Grand Opening and Day One of the Program: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art
Grand Opening
9:00-10:30
Welcome and Address by Rector of the University Ca' Foscari, Prof. Michele Bugliesi
Director of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of the University Ca' Foscari, Prof. Giuseppe Barbieri
Director of Centro Studi sulle Arti della Russia (CSAR), Prof. Silvia Burini
Head of the Conference Organizing Committee of the Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture, Inc. (SHERA), Dr. Natasha Kurchanova
Co-Director of The Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre (CCRAC), Dr. Rosalind P. Blakesley
General Partner Inna Bazhenova, Founder of In Artibus Foundation and Publisher of The Art Newspaper Russia
Partners Amir Gross Kabiri of M.T. Abraham Foundation and Daniel Kroll of Kroll Family Trust
Session 1: Dialogues with Western Europe
10:45-12:45
Chair – Wendy Salmond
Discussant – Molly Brunson
Session 2: Vereshchagin and Makovsky Abroad
14:30-16:00
Chair – Natalia Sipovskaia
Discussant – Rosalind P. Blakesley
Session 3: Toward the Fin de Siècle
16:15 – 17:45
Chair – Margaret Samu
Discussant – Ilya Doronchenkov