[spectre] CFP: Beyond Russia's Two Capitals (online/Saint Petersburg, 27-28 Apr 23)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

[note from the messenger: personally i don't think it appropriate to 
organise something like this while the war is ongoing; but the 
organisers must have thought about this and decided otherwise. ab]


From: Maria
Date: Nov 27, 2022
Subject: CFP: Beyond Russia's Two Capitals (online/Saint Petersburg, 
27-28 Apr 23)

online/European University at Saint-Petersburg, Apr 27–28, 2023
Deadline: Jan 15, 2023

Beyond Russia’s Two Capitals. Regional Art Exhibitions in the Russian 
Empire.

Decentering art life in the Russian Empire — throwing light on 
exhibitions and art organisations outside the two capital cities of 
Saint-Petersburg and Moscow — is the underlying purpose of the research 
project “Collecting and Display in the Russian Empire”, set up in late 
2021 as a collaboration between the  Faculty of Art History (from 
September 2022: School of Arts and Cultural Heritage) and  the Center 
for Machine Learning, Data Analysis and Statistics (MAST) at the 
European University at Saint Petersburg. Our small team focuses on the 
history of exhibition practice and of collecting in the Russian Empire 
up to 1917.

As the first stage in realisation of the project, we are assembling a 
full database of art exhibitions (not just fine art and including 
artistic sections at other exhibitions) in the Russian Empire, which 
covers those held in Saint-Petersburg and Moscow but seeks particularly 
to throw light on exhibitions held in the regions, from provinces to 
those territories that are now independent states.

Art life in the regions of the Russian Empire has often been sidelined 
in the larger picture of art history, and this conference aims to bring 
this vital material to wider attention and stimulate discussion. If the 
1905 relaxing of censorship vastly increased the number of exhibitions, 
local societies and individuals had already established regular and 
highly significant exhibitions all over the Empire.

We invite colleagues to illuminate and discuss exhibitions that were 
held in the different regions, to consider their specific features and 
become part of this huge — and inevitably collaborative — project. We 
particularly welcome papers that address exhibitions before 1905.

Working languages: Russian and English.

Proposals for presentations of twenty minutes should include the 
following information:
1. Information about participant (full name and academic status);
2. Contact information;
3. Proposal (no more than 600 words).
Participation in the conference is free.

Proposals should be sent to collectinganddisplayrusemp at gmail.com by 15 
January 2023.

The conference will be held in mixed format: via Zoom and in person at 
the European University at Saint Petersburg.

Organizing committe: Ilia Dorontchenkov (Deputy Director for Research, 
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; Professor, European 
University at Saint Petersburg), Catherine Phillips (Associate research 
fellow, European University at Saint Petersburg), Maria Chukcheeva 
(Research fellow, European University at Saint Petersburg), Tatiana 
Yudenkova (Head of the Department of 19th-early 20th-century painting, 
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow), Ekaterina Boltunova (Head of 
Labaratory of Regional history of Russia, Higher School of Economics, 
Moscow), Anastasia Sabinina (PhD student, European University at Saint 
Petersburg), Nikita Agranovskij (PhD student, European University at 
Saint Petersburg)

Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Beyond Russia’s Two Capitals (online/Saint Petersburg, 27-28 Apr 
23). In: ArtHist.net, Nov 27, 2022. <https://arthist.net/archive/38027>.

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