Conference: Global networks in print (Cambridge, October 10, 2014)

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

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