TALK: "I am the prisoner of friendship", Princess Dashkova Russian Centre, 3 May

Time: Thursday 3 May 2012, 5:15pm
Venue: Conference Room (Ground Floor), The Princess Dashkova Russian  
Centre, 14 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh
Talk by Dr Michelle Lamarche Marrese (University of Münster):

I AM THE PRISONER OF FRIENDSHIP... (Ekaterina Dashkova)

The talk explores the role of female friendship in the life of  
Princess Dashkova within the wider European and American context of  
the significance of affective ties among women in the late eighteenth  
and early nineteenth centuries. It seeks to explain the relative  
absence of --romantic-- friendship among Russian noblewomen, in  
contrast to their European contemporaries, and why Dashkova deviated  
from the pattern of her Russian counterparts. It also examines the  
limits of female patronage networks during the era of female rule,  
which historians have depicted as an era of women?s predominance at  
court, and whether Dashkova proved the exception to this rule.

Michelle Lamarche Marrese is the author of A Woman s Kingdom:  
Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700-1861 and  
numerous articles on gender and Russian noble culture. She has taught  
at the University of Delaware, the University of Toronto, Northwestern  
University, and the University of Münster (Germany), and is the  
recipient of numerous fellowships, including grants from the National  
Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Foundation. She is  
currently working on a biography of Princess E.R. Dashkova and a  
social and political history of noblewomen at the Russian court,  
titled Queen of Spades: Princess Dashkova and the Politics of Gender  
in the Era of Female Rule.

CFP: Inclusion & Exclusion in Russian Language & Culture, Edinburgh 5th Oct

Following the first Negotiating Ideologies conference in 2010, we are pleased to announce a second one-day conference for postgraduates in the field of Russian Studies, to be held at the Princess Dashkova Centre, University of Edinburgh, on the 5th of October, 2012.

This interdisciplinary conference will examine ideological production in Russian language and culture through the multiple tools of inclusion and exclusion. By bringing together scholars from diverse backgrounds within the broad field of Russian studies, we hope to take advantage of different disciplinary perspectives on practices of inclusion and exclusion. Papers are invited from researchers in areas such as sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, culture, history, and translation.

The conference will address aspects such as:

•     The working of discourses to construct in and out groups
•     Discourses of racism and other forms of discrimination
•     Language policy in Russia
•     The place of the Russian language outside Russia
•     Cultural means of creating inclusion and exclusion
•     Inclusion and exclusion in translation
•     Inclusion and exclusion in a historical perspective
•     Memory studies: 'remembering' or 'forgetting' aspects of the past

Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited from current postgraduates by the closing date of 1st May 2012. Please submit short abstracts (up to 300 words) and details of institutional affiliation to the organisers at russianstudiesconference@gmail.com.

We will be able to provide some assistance with travel expenses for speakers
coming from outside Scotland.

CFP: Russian Language & Culture, Princess Dashkova Centre, Edinburgh

Negotiating Ideologies II: Inclusion and Exclusion in Russian Language and
Culture
Second Call for Papers


Following the first Negotiating Ideologies conference in 2010, we are
pleased to announce a second one-day conference for postgraduates in the
field of Russian Studies, to be held at the Princess Dashkova Centre,
University of Edinburgh, on the 5th of October, 2012. 


This interdisciplinary conference will examine ideological production in
Russian language and culture through the multiple tools of inclusion and
exclusion. By bringing together scholars from diverse backgrounds within the
broad field of Russian studies, we hope to take advantage of different
disciplinary perspectives on practices of inclusion and exclusion. Panels
are invited from researchers in areas such as sociolinguistics, discourse
analysis, culture, history, and translation. 


The conference will address aspects such as: 
- The working of discourses to construct in and out groups. 
- Discourses of racism and other forms of discrimination.
- Language policy in Russia.
- The place of the Russian language outside Russia.
- Cultural means of creating inclusion and exclusion.
- Inclusion and exclusion in translation.
- Inclusion and exclusion in a historical perspective.
- Memory studies: "remembering" or "forgetting" aspects of the past. 


Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited from current postgraduates by the
closing date of 1 May 2012. Please submit short abstracts (up to 300 words)
and details of institutional affiliation to the organisers at
russianstudiesconference@gmail.com
Some assistance with speakers' travel expenses may be available- this is
dependent on funding.


Organising committee:
Ekaterina Popova
Elena Moore
Samantha Sherry