Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Ekaterina Boltunova, Associate Professor at the School of Philology organized the section ‘Marketing of Self / Self-Marketing: Strategies of Behavior and Self-Representation in the 18th Century Russia’ at the Fourteenth Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, that took place in Rotterdam in July.

Section Programme:

Gary Marker (Stony Brook University) ‘Feofan Prokopovich Between Self and Empire’

Ekaterina Boltunova (HSE) ‘Inventing the Russian Emperor: Peter II as Peter I’

Maria Di Salvo (University if Milan) ‘Fedor Emin: Trying to Become a Recognized Writer in Catherinian Russia’

Elena Smilyanskaya (HSE) ‘The Unvalued Service of the British Seaman in Russia: the Case of John Elphinston’