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The Royal collection: Russia-royalty-the Romanovs
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Subject: Russia: Courtly Gifts and
Cultural Diplomacy Conference
Dear all,
Please be aware that the deadline for submissions for the conference
'Russia: Courtly Gifts and Cultural Diplomacy' is approaching soon: 15th October.
Abstracts of up to 300 words should be
submitted to Dr Louise Hardiman (Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre)
at [log in to unmask]. Please include a paper title, your
name, institution (if applicable), brief biography, and full contact
information (address, phone number, and email).
Please feel free to forward the CfP onto interested colleagues.
Best regards,
Kamila
Call for Conference Papers
Russia: Courtly Gifts and Cultural Diplomacy
Friday 22 March 2019
Conference 10.00-18.00; Drinks reception 18.00-20:30
The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London
Nicolas Chevalier, The
Marriage of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, 23 January 1874 (1874-75)
Image
credit: Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018.
A collaboration between Royal Collection
Trust, Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre and The Burlington Magazine, this one-day
international academic conference takes its cue from the exhibition, ‘Russia: Royalty and the Romanovs’, to be
held at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, from 9 November 2018 to
28 April 2019.
The exhibition explores the relationship
between Britain and Russia and their royal families through the stories of art
and objects in the Royal Collection, charting a history of alliance, dynastic
marriage, and war. Over a long historical timeframe beginning with Peter the
Great’s visit to London in 1698, the display of portraits, sculpture, photographs,
archival documents and miniature masterpieces by Fabergé will illustrate
historic events, state ceremony, and family meetings between the rulers of the
two nations.
For further information, visit the website of the Royal Collection
at: https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/themes/exhibitions/russia-royalty-the-romanovs/the-queens-gallery-buckingham-palace
The conference ‘Russia: Courtly Gifts and Cultural Diplomacy’will
explore themes of courtly gift-giving and cultural diplomacy between Russia and
the west, a history that sits within the broader framework of the history of
British-Russian state and cultural relations. Scholarly research in these areas
has flourished over the past few decades, and continues to generate debate and
activity as the discipline of history itself has developed to encompass the
study of material culture; sensory history and the history of emotions;
domestic history; histories of power, ceremony and ritual; and internationalism
and cross-cultural exchange. Increasing access to archives and the availability
of new methodologies, not least the advent of the ‘digital’ humanities, have
provided further opportunities for cutting-edge research. This conference
accordingly embraces innovative methodologies from disciplines including
history, art history, literature, area studies, and anthropology to explore
ways in which Russia’s international relations have been forged, fermented and
fractured by the exchange of material objects in the social, cultural and
political spheres.
Call for Papers
Papers are invited on the following
themes:
· practices
of gift-giving between the British and Russian monarchies and governments
· British-Russian
cultural exchange at state and diplomatic level
· interactions
between cultural diplomacy, art and politics
· cultural
diplomacy and nationalism/imperialism
· gift-exchange
in the formation of royal collections
· royal
portraits as gifts
· the
exchange of court artists, craftsmen and other cultural producers
· the
role of ambassadors and cultural mediators
· royal
photographs, photographs of royalty
· royal
patronage in the cross-cultural context
· gift-giving
and domestic court life
· family,
marriage, and dynastic ties
· material
culture and gift-giving
· the
material accompaniments of royal travel and state visits
· transcultural
ritual and ceremony
· custom,
convention and protocol
· societies
promoting cultural exchange between governments
· the
forging of cultural links between state departments
· British
artists and makers and Russian royal patronage (e.g., Godfrey Kneller,
Christopher Galloway, George Dawe, Christina Robertson, Charles Cameron)
· Russian
artists and makers and British royal patronage (e.g., Carl Fabergé, Savely
Sorine)
Paper topics should relate to a
British-Russian or British-Soviet context and, to complement the exhibition,
may address any period from the late seventeenth to the mid twentieth century.
Papers shall be twenty minutes long and
will be organised into panels of two to four papers, with time allocated for
questions on all papers at the end of each session.
Participation in the conference for both
speakers and delegates will include an opportunity to visit the exhibition and
an early evening drinks reception.
In accordance with the event policy for
conferences held at The Queen’s Gallery, the conference organisers will not be
able to reimburse travel expenses or arrange accommodation for speakers. Some
limited funding may become available as a result of grant applications that are
in progress; if you wish to be considered for this, please provide an estimate
of costs as part of your proposal.
Further information
Abstracts of up to 300 words should be
submitted to Dr Louise Hardiman (Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre)
at [log in to unmask].
Please include a paper title, your name, institution (if applicable), brief
biography, and full contact information (address, phone number, and email). Any
questions about the conference may also be sent to the above email address.
The deadline for submission of abstracts
is Monday 15 October 2018.
Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre
(CCRAC) is an academic collaboration between the Department of History of Art
at the University of Cambridge and The Courtauld Institute of Art. CCRAC
promotes research, collaboration and scholarly debate on all aspects of
the visual arts, architecture, design, and exhibitions in Russia and the Soviet
Union. For further information see www.ccrac.org.uk.
Organising Committee
Caroline de Guitaut (Royal Collection
Trust), Dr Louise Hardiman (CCRAC), Professor Rosalind P. Blakesley (University
of Cambridge and CCRAC), Professor John Milner (The Courtauld Institute of Art
and CCRAC) and Michael Hall (Editor, The Burlington Magazine).
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Kamila Kocialkowska
PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
Administrator, Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre
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