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CfP: The Imperial Dimension of Catherine II’s Legislative Commission (1767-1768)

Joint conference organized by the Department of East European History (AOEG) and the Center for Empire Studies (CES) at the University of Münster

March 12-13, 2025 in Münster
Deadline for application: October 31, 2025

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Elena Marasinova and Prof. Dr. Ricarda Vulpius

This conference will place the imperial dimension at its center and aims to view the Commission as a laboratory of imperial negotiations. It will contribute to a synthesization of the rich material and to a new interpretation of the Legislative Commission itself by leading to a deeper understanding of the realities of non-Russians in the second half of the 18th century. By doing so it will enhance knowledge on the nature of premodern continental empires and thereby enrich comparative approaches on empires conducted at, among others, the Center for Empire Studies (CES) at the University of Münster.


The conference invites systematic examination of the participation and exclusion of the non-Russian populations, their understanding of the Empire and of autocracy, their own belonging within the Empire’s hierarchies, the translation of their needs into the imperial language, their horizontal interactions, the circulation of knowledge between the center and the periphery, and the aftermath of the debates.

  • Conference language: English
  • Deadline: Please send an abstract (no more than one page) and a short CV to
    Elena Marasinova (lenamarassinova@gmail.com) and Ricarda Vulpius (ricarda.vulpius@uni- muenster.de) by October 31, 2025
  • Notification of acceptance: November 15, 2025
  • Travel and accommodaHon expenses will be covered.

You can find the detailed CfP here.


OpenEdition schlägt Ihnen vor, diesen Beitrag wie folgt zu zitieren:
Maike Lehmann (29. September 2025). CfP: The Imperial Dimension of Catherine II’s Legislative Commission (1767-1768). Max Weber Netzwerk Osteuropa. Abgerufen am 10. Februar 2026 von https://mwsosteuropa.hypotheses.org/13072


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