{"id":6769,"date":"2014-10-10T21:06:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T03:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6769"},"modified":"2014-10-10T21:34:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T03:34:06","slug":"help-a-russian-scholar-of-paganism-attend-the-aar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6769","title":{"rendered":"Help a Russian Scholar of Paganism Attend the AAR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dmitry Galtsin<\/p><\/div>\n

Most scholars who attend the American Academy of Religion annual meeting have their travel and hotel rooms paid for, at least partly, by their institutions.<\/p>\n

Some, however, don’t receive such support.<\/p>\n

Dmitry Galtsin, a researcher in the Rare Books Department of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences<\/a>. Galtsin has had a paper on \u201cThe Divine Feminine in the Silver Age of Russian Culture and Beyond\u201d accepted by the the AAR’s Contemporary Pagan Studies Group, of which I have the honor to be co-chair, with Jone Salomonsen of the University of Oslo.<\/p>\n

But he needs help with the travel expense of flying all the way from St. Petersburg to San Diego. To quote my blogging colleague Ethan Doyle White<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Although scholars of Pagan studies on the whole don’t seem to be a particularly wealthy bunch, they should nevertheless recognise the importance of building a dialogue between scholars operating in the Western world and their counterparts in Eastern Europe and the Russian Federation, in order to better understand and appreciate the growing multiplicity that exists within the phenomenon of contemporary Paganism. Arguably this is even more important in the current climate of growing political tensions between NATO and Russia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He has an IndieGoGo campaign going. Please toss a few dollars in the can, and you can receive a copy of his presentation.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most scholars who attend the American Academy of Religion annual meeting have their travel and hotel rooms paid for, at least partly, by their institutions. Some, however, don’t receive such support. Dmitry Galtsin, a researcher in the Rare Books Department of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 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