Dear friends of the Dashkova Centre, 

We warmly invite you to the following events, co-organised with the Centre: 

Dashkova, the Woman Who Shook the World

29 November, 18.30h, St Cecilia's Hall (50 Niddry Street, EH1 1LG)

An evening at St Cecilia's Hall devoted to the Princess herself - a costumed extravaganza of eighteenth-century gossip, politics, poetry, and music. 

This event is co-organised with IASH fellow Georgina Barker, whose research project is the driving force behind this event.

Tickets are a bargain at 4/2, and include free tea and Russian cake!

All details and ticket link can be found here: https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/event/princess-dashkova-woman-who-shook-world 

http://edin.ac/2zEjkxe

A poster is attached to this message too.

Earlier that week, the Russian Section at the University of Edinburgh has a research talk:

Witchcraft and Society in Early Modern Russia: Why Witchcraft and Magical Spells Provide all the Answers to Early Modern Russian History (Prof Val Kivelson, University of Michigan)

26 November 2018, 18.00h, Project Room, 50 George Square EH8 JU

The talk is followed by an informal wine reception - everyone is most welcome.

Professor Val Kivelson is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Her research has helped to transform our picture of early modern Muscovy by challenging many assumptions concerning the relationship between society and the state. She is the author of several books on early modern Russia, including: Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (2013). Her Cartographies of Tsardom: the Land and its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia (2006) was awarded the 2007 Roland Bainton History & Theology Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society.

We hope to see you soon!