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
This paper was given at the international symposium, Russian Literature, Philosophy, and Religious Thought in a Time of Catastrophe, which took place at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, March 2023 by Alex Villas Boas. The perspective adopted in this paper is that of political spirituality, in the sense that the intersection between religion and politics mutually
This is an interview with Distinguished Professor Paul J. Contino on his book Dostoevsky’s Incarnational Realism: Finding Christ Among the Karamazovs and his audience with Pope Francis. It was conducted on June 22, 2023 by Peter Gregory Winsky. Paul’s book can be purchased here, and a Russian language edition of the book will soon be available
This is an interview with Professor Mikhail Epstein on his latest book The Russian Anti-World: Politics on the Verge of Apocalypse. It was conducted on May 18, 2023 by Peter Gregory Winsky. Mikhail’s book can be purchased here, and all proceeds go to aiding Ukrainian refugees. Mikhail N. Epstein is a cultural and literary
This paper was presented at the 2022 ASEEES conference in Chicago, IL by Jillian Pignataro. Nikolai Chernyshevsky’s 1863 novel, What is to be Done? has principally been considered as an ideological and didactic work, and the exceptional Rakhmetov has been seen as Chernyshevsky’s vision of the ideal man.[1] Nonetheless, as scholar Andrew Drozd has shown,