An international panel

Putin, Religion, and Ukraine Tuesday, November 4  |  6:30 – 8 p.m. 12th-floor Lounge  |  E. Gerald Corrigan Conference Center Lowenstein Center   |  113 W. 60th St.  |  Lincoln Center Campus  |  NYC The ongoing crisis in Ukraine reveals the importance of religion in the post-communist situation both within Ukraine and in Vladimir Putin's geopolitical positioning of Russia against the West, recently dubbed "Putinism." An international panel of experts will speak to the complicated role that religion is playing in the tension between Ukraine and Russia, and the way in which religion is being used both to construct and resist a new East-West divide. Register Online Panel Discussion Moderated by Aristotle Papanikolaou Archbishop Demetrios Chair in Orthodox Theology and Culture Senior Fellow and Co-founder, Orthodox Christian Studies Center Fordham University Panelists Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich Chief Rabbi of Kiev and all of Ukraine Vice-President (Ukraine), World Jewish Congress The Rev. Peter Galadza Kule Family Professor of Liturgy Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies Saint Paul University The Rev. Cyril Hovorun Research Fellow Yale Divinity School Adrian Karatnycky Nonresident Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Relations Program Atlantic Council Olena Nikolayenko Assistant Professor of Political Science Fordham University Please also see: Putin's Unorthodox Orthodoxy fordham.edu/orthodoxy This panel discussion was made possible through gifts received from the Jaharis Family Foundation, Inc.; the Nicholas J. and Anna K. Bouras Foundation, Inc.; and members of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center.