Forum of Ideas
Below you will find the most recent posts
Randall A Poole: ‘Father Aleksandr Men and the Traditions of Russian Religious Thought’
Posted 12/11/2025
The following lecture was given by the Co-Director of the NURPLRT Initiative Prof. Randall A Poole at the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in...
Call For Papers: “Ontologismo e sofiologia: la filosofia italiana e il pensiero religioso russo”
Posted 10/10/2025
We are pleased to share details of the following Call for Papers. The event is organized by Pontificia Università di Giovanni Paolo II a...
Call For Papers: “Philosophy of Religion in the East and West” Almaty, Kazakhstan
Posted 26/09/2025
We are pleased to share details of the following Call for Papers. The event is hosted by the Orthodox Church of Kazakhstan, the Almaty...
Events Announcement: “Lev Shestov: His Exegesis of Western Philosophical Tradition and the Challenge to Overcome Metaphysics” and “Father Aleksandr Men and the Traditions of Russian Religious Thought”
Posted 18/09/2025
We are pleased to share details of two upcoming events hosted by the Institute of Orthodox Christian Studies at Cambridge. Both feature members of...
Leo Tolstoy on Law, Morality, and Religion
Posted 28/06/2025
The following post by Evelyn Heath, an undergraduate student at Northwestern University, is another in the series of posts highlighting exemplary work by undergraduates...
Russia in Search of Apocalypse: Eschatology and the Politics of the End-Time
Posted 24/06/2025
This article, written by Mikhail Epstein, is appearing for the first time in English on the NURPLRT Forum. An expanded version of this article...
“We see the most powerful argument against Christianity in Dostoyevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’”. – Prof. Gary Saul Morson
Posted 08/05/2025
This paper by Demir Aytaç was originally published in the journal Bütün Dünya, Başkent Üniversitesi Kültür Yayını (March 2025): p.121-127. It appears for the...
The Self and its Sideshadows
Posted 07/03/2025
The following post by Austin Benedetto, an undergraduate student at Northwestern University, is another in the series of posts highlighting exemplary work by undergraduates...
CFP: “Religion, Nationalism, and Dissidence”
Posted 17/01/2025
Northwestern Studies in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought Call for papers: “Religion, Nationalism, and Dissidence” Editors: Jimmy Sudário Cabral (Federal University of Juiz...
In Search of Lost Dreams
Posted 06/12/2024
The following post by Austin Benedetto, an undergraduate student at Northwestern University, is another in the series of posts highlighting exemplary work by undergraduates...
Florensky: Rationality, Faith, and the Trinity as Truth
Posted 13/11/2024
The following post by Daniel Schrader-Dobris, a graduating senior philosophy student at USC planning on pursuing an advanced degree in cognitive science or the...
The Underground and Gary Saul Morson
Posted 11/11/2024
This paper by Brad Underwood was presented at the Northwestern University Research Initiative in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought Conference celebrating Gary Saul...
