Winter Workshop in Byzantine, Medieval and Early Modern Slavic Studies

[Ron Vroon]

The UCLA Dept. of Slavic languages & Literatures is pleased to announce the
program of its Ninth Annual Winter Workshop in Byzantine, Medieval and Early
Modern Slavic Studies, to be held on Friday, February 25, in 1648 Hershey
Hall on the UCLA Campus. Herewith the program.

Byzantine, Kievan, Regional and Comparative
Session 1: 9:30-10:45
Gail Lenhoff (Workshop organizer), UCLA, Welcoming remarks

Norman W. Ingham, U. Chicago "Riurik: History or Legend?"

Christian Raffensperger, U. Chicago  "What was a kniaz'?"

Donald Ostrowski, Harvard, "The Account of Volodimir's Conversion in the
Povest' vremennykh let: A Chiasmus of Stories."

Session 2: 11:00-12:15

David Prestel, Michigan State, "How should we read the Slovo o knjazjax?"
(12th c.)

Julia Verkholantsev, U. Penn. The Protestant Source of the Ruthenian
Sibylline Prophecy"

Robert Romanchuk, Florida State U.  "Empiricism or natural contemplation?
Serbian medical treatises in the books of Kirillov Monastery."



II. Muscovite and Early Modern

Session 1: 2:00-3:45

Michael Paul, U. Miami  "Changes and Continuity in the Office of Novgorodian
Archbishop After 1478"

Janet Martin, U. Miami, "The Pomest'e System Revisited"

Ann M. Kleimola, U. Nebraska "Emergence of an Icon Cult:  Postanovka
Voprosa"

Session 2: 4:00-5:00

Daniel Kaiser, Grinnell,  "Domestic Icons in Eighteenth-Century Moscow
Testaments"

Elise Kimmerling Wirtschafter, Cal-Poly Pomona, "Religious Instruction in
Eighteenth-Century Russia: Platon Levshin's  `Discourse on Melchizedek' and
Tsarevich Paul's Response (1764)"



 Sponsored by UCLA's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Center for
European and Eurasian Studies, and Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures

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