BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Slavic Colloquium: Maria Grazia Bartolini - The Politics and E pistemology of Demonic Apparitions in Early Modern Ukraine (1620–1688) X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T123826Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51773514711794 DTSTART:20260122T003000Z DTEND:20260122T020000Z DESCRIPTION:In an event co-sponsored with Early Modernity Beyond the West\, CMEMS and CREEES\, Professor Maria Grazia Bartolini will talk to us about The Politics and Epistemology of Demonic Apparitions in Early Modern Ukra ine (1620-1688). \n\nRSVP for the Maria Grazia Bartolini talk\n\nIn this l ecture\, Maria Grazia Bartolini analyzes the phenomenon of demonic apparit ions in early modern Ukraine\, showing how it intersected with more genera l intellectual concerns with epistemology\, religious difference\, and Chu rch authority. Bartolini situates early modern Ukrainian demonological dis course within the framework of the major religious\, cultural\, and politi cal disruption that affected Ukraine between 1596 and 1686. She argues tha t the confessional struggles that followed the Union of Brest\, the period of civil war known as “The Ruin\,” and the eschatological expectation s of the year 1666 contributed to a perception of increased diabolic activ ity but also to the problem of recognizing the possible discrepancies betw een reality and non-reality. If "Satan himself is transformed into an ange l of light"(2 Corinthians 11:14)\, how could one distinguish true visions from illusory phenomena? Furthermore\, if there were more than one Church\ , how could one distinguish between true and false doctrine? Faced with wh at Stuart Clark calls the “cognitive chaos” of demonism\, Ukrainian Or thodox literati tried to come to terms with a world that had become deeply problematic\, one in which competing theological discourses and widesprea d political conflict brought about unprecedented instability. \n\n \n\n Dr . Maria Grazia Bartolini is Associate Professor of Medieval Slavic Culture and Slavic Linguistics at the University of Milan. Her research focuses o n the religious culture of early modern Ukraine\, with special attention t o the intersection of preaching\, memory\, and visual arts in seventeenth- century Ukraine\, the political and social aspects of homiletic and hagiog raphical texts\, and the reception of Christian Neoplatonism in the East S lavic region. Her monographs include Piznai samoho sebe (2017)\, a study o n Hryhorii Skovoroda and Christian Neoplatonism\, which was awarded the 20 19 Ivan Franko International Prize\; and The Eye of the Mind: Vision\, Mem ory\, and Meditation in Seventeenth-Century Ukrainian Preaching (forthcomi ng in 2026). Her articles on memory\, meditation\, and visual imagery in e arly modern Ukraine were awarded the Early Slavic Studies Association (ESS A) Best Article Prize in 2017 and 2020 and an Honorable Mention from the A merican Association for Ukrainian Studies in 2021. \n\nWe look forward to meeting you and to discussing early modernity in Ukraine together! GEO:37.427405;-122.1697 LOCATION:Building 260\, Pigott Hall\, 216 SUMMARY:Slavic Colloquium: Maria Grazia Bartolini - The Politics and Episte mology of Demonic Apparitions in Early Modern Ukraine (1620–1688) URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/slavic-colloquium-maria-gra zia-bartolini-the-politics-and-epistemology-of-demonic-apparitions-in-earl y-modern-ukraine-16201688 CATEGORIES:Lecture/Presentation/Talk END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR