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ACREEH hosts a programme of occasional research seminars, workshops and conferences. Some of our events are jointly sponsored with other centres like the Centre for Early Modern Studies and the AHRC Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies. ACREEH members regularly speak at conferences and seminars, both in the UK and abroad.
News
Professor Robert Frost has been awarded a prestigious British Academy Wolfson Research Professorship for his work on the Polish–Lithuanian Union. This award runs fro three years from October 2009.
For more details about this project click here:
www.abdn.ac.uk/history/research/acreeh/projects.shtmlPhD defense
Piotr Stolarski successfully defended his PhD dissertation in November 2008.
Conferences/conference papers and talks in 2010-2011
October 2010
30-31 Conference: Between History and Past: Soviet Legacy as the Traumatic Object of Contemporary Russian Culture Workshop, University of Sheffield - Amy Bryzgel 'From Crimania to Reservoir Dog: Exploring Memory, Trauma and Identity through Performance Art in Post-Soviet Russia.'
November 2010
10 Scottish Parliament, in connection with the Jacobite World exhibition mounted by the University of Aberdeen - Robert Frost, 'The Sobieski-Stuart Marriage and the Jacobite World.'
18 American Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Annual Conference, panel on military culture - Robert Frost, 'The Death of Military Culture? The Citizen Army and the Military Failure of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1648-1717.'
March 2011
7 University of Illinois at Chicago - Robert Frost, 'The Ethiopian and the Elephant: Queen Louise Marie Gonzaga and Queenship in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1645&-1667.'
24 Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Aberdeen - Robert Frost, 'On Unions.'
25 University of Aberdeen, Shared Planet Society - Robert Frost, 'The Forgotten Union: Poland-Lithuania-Ukraine-Belarus, 1386-1569-1795-2011.'
April 2011
2-4 British Association for the Advancement of Slavic and East European Studies Annual Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge - Amy Bryzgel, 'Limit Cases: Artistic Controversies in Postmodern Art East and West.'
May 2011
17-18 Recuperating the Invisible Past Conference, The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia - Amy Bryzgel, 'Performance Art East and West.'
Conferences/conference papers and talks in 2009-2010
September 2009
10-12 International Society for First World War Studies, London - Tony Heywood, Roundtable Chair and Speaker, ‘Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: The Centennial Reappraisal’
October 2009
1 Conference ‘Scotland and Poland’, University of Edinburgh - Robert Frost, ‘Hiding from the Dogs: Polish-Scottish Political and Cultural Dialogue, 1550-1707.’
15 International conference ‘Problems of integration and incorporation in the development of Central and Eastern Europe in the early modern period’, Institute for Legal Knowledge of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences and the Polish Institute in Minsk, Minsk, Belarus - Robert Frost, ‘Ograniczenia władzy dynastycznej. Polska-Litwa, Szwecja a problem monarchii złożonej w epoce Wazów, 1562-1668’
‘Twenty Years of Transformations: East-Central Europe Since 1989’ Conference, Rutgers University, USA - Amy Bryzgel, ‘Capturing Performance Art: Film and Video in Latvia and Russia since Perestroika’
19 ACREEH/History Department Research Seminar, University of Aberdeen - Amy Bryzgel, ‘Performing Post-Soviet Identity: Afrika, the Russian Dog, and Marilyn Monroe’
History of Art Research Seminar, University of St. Andrews - Amy Bryzgel, ‘The Bronze Man and the Homeless Man: Latvian Performance Art after Perestroika’
November 2009
9 International conference ‘Poltava 1709: Revisiting a turning point in European History’, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, USA - Robert Frost, ‘The impact of Poltava on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.’
12-15 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Conference (AAASS), Boston, USA - Amy Bryzgel, ‘Afrika's Crimania and the Construction of a New Russian Identity’, Karin Friedrich, ‘Brothers, Foes and Statistics: Lives on the Eighteenth-Century Polish–German Border’, Tony Heywood, Roundtable Speaker, ‘Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: The Centennial Reappraisal’
23 ACREEH/History Department, University of Aberdeen - Dan Waugh, University of Washington, ‘The News Revolution in 17th-century Europe Reflected in the Russian Mirror’
30 ACREEH/History Department, University of Aberdeen - Andrew Newby, ‘“They eat only bark”: Victorian Reactions to Famine in Sweden and Finland, 1857-1868’
December 2009
2 West Coast Seminar, Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow - Tony Heywood, ‘Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: The Centennial Reappraisal’
7 ACREEH/History of Art Department/Centre for Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen - Nada Prlja, London, ‘In Search for Black Communism’
January 2010
2-4 Study Group on the Russian Revolution, Queen’s University, Belfast - Tony Heywood, Roundtable Speaker, ‘Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: The Centennial Reappraisal’
February 2010
College Art Association Annual Conference (CAA), Chicago, USA - Amy Bryzgel, ‘Camouflaging the East: Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe and the Post-Soviet Russian Identity’
March 2010
Centre for Cultural History, University of Aberdeen - Amy Bryzgel, ‘The Bronze Man and the Homeless Man: Performance Art in Latvia Then and Now’
April 2010
Association of Art Historians Annual Conference (AAH), Glasgow - Amy Bryzgel, ‘Afrika, the Russian Dog and Marilyn Monroe: Cultivating Identity in Post-Soviet Russia’, Poster Presentation
May 2010
26-28 ‘The Great War and the Modern World’ Conference, Moscow - Tony Heywood, ‘Villain or Scapegoat? Russia’s railways and the Tsarist War Effort, 1914-February 1917
June 2010
mid-June Proposed ACREEH workshop ‘Peripheral Enlightenments’, University of Aberdeen
30 Research project on Gewaltgemeinschaften at the University of Gießen, Germany - Robert Frost, 'The Death of Military Culture? The Citizen Army and the Military Failure of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1648-1717.'
July 2010
22-25 Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: The Centennial Reappraisal’, editorial conference, Uppsala, Sweden - Tony Heywood, co-organiser and co-chair
26-31 World Congress, International Council for Central and East European Studies, Stockholm - Amy Bryzgel, ‘Afrika, the Russian Dog and Marilyn Monroe: Performing the Post-Soviet Russian Identity’, Tony Heywood, Roundtable Speaker, ‘Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: The Centennial Reappraisal’
Conferences/conference papers and talks in 2008-2009
September 2008
4 International Conference on the Genesis of European Parliamentarism and Lithuania’s Case, Centre for Parliamentary Cooperation of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius - Robert Frost, ‘The Lithuanian Contribution to the Formation of Parliamentary Culture in the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1500-1668’
October 2008
28 Centre for First World War Studies, University of Birmingham
Tony Heywood, ‘Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922’
November 2008
6 AHRC Russian Archives Training Scheme, School of Slavonic and East
European Studies, University of London
Tony Heywood, ‘Archives in the Russian Provinces and Ukraine’
11 Cultural History Seminar
4pm, Room MR909
‘Literacy and Orality in the Eurasian Frontier. Imperial Culture and Space in Seventeenth Century Siberia and Russia’
Dr Christoph Witzenrath
18 Pawel Pawlikowski, King's college Conference Centre, 6pm. My Summer of Love (2004) and Last Resort (2000) each won awards at the Edinburgh Film Festival and BAFTAs. They were made by the internationally renowned director Pawel Pawlikowski. Born in Warsaw, Pawlikowski left at 14 to live in Germany and Italy, before moving to the UK. He studied literature and philosophy at London and Oxford and then embarked on a series of highly original documentaries for the BBC. His work includes From Moscow to Pietushki (1991), Dostoevsky's Travels (1992) and Tripping with Zhirinovsky (1995). Pawlikowski's hypnotic film, Serbian Epics (1992), was make at the height of the Bosnian war, and includes scenes shot of Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic, who later became sought for war crimes.20 'China's Search for Sovereignty during the First World War and Russian Revolution' 3.30pm - 5.00pm, MacRobert Building, Room 914. Professor Wang Li, Nankai University
20–23 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 40th National Convention, Philadelphia, USA
Robert Frost, ‘The Ethiopian and the Elephant: Queen Louise Marie Gonzaga and Queenship in an Elective Monarchy, 1645–1667’
Piotr Stolarski, ‘“A Mighty Foundation”: Women as Patrons of the Dominican Order in the Polish and Ruthenian Provinces, 1594–1648’
Karen Friedrich, discussant all in panel 3-30, ‘Gender and Power in the Polish–Lithuanian
Commonwealth’
Tony Heywood, speaker in roundtable 3-37, ‘Russia’s Great World War in Global Perspective: A Future Research Agenda’
December 2008
5 Centre for Early Modern Studies/ACREEH Workshop 14.00–18.00
Competing for Souls: Religion and Education in a Multi-confessional Society:
East Central Europe, 1550–1700
Speakers:
Professor Paul Shore, University of St Louis
Dr Liudmila Sharipova, University of Nottingham
Dr Graeme Murdock, Trinity College, Dublin
Discussants:
Robert Frost, Karin Friedrich, Nick Thompson
Contact: Karin Friedrich
January 2009
2–4 Study Group on the Russian Revolution, XXXV Annual Conference
Queen’s University, Belfast
Tony Heywood, roundtable, ‘Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922’Riga City Art Space, Public Lecture, Riga, Latvia - Amy Bryzgel, ‘Miervaldis Polis: Painting as Performance’
February 2009
9 ACREEH joint seminar with the Centre for Scandinavian Studies, 16.15, room KCF 7
British Responses to Famine in Finland and Sweden, c.1857–1868
Andrew Newby
March 2009
9 'Russia's Great War and Revolution 1914-1922: The Centennial Reappraisal'
Speaker: Dr Tony Heywood 4.15pm in King's College KCF726-28 Madrid, Casa de Velázquez, EURESCL (EU FP7 project); Conference and workshop, co-ordinators: M. Cottias (Université Antilles-Guyane; CNRS/Paris), F. Guillén (Université de Pau), S. Trabelsi (Université de Lyon-II), paper: 'Redemption, Fortification and Steppe Diplomacy - the Place of Muscovy in Eurasian Slaving'.
28–30 British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, Annual Conference, University of Cambridge
Tony Heywood, roundtable, ‘Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922’
April 2009
28 Elphinstone Institute Marischal Museum Evening Lecture, 19.30, room 028, MacRobert Building, Old Aberdeen
North East Scotland and Russia
Paul Dukes
May 2009
5 Elphinstone Institute Marischal Museum Evening Lecture
19.30pm, Room 028, MacRobert Building, Old Aberdeen
‘’’When ye gang awa’ laddie’’: Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1550-1720’5 Bielefeld (Germany), Colloquium S. Merl, paper 'Sklavenhandel, Gefangenschaft und Loskauf: Das Moskauer Reich und die Steppe (Slave Trade, Captivity and Redemption: Muscovy and the Steppe)'
7-8 ACREEH conference
The Scottish Diaspora in Russia
Contact: Paul DukesSocialEast Seminar on Post-80 Experience in Art, Budapest, Hungary - Amy Bryzgel, ‘Reconsidering the Avant-Garde: Afrika, the Russian Dog, and Marilyn Monroe’
June 2009
5 International conference ‘Was den Adel adlig macht. Adliger Eigensinn in Recht, Politik und Äesthetik Europas (16.-20. Jahrhundert), Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany - Robert Frost, ‘Per insufficientes facultatres nuntiorum terrestrorum? Corporate decision-making in the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1490-1795’.
13–16 Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914–1922: The Centennial Reappraisal
Project meeting, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tony Heywood, co-chair‘Ghosts of the Past’ Conference, University of East London - Amy Bryzgel, ‘The Bronze Man and the Homeless Man: Performance Art in Latvia Then and Now’
15–16 ACREEH conference
Slavery, Ransom and Liberation in the Steppe Area, 1500-2000
Contact: Christoph Witzenrath17 Joint Event with Centre for Early Modern Studies and Aberdeen Centre for Russian and Eastern European History. Don Ostrowski (University of Harvard), 'The Replacement of the Composite Reflex Bow by Firearms in the Muscovite Cavalry' at 3.30pm, The Old Townhouse, High Street.
July 2009
4-9 Durham (UK), British Association for Slavonic and Eastern European Studies (BASEES) Study group on Eighteenth-century Russia, VIII International Conference, Chair: Patrick O'Meara (Durham), panel 'Prisoners and Prisons, paper: Captivity, Slaving and Ranson in the Steppe Frontier'
Recent past events
Numerous events have been held here over the years, notably the Trotsky Reappraisal conference (1990) and a series of conferences on Scotland and Russia from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century.
- July 2008 Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914–1922: The Centennial
Reappraisal – Launch conference
Tony Heywood, organiser and co-chair - May 2008 Scotland and Russia from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century:
The Gorbachev era - conference
Paul Dukes, organiser - Jan 2008 Study Group on the Russian Revolution, XXXIV Annual Conference Tony Heywood, organiser
- April 2007 Emigrants and Exiles from the Three Kingdoms in Europe, 1603–1688 - conference
David Worthington, organiser - Jan 2007 Study Group on the Russian Revolution, XXXIII Annual Conference
Tony Heywood, organiser