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Category: Forum of Ideas

HALOED HALLUCINATIONS: VLADIMIR NABOKOV’S BEND SINISTER AND THE CULT OF ST. ANTONY FROM ATHANASIUS TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Jan Mandyn (also attributed to Jan Verbeeck), Temptations of St. Anthony Abbot

This article by Erik Eklund was originally  published in Religion and the Arts 27 (2023), 6 October, 2023. It has been slightly revised for style. Erik recently won the Gennady Barabtarlo Best Essay Prize, an annual award for the best academic article or book chapter on Nabokov, for his article “‘The Name of God has Priority’: ‘God’ and

The Inquisitor’s Gambit

Sisyphus by Franz Stuck

The following post by Austin Benedetto, an undergraduate student at Northwestern University, is the first in a new series of posts highlighting exemplary work by undergraduates with interests in Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought. The NURPRT Forum welcomes any undergraduate student to submit academic writing related to these fields to be considered for publication.  What

CFP: Second Annual Conference of the NURPRT: Celebrating Gary Saul Morson: Humanistic Traditions in Russian Thought and Literature

Call for Papers We would like to invite you to the second annual conference of the Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought (NU RPRT Research Initiative), to be held at Northwestern University on April 19–20, 2024. The conference, Celebrating Gary Saul Morson: Humanistic Traditions in Russian Thought and

ASEEES 2023 Digital Conference NURPRT Panels

ASEEES Philadelphia Banner

A Quick Guide to ASEEES 2023 Digital Conference NURPRT Panels: Please find below a guide to panels in which members of our Initiative are participating for the Virtual Conference being held October 19 – 20, 2023. If any panels are missing please contact Peter Winsky (winskypg@gmail.com) and he will add them to the guide. To