Center Activities and Output

October 2026

On October 16, Co-Director Aristotle Papanikolaou presented "Human Rights and the Theology of the Metropolitan of Pergamon: Continuity and Discontinuity" at "Broadening the Horizons of Metropolitan John Zizioulas's Theology," an international conference in Hildesheim, Germany.

September 2026

On September 4, Associate Director Nathaniel Wood delivered the paper "Conscience, Community, and Individuality: A Theological Defense of Democratic Moral Diversity," at the conference "Religion, Freedom of Conscience, and Human Rights in Russia and the West," held at Cambridge University and sponsored by the Northwestern University Research Initiative in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought.

On September 15, Director of Communications Sergei Chapnin presented his book Religious Communities Under Pressure at George Washington University's Russia Program in Washington, D.C., in a talk titled "The Russian Orthodox Church and the War in Ukraine."

On September 17, Director of Communications Sergei Chapnin spoke on the panel "God, Nation, Empire: How the Kremlin Weaponizes 'Traditional Values'" at the Washington Dialogue of the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C.

On September 18, Director of Communications Sergei Chapnin spoke on religious persecution in Russia at "Breaking the Chains: Responding to Christian Persecution & Human Trafficking," a conference of the Anglican Persecuted Church Network and the Anglican Freedom Network in Woodbridge, Virginia.

August 2026

On August 29, Co-Director Aristotle Papanikolaou delivered the lecture "Is the Ecumenical Patriarch the Pope of Orthodoxy?" for the Hellenic Cultural Society of South Florida at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Fort Lauderdale.