CHAIR

Tyler Adkins

(Columbia U, US)

ta2722@columbia.edu

 

 

PAPERS

Emma Friedlander

(Harvard U, US)

efriedlander@g.harvard.edu

The Soviet New Age on the Boulevard: Alternative Spirituality

in the Popular Press of 1980s-90s Ukraine, Russia, and Latvia

 

Ekaterina V Klimenko

(Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Poland)

ekavlaklimenko@gmail.com

Martyrological in Form, Statist in Content: 

The Russian Orthodox Church and the Memory of The Great Patriotic War

 

Inga Miller

(U of Albany, US)

imiller@albany.edu

An Entanglement of the Esoteric, Political and Pragmatic:

The Kremlin and the Russian Philosopher Nikolai Roerich

 

Pavlo Smytsnyuk

(Princeton U, US)

smytsnyuk@princeton.edu

Russkii mir vs. The Third Rome: 

Russia’s Search of The Best Imperial Ideology in Times of War

 

 

DISCUSSANT

Victoria Smolkin

(Columbia U, US)

vsmolkin@wesleyan.edu

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