Faculty/staff notes: Kain

Kevin Kain, an adjunct faculty member in history and Humanistic Studies, earlier this spring presented on the topic “National Treasure: ‘Ancient’ Orthodox Artifacts and Modern Russian Religious, Political and Visual Cultures” as part of the lectures series “The Harriman at 60” at Columbia University’s The Harriman Institute in New York City. On April 17, he was invited back to present “The Biography of an Image or the Life of the Parsuna ‘Patriarch Nikon with Clergy (1661-1662)’ in Nineteenth-Century Russian Culture” to the History Workshop at the Harriman Institute. The Institute at Columbia is described as the oldest academic institution in the United States devoted to the study of the countries of the former Soviet Union, East Central Europe and the Balkans.