Memory, Religion, and Revolution

[Alexander Etkind]

All are welcome but please register at info at memoryatwar.org.

MEMORY, RELIGION AND REVOLUTION

WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
www.memoryatwar.org

Monday 3 October 2011

No. 1 Newnham Terrace (first floor)
Darwin College, Silver Street, Cambridge


9:00am: Opening Remarks
•	Simon Franklin (Cambridge)

9:15 am: Keynote Address (60 min. presentation, 20 min. discussion, 10
	min. break)
•	Yuri Slezkine (Berkeley), ‘Was Bolshevism a Religion?’

10:45am (format for all subsequent sessions: 30 min. presentation, 20 min.
discussion, 10 min. break):
•	Laurie Manchester (Arizona), ‘How the Religious Roots of the Russian
Revolution Lead Scholars Astray’

11:45am
•	Alexander Etkind (Cambridge), ‘Sects, Revolution and Memory:
Instrumentality of Amnesia’

12:45pm: Lunch at Darwin College

1:45pm
•	Caroline Humphrey (Cambridge), ‘Revolution, Exclusion,
Excommunication: The Old Believers of Trans-Baikalia’

2:45pm
•	Oleg Kharkhordin (St Petersburg), ‘Religious Sources of the Soviet
Purges: Some Recent Debates’

3:45pm
•	Harald Wydra (Cambridge), ‘From Revolutionary Messianism to the
Self-Limiting Revolution – Continuities and Change in Political
Religion from 1917 to 1980’

4:45pm
•	Alexei Yurchak (Berkeley), ‘Lenin’s Two Bodies: The Hidden Science
of Communist Sovereignty’

5:45pm
•	Julie Fedor (Cambridge), ‘Remembering Collaboration: The Case of
Father Dmitrii Dudko’

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