Religion, Freedom of Conscience,
and Human Rights in
Russia and the West

Chair: Bradley Underwood, Northwestern University

• Faith Before and Beyond the Church: Two Births of Poor Faith in Russia

  Mikhail N. Epstein,
  Emory University

• The Generation Gap: Children and the Child-Like in Soviet Anti-Religious Posters

  Julie K. deGraffenried,
  Baylor University

• Defending Freedom of Conscience in Early Soviet Russia

  Scott Kenworthy,
  Miami University of Ohio

• Trinitarian Personalism as Existential Philosophy:
  Berdyaev’s Approach to Individual and Community

  George Pattison,
  University of Glasgow

Chair: Octavian Gabor, Methodist College

• Multiple sacralities, multiple realities?

  Marietta van der Tol,
  University of Cambridge

• The Rights of the Other Man: Levinas, the Talmud, and a Few Talmudic Verses

  Steven Shankman,
  University of Oregon

• Lev Shestov on Truth, Freedom, and Faith as a New Dimension of Thought

  Marina G. Ogden,
  Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, University of Cambridge

Chair: Peter Gregory Winsky, Loyola Marymount University

• Freedom of Conscience in Berdyaev’s Philosophical Heritage

  Hiermomonk Joseph (Panteleimon Pavlinciuc),
  Berdiaev Museum, Clamart, France

• The Church, Sovereignty, and Human Rights in Carl Schmitt and Nikolai Berdyaev

  Ana Siljak,
  University of Florida

• Spiritual Freedom versus “Objectification”: The Personalist Foundation of Human Rights in Dialogue between N. Berdyaev and E. Mounier

  Ekaterina Rozova,
  Paris Nanterre University

Chair: Randall Poole, College of St. Scholastica

• Pravo and Prava in the Lexicon of Late Nineteenth-Century Legal Positivism and Religious Thought: The Case of Ivan Foinitsky and Vladimir Solov’ev

  Frances Nethercott,
  St Andrews University

• Berdyaev’s Philosophy of History: The Fate of Humanism

  Evelyn Heath,
  Northwestern University

• Conscience, Community, and Individuality: A Theological Defense of Democratic Moral Diversity

  Nathaniel Wood,
  Fordham University

Chair: Bradley Underwood, Northwestern University

• “Then we should be taken for human beings”: Dignity and Nationalism in Dostoevsky’s The Diary of a Writer

  Lindsay Martin,
  Baylor University

• Tragic Dignity: Sergii Bulgakov and Vyacheslav Ivanov Debate Dostoevsky

  Denis Zhernokleyev,
  Vanderbilt University

• On the Very Idea of Human Rights: Lev Tolstoy, Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt in Dialogue

  Ana Matoso,
  Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon

Chair: Michael Ossorgin, Fordham University

• Freedom in Dmitrii Merezkovskii’s Political Theology

  Andrzej Dudek,
  Jagiellonian University, Poland

• Divine Logos, Freedom of Will, and the End of History

  Vladimir Marchenkov,
  Ohio University

• Contra Tolkien: Vladimir Nabokov and the Right to Create as God Creates

  Erik Eklund,
  Northwestern University

Chair: Randall Poole, College of St. Scholastica

• Human Rights and Personhood in the Mystical Writings of Anna Nikolaevna Schmidt (1851–1905)

  Josephien van Kessel,
  Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen

• The Trubetskoi Brothers and the Idea of Social, Religious, and Political Unity

  Eric Lohr,
  American University

• Dorothy Day, Hélène Iswolsky, and Freedom of Conscience

  Lisa Radakovich Holsberg,
  Fordham University

Chair: Randall Poole, College of St. Scholastica

• Spaces of Freedom in Total Institutions: Pastoral Care and Literature

  Maike Schult,
  Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

• Two Lungs of Dignity: Reconfiguring the Imago Dei through the Political Spirituality of Vincent van Gogh and Vladimir Korolenko

  Alex Villas Boas,
  Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon

• Religious and Political Understandings of Freedom of Conscience

  Octavian Gabor,
  Methodist College

• On the Political Misuse of Revelation in Dostoevsky’s The Possessed: An Esoteric Reading

  Markos Galounis,
  The Athens Centre, Greece

Chair: Bradley Underwood, Northwestern University

• Religious Associations and the Law in Romania

  Megan Brand,
  Arizona State University

• Who is God and Who is Man: Dana Němcová and the Struggle for Human Rights in Czechoslovakia

  Michael Long,
  Baylor University

• Religious Minorities in Putin’s Russia: Jehovah’s Witnesses as a Litmus Test

  Emily B. Baran, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

  Zoe Knox, University of Leicester, UK

Chair: Scott Kenworthy, Miami University of Ohio

• Tolstoy on Wartime Casuistry

  Elizabeth Blake,
  St. Louis University

• Hegelianism as “False Christianity” (lzhekhristianstvo) in Tolstoy’s Writings and Christianity in Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals (1887)

  Victoria Juharyan,
  Johns Hopkins University

• Lament for the Patriarch and the Ethics of Memory (Tolstoy’s Religion in Jewish Press)

  Inessa Medzhibovskaya,
  New School for Social Research

• The Body as Icon: Florensky, O’Connor, and the Trinitarian Mirror in ‘Parker’s Back’

  Michael Ossorgin,
  Fordham University

Chair: Joshua Heath, Trinity College, Cambridge

• “The mind is not subject to God unless the free will is subject to reason”: Freedom and the Hesychastic Method in “The Poema of the Grand Inquisitor”

  Peter Gregory Winsky,
  Loyola Marymount University

• Vladimir Solovyov and the Resurgence of the Antichrist

  Bradley Underwood,
  Northwestern University

• John Milbank, Vladimir Soloviev, and the Human Rights Debate

  Randall Poole,
  College of St. Scholastica

• “Responsibility before God”: A Remnant of the Past or a Perspective for the Future of the Free Democratic Basic Order?

  Philipp David,
  Justus Liebig University, Giessen

Chair: Ana Siljak, University of Florida

• The Existentialist Philosophy of Nicolas A. Berdyaev

  Fr. Robert F. Slesinski,
  Eparchy of Passaic, New Jersey

• What Does It Mean to Win? Natural Law in Semyon Frank’s Force and Law (1916) and The Spiritual Foundations of Society (1929)

  Dmitry Biriukov,
  University of California, Los Angeles

• Spiritual Autonomy and National Destiny: Berdyaev on Religious Freedom

  Sr. Teresa Obolevitch,
  The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow

Chair: George Pattison, University of Glasgow

• Solidarity and Prayer: Thinking with Rowan Williams, Catholic Social Thought, and The Brothers Karamazov

  Paul J. Contino,
  Pepperdine University

• Metaphysical Responses to the Crisis in the Russian Orthodox
  Church’s Theology of Politics

  Antoine Arjakovsky,
  Collège des Bernardins, Paris

• Tolstoy’s Diaries, Wittgenstein’s Doubts, Bibikhin’s Organisms and Mechanisms

  Caryl Emerson,
  Princeton University