CivilnetDr. Valentina Izmirlieva delivers a lecture on 'Eastern Christianity and the Cult of War in Russia' at the 2025 Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. The presentation was given on June 26 in Batumi as part of the symposium organized by the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
Dr. Izmirlieva is a historian and professor at Columbia University specializing in religious and cultural histories of the Balkans, the Black Sea, and Eastern Europe, and currently serves as Director of the Harriman Institute.
The 2025 Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia took place in Batumi, Yerevan, and Tbilisi from June 25 to July 13.
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