October 31
PLENARY SESSION
Faculty of History, St. Petersburg State University
Auditorium 70
Chairmen: Tatyana V. Ilyina, Ivan I. Tuchkov
Time limit – 20 min.

DR. PROF. TATYANA V. ILYINA (Chairman of the Conference Organizational Committee, professor of the Department of Russian Art History, Faculty of History, St. Petersburg State University). Welcome speech.

DR. LARISA A. TSVETKOVA (Vice Rector, St. Petersburg State University). Welcome speech.

DR. PROF. ABDULLA KH. DAUDOV (Dean of the Faculty of History, St. Petersburg State University). Welcome speech.

DR. PROF. SERGEY P. KARPOV (Dean of the Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University). Welcome speech. (Remote access by “Polycom”)

DR. PROF. IVAN I. TUCHKOV (Chief of the Department of General Art History, Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University). Welcome speech.

DR. ALEXANDRA P. SALIENKO (Deputy Chief of Russian Art History Department, Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University). Welcome speech.

DR. PROF. GEORGIY V. ESAULOV (Vice Rector, Moscow Architectural Institute) Welcome speech. (Remote access by “Polycom”)

DR. JELENA ERDELJAN (The University of Belgrade, Serbia). Welcome speech. (Remote access by “Polycom”)

DR. PROF. IVAN STEVOVIC (The University of Belgrade, Serbia). Welcome speech. (Remote access by “Polycom”)


ANASTASYA S. LOOGO (B. Ioganson St. Petersburg State Academic Art Lyceum, Russia). A propos “Escape to St. Petersburg” and its Author.

DR. OLEG M. IOANNISYAN (Head of the Department of Architectural Archaeology, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg). On Periodization of the Initial Stage of Development of Old Russian Architecture (End of the 10th – 11th cc.)

DR. MIKHAIL I. MILCHIK (Deputy Chief of the Scientific Research Institute “Specproektrestavratsya”, Member of the Cultural Heritage Board of the Government of St. Petersburg). Solving the Riddle of the Portraits of Archbishop Afanasiy, or Once Again a propos their Attribution.

DR. NADIA C. JIJINA (The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia). On the Crossroads of Knowledge or the Age of Topicality: Problems of Greek and Roman Art as Part of General Classical Studies.

DR. ZARUHY HAKOBIAN (Yerevan State University, Armenia). Early Mediaeval Sculpture of Gugark and Kartli. The Problems of the Artistic Style and Workshops.

DR. LIVIA BEVILACQUA (Sapienza University, Rome, Italy). Displaying the Past in Byzantium. Figural “Spolia” on the City Gates of Nicaea (13th Century).

СOFFEE BREAK. Auditorium 68

DR. EKATERINE GEDEVANISHVILI (National Research Centre for the History of Georgian Art and Monuments Protection, Tbilisi, Georgia). The Representation of the Last Judgment in the Ikvi Murals. (Remote access report by “Polycom”)

DR. IVANA JEVTIC (Koc University, Turkey). Multiplication and Amplification of Narrative Elements in Late Byzantine Painting: Questions They Raise about Sacred Images.

DR. ANESTIS VASILAKERIS (Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey). Can Psychoanalysis Contribute to Byzantine Art History?

DR. ELENA A. EFIMOVA (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia). Three Albums from H. Destailleur's Collection in the State Hermitage Museum: Some Problems of Interpretation.

DR. VADIM G. BASS (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia). Death of Chorus: War Monuments as Machines of Memory and Oblivion.

DR. PROF. STEPAN S. VANEYAN (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia). The Art Studies and Science: the Limits of the Possible.

EKATERINA YU. STANYUKOVICH-DENISOVA (St. Petersburg State University, Russia). Architectural Training in Petersburg – Leningrad in the First Half of the 20th Century. Some Problems of Research.

DR. ANNA V. ZAKHAROVA (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia). The Principles of Grouping the Images of Saints in Pre- and Post-Iconoclastic Byzantine Painting. Some Observations.

SVETLANA V. MALTSEVA (St. Petersburg State University, Russia). Centrally-planned Polykonchial Churches in the Balcans. Actual Problems of Research.


Opening of the exhibition of photographs “The Caucasus: a Trail of Memories” (foyer of the Lectorium, Faculty of History).