Introduction
Welcome to the official website of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia, an association of academics and scholars whose research interests are related to the Russian empire during the 'long' eighteenth century - that is, from the start of Peter I's reign in 1682 to the death of Alexander I in 1825. The website has a number of functions:
- to provide members with news about meetings, conferences and relevant publications
- to carry information for the wider academic community about the Study Group's activities
- to archive and digitise the contents of the Study Group's Newsletter for wider academic accessibility
As with any website, any contributions, comments or corrections are very welcome - please use the following link, which you will also find at the bottom of a number of pages.
2012 Meeting of the Study Group
The next UK meeting of the Study Group will take place in early January 2013 (dates to be confirmed) at the High Leigh Conference Centre, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire.
The format of meetings allows a generous 45-50 minutes per paper, which provides an excellent opportunity for discussion and feedback from an international audience. The languages are English and Russian. Synopses of papers presented will be published in the following volume of the Group's annual Newsletter.
We particularly welcome the participation of postgraduate students. For those students who wish to give a paper at the meeting, there are a limited number of subsidized places available each year. They should contact the organiser directly (see below) for more details.
The cost for three days' meals and accommodation in a standard room (without en-suite bathroom) and conference fee was £140 as of January 2012. This rate is per person, even for couples sharing a double room. Some rooms with en-suite bathrooms have been available at a total cost of £180 per person (January 2012 prices). Please contact the organiser as soon as possible after booking if you require an en-suite room.
The High Leigh Conference Centre is easily reached by road (on the A10) or train from London (20 minutes from Liverpool Street Station) or from Stansted Airport. Click here for a map of the area.
Any enquiries about the Hoddesdon meeting should be directed to Erin McBurney.
Public Lecture by Professor A. B. Kamenskii at LSE: "Reflections on Russia's Place in Europe in the Eighteenth Century"
At 6.30pm on Thursday 2 February 2012, Professor Aleksandr Kamenskii (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) will give a public lecture on eighteenth-century Russia's place in Europe at LSE in the Wolfson Theatre. This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. Any enquiries should email ideas.events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7849 4612. Details and a map can be found here.
Call for Submissions to Edited Volume: "Intellectual and Political Elites of the Enlightenment"
Professors Tat'iana Artem'eva and Mikhail Mikeshin would like to invite submissions to a volume in the COLLeGIUM series (ISSN 1796-2986), a scholarly peer-reviewed open-access series of interdisciplinary publications by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. The Collegium is a research institute for advanced study in the humanities and social sciences at the University of Helsinki - website
The deadline for the suggestions (a title and an abstract up to 100 words) is 15 January 2011 and the deadline for the articles is November 2012. Please send applications to: tatart@mail.ru or literatus18@mail.ru
Call for Papers for Conference at the University of Bristol, 12-14 September 2012
"The French Language in Russia: The second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth". The University of Bristol will hold an international interdisciplinary conference in September 2012 on the occasion of the bicentenary of the war of 1812. The conference will examine various cultural practices and ideological positions that were associated with the use of French in Russia both before and after the Napoleonic Wars. The chronological extent of the period to be studied is very broad, from the reign of Elizabeth to the age of Nicholas I, so that it should be possible to trace the appearance of francophonie in Russia, its flowering and the beginning of its decline.
The conference will take place in Clifton Hill House, one of the University’s most attractive halls of residence. It will begin at lunchtime on Wednesday 12 September and end around teatime on Friday 14 September 2012. Proposals for papers should be sent to frenchinrussia-1812@bristol.ac.uk by 31 January 2012
More information can be found in the following document: in English, in French and in Russian.
Call for Papers for Workshop at the University of Tübingen, 25-26 May 2012
The Institue for Eastern European History at the University of Tübingen is currently putting together a workshop entitled "Politics as Family Affair? Political Activity, State Intervention and Privacy in the Russian Noble Family, 1762-1917". This workshop will be held at the Institute on 25-26 May 2012 and Professor John Randoplh has agreed to be the keynote speaker. Scholars working on the various aspects of the Russsian family and politics in the period 1762-1917 who would like to give a paper should send an abstract (400 words) and a CV to Dr Katharina Kucher at katharina.kucher@uni-tuebingen.de by 15 September 2011.
For more information about the workshop and the main areas for discussion, please consult the following overview.
Call for Submissions for the Annual Marc Raeff Book Prize
The 1st Annual Marc Raeff Book Prize has been awarded to Guzel' Vazykhanova Ibneeva, Associate Professor at the Kazan Federal University for her monograph, Imperskaia politika Ekateriny II v zerkale ventsenosnykh puteshestvii (Moscow: Pamiatniki istoricheskoi mysli, 2009). Her work uses the theme of Catherine the Great's travels within the Russian empire as a lens into both social history and the articulation and performance of imperial authority.
The Eighteenth Century Russian Studies Association, an affiliate organization of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), is now accepting submissions for the 2nd Annual Marc Raeff Book Prize. The Raeff Book Prize will be awarded annually for a publication that is of exceptional merit and lasting significance for understanding Imperial Russia, particularly during the long eighteenth-century. The recipient of the award will be recognized with a cash prize, which will be presented in November 2012, during the ASEEES annual convention. The award is sponsored by the ECRSA and named in honor of Marc Raeff (1923-2008), historian, teacher, and dix-huitièmiste par excellence.
Click here for more details on assessing a book's eligibility, the procedure for nominating books and contact information for the Selection Committee.Fellowships in London for young Russian historians
The London School of Economics is setting up four fellowships a year for the period between 2009 and 2013 for young Russian historians from regional universities. Three of these fellowships will be held for one month, and one of them for three months. The fellowships are aimed at early career historians who hold full-time academic positions in Russian regional universities. The area of specialisation should be within the period 1700-1917 and preference will be given to scholars specialising in the history of Russian international relations, broadly defined, and who would benefit from working in British libraries and archives and discussing their research with British and European scholars in the field.
Further information and application forms can be found on the LSE Paulsen Fellowship Programme web-site.
New Electronic Resource - Pushkin House Online Catalogue
The electronic resources of the library of Pushkin House now include a number of very useful publications for c18th Russian studies, including the first twenty-four volumes of its long-standing serial XVIII Vek, its dictionary of c18th Russian authors and collections of c18th texts. The main site is located here - any problems with the drop-down menus can be circumnavigated by using the main site index instead.
