About the Event
An AAR Fall Fridays WebinAAR
Hosted by AAR’s Eastern Orthodox Studies Program Unit
As part of the Fall Fridays Scholarship WebinAAR Series, this webinar features a panel of globally renowned experts in Orthodox Studies. This roundtable discussion will explore the intersections of religion, war, and geopolitics in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Specific topics of focus will include the formula for sustainable peace in Ukraine, the conflict between the political and the ecclesial understanding of independence and security, and the history of the Ukrainian movement for ecclesiastical independence (autocephaly).
AAR Fall Fridays is a webinAAR series that will highlight the scholarship coming from our varied AAR program units. This series — part of our larger year-round programming initiative — aims to bring the scholarship of our program units to the wider AAR membership and make it accessible outside of the Annual Meeting. These webinAARs will take place at 12:00 noon ET on Fridays and run from late September up until the in-person Annual Meeting in November.
Event Guidelines
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Panelists
Fr. Nicholas Denysenko is Emil and Elfriede Jochum University Professor and Chair and Professor of Religious Studies at Valparaiso University in Indiana. He is the author of several books on liturgical theology and religion in Ukraine and is also an Orthodox priest.
Regina Elsner is a catholic theologian and professor for Eastern Church Studies and Ecumenical Theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Münster. Her recent work focuses on the relationship of Russian Orthodoxy and modernity, peace ethics in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine, and the ecumenical relevance of anti-gender networks.
Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun is a professor of ecclesiology, international relations, and ecumenism at Sankt Ignatios College, University College Stockholm, and serves as the director of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Moderator
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz is an assistant professor of religion and anthropology at Northeastern University. Her work focuses on Orthodox Christianity, politics, and media worlds in the global context.