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Gender Studies September 23, 2023

The Other #MeToos

Iqra Shagufta Cheema

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
From Asia to Africa to the Middle East, #MeToo has inspired local movements and hashtag trends like #AnaKaman and transnational collective hashtags like #MosqueMeToo. Yet, most Western scholarly and popular …
Religion June 24, 2023

Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality

Thomas Arentzen, Ashley M. Purpura, and Aristotle Papanikolaou

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
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Sex is a difficult issue for contemporary Christians, but the past decade has witnessed a newfound openness regarding the topic among Eastern Orthodox Christians. Both the theological trajectory and the …
Russian and Eurasian Studies February 18, 2023

Russia's Regional Museums

Representing and Misrepresenting Knowledge about Nature, History and Society

Sofia Gavrilova

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Sofia Gavrilova's Russia's Regional Museums: Representing and Misrepresenting Knowledge about Nature, History and Society (Routledge, 2022) presents the results of extensive research into the very interesting phenomenon of local museums—kraevedschskyi …
Religion August 17, 2022

Hungarian Catholic Intellectuals in Contemporary Romania

Reforming Apostles

Marc Roscoe Loustau

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Set against the backdrop of the rise of right-wing Christian nationalism in Eastern Europe, this book declares that Catholic theologians ought to be understood and studied as intellectuals: socially and …
Russian and Eurasian Studies May 13, 2022

Canonicity, Twentieth-Century Poetry and Russian National Identity After 1991

Katharine Hodgson and Alexandra Smith

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
The collapse of the Soviet Union forced Russia to engage in a process of nation building. This involved a reassessment of the past, both historical and cultural, and how it …
Russian and Eurasian Studies August 25, 2021

Understanding World Christianity

Russia

Alexander S Agadjanian and Scott M Kenworthy

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Christianity is a global religion. It's a fact that is too often missed or ignored in many books and conversations. In a world where Christianity is growing everywhere but in …
Gender Studies August 23, 2021

Gender Politics in Turkey and Russia

From State Feminism to Authoritarian Rule

Gökten Huriye Dogangün

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Both Russia and Turkey were pioneering examples of feminism in the early 20th Century, when the Bolshevik and Republican states embraced an ideology of women's equality. Yet now these countries …
Religion August 9, 2021

Abusing Religion

Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions

Megan Goodwin

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Sex abuse happens in all communities, but American minority religions often face disproportionate allegations of sexual abuse. Why, in a country that consistently fails to acknowledge—much less address—the sexual abuse …
Religion July 9, 2021

Ashkenazi Herbalism

Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews

Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Until now, the herbal traditions of the Ashkenazi people have remained unexplored and shrouded in mystery. Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews (North Atlantic Books, 2021) …
Russian and Eurasian Studies June 4, 2021

Dostoevsky's Incarnational Realism

Finding Christ among the Karamazovs

Paul J. Contino

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Paul Contino’s Catholic reading of Dostoevsky’s final masterwork, premised on the novel’s “powerful capacity to inspire readers to be better people”, follows hero Alyosha Karamazov’s spiritual maturation as a “monk …
Russian and Eurasian Studies May 5, 2021

Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy

Pavel Florensky's Theory of the Icon

Clemena Antonova

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Often referred to as “the Russian Leonardo”, religious philosopher and Orthodox parish priest Pavel Florensky was a pivotal figure in the Russian religious renaissance at the turn of the 20th …
Russian and Eurasian Studies May 5, 2021

Ideologies of Race

Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context

David Rainbow

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Conflicting notions about the dynamics of race in Russia and the Soviet Union have made it difficult for both scholars and other observers of the region to understand rising racial …
Gender Studies September 10, 2020

Bury My Heart in a Free Land

Black Women Intellectuals in Modern U.S. History

Hettie V. Williams

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Black women intellectuals have traditionally been overlooked in the academic study of American intellectual history. Bury My Heart in a Free Land: Black Women Intellectuals in Modern U.S. History (Praeger) …
Religion August 3, 2020

Birth Control Battles

How Race and Class Divided American Religion

Melissa J. Wilde

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Although it has largely been erased from the collective memory of American Christianity, the debate over eugenics was a major factor in the history of 20th-century religious movements, with many …
Russian and Eurasian Studies June 23, 2020

Diffusing Human Trafficking Policy in Eurasia

Laura A. Dean

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Laura A. Dean (Assistant Professor of Political Science at Millikin University and director of the Human Trafficking Research Lab) has spent many years investigating the urgent human rights issue of …
Gender Studies June 10, 2020

Tiny You

A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement

Jennifer Holland

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Although much has been written about the anti-abortion movement in the United States, Jennifer Holland (Assistant Professor of U.S. History, University of Oklahoma) has written the first monograph-length history of …
Religion May 19, 2020

Mary, Mother of Martyrs

How Motherhood Became Self-Sacrifice in Early Christianity

Kathleen Gallagher Elkins

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Throughout Christian history, the Virgin Mary has been idealized as a self-sacrificing mother and a model for all Christian women to emulate. However, she is one of many ancient maternal …
Russian and Eurasian Studies May 18, 2020

Life is Elsewhere

Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces

Anne Lounsbery

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
In her journey through the greatest monuments of 19th- and early 20th-century Russian literature, as well as through lesser-known works from women and regional writers, Anne Lounsbery (Professor and Chair …
Russian and Eurasian Studies November 20, 2019

The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great

Kelsey Rubin-Detlev

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great (Liverpool University Press, 2019) is the first scholarly monograph devoted to the comprehensive analysis of the letters of Empress Catherine the Great of …
Gender Studies October 23, 2019

Women Political Leaders in Rwanda and South Africa

Narratives of Triumph and Loss

Naleli Morojele

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Rwanda and South Africa have some of the highest rates of women’s political representation in the world, with significant growth particularly in the last 20 years. Through interviews with eleven …
Russian and Eurasian Studies July 18, 2019

Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-Japanese War

Betsy Perabo

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
As Russian militarism becomes increasingly intertwined with Russian Orthodoxy theology in the 21st century, the history of the Church’s relationship to war and its justification becomes particularly relevant. Betsy Perabo’s …
Art May 27, 2019

Global Art and the Cold War

John J. Curley

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
It was the passionate amateur painter, Winston Churchill, who introduced one of the Cold War’s key metaphors: The Iron Curtain. As John J. Curley argues in Global Art and the …
Russian and Eurasian Studies April 16, 2019

Plots Against Russia

Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism

Eliot Borenstein

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Since the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, conspiratorial thinking has taken deep root in contemporary Russia, moving from the margins to the forefront of cultural, historical, and political …
Russian and Eurasian Studies August 1, 2018

Performing Femininity

Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema

Rachel Morley

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
In studying the pre-Revolutionary films of Evgenii Bauer, Dr. Rachel Morley (Lecturer in Russian Cinema and Culture at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London) discovered …