63rd Annual Meeting of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia

Online via Zoom, 5-7 January 2022

Wednesday 5 January

1115-1230 Aleksei Kraikovskii (Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg), ‘Another Amsterdam’: The Modernisation of Marine Product Harvesting and the Maritimisation of Eighteenth-Century Russia

1330-1445 Elena Teibenbacher (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz), Maria Theresa and Catherine II: The Legitimacy of Female Rule in Representation and Retrospect within a Socio-cultural Context

1545-1700 Matthew Romaniello (Weber State University), ‘Winter certainly must take the lead’: Challenging Climate Determinism at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Thursday 6 January

1115-1245 Ekaterina Heath (University of Sydney) and Jennifer Milam (University of Newcastle), The Science of Thrill: катальные горы during the reigns of Elizaveta Petrovna and Catherine II

1330-1445 Business Meeting

1545-1700 Rebecca Gigli (St Kliment-Okhridski University, Sofia), Eighteenth-Century Medicine, Health and the Memoirs of Prince I. M. Dolgorukov (1764-1823)

Friday 7 January

1330-1445 Greg Afinogenov (Georgetown University), Counterrevolution as Humanitarian Intervention: Suvorov in Italy, 1799

1545-1700 Alex Averbuch (University of Toronto), Jewish Solicitory Poetry to Catherine II: Graphics, Ornamentation, Materiality

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