September 10 — Nadieszda Kizenko
The first meeting of the Georgetown Institute for Global History (GIGH) Russian History Seminar series will be on September 10 to discuss with Nadieszda Kizenko her paper, “True Confessions: Public and Private Penance in Twentieth-century Russia.” Her paper is part of the epilogue to a book she is writing on the history of confession in the Russian empire from the end of the seventeenth century to 1917.
Professor Kizenko is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the State University of New York at Albany. Her publications include: A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People (Pennsylvania State University Press/ Studies of the Harriman Institute, 2000), which won the Heldt Prize, Association of Women in Slavic Studies, 2000. It has been translated into Russian and published by Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie. She has published many articles, including the recent essay: ‘”Popular” Religion in Russia and Ukraine (review essay),’ Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 9, 3 (Summer 2008), 1-14. She also translated and edited: Ten Homilies on the Beatitudes by St. John of Kronstadt (Paris: Cornerstone Editions, 2003).
When: Sept. 10, 5:00-6:30 with light reception to follow.
Where: Georgetown University Intercultural Center (ICC) 462.