Conference Description:

The scientific event is timed to coincide with major historical anniversaries: 300 years of St. Petersburg State University, 300 years of the Russian Academy of Sciences and 90 years of the organization of historical faculties in Leningrad/St. Petersburg and Moscow Universities. These significant anniversaries allow us to develop the theme of the role of scientists and thinkers in the history of mankind, encourage us to discuss forms, methods and tasks of historical education today, as well as oblige us once again to pay tribute to our teachers, outstanding Russian historians of the 20th century.

The program will be united by the theme "Man makes history". We propose to consider the role of personality in various aspects – from scientific biography, historical portraits of prominent people to mythological images of legendary heroes and antiheroes. As in previous forums, it is supposed to link the topics of the sections and round tables with historical anniversaries (an approximate list for 2024 is available online: https://historical-forum.spbu.ru/o-forum e-2024/2-uncategorised/9-spisok-yubileev -2024.html ).

The main directions of the forum's work:
• archaeology of burials
• chiefdoms in ethnology
• "A trace in history": archives about outstanding people
• Museumification of the memory of outstanding people
• monumental politics, commemorations, honoring the memory of people in history
• historical genealogy
• ideas about the role of personality in history
• heroes and antiheroes in history
• Saints in history
• ideas about the social ideal in different historical epochs
• leaders, the phenomenon of "chiefdom" and "personality cult" in the history of mankind
• historical anthropology as a methodology of history
• microhistory
• prosopographic studies
• methods of studying man in history: historical psychology, gender studies, the history of private life, family history
• interdisciplinary approaches and natural science methods of studying humanity
• historical Informatics and Digital History
• teaching history as the history of people
• the history of science and education in the Russian Empire and the USSR
• the phenomenon of Soviet culture and the Soviet man
• military history: a man at war
• the history of the feat: heroes of the Great Patriotic War
• the siege of Leningrad as a place of historical memory

The forum will include plenary sessions, round tables, sections, discussions, presentations, and master classes. It will be accompanied by the holding of All-Russian youth competitions and the opening of exhibitions.

Participants of the Forum are kindly asked to submit an application through a special
form by February 15, 2024 https://regforms.spbu.ru/en/?option=com_ rsform&view=rsform&formId=1992

Working languages of the forum: Russian, English.

The Program Committee reserves the right to select individual applications and applications for the organization of sections / round tables / presentations and will inform the participants about its decision additionally.

Participants may join us in person or virtually. For those who are not able to join us in person plenary sessions, keynote speeches, sections (selectively) and round tables (selectively) will be broadcast live.

Participation in the conference involves payment of the registration fee: 1500 rubles for citizens of Russia and CIS countries, 50 euros for foreign participants. Travel and accommodation expenses are borne by the participants themselves.