Conference

[Ralph Bogert]

> Thank you for the information on the upcoming conference.  It looks
potentially promising--but the program as outlined is Russocentrically narrow,
in both the interdisciplinary and an intradisciplinary sense.  Surely this is a
conceptual anomaly in view of the stated "open" and "international" scope of
the conference.  Peter the Great, his city and its cultural monuments, as well
as the traditions and heritage that they engendered have had and still have an
impact and presence other than the categories of Russian literature or gender
studies. There is, by way of a small and not at all exceptional example, an
entire South Slavic literary and (more broadly) cultural aura constructed
around the Petrine and Peterburgian mystique, particularly in Serbia and, even
more particularly, Adriatic Montenegro (whence came Peter's first great,
victorious admirals).
  Could this conference, without failing to live up to its purpose, omit
programming sections on the impact and importance of Petersburg for the
outside world and on the importance of Peterburg's branch windows on the world
beyond Russia?
--rb


Saint-Petersburg State University, Russian State Humanitarian University,
> Moskow State University of a name of M.V. Lomonosov,  Anna Ahmatovoj's
> museum in the Gushing house,  Cultural-Enlightment Society "Pushkin
> project", Center "Piligrim" are pleased to invite you to take part in the
> International Scientific Conference "Saint Petersburg and problems of "open
> culture"  which is planned to be held from the 21th till the 25th of June,
> 2001 in Saint-Petersburg and Great Novgorod, Russia.
>
> The program of the conference will include the lectures and reports on the
> next topics:
>
> 1. St.Petersburg as a theme of the Russian literature of the XVIIIth - XX
> centuries;
> 2. St.Petersburg and culture of   Silver Age (A. Ahmatova. Creativity and
> the biography);
> 3. Role of St.Petersburg and the Petersburg theme in democratization of the
> Russian literature;
> 4. Petersburg culture in the light of gender theory;
> 5. Psychology of the citizen of St.Petersburg  as a research problem;
> 6. Novgorod as St. Petersburg of the Russian Middle Ages. To a problem "a
> window to Europe";
> 7. St.Petersburg today: problems of study.
>
>
> The working language of the Conference is Russian.
>
>
> The coordinates of the organizing committee:
>
> Russia, 197022, St.Petersburg, Prof. Popova str., 25
> Society "Pushkin project"
> Tel./fax: 7-812-2349352, 7-812-2343527, 7-812-2340722
> e-mail: piligrim at infopro.spb.su
>
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