St. Basil's Cathedral colorful domes in Red Square of Moscow, Russia

The Roerich Family as a Phenomenon in World Culture

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Students, faculty, staff

Date:

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Location:

BUR 224

Roerichism is a spiritual and cultural movement centered on the teachings transmitted by Helena and Nicholas Roerich. It draws ideas from theosophy, eastern and western religions, and Vedic and Buddhist traditions, molding them into Russian culture and Russian cosmism.

Join Olga Lavrenova, Ph.D., a Fulbright visiting scholar at UT Austin, as she discusses the Roerich family's views and their effect on global culture and philosophy.

Dr. Lavrenova is a faculty member in geography at Moscow State University, lead researcher at the Institute of Scientific Information on Human Science, an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts, and president of the International Association for the Semiotics of Space and Time. She is the author of Spaces and Meanings: Semantics of the Cultural Landscape (2019) and the long-term interdisciplinary project, “The Geography of Art.”

Sponsored by CREEES, this talk is presented in collaboration with Dr. Marina Alexandrova's Tsars and Mystics course.