Welcome
Welcome to the Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association. The ECRSA, an affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), 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.
Works in progress and recent publications
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
Call for papers
The German Historical Institute in Moscow is holding a conference in April 23-26, 2009 on "Nobility, State and Society in 18th Century Provincial Russia." The conference is being organized by Olga Glagoleva, Aleksandr Kamenskii and Ingrid Schierle. Please visit the Center's website for more information (in Russian). Submissions due October 15, 2008.See the ECRSA Events page for additional conference listings
AAASS 2008
ECRSA annual meeting: The ECRSA meeting at AAASS in Philadelphia will be followed by a dinner, so stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks.Eighteenth-Century Panels:The preliminary program for AAASS 2008 in Philadelphia is now available (PDF). Below you'll find a list of panels that include at least one paper on eighteenth-century topics. Several panels are focused entirely on the eighteenth century.
1-34: Self-Fashioning at the Eighteenth-Century Russian Imperial Court (Thursday, 1:00-3:00, meeting room 402, sponsored by the ECRSA. )
Chair: Hilde M. Hoogenboom, SUNY, U at Albany
Papers:
Ernest Alexander Zitser, Duke U “Prince Kurakin at the Court of Peter I”
Steven A. Usitalo, Northern State U “Lomonosov at the Court of Elizabeth I”
Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, Cal State Poly U, Pomona “Father Platon at the Court of Catherine II”
Disc.: Douglas Smith, Jackson School of Intl Studies, U of Washington
1-36 The State and Siberia: Three Centuries of Defining People
and Places (Thursday 1:00-3:00, Meeting Room 404)
Chair: Julia Esther Fein, U of Chicago
Papers:
Rachel Dawn Koroloff, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Science, Empire,
and National Determination in Eighteenth-Century Siberian Studies”
Tristra Michele Newyear, Indiana U “Kalym and the Buryat Community: Defining
and Debating Bride Price”
Melissa Andrea Chakars, Indiana U “Education and Postwar Social Transformation
among the Buryats”
Disc.: Robert W. Montgomery, Baldwin-Wallace College
3-04 Perceptions of the Russian Empire in the Eighteenth Century
(Friday, 8:00-10:00 a.m., Franklin Hall 4)
Chair: Michael Khodarkovsky, Loyola U
Papers:
Ricarda Vulpius, Ludwig-Maximilian U Munich (Germany) “The New Arrogance:
Russia’s Elite and Non-Russian Subjects”
Martina Winkler, Humboldt U of Berlin (Germany) “Russian Expansion in the
North Pacific”
Elena Marassinova, Inst of Russian History (Russia) “Political Notions as
a Tool of Social Control in the Period of Catherine the Great”
Disc.: Willard Sunderland, U of Cincinnati
3-09 Orthodox Women and their Confessors in Imperial Russia
(Friday, 8:00-10:00 a.m.,Grand Ballroom Salon D)
Chair: Gregory Lynn Bruess, U of Northern Iowa
Papers:
Nadieszda Kizenko, SUNY, U at Albany “Nuns, Laywomen, and their Confessors
in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”
William Gilson Wagner, Williams College “Fashioning Ideals of Monasticism
and Womanhood: The Nizhnii Novgorod Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross,
1802-1857”
Page Herrlinger, Bowdoin College “Orthodox Women and the Experience of Revolution
in Russia, 1917-1918”
Disc.: Isolde Renate Thyret, Kent State U
3-41 Eighteenth-Century Russian Women: Models of the Writer (Friday,
8:00-10:00 a.m., Meeting Room 409)
Chair: Catherine B. O’Neil, US Naval Academy
Papers:
Amanda Ewington, Davidson College “A Tender Sappho? Submission and Resistance
to Kheraskov in Urusova’s ‘Polion’ and ‘Heroïdes’”
Marcus C. Levitt, USC “Derzhavin and Dashkova as Writers and Cultural Figures:Parallels,
Tensions, and Antagonisms”
Ursula Stohler, U of Bern (Switzerland) “Anna Naumova (ca. 1787-1862): The
Woman Poet asOutspoken Muse”
Disc.: Gitta Hammarberg, Macalester College
6-08 The Russian Monarchy and the Arts (Friday, 3:45-5:45,
Grand Ballroom Salon C)
Chair: Elizabeth K. Beaujour, Hunter College, The Graduate Ctr, CUNY
Papers:
Simon Dixon, U of Leeds (UK) “Opera in Eighteenth-Century Russia: Court,
Public and Performers”
Richard S. Wortman, Columbia U “Alexei Olenin, Fedor Solntsev and an Esthetic
of Official Nationality"
Cynthia Hyla Whittaker, Baruch College, The Graduate Ctr, CUNY “Catherine
the Great, the Court, and Collecting”
Disc.: Valerie Ann Kivelson, U of Michigan
6-09 History, Identity, and Court Politics in Russian and Polish
Theater, Opera, and Ballet in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
(Friday, 3:45-5:45, Grand Ballroom Salon D)
Chair: Julie A. Buckler, Harvard U
Papers:
Marina Swoboda, McGill U (Canada) “The View of History in Feofan Prokopovich’s
‘Vladimir’”
Michael A. Pesenson, Swarthmore College “Eighteenth-Century Russian Opera
and the Demands of Court Culture and Politics”
Barbara Milewski, Swarthmore College “Dancing Poland at Warsaw’s National
Theater during the First Decades of the Nineteenth Century”
Disc.: Caryl Emerson, Princeton U
6-18 The Gendering of Childhood and Youth in Modern Russia (Friday,
3:45-5:45, Hospitality Suite 1)
Chair: David L. Ransel, Indiana U
Papers:
Anna Kuxhausen, St Olaf College “Upbringing and Gender in Eighteenth-Century
Russia”
Rebecca Friedman, Florida Intl U “Russian Girlhood at the Turn of the Twentieth
Century”
Greta Bucher, US Military Academy at West Point “Coming of Age in Stalinist
Russia: Teenage Girls, the Medical Establishment and the Onset of Menstruation”
Disc.: Michelle Lamarche Marrese, Independent Scholar
7-07 Shaping Orthodox Thought in the Age of Enlightenment (Saturday,
8:00-10:00 a.m., Grand Ballroom Salon B)
Sponsored by: Eighteenth-CenturyRussian Studies Association
Chair: Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, Cal State Poly U, Pomona
Papers:
Andrey Ivanov, Yale U “The Saint of the ‘Russian Reformation’? St. Tikhon
of Zadonsk and Protestant Infl uence in the Eighteenth-Century Orthodox
Church”
Olga Tsapina, The Huntington Library “Church Censorship and Commercial Presses
in Catherinean Russia”
Barbara J. Skinner, Indiana State U “Guidelines to Faith: Instructional
Literature for Russian Orthodox Clergy and Laity in the Late Eighteenth
Century”
Disc.: J. Eugene Clay, Arizona State U
8-40 Joseph Brodsky and Eighteenth-Century Russian Literature (Saturday,
10:15-12:15, Meeting Room 408)
Chair: Jennifer Baines, U of Oxford (UK)
Papers:
David Cedric Houston, U of Wisconsin-Madison “To My Verses: Transposition
of a Theme in Horace, Kantemir and Brodsky”
Alexander Brookes, Yale U “In Imitation of Adaptation: Joseph Brodsky’s
‘Podrazhanie satiram, sochinennym Kantemirom’”
Matthew Peter McGarry, U of Wisconsin-Madison “Confronting Empire: Derzhavin,
Lermontov, and Brodsky’s Quest for a Hero of His Time”
8-41 Reanimating the Past: Excavating Nineteenth-Century Views
of the Eighteenth Century (Saturday 10:15-12:15, Meeting Room 409)
Chair: Amanda Ewington, Davidson College
Papers:
Luba Golburt, UC Berkeley “The Shadows of Fonvizin, Derzhavin, and Karamzin,
1815-1850”
Andrew Kahn, Oxford U (UK) “The Afterlives of Fonvizin and Lomonosov in
Nineteenth- Century Life-Writing”
Hilde M. Hoogenboom, SUNY, U at Albany “Sentimental Realism: Rejection as
Appropriation of ‘Sentimental Slop’”
Disc.: Thomas Newlin, Oberlin College
11-11 Compelling the Body to Speak: Torture and Sex Crimes in Early
Modern Russia (Sunday, 8:00-10:00 a.m., Grand Ballroom Salon F)
Chair: James Robert von Geldern, Macalester College
Papers:
Daniel H. Kaiser, Grinnell College “How Illicit Sex Helped Muscovy See Like
a State” Valerie Ann Kivelson, U of Michigan
“Torture and the Quest for Truth in Muscovite Witchcraft Trials”
Marianna Mouravieva, Herzen State U (Russia) “Gendering the Trial: Witness
Accounts and the Trial Procedure in the Sexual Violence Cases in theEighteenth-Century
Russia”
Disc.: Brian James Boeck, DePaul U
12-32 Saints in Russia: Pilgrims, Princes, and Miracles,Sixteenth-Nineteenth
Centuries (Sunday 10:15012:15, Meeting Room 401)
Chair: Nadieszda Kizenko, SUNY, U at Albany
Papers:
Eve Levin, U of Kansas “In Pursuit of Health: Saints’ Shrines and Their
Pilgrims,(Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries)”
Cherie Woodworth, Yale U “Saints, Princes, and Icons in the Sixteenth Century”
Gary J. Marker, SUNY, Stony Brook U “Sainthood, Dynasty, and Nation: Saint
Catherine and St. Barbara”
Disc.: Vera Shevzov, Smith College