A Witness of Faith

Conference in Memory of Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann

13.12 — 14.12

Moscow, St Philaret’s Institute (Online)

Monday, 13 December

Priest Georgy Kochetkov, PhD in Theology, founder of St Philaret’s Institute (Moscow)
Welcome Address
Serge Schmemann,writer, journalist, editor, International Herald Tribune (USA, Washington)
Memories about the Father
David Gzgzyan, PhD in Philology, Dean of Theology Faculty, St. Philaret’s Institute (Moscow)
Theology, Culture and Life in the Journals of Fr Alexander Schmemann
Petros Vassiliadis, Professor Emeritus, Aristotle University (Greece, Thessaloniki)
Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann and Liturgical Renewal
Deacon Igor Beskorovayny, St. Nicholas church, Orthodox Church in America (USA, Portland)
The Legacy of Fr Alexander Schmemann in Today’s Liturgical Practice in the Orthodox Church in America

Moderator: David Gzgzyan

Victoria de Haan, PhD in Theology, lector in Catholic Theology, Blackfriars Studium (United Kingdom, Oxford)
The World, the Church, the Kingdom: the Tripartite Nature of the Liturgy in the Thought of Fr. Alexander Schmemann
Natalia Likvintseva, PhD in Philosophy, Leading Research Associate, Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad (Moscow)
Fr Alexander Schmemann as a Disciple and a Teacher: from Being a Student of St Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris to Being a Dean at St Vladimir Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York
Yulia Balakshina, Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor of Theology, Academic Secretary, St Philaret’s Institute; Assistant Professor, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg)
“Questions That Make Things More Transparent”: Russian Literature Reflected by Fr Alexander Schmemann

Moderator: Zoya Dashevskaya

Archpriest Georgios Basioudis, Exaltation of the Holy Cross church, Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Germany / Exarchate of Central Europe (Germany, Mannheim)
“The Great Joy and the Renewal of the Church”: The Contribution of Fr Alexander Schmemann to Ecumenical Theology
Zoya Dashevskaya, Senior Lecturer, St. Philaret’s Institute, member of the Society of Oriental Liturgy (Moscow)
Fr Alexander Schmemann’s Liturgical Theology and Its Fruit in the Worship Practice of 1990s–2000s in the Russian Orthodox Church
Lidia Kroshkina, PhD in Cultural Studies, Senior Lecturer, St Philaret’s Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities (Tver)
Church Preaching, Its Decline and Revival in Liturgical Theology of Fr Alexander Schmemann
Maria Dikaryova, Senior Lecturer, St Philaret’s Institute (Moscow)
The Mission of the Church in the Thought of Fr Alexander Schmemann