The McGrath Centre
St. Catharine's College, Cambridge
October 10, 2014
Registration deadline: October 8, 2014
Tickets available here
Global networks in print: Dutch/Russian exchange in the Petrine era
This international conference is the result of an AHRC Networking grant, which has brought together academics and curators from Britain, Russia, and The Netherlands to consider Dutch-Russian exchange through print culture in the early eighteenth century. Scholars from The State Hermitage Museum, The State Russian Museum, The Russian Academy of Sciences and the Universities of Amsterdam and Cambridge will discuss the dynamism of Dutch publishing, precedents in Williamite imagery, and the emergence and nature of Europeanised prints in the genres of portraiture, city views and folk prints. This timely consideration of Russia's historic relationship with Europe will be contextualised by Sir Anthony Brenton KCMG, British Ambassador to Russia from 2004 to 2008.
Programme
9:00-9:45
coffee and registration
9:45-10:00
Introduction
10:00-30
Similar Prints, Different Worlds? Firework prints in Holland and Russia c. 1690-1720
Dr Elmer Kolfin, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam
10:30-11:00
Exporting the Glorious Revolution: Williamite prints in Russia
Dr Meredith Hale, Speelman Fellow in Netherlandish Art, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
11:00-11:30
coffee/tea
11:30-12:00
Equestrian portraits and battles: the mode of Europe-Russia image transfer
Dr Roman Grigoryev, Head of the Hermitage Western print room, State Hermitage Museum and Professor, Art History Department, European University at St. Petersburg
12:00-12:30
The origins of the Petrine 'Book of Mars': iconographic sources and ideological motivation
Dr Irina Khmelevskikh, Fellow of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, The Russian Academy of Sciences Library
12:30-12:45
discussion
12:45-1:45
lunch
1:45-2:15
The image of Saint Petersburg in Petrine prints
Aleksandra Vasileva, Junior Researcher, The State Russian Museum
2:15-2:45
Russia in print: the Dutch role in the mapping of Russia
Paula van Gestel–van het Schip, Editor/researcher Explokart Research Programme on the History of Cartography, Special Collections, University of Amsterdam
2:45-3:15
Adriaen Schoonebeeck's school and Russian folk prints
Dr Julia Khod’ko, Head Researcher, The State Russian Museum
3:15-3:30
discussion
3:30-4:00
coffee/tea
4:00-4:20
Precursors? The reception of Dutch biblical engravings in Russia
Professor Simon Franklin, Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge
4:20-4:50
Philotheus Redux: who's afraid of the Russian wolf?
Sir Anthony Brenton KCMG, British Ambassador to Russia 2004-2008, Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge
4:50-5:30
discussion
5:30
Reception
For more information contact mmh43@cam.ac.uk