Conference Program

Thursday, October 23
morning | afternoon | evening

Friday, October 24
morning | afternoon | evening

Saturday, October 25
morning | afternoon | evening

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Thursday, October 23

Visual Arts in the Time of Peter the Great
10 AM TO 12 PM
British Art Center

Chair: Paul Bushkovitch, Yale University

Sergei Androsov, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Sculpture for Peter the Great, Acquired and Not Acquired

Lindsey Hughes, University College London
From Caftans into Corsets: Images of Women in the Time of Peter I

St. Petersburg as the Capital of Russia
2 PM TO 4:30 PM
British Art Center

Chair: David Schimmelpenninck, Brock University

Aleksandr Shevyrev, Moscow State University
St. Petersburg as Representation of the Russian Empire

Dominic Lieven, London School of Economics
Court and Society in Old Regime St. Petersburg

George Vilinbakhov, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
TBD

St. Petersburg: A Portrait of a Great City
Exhibition Opening
5:30 PM
The Beinecke Library

Vincent Giroud, curator of modern books and manuscripts

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Friday, October 24

Visual Arts after Peter the Great
10 AM TO 12 PM
British Art Center

Chair: Suzanne Boorsch, Yale University

Roman Grigoriev, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Recurrent Visual Motifs in Russian Eighteenth-Century Prints

John Bowlt, University of Southern California
There Was Once a Red-Haired Man: The Metamorphosis of the Russian Avant-Garde

Libraries and Treasures of St. Petersburg
2 PM TO 4 PM
Sterling Memorial Library

Valerii Leonov, Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
Selected Masterpieces from the Collections of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Larisa Bardovskaya, State Museum-Park Tsarskoye Selo, St. Petersburg
Alexander's Palace in Tsarskoye Selo after the Romanovs, 1917-2003

Keynote Address
5:30 PM
Yale Law School

James Billington, The Librarian of Congress
St. Petersburg: The City as Theater

St. Petersburg: 300 Years
Exhibition Opening
6:30 PM
Sterling Memorial Library

Tatjana Lorkovic, curator of Yale's Slavic and East European collections

Fred Musto, curator of the map collection

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Saturday, October 25

The St. Petersburg Theme in Russian Literature
10 AM TO 12 PM
Place: TBD

Chair: Vladimir Alexandrov, Yale University

Renate Lachmann, Universität Konstanz
Urban Imagination in Gogol's Prose: St. Petersburg and Rome

Caryl Emerson, Princeton University
Peter the Great, St. Petersburg, and Russian Opera

Vyacheslav Ivanov, UCLA
"A Lonely House on Vasilyevski Island" and Pushkin's St. Petersburg Tales

The Flowering of Culture in St. Petersburg
2 PM TO 4 PM
Place: TBD

Chair: Laura Engelstein, Yale University

David Lloyd-Jones
Moguchaya Kuchka

Alex Garvin, Yale University
St. Petersburg and Washington: The Evolution of Two Capital Cities

Boris Katz, European University at St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg Listened to by Russian Composers: An Overview of the Petersburg Theme in Russian Music of XVIII-XX Centuries

CONCERT
7:30 PM
Woolsey Hall