Book Launch: In Search of Centres. Early Modern Kyivan Christianities

Ivan Almes, Svitlana Potapenko, Oksana Prokopyuk, Vitalii Tkachuk, and Valerii Zema (eds.), In Search of Centres. Early Modern Kyivan Christianities (Cultures of Christianity –New Approaches to Early Modern History, vol. 8) Cologne: Böhlau, 2026.

This new edited volume explores the rich religious history of Eastern-Central Europe through the lens of polycentricity and plurality. It traces the development of multiple centres of Christianity in the region, from the baptism of Rus’ in the late tenth century to the Enlightenment, highlighting their interactions and connections with the wider Christian world.

The volume is available as an open-access publication on the publisher’s website.

To celebrate the publication of the volume, we invite you to join us for a panel discussion exploring the book's central themes and its relevance to contemporary Ukrainian and East-Central European studies in a broader European and global context. There will also be an opportunity for questions and comments from the audience.

The event will be held in a hybrid format. Remote participants can join via Zoom using the meeting link provided above.

Panelists

• Prof. em. Dr. Christian Windler (University of Bern/Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz), co-editor of the series „Kulturen des Christentums – Neue Zugänge zur Frühen Neuzeit | Cultures of Christianity – New Approaches to Early Modern History"
• Prof. Dr. Alfons Brüning (Radboud University Nijmegen/Protestant Theological University Utrecht)
• Dr. Kateryna Dysa (National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"/Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
• Dr. Nataliia Sinkevych (University of Leipzig)
• Dr. Jared Warren (Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz)

Moderator and Host

Svitlana Potapenko (M.S. Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

With the generous support of the Friedrich Sperl Fund for the Humanities at Goethe University.