Past Conferences and Events:
Impressionism in Russia. Dawn of the Avant-Garde
14 November 2019, Barberini Museum, Potsdam, Germany
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘Realist Impressions or Impressionist Realities: A Complex Boundary in Russian Art’
Авангард жизнестроительства: от эстетического проекта к социальному прорыву (The Avant Garde of Life Building: From an Aesthetic Project to a Social Breakthrough)
28-30 October 2019, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
Natalia Murray (The Courtauld Institute of Art): ‘Роль газеты “Искусство Коммуны” в становлении пролетарского искусства’ (The role of the newspaper Art of the Commune in the the Implementation of Proletarian Art)
Picturing Russian Empire
28-30 June 2019, University of Tyumen, Russia
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘Siberian Roots in an Imperial Space: Vasily Surikov’s Ermak’s Conquest of Siberia’
Whistler, Nature and Science
11 March 2019, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘How Russia Learned to Love Russian Nature – and Whistler Followed Suit’
Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art VIII
2-6 October 2018, Moscow State University / Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Ksenia Pavlenko (Cornell University): “Imperial Motivations vs. Social Realities: Helsinki’s Construction in the First Half of the 19th Century”
One Heart, One Way: The Journey of a Princely Art Collection
21-22 September 2018, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens GA
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘Palettes, Power and Palaces: Women Artists and Patrons at the Russian Court’ (Alfred Heber Holbrook Memorial Lecture)
The Proletarian Moment: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Comparative Perspectives
17-18 August 2018, Zentrum fur Interdisziplinare Forschung, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Natalia Murray (The Courtauld Institute of Art): ‘Narkompros versus Proletkult: Festivals and Proletarian Art after the October Revolution
Impressionism in the Avant-garde
7-8 June 2018, Museum of Impressionism, Moscow
Natalia Murray (CCRAC): ‘Impressionism and Modernity’
British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
14 April 2018, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘British or Russian, Realist or Impressionist? The Curious Case of Emily Shanks,’
AHNCA 15th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in the History of Nineteenth-Century Art 18 March 2018, Dahesh Museum of Art, New York
Isabel Stokholm Romanova (University of Cambridge): ‘Fathers & Sons? Two Old Peredvizhniki and a New Generation of Russian Artists, 1890-1914’
Russian Style: In Search of the National Identity, International Jubilee 15th Conference Commemorating Vladimir Vasilenko
21-23 November 2017, All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts, Moscow
Louise Hardiman (CCRAC)
Ksenia Pavlenko (CRRAC): ‘The Eternal Feminine Shimmers: Symbolist Approaches to Mikhail Vrubel’s Ceramics’
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention (ASEEES)
9-12 November 2017, Chicago, IL
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘The First Female Peredvizhnik: Emily Shanks and the Blurred Realist/Impressionist Divide’
Translations and Dialogues: The Reception of Russian Art Abroad
25-27 October 2017, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘The First Female Peredvizhnik: the case of Emily Shanks in Russia and Britain’
La Biennale di Venezia
2017 25 October 2017, Venice, Italy
Natalia Murray (The Courtauld Institute of Art): Speaker, “Art and Revolution” Symposium
“Russian Art on the Rise,” 5th Graduate Workshop of the Russian Art and Culture Group
21-22 September 2017, Freie Universität, Berlin
Isabel Stokholm (University of Cambridge): ‘Enough blood! Artistic Generations in Late Imperial Russia, 1890-1914’
“Fantasy in Reality: Architecture, Representation, Reproduction”
15-16 June 2017, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, London
Organized by Marie Collier (University of Cambridge)
Marie Collier (University of Cambridge): ‘The New Moscow in Print: Constructing a Fantasy of Socialist Architecture in Soviet Periodicals’
“The Russian Canvas,” Russian Book Prize Lecture
24 May 2017, Pushkin House, London
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge)
“The Museum after the Revolution”
28-29 April 2017, Calvert 22, London
Natalia Murray (The Courtauld Institute of Art): ‘Nikolai Punin and the Hermitage Museum in 1917-1919’
“An Evening with Friends and Fashion”
30 March 2017, Hillwood Museum and Gardens, Washington D.C.
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘The History of Russian Portraiture’
Cambridge Russian Society
13 March 2017
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘Eating Restoration Glue to Stay Alive: The History of the Hermitage,’
The Russian Century: the Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts, 1801-1917
30 September-1 October 2016, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘Russia, Rome and the Risky Business of Disaster Painting’
Printed Media and National Identity in Russia and Great Britain
September 2016, Yaroslavl State University, Russia
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘Journalists in the Studio: the Shifting Identities of Russia’s Painters in Rome’
The Russian Centre for Science and Culture
31 March 2016, London
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘Russia and the Arts: An Exchange of Portraits Between the National Portrait Gallery and the Tretyakov’
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention (ASEEES)
19-22 November 2015, Philadelphia, PA
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘Stepan Shevyrev and the Disaster Paintings of Bruni and Briullov’
College Art Association (CAA), 103rd Annual Conference
11-14 February 2015, New York, NY
‘Reconsidering Art and Politics: Toward New Narratives of Russian and Eastern European Art’ (sponsored by Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture)
Co-chairs: Galina Mardilovich (Independent Scholar) and Maria Taroutina (Yale-NUS)
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention (ASEEES)
20-23 November 2014, San Antonio, TX
‘Prints and the Eighteenth-Century Russian Garden’
Chair: Elizabeth Valkenier (Columbia University)
Papers: Margaret Samu (Yeshiva University, Stern College for Women): ‘Baroque Garden Prints in Petrine Russia’
Alexandra Helprin (Columbia University): ‘Garden Prints and Performances at Kuskovo’
Galina Mardilovich (Independent Scholar): ‘Deserted Cities and Gardens in Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva’s Woodcuts’
Discussant: Christine Ruane (University of Tulsa)
Britain and Russia in the Great War: Centenary Reflections
19 September 2014, British Library, London
Natalia Budanova (CCRAC): ‘Russian World War I Lubok’
Crossing Borders: Marianne Werefkin and the Cosmopolitan Women Artists in her Circle
11-12 September 2014, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany
Galina Mardilovich (Independent Scholar): ‘Women as Catalysts for Innovation in Printmaking: The Case of Elizaveta Kruglikova and Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva’
College Art Assocation (CAA) 102nd Annual Conference
12-15 February 2014, Chicago, IL
‘Russian Avant-Garde and the First World War: Culture, Contacts, and Contexts’
Chairs: Maria Kokkori (The Art Institute of Chicago) and Maria Mileeva (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Discussant: Nina Gourianova (Northwestern University)
Aaron J. Cohen (California State University, Sacramento): ‘Masters of the Material World: The Russian Art World, the Avant-Garde, and the Experience of World War I, 1914–7’
Maria Tsantsanoglou (The State Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki): ‘What Is This “New Teaching about War”?’
Natalia Yrievna Budanova (Courtauld Institute of Art): ‘Penetrating the Men’s Territory: Works of Russian Avant-Garde Women Inspired by the First World War’
James Graham (Columbia University): ‘Total War and Total Peace: Managerialism and Revolution on the Perceptual Front’
Fitzwilliam Museum Society
6 February 2014, University of Cambridge
Nicola Kozicharow (University of Cambridge): ‘Russian Artists in Emigration, 1914-1939’
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California
25 November 2013
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘Painting at a Distance: Russian Artists Abroad from the Age of Catherine the Great’
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
21-24 November 2013, Boston
Voluntary Associations and the Arts in Imperial Russia
Chair: Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier (Columbia University)
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘Friend or Foe of the Academic Republic? The Society for the Encouragement of Artists’
John Olan Norman (Western Michigan University): ‘The Moscow Society of Lovers of Art (1860-1918): Merchant Patronage and Russian Realist Art’
John Ellis Bowlt (University of Southern California): ‘The Society of Free Esthetics, Moscow
Discussant: Margaret Samu (Yeshiva University, Stern College for Women) Constructing Marxist Narratives: Soviet Art and its Institutions in the 1920s and 1930s
Chair: Galina Mardilovich (Independent Researcher)
Discussant: Nina Gourianova (Northwestern University)
Maria Kokkori (The Art Institute of Chicago): ‘The New Soviet Museum: Reform and Experimental Marxist Exhibitions’
Maria Mileeva (Courtauld Institute of Art): ‘Soviet Art History: Historical Narratives in the Making’
Angelina Lucento (Northwestern University): ‘Interrupting Heroic Realism: The Role of the Society of Easel Painters’
Historical-Materialist Philosophy in the Evolution of Early Soviet Art’ Art at a Crossroads: A Reconsideration of the 1890s in Russian Visual Culture
Chair: Molly Brunson (Yale University)
Discussant: Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge)
Maria Taroutina (Yale University): ‘Revolutionary Objects: Vrubel’s Decorative Art and the Search for Modernism’
Galina Mardilovich (Independent Researcher): ‘Dictionaries and Journals: Nikolai Sobko as Historian, Advocate, and Editor of Russian Art’
Louise Hardiman (University of Cambridge): ‘Tenisheva’s Nemesis: Revisiting the Arts and Crafts Legacy of Aleksandra Pogosskaia’
Network Beaux-Arts: Going Global Avant-Gardes, Academies, Revolutions, 1900-2013
6-8 November 2013, École Nationale Supérieure Sociétés Contemporaines des Beaux Arts, Paris
Natalia Murray (The Courtauld Institute of Art): ‘The Imperial Academy of Arts (Petrograd) and its Bizarre Experiment in Proletarian Art’
Afterlives of (Soviet) Constructivism
10-12 May 2013, Princeton University, NJ
Maria Kokkori (The Art Institute of Chicago): ‘The Penguin Pool and other buildings: Berthold Romanovich Lubetkin, an émigré constructivist in Britain’
Association of Art Historians (AAH)
13 April 2013, University of Reading
Natalia Murray (The Courtauld Institute of Art): ‘Art and Civic Spectacle in Russia – first state sponsored festivities in Petrograd’
Exhibition-Symposium: Floating Worlds and Future Cities: Lazar Khidekel, Suprematism, and the Russian Avant-Garde
April 2013, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York
Maria Kokkori (The Art Institute of Chicago): ‘Teaching Suprematism: Kazimir Malevich and Lazar Khidekel at the Vitebsk art school’
British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)
5 to 8 April 2013, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
‘Encounters with the West in Imperial Russian Portraiture’
Chair: Susan Larsen (University of Cambridge)
Papers: Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘Levitskii, Borovikovskii, and Anglo-Russian Exchange’
Emma Minns (University of Reading): ‘European Romanticism and the image of a Russian poet: portraits of Aleksandr Pushkin’
Galina Mardilovich (University of Cambridge): ‘Get in my Dictionary’: Dmitri Rovinskii’s and Aleksandr Vasil’chikov’s Catalogues of Russian Engraved Portraits’
‘On the Spiritual in Russian Art’
Chair: Galina Mardilovich (University of Cambridge)
Papers: Sebastian Borkhardt (University of Tübingen): ‘Russian Messiah”: On the Spiritual in the Reception of Vasilii Kandinskii’s Art in Germany, c. 1910-1937’
Nicola Kozicharow (University of Cambridge): ‘Dmitrii Stelletskii’s Frescoes at Saint-Serge and the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad’
Women in Russian Art: New Prospects for Feminist Practice
21 February 2013, Pushkin House, London, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge)
Natalia Budanova (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
International Pre-Raphaelitism Workshop
11 January 2013, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘The Pre-Raphaelites in Russia’
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
15-18 November 2012, New Orleans
‘Art, Music and Ballet in Late Imperial Russian and Soviet Culture’
Alla Generalow (University of Arizona): ‘The Cathedral Choir and Charles R. Crane: Russian Orthodox Singing in America, 1911-1919
Nicola Kozicharow (University of Cambridge): ‘”Here is the living, true Lenin!”: Filipp Maliavin’s Drawings of Lenin’
Chair: Karla Huebner (Wright State University)
Discussant: Nina Gourianova (Northwestern University)
‘Out of Bounds: Russian Artists in Paris during the Long Nineteenth Century’
Chair: Kristin M Harkness (West Virginia University and University of Pittsburgh)
John O. Normal (Western Michigan University): ‘The Society for Mutual Aid and Assistance to Russian Artists in Paris (1877-1917)’
Galina Mardilovich (Metropolitan Museum of Art): ‘From Wood Engraving to Etching: Vasilii Mate’s Discovery of Printmaking in Paris’
Anna Winestein (Ballets Russes Cultural Partnership): ‘Keeping the Faith: Dmitry Stelletsky’s Interpretations of Icon Traditions’
Discussant: Margaret Samu (Yeshiva University, Stern College for Women)
Icons to Insurgence: The Story of Russian Art (Lecture Series)
Autumn 2012, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘Complicated Dialogues: Russian Painting and the West in the 18th Century’, 17 October
John Milner (The Courtauld Institute of Art): ‘Dandies, Primitives and Commissars’, 31 October
Modern European History Research Seminar
Michaelmas Term 2012, University of Cambridge, Faculty of History
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘Ladies-in-Waiting in Waiting: the Portrayal of Adolescence in Eighteenth-Century Russia’, 23 October
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
17-20 November 2011, Washington, D.C.
‘Art Authorities: Patronage, Orthodoxy, and Art Institutions in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Russia’
Chair: Elizabeth Valkenier (Columbia University)
Tatiana Senkevitch (Cornell University): ‘Frivolity in the Convent: Elizabeth of Russia and her Architect’
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘Taking Painting from the Metropolis to the Margins: Russia’s Early Provincial Art Schools’
Margaret Samu (Yeshiva University, Stern College for Women): ‘Church, Tsar, and Censor: Official Response to ‘Pictures of Immoral Content’
Discussant: Richard Wortman (Columbia University)
Ten Years of Russian Art in Search of Identity Lecture Series
9 November 2011, Pushkin House, London
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘Painting St Petersburg. The Birth of a National School of Art’
The Fifth Fitzwilliam Colloquium: British Perception and Reception of Russian Culture, 18th-20th centuries
31 August-2 September 2011, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘“A just foundation for future eminence of fame”: Early British Responses to the Imperial Academy of Arts’
Louise Hardiman (University of Cambridge), ‘“Infantine smudges of paint, infantine rudeness of soul”: British Reception of Russian Art at the Exhibitions of the Allied Artists Association, 1908-11’
Nicola Kozicharow (University of Cambridge), ‘“Racy of the soil”: Filipp Maliavin’s London Exhibition of 1935’
Association of Art Historians (AAH)
31 March to 2 April 2011, University of Warwick
‘Margins and Peripheries: Painting outside the Cities of Eastern and Northern Europe’
Convenor: Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge)
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘The Long Arm of the Academy in Imperial Russia’
Marta Filipová (University of Wolverhampton): ‘Beyond modernity: Joža Uprka between the city and the countryside’
Tutta Palin (Academy of Finland): ‘Ingrid Ruin’s Fantasized Ethnicities’
Bettman Lecture Series
28 March 2011, Columbia University, New York
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘Ladies-in-Waiting in Waiting: the Portraiture of Adolescence in Eighteenth-Century Russia’
Art in Russia, 1770-1920 : A Symposium at Yale
24-25 March 2011, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘Picturing Adolescence in Imperial Russia: Dmitry Levitsky’s Smolny Portraits, 1772-1776’ (Keynote Address)
Wallace Collection
12 January 2011, London
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge): ‘The Arts and Crafts Interior from Britain to Russia’
