EXHIBITION OF THE ACADEMIC RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS AT EUSP 2009, December 4-5 European University at Saint Petersburg, Gagarinskaia Street, 3 Conference Program
December 4, Friday 9:30-10:00 – регистрация участников
9:30-10:00—Participant registration
10:00-10:50—Conference opening, remarks by rector Oleg Kharkhordin
Activity modules 10:15-11:45 White Hall “Archives and Society: Contemporary Legislation and Law En- forcement Practice” Moderator: Boris Kolonitsky (EUSP) Galina Lisitsyna (EUSP) “Unpopular Traditions and Double Standards” Tatiana Khorkhordina (Russian State University for the Humanities) “Archives and Society: A History of Problems” Sergei Mironenko (State Archive of the Russian Federation) “Contemporary Archival Legisla- tion and Law Enforcement Practices” Olga Leontieva (Archival Department of Tverskaia Region Administration) “Confidential Infor- mation: Legislative Contradictions and Archival Practices)
11:45-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-1:30 White Hall “The Intellectual Heritage of the 1917 Revolution” Moderator—Artemy Magun (EUSP) Artemy Magun (EUSP) “The Event and its Heritage. The Revolution of 1917 and Contempo- rary Russian Culture” Oksana Timofeeva (New Literary Observer): “The Revolutionary Animal of Andrei Platonov” Leonid Tereschenkov (Petrozavodsk State University) “The Establishing of the Research Methodologies of the Revolution in the Work of the Committee for the History of the October Revolution and the Bolshevik Party (1920–1924)” Ilya Kalinin (Smolny College-EUSP) “Socialist Formalism: The Artist as Tradesman/The Indus- trial Worker as Artist”
1:30-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:00 “Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Responsibility: Gender Studies in Russian Regions” Moderator—Olga Tkach (Centre for Independent Social Research-EUSP) Elena Zhidkova (Samara State University) “Caring for the Elderly in the Family: Debt and Sac- rifice” Oleg Klyuenkov (Perm State University) “Sexuality Practices in Contemporary Youth Using the Example of Arkhangelsk” Violetta Khabibullina (Kazan State University) “Medical Cases in Kazan Women’s Medical Practices, Where Strangers are Closer Than Your Own” Invited Experts—Ludmila Popkova (Samara State University), Irina Tartakovskaia (The Soci- ology Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Irina Yukina (Nevsky Institute of Lan- guage and Culture)
4:00-4:15 Coffee break
4:15-5:45 White Hall “Europe in Small Details: Notes in the Fields of Tempus Moderators: Maria Nozhenko, Elena Belokurova (EUSP) Andrei Demidov (Petrozavodsk State University-Central European University) “Universities as People: Habitus of the Universities of Europe” Anna Zhelnina (EUSP) “Cheese Plates: Portraits of European Countries in Cheese” Dmitri Antonyuk (Strategy Center) “The Transformation and Adaptation of Argentine Tango in Europe” Mikhail Bezborodov (Petrozavodsk State University) “Sketches: Italy in the Eyes of Russo Studento” Ekaterina Altova (EUSP) “The Modest Enchantment of Academic Exchange” Tapani Kaakkuriniemi (University of Helsinki) “To an Easy Bath, or a Hard One: The Truth About Finnish Sauna”
5:45-6:00 Coffee break
6:00-7:30 Conference Hall Plenary meeting Viktor Zhivov (The Institute of Russian Language of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Uni- versity of California, Berkeley) “Penitential Discipline and Soteriological Conceptualizations in the History of Russian Spirituality” 7:30 Golden Hall Reception
December 5, Saturday Activity Module 10:15-11:45 White Hall “Natural Resources, People and Technology in the Russian Empire from the 18th to the Beginning of the 19th Centuries: Description, Absorption, Modernization” Moderator and Commentator—Vladimir Lapin (EUSP) Aleksandra Bekasova (The St. Petersburg Institute of the History of Natural Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences) “A Study of the Natural Riches of the Rus- sian Empire in Expeditions from 1760-1780: The “View” of a Natural Scientist and Travel Descriptions” Aleksei Kraikovski (EUSP) “Politics in the Background of the Sea: Governmental Moderniza- tion of the Maritime Business of Russia in the 18th-19th Centuries” Margarita Dadykina (EUSP) “Did the Air of Grumant Make Freedom?: The Imperial Myth About Svalbard and Local Practices of Survival in the Russian North in the 18th-19th Centu- ries”
11:45-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-1:00 White Hall “Social Sciences on the Periphery of the ‘Academic World System’” Moderator: Kirill Titaev (EUSP-State University Higher School of Economics of St. Petersburg) Katerina Guba (EUSP) “World Research in the Sphere of Attention of the Local Academic Community” Andrei Poletaev, Irina Savelieva (Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humani- ties, State University Higher School of Economics of Moscow) “The Presence and Absence of Russia in Worldwide Research” Mikhail Sokolov (EUSP-State University Higher School of Economics of St. Petersburg) “Aca- demic World Systems and Political Dynamics of National Research Communities: What Does the Gellner-Wallerstein-Greenfeld Hypothesis Explain?”
12:00-1:00 Golden Hall “Russia-France: Problems of Artistic Cooperation on the Bor- ders of the 19th and 20th Centuries” Moderator: Ilya Doronchenkov (EUSP) Elena Tunina (DO Gallery) “The Evolution of the Method of the Creation of Sculptural Form in France and Russia During the Turn of the Century” Inna Pravdenko (EUSP) “French Art in the Criticism of the ‘World of Art’ Magazine (1899-1904) Dina Lemtyugova (EUSP) “The Exhibition ‘100 Years of French Painting’ in St Petersburg (1912)” Anna Petrova (EUSP) “The Russian Opera of Paris (1929-1935): The Attempt to Create a National Theater in Exile”
1:30-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:30 White Hall “Religion in the Circumstances of Secularization and Desecu- larization: Perspectives of the Historical Approach in Anthro- pology of Religion” Moderator—Sergei Shtyrkov (EUSP) Sergei Abashin (The Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sci- ences) “Rationality and Faith: The Re-Islamization of Central Asia” Zhanna Kormina (State University Higher School of Economics of St. Petersburg) “The Soviet Antecedent of Female Spiritual Eldership: Towards Questions of the Genesis of Several Forms of Contemporary Orthodox Culture” Natalia Evseenko (EUSP) “The Presentation of Proper ‘Increased Devoutness’ as a Marker of Group Identity of Jews in the city of Ioannina (Greece)”
4:30-4:45 Coffee break
4:45-6:15 White Hall “The Memory of the Leningrad Blockade: The Formation of the Representation of Events and the Memories of Witnesses, Family Narratives, and of the Social Politics of the State” Moderator—Natalia Sureva (EUSP) Sergei Iarov (EUSP) “The Representation of the Blockade in the Diaries of Leningrad Resi- dents: Problems in the Conduct of City Dwellers in the Winter of 1941-1942” Alena Pfozer (EUSP) “The Blockade in Family Memory: From the Experience of Grandmoth- ers to the Identities of Grandchildren” Tatiana Voronina “Representation of the Blockade as an Object of Cultural Production: The History of the Creation of Societies of Blockade Survivors”
6:15-6:30 Coffee break
6:30-8:00 Conference Hall “Studies in Near-Border Zones: Perceptions of Other and In- ter-Cultural Communication” Moderator—Mikhail Lurie Ekaterina Melnikova (EUSP) “Postwar Colonization of Near-Border Karelia: Russian Roulette” Igor Ermachenko (Herzen University-Russian State University for the Humanities) “Border and Frontier in Journalistic Representations of the ‘Eastern’ Wars of Russia (the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905)” Kapitolina Fedorova (EUSP) “Communication in the Russia-China Frontier: Research Strategies” Tatiana Gavrilova (Institute of Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science) “Rus- sian and Finnish Languages as Lingua Franca: A Presentation of a Joint Research Project”
6:30-8:00 White Hall and Golden Hall Presenations of the new research center of the EUSP—The Institute for the Rule of Law (Vadim Volkov, Ella Paneyakh, Kirill Titaev, Denis Primakov, Nikolai Karbainov, Anna Chernysh) 8:00 Golden Hall Reception