The Summer School programme
“Challenges of Time and Teaching History at Universities”
The 27th of July
10.00. Meeting at the EUSPb (Gagarinskaya, 3): Presentation of the Summer School project,
lecturers and students; giving information about EUSPb
11.30.-11.45. Coffee break
11.45- 13.15. Prof. Juergen Schlumbohm’s public lecture: “Many Children - No Love? Parents
and Children in the Past”
13.15 – 14.45. Lunch
14.45 – 16.15. Prof. Orlando Figes’ public lecture: “Contemporary Historiography in Great
Britain: Bestsellers Review”
16.30. Departure from EUSPb to the out-of-town hotel “Raivola”
18.30. Check-in
19.00. Diner
21.00. Meeting of the school participants (lecturers and students)
The 28th of July
10.00.-11.30. Prof. Michael Krom’s lecture: “New Political History”
11.30-11.45 Coffee break
11.45 – 13.15. Prof. Juergen Schlumbohm’s lecture: “The Medicalisation of Childbirth: A
Microhistorical Approach”
13.30 – 15.00. Lunch
15.00 – 16.30. Seminars:
1st group. Prof. Juergen Schlumbohm: “The Uses of Microhistory”.
2nd group. Prof. Michael Krom: “Birth of the Notion of «State»”
16.30 – 16.45. Coffee break
16.45 – 18.15. Prof. Orlando Figes’ lecture: “The Contemporary Western historiography of
Russia”.
18.30. Diner
The 29th of July
10.00.-11.30. Prof. Olga Kosheleva’s lecture: “History of Family (Review)”
11.30-11.45 Coffee break
11.45-13.15. Seminars:
1st group. Prof. Michael Krom: “Birth of the Notion of «State»”
2nd group. Prof. Juergen Schlumbohm: “The Uses of Microhistory”.
13.30 – 15.00. Lunch
15.00 – 16.30. Seminars:
1st group. Prof. Orlando Figes: “History of Family and Oral History”
2nd group. Prof. Olga Kosheleva: “History of Family – case study”
16.30 – 16.45. Coffee break
16.45 – 18.15. Prof. Ekaterina Pravilova’s lecture: “Centre and Periphery. New Approaches to
Studying Imperial Economics and Politics of the 19th-20th centuries”
18.30. Diner
The 30th of July
10.00.-11.30. Prof. Sergei Shtyrkov’s lecture: “Image of Pious Commoner as a Symbolic capital”
11.30-11.45 Coffee break
11.45-13.15. Seminars:
1st group. Prof. Olga Kosheleva “History of Family – case study”
2nd group. Prof. Orlando Figes “History of Family and oral History”
13.30 – 15.00. Lunch
15.00 – 16.30. Seminars:
1st group. Prof. Ekaterina Pravilova: “Centre and Periphery. New Approaches to Studying
Imperial Economics and Politics of the 19th-20th centuries”
2nd group. Prof. Sergei Shtyrkov: “Research Concept of «Popular Religion»: Criticism
from the Right and from the Left”
16.30 – 16.45. Coffee break
16.45 – 18.15. Prof. Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov’s lecture: “Ethnography of Enemy: the policy of
Knowledge in the Cold War Era”.
18.30. Diner
19.30 – 03.00. The Bus Excursion “Night Saint-Petersburg” (optional)
The 31st of July
10.00.-11.30. Prof. Boris Kolonitskii’s lecture: “Political Representation and Political
Pornography” (optional)
11.30-11.45 Coffee break
11.45-13.15. Seminars:
1st group. Prof. Sergei Shtyrkov: “Research Concept of «Popular Religion»: Criticism from
the Right and from the Left”
2nd group. Prof. Ekaterina Pravilova: “Centre and Periphery. New Approaches to Studying
Imperial Economics and Politics of the 19th-20th centuries”
13.30 – 15.00. Lunch
15.00 – 16.30. The Round Table: “The Problems of Teaching History at the Universities”
16.30 – 16.45. Coffee break
16.45 – 18.15. The Discussion on the Summer School participants’ Work for the Next Year
18.30. Diner
The 1st of August
10.00.-11.30. Prof. Michael Dolbilov’s lecture: “Ethnicity and Confession as Identification
Markers of the Russian Empire’s subjects”.
11.30-11.45 Coffee break
11.45-13.15. Seminars:
1st group. Prof. Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov: “Ethnography of Enemy: the policy of Knowledge
in the Cold War Era”.
2nd group. Prof. Michael Dolbilov “Policy of Linguistic Diversity in the Imperial Context”
13.30 – 15.00. Lunch
15.00 – 16.30. Seminars:
1st group. Prof. Michael Dolbilov “Policy of Linguistic Diversity in the Imperial Context”
2nd group. Prof. Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov: “Ethnography of Enemy: the policy of
Knowledge in the Cold War Era”.
16.30 – 16.45. Coffee break
16.45 – 18.15. Meeting of work groups “The New Political History”, “History of Family”,
“Regional History”
18.30. Diner
The 2nd of August
10.00.-11.30. Prof. Boris Kolonitskii’s lecture: “«New Political History» and some Aspects of
Studies in the History of the First World War”
11.30-11.45 Coffee break
11.45-13.15. Final Meeting: Discussing Plans for the Next Year and Summer School in the 2009
13.30 – 15.00. Lunch
16.00. – Departure from the out-of-town hotel “Raivola”