The Tenth Research Seminar «Magic, Astrology, and Science in Russian Modernism»
On December 16, during the course of the tenth seminar «Magic, Astrology, and Science in Russian Modernism», Svetlana Demidova presented a report «On Astrology in Thomas Mann’s Novel “Doctor Faustus”».
Group Members took part in the International Conference «Worldview / World Picture: Milestones of Intellectual History»
On November 28-30, the International Conference «Worldview / World Picture: Milestones of Intellectual History» was held in St. Petersburg, where the group presented some of the results of their work.
The Ninth Research Seminar «Magic, Astrology, and Science in Russian Modernism»
On November 14, the ninth research seminar «Magic, Astrology, and Science in Russian Modernism» took place. Varvara Kukushkina and Pavel Yushin (via Skype) presented a fragment of the group's collective research, with a report «On the Perception of Heliocentrism in the Second Half of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries».
The Eighth Research Seminar «Magic, Astrology, and Science in Russian Modernism»
On October 17, the eighth session of the research seminar «Magic, Astrology, and Science in Russian Modernism» took place.
The Seventh Research Seminar «Magic, Astrology, and Science in Russian Modernism»
On September 23rd, the seventh session of the research seminar «Magic, Astrology, and Science in Russian Modernism» took place, at which Pavel Yushin gave a talk entitled «The Cover of the Journal “Makovets” and Pavel Florensky's Scientific Imagination».
The Sixth Research Seminar «Magic, Astrology, and Science in Russian Modernism»
On June 13, the sixth research seminar «Magic, Astrology, and Science in Russian Modernism» took place, during the course of which Liia Ermakova has delivered a report on “The Expression “litso zemli” in Vyacheslav Ivanov’s Texts».
The Fifth Research Seminar «Magic, Astrology, and Science in Russian Modernism»
On May 17, the fifth session of the research seminar «Magic, Astrology, and Science in Russian Modernism» took place. Maria Fesenko presented a paper «“The Alexandrian Period and Us”: Hellenism in the Historical Imagination of Russian Modernists».
A Group Member Has Participated in the International Conference «Vyacheslav Ivanov: The Enigma of Modernism» in Jerusalem
On May 5, Liia Ermakova delivered a report on «Bibleisms in Vyacheslav Ivanov’s Translations of Aeschylus».
A group member has participated in the Third student conference of Literary scholars and Linguists of NRU HSE Saint-Petersburg
On April 26-27, the Third student conference of Literary scholars and Linguists of NRU HSE has taken place. Svetlana Demidova has participated in the conference with a report on the topic «The Sun of Mysterium and the Sun of Scriabin: Motifs of Russian Symbolism in Constructing the Biography of Alexander Scriabin».
The Fourth Research Seminar «Magic, Astrology, and Science in Russian Modernism»
The fourth research seminar «Magic, Astrology, and Science in Russian Modernism», during which Varvara Kukushkina presented a report «“The Occult Path Has Begun”: Emily Medtner, Goethe and Anthroposophy” was held on April 24.