Varvara Kukushkina’s Report at the Seminar «Magic, Astrology, and Science in Russian Modernism»
On September 28, the regular research seminar «Magic, Astrology, and Science in Russian Modernism» took place. Varvara Kukushkina presented a report titled «Art and Physiognomy in the Texts of I. A. Sikorski».
Pavel Yushin’s Talk at the 9th ESHS Conference
On August 31-September 3, the 9th ESHS Conference: Visual, Material and Sensory Cultures of Science took place. As part of the panel «Popular Representation / Misrepresentation of Modern Physical Theories», which was held on September 1, Pavel Yushin presented a paper «Inverted Space-Time in Pavel Florensky's Scientific Imagination: A Commentary on the Cover of the Journal “Makovets” (№3, 1923)».
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.