Adrian Jones – The Eastern-European Other Enlightenment: Dimitrie Cantemir (1673-1723): Rebel Moldavian Prince, Ottoman Historian and Musician, Exile in the Russia of Peter the Great

9.30-10.30am Friday 13 February 2015
Dr Adrian Jones OAM is an Associate Professor in the History programme at La Trobe University. Adrian’s current research interests focus on Russian and Ottoman history, especially the eighteenth century, and on historiography (methods and philosophies of history).  Adrian is writing a cultural history of a Russian-Ottoman encounter in the era of Peter the Great and Ahmed III: the Battle of the Prut, 1711.

Paul Barratt Lecture Theatre, Building S06
(note venue for this week only)
followed by morning tea in the Humanities tea room, Arts Building
ALL WELCOME
Enquiries to: Karin von Strokirch – kvonstro@une.edu.au

Image: Engraving by J.M Bernigeroth (Cabeinetul de Stampe al Bibliotecii Academie Romane) inAndrei Pippidi, Hommes et idees du Sud-Est europeen a l’aube de l’age moderne, Paris & Bucharest, Editura Academiei Republicii Sociliste Romana & Editions CNRS, 1980, plate 8