peter Epp (Russia, Issilkul)

To be Announced

Inoyatova, D. M. (Uzbekistan, Tashkent)

Confessional life of Germans of Uzbekistan.

Morgunov, K. A. (Orenburg)

Test of faith: religious Mennonite organizations of Orenburg region (1945-1991).

Podoprigora, Y. I. (Kazakhstan, Almaty)

Mennonites in Kazakhstan.

Savin, A. I. (Novosibirsk)

Mennonite emigration of 1929 in the light of documents of Archive of Foreign Politics of Russian Federation.

Wibe, P. P. (Omsk)

Mennonites in Siberia.

Chernova, I. N. (Moscow)

Confessional peculiarities of family relations (example of Mennonites of Western Siberia).

Blinova, A. N. (Russia, Omsk)

Raising children in a Mennonite family and community (based on materials of ethnographic expeditions).

Smirnova, T. B. (Omsk)

Foundation of Mennonite daughter colonies in Siberia (on materials of oral history).

Plokhotnyuk, T. N. (Stavropol)

Analysis of experience of organizing life space of Mennonites of Kuban settlements.

Venger, N. V. (Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk)

“Frankly speaking”: colonization and issue of reforming colonists in Russian nationalistic discourse of the second half of the 19th century”.

Sokolovskiy, S.V. (Moscow)

Mennonites of Altai: marriages and social relays.

Reingardt, N.,I., Rid I.V. (Khortitza, Omsk region)

History of Khortitza village of Siberia.

Gorbatov, A.V. (Kemerovo)

Security services and German believers of Siberia in 1950-1960s.

Klyueva, V. P. (Russia, Tyumen)

Mennonites in Tyumen oblast: A short congregational history, 1940s-1980s

Nam, I. V. (Russia, Tomsk)

Mennonite communities in Tomsk region during “thaw” and “stagnation”

Rudel, V. A. (Russia, Novosibirsk)

About the influence of Germans of the USSR on Russian religiosity

 

SECTION 3: ETHNIC HISTORY AND CULTURE OF RUSSIAN GERMANS

 

Khudyakov, Y. S. (Russia, Novosibirsk)

Study of ancient and traditional cultures of Siberian peoples by German scholars in the 18th century

Borisenko, A. Y. (Russia, Novosibirsk)

Siberian ethnographical materials of I. G. Georgi

Nigmatzyanov, I. R. (Russia, Tyumen)

The first German of Siberia

Budanova, Y. P. (Kazakhstan, Lisakovsk)

The first German settler villages in Kustanai uezd. Village of Nadezhdinka: History based on archival documents and recollections of indigenous residents

Bakhareva, O. Y. (Russia, Orenburg)

Catholic church and its parishioners – Orenburg residents (19th – early 20th centuries)

Burgart, L. A. (Kazakhstan, Ust-Kamenogorsk)

About the role of a prayer and “Eucharistic women” for the preservation of Catholic faith in the USSR in 1940s-1980s: German Catholics in Kazakhstan

Adam Y. V. (Russia, Gorkovskoye, Omsk region)

Regional Center of History and Lore of Russian Germans

Vakula, L. S. (Russia, Novosibirsk)

Content and functions of amateur ethno cultural museums of Russian Germans

Gentshke, V. L. (Russia, Moscow)

Creation of a single database on history and culture of Germans in Siberia

Doroshenko, T. I. (Uzbekistan, Tashkent)

Recollections of contemporaries about K. P. Kaufman (on material of Turkestan collection)

Zadereichuk, I. A. (Ukraine, Simferopol)

History and present day condition of the development of culture among ethnic Germans in Crimea

Rudi, A. A. (Germany, Nordhorn)

Comparative analysis of folk song texts of Germans in Russia and Germany

Chernykh A. V. (Russia, Perm)

Ethnographic study of Ural Germans: results and perspective

Weiman, D. I. (Russia, Perm)

Germans of Kama: peculiarities of demographic development in the late 20th-early 21st centuries

Scretova, L. V. (Russia, Omsk)

Modern development of ethnic-oriented socio-cultural technologies in Omsk region

Vezner, N. N. (Russia, Omsk)

Local peculiarities of ethnic choreography of Germans in Omsk region

Betkher, A. R. (Germany. Hukkelhoven)

Cattle-raising and breeding on German farms in Western Siberia in late 19th – first third of the 20th century

Malinovsky, L. V. (Russia, Barnaul)

State colonists or private farmers?

Mozhan, N. I. (Russia, Tara)

Role of national-cultural association in socio cultural life of Tara city

 

SECTIONS 4: ISSUES OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION IN SIBERIA

Fritsler, A. A., Meier, A. K., Zinovyeva, V. N., Tarasova, L. V. (Russia, Tomsk)

Issues in the preservation of the German language of Russian Germans

Kryucheva, E. G., Prichshchepa, E. P. (Russia, Omsk)

Issues of teaching local history with ethno cultural component (history of Russian Germans) in national development of “Wiedergeburt” school students

Frizler, A. A., Tarasova, L. V. (Russia, Tomsk)

Innovation processes of teaching German in elementary school

Egorova, L. S., Zarechneva, V. A. (Russia, Omsk)

Inter-cultural dialog in modern German and Russian-German literature

Cherkazianova, I. V. (Russia, St. Petersburg)

Contribution of Siberian scholars to the study of German dialects and issue in the formation of academic schools

Ehrlich, К. (Deutschland, Hamburg)

Volksleben der deutschen Kolonisten in Russland. Dialekte und Mundarten.

Moskalyuk, L. I. (Russia, Barnaul)

Analytical tendencies in the noun declension system of Russian German dialects

Galich, G. G. (Russia, Omsk)

Issues of systematization of German language vocabulary

Evtugova, N. N. (Russia, Omsk)

Pronouns and their usage in fiction texts (example of German and Russian-German authors)

Trubavina, N. V. (Russia, Barnaul)

Ways of expressing negation in “island” German dialects of Altai krai

Gamalei, I. G. (Russia, Barnaul)

Syntactic peculiarities of “island” dialects determined by their oral nature

Dyatlova, V. A. (Russia, Krasnoyarsk)

Coordination activity of the Regional Dialectological Center at the V. P. Astafyev Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University on the study of history, language and culture of Germans in Siberia.

Sagina, V. I. (Russia, Krasnoyarsk)

Structural peculiarities of vocabulary article and their utilization in dialect dictionaries of Russian Germans

Moskvina, T. N. (Russia, Barnaul)

Lexical expression of emotions in dialect language image of the world (based on materials of “island” German dialects of Altai region)

Dubinskaya, T. A. (Russia, Omsk)

Images of nature as elements of the linguistic world image of Russian Germans

Kabanova, E. V. (Russia, Omsk)

Concepts of temperature perception in German linguistic picture of the world

Osipchuk, O. S. (Russia, Omsk)

Value of “Work notion” in German and Russian linguistic world pictures

Novikova, E. V. (Russia, Omsk)

Phraseologisms with phitonim component in cultural aspect

Ctolyarova, N. N. (Russia, Novoaltaisk)

Altai Germans: elaboration of methodological research basis of “island” dialect as a minority language

Skorodumova, I. A. (Russia, Krasnoyarsk)

Language and culture of Germans of Kuraginskiy district

Zarechneva, V. A., Luzyanina, L. L. (Russia, Omsk)

Svetalana Kacherovskaya – poet and translator – intermediary between cultures

Serzhanova, Zh. A. (Russia, Krasnoyarsk)

Speech behavior of older, middle and younger generations of ethnic Germans of Krasnoyarsk region

Suslov, I. N., Timomeyeva, G. M. (Russia, Omsk)

Reflection of ethnic processes in the area of content of higher education

Karpets, L. A. (Russia, Omsk)

Issues in the teaching of German in technical universities

Desyatnikova I. V. (Russia, Barnaul)

Structural-compositional peculiarities of “shvank” of Russian Germans

Kazakov, E. E. (Russia, Novosibirsk)

Russian-German University – higher education for Russian Germans

Serzhanova, Zh. A. (Russia, Krasnoyarsk)

Stages of bi-linguistic development based on research of speech behavior of Krasnoyarsk Germans

 

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