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VII International Conference of the

Study Group on

Eighteenth Century Russia

Programme

23-29 July 2004

(Lutherstadt Wittenberg/Leucorea, Collegienstrasse 62)

organized by Prof. Gabriela Lehmann-Carli

(Slavonic Institute of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg)

in cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Researching Centre of

European Enlightenment (Halle)

Friday 23 July 2004

16.00 Tea

17.00 Opening ceremony

Prof. Gerhard Meiser (Dekan des Fachbereichs Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)

Prof. Anthony Cross (University of Cambridge; President of the Study Group on Eighteenth Century Russia)

Prof. Natal’jaDmitrievnaKochetkova ( St.Peterburg; Институт русской литературы; Президент Русского общества по изучению XVIII века)

Prof. Gabriela Lehmann-Carli (organizer)

17.30

Panel I: Memorials and Monuments in Eighteenth-Century Russia

Chair: Lindsey Hughes (London)

  1. John Klier (London): Commemorating Bogdan Chmielnicki / Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Kiev
  2. Antony Lentin (Buckinghamshire): Two forms of literary memorial: on the death of M.M.Shcherbatov and his son Ivan, 1790

19:00 Reception

Saturday 24 July 2004

9.00

Panel II: War and Society

Chair: Elise K. Wirtschafter (Beverly Hills)

  1. Janet Hartley (London): War and the Merchants: the Great Northern War
  2. Sergej Kozlov (St.Peterburg): War and Taxation in the Reign of Catherine the Great
  3. Douglas Smith (Seattle/Washington): War, Intrigue, and the Suppression of Russian Freemasonry in 1792
  4. Alexander Martin (Atlanta): The Middle Strata of Moscow and the Napoleon Invasion of 1812

11.00 Coffee

11.30

Panel III: Doing Business in Eighteenth century Russia

Chair: Robert E. Jones (Amherst/Massachusetts)

  1. Elisabeth Harder-Gersdorff (Bielefeld): Western Trade and Merchant banking in Eighteenth Century Riga
  2. David Ransel (Bloomington): Merchants and their aspirations (temptations)
  3. Robert E. Jones (Amherst/Massachusetts): Merchant Bankruptcy and the Courts
  4. George Munro (Richmond): The Merchants of Iaroslavl'

15.00 Excursion (Wittenberg)

17.00 Tea

17.30

Round-table on Eighteenth-Century Russia Towns

Chair: Alexander Kamenskii (Moskva)

  1. Maia Lavrinovich (Moskva): Police and practice of 18th Century Russian Towns' Administration
  2. Daniel Kaiser (Grinnell): Sheltring the Poor in 18th Century Russian Towns
  3. Olga Kosheleva (Moskva): Petersburg Townsmen of the Petrine Time
  4. Roger Bartlett (London): Baltic and Russian towns in the 18th century

Sunday 25 July 2004

9.00 Excursion (Wörlitz park and castle)

14.30

Panel IV: Russian literature

Chair: Joachim Klein (Leiden)

  1. Nadeshda Ju. Alekseeva (St. Peterburg): Polemika mezhdu V.K.Trediakovskim, M.V.Lomonosovym i A.P.Sumarokovym o perevode stichov
  2. Kirill A. Ospovat (Moskva): "Nashikh stran Malerb": Lomonosov i problema literaturnoi evoliucii
  3. Sergej I. Nikolaev (St.Peterburg): Topika literaturnogo truda v predstavleniiakh russkikh pisatelei XVIII veka
  4. Joachim Klein (Leiden): "Nemedlennoe iskorenie vsekh porokov": O moralisticheskikh zhurnalakh Ekateriny II i N. I. Novikova

16.30 Tea

17.00

Panel V: Russian theatre

Chairs: Herta Schmid (Potsdam)/ Silke Brohm (Leipzig)

  1. Giovanna Moracci (Roma): Performing History. Catherine II's Historical Dramas
  2. Lurana O'Malley (Hawai): Catherine the Great's "Rage aux Proverbes"
  3. Jan van der Meer (Amsterdam): Theatre under Catherine and Stanisław - a comparision
  4. Wendy Rosslyn (Nottingham): Women in Russian theatre
  5. Maria Chiara Pesenti (Bergamo): Allegorija i didaktizm v teatre i v narodnoj kartinke

Monday 26 July 2004

9.00

Panel VI: Censorship in Russia and the construction of national identity in Russia

Chair: Gabriela Lehmann-Carli (Halle/S.)

  1. Viktor Zhivov (Moskva): Ekaterina Velikaja. "Vsiakaia vsiachina" i rekontseptualizatsiia istorii
  2. Irina Kulakova (Moskva): Natsional'naja model' Rossijskogo universiteta
  3. Galina A. Kosmolinskaia (Moskva): Stanovlenie cenzury v Moskovskom universitete
  4. Silke Brohm (Leipzig): Censorship in Russian theatre

11.00 Coffee

11.30

Panel VII: The reception of lutheran theology and pietism in Russia

Chair: Natal'ja D. Kochetkova (Russia)

  1. Stefan Reichelt (Leipzig): The reception of Johann Arndt in Russia
  2. Michael Schippan (Berlin): Vosprijatie ljuteranskich avtorov v Rossii (Spalding, Crugot, Stender)
  3. Natal'ja D. Kochetkova (St.Petersburg): Vosprijatie pietizma v russkom masonstve

15.00

Panel VIII: Secular-Sacred Divides in 18th-century Russian

Chair: Gary Marker (New York)

  1. Lindsey Hughes (London): Seeing the sights in 18th-century Russia: the Moscow Kremlin
  2. Dan Waugh (Seattle, Washington): Icon Processions and the Changing Configuration of Sacred Space in Early Modern Russia: the Case of Viatka
  3. Marcus Levitt (Los Angeles): Civil and church scripts as cultural demarcators
  4. Gary Marker (New York): Religion and Gender

17:00 Tea

20.00 Conference Dinner (Best Western Stadtpalais Wittenberg)

(Pervaja reforma stichoslozhenija. Stichi Lomonosova, Sumarokova, Trediakovskogo chitaet Sergej Birjukov)

Tuesday 27 July 2004

9:00

Panel IX: Eccentrics and Adventurers

Chair: Anthony Cross (Cambridge)

  1. John T. Alexander (Kansas): The Adventures of a Russian American Citizen of the Universe: Fedor Karzhavin (1745-1812)
  2. Anthony Cross (Cambridge): Publish and perish: The Melancholy Fate of Nikolai Struiskii
  3. David Griffiths (Chapel Hill): The Other Emin
  4. Gareth Jones (Bangor): Who were the Eccentrics of Literature?

11:00 Coffee

11:30

Panel X: Intercultural translation and institutions

Chair: Michael Schippan (Berlin)

  1. Ingrid Schierle (Tübingen): “For the Benefit and Glory of the Fatherland”. The Concept of Otechestvo
  2. Charles Drage (London): Asclepiads and archilochians in 18th-century Russian poetry
  3. Maria Bragone (Pavia): "De civilitate morum puerilium" Erazma Rotterdamskogo v Rossii (konec XVII veka - pervaja polovina XVIII veka)
  4. Mark G. Altshuller (Pittsburgh): Sankt-Peterburg glazami odopistsev XVIII veka

14.00 Excursion (Halle / Foundations of Francke and Interdisciplinary Researching Centres of the European Enlightenment and of Pietism)

Wednesday 28 July 2004

9.00

Panel XI: Historical Methods and Concepts: The Problematica of Eighteenth-Century Russia

Chair: Douglas Smith (Seattle, Washington)

  1. Elise K. Wirtschafter (Beverly Hills): Russian Divergence and the Problem of Civil Society
  2. Nancy Kollmann (Stanford): Using the Law to Assess Continuity and Change over the Petrine Divide
  3. Andrei Zorin (Moskva): Towards the Cultural History of Emotions: the New Concepts of Love and Late XVIIIth Century Nobles
  4. Alexander Kamenskii (Moskva): Historical Anthropology and the Study of 18th Century Russia

11.00 Coffee

11.30

Panel XII: The Social and Cultural Context of Late 18th-Century russian Literature

Chair: Paola Ferretti (Roma)

  1. Sara Dickinson (Genoa): The Social Identity and Self-Presentation of Denis Fonvizin
  2. Maria Luisa Dodero (Genoa): Na granice imperii: usad'ba Monrepo
  3. Gitta Hammarberg (St. Paul) : Castalian Curative Springs: Muses and Muzhiks in Lipetsk
  4. Alessandra Tosi (Cambridge): Fon Fertsen's "Political Travelogue": Puteshestvie kritiki

15.00

Panel XIII: Science and Cartography in Eighteenth Century Russia

Chair: Denis Shaw (London)

  1. Aleksej Postnikov (Moskva): On a History of Charting of the Northern Pacific Coasts and Islands in the Eighteenth Century
  2. Charles Ellis (London): The St. Petersburg Academy and its Part in the First International Scientific Enterprise: the Transits of Venus, 1761 and 1769
  3. Andreas Renner (Köln): The concept of the Scientific Revolution and the Russian History of Science

16.30 Tea

Thursday 29 July 2004

9.00 Excursion (Potsdam-Sanssouci and Berlin)