Final Program

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PROGRAM

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 Conference

Omsk, Russia

June 2-4, 2010

Conference Location

Ibis Sibir Hotel
Lenin ulitsa 22

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Omsk Scholarly Center
Marx Avenue 15

Conference Sponsors

F. M. Dostoevsky Omsk State University
University of Winnipeg, Chair in Mennonite Studies
Fresno Pacific University

Conference Co-Sponsors

Omsk State Museum of Regional History
Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation
Ministry of Culture of Omsk Oblast
Omsk Branch of Archeology and Ethnography Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science
Siberian Branch of the Russian Institute of Culture
Institute of Culture and History of Germans of North-Eastern Europe
German Society for Technical Cooperation
International Union of German Culture
German National-Cultural Autonomy of Omsk Oblast
International Union of German Culture

Conference 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, 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, Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee.

Loewen, Royden – Professor of History, Head of the Chair of Mennonite Studies, University of Winnipeg (Canada), Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee.

Toews, Paul – Professor of History, Director of the Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies, Fresno Pacific University (USA), Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee.

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

Kurmanova, Sulushash Rakhimzhanovna - Office of the Museum of Archeology and Ethnography, F.M. Omsk State Univeresity, Academic Secretary of the Organizing Committee

REGISTRATION June 2, 9:00 - 10:00 (Omsk regional government building)

OPENING PLENARY SESSION June 2, 10:00 - 13:00 (Omsk regional government building)

Conference Introduction

Scholarly Reports

Smirnova, T.B. (Omsk State University)
Germans of Siberia as a Diaspora Group

Loewen, Royden (University of Winnipeg) and Paul Toews (Fresno Pacific University)
'Siberia' in the Writings of North American Mennonite Historians

German, A.A. (Saratov)
Volga Germans in Siberia during the first months after Deportation (September - December 1941)

MEETING WITH OMSK F.M. DOSTOEVSKIY STATE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY, June 2, 15:00 - 17:00

OMSK CITY TOUR, June 2, 17:00 - 19:00

CONFERENCE SECTIONS

The Conference will include two plenary sessions and four separate sections.

Section I: General Issues and Regional Aspects of the History and

Present-Day Conditions of Russian Germans Section II: History and Culture of

Mennonites: Issues in the Study of Ethno-Confessional Groups Section III:

Ethnic History and Culture of Russian Germans Section IV: Issues of the

German Language and Education in Siberia

MENNONITE SECTION PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE

MENNONITE SECTION I: June 3, 9:00 - 13:00 (Ibis Sibir Hotel)

SITUATING MENNONITES EAST OF THE URAL MOUNTAINS: 9:00 – 11:00

Wiebe, P. P. ( Omsk State Museum of Regional History)
Mennonites in Siberia.

Friesen, Aileen (University of Alberta)
Confronting Diversity: 'Germans', 'Russians' and the Colonization of Western Siberia

Podoprigora, Y. I. (Kazakhstan, Almaty)
Mennonites in Kazakhstan.

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

Werner, Hans (University of Winnipeg)
Land, Weather and Markets: Siberia in the Mennonite Imagination

MENNONITES, BAPTISTS, EVANGELICAL AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS IN SIBERIA: 11:00 – 13:00

Dyck, Johannes, (Institut für Theologie und Geschichte am Bibelseminar, Bonn, Germany.
Root of Dry Ground: Revival Patterns of German Free Churches in the USSR after World War II

Sawatsky, Walter (Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary)
Inter-relationships Between Mennonites and Slavic Evangelicals in Siberia and Central Asia.

Weiss, Alexander (Baptist-Mennonite congregation, Slavgorod, Russia)
The Transition from Mennonites to Baptist-Mennonites: Its Causes and Results

Epp, Peter (Issilkul, Russia)
The Omsk Bruderschaft

MENNONITE SECTION II: June 3, 14:00 – 18:00 (Ibis Sibir Hotel)

FAMILIES, GENDER AND VOCATIONS: 14:00 – 16:00

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

Chernova, I. N. (Moscow)
Confessional Peculiarities of Family Relations (example of Mennonites of Western Siberia).

Epp, Marlene (Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo)
The Transnational Labour of Mennonite Midwives in Siberia, Asiatic Russia, and Canada

Blinova, A. N. (Omsk State University)
Raising children in a Mennonite Family and Community (based on materials of ethnographic expeditions).

Sokolovskiy, S.V. (Moscow)
Mennonites of Altai: Marriages and Social Relays.

MENNONITES AS A CONFESSIONAL GROUP: 16:00 – 17:30

Inoyatova, D. M. (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
Confessional life of Germans (including Mennonites) of Uzbekistan.

Klippenstein, Lawrence (Mennonite Heritage Centre, Steinbach)
Family and Religion in Mennonite Agricultural Settlements in Siberia

Dyck, P. F. (Kostanai Kazakhstan)
Axiological basis for evaluation of the ethno-confessional culture of Mennonite Settlements.

MIGRATION AND EXILE IN THE SIBERIAN MENNONITE STORY: 17:30 – 18:30

Savin, A. I. (Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk)
Mennonite emigration of 1929 in the light of documents of the Archive of Foreign Politics of the Russian Federation.

Freund, Alexander (University of Winnipeg)
Memories of Violence and Migration: Recent Kazakh German Immigrants in Canada and Their Narratives of War and Displacement in the 20th Century

TOUR OF GERMAN DISTRICT OF OMSK, DINNER AND FOLKLORIC PERFORMANCE, JUNE 3, 18:30-

MENNONITE SESSION III: June 4, 9:00 - 13:30 (Ibis Sibir Hotel)

MENNONITES AND THE GULAG EXPERIENCE: 9:00 – 11:00

Derksen Siemens, R. (University of British Columbia)
'Writing Through the Flowers': Masked Messages in Letters from Stalin's Russia, 1930-38

Carter, Sara (University of Alberta) and Hildebrandt, Mary (Edmonton, Canada)
Tante Tin's Gift: Family, War, Exile, Trauma and Memory in Katharina (Hildebrand) Kruger's Memoir.

Kroeker, Peter (McMaster University)and Ward, Bruce (Laurentian University)
Gulag Ethics: Russian and Mennonite Prison Memoirs in Siberia

Neufeldt, Colin (Concordia University College of Alberta)
The Experience of Mennonite Kulaks in Spetsposelenieinin the Omsk, Tomsk, and Narym Regions during the First Five-Year Plan, 1928-1932

CONGREGATIONAL AND COMMUNITY HISTORY: 11:00 – 13:30

Rid I.V. (Khortitza, Omsk region)
History of Khortitza village of Siberia.

Gorbatov, A.V. (Kemerovo, Russia)
Security services and German believers of Siberia in 1950-1960s.

Klyueva, V. P. (Tyumen, Russia)
Mennonites in Tyumen oblast: A short congregational history, 1940s-1980s

Nam, I. V. (Tomsk, Russia)
Mennonite Communities in Tomsk region during "thaw" and "stagnation"

Morgunov, K. A. (Orenburg, Russia)
Test of faith: Religious Mennonite Organizations of Orenburg region (1945-1991).

Plokhotnyuk, T. N. (Stavropol, Russia)
Analysis of the experience of organizing life space of Mennonites of Kuban settlements.

CLOSING PLENARY SESSION June 4 14:30 - (Marx Scholarly Center)

Scholarly Report

Tomilov, N.A. (Russian Academy of Sciences)

Interaction of Cultural and Civilizational Processes in Siberia

Vezner, N.N. and Tomilov, N.A.

Fundamental Publications of Omsk Scholarly Institutions on History and Folk Culture

Sectional Summaries

Book launches

Concluding Reflections

RECEPTION AND TOUR OF OMSK MUSEUM OF REGIONAL HISTORY June 4, 17:30-

 

NORTH AMERICAN PLANNING COMMITTEE

Royden Loewen, Co-Chair (Winnipeg), Paul Toews, Co-Chair (Fresno), Peter Penner (Calgary), Peter Letkemann (Winnipeg), Hans Werner (Winnipeg), Aileen Friesen (Calgary), Rudy Friesen (Winnipeg), Olga Shmakina (Fresno and Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine), Ken Reddig (Winnipeg)

FINANCIAL SPONSORS

The expenses of the Russian, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan participants in the Mennonite Section, and many other costs of the entire conference, were underwritten by generous donors from North America. The planning committee gratefully acknowledges the following individuals and institutions:

Walter and Marina Unger
Peter Letkemann
Dan and Agnes Ratzlaff
Rudy and Edith Friesen
Arthur Block
Chair of Mennonite Studies, University of Winnipeg
Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies, Fresno, California
California Mennonite Historical Society
Mennonite Historical Society of British Columbia
Bill and Margaret Fast Foundation
Loewen/Quiring Trust
Kroeker Foundation
Historical Commission of the Mennonite Brethren Church
Mennonite Central Committee
Canadian Mennonite Historical Society

For More Information call 786.9391 or email r.loewen@uwinnipeg.ca