Katharina Kunter, Professor Contemporary Church History University of Helsinki
Program:
Thursday, 7th October 2021 (Helsinki Time, OESZ, UTC+3)
15.00-15.30: Katharina Kunter, Helsinki: Welcome and Introduction: 30 Years after: 1991, the New International Order and Religion
15.30–17.00: Panel 1: The Dissolution of the Soviet Union and its Impact on Religion:
Nadezeda Beliakova, Moscow: Transformation of the religious landscape in the republics of the USSR during the Perestrojka and breakdown in August 1991
Priit Rohtmets, Tallinn: The Year 1991 and its impact on religion in Estonia (or more broadly in the Baltic States)
Tamar Khutsishvili, Jena: Yezidi-Kurds in post-Soviet Armenia
Sopiko Zviadazde, Tbilisi: “Rediscovering” Islam in post-Soviet Georgia – Muslim communities between Tradition and Transformation
Discussion
17.00-17.30 Break
17.30-18.00: Petra Kuivala, Helsinki / Harvard: A global, transnational perspective on Religion and 1991 / Transnational ripple effects as seen from outside Europe
Discussion
18.00–19.00: Panel 2: War and Peace - and Religion?
Stefan Kube, Zürich: 1991, Religion and the Dissolution of Yugoslavia
Samuel Helfont, Monterey: The Year 1991, the Gulf War, and its Impact for Religion
Discussion
19.00-19.15: Break
19:15–19:45 Summing up, publication, further activities
afterwards: Digital drinks and relaxed get-together