CANCELLED | Putin’s Holy War: Sacred Memory and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

This event, featuring speaker Sean Griffin, scheduled for Monday, March 31st, has been cancelled.

Sean Griffin, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

His research focuses on the history of the Orthodox Church and its role in the sacralization of political power—from the liturgy and chronicles of medieval Kyiv to the arthouse cinema and wartime propaganda of Putin’s Russia. Griffin’s first book, “The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus,” was published by Cambridge University Press and won two international book awards: the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize and the Ecclesiastical History Society Book Prize.