Article by Dmitry Biriukov was published in "Scrinium"
Article by Dmitry Biriukov titled "Penetration of Fire into Iron: The Sense and the Usage Mode of This Metaphor for Description of Theosis in the Byzantine Theological Literature" was published in "Scrinium. Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography" (Vol. 15, 2019). The text is accessible online.
Aleksei Pleshkov participated in a conference on Plato in Paris
Director of IGITI Aleksei Pleshkov took part in Symposium Platonicum XII: Plato’s Parmenides, which was held on July 14–19, 2019 in Paris (France). His talk was devoted to Plato’s concept of eternity in dialogues the Parmenides and the Timaeus. The conference was organised by the International Plato Society, with the support of INHA: Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Ambassade de Grèce à Paris and 10 more educational and research institutions of France.
Olga Vinogradova participated in the 11th Beyond Humanism Conference in Lille
IGITI Research Assistant Olga Vinogradova has participated in the 11th Beyond Humanism Conference, held on July 9–12 in Lille, France. Speaker's paper was devoted to ethical discourses engendered by the counter-arguments and risks of progress, human enchancement and the society of transhumanism.
Elena Vishlenkova and Vadim Parsamov took part in a collective monograph on the reign of Alexander I
Articles by IGITI Chief Research Fellow Elena Vishlenkova and Vadim Parsamov were published as a part of collective volume "The Enigmatic Tsar and his Empire: Russia under Alexander I, 1801–1825" (Peter Lang, 2019). The monograph was edited by Alexander Kaplunovsky, Jan Kusber, and Benjamin Conrad and was a result of international collaboration on studying the most mysterious reign in the history of the Russian Empire.
Alexandra Kolesnik participated in a conference on heavy metal studies in Nantes
Senior research fellow Alexandra Kolesnik took part in a conference ‘Locating Heavy Metal Music and Culture’, which was held on June 17–20, 2019 in Nantes (France). The conference was organised by the International Society for Metal Music Studies and University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. Alexandra presented a paper ‘‘Cityness’ of Heavy Metal in Russia: ‘Moscow Metal Club’’. See the conference programme.
