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An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Faith, Politics and the University in post-Communist Russia with Special Guests Global Scholar, Dr. David Koyzis, Dr. Jim Payton and the Reverend Dr. Andrey Kordochkin (via Zoom from Spain).

Global Scholars Canada’s original scholars, Drs. Wendy and Adrian Helleman lead the Symposium with their now available ‘Letters from Moscow’ (Moscow Messages); an account of their time teaching at Moscow State University (pictured) in the mid-1990s. The letters are rich and inquisitive, poignant in their capture of a brief period where new freedoms and openness post-perestroika, seemed possible.

The interdisciplinary symposium, which promises to be a rigorous and faith-filled discussion on the opening and closing of Russian society since the 1990s, will begin with this context but will then move to wider and more recent political, ideological, and religious cultural shifts that have brought the country to its more isolated situation today.