BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//205.186.175.174//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.12// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:OCL X-WR-CALDESC:Orthodox News | Jurisdictional Unity | Transparency X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20131103T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20140309T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http://ocl.org/?post_type=ai1ec_event&p=4637&instance_id= DTSTAMP:20130518T185053Z CONTACT: Member Contact: Dr. Scott Kenworthy DESCRIPTION:

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Theme: “Orthodox Christian ity in Russia & Eastern Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives”< /p>\n

Before the collapse of communism\, religion in Russia and Eastern Europe was rarely a topic of scholarly research. The prevalence of the sec ularization thesis in the West\, combined with the dominance of militantly atheist regimes in the East\, led scholars to assume that religion no lon ger mattered in the region. Moreover\, long held stereotypes about the Ort hodox Church contributed to the dismissal of Orthodoxy’s importance as a f actor in Russian or East European history\; only a few pioneers in the fie ld challenged this tendency. Since the collapse of communism\, however\, r eligion has reasserted itself in the public sphere in the former communist bloc as in many other parts of the world. There has been a renewed apprec iation of Orthodoxy’s significance in the history of the region\, as well as growing interest among political scientists and anthropologists who stu dy Russia and Eastern Europe.

This conference seeks to tap into a new wave of research on Orthodoxy in Russia and Eastern Europe. It is inte nded to be interdisciplinary\, so we invite papers from a number of discip linary perspectives: historical\, anthropological\, sociological\, intelle ctual\, literary\, and/or political science. We also seek to cut across ge ographical lines\, so papers can be concerned with the Russian Empire/Sovi et Union and its successor states as well as Eastern Europe (former Habsbu rg and Ottoman empires\, Romania\, Bulgaria\, and the former Yugoslavia). We invite papers that tap into the transnational dimensions of Orthodoxy—t ies between Russia or Eastern Europe and the new world\, for example\, or Orthodox missions outside traditional territories. We also invite papers t hat explore the relationship of Orthodoxy to other religious traditions in the region.

The conference will include two keynote speak ers: Dr. Lucian Turcescu (Concordia University\, Montreal) and Dr . Gregory Freeze (Brandeis University).

For more informati on: (http://www.units.muohio.edu/ havighurstcenter/conferences/youngresearchers.html) or (http ://www.otsamerica.org/news/2012/orthodox-christianity-russia-and-eastern-e urope-historical-and-contemporary-perspectives)

DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130214 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130218 LOCATION:501 East High Street\, Oxford\, OH 45056\, USA SUMMARY:12th Annual International Young Researchers Conference: OH URL:http://ocl.org/ai1ec_event/12th-annual-international-young-researchers- conference-oh/?instance_id= END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR