From 26-28 June, 澳门六合彩开奖记录's听University Lecturer in Pre-Modern East Slavic听Culture, Dr Olenka Pevny, and three听PhD听students in the Department of Slavonic Studies听--听Rosie Finlinson, Nick Mayhew, and Katie Sykes --听will travel to L鈥檝iv, Ukraine to participate in the 2016 ASEEES-MAG听Summer Convention at the University Centre of the Ukrainian Catholic University. Together they will host a听panel exploring the theme of 'Images of the Other听in Medieval and Early Modern Rus' Sources鈥�.听Professor听Yury P. Avvakumov of the听University of Notre Dame will serve as the panel's听discussant.
The panel will consider听how different narratives and identities mediate what we learn from the cultural past.听Rather than searching for new heroes and heroines听or contributing to the endless opposition of the One and the Other, the presenters will examine nuances in the enunciation of confessional identity, of female piety and of kinship bonds within and outside the framework of specific social and cultural norms. Their work will confront听and challenge听condoned and naturalized representations of 'Nemtsy' (foreigners or strangers) in north-western Rus' over the course of the thirteenth and fourteenth听centuries; representations听of female piety in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century听Muscovy;听and representations of听canonical gendered kinships on Rus' territories up to the mid-seventeenth听century.
The 听will be posted by 30 April. Below is more听information on the听panel as well as听abstracts for the papers being presented by our PhD students:
Presenter: Katie Sykes
Title: Religious Identity and Difference in the Medieval Baltic: Constructing 'Nemtsy' in the First Novgorod Chronicle, c. 1200-1400 (袪械谢褨谐褨泄薪邪 褨写械薪褌懈褔薪褨褋褌褜 褨 褉械谢褨谐褨泄薪邪 胁褨写屑褨薪薪褨褋褌褜 胁 褋械褉械写薪褜芯胁褨褔薪褨泄 袩褉懈斜邪谢褌懈褑褨: 褎芯褉屑褍胁邪薪薪褟 芯斜褉邪蟹褍 芦薪褨屑褑褨胁禄 褍 袧芯胁谐芯褉芯写褋褜泻芯屑褍 锌械褉褕芯屑褍 谢褨褌芯锌懈褋褨 胁 1200-1400 褉芯泻邪褏听/听袪械谢懈谐懈芯蟹薪邪褟 懈写械薪褌懈褔薪芯褋褌褜 懈 褉械谢懈谐懈芯蟹薪芯械 褉邪蟹谢懈褔懈械 胁 褋褉械写薪械胁械泻芯胁芯泄 袩褉懈斜邪谢褌懈泻械: 褎芯褉屑懈褉芯胁邪薪懈械 芯斜褉邪蟹邪 芦薪械屑褑械胁禄 胁 袧芯胁谐芯褉芯写褋泻芯泄 锌械褉胁芯泄 谢械褌芯锌懈褋懈 胁 13-15 胁胁.)
Abstract: The question of Rus' constructions of the western world is particularly topical. Existing scholarship characterises clashes between Rus'听and 'Nemtsy' as conflicts between Orthodox Christians and Catholics. My work on the First Chronicle of Novgorod reveals that for c. 1200-1400, the text provides no grounds for the belief that 'Nemtsy' were constructed as a religious 'Other' to Rus' Christians. This calls into question conceptions of long-standing religious hostility between north-western Rus' and its western neighbours.
Presenter: Rosemary Finlinson
Title: Women on the Edge: Representations of Female Piety Outside the Nunnery in Muscovite Hagiography (袞褨薪泻懈 薪邪 屑械卸褨: 袟芯斜褉邪卸械薪薪褟 卸褨薪芯褔芯谐芯 斜谢邪谐芯褔械褋褌褟 蟹邪 屑械卸邪屑懈 屑芯薪邪褋褌懈褉褟 胁 袦芯褋泻芯胁褋褜泻褨 邪谐褨芯谐褉邪褎褨褩听/听袞械薪褖懈薪褘 薪邪 谐褉邪薪懈: 袠蟹芯斜褉邪卸械薪懈褟 卸械薪褋泻芯谐芯 斜谢邪谐芯褔械褋褌懈褟 蟹邪 锌褉械写械谢邪屑懈 屑芯薪邪褋褌褘褉褟 胁 卸懈褌懈泄薪芯泄 谢懈褌械褉邪褌褍褉械 袦芯褋泻芯胁褋泻芯泄 袪褍褋懈)
Abstract: Sixteenth and seventeenth-century Muscovite hagiography is notable for the increasing visibility of women. The Murom Cycle depicts laywomen engaging in pious behaviour outside ecclesiastical institutions and urban centres; on the social and geographical periphery, in the space between places. My paper explores the representations of women in the Cycle and studies their engagement in remapping the contours of holy place by providing models of sanctity from within the bounds of their own environment and experience.
Presenter: Nicholas Mayhew
Title: From 'Brothers' to 'Others': The Banning of 'Bratotvorenie' in Muscovy in the Seventeenth Century (袙褨写 芦袘褉邪褌褨胁禄 写芯 芦袉薪褕懈褏禄: 蟹薪懈泻薪械薪薪褟 o斜褉褟写褍 芦斜褉邪褌芯褌胁芯褉械薪褨褟禄 胁 袦芯褋泻芯胁褋褜泻懈褏 褋谢褍卸械斜薪懈泻邪褏 XVII-谐芯 褋褌芯谢褨褌褌褟)
Abstract:听'Bratotvorenie', a liturgical rite uniting two men as 'spiritual brothers', existed in the East Slavonic tradition until the mid-seventeenth century. It was banned in Moscow in 1655 and removed from liturgical books. On the basis of liturgical and hagiographical sources, this paper explores what constituted acceptable verses unacceptable forms of artificial kinship ties in Rus', Ruthenian and Muscovite lands. It considers how different manifestations of love between two individuals were appraised as well as听when, where and why.
Dr Pevny will also chair another panel entitled 'Imagining the Greek Catholic Church in Lviv: Soviet and Post-Soviet Narratives'. This panel will include the following papers: Kathryn David (New York University) on 鈥楾he Greek Catholic Church in the Soviet Imagination: The Yaroslav Galan Club and Church Education鈥�; Diana Vonnak (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) on 鈥楥hanging Functions and the Politics of Representation in the Lviv Museum of the History of Religion and Culture鈥�; and Kateryna Budz (National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy") on 鈥楻edefining Identity: Clandestine Ukrainian Greek Catholics' Attitude to Orthodoxy (1946鈥�1989)鈥�.
