Program

October 1, Wednesday

12:00–12:30: Conference opening, welcome address by prof. A.B. Kamenskii and prof. A.M. Semyonov

12:30–13:30: Lunch

13:30–15:00: Keynote lecture by prof. E.V. Anisimov, Peter the Great: The birth of the Russian Empire (the lecture is held in Russian)

15:10–17:10: Section 1: Political leadership in social context

1. Chernyavskaya Alesya (Moscow), Rumors, talks and other crimesagainst Anna Ioannovna in Russia in the 1730s (as represented by the records of the Secret Service’s Moscow office)
2. Del Dzhudich Francesca (Moscow),The celebratory elements of J. V. Stalin’s jubilees (based on the press materials concerning the 1920–1940s)
3. Kochergin Nikita (Perm),American conservatives’ attitudes to politics of Ronald Reagan

17:10–17:30: Coffee break

17:30–19:00: Workshop1: Publishing research results in peer-reviewed journals, prof. A.M. Semyonov, co-editor of Ab Imperio: New Imperial History and Studies of Nationalism in the post-Soviet Space, Sergey Glebov, assistant professor, Amherst and Smith College and visiting professor HSE-St. Petersburg, co-editor of Ab Imperio: New Imperial History and Studies of Nationalism in the post-Soviet Space, senior lecturer I.V. Sablin.

October 2, Thursday

9:00 – 11:00: Section 2. Spatial history

1. Kukushkin Kuzma (St. Petersburg), Land borders in Smolensk defense system, 1609–1611
2. Oleg Kudinov (St. Petersburg),New methods of studying the past: GIS and their application to the research of the First World War
3. Manzhurin Evgeniy (Saint Petersburg), The Unknown Thaw: Spaces and Practices of the Soviet Symbolic Revival

11:00 – 11:20: Coffee break

11:20 – 13:20: Section 3. Visual history

1. Erakhtina Anastasia (Perm), The issue of the interpretive contexts of the “Mountain of Wisdom” mosaic in the Siena Cathedral
2. Balagurov Nikita (St. Petersburg), The emperor at the exhibition: on the anthropology of Russian monarchy
3. Zimina Maria (Saint-Petersburg), Central Asia in the visual discourse of the Russian Empire, late 19th and early 20th century

13:20 – 14:10: Lunch 

14:10 – 16:10: Section 4. Demographic, economic and financial history

1. Rudnik Sofia (Perm), Multicentric study of Chernovskoeporechie’s demography
2. Mikhailov Sergei (St. Petersburg), International postal exchange in the nineteenth century: the postal treaties between the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia
3. Moiseev Andrei (Moscow),The dynamics of the zemstvo (‘local self-government’) budgets, 1895–1913

16:10 – 16:30: Coffee break

16:30 – 17:50: Section 5. Qualitative and quantitative studies in the history of education

1. Sitnikov Maxim (Perm), Problems of American education: a view of Nathan Glazer
2. Ivanova Evgeniya (St. Petersburg) and Prohanova Svetlana (St. Petersburg), Prosopographic database of university professors as a tool for comparative research in the history of universities: Methodology issues and preliminary results

17:50–18:00: Coffee break

18:00–19:00: Workshop 2: Digital resources in historical research, senior lecturer I.V. Sablin

October 3, Friday

8:00 – 8:50: Breakfast

9:00 – 11:00: Section 6. Social and cultural reconfigurations in early Soviet Russia       

1. Litvinenko Kseniya (St. Petersburg), In search of identity: the policy of constructing historical heritage in Bolshevik Russia
2. Osipenko Alexandra (Perm), Social space and urban everydayness of Soviet literary intellectuals of the 1920s on Mikhail Bulgakov’s example
3. Rakhmetova Alsu (Perm), Singularity and the establishment of prejudice against the “Whites” in the 1920s

11:00 – 11:20: Coffee break

11:20 – 12:40: Roundtable

12:40 – 13:30: Lunch