Conference in Honor of Richard F. Gustafson - 3/14-3/15

[Natalia Ermolaev]

THE CULTURE OF RUSSIAN ORTHODOXY
Conference in Honor of Richard F. Gustafson
March 14-15, 2008
Barnard College/Columbia University
International Affairs Building, Room 1512
420 West 118th Street, 15th Floor
New York, New York

Friday, March 14

1:00:      Welcome
                 Judith Deutsch Kornblatt (University of Wisconsin- 
Madison)

1:30        Panel 1
                 Chair: Michael Flier (Harvard University)

                 "Dostoevsky the Puritan: Milton's Theological Art in  
Dostoevsky"
                                 Vladimir Golstein (Brown University)
                 "A Russian Orthodox Source of Soviet Scientific- 
Technological Prometheanism"
                                 George Kline (Bryn Mawr) (read by  
Boris Jakim)
                 "Tolstoy"
                                 Liza Knapp (Columbia University)
Discussants: James Scanlan (Ohio State University), Sarah Pratt  
(University of Southern California)

3:30        Break

4:00        Panel 2
                 Chair: John McGuckin (Union Theological Seminary)

                 "Why Was Bulgakov Interested in Imiaslavie?"
                                 Paul Valliere (Butler University)
                 "Substance Through Style in Lev Karsavin's 'O  
Nachalakh'"
                                 Boris Jakim
"Doctor Zhivago and the Church Calendar: A Meeting of Orthodoxy and  
Symbolism"
                                 Catharine Nepomnyashchy (Barnard  
College, Columbia University)

                 Discussant: Michael Meerson

Saturday, March 15

9:30        Panel 3
                 Chair: Jonathan Brent (Yale University Press)

                 "The Women of Modern Russian Religious Thought"
                                 Natasha Ermolaeva (Columbia University)
"Russian Poetry and Poetics in Russian Religious Thought"
                                 Olga Meerson (Georgetown University)
                 "The Icon and the Ad: Advertising in Modern Russian  
Religious Thought"
                                 Douglas Greenfield (Bucknell  
University)
                 Discussants: John Malmstad (Harvard University),  
Inessa Medzhibovskaya (The New School)

12:00     Closing Remarks by participants (Sarah Pratt, Marina  
Ledkovsky, Catharine Nepomnyashchy, others as desired; may continue  
through lunch)


______________________________
Natalia Ermolaev
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Slavic Languages
Columbia University
708 Hamilton Hall
1130 Amsterdam Avenue
MC 2839
New York, NY 10027



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