8:00am Opening remarks by Marlene Laruelle, IERES Director
8:00am–9:00am PANEL 1: The Moralist International
- Kristina Stoeckl, University of Innsbruck, Austria, and Dmitry Uzlaner, University of Innsbruck, Austria
9:00am–10:30am PANEL 2: The Russian Orthodox Church and the War
- Dima Adamsky, Reichman University, Israel
Church in War: Ecclesiastical Contributions Towards and On the Battlefield
- Sergei Chapnin, Fordham University, US
“Theology of War” in Sermons and Public Speeches of the ROC Bishops and Clergy: A New Framework for the Post-Soviet Civil Religion
- Jason Roberts, The University of Texas at Austin, US
Power and Authority in Russia's Anti-Modern Orthodox Imaginary
- Pål Kolstø, University of Oslo, Norway
Opposition to the War in Ukraine among the Russian Orthodox
10:30am–12:00pm PANEL 3: The Russian Orthodox Church and the State
- Mikhail Suslov, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
The Russian Orthodox Church and the Regime Ideology of Putinism
- Bojidar Kolov, University of Oslo, Norway
The Russian Orthodox Church’s Political Agency and Identity. Looking into the Power Relations between Church and State from a Historical Perspective
- Ivan Grek, The George Washington University, US
Orthodox Civil Society in Case Studies
- Boris Knorre, Higher School of Economics, Russia
Soviet Heroic Narratives in Post-Soviet Church Orthodox Milieu
12:00pm–13:00pm PANEL 4: Orthodox Geopolitics
- Ivan Petrov, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Russian Orthodoxy in the Baltic States
- Nikolay Mitrokhin, University of Bremen, Germany
Ukrainian Orthodoxy and the 2022 War: between Two States
