Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
Institute of International Connections
St. Petersburg State University
Resource Center for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and Humanities
St. Petersburg Center for the History of Ideas
hold on 22-24 June 2006
The International Conference
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND RUSSIA
to the Tercentenary of His Birth (1706-1790)
Topics proposed to discuss:
- B. Franklin in Search of Civil Society
- «The Art of virtue». B. Franklin’s Thirteen Commandments
- «Way to wealth». B. Franklin as an Enlightener and Educator
- The Envoy of the New World. B. Franklin as a Diplomat and Politician
- Virtue as a Way of Life. B. Franklin’s "Autobiography"
- B. Franklin’s "Simple Rules"
- Taming Electricity: B. Franklin as a Scientist
- The American Philosophical Society and the Petersburg Academy of Sciences
- B. Franklin and E.R. Dashkova
- B. Franklin and D.I. Fonvizin
- Works of American Enlighteners in Russian Translations
- The Epoch of Enlightenment in Russia and in America: Differences and Similarities
- American Researches of the Russian Enlightenment
- Russia through the Eyes of Americans and America through the Eyes of Russians from the Epoch of Enlightenment to the Post-Industrial Society
The list of topics is open for intellectual contributions.
Papers up to 3,000 words (10 pages) accompanied by short CVs are accepted not later than 15 March 2006 by e-mail:
franklin2006@mail.ru
Phone/fax: +7 (812) 444 1233
Prof. Dr. Tatiana V. ARTEMIEVA & Dr. Mikhail I. MIKESHIN
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