The Jordan Center's Colloquium Series serves to introduce the most recent work of scholars within the Slavic field. Participants come from universities across the country and abroad and work in disciplines ranging from history, political science and anthropology to literature and film. In the third session of the Spring 2014 Colloquium Series, Valentina Izmirlieva will join us from Columbia University.
Valentina Izmirlieva is a historian of Balkan and Russian religious cultures and holds an appointment as Associate Professor in the Slavic Department of Columbia University, where she has taught since 1999. She is the author of All the Names of The Lord: Lists, Mysticism, and Magic (University of Chicago Press, 2008) and recently co-edited, with Boris Gasparov, the volume Translation and Tradition in Slavia Orthodoxa (Lit Verlag, 2012). A recipient of major academic distinctions, she was the 2012-2013 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library. Izmirlieva is currently working on a book about Ottoman Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem who take as their model the Muslim Hajj to Mecca.
