IX International Conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia (Leuven)
Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)
17th-22nd July 2014
Organized by the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and the State University of Groningen (The Netherlands).
Programme
Panel 1 - RUSSIAN SENTIMENTALISM
Chair: Joachim Klein
- Natal'ia Kochetkova (SPb.): Читательские отклики на публикации Карамзина
- Andrei Kostin (SPb.): Радищев в оценке читателей конца XVIII-начала XIX вв.
- Rodolphe Baudin (Strasbourg): James Galiffe, Karamzin's young Swiss acquaintance, and his literary pursuits in Russia
- Elise Bonner (Princeton, NJ): Operas, Carousels, and Благонравие: St Petersburg and the Sounds of Moral Enlightenment in 1766
Panel 2 - BUREAUCRATS, SERVICE AND SOCIETY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIA
Chair: Patrick O'Meara
- Mark Soderstrom (Aurora): Timofei's Tale: Service and Selfhood in Irkutsk
- Nathan Gerth (Notre Dame, IN): The Insiders: Treasury-Chamber Clan of Tver' Province and the Limits of State Power
- Julia Bodrova (Tver’): Чиновничество в системе социальных связей провинциального общества конца XVIII-начала XIX в
Panel 3 - THE LITERARY WORK OF CATHERINE II
Chair: Mikhail Liustrov
- Andrei Zorin (Oxford): Государыня и нация воспитанников. Екатерининская программа воспитания чувств
- Angelina Vacheva (Sofia): Диалог образов. Проблема просвещeнного монарха в мемуарах Екатерины II
- Emmanuel Waegemans (Leuven): Слово государево или вся власть пословицам
Panel 4 - SIBERIA
Chair: Simon Dixon
- Janet Hartley (London): Slaves and Spouses: Indigenous Women and Russian Settlers in Siberia
- Sergei Kozlov (SPb.): Siberia in the Context of Academic Expeditions at the time of Catherine II
- Jim Gibson (Toronto, ON): Camaraderie in Kamchatka: England’s Captain James Cook and Kamchatka’s Governor Magnus Behm
- Marianna Murav'eva (Oxford Brookes): Domestic Killings in Siberian Families: Gender, Violence and Ethnicity in Eighteenth-Century Colonisation
Panel 5 - MERCHANTS AND COMMERCE
Chair: Janet Hartley
- George Munro (Richmond, VA): The Law and the Profits: P.H. Dilthey, the Fundamentals of Veksel Law and Merchant Practices
- Colum Leckey (Piedmont, VA): Orenburg and Russian Central Asian Trade
- Guzel' Ibneeva (Kazan): The Interaction of Catherine II and Russian Merchants in the Course of her Imperial Journeys
Panel 6 - THE ORTHODOX CHURCH AND RUSSIAN SOCIETY IN TRANSITION
Chair: Ingrid Schierle
- Ekaterina Kislova (Moscow): Homily and Preaching: In and Outside the Court
- Ingrid Schierle (Tübingen): Concepts of Ruler and Ruled in Ecclesiastic Discourse during the Age of Catherine II
- Anna Zernova (Moscow): Russian state ideology and Orthodox homily in the age of Catherine the Great
- Denis Sdvizhkov (Moscow): Church and Nation – Reciprocal Influences of Discourse
Panel 7 - RUSSIAN LITERATURE (I)
Chair: Kirill Ospovat
- Elena Pogos'ian (Edmonton, AB): 'The Human Body Has More than 200 Bones': An Anatomy of Gavriil Buzhinskii's Metaphor
- Kirill Ospovat (Berlin): Execution of the Author? The Trial of Artemii Volynskii and the Cultural Poetics of Russian Absolutism
- Tatiana Smoliarova (New York): 'Vitruvian Man' in the 1780s: Fëdor Karzhavin
- Andreas Schönle (London): Aleksandr Bakunin’s Poetry and the Morality of Landscape Improvements
Panel 8 - SCHOLARS AND FORTUNE-SEEKERS: GERMANS IN RUSSIA
Chair: Irina Kulakova
- Elena Marasinova (RAN): The Archive of the Historian Aleksandr Brikner
- Irena Vladimirsky (Israel): The Life and Work of Iakov Grot
- Alexander Martin (Notre Dame, IN): The German-Russian Odyssey of the Actor, Freemason, Merchant and Pastor J.A. Rosenstrauch
- Wim Coudenys (Leuven): Translatio historii: The Role of Translation in Eighteenth-Century History-writing in Russia
Panel 9 - FREEMASONRY AND WESTERN IDEAS IN RUSSIA
Chair: Emmanuel Waegemans
- Victoria Frede (Berkeley, CA): Friendship and Freemasonry in the 1780s and early 1790s
- Michael Schippan (Wolfenbüttel/Berlin): 'Der wohl eingerichtete Staat des Königreichs Ophir' und die 'Reise' des Fürsten Shcherbatov
- Maria Cristina Bragone (Pavia): К истории русско-немецких отношений в петровскую эпоху: перевод И.В. Пауса ‘Малого Катехизиса’ Лютера
- Laura Rossi (Milan): Русский перевод поэмы в прозе ‘Книдский храм’ Шарль Луи Монтескье
- Natalie Bayer (Drake, IN): Count Grabianka and the New Israel Society based on is Residence in Russia between 1805 and 1807
Panel 10 - DIPLOMACY AND FOREIGN ENCOUNTERS WITH RUSSIA
Chair: Paul Keenan
- Hans van Koningsbrugge (Groningen): Russia and the Dutch Republic at the Eve of the Fourth English War (1780-1784)
- Robert Collis (Helsinki): A Curious Age: The Marvels and Magic of Western Adventurers in Russia, 1759-1803
- Paul Keenan (London): Prince Karl of Saxony at the Russian Court, 1758-1759
- Michael Bitter (Hawaii): Ministers and Favourites in the 1730s: Ostermann and Biron
Panel 11 - RUSSIAN LITERATURE (II)
Chair: Maria di Salvo
- Marcus Levitt (Los Angeles, CA): Sumarokov’s Operas
- Mikhail Liustrov (Moscow): Fonvizin and Holberg
- Manfred Schruba (Bochum): Русские народные картинки: западноевропейские образцы и параллели
- Irina Kulakova (Moscow): Просвещенный дворянин и образованный разночинец: партнерство и патронаж в интеллектуальных коммуникациях в России втор. пол. XVIII – начала XIX в.
Panel 12 - RUSSIAN LITERATURE (III)
Chair: Andrei Kostin
- Nadezhda Alekseeva (SPb.): Переложения псалмов в русской поэзии XVIII века. Проблема источников
- Michela Venditti (Naples): Жанр надписи в творчестве Гаврилы Державина
- Alla Keuten (Bremen): Филантропист и "Фелица": еще раз к вопросу о том, как нам изучать переводы XVIII века
- Joachim Klein (Leiden): Служба, лень и доуг в русской дворянской кул'туре XVIII века
Panel 13 - RUSSIAN ART
Chair: Tony Cross
- Erin McBurney (London): Catherine II and her Political Exploitation of Art
- Catherine Phillips (Glasgow): D. M. Golitsyn and the Collecting of Drawings
- Ekaterina Skvortcova (SPb.): Идея преемственности власти в русском искусстве XVIII века
- Steven Usitalo (Aberdeen, SD): Curiosity and the Kunstkamera
