University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Summer Research Laboratory
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Monday June 28 (2.00-4.00):
SESSION 1 (2.00-3.00):
Topic: "The Literary Marketplace in Early 19Cth Europe
and Russia: Readers, Writers, Publishers and Printing Technologies"
Discussion Leader: Melissa Frazier (Sarah Lawrence College)
Probable Readings:
1. Kloek, Joost. "Reconsidering the Reading Revolution" in Poetics:
Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 26, 5-6
(Aug 1999): 289-307.
2. Kufaev, M.N. Istoriia russkoi knigi v XIX v. [Reprint of 1927 ed.]
(Moscow, 2003);
3. Zaitseva, A. A. "Knigopechatanie v Rossii na rubezhe XVIII i XIX vv."
in Kniga v Rossii do serediny XIX v. (Leningrad, 1978), 183-194.
SESSION 2 (3.00-4.00):
Topic: "Early 19thC Merchant Readers"
Discussion Leader: Miranda Remnek (Slavic Library, UIUC)
This session will draw on my research database of subscription records (1825-1846),
and also on the current work of Lina Bernstein on 18thC merchant readers (unfortunately
Lina will not be able to attend this year).
Readings:
1. Bernstein, Lina. "Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Russian Merchant Culture"
(pre-publication draft; PRINT COPY ON RESERVE IN SLAVIC LIBRARY by
kind permission of the author);
2. Remnek, Miranda. "Russia, 1790-1830," in Press, Politics and
the Public Sphere in Europe & North America, 1760-1820, ed. Hannah
Barker and Simon Burrows (Cambridge: CUP, 2002), 224-247;
3. Samarin, A. Iu. Chitatel' v Rossii vo vtoroi polovine XVIII veka (po
spiskam podpischikov) (Moscow: Izd-vo MGUP, 2000);
4. Suvorova, M. V. "Krug chteniia russkogo kupechestva v kontse XVIII-1.
pol. XIX v." in Problemy istochnikovedeniia istorii knigi, vyp.
3, (Moscow, 2000), 144-159 (PRINT COPY ON RESERVE IN SLAVIC LIBRARY;
special thanks to Mikhail Afanas'ev!)
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Tuesday June 29 (2.00-4.00):
SESSION 1 (2.00-3.30):
Topic: "Materials for the Study of E19thC Readership in
Russian Libraries"
Discussion Leader: Mikhail Afanas'ev (Historical Library, Moscow)
Readings:
1. Abramov, K. I. Gorodskie publichnye biblioteki Rossii: istoriia stanovleniia
(1830-nachalo 1860-kh gg.) (Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2001);
2. Chtenie v dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii (Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie,
Rossiiskaia gos. biblioteka, 1995);
3. Derunov, K. N. "Tipichnye cherty v evoliutsii russkoi obshchestvennoi
biblioteki." In his Izbrannoe (Moscow, 1972);
4. Gromova, A. A. "Publichnye biblioteki v provintsii v 1830-50 gg."
In Sovetskaia bibliografiia (1934), no. 1: 66-97.
SESSION 2 (3.30-4.00):
Topic: Individual Topic Discussion: "Provincial Public
Libraries"
Discussion Leader: Susan Smith-Peter (College of Staten Island)
Readings: "Provincial Public Libraries and the Law in
Nicholas I's Russia" (PRINT COPY ON RESERVE IN SLAVIC LIBRARY by
kind permission of the author).
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Wednesday June 30 (2.00-4.00):
SESSION 1 (2.00-3.00):
Topic: "The Bakunin Family Archive: Letter-Writing
as a Form of Reading Culture"
Discussion Leader: John Randolph (History, UIUC)
This session will draw on John's work on the Bakunin family.
Readings:
1. Randolph, John. "'That Historical Family': the Bakunin Family and the
Intimate Theater of History in Imperial Russia, 1780-1925." Article forthcoming
in Oct 2004 (PRINT COPY ON RESERVE IN SLAVIC LIBRARY by kind
permission of the author);
SESSION 2 (3.00-3.30):
Topic: Individual Topic Discussion: "Niva and
its Readers"
Discussion Leader: Yukiko Tatsumi (University of Tokyo)
WRAP-UP (3.30-4.00)
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INTERESTED COLLEAGUES:
Afanas’ev, Mikhail (maf@shpl.ru)
Bernstein, Lina (lina.bernstein@fandm.edu)
Brooks, E. Willis (ewbrooks@email.unc.edu)
Cavender, Mollie (cavender.13@osu.edu)
Dianina, Katia (kdianina@amherst.edu)
Eklof, Ben (eklof@indiana.edu)
Frazier, Melissa (mfrazier@mail.slc.edu)
Glagoleva, Olga (olga.glagoleva@utoronto.ca)
Gutsche, George (gutscheg@u.arizona.edu)
Hoogenboom, Hilde (hoogenboom@macalester.edu)
Kaladiouk, Anna (akaladio@keene.edu)
Lakhtikova, Anastasia (avlakhti@artsci.wustl.edu)
Lounsbery, Anne (anne.lounsbery@nyu.edu)
Martin, Alexander (amm1_atlanta@yahoo.com)
Monnier, Nicole (monniern@missouri.edu)
Ramer, Sam (ramer@tulane.edu)
Randolph, John (jwr@uiuc.edu)
Remnek, Miranda (mremnek@uiuc.edu)
Zirin, Mary (mfz@caltech.edu)
Last update: 2.1.05
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