Wednesday, July 8, 2020
12 p.m.
Online Webinar via Zoom (Link to be sent out 1 - 2 days prior)
The Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University is delighted to present the fourth episode of its webinar series highlighting the scholarly insights and academic careers of female scholars whose research and writing explore some facet of the history, thought, or culture of Orthodox Christianity. The broadcast will be livestreamed and open to all who have pre-registered. The event will include some time for live audience questions. For those who miss the live event, the Center will archive each episode on its website and YouTube channel.
This episode features an interview with Vera Shevzov, Professor of Religion and Director of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program at Smith College. Trained in Russian history at Yale University (BA, PhD), as well as at St. Vladimir's Seminary (M.Div), she has published on a wide range of topics related to Orthodox Christianity in modern, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia. Supported at various stages by the American Academy of Religion, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation, her publications have engaged lived religion and religious thought and their interface with: history, liturgy, and sacred memory; notions of “the West;” revolution and visual violence; the culture of icons; and the image of Mary. Her book, Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of Revolution (Oxford University Press), was awarded the Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History. Most recently she co-edited a volume of essays on Mary in modern, Revolutionary, and Post-Soviet Russian Culture. She is a former co-chair of the Steering Committing for the Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit of the American Academy of Religion, and is
currently co-editor of the Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press). This past year, she was a Fellow at the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University.
Orthodox Christian Studies Center events are free and open to the public.