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The UCLA Dept. of Slavic languages & Literatures is pleased to announce the program of its Ninth Annual Winter Workshop in Byzantine, Medieval and Early Modern Slavic Studies, to be held on Friday, February 25, in 1648 Hershey Hall on the UCLA Campus. Herewith the program.


Byzantine, Kievan, Regional and Comparative Session 1: 9:30-10:45
Gail Lenhoff (Workshop organizer), UCLA, Welcoming remarks

Norman W. Ingham, U. Chicago "Riurik: History or Legend?"

Christian Raffensperger, U. Chicago "What was a kniaz'?"

Donald Ostrowski, Harvard, "The Account of Volodimir's Conversion in the Povest' vremennykh let: A Chiasmus of Stories."

Session 2: 11:00-12:15

David Prestel, Michigan State, "How should we read the Slovo o knjazjax?" (12th c.)

Julia Verkholantsev, U. Penn. The Protestant Source of the Ruthenian Sibylline Prophecy"

Robert Romanchuk, Florida State U. "Empiricism or natural contemplation? Serbian medical treatises in the books of Kirillov Monastery."

II. Muscovite and Early Modern
Session 1: 2:00-3:45

Michael Paul, U. Miami "Changes and Continuity in the Office of Novgorodian Archbishop After 1478"

Janet Martin, U. Miami, "The Pomest'e System Revisited"

Ann M. Kleimola, U. Nebraska "Emergence of an Icon Cult: Postanovka Voprosa"

Session 2: 4:00-5:00

Daniel Kaiser, Grinnell, "Domestic Icons in Eighteenth-Century Moscow Testaments"

Elise Kimmerling Wirtschafter, Cal-Poly Pomona, "Religious Instruction in Eighteenth-Century Russia: Platon Levshin's `Discourse on Melchizedek' and
Tsarevich Paul's Response (1764)"

May 2025

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