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A round table of experts will discuss the performance group Pussy Riot and their conflict with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the combined power of church and state in post-Soviet Russia. The discussion will touch on religion, performance art, music and politics.

The round table will feature: 

Timothy Beal , Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, Case Western Reserve University;

Barbara Browning , associate professor of performance studies, Tisch School of the Arts at NYU;

Jen Gunderman , senior lecturer in music history, Blair School of Music; and

Alex Spektor , Mellon Assistant Professor of Russian, Department of German and Slavic Languages.

The discussion will be moderated by Joy H. Calico , associate professor of musicology and director of The Max Kade Center for European and German Studies at Vanderbilt.

The event is sponsored by The Max Kade Center for European and German Studies, the Department of French and Italian, the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, the Blair School of Music, the Martha Rivers Ingram Commons, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and the Center for Second Language Studies.