Margaret Samu is a postdoctoral fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She specializes in nineteenth-century art and visual culture in the United States, France, and Russia. Her work deals with issues of assimilation and resistance to the western European artistic tradition in cultures distant from European artistic centers. During the 2010-11 academic year, she is developing parts of her dissertation into a publishable manuscript and researching the 20th-century Russian art collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

 

 

The meeting of EUSP students, alumni and faculty with Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko took place on Thursday, May 19th in the Conference Hall of EUSP. The city’s chief administrator noted the high achievements of EUSP in Russian and international academic circles.  In particular, the fact that, according to the London School of Economics rating, EU is the only Russian university among the hundred best European research and educational facilities in the area of political science.

Gary Schwartz is an American art historian who lives and works in the Netherlands, and is an eminent expert in Dutch art, and is one of the leading experts on the works of Rembrandt. He has contributed a great deal to the determination of authenticity to many of Rembrandt’s works in museums around the world. He has been the Director of International Council For Curators of Dutch and Flemish Art (CODART) since 1998. His research, publications, translations of archival documents, and searches in museum storerooms have brought him worldwide authority.

Conference program (pdf 67KB) 

 

 

Participants:   Georgi Derlugian, Professor at Northwestern University, USA, author of the book "Adept of Bourdieu in the Caucasus. Sketches to the Biography in World-system Perspective" Boris Podoprigora, Reserve Colonel, Orientalist, Specialist in local conflicts, held the rank of Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Federal Forces in the Northern Caucasus

The conference programme (excel 47KB) 

  Conference program (pdf 156KB) Conference proceedings (pdf 1.3MB)  

This seminar was organized by Osteoropa Institut (Regensburg, Germany) and Gender Studies Program (EUSP). During the meeting, participants discussed transformations of private life and gender roles that occur in contemporary Russia and Germany. They also considered the impact, which these transformations have on women’s subjective life satisfaction. In the seminar session researchers from Osteoropa Institut (Ekaterina Selezneva) and European University at St.Petersburg (Vera Galindabaeva, Ekaterina Borozdina) presented findings of their recent projects. 

 

 

 

Vladimir Orlov received his PhD in Music Studies from Cambridge University (Great Britain) after graduate studies at the State Institute of Art Studies (Moscow) and after graduating from the Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatory as a musicologist, organist, and an artist of chamber ensembles. He has lectured in the United States, Russia, and European countries. He has been in a series of academic publications in Russian and in English; his main research interests are the Silver Age of Russian culture and Socialist Realism.

Presentation of a new archival guidebook Documents on the History and Culture of Jews in Archives of St. Petersburg, Volume One: Regional Archives. Written and edited by A. Ivanov, M. Kupovetsky, and A. Lokshin. St. Petersburg: MIR Publishing House, 2011.

Taken with the success of American Silicon Valley, a number of states strive to create their own economic ‘cluster’, i.e. geographically localized zone of innovation economy. In Russia this ambition has shaped into the Skolkovo ‘innocity’. However attractive the idea of a governed innovation jump is, the experience of many countries demonstrates that a successful ‘cluster’ cannot be created following a bureaucratic order.

Presentation of two new monographs published in Studia Ethnologica series Ekaterina Melnikova. IMAGINARY BOOK. Essays on the History of Folklore about Books and Reading in Russia. Alexandre Lvov. PLOUGH and PENTATEUCH: Russian Judaisers as a Textual community.  

The celebration began with the opening of an exhibition “EUSP-15” prepared by the Student Council. The various displays telling about the history of the University from the very beginning were presented. The official part started with traditional announcement warning of a fire and the evacuation of the building, after which the participants in the action ceremonially carried the fire hose into the conference hall.