20/05/2024 08:30 - 10:45

HALL: LA PIRA - ROOM 2

Proponent: Filipova H.

Chair: Filipova H.

Speaker: Bovgyria A., Filipova H., Los V., Potapenko S., Prokopyuk O., Sinkevych N.

The panel examines religious othering in early modern Eastern Europe, especially Ukraine. The 1st paper (Catholics, Uniates, Muslims, Jews. Religious Othering in 17-18th century Ukraine) examines the perspective of constructing the "others'" images in early modern Ukraine, which allows to place Ukrainian concepts of othering in an interconnected, comparative context. The 2nd paper (Deviant Russian sex: Tsars, Villains, Sodomites and European othering of Muscovites in early modernity) examines the phenomenon of "unnaturalness" in the European tradition of othering of Muscovites, focusing on the (homo)sexuality as an integral part of the designation of "other";. The 3rd paper (Othering of Moscow Orthodox in the Kyiv church metropolia of the 17th-early 18th century) deepens the understanding of othering of Muscovites, showing how different the identities of Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox were in early modernity. 4th (Others and strangers in the private correspondence of Union Church's Metropolitan Yason Smogorzhevsky (1715-1788) and 5th ("Loyalty, othering and "German dress": ethnic and religious markers in the chronicle of Ivan Ostrozky, 1777-1825) papers analyze the othering using the individual personalized sources, which allows to trace this phenomenon at various levels. The 6th paper (Gift giving to own/other shrines and construction of Kyivan Christianity identity in the early modern period) reveals the issue of othering and religious identity through the gift giving.