Conference "Eastern Christianity in Post-Imperial Societies"

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Central European University,
History Department
Religious Studies Program

Eastern Christianity in Post-Imperial Societies

Friday, 27 March 2009
Location: CEU Monument Building, 201

Program
15:00 – 15:30 Welcome Address
Constantin Iordachi, Head of the History Department, CEU
Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Director of the Religious Studies Program, CEU

15:45 – 17:45 Panel I.
Imperial Legacies: State and “National Church”

Chair: Nadia Al-Bagdadi
Discussant: Glenn Bowman

Bojan Alexov (UCL) – The Troubled Trajectory of the Serbian Karlovci Metropolitanate from an "Imperial" into a "National" Church

Lucian Leuştean (Aston University) – Romanian Orthodoxy between Political Messianism and Nationalism

Anca Sincan (CEU) – The Inheritance of Loss: The Transformation of the Status of the National Church in Communist Romania

Dimitris Stamatopoulos (University of Macedonia) – In the Shadow of Hobbes: The Church and Reconstruction of the Private Sphere in the Balkans (19th-20th centuries)

18:00 - 19:00 Lecture
Andrew Louth (Durham University) – Ignatius or Eusebius? Different Models of Patristic Ecclesiology
Location: CEU Auditorium

Saturday, 28 March 2009
Location: CEU Auditorium

09:15 – 11:15 Panel II.
An Unattainable Divorce: Is a Change from Eusebian Political Theology Possible?

Chair: Vlad Naumescu
Discussant: Andrew Louth

Alexander Agadjanian (Arizona State University) – The Russian Orthodox: Theology of a Nation

Ionut Biliuta (CEU) – Bowing Before the Idol of the Nation: The Last Temptation of Orthodox Theology in Interwar Romania (1920-1940)

Evert van der Zweerde (Institute of Eastern Christian Studies Radboud University, Nijmegen) – Church-State Relations and Eastern Orthodox Theology

Mihail Neamţu (University of Notre Dame) - Eusebius' Paradigm and the Dangers of Political Idolatry

11:30 – 12:30 Lecture
Glenn Bowman (University of Kent) – The Fate of Sharing in an Age of Nations: Rethinking Syncretism in the Wake of the Empire

14:00 – 15:30 Panel III.
Syncretism, Hybridity and ‘Orthodoxy’ in Eastern Christianity

Chair: Anca Sincan
Discussant: Thomas Bremer

Tunde Komaromi (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) – Russian Orthodoxy Meets Modernization and Globalization: Fears and Miracles

Vlad Naumescu (CEU) – Churches In-Between?: The Politics of Religious Syncretism in Greek Catholicism

Simion Pop (CEU) – Tradition, Transmission, Syncretism: Eastern Orthodox Christianity as an Anthropological Object

16:00 – 16:45 Presentation
Liliya Berezhnaya (Institute of Eastern Christian Studies Radboud University, Nijmegen) - The Legacy of Empire(s) in Contemporary Russian and Ukraine Religious Movies

17:00 – 17:30 Final Discussion