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)

19.00 - Dinner

Sunday 5 July

08.15-09.15 - Breakfast

09.30-11.00 - Panel 2: Theatre
Chair: [Anthony Cross (Cambridge)]

11.00-11.30 - Coffee

11.30-13.00 - Panel 3: The Court
Chair: Erin McBurney (Columbia)

13.00-14.00 - Lunch

14.00-16.30 - Free afternoon

16.30-17.00 - Tea

17.00-18.45 - Panel 4: Society and Economy

Chair: Alexander Martin (Notre Dame)

19.00 - Dinner

Monday 6 July

08.15-09.15 - Breakfast

09.30-11.00 - Panel 5: Commerce in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Chair: [tbc]

11.00-11.30 - Coffee

11.30-13.00 - Panel 6: Obscene and Libertine Literature
Chair: [Laura Rossi (Milan)]

13.00-14.00 - Lunch

14.00-15.45 - Panel 7: Russian Literature of the Eighteenth Century
Chair: Joachim Klein (Berkeley)

15.45-16.15 - Tea

16.15-17.45 - Panel 8: Cultural Patterns of Personal Behaviour
Chair: [Viktor Zhivov (Moscow)]

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)]

11.00-11.30 - Coffee

11.30-13.00 - Panel 10: Clerical Discourse
Chair: Simon Dixon (UCL)

13.00-14.00 - Lunch

14.00-15.30 - Panel 11: Military and Diplomatic
Chair: Roger Bartlett (Ludlow)

15.30-16.00 - Tea

16.30-18.00 - Panel 12: Rossica
Chair: Gareth Jones

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)

11.00-11.30 - Coffee

11.30-13.00 - Panel 14: Science and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Chair: 
Denis Shaw (Birmingham)

13.00-14.00 - Lunch

**End of Conference and Departure**