Prof. Tatiana ARTEMIEVA Dr. Michael MIKESHIN
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St Petersburg Branch, Institute for Human Studies RAS
St Petersburg Branch, Institute for History of Science and Technology RAS
St Petersburg Center for History of Ideas
hold on 9-30 July 2000
The 3rd St Petersburg International Summer School in the History of Ideas
RUSSIAN UTOPIANISM:
FROM AN IDEAL STATE
TO THE PERFECT SOCIETY
The organizational and financial support by:
the Open Society Institute and the Federal Program "Integration"
The main topics of the School's courses:
* Russian Utopianism of the Enlightenment
* Utopianism and Literature
* The Past, the Present and the Future of the Russian Communist
Utopia
The courses are delivered by leading specialists in the history of ideas:
Tatiana Artemieva (St Petersburg), Andrei Zorin (Moscow), Robert Darnton
(USA),
Alexander Martin (USA), Mikhail Uvarov (St Petersburg)
It is planned to discuss the following themes:
* The poverty of historicism and the luxury of utopianism: forms and
methods of social cognition
* The socio-political utopia as an object of philosophical inquiry
* Philosophical foundations of social utopianism
* Socio-political foundations of utopianism
* General regularities and partial conclusions: comparative themes of
European utopianism
* Forms and genres of social utopianism
* V. Odoevsky's «electrical» utopia and the beginning of technological
utopianism
* The legend of Belovod'e: spaces of folk utopianism
* Utopian archetypes in Russian and European culture
To participate in the competition any applicant should send not later than
1
May 2000:
* a cover letter
* CV
* a text of her/his paper in the topic of the School (about 3 500
words),
on IBM-compatible diskette or by e-mail
The working languages of the School are Russian and English.
The applicants are supposed to be not older than 35, to have their
PhD or
working with their dissertation. Participants from Russia, NIS, Central and
Eastern Europe will have their travel expenses reimbursed and their
accommodation paid. The participants will be able to work in archives and
libraries of St Petersburg. The best papers of participants will be
published in the almanac «Philosophical Age».
P.O.Box 264, B-358, St Petersburg 194358 Russia
Telephone: +7 (812) 514 9380 Fax: +7 (812) 328 4667
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