VIII International Conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia (Durham)
4th-9th July 2009
Hosted by Van Mildert College, Durham University (UK)
Notes
As you see, some panels are complete in every detail, while others are awaiting confirmation of givers and/or titles of papers. Would you please let me (Patrick O'Meara) know if your name should not be on the programme, or alternatively the title of your paper where there is currently a blank against your name? All members of the Study Group are, of course, most welcome to register for the conference and join us in Durham (with their partners) whether intending to give a paper or not. Would members who intend to come, but are not on the programme, let us know of their intentions now, if they can? Equally, would those who are on the programme and are intending to be accompanied by their partners confirm this now if possible?
- Patrick O'Meara and Simon Dixon
Booking Information
Full details of how to register for the conference, and of its costs, are available through the Durham Conference and Tourism Office web-site.
Draft Programme
Saturday 4 July
**Arrival and Registration**
17.15-18.45 - Panel 1: Russian Begriffsgeschichte
of the Eighteenth Century
Chair: Isabel de Madariaga (London)
- Elena Marasinova (Moscow): The Self-Identification of a Russian Nobleman: A Citizen and an Enlightened Person (second half of the eighteenth century)
- William Butler (New York): Russian Legal Symbolism: The Zertsalo
- Oleg Omel'chenko (Moscow): tbc
19.00 - Dinner
Sunday 5 July
08.15-09.15 - Breakfast
09.30-11.00 - Panel 2: Theatre
Chair: [Anthony Cross (Cambridge)]
- Kirill Ospovat (Moscow): Tragediia Sumarokova "Sinav i Truvor": istoriia i politika na pridvornom teatre imperatritsy Elizavety
- Tatiana Smoliarova (New York): Theatre as Metaphor, 1780s-1800s
11.00-11.30 - Coffee
11.30-13.00 - Panel 3: The Court
Chair: Erin McBurney (Columbia)
- Paul Keenan (LSE): Gambling and the Court
- Simon Dixon (UCL): The Imperial Hunt: Some European Comparisons
13.00-14.00 - Lunch
14.00-16.30 - Free afternoon
16.30-17.00 - Tea
17.00-18.45 - Panel 4: Society and EconomyChair: Alexander Martin (Notre Dame)
- Roger Bartlett (Ludlow): J. M. R. Lenz and Women in Free-Masonic Circles in Moscow
- Colum Leckey (Piedmont Virginia): Petr Rychkov - Sage of Orenburg
19.00 - Dinner
Monday 6 July
08.15-09.15 - Breakfast
09.30-11.00 - Panel 5: Commerce
in
Eighteenth-Century Russia
Chair: [tbc]
- Erika Monahan (Alaska): Trade across the Empire: Russia, Siberia, Central Asia
- George Munro (Virgina Commonwealth): Rostov: The Wholesale Emporium
- Robert E. Jones (Massachusetts): Retail Trade in St. Petersburg: Gostinyi Dvor or Gostinyi Vor?
- Michael Bitter (Hawaii): The State of Anglo-Russian Trade in the 1730s
11.00-11.30 - Coffee
11.30-13.00 - Panel 6: Obscene and Libertine
Literature
Chair: [Laura Rossi (Milan)]
- Marcus Levitt (Southern California): The Ecclesiastes Theme in Eighteenth-Century Poetry
- Bianca Sulpasso: Olsuf'eviana
- Manfred Schruba: Erotika v "Pereshemeshnike" M. D. Chulkova
13.00-14.00 - Lunch
14.00-15.45 - Panel 7: Russian Literature of the
Eighteenth Century
Chair: Joachim Klein (Berkeley)
- Rodolphe Baudin (Strasbourg): The Strasbourg Revolution in Nikolay Karamzin's "Letters of a Russian Traveller"
- Michela Venditti (Rome): "Lebed'" Derzhavina: obraz poeta i goratsianskaia traditsiia
- Nadezhda Alekseeva (St Petersburg): Uchenie Aristotelia o podrazhanii prirode v russkoi literaturnoi teorii XVIII veka
15.45-16.15 - Tea
16.15-17.45 - Panel 8: Cultural Patterns of Personal
Behaviour
Chair: [Viktor Zhivov (Moscow)]
- Andrei Zorin (Oxford): Seduction à la Rousseau (Andrei Turgenev between Saint-Preux and Werther)
- Igor Fediukin: Génie, or Natural Inclination: Human Nature and Individual Autonomy in post-Petrine Russia
- Angelina Vacheva: Machiavelli v iubke i korone: "Bytovaia politika" v memuarakh Ekateriny II
18.00 - Drinks Reception, Master's House (Lakeside Room, if wet)
19.00 - Dinner
Tuesday 7 July
Excursion (Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle)
19.00 - Dinner
Wednesday 8 July
08.15-09.15 - Breakfast
09.30-11.00 - Panel 9: Russian
Literature, 1703-1825
Chair: [Marcus Levitt (Southern California)]
- Maria Cristina Bragone: Stikhotvoreniia v "Arifmetike" L. Magnitskogo
- Charles Drage (London): The dactylic hexameter in Russian poetry from Radishchev to Pushkin
- Mark Altshuller: Karamzin i Shishkov v spore o sud'be Rossii
11.30-13.00 - Panel 10: Clerical Discourse
Chair: Simon Dixon (UCL)
- Gary Marker (New York): Intimacy and Grace: On Reading the "Diariusz" of Dimitrii Rostovskii
- Viktor Zhivov (Moscow): Bor'ba s sueveriiami v Rossii XVIII veka
- Antony Lentin: Prokopovich, Pravda and Proof: Some myths about "Pravda Voli Monarshei"
13.00-14.00 - Lunch
14.00-15.30 - Panel 11: Military
and Diplomatic
Chair: Roger Bartlett (Ludlow)
- Hans von Koningsbrugge: Dutch-Russian Diplomatic Relations after the death of Peter I
- Emmanuel Waegemans (Leuven): A Turkophile Dutch Russophobe in Russian Military Service in the 1780s
- Sergey Iskyul' (St Petersburg): 1812 god Voina i mir - mify i dokumental'naia real'nost'
16.30-18.00 - Panel 12: Rossica
Chair: Gareth Jones
- Maria di Salvo (Milan): Francesco Angiolini's Ode to Catherine (1781) and the Jesuits in Russia
- Natal'ia Kochetova (St Petersburg): Franz Kratter's "Alexander Menzikov" (1794) and "Das Maedchen von Marienburg" (1795)
- Anthony Cross (Cambridge): From the Assassination to Tilsit: the British in Russia and Their Travel Writings (1801-1807)
19.30 - Conference Banquet (Durham Castle)
Keynote Speaker: Isabel de Madariaga (London)
Thursday 9 July
08.15-09.15 - Breakfast
09.30-11.00 - Panel 13: Prisons and Prisoners
Chair: John Keep (Bern)
- Janet Hartley (LSE): The Army: Prisoners and Prison
- Sergei Kozlov (St Petersburg): Russian Prisoners of the Great Northern War (in Swedish archives)
- Patrick O'Meara (Durham): Timotheus von Bock: Prisoner of Alexander I
- Christoph Witzenrath (Aberdeen): Captivity, Slaving and Ransom in the Steppe Frontier
11.00-11.30 - Coffee
11.30-13.00 - Panel 14: Science and Empire in
Eighteenth-Century Russia
Chair: Denis Shaw (Birmingham)
- Alexandra Bekasova (St Petersburg, RAS): Russian Round-the-World Expedition on brig ‘Rurik’, 1815-1818: State Interest, Private Patronage, and Geographical Survey
- Steven Usitalo (Northern State): The Image and Authority of the Chemist in Eighteenth-Century Russia
13.00-14.00 - Lunch
**End of Conference and Departure**
