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Thank you to all who attended the 9th annual Working Group conference!  

Announcements

Annoucements

Call for Papers

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Submit a Manuscript to the conference "Remembrance, Religion, and Secularity in Central-Eastern Europe and Beyond".

Deadline: 30 March 2024

Assemani Seminar for Eastern Catholic History 2024

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Click the button below to view details for the Assemani Seminar for Eastern Catholic History 2024.

Call for Papers

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Submit a Manuscript to the Journal Religion, State & Society for a Special Issue on Studying Eastern Orthodoxy in the context of war in Ukraine: approaches, models, and concepts. Deadline: 15 January 2024

Domesticating, Rewilding, Sacralizing: Modes of Engaging NAture in Everyday Life

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Click the button below to view details for the workshop: Domesticating, Rewilding, Sacralizing: Modes of Engaging Nature in Everyday Life.

PENtactors project Post-Doc Position

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Click the button below to view the details for a 30-month length Post-doc position in the Research Project: PENTACTORS (Pentecostalism-Activism-Others) at the Polish National Science Centre under the Sonata-17 Program.

TPNRD Ukraine Policy Brief

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Click the button below to view the details for the Ukrainian Religious Actors and Organizations After Russia's Invasion: The Struggle for Peace.  

Teach-In on Russia's War on Ukraine

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Click the button below to view the details for all seven Teach-In events.  All Penn State community members are welcome to attend; please see the attached schedule to access the Zoom link for all sessions.

Call for Abstracts:

Liberated Histories &

Imperial Afterlives

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Click the button below to view the full Call for Abstracts from the Center for Urban Studies in Kyiv, the National Art Museum of Ukraine, and the Art and Architectural History Department at the College of Charleston.

Ukraine: What Social Science Research Tells/Told Us

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ZOiS and Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin combine to publish a lecture series examining current social science research on Ukraine.

Interviews

Religion in (Post) Socialist Societies

4 September, 2023

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Click the button below to view the details for more information on a series regarding Religion in (Post) Socialist Societies.

Recovering Truth Podcast:  Russia and the Religious Right

July, 2022

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Check it out!  Working Group member Justin Lassin discusses Russia and the Religious Right.

Basees Podcasts: Religious Minorities in Ukraine and Poland

29 July, 2022

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Check it out!  Working Group members Catherine Wanner and Julia Buyskykh discuss religious minorities in Ukraine and Poland.

Religion in Praxis Conversation Series

11 May, 2022

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Dr. Tornike Metreveli interviews Dr. Tetiana Kalenychenko to discuss the religious landscape in Ukraine.

Videos

Building a Patrimonial church: How the Orthodox Churches in Ukraine Use the Past

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Check out our new historical video on the story of building a Ukrainian Orthodox church, created and developed by Yuliya Yurchuk, a Senior Lecturer of History at Umeå University, Sweden. She specializes in memory studies, history of religion, and the study of nationalism in East European countries. Check it on our Youtube channel!

Making Less Harm: Conflict Sensitivity and Religious Reconciliation

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Check out our new methodological video on the link between Conflict Sensitivity and Religious Studies, created and developed by Tetiana Kalenychenko, sociologist of religion at European Centre of Strategic Analytics, Kyiv, Ukraine. Check it out on our Youtube channel!

Archive

New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Alex Agadjanian and Scott Kenworthy are interviewed by the New Books Network and invited to discuss their new book, Understanding World Christianity: Russia

Tsimmes Magazine Interviews Dr. Alla Marchenko

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Check out Tsimmes' video interview with Alla Marchenko, regarding her new book The Hasidic Pilgrimage to Uman

(in Russian)

Pro Prostu Wschod: An Interview with Alla Marchenko

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Watch Alla Marchenko's interview on Po Prostu Wschod, regarding her new book The Hasidic Pilgrimage to Uman

(in Polish)

"Ти там, де твої думки": сім книжок про хасидизм

An Interview to Culture Radio

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Alla Marchenko is interviewed by Culture Radio, regarding her new book The Hasidic Pilgrimage to Uman

(in Ukranian)

The Russia Question, Episode 2

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Alexander Agadjanian and Scott Kenworthy meet with Michael Ossorgin to discuss their new book, Understanding World Christianity: Russia.  The interview is funded by The Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University

The Conversation Series: Christianity & Nationalism

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Catherine Wanner Speaks with Tornike Metreveli as part of The Conversation Series podcast.  Check it out!

Religion in Post-Communist Countries

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Check out Catherine Wanner's interview with the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at

BYU Law

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