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Call for Papers: LEV KARSAVIN: THE WAY OF THE RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHER IN LITHUANIA

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Call for Papers: LEV KARSAVIN: THE WAY OF THE RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHER IN LITHUANIA Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow Non-Governmental Organization “Dialogues of Cultures” in Vilnius Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought Lev Platonovich Karsavin (1882–1952), a follower of Vladimir Solovyov’s

Mikhail Epstein’s Religion after Atheism and the Russian “Argument from Personhood”

Nesterov, Beyond the Volga, Shepherd Boy, 1922

This paper was part of the opening roundtable celebrating Mikhail Epstein at the Inaugural Conference of the Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought which took place at the Northwestern University, April 2023. The roundtable included Caryl Emerson, Alyssa deBlasio, Victoria Juharyan, and the author of this paper, Randall A.

Mikhail Epstein: From Minimal Religion to Russkii Antimir

Kupala Night Henryk Siemiradzki 1880s

This paper was part of the opening roundtable celebrating Mikhail Epstein at the Inaugural Conference of the Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought which took place at the Northwestern University, April 2023. The roundtable included Alyssa deBlasio, Randall A. Poole, Victoria Juharyan, and the author of this paper,

Conference Review—Russian Literature and Philosophy: An International Symposium on Religion, Nationalism and Dissidence

Between November 22–24, 2022 scholars of Russian literature, philosophy, and religion descended on the midsized Brazilian town of Juiz de Fora from all over South America, North America, and Europe. The conference was held at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora and co-sponsored by the Northwestern University Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought. Juiz de Fora, nestled amid grassy hills situated three and a half hours north of Rio de Janeiro’s forested mountains, did much to charm its visitors, who convened to discuss the weighty matters of Russian culture in the context of the authoritarianism and violence of our times.