Welcome to the Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association. The ECRSA, an affiliate of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), aims to facilitate and expand the study of eighteenth-century Russia across the disciplines. Membership is free and open to all scholars working on eighteenth-century Russian studies. This site is designed as a resource for ECRSA members to learn about events, conferences, and colleagues’ recent publications and research in progress. Members are encouraged to submit information to the webmaster for inclusion in the site (amewington@davidson.edu).
Annual Meeting
The ECRSA will hold its annual meeting at the upcoming ASEEES convention in Washington D.C. Please join us on Saturday morning, November 19, from 8:00-9:45 in the Palladium Ballroom of the Omni Shoreham Hotel (the main conference hotel).
ECRSA-sponsored panel
The ECRSA panel at this year's meeting is "Panegyrics" to be held on Saturday, November 19 from 12:45-2:30pm, in Suite 209. For details on this and other 18th-century panels, see ECRSA
Events.
Marc Raeff Book Prize
The first annual Marc Raeff Book Prize will be awarded to Guzel' Vazykhanova Ibneeva, Associate Professor, Kazan Federal University <http://www.ksu.ru/persons/4209.ru.html > for Imperskaia politika Ekateriny II v zerkale ventsenosnykh puteshestvii (Moscow: Pamiatniki istoricheskoi mysli, 2009), which uses the theme of Catherine the Great's travels within the empire as a lens into both social history and the articulation and performance of imperial authority.
The ECRSA is now accepting submissions for next year's Marc Raeff Book Prize. The award is sponsored by the ECRSA and named in honor of Marc Raeff (1923-2008), historian, teacher, and dix-huitièmiste par excellence. The Raeff Prize will be awarded annually for a publication that is of exceptional merit and lasting significance for understanding Imperial Russia, particularly during the long eighteenth-century. The submitted work must bear a copyright date of either one or two years preceding the award year (e.g. for the 2012 competition the published copyright dates are 2010 and 2011). It can be published in any language read by members of the ECRSA Prize Selection Committee (including Russian) and in any format (analog or digital). Scholarly merit, originality, and felicity of style will be the main criteria for selection. Submissions from scholars who are less than five (5) years from receiving their doctoral degree are particularly encouraged. The recipient of the award will be recognized with a cash prize, which will be presented in November 2012, during the ASEEES annual convention. See ECRSA Events for full details.