VIII International Conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia (Durham)
4th-9th July 2009
Hosted by Van Mildert College, Durham University (England)
Notes
As you see, some panels are complete in every detail, while others are awaiting confirmation of givers and/or titles of papers. Indeed, there may be a need to slot an additional panel into the programme should one eventuate in the meantime.
Would you please let us 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? It would be helpful also if panel convenors could suggest chairpersons where there is not one yet indicated.
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? It would be good to have as clear an understanding as we can of the total numbers we have to cater for.
Full details of how and when to register for the conference, and of its costs, will be available in due course. Meanwhile, the all-in price quoted by the Durham University Conference and Tourism Office stands at £484 (which covers conference fee, accommodation, meals, etc.) This figure also includes a £25 supplement for the conference dinner (optional) in Durham Castle, but not the cost of wine (£15 per bottle). The cost of the outing to Bowes Museum has yet to be confirmed. An allowance has been made for inflation.
- Patrick O'Meara and Simon Dixon
Draft Programme
Saturday 4 July
Registration
17.15-18.45 - Panel 1: Russian Begriffsgeschichte
of the Eighteenth Century
Chair: Isabel de Madariaga
- Elena Marasinova: [tba]
- Ingrid Schierle: Empire and People: Concepts for describing the People of Rossiia
- William Butler: [tba]
19.00 - Dinner
Sunday 5 July
08.15-09.15 - Breakfast
09.30-11.00 - Panel 2: Military and Diplomatic
Chair: Roger Bartlett
- Hans von Koningsburgge: Dutch-Russian Diplomatic Relations after the death of Peter I
- Emmanuel Waegemans: A Turkophile Dutch Russophobe in Russian Military Service in the 1780s
- Sergey Iskyul': 1812 god Voina i mir - mify i dokumental'naia real'nost'
- Jan Hennings: [tba]
11.00-11.30 - Coffee
11.30-13.00 - Panel 3: People of the Elite
Chair: David Griffiths
- Igor Kurukin: A military officer
- Douglas Smith: An aristocrat
- Aleksandr Kamenskii: An official
13.00-14.00 - Lunch
14.00-16.30 - Free afternoon
16.30-17.00 - Tea
17.00-18.45 - Panel 4: St Petersburg as Residenzstadt
Chair: [tba]
- Michelle Marrese: [tba]
- Paul Keenan: [tba]
- Katia Boltounova: [tba]
- Simon Dixon: [tba]
19.00 - Dinner
Monday 6 July
08.15-09.15 - Breakfast
09.30-11.00 - Panel 5: Society and Economy
Chair: [tba]
- Roger Bartlett: J. M. R. Lenz and Female Freemasons in Moscow
- Marianna Muravieva: The Consumption of Sex in c18th Russia
11.00-11.30 - Coffee
11.30-13.00 - Panel 6: Obscene and Libertine
Literature
Chair: [tba]
- Marcus Levitt: "Barkoviana" and "Priapeia"
- Bianca Sulpasso: Olsuf'eviana
- Manfred Schruba: Erotika v "Pereshemeshnika" M. D. Chulkova
13.00-14.00 - Lunch
14.00-15.45 - Panel 7: Russian Literature of the
Eighteenth Century
Chair: Joachim Klein
- Rodolphe Baudin: References to Literature (both European and Russian) in Radishchev's Letters of Exile
- Vera Proskurina: Oda G. R. Derzhavina "Na schastie": politika i karnaval
- Michela Venditti: "Lebed'" Derzhavina: obraz poeta i goratsianskaia tradiciia
- Nadezhda Alekseeva: Uchenie Aristotelia o podrazhanii prirode v russkoi literaturnoi teorii XVIII veka
15.45-16.15 - Tea
16.15-17.45 - Panel 8: Russian Literature, 1790-1825
Chair: [tba]
- Maria Cristina Bragone: Stikhotvoreniia v "Arifmetike" L. Magnitskogo
- Charles Drage: The dactylic hexameter in Russian poetry from Radishchev to Pushkin
- Ken Craven: Rousseau, Sterne and the Decembrists
- Mark Altshuller: Karamzin i Shishkov v spore o sud'be Rossii
19.00 - Dinner
Tuesday 7 July
Excursion (Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle)
Wednesday 8 July
08.15-09.15 - Breakfast
09.30-11.00 - Panel 9: Cultural Patterns of Personal
Behaviour
Chair: [tba]
- Andrei Zorin: [tba]
- Alexandre Stroev: [tba]
- A. Vacheva: [tba]
11.00-11.30 - Coffee
11.30-13.00 - Panel 10: Clerical Discourse
Chair: [tba]
- Gary Marker: Intimacy and Grace: On Reading the "Diariusz" of Dimitrii Rostovskii
- Elise Wirtschafter: Self and Society in the Russian Enlightenment: The Autobiography of Platon (Levshin)
- Viktor Zhivov: [tba]
13.00-14.00 - Lunch
14.00-15.30 - Panel 11: Theatre
Chair: Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
- Maria Chiara Pesenti: Rannyi teatr XVIII veka i ego izobrazhenie v narodnykh kartinkakh: odin primer
- Kirill Ospovat: Tragediia Sumarokova "Sinav i Truvor": katarsis i politika pri dvore Elizavety Petrovny
- Giovanna Moracci: The Folk Theme in Catherine's Theatre
- Tatiana Smoliarova: Theatre as Metaphor, 1780s-1800s
15.30-16.00 - Tea
16.30-18.00 - Panel 12: Rossica
Chair: Gareth Jones
- Maria di Salvo: Francesco Angiolini's Ode to Catherine (1789) and the Jesuits in Russia
- Natal'ia Kochetova: Franz Kratter's "Alexander Menzikov" (1794) and "Das Maedchen von Marienburg" (1795)
- Anthony Cross: From the Assassination to Tilsit: the British in Russia and Their Travel Writings (1801-1807)
19.30 - Conference Banquet (Durham Castle)
Thursday 9 July
08.15-09.15 - Breakfast
09.30-11.00 - Panel 13: Prisons and Prisoners
Chair: John Keep
- Janet Hartley: The Army: Prisoners and Prison
- Sergei Kozlov: Russian Prisoners of the Great Northern War (in Swedish archives)
- Patrick O'Meara: Timofei Bok: Prisoner of Alexander I
- Oleg Omel'chenko: [tba]
11.00-11.30 - Coffee
11.30-13.00 - Panel 14: Science and Empire in
Eighteenth-Century Russia
Chair: [tba]
- Denis Shaw: [tba]
- David Moon: The Academy of Sciences Expeditions to the Steppes in the 1760s and 1770s
- Andreas Renner: Aspects of Medicine in c18th Russia
- Alexei Postnikov: Geographical Investigations by Russian Orthodox Church Missionaries in the Aleutian Islands and Alaska in the c18th and early c19th
- Stephen Usitalo: Fashioning a Community of Scientists in Eighteenth-Century Russia
13.00-14.00 - Lunch
14.00-15.30 - Panel 15: Commerce in
Eighteenth-Century Russia
Chair: [tba]
- Erika Monahan: Trade across the Empire: Russia, Siberia, Central Asia
- George Munro: Rostov: The Wholesale Emporium
- Robert E. Jones: Retail Trade in St. Petersburg: Gostinyi Dvor or Gostinyi Vor?
15.45 - End of conference and departure
