ASEC 2015 Conference Program
St. Panteleimon Monastery, Mount Athos
September 17-19, 2015
Rhodes College and Westin Hotel, Memphis, TN
Conference Sponsors:
Office of Academic Affairs, Rhodes College
Program in the Humanities (Search), Rhodes College
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Rhodes College
Department of Greek and Roman Studies, Rhodes College
Hilandar Research Library, The Ohio State University
Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture
Book Exhibit:
Holy Trinity Publications, Holy Trinity Monastery and Seminary,
Jordanville, NY
Thursday, September 17, 2015, Westin Hotel
7:30-9:00
Pre-conference reception
Friday, September 18, Westin Hotel and Rhodes College
8:00
Welcome / Opening of Conference: Valeria Nollan, President, ASEC
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8:00-9:45
Chair:
Author:
Panelists:
Georges Florovsky and the Russian Religious Renaissance:
A Conversation with Paul Gavrilyuk
Matt Miller, University of Northwestern
Paul L. Gavrilyuk, University of St. Thomas
Heather Bailey, University of Illinois
Randall A. Poole, College of St. Scholastica
Paul Valliere, Butler University
9:45-10:00
Break
10:00-11:45
Beyond the Boundaries of Orthodoxy
Chair:
Papers:
Scott Kenworthy, Miami University of Ohio
Popular Orthodoxy and the Repression of Heresy in Russia:
The Trial of P.P. Katasonov, 1869-72
Eugene Clay, Arizona State University
Maliovantsy: Christian Orthodoxy and the Ukrainian “Evangelical”
Peasants of Late Imperial Russia
Sergei Zhuk, Ball State University
Acceptable Religion: Orthodox Revival and Neo-Protestantism in 1920s
Bucharest
Roland Clark, Eastern Connecticut State University
“Kakaia ona Baptistka!” Evangelical Women Workers in Post-WWII Siberia
April French, Brandeis University
12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:45
Muscovite Monasticism
Chair:
Papers:
Roland Clark, Eastern Connecticut State University
To a Question about the Heritage Hymnography of the sixteenth-century
Monk Michael
Victoria Legkikh, Arcive of the German Dioxese
Prescriptive Life, Normative Life, Real Life: Tracing Daily Activity in a
Pre-Petrine Russian Monastery
Jennifer B. Spock, Eastern Kentucky University
Good Neighbors Make Good Litigants:
Lawsuits of Muscovite Monasteries during the Reign of Ivan IV
Charles J. Halperin, Indiana University
Two More “Countries Heard From”:
Integrating Archeology and Inventory into the Life of Iosif Volotsky
David Goldfrank, Georgetown University
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2:45-3:00
Break
3:00-4:45
Orthodoxy and Schisms
Chair:
Eugene Clay, Arizona State University
Papers:
The Criminalization of the Schismatic in the Context of the Papal Politics
of the Fourteenth Century
Joan Dusa, Independent scholar
Orthodox Missions to “Ancient Orthodox” Lands in Belarus in the Early
19th Century
Barbara Skinner, Indiana State University
Father Ivan Belliustin’s Description of the Rural Clergy and the
Construction of a Tsar-Pope Myth in France
Heather Bailey, University of Illinois, Springfield
Liturgical Commemorations, Political Dissent and Religious Schism in the
Russian Orthodox Church during the 1920s and 1930s
Carol Dockham, Georgetown University
4:45-5:30
Break
5:30
Bus to Rhodes College
6:00-7:00
Reception, Buckman Lobby, Buckman Hall, Rhodes College
(hors d’oeuvres and drinks)
7:00
Welcome: Michelle Mattson, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs,
Rhodes College
7:00-8:30
Keynote Presentation, Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall, Rhodes College
“Virtue, Violence, and Moral Injury:
Maximus the Confessor on Learning How to Love”
Aristotle Papanikolaou, Archbishop Demetrios Professor in Orthodox
Theology and Culture, Fordham University
8:30-9:00
Photo session of conference participants
Photographer: Justin Burks
9:00
Bus to Westin Hotel
Saturday, September 19, Westin Hotel
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8:00-9:45
A Correspondence between Two Corners: Russian Correspondents and
Spiritual Seeking in the Twentieth Century
Chair:
Papers:
and Vasily Rozanov
Randall Poole, College of St. Scholastica
“Spiritual” Revolutionaries: The Strange Correspondence of Maxim Gorky
Erich Lippman, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota
“So that We Here Might Come to Know Better the Russian Soul”:
Approaching the Reception and Influence of Nikolai Berdyaev
through Letters from his Western Admirers
Christopher Stroop, University of South Florida
Corresponding Worldviews: Conversion and Spiritual Paternity in the
Letters of Gerald Palmer and Fr. Nikon Strandtman
Christopher D. L. Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac
9:45-10:00
Break
10:00-11:45
Orthodox Cultural Models
Chair:
Papers:
Valeria Nollan, Rhodes College
Strannik i prostranstvo: Representing the Orthodox Wanderer in the
Work of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin and Fyodor Dostoevsky
Charles Arndt, Vassar College
Wandering Home: Wanderers in the Works of Nikolai Leskov
Matthew A. Sutton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christ-Loving Soldiers of a Christian Empire? Religion and the Military in
Late Imperial Russia
Betsy Perabo, Western Illinois University
An Assessment of the Impact of Orthodoxy on Serbia’s and Russia’s
Cultural Traits through Cross-Cultural Examination
Zivojin Jakovljevic, Cleveland State University
11:45-1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:45
American Orthodoxy
Chair:
Papers:
Charles Arndt, III, Vassar College
The Eastern Church in Colonial America: A Brief Overview
Nicholas Chapman, Holy Trinity Monastery and Seminary,
Jordanville, NY
Orthodox Christianity and Religious Freedom in America
Rev. D. Oliver Herbel, Chaplain, 119th Wing, Fargo, ND
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Eastern Christianity in Minnesota since 1989
Matt Miller, University of Northwestern
Icons in the Lived Experience of Orthodox Christians in the United States:
A Case Study
Amy Slagle, University of Southern Mississippi
2:45-3:00
Break
3:00-4:45
Breadth and Depth
Chair:
Papers:
Eve Levin, University of Kansas
In Defense of Athanasius and the Ethiopians
Bernadette McNary-Zak, Rhodes College
The Exterior Murals of the Moldavian Monastic Churches
Alice Isabella Sullivan, University of Michigan
Pilgrims and Profits: The Russian Company of Steam Navigation and
Trade on the Black Sea, 1856-1914
Lucien J. Frary, Rider University
Measuring Piety: A Statistical Analysis of the Membership of the Nizhnii
Novgorod Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross, 1764-1917
William G. Wagner, Williams College
4:45-5:15
Wrap-Up
6:00
Banquet
Speaker: Prof. John Kaltner, Chair, Dept. of Religious Studies, Rhodes
College. “Beyond the Scents and Bells: Reflections on My Encounters with
Eastern Christianity”
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