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#workshop #Germany #history “Imperial Mirrors: Toponymy of Urban Space in the Romanov Empire, 1855–1917”, workshop in Lüneburg, 16–18 April 2024. Organised by: Nordost-Institut in Lüneburg, University of Düsseldorf, University of Tartu. During this workshop we would like to focus on the history of names of cities and towns as well as street names in the Romanov Empire in the second half of the nineteenth century. The participants will examine the palimpsest of toponymical practices involving not only different political, economic, and cultural spaces but also different languages. On the one hand, we would like to explore the process of the gradual politicisation of toponymic practices in late imperial Russia, its achievements, and failures. On the other hand, the history of toponymy of Romanov imperial cities merits attention as a way to study the extent of the empire’s penetration of everyday life of its inhabitants. The workshop aims to explore these issues from a broad geographical perspective, and especially welcomes contributions dealing with the Baltic provinces, western borderlands, Caucasus, Siberia, and Central Asia from the middle of the nineteenth century to the breakup of the empire. Deadline: October 1, 2023. Ссылка скрыта