Legacies of Dehumanisation Colloquium
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“Legacies
of Dehumanisation" is a collaboration between Studies in Historical
Trauma and Transformation, the Chair of Political Science, Church-State
Relations and the Sociology of Religion at the Russian Orthodox
University of St John the Divine, Professor Anastasia Mitrofanova, and
the Director of the Institute for the Academic Study of Eastern
Christianity (INaSEC) at Vrije University, Amsterdam, Professor Katya
Tolstaya. The project is part of the South Africa/Russia Bilateral
initiative funded by the National Research Foundation in South Africa,
and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research in Russia.
On July 13-14, 2020, the First International Roundtable Exploring Legacies of Dehumanisation
in the two countries was organised by Professor Anastasia Mitrofanova
and Professor Katya Tolstaya.
The link to the virtual roundtable event
appears below:
https://frt.vu.nl/en/research/institutes-and-centres/Institute-Academic-Study-Eastern-Christianity/projects/international-roundtable-legacies-of-dehumanization.aspx
The Second International Roundtable titled “The
Aesthetics of Cruelty: Aesthetics of Cruelty: Perspectives and Critical
Reflections on Representations of Dehumanisation in Russia and South
Africa" will be organised by Historical Trauma and Transformation and held on 9 and 10th December 2020.
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