Antoni Porayski-Pomsta, ‘Not a shtetl, not quite a shtot: the urban outskirts of Russian Poland, c. 1880-1900’. Imperial Urbanism in Northeastern Europe: Spaces, Infrastructures and Transimperial Entanglements in the Long Nineteenth Century, Max Weber Network Eastern Europe, Vilnius, 30 October 2026
Sohee Ryuk, ‘Grapes of disturbance: Markets, disease and the varying fates of viticulture in the Kutaisi Governorate, 1860-1900’. ‘Brokers of Empire: Economic intermediaries in Russian Eurasia’ workshop, University College Dublin, 9 October 2026
Jennifer Keating, roundtable participant. ‘Brokers of Empire: Economic intermediaries in Russian Eurasia’ workshop, University College Dublin, 9 October 2026
Jennifer Keating, ‘Seismic encounters: Towards a materiality of environmental risk and resilience in the northern Tian Shan, 1885-1910’. Environmental History Research Seminar, Trinity College Dublin, 28 September 2026
Sohee Ryuk, ‘Grappling with Crisis: Local Agricultural Knowledge in Late Nineteenth-Century Georgia, 1860s-1900s’. Commodities of Empire Workshop, Madrid, 2 September 2026
Jennifer Keating, roundtable participant. ‘Making land: Cross-regional perspectives on the organised and designed environment in Jetisu’ symposium, Tselinny Center for Contemporary Culture, Almaty, 7-8 July 2026
Jennifer Keating, ‘Hive worlds, honey factories and colony collapse in late imperial Central Asia’. Land Limits 1 workshop, University College Dublin, 22-23 June 2026
Antoni Porayski-Pomsta, ‘Whose commons? Untangling social relations in the forests of Russian Poland, 1860s-1880s’. Land Limits 1 workshop, University College Dublin, 22-23 June 2026
Sohee Ryuk, ‘Grapes of disturbance: Markets, disease and the varying fates of viticulture in the Kutaisi Governorate, 1860-1900’. Land Limits 1 workshop, University College Dublin, 22-23 June 2026
Roman Osharov, ‘From Kvirila to Rioni: Manganese mining, industrialisation and water pollution in the late imperial Caucasus.’ Land Limits 1 workshop, University College Dublin, 22-23 June 2026
Jennifer Keating, ‘Seismic encounters: Towards a materiality of risk and resilience in the northern Tian Shan, 1885-1910’. ‘Environmental histories of mountain infrastructures and knowledge: Alps and Asia in comparative perspective’ study day, University of Grenoble Alpes, Institute of Environmental Geosciences, 17 June 2026
Roman Osharov, ‘Manganese Mining and Environmental Change in Western Georgia under Russian rule, 1879-1917.’ The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies at Yale University, 7 May 2026
Roman Osharov, ‘The “Critical Minerals” of the Nineteenth Century: Manganese Mining in the Russian-ruled Caucasus.’ Research in Action workshop, University of Cambridge, 27-28 April 2026
Jennifer Keating, Antoni Porayski-Pomsta & Sohee Ryuk, ‘Reimagining rural worlds: Connected materialities of environmental change in the late Russian empire’. Institute for Social & Cultural Research, Ilia State University, Georgia, 5 February 2026
Jennifer Keating, ‘“Rational” resettlement and environmental injustice in colonial Central Asia: Stories of crisis and conflict’. Department of History colloquium lecture, University of Freiburg, December 2025
Sohee Ryuk, ‘Vines and Dyes: Recentering Decline Narratives of Decline in the Rural Transcaucasus’. ASEEES annual conference, Washington DC, November 2025
Antoni Porayski-Pomsta, ‘New Approaches in Urban History’. ASEEES annual conference, Washington DC, November 2025
Jennifer Keating, ‘Pollinators and colonists in eastern Central Asia’. ASEEES annual conference, Washington DC, November 2025
Jennifer Keating, ‘Trade, political authority and human-animal surveillance in the highlands of colonial Central Asia’. ‘State building in mountainous regions’ workshop, University of Staffordshire, October 2025
Jennifer Keating, ‘Grazing and planting: Pastoralist transhumanance, settled agriculture and the shifting ‘local’ in late nineteenth century rural Central Asia’. XI ICCEES world congress, University College London, July 2025
Jennifer Keating, ‘Pollen pathways: Tracing granular environmental histories of nomadic pastoralists in late imperial Central Asia’. University of Warwick, June 2025
Jennifer Keating, ‘Pollen pathways and settler-pastoralist dynamics in colonial Central Asia’. ‘ReOrient: Active archives and (counter) colonial spaces’ conference, Uppsala University, May 2025
Jennifer Keating, ‘Exploring multi-scalar rural histories of imperial Central Asia’. ‘Cultures matter: Interdisciplinary approaches to rural experiences’ workshop, University of Nottingham, March 2025
Jennifer Keating, ‘Land limits: Exploring population growth and environmental change in Semirech’e, 1860s-1920s’. ‘Scarcity and frontiers: Environment, economy and society in Central Asia’ workshop, University of Central Asia, Naryn, Kyrgyzstan, October 2024
Jennifer Keating, ‘Industrialising the pastoral: Empire and the clash of ecological scales in late imperial Russia’. Eastern European history colloquium series, University of Basel, October 2024
Jennifer Keating, ‘Pastoralists, global markets and frictions of empire in early twentieth century Central Asia: A view from the Qarqara valley’. Slavic-Eurasian Research Center Summer International Symposium, Hokkaido University, Japan, July 2024
Jennifer Keating, ‘Multiscalar environmental history of the Russian empire: A view from the Qarqara valley’. Annual conference of the DFG Russian Ecospheres research network, GWZO Leipzig, July 2024
Jennifer Keating, ‘Buying money with sheep: Iarmarki, trade circuits and scales of rural life in the late Russian empire’. BASEES annual conference, University of Cambridge, April 2024
Jennifer Keating, ‘Capital, nomads & nature on the Russo-Qing border’. The History Seminar, University College Dublin, February 2024
Jennifer Keating, ‘Lines on the land: Slow violence and the geometry of dispossession in late imperial Central Asia’. ‘Methodologies of Extractivism’ seminar series, Humanities Institute, University College Dublin, February 2024
