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Conference: Tolstoy and Spirituality - This conference explores Leo Tolstoy's controversial quest to re-examine and revitalize Christianity. His highly original, almost paradoxical view defended the moralizing mission of Christianity, maintained the innocence of nature, and blamed social institutions such as the State and Church for the "fallen" nature of our sins. Speakers over the two-day conference will include a keynote by acclaimed Russian writer Mikhail Shishkin, author of "Montreux-Missolunghi-Astapovo, in the Steps of Byron and Tolstoy" (2002), "Maidenhair" (2005), and "The Light and the Dark" (2013); cultural historian Rosamund Bartlett, author of the biography "Tolstoy: A Russian Life" (2011), on "Tolstoy’s Fiction: Its spiritual legacy"; and Liza Knapp, professor of Slavic languages at Columbia University and author of “Anna Karenina and Others: Tolstoy’s Labyrinth of Plots” (2016), on "Loving Your Neighbor and Saving Your Soul: The agony of Tolstoy, the man and artist." Supported by the Rehm Family Fund.

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