Svetlana Pankova, a researcher at the Laboratory of Paleogenomics of the European University and curator of the Department of Archaeology of Eastern Europe and Siberia of the State Hermitage Museum, spoke at the international scientific conference "Singing Arrows of Maodun": Hunnu from obscurity to empire", dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Sergey Minyaev’s birth (1948-2020).

The Oxford Art Journal published an article “Impressionism in the Land of the Bolsheviks: Questions of Art, Reality, and Ideology in the Interwar Soviet Union” by Ilia Doronchenkov, professor at the EUSP School of Arts and Cultural Heritage, Deputy Director in charge of research at the Pushkin Museum.

Artem Nedoluzhko, Development Director of the Laboratory of Paleogenomics at the European University, has joined the editorial board of the journals Frontier in Genetics (Q2, impact factor: 4.77) and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (Q1, impact factor: 4.49), published by Frontiers. 

Date: 27-28 April 2023; European University at Saint Petersburg The conference will be held in mixed format: via Zoom and in person at the European University at Saint Petersburg.

The European University at St. Petersburg and the State Hermitage Museum open the School of Arts and Cultural Heritage. The school will combine master's degrees in the history of art and philology, as well as a professional retraining program "The Modern Museum: Management Methods, Practices of Cultural Interpretation".

On the 30th and 31st of March 2022, the international conference ''Esotericism and Russian literature'' will take place. It will explore a complex variety of relations between Russian literature and esotericism.

The European University at St. Petersburg and the State Hermitage Museum create the International School of Arts and Cultural Heritage. The project will bring together a world-class museum, an advanced center of scholarship and education, and an innovative industry.

In the eighteenth century, Russia emerged as a truly European power. Yet despite the presence of Russians in Europe and Europeans in Russia, the vast Russian Empire continued to be perceived as a quasi-oriental land. As a result, those artists and works of art that moved from West to East were – and sometimes still are — all too often seen as vanishing into a distant realm. This panel will highlight current research on the Russian art world and its engagement with Western Europe in the eighteenth century. Short presentations will examine the importance of the French tradition to St. Petersburg’s Imperial Academy of Arts, Russian artists’ travel to the Netherlands and Paris, Russian patronage of Venetian art, connections between Russian and British art as reflected in portraits by Rokotov and Gainsborough, and Russian collecting of classical antiquities.

The project Open Database of Interdisciplinary Art in Russia (MIR) announces call for papers for online conference “Exploring the Unconventional: Ways to Address the Intersections of  Art, Science, and Technology”.

Vladlena Gromova. Introductory word on the project Open Database of Interdisciplinary Art in Russia

The defence of the doctoral thesis “Architectures of Life-Building in the Twentieth Century: Russia, Germany, Sweden” took place at the Södertörn University, Stockholm on December 7, 2018. Department of Aesthetics. The opponent: Thordis Arrhenius, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm. Link to the full text: http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1263164&dswid=-7863

Water towns have a great potential due to the presence of water, this makes them also more fragile, demanding higher level of attention and sensibility for their protection. Venice, despite the high level of protection by the legislative framework, struggles for the conservation of its soul and image. The climate changes, the growing pressure of the tourism and sometimes the incapacity of controlling or managing the urban transformations risk to weaken its conservation. The lecture will provide an overview on the main issues for the conservation of the town.  

This lecture examines the constellation of actors and interests that sought to transform porcelain, once the “white gold” of European and Russian court societies, into a useful and valuable material in interwar Soviet Russia. In a society that struggled between eliminating class distinctions and maintaining structures of power, the production of consumer goods was the everyday staging ground upon which designers, critics, and political officials represented those disputes.

12 April, 2016. 18:00, White Hall.

On February, 27th the European University hosted a presentation by Bart Goldhoorn, which took place as part of the third conference of the “Second World Urbanity” project. Like the project itself, Goldhoorn’s presentation was an attempt to understand the experience of “socialist urbanism,” the mass urban development of the Soviet period, and much more.

On February 18th, as part of the Department of Art History’s Visual Studies program (with support from the Coca-Cola Company), Eva Berar gave a lecture from a series titled “Forming the Image of the ‘Big City’ at the Turn of the 19th-20th Centuries. St. Petersburg-Europe.” Professor Berar is a researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), in France. The lecture series will focus on how cities were imagined, portrayed and built in Russia and Western Europe.

On December 20, 2014, the EUSP hosted an open seminar titled “The Cultivation of a View: Paradoxes of Diderot.” The seminar was organized jointly by the EUSP’s Department of Art History and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Russian State University for the Humanities), with support from the Coca Cola Company. The seminar brought together the specialists from St. Petersburg, Moscow and New York to discuss the reception of Denis Diderot’s theoretical views.

The Consul General of Italy in St. Petersburg Luigi Estero began the first session with the remark that this conference could be considered one of the last and most carefully prepared events of the year of Italy in Russia. In the course of two days, conference participants examined various aspects of Russian-Italian cultural ties involving the visual arts, architecture, literature, and library science.

Program (in Russian)