Catherine Wanner, Professor of History, Anthropology and Religious Studies, Penn State University
Moderated by Emily Channell-Justice, Director, Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, HURI
This event is organized by the Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) and co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) and the Anthropology Department at Harvard University.
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This talk will compare the religious landscape in Ukraine prior to the Russian invasion and consider how it has changed and what we might expect in the future. Religion is a powerful undercurrent in the war in Ukraine and beyond because it plays a key role in defining relatedness. Although religion has been weaponized and securitized to advance political agendas and protect state sovereignty, these efforts must contend with widespread vernacular religious practices that also inform relatedness and belonging.
| | Catherine Wanner is a Professor of History, Anthropology, and Religious Studies at Penn State University. She earned a doctorate in Cultural Anthropology before embarking on over 30 years of ethnographic research in Ukraine. She is the author or editor of seven books, including her most recent monograph, Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine (Cornell University Press, 2022), and the forthcoming edited volume, Dispossession: Imperial Legacies and the Russo-Ukrainian War (Routledge, 2023). Her research has focused primarily on the politics of religion in Ukraine and increasingly on human rights and conflict mediation within the context of war. She is the convenor of the Working Group on Lived Religion in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. In 2019-20 she was a Fulbright Scholar at the Ukrainian Catholic University. In 2020 she was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Prize from the Association for the Study of Eastern Christianity. |
Moderator: Emily Channell-Justice, Director, Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
The Zenovia Sochor Parry Memorial Lecture in Ukrainian Politics was established at HURI in 2000 by the friends and family of Dr. Zenovia Sochor Parry. A Professor at Clark University, Sochor Parry was a significant and respected scholar in the field of Soviet and East European history and politics.
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LOCATION:The Thompson Room (Room 110), Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20221102T210000Z DTEND:20221102T223000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR