Legacies of Dehumanisation in South Africa and Russia
“Legacies of Dehumanisation” is a collaboration between Studies in Historical Trauma and Transformation, the Chair of Political Science, Church-State Relations and the Sociology of Religion at the Russian Orthodox University of St John the Divine, Professor Anastasia Mitrofanova, and the Director of the Institute for the Academic Study of Eastern Christianity (INaSEC) at Vrije University, Amsterdam, Professor Katya Tolstaya. The project is part of the South Africa/Russia Bilateral initiative funded by the National Research Foundation in South Africa, and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research in Russia.
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