{"id":5,"date":"2024-04-04T07:01:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T04:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/orthosolidarity\/events\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T07:04:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T04:04:08","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/orthosolidarity\/events\/","title":{"rendered":"News &amp; Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\n\t<span style=\"color:#0000cd\"><strong>2023<\/strong><\/span><br>\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 On 1 April <span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Irina Paert<\/strong><\/span> gave a <a data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myeventflo.com\/event-lecture.asp?m=4&amp;evID=2462&amp;lectID=28779&amp;list=5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myeventflo.com\/event-lecture.asp?m=4&amp;evID=2462&amp;lectID=28779&amp;list=5\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">presentation<\/a> \u201cA Clergyman\u2019s Daughter at the Age of Equality\u201d at the BASEES Annual conference 2023 (Glasgow, 31 March-2 April 2023).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 <span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Irina Paert, Andrey Shishkov <\/strong><\/span>and<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong> Alison Kolosova<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0participated in the <a data-url=\"https:\/\/iota-web.org\/volos-conference-program\/\" href=\"https:\/\/iota-web.org\/volos-conference-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">2nd mega-conference of the International Orthodox Theological Association in Volos, Greece (11-15 January 2023)<\/a>. More then 400 participants joined\u00a0the largest forum of Orthodox scholars in the world.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Irina Paert<\/strong><\/span> presented a paper \u201c\u2018May All Our Enemies Be Struck with Terror\u2019: How Do Orthodox Christians Pray for Peace in the Year 2022?\u201d at the session \u201cTeaching and Praying Orthodoxy on the Basis of the Patristic Sources in Modern Slavic Theology.\u201d She also recorded a lecture in the series \u201cIOTA Talks\u201c on Orthodox conciliarity. And moderated two sessions.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Alison Kolosova<\/strong><\/span> presented a paper\u00a0\u201cLimits of Inculturation: Nikolai Ilminskii\u2019s Missionary Vision and Its Implementation in Late 19th\/Early 20th Century Russia\u201d at the session \u201cSlavic Orthodoxy and Mission, 19th-20th c.\u201d She also gave an IOTA Talk on the Orthodox mission today.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Andrey Shishkov<\/strong><\/span> presented a paper \u201cGod, Grace, and Object-Oriented Approach\u201d at the session \u201cPhilosophical Theology as a Pattern for Metaphysical Speculation.\u201d. He was one of the speakers on the panel discussion around the newly published book \u201cThe Moralist International: Russia in the Global Culture Wars.\u201d\u00a0<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Shishkov<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Paert<\/strong><\/span> also participated in panel discussion on the document \u201cFor the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo form IOTA official site\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/ffbbd486-4e92-036a-65c1-7de62415b3e1.jpeg\" style=\"margin: 3px;width: 600px;height: 400px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/paert_iota_2023.jpeg\" style=\"margin: 3px;width: 300px;height: 300px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/shishkov_iota_2023.jpeg\" style=\"margin: 3px;width: 300px;height: 300px\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2>\n\t<span style=\"color:#0000cd\"><strong>2022<\/strong><\/span><br>\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 On 7-8 December\u00a0<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Andrey Shishkov<\/strong><\/span> and <strong><span style=\"color:#b22222\">Irina Paert <\/span><\/strong>gave a two days lecture course on the contemporary Russian Orthodox Church in the Ministry of Education and Research of Estonia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/shishkov_ministry.jpeg\" style=\"margin: 3px;width: 600px;height: 800px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/paert_ministry.jpeg\" style=\"margin: 3px;width: 600px;height: 650px\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013\u00a0On 16 November Orthodoxy as Solidarity project\u00a0presented a special forum \u201cConfession, Loyalty, and National Indifference\u201d (<a data-url=\"https:\/\/www.abimperio.net\/order\/2022\/2022_2.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abimperio.net\/order\/2022\/2022_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Ab Imperio 2, 2022<\/a>). Participants:<strong>\u00a0Liliya Berezhnaya<\/strong> (University of M\u00fcnster),\u00a0<strong>Catherine Gibson<\/strong> (University of Tartu),\u00a0<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Irina Paert<\/strong><\/span> (University of Tartu),\u00a0<strong>Darius Stali\u016bnas<\/strong> (Institute for Lithuanian History),\u00a0<strong>James A. Kapal\u00f3<\/strong> (University College Cork).\u00a0<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Andrey Shishkov<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0served as a moderator.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Forum includes five articles that address the problem of emerging collective identity through the entanglement of complementing and conflicting forms of groupness: religious, political, and ethnic. The introductory essay conceptually frames these studies in terms of national indifference and confessional ambiguity, underscoring the role of religious collective identities in forging other forms of groupness\u2013ethnocultural and political.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<\/p><div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9 mb-3\"><div class=\"video-placeholder-wrapper video-placeholder-wrapper--16x9\">\n\t\t\t    <div class=\"video-placeholder d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center\">\n\t\t\t        <div class=\"overlay text-white p-2 w-100 text-center d-block justify-content-center align-items-center\">\n\t\t\t            <div>To view third-party content, please accept cookies.<\/div>\n\t\t\t            <button class=\"btn btn-secondary btn-sm mt-1 consent-change\">Change consent<\/button>\n\t\t\t        <\/div>\n\t\t\t    <\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\n\t\u2013<span style=\"color:#b22222\"> <strong>Irina Paert<\/strong><\/span> and\u00a0<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Andrey Shishkov<\/strong><\/span> held a workshop on Orthodox solidarity and sobornost\u2019 at the Pro Oriente\u00a0conference \u201cListening to the East \u2013 Synodality in the Life and Mission of the Eastern Orthodox Church\u201d (Rome, 2-5 November 2022). See program and videos of presentations <a data-url=\"https:\/\/www.pro-oriente.at\/termine\/international-conference-orthodoxy-synodality\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-oriente.at\/termine\/international-conference-orthodoxy-synodality\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/rome_2022.jpeg\" style=\"margin: 3px;width: 600px;height: 400px\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 On 31 October <span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Andrey Shishkov<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0presented a paper at the conference <a data-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.helsinki.fi\/churches-at-war\/programme\/\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.helsinki.fi\/churches-at-war\/programme\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cChurches at War: Eastern Christianity and the Invasion of Ukraine\u201d<\/a> organised by the Collegium for Advanced Studies of the University of Helsinki (31.10\u201301.11.2022). He told about the role of Patriarch Kirill in supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/shishkov_helsinki_.jpeg\" style=\"margin: 3px;width: 600px;height: 493px\">\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 On 22 October Orthodoxy as Solidarity\u00a0project organized a colloquium\u00a0\u201cSobornost, Solidarity and Humanity\u201d in the framework of the conference <a data-url=\"https:\/\/konverents.pjk.ee\/program\" href=\"https:\/\/konverents.pjk.ee\/program\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cTo Be Human: New Approach to Life and Education in Times of Crisis\u201d<\/a> (Tallinn, 20-22 October 2022). In the colloquium took part prominent Orthodox and Ecumenical\u00a0scholars \u2013 <strong>Fr. John Behr <\/strong>(University of Aberdine), <strong><span style=\"color:#b22222\">Irina Paert<\/span><\/strong> (University of Tartu),\u00a0<strong>Davor D\u017ealto<\/strong> (Stokholm University College),<strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#b22222\">Alison Kolosova<\/span> <\/strong>(University of Tartu),\u00a0<strong>Sr.\u00a0Vassa Larin<\/strong> (ROCOR), <strong>Br. Adalberto Mainardi<\/strong> (Monastic Community of Bose),\u00a0<strong>Natallia Vasilevich<\/strong> (University of Bohn), and\u00a0<strong>Ljubov Kisseljova<\/strong>\u00a0(University of Tartu). <span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Andrey Shishkov<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0served as a moderator of the\u00a0event.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/colloquium_tallinn_1.jpeg\" style=\"margin: 3px;width: 600px;height: 425px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/colloquium_tallinn_2.jpeg\" style=\"margin: 3px;width: 600px;height: 422px\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013\u00a0<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Alison Kolosova<\/strong><\/span> was a co-organiser of the conference <a data-url=\"https:\/\/mnimi-protoporia.com\/african-soundscapes-pics-and-videos\/\" href=\"https:\/\/mnimi-protoporia.com\/african-soundscapes-pics-and-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cAfrican Soundscapes: Theological, Anthropological and Legal Approaches\u201d <\/a>at the Department of Social Theology and the Study of Religion, University of Athens, 11-12 October 2022.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 <strong><span style=\"color:#b22222\">Irina Paert<\/span><\/strong> presented a paper to the conference \u201cEthnic relations in the Baltic reconsidered\u201d that took place on 16-17 September at Yale McMillan Centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/fdkfo1-waaafcwr.jpeg\" style=\"margin: 3px;width: 600px;height: 411px\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 On 13 September, two members of the project <span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Andrey Shishkov <\/strong><\/span>and<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong> Irina Paert <\/strong><\/span>participated\u00a0at\u00a0the international conference <a data-url=\"https:\/\/usuteaduskond.ut.ee\/en\/content\/international-conference-adolf-von-harnack-bridging-gaps\" href=\"https:\/\/usuteaduskond.ut.ee\/en\/content\/international-conference-adolf-von-harnack-bridging-gaps\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cAdolf von Harnack: bridging the gaps\u201d\u00a0<\/a>that took place on 12-13 September at the University of Tartu, organized by the member of the project<strong><span style=\"color:#b22222\"> Priit Rohtmets<\/span><\/strong>. They have presented a paper \u2018\u201cIt is not true that Germany is guilty\u00a0of\u00a0having caused this war\u201d: Adolf von Harnack, war and the responsibility of intellectuals. Some reflections on the past and present.\u2019 Paper analysed\u00a0<em>Manifesto 93<\/em>, a collective declaration signed by 93 German intellectuals (A. v. Harnack among them) in support of the German invasion of Belgium in 1914 and compared it with reaction of Russian scholars on the invasion in Ukraine in 2022.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/fcm-bh3wyaqshcq.jpeg\" style=\"margin: 3px;width: 600px;height: 347px\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013\u00a0On June 27\u201329, the project participants gathered in P\u00e4rdi on Saaremaa for the BootCamp to discuss our research and plan further actions. Fruitful discussions continued with a one-day tour of the Orthodox churches of Saaremaa and finished in Kuressaare.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/fwcmuvuxeauvie5.jpeg\" style=\"width: 500px;height: 247px;margin: 3px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_4266.jpg\" style=\"width: 500px;height: 391px;margin: 3px\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 On 12-14\u00a0June, two members of the project participated in the 6th Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies:\u00a0<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Catherine Gibson\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>chaired a panel on \u201cRestoration of Lithuanian Independence Revisited\u201d and\u00a0<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Andrey Shishkov<\/strong><\/span> participated as a discussant in the section \u201cReligion, Politics and Society\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 The first issue of SALT,\u00a0a new journal of Orthodox intercultural theology, dialogue and mission, has been published.\u00a0<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Alison Kolosova<\/strong> <\/span>is Assistant Editor of the journal and has published an article \u2018Christendom Cracking at the Seams: Indigeneity, Conciliarity and Catholicity at the Kazan 1910 Missionary Conference\u2019 in the first issue. She also contributed two book reviews to the journal. <a href=\"https:\/\/saltalas.com\/salt-issues-p\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Salt \u0399ssues \u2013 saltalas.com<\/a>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 On 18 May\u00a0<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Alison Kolosova, Irina Paert, and Andrey\u00a0Shishkov\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>served as discussants on the online roundtable \u201cOrthodox Christianity and War: A Deliberation\u201d, hosted by the Centre of World Christianity at\u00a0the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in\u00a0London.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<\/p><div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9 mb-3\"><div class=\"video-placeholder-wrapper video-placeholder-wrapper--16x9\">\n\t\t\t    <div class=\"video-placeholder d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center\">\n\t\t\t        <div class=\"overlay text-white p-2 w-100 text-center d-block justify-content-center align-items-center\">\n\t\t\t            <div>To view third-party content, please accept cookies.<\/div>\n\t\t\t            <button class=\"btn btn-secondary btn-sm mt-1 consent-change\">Change consent<\/button>\n\t\t\t        <\/div>\n\t\t\t    <\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 On 12 May\u00a0<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Catherine Gibson\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>was invited by Durham University to participate in a virtual roundtable\u00a0to discuss her new book,\u00a0<em>Geographies of Nationhood<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1587\" height=\"2245\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-33\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/catherine_gibson_-_book_roundtable.jpg\" title=\"catherine_gibson_-_book_roundtable.jpg\" alt=\"Book roundtable\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/catherine_gibson_-_book_roundtable.jpg 1587w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/catherine_gibson_-_book_roundtable-212x300.jpg 212w, 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sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 On 13 April\u00a0<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Irina Paert, Catherine Gibson, and Andrey Shishkov <\/strong><\/span>participated in a joint seminar with colleagues from the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences on the topic: \u201cThe Interplay of Ethnic and Religious Identities in Changing Historical and Social Contexts.\u201d Irina gave a presentation introducing our project entitled:\u00a0\u201cExploring Orthodox solidarities in Estonia: methodology and findings of one research project.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2678\" height=\"1402\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-32\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/screenshot_2022-04-13_at_15.04.23.png\" title=\"screenshot_2022-04-13_at_15.04.23.png\" alt=\"LCSS seminar\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/screenshot_2022-04-13_at_15.04.23.png 2678w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/screenshot_2022-04-13_at_15.04.23-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/screenshot_2022-04-13_at_15.04.23-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/screenshot_2022-04-13_at_15.04.23-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/screenshot_2022-04-13_at_15.04.23-1536x804.png 1536w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/screenshot_2022-04-13_at_15.04.23-2048x1072.png 2048w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/screenshot_2022-04-13_at_15.04.23-1920x1005.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2678px) 100vw, 2678px\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 On 7 April the project invited <strong>Prof Peter Gatrell<\/strong> (University of Manchester) to give a public talk on \u201c<a data-url=\"https:\/\/usuteaduskond.ut.ee\/en\/Refugee-crises-in-Europe-in-the-20th-century\" href=\"https:\/\/usuteaduskond.ut.ee\/en\/Refugee-crises-in-Europe-in-the-20th-century\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Refugee crises in Europe in the 20th century: history lessons for today\u2019s world<\/a>\u201c.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2880\" height=\"1348\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-31\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/screenshot_2022-04-07_at_14.12.14.png\" title=\"screenshot_2022-04-07_at_14.12.14.png\" alt=\"Peter Gatrell\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/screenshot_2022-04-07_at_14.12.14.png 2880w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/screenshot_2022-04-07_at_14.12.14-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/screenshot_2022-04-07_at_14.12.14-1024x479.png 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/screenshot_2022-04-07_at_14.12.14-768x359.png 768w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/screenshot_2022-04-07_at_14.12.14-1536x719.png 1536w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/screenshot_2022-04-07_at_14.12.14-2048x959.png 2048w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/screenshot_2022-04-07_at_14.12.14-1920x899.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2880px) 100vw, 2880px\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 From 31 March to 1 April,\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color:#b22222\">Andrey Shishkov<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>participated\u00a0in the conference \u201cCatholic and Orthodox Social Ethos after Laudato Si\u201d organized in Rome by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and Konrad Adenauer Foundation. His presentation was called \u201cTheologian in Dark Times.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 On 12 January 2022\u00a0<span><strong>Alison Kolosova<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0gave\u00a0a lecture\u00a0for the Centre for World Christianity at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London with the title \u201cMission, conciliarism and ecumenism in the early 20th century: the view from Russia.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<\/p><div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9 mb-3\"><div class=\"video-placeholder-wrapper video-placeholder-wrapper--16x9\">\n\t\t\t    <div class=\"video-placeholder d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center\">\n\t\t\t        <div class=\"overlay text-white p-2 w-100 text-center d-block justify-content-center align-items-center\">\n\t\t\t            <div>To view third-party content, please accept cookies.<\/div>\n\t\t\t            <button class=\"btn btn-secondary btn-sm mt-1 consent-change\">Change consent<\/button>\n\t\t\t        <\/div>\n\t\t\t    <\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<hr>\n<h2>\n\t<span style=\"color:#0000cd\"><strong>2021<\/strong><\/span><br>\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n\t<br>\u2013\u00a0<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Irina\u00a0Paert<\/strong><\/span>\u2019s article \u201cConciliarity in the Borderlands.The Riga Orthodox Council (Sobor\u2019) of 1905 and the Church Reform Movement in Imperial Russia\u201c will be published by <em>Journal of Ecclesiastical History<\/em> as Open Access, thanks to the agreement between Cambridge University Press and\u00a0ELNET Consortium, of which the\u00a0University of Tartu is a member.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013\u00a0<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Alison Kolosova<\/strong><\/span>, an associate member of the project who will join the project as a contributing member in 2023, has co-organised and successfully carried out a series of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/saltalas.com\/blog\/witnesses-of-the-resurrection-orthodox-mission-in-the-contemporary-world-online-webinars\/\" title=\"https:\/\/saltalas.com\/blog\/witnesses-of-the-resurrection-orthodox-mission-in-the-contemporary-world-online-webinars\/\">IOTA Missiology Group International Lectures<\/a>, involving\u00a015\u00a0scholars and missionaries from Africa, Asia, Europe and America. The recordings of these lectures will be soon available online. The first lecture uploaded on youtube is Dr Christian Sonea and focuses on Mission in Romanian Orthodoxy and is available <a data-url=\"\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL9cNXJIT3S2RhyneBnqb4cljnmQVSFw4Q\" href=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL9cNXJIT3S2RhyneBnqb4cljnmQVSFw4Q\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 <span><strong>Andrey Shishkov, Alison Kolosova<\/strong><\/span> and <span><strong>Irina Paert<\/strong><\/span> will participate in <b>the <a href=\"https:\/\/iota-web.org\/\">IOTA<\/a>-2023 Mega-conference<\/b>. The news has just been announced that the second four-yearly mega-conference of the International Orthodox Theological Association will take place in <b>Volos, Greece<\/b> on <b>January 10-15, 2023<\/b>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe host of the conference is Volos Academy for Theological Studies and its Director is Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis. The format of the conference will be in-person only. The Call for Papers will become available in February 2022. There are expecting 150-200 speakers. The members of the project will be presenting at the plenary sessions as well as at the panels organised by their respective IOTA groups: <span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Paert<\/strong><\/span> is a co-chair of Spirituality and Asceticism Group and <span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Kolosova<\/strong><\/span> a co-chair of Missiology group, <span style=\"color:#b22222\"><span><b>Shishkov<\/b><\/span><\/span> is a member of the steering committee of the Ecclesiology Group. The plenary sessions will dedicated to the problems of the pandemic and Orthodoxy and to the new Document by the Ecumenical Patriarchate \u201cFor the Life of the World: Towards the Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church\u201c.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1369\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-28\" style=\"width:600px;height:321px\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/picture_1-scaled.jpg\" title=\"IOTA\" alt=\"IOTA\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/picture_1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/picture_1-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/picture_1-1024x548.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/picture_1-768x411.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/picture_1-1536x821.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/picture_1-2048x1095.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/picture_1-1920x1027.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 On 13 December <span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Riho Altnurme<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0gave an online presentation\u00a0<span style=\"sans-serif\"><span><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span><span style=\"font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"letter-spacing:normal\"><span><span style=\"text-transform:none\"><span><span><span><span><span style=\"text-decoration:none\"><span style=\"!important;margin:0px!important;padding:0px!important\"><span><span style=\"position:static!important\"><span><span style=\"float:inherit!important\"><span style=\"!important\"><span style=\"font-style:inherit!important\"><span><span style=\"font-weight:inherit!important\"><span><span style=\"line-height:inherit!important\">at\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a data-url=\"https:\/\/www.wgth.de\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wgth.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Theologie<\/a><span style=\"sans-serif\"><span><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span><span style=\"font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"letter-spacing:normal\"><span><span style=\"text-transform:none\"><span><span><span><span><span style=\"text-decoration:none\">\u00a0[Scientific Society for Theology], section Kirchengeschichte [Church history], entitled\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"sans-serif\"><span><span style=\"font-style:normal\"><span><span style=\"font-weight:normal\"><span style=\"letter-spacing:normal\"><span><span style=\"text-transform:none\"><span><span><span><span><span style=\"text-decoration:none\">\u201c\u00d6kumenisches Gedenken an die M\u00e4rtyrer Estlands 1919: Nationalismus und Religion\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"445\" height=\"246\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/image003.jpg\" title=\"image003.jpg\" alt=\"Riho\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/image003.jpg 445w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/image003-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 On 8 December\u00a0<span><strong>Catherine Gibson\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>participated\u00a0in the BASEES archival workshop, giving a talk to\u00a0postgraduate students about working in archives in Estonia and Latvia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"817\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/fet0vfgwqairg3j_1.png\" title=\"fet0vfgwqairg3j_1.png\" alt=\"BASEES archives workshop\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/fet0vfgwqairg3j_1.png 576w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/fet0vfgwqairg3j_1-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 On 1\u00a0December<b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Irina Paert<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Catherine Gibson<\/strong><\/span> participated in the virtual ASEEES convention and presented papers in a double panel on\u00a0\u201cSolidarity Contested: Religious, Ethnic, and National Solidarities and Indifference in Russia\u2019s Western Borderlands, 1830s-1930s\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<table class=\"table table-hover\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1324\" height=\"740\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-30\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/ffh7c8gxoaejlwa.jpeg\" title=\"ffh7c8gxoaejlwa.jpeg\" alt=\"Irina ASEEES\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/ffh7c8gxoaejlwa.jpeg 1324w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/ffh7c8gxoaejlwa-300x168.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/ffh7c8gxoaejlwa-1024x572.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/ffh7c8gxoaejlwa-768x429.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1324px) 100vw, 1324px\">\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1972\" height=\"1112\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/fflqkh9wyaulbb9.jpeg\" title=\"fflqkh9wyaulbb9.jpeg\" alt=\"Catherine ASEEES\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/fflqkh9wyaulbb9.jpeg 1972w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/fflqkh9wyaulbb9-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/fflqkh9wyaulbb9-1024x577.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/fflqkh9wyaulbb9-768x433.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/fflqkh9wyaulbb9-1536x866.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/fflqkh9wyaulbb9-1920x1083.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1972px) 100vw, 1972px\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 On 23 November\u00a0<span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Irina Paert<\/strong><\/span> visited the <a data-url=\"https:\/\/www.narvamuuseum.ee\/eng\/esileht\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.narvamuuseum.ee\/eng\/esileht\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Narva Museum<\/a> to\u00a0to discuss ideas for cooperation and future partnerships. Many thanks to the director, Maria Smor\u017eevskihh-Smirnova, and all the\u00a0museum staff for their warm hospitality. We look forward to future collaborations!\n<\/p>\n<table class=\"table table-hover\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25\" style=\"width: 500px;height: 375px\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/dd7369d4-17af-4574-9318-8f154fa41e4e_1_105_c.jpeg\" title=\"dd7369d4-17af-4574-9318-8f154fa41e4e_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"Narva museum\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/dd7369d4-17af-4574-9318-8f154fa41e4e_1_105_c.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/dd7369d4-17af-4574-9318-8f154fa41e4e_1_105_c-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/dd7369d4-17af-4574-9318-8f154fa41e4e_1_105_c-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24\" style=\"width: 500px;height: 375px\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/f94baca1-d8ee-42f8-933d-5f6564d39d87_1_105_c.jpeg\" title=\"f94baca1-d8ee-42f8-933d-5f6564d39d87_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"Narva\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/f94baca1-d8ee-42f8-933d-5f6564d39d87_1_105_c.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/f94baca1-d8ee-42f8-933d-5f6564d39d87_1_105_c-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/f94baca1-d8ee-42f8-933d-5f6564d39d87_1_105_c-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 On 1-4 September\u00a0<span><strong>Catherine Gibson<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0participated in the 14th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe, at Uppsala University, Sweden. She presented a paper entitled: \u201cZooming in and out on religion, language, and nationality: Census-taking and questions of scale in the Baltic provinces\u201d. Her participation in the event was supported by a travel grant from the <a data-url=\"https:\/\/aabs-balticstudies.org\/\" href=\"https:\/\/aabs-balticstudies.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies<\/a>\u00a0(AABS). Full programme <a data-url=\"https:\/\/aabs-balticstudies.org\/cbse-2021-in-uppsala\/programme\/\" href=\"https:\/\/aabs-balticstudies.org\/cbse-2021-in-uppsala\/programme\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. After the conference, Catherine also wrote a short reflection about the event which was published on the AABS website\u00a0<a data-url=\"https:\/\/aabs-balticstudies.org\/2021\/09\/21\/aabs-travel-grant-recipients-share-their-experiences-of-cbse-2021-part-1\/\u00a0\" href=\"https:\/\/aabs-balticstudies.org\/2021\/09\/21\/aabs-travel-grant-recipients-share-their-experiences-of-cbse-2021-part-1\/%C2%A0\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 On 18-20 July<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>project members based in Estonia gathered for three days in the village of Nina on the shore of lake Peipsi for a \u201cBootcamp\u201d. After months of Zoom meetings, we enjoyed being able to meet in person to discuss our research and\u00a0future plans for the project, as well as to tour local Orthodox churches in Nina and Varnja and the Old Believer prayer house in Varnja. We\u00a0sampled the local cuisine at the Old Believer Onion and Fish Restaurant in Kolkja and grilled in the evening at the Nina Kordon Guesthouse. Many thanks to\u00a0Irina\u00a0for organising the event!\n<\/p>\n<table class=\"table table-hover\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_620213.jpg\" title=\"img_620213_3.jpg\" alt=\"Bootcamp2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_620213.jpg 980w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_620213-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_620213-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_556680-scaled.jpg\" title=\"img_556680_0.jpg\" alt=\"Bootcamp3\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_556680-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_556680-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_556680-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_556680-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_556680-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_556680-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_556680-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_263789.png\" title=\"img_263789_0.png\" alt=\"Bootcamp4\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_263789.png 1280w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_263789-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_263789-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_263789-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_558888.jpg\" title=\"img_558888.jpg\" alt=\"Bootcamp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_558888.jpg 980w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_558888-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/img_558888-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"margin-left:40px\">\n\t\u2013 <span><strong>James White\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>won the 2020\u00a0Canadian Association of Slavists\/Revue Canadienne des Slavistes Article of the Year Award\u00a0for his article \u2018<a data-url=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00085006.2020.1786619\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00085006.2020.1786619\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Russian Orthodox monasticism in Riga diocese, 1881-1917<\/a>\u2018.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:40px\">\n\tHere are the jury\u2019s comments:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\t\t<em>In this erudite and highly engaging essay James White reconstructs the social and religious histories of three Russian Orthodox convents and one Russian Orthodox monastery, all of which were established in Riga diocese in the late imperial period. He masterfully charts the ways in which non-local and local religious, civic, and government leaders combined resources and created Orthodox religious networks throughout the empire and abroad to transform a backwater diocese into a prominent Russian Orthodox site that began to compete successfully with institutions of Lithuanian German Lutheranism and German civilization prior to the onset of World War I. The article constitutes a major contribution to the histories of religion, regional developments, and empire-building and russification within the imperial realm as well as global Orthodoxy.<\/em>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 On 7 June<b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Irina Paert<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color:#b22222\"><strong>Catherine Gibson<\/strong><\/span> organised a panel at the Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies at the University of Tartu\u00a0on the topic of \u2018Religion and National Indifference: Historical Perspectives from Imperial Borderlands.\u2019 They also co-presented a paper on \u2018Religion, National Indifference, and Forms of Solidarity.\u2019 Full programme <a data-url=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/tartuconference\/programme\" href=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/tartuconference\/programme\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tartu conference\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%2264079%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/e3c0potwyaeogzb.png\" title=\"\" width=\"523\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 On 28 May<b>\u00a0<\/b><strong><span style=\"color:#b22222\">Irina Paert, Catherine Gibson, and Andrey Shishkov<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>presented papers\u00a0at the \u2018Representing Multiculturalism: An Interdisciplinary Conference\u2019 held at the University of Tartu.\u00a0Full programme is\u00a0<a data-url=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/representing-multiculturalism\/programme-abstracts\" href=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/representing-multiculturalism\/programme-abstracts\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u2013 \u00a0<span><strong>Irina Paert<\/strong><\/span> was nominated\u00a0by the Estonian Research Council to join the AcademiaNet portal as\u00a0an excellent female researcher and research team leader.\u00a0\u2018<a data-url=\"https:\/\/teadus.postimees.ee\/7210749\/naisteadlaste-portaali-academianet-lisandub-48-eesti-teadlast\" href=\"https:\/\/teadus.postimees.ee\/7210749\/naisteadlaste-portaali-academianet-lisandub-48-eesti-teadlast\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Naisteadlaste portaali AcademiaNet lisandub 48 Eesti teadlast<\/a>.\u2019\u00a0<em>Postimees,\u00a0<\/em>26 March 2021.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5\" style=\"align-items: stretch;border: 0px solid black;flex-basis: auto;flex-direction: column;flex-shrink: 0;margin: 0px;min-height: 0px;min-width: 0px;padding: 0px;position: relative;z-index: 0;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px\">\n\t<span class=\"r-18u37iz\" style=\"flex-direction: row\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IrinaPaert\" role=\"link\" style=\"cursor: 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inherit;text-decoration: none;border: 0px solid black;padding: 0px;min-width: 0px\">#ProOriente<\/a><\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" style=\"border: 0px solid black;font-size: 15px;line-height: inherit;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;min-width: 0px\"> conference \u201cListening to the East \u2013 Synodality in the Life and Mission of the Eastern Orthodox Church.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 \u2013 On 1 April Irina Paert gave a presentation \u201cA Clergyman\u2019s Daughter at the Age of Equality\u201d at the BASEES Annual conference 2023 (Glasgow, 31 March-2 April 2023). \u2013 Irina Paert, Andrey Shishkov and Alison Kolosova\u00a0participated in the 2nd 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