INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

“Classical Antiquity in Russia as Routes to Europe –

St. Petersburg Institutions of Classical Scholarship in the 19th and 20th Centuries”

Saint Petersburg, 10–12.9.2009

Thursday, 10.09 (St Petersburg Scientific Centre of the RussianAcademy of Sciences)

1st Session: Academies of Sciences as Centres of Classical Scholarship

(Chair: Bernard Seidensticker and Nikolai N. Kazansky)

09:30 – 10:00 Welcome Address (Alexander Verlinsky)

10:00 – 10:30 Ekaterina Basargina, The Russian Academy of Sciences and Institutions of

Classical Scholarship before and after the Revolution

10:30 – 11:00 Alexander K. Gavrilov, August Nauck in Rußland

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee-break

11:30 – 12:00 Discussion

12:00 – 12:30 Christopher Stray, Classics in Late 19th-century Britain: the Absent Academy

12:30 – 13:00 Nikolai N. Kazansky, Russian Classical Scholarship after 1917

13:00 – 13:20 A short statement by Bernard Seidensticker, Classics at Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

13:20 – 13:50 Discussion

14:00 – 15:20 Lunch

2nd session: Classics in Universities: Education and Research

(Chair: André Hurst and Ekaterina Basargina)

15:30 – 16:00 W. A. Schröder, Philologisches Seminar für russische Staatsstipendiaten

(Kaiserlich Russisches Seminar zur Ausbildung von Gymnasiallehrern) Okt. 1873–März 1913

16:00 – 16:30 Alexander Verlinsky, Chair of Classics in St. Petersburg University

(1819–1918)

16:30 – 17:00 Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg, Gustav Willmann, ein Schüler Mommsens in Dorpat

17:00 – 17:30 Discussion

Friday, 11.09 (St. Petersburg Institute of History of the RussianAcademy of Sciences)

3rd session: Organizing Classics Formally and Informally

(Chair: Bernd Manuwald and Boris Kaganovich)

09:30 – 10:00 Christian-Friedrich Collatz, Joachimsthal-Gymnasium zu Berlin

10:00 – 10:30 Anna Uspenskaya, “Von Tränen zittert eine unbeholfne Stimme….”: Zur Geschichte des Dritten Sankt-Petersburger Gymnasiums (От слез дрожал неверный голосок: К истории Третьей Петербургской гимназии).

10:30 – 11:00 Discussion

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee-break

4^th session (Chair:György Karsai and Vladimir Kasceev)

11:30 – 12:00 Brian Sparkes, Classical Associations and Societies in the United Kingdom

12:00 – 12:30 Dmitri Panchenko and Souren Takhtajan, “Underground” Classical Seminars and Circles in the 1970s and 1980s

12:30 – 13:00 Discussion

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

15:30 – 17:00 Tour over the Hermitage galleries of the Department of Greek and Roman Art

18:00 – Vsevodod Zelchenko, Gymnasium Classicum Petropolitanum

18:30 – Performance by the school’s theatrical group

Saturday, 12.09 (at the Hermitage)

Institutions of Classical Archaeology and Arts

(Chair: Brian Sparkes and Christian Collatz)

10:30 – 11:00 Mariam Dandamaeva, On the History of the Greek Papyri Collection at the Hermitage:

11:00 – 11:30 Anna Trofimova. Oskar Waldhauer, Founder of Museum Scholarship in Classical Antiquities in Russia.

11:30 – 12:00 Discussion

12:00 – 12:30 Coffee-break

12:30 – 13:00 Nadia C. Jijina, The Hermitage Collection of Classical Antiquities Originating from the North Pontic Area

13:00 – 13:30 Yuri Kalashnik, On the History of the Department of Greek and Roman Art at the Hermitage

13:30 – 14:00 Summary (Alexander GavrilovandBernd Seidensticker) andfinaldiscussions