Monday, 31 March 2014

A Visit to St. Petersburg

Representing the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, the University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Theology, and the Centre of Excellence Reason and Religious Recognition, a three-person team consisting of Sami Pihlström, Anne Birgitta Pessi, and myself visited the Smolny College of the St. Petersburg State University during 13-14 March. Our inviting hosts were Marianna Sakhnovich and Danila Raskov.

All three of us gave presentations related with our own units and research themes at the Joint Theoretical Seminar on Religion and Society. We then heard a talk by Dmitry Panchenko on “Warfare and Burial: A Suggestion Concerning the Spread of Cremation in the Late Bronze Age Europe”. The overall purpose of the discussions was to continue and to further develop forms of cooperation between Smolny College and the institutions represented by the three of us. In connection with the visit, we also had a chance to meet Tatiana Artemyeva and Lyubov Bugaeva.

My traveling companions Anne Birgitta Pessi and Sami Pihlström


Our hosts Danila Raskov and Marianna Sakhnovich


Dmitry Panchenko 


Tatiana Artemyeva and Lyubov Bugaeva


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