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NBN Episodes hosted by Diana:
September 23, 2023
The Other #MeToos
From Asia to Africa to the Middle East, #MeToo has inspired local movements and hashtag trends like #AnaKaman and transnational collective hashtags li…
June 24, 2023
Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality
Sex is a difficult issue for contemporary Christians, but the past decade has witnessed a newfound openness regarding the topic among Eastern Orthodox…
February 18, 2023
Russia's Regional Museums
Sofia Gavrilova's Russia's Regional Museums: Representing and Misrepresenting Knowledge about Nature, History and Society (Routledge, 2022) presents t…
August 17, 2022
Hungarian Catholic Intellectuals in Contemporary Romania
Set against the backdrop of the rise of right-wing Christian nationalism in Eastern Europe, this book declares that Catholic theologians ought to be u…
May 13, 2022
Canonicity, Twentieth-Century Poetry and Russian National Identity After 1991
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 an…
August 25, 2021
Understanding World Christianity
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 g…
August 23, 2021
Gender Politics in Turkey and Russia
Both Russia and Turkey were pioneering examples of feminism in the early 20th Century, when the Bolshevik and Republican states embraced an ideology o…
August 9, 2021
Abusing Religion
Sex abuse happens in all communities, but American minority religions often face disproportionate allegations of sexual abuse. Why, in a country that …
July 9, 2021
Ashkenazi Herbalism
Until now, the herbal traditions of the Ashkenazi people have remained unexplored and shrouded in mystery. Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herb…
June 4, 2021
Dostoevsky's Incarnational Realism
Paul Contino’s Catholic reading of Dostoevsky’s final masterwork, premised on the novel’s “powerful capacity to inspire readers to be better people”, …
May 5, 2021
Ideologies of Race
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 regi…
May 5, 2021
Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy
Often referred to as “the Russian Leonardo”, religious philosopher and Orthodox parish priest Pavel Florensky was a pivotal figure in the Russian reli…
September 10, 2020
Bury My Heart in a Free Land
Black women intellectuals have traditionally been overlooked in the academic study of American intellectual history. Bury My Heart in a Free Land: Bla…
August 3, 2020
Birth Control Battles
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…
June 23, 2020
Diffusing Human Trafficking Policy in Eurasia
Laura A. Dean (Assistant Professor of Political Science at Millikin University and director of the Human Trafficking Research Lab) has spent many year…
June 10, 2020
Tiny You
Although much has been written about the anti-abortion movement in the United States, Jennifer Holland (Assistant Professor of U.S. History, Universit…
May 19, 2020
Mary, Mother of Martyrs
Throughout Christian history, the Virgin Mary has been idealized as a self-sacrificing mother and a model for all Christian women to emulate. However,…
May 18, 2020
Life is Elsewhere
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…
November 20, 2019
The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great
The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great (Liverpool University Press, 2019) is the first scholarly monograph devoted to the comprehensive analysis of…
October 23, 2019
Women Political Leaders in Rwanda and South Africa
Rwanda and South Africa have some of the highest rates of women’s political representation in the world, with significant growth particularly in the l…
July 18, 2019
Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-Japanese War
As Russian militarism becomes increasingly intertwined with Russian Orthodoxy theology in the 21st century, the history of the Church’s relationship t…
May 27, 2019
Global Art and the Cold War
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 argu…
April 16, 2019
Plots Against Russia
Since the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, conspiratorial thinking has taken deep root in contemporary Russia, moving from the margins to the foref…
August 1, 2018
Performing Femininity
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…