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The programme of the 11th International Academic Conference Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art covered 14–19 October 2024. The academic sessions listed in its final version took place from 14 to 18 October at the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg State University, and the National Library of Russia.
Schedule by day
Monday, 14 October
Welcome speeches, the plenary session, and the opening session on the art of the ancient world.
Tuesday, 15 October
Art of the ancient world; Western European art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; 18th-century Russian art; Asian art.
Wednesday, 16 October
Art of the ancient world; a tour of the Twelve Collegia building; 19th-century Russian art; Renaissance art; 20th-century and contemporary art; Byzantine and Balkan art; art of the Christian East; interdisciplinary methods in cultural heritage research.
Thursday, 17 October
Medieval Russian art; art theory; conservation and museum studies; the special section “An Artist in a Printing House”.
Friday, 18 October
Western European art of the early modern and modern periods; the special section “Types of Visual Texts: The History of Development and Modern Culture”.
Venues and format
Sessions were held in the Hermitage Theatre and Council Hall at the State Hermitage Museum, at the Institute of History and other Saint Petersburg University venues, and at the National Library of Russia. The programme provided remote access to selected sessions.
Presentation times
Plenary papers were allocated 25 minutes and session papers 15 minutes. The programme was revised during the final preparations; this overview follows its final version, published on 7 October 2024. The complete document contains a detailed bilingual schedule of individual papers.
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The programme of the 10th International Academic Conference Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art covered three days: 4, 5, and 6 October 2022. Every session was held online in three parallel streams.
Schedule by day
Tuesday, 4 October
- art of the ancient world, 10:00–18:00;
- medieval Russian art, 10:00–18:00;
- Renaissance art, 10:00–16:30, followed by interdisciplinary methods in cultural heritage research, 16:30–19:30.
Wednesday, 5 October
- art of Early Christianity and the Christian East, 10:00–14:00, followed by medieval European art, 14:30–17:30;
- early modern and modern European art, 10:00–18:00;
- art theory, 10:00–14:00, followed by museum and conservation studies, 15:00–18:00.
Thursday, 6 October
- Byzantine art and the medieval Balkans, 10:00–18:00;
- 20th-century and contemporary art, 10:00–18:00;
- Russian art of the 18th and 19th centuries, 10:00–17:00.
Format
Parallel streams allowed a substantial range of subject sessions to be accommodated within the compact three-day programme. Speakers received access links directly, while attendees completed advance registration. Those arrangements applied only to the 2022 conference and are not reactivated by this archive.
The complete 27-page document contains a bilingual schedule of individual papers and information about session moderators. This page preserves the structure of the final programme in a concise, accessible form.
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The programme of the 9th International Academic Conference Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art extended over six days, from 26 to 31 October 2020. Sessions were held both in person and online, with all times given in Moscow time.
Days and subject areas
- 26 October: a plenary session shared with the Days of Classical Studies in St Petersburg at the Hermitage Theatre, and the online session The Art of Space;
- 27 October: medieval Russian art, Renaissance art, early modern European art, 20th-century and contemporary art, art theory, and cult and artistic culture;
- 28–29 October: Asian art, Russian art of the 18th and 19th centuries, medieval and Christian art, architectural history and conservation, decorative art, and ancient art;
- 30–31 October: Eastern Christian art, museum studies, curatorial practice and art mediation, interdisciplinary cultural heritage research, and field seminars.
A dedicated strand, Art and Culture of the Middle Ages: Heritage and Perspectives of Comprehension, connected the study of medieval Russian and Christian art with architectural history, conservation, and methods from the natural sciences. Its sessions and seminars were supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project No. 20-012-22040.
Venues and format
The programme included sessions at the State Hermitage Museum, the Institutes of History and Philosophy at Saint Petersburg State University, the Bobrinsky Palace, the Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, the National Library of Russia, and Arts Square Gallery. Some sessions were entirely online, and public access to the physical venues was restricted under the health measures in force in 2020.
Selected recordings
Recordings of two Russian-language sessions remain publicly available through the St Petersburg Historical Forum channel: Art and Culture of Medieval Russia and Russian Art of the 18th and 19th Centuries.
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The programme of the 8th International Conference Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art extended over five days, from 2 to 6 October 2018. Sessions were held in the Shuvalovsky Building of Lomonosov Moscow State University and at the State Tretyakov Gallery's venues in Lavrushinsky Lane and on Krymsky Val.
2 October — opening
MSU, Shuvalovsky Building. Registration and the welcome began at 13:30, followed by the plenary session from 14:00 to 17:00.
3 October
- MSU, 10:00–19:00: Eastern Christian Art, Western European Medieval Art, Renaissance Art, and Oriental Art;
- New Tretyakov Gallery, 10:00–17:30: the first day of Modern and Contemporary Art.
4 October
- MSU, 10:00–19:00: the first day of Art of the Ancient World, Byzantine Art, and Early Modern European Art;
- Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane, 10:00–18:00: Eighteenth-Century Russian Art;
- New Tretyakov Gallery, 10:00–18:00: the second day of Modern and Contemporary Art.
5 October
- MSU, 10:00–19:00: the second day of Art of the Ancient World, Russian Medieval Art, Theory of Art, and “Art. Space”;
- Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane, 10:00–18:00: Nineteenth-Century Russian Art and the Academic Tradition;
- New Tretyakov Gallery, 12:00–18:00: the first day of “Challenges in Displaying Modern and Contemporary Art Collections”.
6 October — closing day
New Tretyakov Gallery, 12:00–18:00. The second day of “Challenges in Displaying Modern and Contemporary Art Collections” concluded the conference programme.
The special session examined international approaches to displaying modern and contemporary art, including exhibition architecture and narrative, collecting policies, and the museum's engagement with the historical conflicts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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The programme of the 7th International Conference Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art extended over five days, from 11 to 15 October 2016. Parallel sessions were held at the State Hermitage Museum and St Petersburg State University; papers were allotted fifteen minutes.
11 October — opening day
The Hermitage Theatre. Registration from 9:30 to 11:00 was followed by the plenary session, which continued until 15:00. Ceremonial events marking the opening of the conference took place later that day.
12 October
From 10:00 to 19:30, the State Hermitage Museum and SPbU hosted parallel sessions on the art and artistic culture of the ancient world, Renaissance art, Eastern Christian art, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian art, and art theory.
13 October
The day began with a guided visit to the Twelve Collegia building. From 11:00 to 20:30, sessions addressed “Museum: Collection, Space, Monument”, Oriental art, medieval Russian art, twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russian and international art, and Western European art of the modern age.
14 October — concluding sessions
The State Hermitage Museum and SPbU hosted the panel discussion “Museum: Shaping the Future” and sessions on Western European medieval art, cult and artistic culture, and applied art. Participants could join tours devoted to the Hermitage interiors and the history of its collections or visit the Gold Room. The official closing took place that evening in the atrium of the General Staff Building.
15 October — field seminars
The final day offered two thematic excursions: a seminar on the architecture, monumental painting, and museums of Veliky Novgorod, or a visit to the palaces and parks of Tsarskoye Selo, Pavlovsk, and Peterhof.
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The programme of the 6th International Conference Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art extended over five days, from 27 to 31 October 2015. The principal sessions were held at the Faculty of History of Lomonosov Moscow State University, with a special day at the Moscow Kremlin Museums.
27 October — opening day
MSU Faculty of History. Registration at 10:30 was followed by the plenary session from 11:00 to 17:30. An exhibition opening and a reception for participants concluded the day.
28 October
Parallel sessions from 10:00 to 19:30 addressed ancient art, Western European medieval art, medieval Russian art, Russian art from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century and in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, cult and artistic culture, and Renaissance architecture.
29 October
The second day of parallel sessions brought together Eastern Christian art, Renaissance art, Western art of the modern age, international art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and art theory.
30 October — Moscow Kremlin Museums
The Patriarch's Palace hosted the plenary session “The Art of Rus and Western Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries”. After the official closing, participants visited the Kremlin cathedrals and the Armoury Chamber.
31 October — field seminar
The conference concluded with an excursion to Sergiev Posad and Alexandrov.
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The programme of the 5th International Conference Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art extended over five days, from 28 October to 1 November 2014. Sessions were held at the State Hermitage Museum and Saint Petersburg State University, while the final day was devoted to field seminars.
28 October — opening day
The conference opened in the Hermitage Theatre with the plenary session “Classical Antiquity — Life through the Ages, and the Age of Topicality”. The evening programme, “Flickers of Classical Antiquity in St Petersburg”, connected the academic theme with the city's architecture and monuments.
29 October
Sessions at the State Hermitage Museum, the Bobrinsky Palace, and the Twelve Colleges addressed classical antiquity and the world around Hellas, Russian art of the eighteenth century, Russian art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the legacy of antiquity in the European Middle Ages. Poster presentations and study visits to the Hermitage's Staraya Derevnya Restoration and Storage Centre formed part of the day.
30 October
Meetings at SPbU examined the classical heritage in the Byzantine oikumene, ancient art in the Renaissance, the fate of the classical tradition in Western European art from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, and its interpretation in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art.
31 October — sessions and panel discussions
“Harmony of the Classics under the Arches of Old Rus'” met in SPbU's Petrovsky Hall. At the State Hermitage Museum, panel discussions considered fine art and architecture within and beyond the classical heritage and the presence of contemporary art in the historical museum. The programme concluded there with thematic gallery visits and closing remarks.
1 November — field seminars
The final day offered study visits to the Pavlovsk and Tsarskoye Selo state museums, alongside a separate seminar on medieval art in Veliky Novgorod.
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The programme of the 4th International Conference of Young Specialists Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art extended over four days, from 21 to 24 November 2013. The principal sessions were held in the Shuvalov Building of Lomonosov Moscow State University, with Russian and English as the working languages.
21 November — opening day
Registration was followed by a plenary session combining broad questions in contemporary art history with studies of ancient, medieval, Russian, and modern art. The day concluded with the opening of the Arbeitskollektiv poster exhibition.
22 November — parallel sessions
The first day of parallel meetings brought together four fields: the art of the ancient world and the medieval East; Russian art from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century; twentieth-century Western art and art theory; and Eastern Christian and medieval Russian art.
23 November — Russian and Western European art
Parallel sessions examined Russian art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and Western European art of the medieval and modern periods. A closing discussion followed the final papers.
24 November — contemporary culture and Moscow architecture
The concluding day included a visit to the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture and scholarly walking tours devoted to Moscow's avant-garde and Stalinist architecture.
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The programme of the 3rd International Conference of Young Specialists Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art extended over five days, from 31 October to 4 November 2012. Sessions were held at Saint Petersburg State University and the State Hermitage Museum, followed by off-site academic seminars on the final day.
31 October — opening day
The conference opened in SPbU's Twelve Collegia building with a plenary session. Papers and greetings were streamed online, while video links connected the venue with MSU, the Moscow Architectural Institute, Ural Federal University, and the University of Belgrade. The photography exhibition The Caucasus: A Path of Memories also opened that day.
1 November — medieval and twentieth-century art
Parallel sessions examined Eastern Christian and medieval Russian art, Western European art of the medieval and modern periods, and twentieth-century Russian art.
2 November — theory, Russian art, and Western art
The day's sections addressed art theory and cultural studies, Russian art from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, and twentieth-century Western art.
3 November — the State Hermitage Museum
The session on the art of the ancient world was held at the State Hermitage Museum. A closing discussion and museum-based academic seminars followed the papers.
4 November — study visits
The concluding programme comprised academic visits to Veliky Novgorod, Pavlovsk, and Tsarskoye Selo.
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The programme of the 2nd International Conference of Young Specialists Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art extended over four days, from 24 to 27 November 2011. The principal sessions were held at the Faculty of History of Lomonosov Moscow State University, and the programme was presented in Russian and English.
24 November — opening day
The conference opened with a plenary meeting. Its papers ranged across ancient and Byzantine art, medieval Russian and European architecture, Russian art from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and methodological questions in art history.
25 November — four thematic strands
Parallel sessions examined the art of the ancient world and the medieval East, eighteenth-century Russian art, Eastern Christian art, and Western art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
26 November — Russian and Western European art
Sessions addressed medieval Russian art, Russian art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, twentieth-century Russian art, and Western European art of the medieval and early modern periods. The day concluded with a closing discussion and the presentation of the first volume of Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art.
27 November — museum programme
The final day comprised academic visits to the Moscow Kremlin Museums and the State Tretyakov Gallery.
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The 1st International Conference of Young Specialists Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art was held on 1–5 December 2010 at the Faculty of History of Saint Petersburg State University. The surviving programme combines three days of academic sessions with two days of off-site activities.
1 December — opening day
The opening was followed by a plenary meeting with papers on Byzantine and medieval Russian art, eighteenth-century Russian architecture, twentieth-century art history, and Oleg Liagatchev-Helgi's painting Soleil. A student photography exhibition and a tour of St Petersburg completed the day.
2 December — Russian art and creative projects
The programme included sessions on eighteenth-century Russian art and Russian art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a tour of the Twelve Collegia building, and presentations by students working with animation, computer graphics, historical costume, and monumental art.
3 December — Eastern Christian and Western art
Parallel sessions examined Byzantium, the Balkans, and Georgia; medieval Russian art; Eastern and Western art from antiquity to the Renaissance; and Western art of the modern period. A closing discussion followed the final papers.
4–5 December — off-site programme
The fourth day was devoted to a study visit to Veliky Novgorod. The conference concluded with a cultural programme in St Petersburg.