Religion and Identity in Russia and the Soviet Union: A Festschrift for Paul Bushkovitch

Conference Program

Religion and Identity in Russia and the Soviet Union: A Festschrift for Paul Bushkovitch. Nikolaos A. Chrissidis, Cathy J. Potter, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, and Jennifer B. Spock, eds. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2011, 9–10.       Sources First! Religion, Politics and Culture in Pre-Modern and Modern Russia A workshop at Yale University organized by the students of Paul Bushkovitch in honor of his 60th birthday Friday, April 4, 2008 and Saturday, April 5, 2008 Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue Sponsored  by:   The  Council  on  European  Studies   The  Whitney  and  Betty  MacMillan  Center  for  International   and  Area  Studies  at  Yale   The  Edward  J.  and  Dorothy  Clarke  Kempf  Fund   The  Beinecke  Rare  Book  and  Manuscript  Library   The  Stanley  T.  Woodward  Lectureship   The  Charles  Gallaudet  Trumbull  Lectureship   The  workshop  will  highlight  a  number  of  central  themes  in  the  religious,  political  and   cultural  history  of  pre-­‐‑modern  and  modern  Russia.  The  themes  reflect  the  intellectual   and   pedagogical   influence   of   Professor   Paul   Bushkovitch,   of   the   Yale   University   Department  of  History.     Friday, April 4 Welcome  by  Steven  Pincus,  European  Studies  Council  Chair  (Yale  University)   Introduction:  History  and  Pedagogy,  Cathy  Potter  (University  of  Pittsburgh)   Session  I:  Princes,  Merchants  and  Peasants     Charles  J.  Halperin  (independent  scholar,  Bloomington,  Indiana),  chair   Maria  Salomon  Arel  (independent  scholar,  Montreal,  Canada):  The  Perils  of   Profit:  Patrons  and  Protection  in  Muscovite  Trade   Cherie  Woodworth  (Yale  University):  The  Text  Is  About  What  It  Says  It’s   About:  Chronicles  and  the  Curse  of  ‘Thick  Description’  in  15th-­‐‑Century   Russia   Jennifer  Spock  (Eastern  Kentucky  University):  Making  the  Invisible  Visible:   Pre-­‐‑Petrine  Sources  and  the  Hunt  for  the  Elusive  Non-­‐‑Elite   10 CONFERENCE PROGRAM Saturday, April 5 Session  II:  Prophecy,  Spirituality  and  Repentance   Nancy  Shields  Kollmann  (Stanford  University),  chair   Andrey  Ivanov  (Yale  University):  Pietist  and  Anglican  Spirituality  in  the   Works  of  St.  Tikhon  of  Zadonsk   Nikolaos  Chrissidis  (Southern  Connecticut  State  University):  Crying  Their   Hearts  Out:  Public  Penance  in  Catherinian  Russia   Michael  Pesenson  (Swarthmore  College):  Nicolae  Milescu  Spafarii’s   “Khrismologion”  and  “Kniga  o  Sivillakh”:  Prophecies  of  Power  in  Late   Seventeenth-­‐‑Century  Russia   Session  III:  Reform,  Mission,  and  Anathema   Alexandra  Korros  (Xavier  University),  chair   Jason  Lavery  (Oklahoma  State  University;  Helsinki  Collegium  for  Advanced   Studies):  The  Reformation  in  Finland:  An  Historiographical  Survey   David  Schimmelpenninck  van  der  Oye  (Brock  University,  Canada):  Know   Thine  Enemy:  The  Travails  of  Russian  Missionary  Orientology   Vera  Shevzov  (Smith  College):  Resistance  and  Accommodation:  The  Rite  of   Orthodoxy  in  Modern  Russia   Session  IV:  Scandals,  Dilemmas,  and  Westerners   Dominic  Lieven  (London  School  of  Economics),  chair   Jeff  Mankoff  (Yale  University):  Dilemmas  of  Russian  Foreign  Policy  in  the   Polish  Lands  Before  World  War  I   Roshanna  Sylvester  (DePaul  University):  Urban  Sensations:  Masculine  Desire   and  Scandal  in  Late  Imperial  Odessa   Michael  David-­‐‑Fox  (University  of  Maryland,  College  Park):  “Russia  and  the   West”  in  a  Soviet  Key:  The  Genesis  of  Theodore  Dreiser’s  Russian  Diary   Concluding  Remarks   Robert  Crummey  (University  of  California,  Davis,  emeritus);  Laura  Engelstein   (Yale  University)         ...