Between Integration and Isolation: Eastern European Expatriates East and West (1830-1939)

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Eastern Europe, like most world regions, was marked by the mobility of its peoples. Migrants, whether moving by choice or under duress, carried with them ideas, material goods, languages, and pre-existing kinship or political ties. In some cases, they succeeded in preserving established networks or constructing new ones in their territories of settlement, as the convergence of peoples fostered the emergence of novel, sometimes revolutionary ideas. By focusing on these processes, this panel explores how expatriates from Eastern Europe engaged with—or disengaged from—political and social movements both in their territories of origin and territories of settlement across the Balkans and the Caucasus.

Sub Unit

• History: 1800-1900

Chair

• Lucien J Frary, Rider U

Papers

• Young Romanians in Paris (1830–1848): Between French Intellectuals and East European Political Exiles - Victor Taki, Concordia U (Canada)

• Parallel Lives?: Russian Emigres in Bulgaria and Greece (1920-1939) - Denis V. Vovchenko, Northeastern State U

• Revolutionaries and Reactionaries: Russian Communities in Iran before and after the 1917 Revolutions - Kayhan Aryan Nejad, U of Oklahoma

Discussants

• Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, UC Santa Barbara

• Gabriel Leanca, Alexandru Ioan Cuza U of Iași (Romania)

Session Manager

• Anastasia Felcher, Central European U Austria