Presentations

Catherine Gibson, “Bounds of Empathy: Intra-Imperial Humanitarianism in the Baltic Provinces.” Slavic-Eurasian Research Center 2024 Summer International Symposium “The Crucible of a New World? Russia’s Borderlands at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century.” 18–19 July 2024, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University.

Catherine Gibson, “Charitable Entertainment and Intra-Imperial Cultures of Giving in the Late Imperial Baltic Provinces” as part of the co-organised panel “Help at All Costs?: State, Community, and Individual Charity in the Late Nineteenth Century Romanov Empire”. ASEEES Annual Convention, 21-24 November 2024, Boston.

Catherine Gibson, “Shaken Empire: Baltic Aid to the Caucasus in the Aftermath of the 1902 Shemakha Earthquake” as part of the co-organised panel “To and From the Baltic: Historicising Manifestations of Solidarity in the Long Twentieth Century.” CBSE, 24-26 April 2025, University of Cambridge.

Catherine Gibson, “Follow the Money: Mapping Geographies of Intra-Imperial Famine and Earthquake Donations” as part of the co-organised panel “Solidarities across Regions and Ethnic Groups in the Late Russian Empire and Soviet Union.” XI ICCEES World Congress, 21–25 July 2025, University College London.

Catherine Gibson, Roundtable participant: “Beyond the New Spatial History? Paradigms and Pathways for Future Research in Eurasian Historical Studies.” XI ICCEES World Congress, 21–25 July 2025, University College London.

Catherine Gibson presented the co-authored article (with Anton Kotenko), “Horizontal Threads: Towards an Entangled Spatial History of the Romanov Empire” (Slavic Review, 2025). Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies Brown Bag Publication Seminar, 18 November 2025, University of Tartu.