The Culture of Russian Orthodoxy
Conference in Honor of Richard F. Gustafson
March 14-15, 2008
Barnard College/Columbia University International Affairs Building,
Room 1512 420 West 118th Street, 15th Floor
New York, New York
Friday, March 14
1:00: Welcome - Judith Deutsch Kornblatt (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
1:30: Panel 1
Chair: Michael Flier (Harvard University)
"Dostoevsky the Puritan: Milton's Theological Art in Dostoevsky" Vladimir Golstein (Brown University)
"A Russian Orthodox Source of Soviet Scientific- Technological Prometheanism" George Kline (Bryn Mawr) (read by Boris Jakim)
"Tolstoy" Liza Knapp (Columbia University)
Discussants: James Scanlan (Ohio State University), Sarah Pratt (University of Southern California)
3:30 Break
4:00 Panel 2
Chair: John McGuckin (Union Theological Seminary)
"Why Was Bulgakov Interested in Imiaslavie?"
Paul Valliere (Butler University)
"Substance Through Style in Lev Karsavin's 'O Nachalakh'"
Boris Jakim "Doctor Zhivago and the Church Calendar: A Meeting of Orthodoxy and Symbolism"
Catharine Nepomnyashchy (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Discussant: Michael Meerson
Saturday, March 15
9:30 Panel 3
Chair: Jonathan Brent (Yale University Press)
"The Women of Modern Russian Religious Thought"
Natasha Ermolaeva (Columbia University) "Russian Poetry and Poetics in Russian Religious Thought"
Olga Meerson (Georgetown University)
"The Icon and the Ad: Advertising in Modern Russian Religious Thought" Douglas Greenfield (Bucknell
University)
Discussants: John Malmstad (Harvard University), Inessa Medzhibovskaya (The New School)
12:00 Closing Remarks by participants (Sarah Pratt, Marina
Ledkovsky, Catharine Nepomnyashchy, others as desired; may continue through lunch)
