Presentations

Catherine Gibson, “Seismic Solidarity: Intra-Imperial Earthquake Aid in the Late Romanov Empire.” 24 March 2026, Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES), Uppsala University. 

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.

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, “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, “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, “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, “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.