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SUMMARY:Seeking Harmony and Compassion: Pastoral Care and LGBTQ+ Orthodox Faithful
DESCRIPTION:Orthodox Christians are called\, first and foremost\, to love all—for “God is love.” But the reality for many lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, transgender\, and queer Orthodox Christians today is that their relationship to the Church is defined not by love\, but by apathy\, exclusion\, and condemnation. We must\, as a faith\, choose love and compassion—to “love thy neighbor”— instead. This requires no change of faith\, but a fuller\, more compassionate understanding of what our faith in loving God truly requires of us. \nThe Church is at a crossroads. We offer this symposium in love and faith\, praying that the road we choose is the right one—the one that leads to God. \nWe invite you to a conversation about ministering to LGBTQ+ Christians. The afternoon includes a panel review of the recently published books Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality and Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy: Beyond Male and Female\, and a discussion of the opportunities\, challenges\, and resources for ministry among LGBTQ+ faithful.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/seeking-harmony-and-compassion-pastoral-care-and-lgbtq-orthodox-faithful/
LOCATION:McNally Amphitheatre\, 140 W. 62nd St.\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
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SUMMARY:Stories Between Christianity and Islam: A Conversation with Reyhan Durmaz
DESCRIPTION:The Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University is delighted to present the next episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explore some facet of the history\, thought\, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. This episode will feature Reyhan Durmaz and Ashley Purpura. \nThe broadcast will be livestreamed and open to all who have pre-registered. The event will include some time for live audience questions. For those who miss the live event\, the center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel. \nAbout Reyhan Durmaz\nIn this talk\, Reyhan Durmaz will reflect on her recently published book and her current research projects. In Stories between Christianity and Islam (UCP 2022)\, Durmaz investigates the dynamics underlying the transmissions of saints’ stories between Christianity and Islam. By analyzing a broad group of Greek\, Syriac\, and Arabic texts from the fourth to the 14th century\, she revisits the lively scholarly conversations about orality\, authorship\, authority\, and memory in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Through the lens of saints’ stories\, their narrators\, and their audiences\, she argues against literary taxonomies\, such as “Christian” and “Islamic” texts. \nShe demonstrates that Christian saints’ stories facilitated ongoing conversations between Christians and Muslims about the shared divine past\, conceptualizations of sanctity\, and communal identities. As the faculty fellow at the Orthodox Christian Studies Center for the 2022-2023 academic year\, she is working on a new monograph that reconstructs the various forms and expressions of Christianities in the medieval Middle Eastern countryside. The history of Christianity in the Middle East is often studied in light of theological developments and in relation to the presumed dominance of Islam. The book highlights that in rural regions\, far from the centers of clerical authority and Islamic influence\, Christianity manifested in diverse ways\, displaying complex dynamics of religious authority\, communal belonging\, and ritual practice. In the talk\, Durmaz will give examples of material culture and literary sources she uses in her project in order to study Middle Eastern Christianity. \nDurmaz is working on two other related projects. In one\, she investigates forms of religious skepticism beyond philosophical writings of the elite in the medieval Middle East\, with an eye to destabilizing the Eurocentric narratives of secularization and the implied European roots of modernity. For the other\, she studies the role Orthodox Christians have played in the making of publics in the U.S. Her analysis of the first Arabic newspaper in North America\, Kawkab Amrika\, founded by Christians from Lebanon\, is forthcoming in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. The talk will address these intertwined projects on Middle Eastern Christians at home and in diaspora.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/stories-between-christianity-and-islam-a-conversation-with-reyhan-durmaz/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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SUMMARY:The Russia Question Hosts Serhii Plokhy
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk with Serhii Plokhy on his recent book\, The Russo-Ukrainian War. \nDespite repeated warnings from the White House\, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war—and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military. The West has united\, and Russia grows increasingly isolated. Serhii Plokhy\, a leading historian of Ukraine and the Cold War\, offers a definitive account of this conflict\, its origins\, course\, and both the already-apparent and possible future consequences. Though the current war began eight years before the all-out assault—on February 27\, 2014\, when Russian armed forces seized the building of the Crimean parliament—the roots of this conflict can be traced back even earlier\, to post-Soviet tensions and imperial collapse in the 19th and 20th centuries. Providing a broad historical context and an examination of Ukraine and Russia’s ideas and cultures\, as well as domestic and international politics\, Plokhy reveals that while this new Cold War was not inevitable\, it was predictable. \nUkraine\, Plokhy argues\, has remained central to Russia’s idea of itself even as Ukrainians have followed a radically different path. In a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons\, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international order\, and a resurgence of populist nationalism\, Ukraine is more than ever the most volatile fault line between authoritarianism and democratic Europe. \nThe Russia Question is a book talk series devoted to all things Russia\, hosted by professor Michael Ossorgin\, Russian program director at Fordham College at Lincoln Center.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/the-russia-question-hosts-serhii-plokhy/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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SUMMARY:Women Scholars: Divine Inspiration in Byzantium: A Conversation with Karin Krause
DESCRIPTION:The Orthodox Christian Studies Center is delighted to present the next episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explore some facet of the history\, thought\, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. The broadcast will be livestreamed and open to all who have pre-registered. The event will include some time for live audience questions. For those who miss the live event\, the center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel. This episode features a conversation with Karin Krause and Ashley Purpura. \nAbout the Speakers\nKarin Krause\, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Munich\, is an associate professor of Byzantine art and religious culture at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. Before arriving in Chicago\, she taught in the Department of Art History at the University of Basel. She specializes in the Christian visual cultures of Byzantium and the premodern Mediterranean region. Professor Krause’s research interests include visual hermeneutics\, Byzantine manuscript culture\, the interrelation of texts and images\, the cult of relics\, the theology of the icon\, and phenomena of cultural exchange between Byzantium and the West. In her most recent book\, Divine Inspiration in Byzantium: Notions of Authenticity in Art and Theology (Cambridge University Press\, 2022)\, she examines the intersecting conceptions of divine inspiration and authenticity in the literature and visual arts of Byzantium. Krause traces how ancient ideas about the divine origin of texts and material artifacts were reinterpreted in Byzantine literature and art to promulgate claims to religious truth and authority. \nAshley Purpura is an associate professor of religious studies at the School of Interdisciplinary Studies\, a faculty fellow of the Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts Program\, and the director of the Women’s\, Gender\, & Sexuality Studies program at Purdue University. She is the author of God\, Hierarchy\, and Power: Orthodox Theologies of Authority from Byzantium (Fordham University Press\, 2018)\, and co-editor of Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality (Fordham University Press\, 2022). Purpura’s current research projects focus on rethinking assumptions about women\, gender\, and otherness in light of Orthodox sources\, traditions\, and theology.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/women-scholars-divine-inspiration-in-byzantium-a-conversation-with-karin-krause/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T160000
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SUMMARY:Exploring Christian Space: A Dialogue Between Professors Dina Boero and Mary Farag
DESCRIPTION:How did Christians view and use space in late antiquity? Since the beginning of the academic study of religion\, the notion of sacred space has been central to a definition of the ways in which humans bind themselves to the divine. In this discussion\, two experts will discuss the role constructions of space played in Christian worship\, asceticism\, pilgrimage\, and other practices. \nThe broadcast will be livestreamed and open to all who have pre-registered. The event will include some time for live audience questions. For those who miss the live event\, the center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel. \nAbout the Speakers\nDina Boero\, Ph.D.\, is associate professor of ancient Mediterranean history at The College of New Jersey. Boero is a historian of late antiquity. Her research elucidates the making of saints\, the anthropology of pilgrimage\, and the development of monasticism in late-antique Syria. Whereas most scholars who address these topics focus only on the literary evidence\, Boero integrates the archaeological record with Syriac and Greek sources to highlight saints and the institutions that supported them (churches\, pilgrimage complexes\, monasteries) as sites for negotiating competing meanings and practices. Her current book project\, The Anatomy of a Cult\, traces the history of Symeon the Stylite the Elder’s (d. 459) cult in the fifth to seventh centuries. Boero received her B.A. in religion from the University of California: San Diego and her M.A. and Ph.D. in classics from the University of Southern California. Before joining the faculty at TCNJ\, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University in 2016-2017 and served as a visiting researcher position at the University of Waterloo in 2013-2014. \nMary K. Farag is a historian of Christianity in late antiquity. Her book What Makes a Church Sacred? Legal and Ritual Perspectives from Late Antiquity was published in 2021 as both a paperback edition and an open-access downloadable book. In general\, Farag’s research focuses on Christian liturgical practices in late antiquity and their role in the wider Greco-Roman\, Byzantine\, and Islamic worlds. Her geographic specialty in Egypt often leads her abroad to study Coptic and Arabic manuscripts and participate in archaeological projects. Farag is active in educational work in Coptic Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox parishes. \nEmanuel Fiano is an assistant professor of Syriac studies in the theology department at Fordham University. He researches the intellectual history of late ancient Christianity\, with a particular focus on Syriac and Coptic literature\, religious controversies\, Christian-Jewish relations\, and canonical production. His first monograph\, Three Powers in Heaven: The Emergence of Theology and the Parting of the Ways (Yale University Press\, June 2023)\, examines the relevance of the fourth-century debates about Christ’s relationship to the father—also known as Trinitarian controversies—for the so-called “parting of ways” between Christianity and Judaism. The project on which he is currently at work centers on the interplay between law and theology as domains of discursive production in early Christianity and aims at redescribing their role in the establishment of an orthodoxy-based public order in the late Roman empire (with forays beyond the lines).
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/exploring-christian-space-a-dialogue-between-professors-dina-boero-and-mary-farag/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T140000
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SUMMARY:Hearing the Scriptures: A Conversation with the Rev. Eugen Pentiuc
DESCRIPTION:“Faith comes by hearing\,” St. Paul (Rom 10:17). Accordingly\, the Orthodox faith is taught\, proclaimed\, and celebrated in the many hymns of the Church. They are not only important to worship; the hymnographic tradition is key to Orthodox theology. They have a great deal to teach us about the scriptures: how they are interpreted and how\, in the life of the Church\, the scriptures guide and exhort the faithful on the path to salvation. Join the Rev. Eugen Pentiuc\, Ph.D.\, and Michael Legaspi for a discussion of Father Pentiuc’s exciting new book\, Hearing the Scriptures: Liturgical Exegesis of the Old Testament in Byzantine Orthodox Hymnography\, in which he illuminates the subtle\, profound\, and beautiful way the scriptures are interpreted\, enacted\, and experienced in the hymns of the Church. \nAbout the Speakers\nThe Rev. Eugen J. Pentiuc\, Ph.D. (Harvard University)\, Th.D. (Bucharest University)\, D.D. (Babes-Bolyai University)\, is Archbishop Demetrios Chair of Biblical Studies and Christian Origins and Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline\, Massachusetts. His scholarly focus is on Old Testament biblical exegesis and theology\, as well as reception history (patristic and Byzantine liturgical interpretation). He is the author of many books\, including West Semitic Vocabulary in the Akkadian Texts from Emar (Eisenbrauns Press\, 2001)\, Long-Suffering Love: A Commentary on Hosea with Patristic Annotations (Holy Cross Press\, 2002)\, Jesus the Messiah in the Hebrew Bible (Paulist Press\, 2005)\, The Old Testament in Eastern Orthodox Tradition (Oxford University Press\, 2014)\, Hosea: The Word of the Lord That Happened to Hosea (Peeters Press\, 2017)\, and Hearing and Seeing the Scriptures: Liturgical Exegesis of the Old Testament in Eastern Orthodox Tradition (Oxford University Press\, 2021). Father Pentiuc also edited The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Orthodox Christianity (Oxford University Press\, 2022). \nMichael Legaspi is associate professor of scripture (Old Testament) at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Yonkers\, New York. He has taught at Creighton University\, Penn State University\, and Phillips Academy. He is the author of The Death of Scripture and the Rise of Biblical Studies (Oxford University Press\, 2010)\, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (Oxford University Press\, 2018)\, and various reviews and journal articles\, as well as contributions to edited volumes.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/hearing-the-scriptures-a-conversation-with-the-rev-eugen-pentiuc/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T120000
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SUMMARY:Women Scholars in Orthodoxy: Orthodox Christian Renewal Movements in Eastern Europe
DESCRIPTION:The Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University is delighted to present the next episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explore some facet of the history\, thought\, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. The broadcast will be livestreamed and open to all who have pre-registered. The event will include some time for live audience questions. For those who miss the live event\, the center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel. This episode features a conversation with Aleksandra Djuric Milovanovic and Ashley Purpura. \nAbout the Speakers\nAleksandra Đurić-Milovanović\, Ph.D.\, is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade\, Serbia. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade and completed her master’s studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade. In 2010\, she joined the Institute for Balkan Studies SASA as a research assistant\, and since 2018 she has served as a senior research associate. Since 2016\, she has been collaborating with the University College of Cork’s Department of Religious Studies\, where she served as a visiting professor in 2017 from  August to November. In 2017\, she was selected as a participant in the International Fellow Program KAICIID: Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue. Since 2021\, she has been a member of the Scientific Committee for Religious Freedom in Barcelona at the Ramon Llull University. She has participated in numerous scientific conferences\, published three monographs and one manual\, edited an international collection of papers\, and published—as an author or co-author—a number of papers in journals and collections in Serbian\, English\, Romanian and Russian. Her research interests include religious minorities\, religion and migration\, Orthodox Christian renewal movements\, Evangelicals\, and interreligious dialogue. Her recent book\, co-edited with Radmila Radić\, Orthodox Christian Renewal Movements in Eastern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2017)\, explores the changes underwent by the Orthodox Churches of Eastern and Southeastern Europe as they came into contact with modernity through diverse and interdisciplinary contributions. \nAshley Purpura is an associate professor of religious studies in Purdue University’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies; a faculty fellow of the Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts Program; and the director of the Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies Program at Purdue University. She is the author of God\, Hierarchy\, and Power: Orthodox Theologies of Authority from Byzantium (Fordham University Press\, 2018)\, and co-editor of Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality (Fordham University Press\, 2022). Purpura’s current research projects focus on rethinking assumptions about women\, gender\, and otherness in light of Orthodox sources\, traditions\, and theology.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/women-scholars-in-orthodoxy-orthodox-christian-renewal-movements-in-eastern-europe/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220318T090000
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SUMMARY:Addressing Intimate Partner Violence & Attending to Orthodoxy: A Conversation with Romina Istratii\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:The Orthodox Christian Studies Center presents the next episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explore some facet of the history\, thought\, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. The broadcast will be livestreamed and open to all who have pre-registered. The event will include some time for live audience questions\, as well. For those who miss the live event\, the center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel. This episode features an interview with Romina Istratii\, Ph.D. \nIstratii is the UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the School of History\, Religions\, and Philosophies and an honorary research associate to the Department of Development Studies and the Centre of World Christianity at SOAS University of London. Istratii\, who was born in the Republic of Moldova and raised in Greece\, has more than 10 years of experience working as a decolonial international development researcher and practitioner to develop de-westernized\, faith-sensitive\, and culturally appropriate methods for researching and addressing gender issues and domestic violence in religious societies of Africa. She has previously conducted independent fieldwork in Ghana\, Ethiopia\, Rwanda\, Tanzania\, and Senegal with the support of such funders as the Thomas J. Watson Foundation\, the Tokyo Foundation\, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation\, and the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Istratii specializes in Eastern Orthodox and pre-Chalcedonian (also known as Oriental Orthodox) Christian churches and traditions and is particularly versed in Orthodox theology of gender\, marriage\, and the conjugal relationship having studied thoroughly the works of St John Chrysostom. Her work is especially interested in integrating theological and exegetical responses to domestic violence alleviation programs in Orthodox Christian and other religious societies. \nIstratii has previously written on the ethics of international development\, western gender metaphysics and religious knowledge systems\, and the discourse of fundamentalism in gender studies. Inter alia\, she has authored the journal article “Beyond a feminist ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’: Reading St John Chrysostom’s commentaries on man-woman relations\, marriage\, and conjugal abuse through the Orthodox phronema” (SOAS University of London) and the monograph “Adapting Gender and Development to Local Religious Contexts: A Decolonial Approach to Domestic Violence in Ethiopia” (Routledge\, 2020). \nIstratii established and edits with the support of theology students in Addis Ababa an Amharic webpage on Orthodox dogmatics and is the principal investigator of Project dldl/ድልድል\, which is dedicated to the development and strengthening of religio-culturally sensitive domestic violence alleviation systems in Ethiopia\, Eritrea\, and the UK. She is also the first alumna of the Gingko Fellowship\, which is awarded to top divinity scholars in the UK to promote knowledge exchange and inter-faith dialogue with Islamic scholars at Al-Azhar University in Egypt.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/addressing-intimate-partner-violence-attending-to-orthodoxy-a-conversation-with-romina-istratii-ph-d/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220223T103000
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SUMMARY:Women and Ordination in the Orthodox Church: A Conversation with Gabrielle Thomas and Elena Narinskaya
DESCRIPTION:The Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University presents the next episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explore some facet of the history\, thought\, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. The broadcast will be livestreamed and open to all who have pre-registered. The event will include some time for live audience questions. For those who miss the live event\, the center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel. \nThis episode features an interview with Gabrielle Thomas and Elena Narinskaya. \nElena Narinskaya\, Ph.D.\, is the Spalding Research Fellow in comparative religion at Cambridge University. Her main research interest lies is in the area of scriptural studies/biblical exegesis within the context of three monotheistic religions (i.e.\, Judaism\, Christianity\, and Islam). She has previously worked with early Jewish-Christian interpretations of Exodus in fourth-century Syria and Palestine and published her first book on the basis of her Ph.D. in 2010. Since then\, she has researched the Qur’anic presentation of the Exodus stories. She recently submitted her third monograph to Rutledge on the stories of Moses in Jewish\, Christian\, and Muslim sources. She studied Judaism and Hebrew in Jerusalem from 1999 to 2000\, and completed an M.A. program at the Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations in Cambridge in 2002. She also studied Syriac language and Syriac Christian tradition of biblical exegesis in Cambridge. At Durham University\, she completed her doctorate in Biblical Exegesis in Syria and Palestine in 2007\, which was followed by a postdoctoral licentiate in divinity from the University of Wales\, Lampeter (2008 to 2011). She also studied Arabic and Tafsir Qur’an at Durham University and in Alexandria\, Egypt. From 2012 to 2015\, she held a research position at the Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies in Oxford\, where she worked on her third monograph. For the 2015-2016 academic year\, she moved to Dublin City University in Ireland where she worked on creating the Centre for Interreligious Dialogue. From October 2017 through Aug 2018\, she was working on her fourth monograph at Clare Hall\, Cambridge University as the Spalding Research Fellow. For the academic year\, 2017-2018\, she was invited to Ruhr-Universität Bochum as an academic research fellow. Since December 2018\, she has been an associate member of the theology department at the University of Oxford. \nGabrielle Thomas\, Ph.D.\, is an assistant professor of early Christianity and Anglican studies at Emory University. In addition to authoring a significant number of journal articles\, book chapters\, and reviews\, she has published three books: The Image of God in the Theology of Gregory Nazianzus (monograph\, Cambridge\, 2019)\, Women and Ordination in the Orthodox Church: Explorations in Theology and Practice (co-edited\, Cascade\, 2020)\, and For the Good of the Church: Unity\, Theology\, and Women (monograph\, SCM Press\, 2021). An ordained priest in the Church of England\, she has served churches as both a lay and an ordained leader. As a committed ecumenist\, she serves on the Anglican and Oriental Orthodox International Commission.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/women-and-ordination-in-the-orthodox-church-a-conversation-with-gabrielle-thomas-and-elena-narinskaya/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211210T120000
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SUMMARY:Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity: A Conversation with Ina Merdjanova
DESCRIPTION:The Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University is delighted to present the next episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explore some facet of the history\, thought\, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. The broadcast will be livestreamed and open to all who have pre-registered. The event will include some time for live audience questions. For those who miss the live event\, the center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel. \nThis episode features an interview with Ina Merdjanova\, a senior researcher at the Irish School of Ecumenics\, Trinity College Dublin. Her research has focused on the intersection of society\, religious and cultural pluralism\, nationalism\, minorities\, gender\, conflict\, and peace-building\, with particular reference to Eastern Europe and Turkey. She has extensive academic experience at various academic and research institutions: Oxford University\, New York University\, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh University\, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington\, D.C.\, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences\, the Aleksanteri Institute at Helsinki University\, and the Freiburg Center for Advanced Studies\, among others. Her book publications include Eschatological Anthropodicy: the Human Person and History in Contemporary Eastern Orthodox Thought (Praxis Publishing House\, 2000\, in Bulgarian)\, Religion\, Nationalism\, and Civil Society in Eastern Europe—the Postcommunist Palimpsest (Edwin Mellen Press\, 2002)\, Religion as a Conversation Starter: Interreligious Dialogue for Peacebuilding in the Balkans (Continuum\, 2009\, with Patrice Brodeur)\, Rediscovering the Umma: Muslims in the Balkans between Nationalism and Transnationalism (Oxford University Press\, 2013)\, and a recent edited volume titled Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity (Fordham University Press\, 2021).
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/women-and-religiosity-in-orthodox-christianity-a-conversation-with-ina-merdjanova/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211116T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211116T193000
DTSTAMP:20250407T161436
CREATED:20211102T165220Z
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SUMMARY:2021 Economos Orthodoxy in America Lecture
DESCRIPTION:His Grace\, Bishop Daniel Findikyan\, Primate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church\, will deliver this year’s Economos Orthodoxy in America Lecture\, titled “Returning to Normalcy and the Sacrament of Penance.” \nThe lecture will be livestreamed for those who are unable to attend in person. RSVP by Tuesday\, 9 November. \nMajor support for the 2021 Orthodoxy in America Lecture is made possible by Christ and Anastasia Economos\, with additional support provided by the Nicholas J. and Anna K. Bouras Foundation Inc.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/2021-economos-orthodoxy-in-america-lecture/
LOCATION:University Church
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
GEO:40.8619545;-73.8855064
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211115T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211115T113000
DTSTAMP:20250407T161436
CREATED:20211025T201242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211025T201242Z
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SUMMARY:"The Russia Question" Hosts Emerson\, Poole\, and Pattison
DESCRIPTION:“The Russia Question” is a book talk series devoted to all things Russia\, hosted by professor Michael Ossorgin\, Russian program director at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus\, with generous support from the Orthodox Christian Studies Center. Join us for a book talk with Caryl Emerson\, Randall Poole\, and George Pattison for their Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought (Oxford University Press\, 2019). \nThe Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought is an authoritative reference and interpretive volume detailing the origins\, development\, and influence of one of the richest aspects of Russian cultural and intellectual life: its religious ideas. After setting the historical background and context\, the book follows the leading figures and movements in modern Russian religious thought through a period of immense historical upheavals\, including 70 years of officially atheist communist rule and the growth of an exiled diaspora with (e.g.\, its journal The Way). Therefore\, the shape of Russian religious thought cannot be separated from long-running debates with nihilism and atheism. Important thinkers\, such as Losev and Bakhtin\, had to guard their words in an environment of religious persecution\, whilst some views were shaped by prison experiences. \nBefore the Soviet period\, Russian national identity was closely linked with religion—linkages that again are being forged in the new Russia. Relevant in this connection are complex relationships with Judaism. In addition to such religious thinkers as Philaret\, Chaadaev\, Khomiakov\, Kireevsky\, Soloviev\, Florensky\, Bulgakov\, Berdyaev\, Shestov\, Frank\, Karsavin\, and Alexander Men\, the Handbook also looks at the role of religion in aesthetics\, music\, poetry\, art\, film\, and the novelists Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Ideas\, institutions\, and movements discussed include the church academies\, Slavophilism and Westernism\, theosis\, the name-glorifying (imiaslavie) controversy\, the God-seekers and God-builders\, Russian religious idealism and liberalism\, and the neopatristic school. Occultism is considered\, as is the role of tradition and the influence of Russian religious thought in the west. The collection includes two responses from contemporary Russian academic and church life. \nAbout the Speakers\nCaryl Emerson is the A. Watson Armour III University Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. Her work has focused on the Russian classics (Pushkin\, Tolstoy\, Dostoevskii); Mikhail Bakhtin; and Russian music\, opera\, and theater. Recent projects include the Russian modernist Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii (1887 to 1950)\, the allegorical-historical novelist Vladimir Sharov (1952 to 2018)\, and the co-editing\, with George Pattison and Randall A. Poole\, of The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought. \nRandall A. Poole is a professor of intellectual history at the College of St. Scholastica and a fellow of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. He is the translator and editor of Problems of Idealism: Essays in Russian Social Philosophy (2003) and co-editor of five other volumes: A History of Russian Philosophy\, 1830–1930: Faith\, Reason\, and the Defense of Human Dignity (2010\, 2013)\, Religious Freedom in Modern Russia (2018)\, The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought (2021)\, Evgenii Trubetskoi: Icon and Philosophy (2021)\, and Law and the Christian Tradition in Modern Russia (2022). He is also the author of many articles and book chapters on Russian intellectual history\, philosophy\, and religion. \nGeorge Pattison is a retired Anglican priest and scholar. His primary research area has been the post-Hegelian philosophy of religion\, with emphasis on Kierkegaard\, Russian religious thought\, Heidegger\, and visual art. He has recently completed a three-part philosophy of Christian life\, pub listed by Oxford University Press (2018\, 2019\, 2021).
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/the-russia-question-hosts-emerson-poole-and-pattison/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211104T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211104T133000
DTSTAMP:20250407T161436
CREATED:20211025T200042Z
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SUMMARY:Orthodox Christianity and Islam
DESCRIPTION:Orthodox Christianity and Islam have a long history of interaction that spans nearly 14 centuries. This webinar will begin a conversation on how to understand the dynamics of this complex relationship. Orthodox Christians and Muslims not only share cultural and historical space\, but also common challenges in the present day as they navigate a world created by Western hegemony. Our panel will explore key issues in the Orthodox Christian and Muslim experience of modernity and will shed light on these experiences by putting into productive conversation the insights of contemporary Islamic studies and the insights of the comparative study of Orthodox Christianity and Islam.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/orthodox-christianity-and-islam/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211004T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211004T173000
DTSTAMP:20250407T161436
CREATED:20210927T154114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210927T154114Z
UID:10004441-1633363200-1633368600@now.fordham.edu
SUMMARY:Is it Time to Decolonize the Terms Byzantine & Byzantium?
DESCRIPTION:The people we call “Byzantine” self-defined as “Romans.” The terms “Byzantium” and “Byzantine” were first employed by Western scholars more than a century after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in an effort to differentiate what they perceived to be the authentic Roman empire from its later\, eastern\, and Christian derivation. For centuries\, these terms circulated within Western scholarship with a not-so-subtle sense of derogatory critique (e.g.\, Edward Gibbon). Perhaps ironically\, “Byzantine” and “Byzantium” were subsequently embraced among Orthodox Christian populations who tend to view the period as a golden age of Orthodox civilization. This expert panel\, moderated by George Demacopoulos\, Fordham University\, will explore these issues and debate the viability/suitability of revising the terminology for the field. \nPanelists\nElizabeth Bolman\, Case Western Reserve University\nAnthony Kaldelis\, Ohio State University\nLeonora Neville\, University of Wisconsin\nAlexander Tudorie\, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/is-it-time-to-decolonize-the-terms-byzantine-byzantium/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210928T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210928T170000
DTSTAMP:20250407T161436
CREATED:20210924T210519Z
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SUMMARY:The Russia Question Hosts Nadieszda Kizenko for a Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:The Russia Question is a book talk series devoted to all things Russia\, hosted by Michael Ossorgin\, professor and Russian program director at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus\, with generous support from the Orthodox Christian Studies Center. Join us for a book talk with Nadieszda Kizenko to discuss her brilliant book\, Good for the Souls: A History of Confession in the Russian Empire (June 2021). \nFrom the moment that Tsars\, as well as hierarchs\, realized that having their subjects go to confession could make them better citizens as well as better Christians\, the sacrament of penance in the Russian empire became a political tool\, a devotional exercise\, a means of education\, and a literary genre. It defined who was Orthodox\, and who was “other.” First encouraging Russian subjects to participate in confession to improve them and to integrate them into a reforming Church and state\, authorities then turned to confession to integrate converts of other nationalities. But the sacrament was not only something that state and religious authorities sought to impose on an unwilling populace. Confession could provide an opportunity for carefully crafted complaints. What state and church authorities initially imagined as a way of controlling an unruly population could be used by the same population as a way of telling their own story—or simply getting time off to attend to their inner lives. \nGood for the Souls brings Russia into the rich scholarly and popular literature on confession\, penance\, discipline\, and gender in the modern world\, and in doing so opens a key window into church\, state\, and society. It draws on state laws\, Synodal decrees\, archives\, manuscript repositories\, clerical guides\, sermons\, saints’ lives\, works of literature\, and visual depictions of the sacrament in those books and on church iconostases. Russia\, Ukraine\, and Orthodox Christianity emerge both as part of the European\, transatlantic religious continuum and\, in crucial ways\, distinct from it. \nAbout the Speakers\nNadieszda Kizenko is a history professor and director of religious studies at the University at Albany. She is the author of the prize-winning book A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People\, numerous articles on Orthodox Christianity including “The Feminization of Patriarchy? Women in Contemporary Russian Orthodoxy” (winner of Best Article\, Association for the Study of Eastern Christianity)\, and several translations. \nMichael Ossorgin\, who earned a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literature from Columbia University\, teaches Russian and comparative literature\, art\, theology\, and language courses at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus. He has published articles on Dostoevsky’s The Idiot and Notes From the Dead House. He is currently writing a book on the role of vision in Dostoevsky’s poetics. Ossorgin thanks the Orthodox Christian Studies Center for its support not only of The Russia Question\, but also for grants to design and teach OCSC-credited courses\, including\, The Apocalypse: Russian and American Visions\, The Russian Icon in Dialogue with the Arts\, and the first of three summer courses in The Great Russian Minds Series on Mikhail Bakhtin. Ossorgin is the director of Fordham University’s Russian program.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/the-russia-question-hosts-nadieszda-kizenko-for-a-book-talk/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210407T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210407T170000
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SUMMARY:Dostoevsky’s Incarnational Realism: A Book Talk with Author Paul J. Contino
DESCRIPTION:Author Paul J. Contino joins Fordham professor emeritus Terrence W. Tilley and Michael Ossorgin\, Russian program director within the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures\, to discuss his book\, Dostoevsky’s Incarnational Realism: Finding Christ Among the Karamazovs (Cascade Books\, 2020). \nAccording to Cascade Books\, “In this book\, Paul Contino offers a theological study of Dostoevsky’s final novel\, The Brothers Karamazov. He argues that incarnational realism animates the vision of the novel and the decisions and actions of its hero\, Alyosha Fyodorovich Karamazov. The book takes a close look at Alyosha’s mentor\, the Elder Zosima\, and the way his role as a confessor and his vision of responsibility ‘to all\, for all’ develops and influences Alyosha. The remainder of the study\, which serves as a kind of reader’s guide to the novel\, follows Alyosha as he takes up the mantle of his elder\, develops as a ‘monk in the world\,’ and\, at the end of three days\, ascends in his vision of Cana. The study attends also to Alyosha’s brothers and his ministry to them: Mitya’s struggle to become a ‘new man’ and Ivan’s anguished groping toward responsibility. Finally\, Contino traces Alyosha’s generative role with the young people he encounters and his final message of hope.” \nContino is a professor at Seaver College\, Pepperdine University. He is the co-editor of Bakhtin and Religion: A Feeling for Faith (Northwestern University Press\, 2001)\, edited and introduced with Susan Felch. \nAbout the Speakers\nTerrence W. Tilley\, Ph.D.\, is a professor emeritus of theology at Fordham. He previously taught at the University of Dayton\, Florida State University\, St. Michael’s College\, and Georgetown University. He has edited three books and authored 10 books\, scores of academic articles and chapters\, and more than 100 book reviews. For more than 20 years\, at least biennially\, he taught a graduate seminar on the problem of evil\, reading The Brothers Karamazov with colleagues and graduate students as part of those seminars. His most recent article is “The Fragility of Grace in the Karamazov World—And in Ours\,” published in the journal Theological Studies in December 2020. He received the John Courtney Murray Lifetime Achievement Award from the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA) in 2012. He was elected president of the CTSA\, the College Theology Society\, and the Society for Philosophy of Religion. \nMichael Ossorgin\, Ph.D.\, teaches Russian and comparative literature\, art\, theology\, and language courses at Fordham University at Lincoln Center. He has published articles on Dostoevsky’s The Idiot and Notes From the Dead House. He is currently writing a book about the role of vision in Dostoevsky’s poetics\, including individual chapters on Smerdiakov and Zosima from The Brothers Karamazov. He has been awarded Orthodox Christian Studies Center (OCSC) grants to design and teach OCSC-credited courses\, including The Apocalypse: Russian and American Visions and The Russian Icon in Dialogue with the Arts. He is currently teaching a comparative course\, Dostoevsky and Race in America\, and will begin teaching the first of three summer courses in “The Great Russian Minds Series” this June on Mikhail Bakhtin\, made possible with a grant from OCSC. Ossorgin is a member of the Dostoevsky Readers Advisory Board of the North American Dostoevsky Society. \nThis webinar is sponsored with support from the North American Dostoevsky Society and the Fordham Russian Forum. It is a part of the 2020-2021 North American Dostoevsky Society Bicentennial Speaker Series.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/dostoevskys-incarnational-realism-a-book-talk-with-author-paul-j-contino/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210325T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210325T170000
DTSTAMP:20250407T161436
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SUMMARY:Outliers of Orthodoxy: Traditionalist Critics of the Church in the U.S. and the Russian Federation
DESCRIPTION:Over the last several years\, traditionalist bloggers and public activists have become increasingly critical of the leadership and policies of the Orthodox Church in the United States and the Russian Federation. This talk will examine the shifting and occasionally contradictory advocacies of commentators\, such as Rod Dreher\, Dmitry Tsorionov (“Enteo”)\, and Andrei Kuraev. These figures represent a new category of Orthodox intelligentsia whose understandings of faith often defy the traditionalism that they vow to defend. \nThis webinar will feature Alexandar Mihailovic\, a visiting lecturer in American studies at Williams College and emeritus of Russian and comparative literature at Hofstra University. He has written about a range of subjects\, including theology and literary theory\, 19- and 20-century Russian and Ukrainian literature\, the criminal subculture in Russia\, cultural relations during the Cold War\, popular music\, African American studies\, LGBTQ issues\, art history\, music\, and cinema studies. He has also translated Russian literature and literary criticism. \nHis books include Corporeal Words: Mikhail Bakhtin’s Theology of Discourse (Northwestern University Press\, 1997) and The Mitki and Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2019)\, which has recently been re-released as an updated Russian translation published by the New Literary Review in Moscow. Together with Helga Druxes and Karolin Machtans\, he has also edited the collection Navid Kermani: Contemporary German Writers\, about the Iranian-German fiction writer and respected scholar of Islam who has positioned himself as a forthright critic of xenophobia and the resurgent far-right within Germany. \nHe is working on a book about the confluence of American and Russian far-right groups and movements titled Fearful Symmetries: The American and Russian Traditionalist Intelligentsia Looks at Gender and Race. With Druxes and Patricia A. Simpson\, Mihailovic is also co-authoring Resilient Subjects: Contemporary Cinema and Fiction Confront Neoliberalism. \nIn addition to teaching at Williams and Hofstra\, Mihailovic has taught as visiting faculty at Bennington College and at Columbia and Brown universities.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/outliers-of-orthodoxy-traditionalist-critics-of-the-church-in-the-u-s-and-the-russian-federation/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210210T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210210T130000
DTSTAMP:20250407T161436
CREATED:20210202T173411Z
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SUMMARY:Teacher\, Scholar\, Ecumenist\, Ambassador: Tamara Grdzelidze
DESCRIPTION:The Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University is delighted to present the 13th episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explore some facet of the history\, thought\, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. The broadcast will be livestreamed and open to all who have pre-registered. The event will include some time for live audience questions. For those who miss the live event\, the Center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel. \nThis episode features an interview with Tamara Grdzelidze\, Ph.D. Grdzelidze was born into a family of the Soviet intelligentsia (the Soviet equivalent of the middle class)\, practicing Christians who regularly attended church. She entered university with a plan to study classics but soon took an interest in Old Georgian literature. At 25\, she defended a thesis on symbolism in Georgian hagiography. Subsequently\, she held a research position at the Institute of Georgian Literature while teaching Georgian language and literature at school. \nAfter the fall of the Iron Curtain and the rise of the Georgian national movement\, she decided to leave Georgia to assist with a course on Georgian culture at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. After meeting Metropolitan Kallistos Ware at St. Vladimir’s Seminary\, she decided to pursue further study at Oxford\, where Kallistos supervised her thesis on St. Maximus the Confessor. Following a brief return to Georgia\, she applied for a job at the World Council of Churches and worked as an Orthodox theologian\, the first ex-Soviet staff member\, as well as the first Georgian and first orthodox woman in the Secretariat of the Faith and Order Commission. After 13 years working in Geneva\, she was appointed a diplomat of Georgia to the Holy See. \nNow back in Georgia\, she works at the Ilia State University teaching courses on Christian unity\, religion and politics\, and Christian civilization. She has written on various issues in orthodox theology and the history of the Orthodox Church of Georgia. Her books include One\, Holy\, Catholic and Apostolic: Ecumenical Reflections on the Church and\, as co-editor\, Witness through Troubled Times: A History of the Orthodox Church of Georgia\, 1811 to the Present.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/teacher-scholar-ecumenist-ambassador-tamara-grdzelidze/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201215T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201215T130000
DTSTAMP:20250407T161436
CREATED:20201118T171530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201118T171530Z
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SUMMARY:Copts in Historical and Current Perspectives with Febe Armanios
DESCRIPTION:The Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham is delighted to present the12th episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explore some facet of the history\, thought\, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. \nThis episode features an interview with Febe Armanios\, Ph.D. Armanios is a history professor at Middlebury College\, where she is also co-director of the Axinn Center for the Humanities. She is an internationally recognized expert of Coptic Orthodox and Middle Eastern Christianity\, as well as the growing field of food studies. Her research focuses on comparative religious practices between Christians and Muslims\, and among Christian communities of the Middle East and Balkans. She has explored everything from the veneration of saints and pilgrimages to diverse food and fasting traditions\, comparative gender roles\, and (most recently) the ways that Orthodox\, Maronite Catholics\, and evangelicals use media—particularly television—in the modern Middle East. \nThe broadcast will be livestreamed and open to all who have pre-registered. The event will include some time for live audience questions. For those who miss the live event\, the Center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel. \nAbout the Speaker\nArmanios is the author of Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt (Oxford University Press\, 2011) and the co-author (with Boğaç Ergene) of the award-winning Halal Food: A History (Oxford University Press\, 2018). In the past\, she worked as an analyst in Middle East religions and cultures for the U.S. Congressional Research Service\, has been invited to testify before Congress on issues related to democracy in the Middle East\, and has given lectures at the State Department on the current place of Christians in the region. She has published multiple articles\, book chapters\, and blog entries\, and has also received several awards and fellowships to support her work\, including the Fordham Research Fellowship in Coptic Orthodox Studies; the Luce-American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship in Religion\, Journalism\, and International Affairs; and the National Endowment for the Humanities\, among others.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/copts-in-historical-and-current-perspectives-with-febe-armanios/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201116T170000
DTSTAMP:20250407T161436
CREATED:20201023T191553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201023T191553Z
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SUMMARY:Religious Freedom\, Greece and the EU: A Conversation with Effie Fokas
DESCRIPTION:The Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University is delighted to present the 10th episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explores some facet of the history\, thought\, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. The broadcast will be livestreamed and open to all who have pre-registered. The event will include some time for live audience questions. For those who miss the live event\, the Center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel. \nThis episode features an interview with Effie Fokas\, a senior research fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and a research associate of the London School of Economics Hellenic Observatory. Her background is in political science\, but in the last two decades her research and writing have concentrated on religion in general—and often Orthodoxy in specific—in interplay with a number of different fields and themes\, including politics\, law\, human rights\, nationalism\, and European identity. She was principal investigator of the European Research Council-funded project on the grassroots impact of European Court of Human Rights religious freedoms case law (Grassrootsmobilise)\, based at ELIAMEP. Also at ELIAMEP\, she completed a research project titled “Pluralism and Religious Freedom in Majority Orthodox Contexts in Europe” (PLUREL). \nHer publications include Islam in Europe: Diversity\, Identity\, and Influence\, co-edited with Aziz Al-Azmeh; Religious America\, Secular Europe?\, co-authored with Peter Berger and Grace Davie; The European Court of Human Rights and Minority Religions\, co-edited with James T. Richardson; and she hopes to contribute to the rich body of literature on Orthodoxy and human rights with an empirically based account of similarities and differences across minority and majority Orthodox contexts.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/an-accidental-incidental-and-anti-compartmental-scholar-of-orthodoxy-effie-fokas/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201029T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201029T180000
DTSTAMP:20250407T161436
CREATED:20201023T185915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201023T185915Z
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SUMMARY:Religion and Nationalism Panel
DESCRIPTION:The relationship between religion and nationalism has been at the forefront of Orthodox Christian identity since the fall of the Ottoman Empire for people who migrated to such countries as the United States\, the United Kingdom\, Australia\, and Germany during the 20th century\, and now in the post-communist revival of the religion in Russia\, Eastern Europe\, and Georgia. In the United States\, default thinking usually separates religion from national identity\, and it is only recently that the elision of the two has emerged to impact public life\, especially national elections. But is it only recently? \nHas the current situation simply made more explicit a consistent undercurrent of American identity? Will the presidential campaign be a national moment of reckoning on the relationship of religion and nationalism in the U.S.? How does the relationship between religion and nationalism in the United States compare with the experience in orthodox countries? Can anything be learned from the orthodox encounter with the question of religion and nationalism over the past two centuries? This panel of experts will discuss the similarities and differences of the religion-nationalism dynamic as it is experienced in the United States\, the Orthodox Christian world\, and beyond. \nPanelists include José Casanova\, Elizabeth Prodromou\, and Eric Gregory. \nAbout the Speakers \nCasanova\, a world-renowned sociologist of religion\, is a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion\, Peace\, and World Affairs\, and emeritus professor of sociology\, theology\, and religious studies at Georgetown University. From 1987 to 2007\, he served as a sociology professor at the New School for Social Research. His book\, Public Religions in the Modern World (University of Chicago Press\, 1994)\, has become a modern classic and has been translated into many languages\, including Japanese\, Arabic\, and Turkish. He is also the author of Europas Angst vor der Religion (Berlin U.P.\, 2009)\, Genealogías de la Secularización (Barcelona: Anthropos\, 2012)\, Beyond Secularization (in Ukrainian\, Kyiv: Dukh I Litera\, 2017)\, and Global Religious and Secular Dynamics (Brill\, 2019). Recently\, he co-edited The Jesuits and Globalization (Georgetown UP\, 2016) and Islam\, Gender and Democracy in Comparative Perspective (Oxford\, 2017). \nProdromou is a faculty member at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University\, where she directs the Initiative on Religion\, Law\, and Diplomacy. She is a non-resident senior fellow and co-chair of the working group on Christians and religious pluralism in the Middle East at the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute and was a non-resident senior fellow in national security and the Middle East at the Center for American Progress. She is a co-president of Religions for Peace. Prodromou served as vice chair and commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (2004-2012) and was a member of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Religion & Foreign Policy Working Group (2011-2015). Her research interests focus on geopolitics and religion\, with particular focus on the Middle East\, the Eastern Mediterranean\, and Southeastern Europe. Her current research projects concentrate on cultural heritage and institutional religious freedom in Turkey\, as well as Eastern Orthodox Christianity in contexts of religious pluralism. The author of multiple edited volumes and many publications in scholarly and policy journals\, Prodromou is a frequent commentator and contributor in U.S. and international media. She holds a Ph.D. and an S.M. in political science from MIT\, a M.A.L.D. in international relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy\, and a B.A. in history and international relations from Tufts University. \nGregory is a religion professor and chair of the Humanities Council at Princeton University. His research and teaching span religious and philosophical ethics\, theology\, political theory\, and the role of religion in public life. In addition to articles and scholarly reviews\, he is the author of Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship (2008). A graduate of Harvard College\, he earned an M.Phil. and diploma in Theology from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and a doctorate in religious studies from Yale University. He has received fellowships from the University of Notre Dame\, Harvard University\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the New York University School of Law. Among his current projects is a book tentatively titled The In-Gathering of Strangers: Global Justice and Political Theology\, which examines secular and religious perspectives on global justice. In 2007\, he was awarded Princeton’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/religion-and-nationalism-panel/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201027T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201027T130000
DTSTAMP:20250407T161436
CREATED:20201014T152523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201014T152523Z
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SUMMARY:An Interview with Elizabeth Clark\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:The Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University is delighted to present the 10th episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explore some facet of the history\, thought\, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. The broadcast will be livestreamed and open to all who have pre-registered. The event will include some time for live audience questions. For those who miss the live event\, the Center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel. \nThis webinar will feature Elizabeth Clark\, Ph.D. Clark is one of the world’s most accomplished and influential scholars of early Christianity. She is the John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion\, emerita\, at Duke University\, where she taught for more than 30 years. \nThrough her numerous publications (14 books and nearly 100 academic papers)\, she pioneered the integration of gender studies and critical theory with early Christian studies. In addition to being one of the most prolific scholars of early Christianity\, Clark is also one of the most intellectually wide-ranging\, having made substantive contributions to the study of philosophy in early Christianity\, early Christian women\, asceticism\, the Origenist controversy\, historiography\, and the history of patristics as a discipline. She was the founding co-editor of the Journal of Early Christian Studies and a senior editor of Church History. She has also been president of the American Academy of Religion\, the American Society of Church History\, and the North American Patristics Society. During her time at Duke\, Clark mentored more than two dozen doctoral students\, many of whom are now leaders in the field of early Christian studies.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/an-interview-with-elizabeth-clark-ph-d/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200929T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200929T170000
DTSTAMP:20250407T161436
CREATED:20200918T130505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200918T130505Z
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SUMMARY:Women Scholars of Orthodox Christianity Featuring Carrie Frederick Frost
DESCRIPTION:The Orthodox Christian Studies Center is delighted to present the ninth episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explore some facet of the history\, thought\, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. \nThis episode features an interview with Carrie Frederick Frost\, Ph.D.\, adjunct professor in the Global Humanities and Religions department at Western Washington University\, and in theology at Saint Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Seminary. She is the author of Maternal Body: A Theology of Incarnation from the Christian East (Paulist Press\, 2019) and the editor of The Reception of the Holy and Great Council: Reflections of Orthodox Christian Women (GOARCH\, 2018). Her work attends to matters of women and mothers in the church\, sacraments and practice\, the reinstitution of the ordained order of deaconesses\, Christian material culture\, and contemplative prayer. She serves on the boards of the International Orthodox Theological Association and the Saint Phoebe Center for the Deaconess. \n\nThe episode will include some time for live audience questions\, and the Center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/women-scholars-of-orthodox-christianity-featuring-carrie-frederick-frost/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200916T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200916T130000
DTSTAMP:20250407T161436
CREATED:20200901T193750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200901T193750Z
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SUMMARY:Women Scholars of Orthodox Christianity Featuring Kristina Stoeckl
DESCRIPTION:The Orthodox Christian Studies Center is delighted to present the eighth episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explore some facet of the history\, thought\, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. \nThis episode features an interview with Kristina Stoeckl\, professor of sociology at Innsbruck University in Austria. Against an interdisciplinary background of philology\, philosophy\, international relations\, and sociology\, she has published books and articles on the post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Church and on religion and modernity. Her book\, The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights (2014)\, became the starting point for a five-year research project funded by the European Research Council. This project\, titled Postsecular Conflicts\, has examined the connections between the Russian Orthodox Church and global moral conservative networks of the Christian Right in numerous publications. \nShe is currently working on a monograph (with Dmitry Uzlaner) titled Moralist International: The Russian Orthodox Church in the Global Culture Wars. Together with Aristotle Papanikolaou and Ingeborg Gabriel\, she has edited the volume Political Theologies in Orthodox Christianity: Common Challenges – Divergent Positions (2017). Her comparative political sociology of religions approach puts emphasis on actors and processes in order to understand the complex ways in which religious traditions negotiate their relationship with modernity. \nThe episode will include some time for live audience questions. The Center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/women-scholars-of-orthodox-christianity-featuring-kristina-stoeckl/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200819T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200819T170000
DTSTAMP:20250407T161436
CREATED:20200812T185326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200812T185326Z
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SUMMARY:Women Scholars of Orthodox Christianity\, Featuring Bissera V. Pentcheva
DESCRIPTION:The Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University is delighted to present the seventh episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explore some facet of the history\, thought\, or culture of orthodox Christianity. The broadcast will be livestreamed and open to all who have preregistered. The event will include some time for live audience questions. For those who miss the live event\, the Center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel. \nThis episode features an interview with Bissera V. Pentcheva\, professor of art history at Stanford University. She has published three books with Pennsylvania State University Press: Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium (2006)\, which received the Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America in 2010; The Sensual Icon: Space\, Ritual\, and the Senses in Byzantium (2010); and Hagia Sophia: Sound\, Space and Spirit in Byzantium (2017)\, which received the 2018 American Academy of Religion Award in historical studies. She has edited the volumes Aural Architecture (Ashgate\, 2017) and Icons of Sound: Architecture\, Music and Imagination in Medieval Art (Routledge\, 2020). Her work is informed by phenomenology\, placing the attention on the changing appearance of objects and architectural spaces. She relies on film to capture this temporal animation stirred by candlelight. Another important strand of her work engages the sonic envelope of the visual—music and acoustics—and employs auralizations that digitally imprint the performance of chant with the acoustic signature of the specific interior for which it was composed. \nOrthodox Christian Studies Center events are free and open to the public. The Zoom link will be sent out to all registered participants one to two days prior to the event.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/women-scholars-of-orthodox-christianity-featuring-bissera-v-pentcheva/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200805T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200805T170000
DTSTAMP:20250407T161436
CREATED:20200723T134047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200723T134047Z
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SUMMARY:Women Scholars of Orthodox Christianity Featuring Elizabeth Prodromou\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:The Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University is delighted to present the sixth episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explore some facet of the history\, thought\, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. The broadcast will be livestreamed and open to all who have pre-registered. The event will include some time for live audience questions. For those who miss the live event\, the Center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel. \nThis episode features an interview with Elizabeth Prodromou\, Ph.D. Prodromou is a faculty member at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University\, where she directs the Initiative on Religion\, Law\, and Diplomacy. She is non-resident senior fellow and co-chair of the Working Group on Christians and Religious Pluralism in the Middle East\, at the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute\, and was non-resident Senior Fellow in National Security and the Middle East\, at the Center for American Progress. She is a co-president of Religions for Peace. \nProdromou served as vice chair and commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (2004-2012) and was a member of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group (2011-2015). Her research interests focus on geopolitics and religion\, with particular focus on the Middle East\, the Eastern Mediterranean\, and Southeastern Europe. Her current research projects concentrate on cultural heritage and institutional religious freedom in Turkey\, as well as Eastern Orthodox Christianity in contexts of religious pluralism. \nThe author of multiple edited volumes and many publications in scholarly and policy journals\, Prodromou is a frequent commentator and contributor in US and international media. She holds a Ph.D. and an S.M. in political science from MIT\, an M.A.L.D. in international relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University)\, and a B.A. in history and international relations from Tufts University. \nOrthodox Christian Studies Center events are free and open to the public. The Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants 1-2 days prior to the event.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/women-scholars-of-orthodox-christianity-featuring-elizabeth-prodromou-ph-d/
LOCATION:Online Webinar
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200722T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200722T130000
DTSTAMP:20250407T161436
CREATED:20200721T135121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200721T135121Z
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SUMMARY:Women Scholars of Orthodox Christianity Featuring Mariz Tadros
DESCRIPTION:The Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University is delighted to present the fifth episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explore some facet of the history\, thought\, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. The broadcast will be livestreamed and open to all who have pre-registered. The event will include some time for live audience questions. For those who miss the live event\, the Center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel. \nThis episode features an interview with Mariz Tadros\, professor of politics and development at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS)\, University of Sussex. Tadros is the director of the UK Department of International Development funded program the Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID)\, launched in November 2018\, and is also the PI for the British Academy grant for a project on Understanding People’s Heritage as a repertoire for socially cohesive\, sustainable development. \nSince joining IDS\, Tadros has led several multi-disciplinary\, multi-country research programs in thematic areas relating to civil society and democratization\, gender\, politics\, human security\, religion\, and development. She was formerly co-director of the DFID-supported RPC on Social and Political Action for Empowerment and Accountability and was previously the co-leader for the Power and Popular Politics Cluster. \nTadros has authored over one hundred research outputs\, and her books include: Resistance\, Revolt\, and Gender Justice in Egypt (Syracuse University Press)\, The Muslim Brotherhood in Contemporary Egypt: Democracy Redefined or Confined? (Routledge)\, and Copts at the Crossroads: The Challenges of Building an Inclusive Democracy in Contemporary Egypt (American University in Cairo Press) and her latest book co-edited with Kenneth R. Ross and Todd M. Johnson is Christianity in North Africa and West Asia\, published by Edinburgh University Press. \nOrthodox Christian Studies Center events are free and open to the public. The Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants 1-2 days prior.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/women-scholars-of-orthodox-christianity-featuring-mariz-tadros/
LOCATION:Online Webinar
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200624T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200624T120000
DTSTAMP:20250407T161436
CREATED:20200616T143651Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200616T143651Z
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SUMMARY:Women Scholars of Orthodox Christianity Featuring Dame Averil Cameron
DESCRIPTION:The Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University is delighted to present the third episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explore some facet of the history\, thought\, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. The broadcast will be livestreamed via Zoom and open to all who have pre-registered. The event will include some time for live audience questions. For those who miss the live event\, the Center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel. \nThis episode features an interview with Dame Averil Cameron. Dame Averil is one of the world’s most accomplished scholars of late antiquity and Byzantium\, with major contributions to our understanding of early Christian historical writing\, devotion to the Theotokos\, and the intersection of Christianity with the Roman Empire. While teaching at Kings College London  from 1965 until 1994\, she founded the Centre for Hellenic Studies and served as the editor for the Journal of Roman Studies. In 1994\, she was elected warden of Keble College\, Oxford\, a position she held until her retirement in 2010. She is the author or editor of more than twenty books and\, among her many honors\, she was named “Commander of the Order of the British Empire” in 1999 and “Dame Commander” in 2006. She has recently written on contemporary appeals to the Byzantine heritage and the concept of orthodoxy in Byzantium. Her most recent book is Byzantine Christianity: A Very Brief History (SPCK\, 2017). \nOrthodox Christian Studies Center events are free. \nQuestions? Contact:\nOrthodox Christian Studies Center\northodoxy@fordham.edu
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/women-scholars-of-orthodox-christianity-featuring-dame-averil-cameron/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200610T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200610T130000
DTSTAMP:20250407T161436
CREATED:20200602T191238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200602T191238Z
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SUMMARY:Women Scholars of Orthodox Christianity
DESCRIPTION:The Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University is delighted to present the second episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explore some facet of the history\, thought\, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. The broadcast will be livestreamed and open to all who have pre-registered. The event will include some time for live audience questions. For those who miss the live event\, the Center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel. \nThis episode features an interview with Nadieszda Kizenko\, Ph.D.\, professor of history at the State University of New York at Albany. Kizenko specializes in Russian history with a focus on religion and culture. Her work has explored topics such as the history of Orthodox Christianity\, saints’ lives as a historical source\, lived religion\, political liturgy\, women’s written confessions\, and depictions of religion in film. She will be interviewed by Aristotle Papanikolaou\, co-director of the center. \nOrthodox Christian Studies Center events are free. \nQuestions? Contact:\nOrthodox Christian Studies Center\northodoxy@fordham.edu
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/women-scholars-of-orthodox-christianity-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200527T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200527T170000
DTSTAMP:20250407T161436
CREATED:20200518T164433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T164433Z
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SUMMARY:Women Scholars of Orthodox Christianity
DESCRIPTION:The Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University is delighted to introduce a new webinar series that will highlight the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explore some facet of the history\, thought\, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. Each episode will be conducted as an interview by one of the center’s co-directors. The broadcasts will be livestreamed and open to all who have pre-registered. Each interview will include some time for live audience questions. For those who miss the live event\, the center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube page. \nThis particular one will feature Susan Ashbrook Harvey\, Ph.D\,\, the Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of history and religion at Brown University. Harvey specializes in late antique and Byzantine Christianity\, with Syriac studies as her particular focus. She has published widely on topics relating to asceticism\, hagiography\, women and gender\, hymnography\, homiletics\, and piety in late antique Christianity. \nOrthodox Christian Studies Center events are free and open to the public. \nQuestions? Contact:\nOrthodox Christian Studies Center\northodoxy@fordham.edu
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/women-scholars-of-orthodox-christianity/
CATEGORIES:Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN="George Demacopoulos":MAILTO:demacopoulos@fordham.edu
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