On October 13, Prof. Patrick Michelson delivered a paper at the University of Leeds’s School of History. The talk, titled “God Is with Us: Russian Orthodox Discourses about War and the West” offered an intellectual history of various Christian symbols, concepts, and narratives commonly used by today’s Russian Church to frame the war in Ukraine as a struggle between Holy Russia and the Satanic West. Following the talk and Q&A, several faculty members and graduate students from Leeds hosted Patrick and Martha Michelson for pints at The Fenton pub.
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