International Research Seminar “Historical Biographies in the context of Regional and Imperial borders of Northern Europe”

International Research Seminar “Historical Biographies in the context of  Regional and Imperial borders of Northern Europe” will be held on the 24^th-26^th of October 2013 at the Faculty of History HSE – Saint-Petersburg jointly with the Center for Historical Research.

The purpose of the conference is the integration of research efforts of in the field of filing the biographical data of Early Modern period. Most of the reports will be concentrated on the  methods and prosopographic biographical research applied to the Baltic region in the Early Modern period. Recognized scientists from the Baltic countries - Russia, Sweden, Estonia, Finland will exchange their experiences, discuss the possibility of international projects, the creation of common databases with a view to raise prosopographical research to a new level.

Department of History HSE – Saint-Petersburg

24^th-26^th of October 2013

Saint-Petersburg, Promyshlennaya st., 14 A, office 323

Working languages: ​​Russian, English

Program of

International Research Seminar
“Historical Biographies in the context of  Regional and Imperial borders of Northern Europe”

Department of History HSE – Saint-Petersburg

24^th-26^th of October 2013

Saint-Petersburg, Promyshlennaya st., 14 A, office 323

Working languages: ​​Russian, English

24^th of October

The morning session

10.00-13.50

1. Adrian Selin (HSE – Saint-Petersburg). Overview of prosopographical research in 2000-2013.

2. Julia Laius (HSE  –  Saint-Petersburg). Trans-border interrelations in biographies of Russian and Scandinavian researchers of Arctic, 1900-1950s 

3. Kimmo Katajala (University of Eastern Finland) Studying the Noble and Gentry of Käkisalmi province and Ingria during the Swedish period (XVII^th century).

4. Andrew Adamson (University of Tartu). Duke Magnus of Holstein, king of Livonia, Tsar Ivan the Terrible’s  "son-in-law ".

5 . Einar Vyarya (University of Tallin) Gustav Fredrik Bening (1790 - 1866) – the first Finnish commercial solicitor in the province of Estonia.

6. Tiit Rosenberg (University of Tartu) Academician Alexander von Middendorf (1815-1894) and Doctor of Philosophy Jacob Johnson (1806-1865) and their activities in Imperial Free Economic Society and Livonian Charitable Economic Society.

Lunch

14.00-14.50

The evening session

15.00-18.00

7. Zoe Dmitrieva (Saint-Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences). Personal structure of the brethren of Cyril-Belozersky monastery in the end of the XVI^th  - early XVII^th century.

8. Aleksandr Peresvetov-Morath (University of Stockholm) Straddling cultural and political borders in Ingria: the cases of Benjamin Barohn and the priestly dynasty of Lopskij pogost in Swedish Ingria.

9. Alexander Korzinin (University of Saint-Petersburg ). Study of the Sovereign Court persons of Ivan the Terrible’s epoch (1550s – 1^st half of 1560s).

10 . Vladimir Uspenskiy (HSE  –  Saint-Petersburg) Sovereign’s Court  in the 1550s - 1570s as a social network.

11. Alexei Lobin, Michael Bentsianov . Lists of prisoners of Orsha Battle, 1514 as a source for state service organization in 1^st half of 16^th century Russia.

12. Oleg Nozdrin (Russian Academy of State Service, Orel branch ). Scotch of the Baltic Sea, XV^th-XVII^th centuries:  experiences of biographical research.

October 25

The morning session

10.00-13.50

1. Dmitry Weber (Saint-Petersburg  State University) Pushing the Limits : From Empire to Livonia. Westphalian Altenbokum kin in XV^th – XVI^th centuries .

2. Alexander Tolstikov (University of Petrozavodsk) The fate of the Swedish "prince" Gustav in the context of history of Baltic region at the turn of XVI^th-XVII^th centuries .

3. Vadim Stetsyuk (National University of Kamenetz -Podolsk). Participants of the religious controversy in the Commonwealth in XVI^th-XVII^th centuries: features of prosopography of Eastern European intellectuals of Early Modern period.

4. Alexander Molochnikov (Saint-Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences) Nobles Bestuzhevs during the defense of Smolensk in 1609-1611 and the Bestuzhev-Rumins’ ancestry signature.

5. Paul Chechenkov (Nizhny Novgorod Technical University), Dmitry Chernenko (Vologda State Pedagogical University) Databases in the study of historical destinies of the Early Modern Nizhny Novgorod nobility.

6. Daria Brusnitsyna (University of Petrozavodsk). Prosopographic database as a tool for reconstruction of the fate of Karelian «plow» soldiers.

Lunch

14.00-14.50

The evening session

15.00-18.00

7. Alexei Kraykovsky (European University in Saint-Petersburg). Biographical aspect in studying  the transfer of the European technologies in sea fishing to Russia in the XVIII^th century .

8. Veronica Belyaeva (Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Management and Business) Reconstruction of family ties of Balakhninsky Salt Manufacturers in XVII^th  century.

9. Andrew Deduk (Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts) . "The list of Russian neighbor and further cities" in the research biographies of Gerhard Miller and August Schletzer.

10. Alla Mayorova (University of Saratov) Petersburg period in the biography of Volsky eminent citizen V. Zlobin (circa 1789 - 1812).

11. Pavel Vasilyev (Saint-Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences) Soviet psychiatry: prosopographical research.

October 26

Round table

Information technology and prosopography. Searching for a universal method.

Moderator – A. Filyushkin

Promyshlennaya st., 17 B, office  412

10.00-13.00

Lunch

14.00-15

Summary of the conference

16.00-17.00