Specification about the SPECRS meetings and activities for the year 2011.

Preparing and editing papers presented at the First Readings dedicated to Alexei Chernyakov, held 19th November 2010, in the frame of the MGNI project.

Preparing a computer version of the Collected Scholarly Publications SRPh, v. 10, comprising materials of the First Readings dedicated to Alexei Chernyakov, held 19 November 2010.

Dr. Grigiri Benevitch, JTF project member, got a Scholarship at Princeton Theological Seminary for February-May, 2011.

Two SPECRS lectures by Dr. Natalia Pecherskaya at BYU and UVU, Utah, USA. Here is a link to the recording of presentation: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4178070/Pecherskaya%20-%20Orthodoxy%202012_03_21.mp3

Dr. Pecherskaya participation in the international conference Globalization of Knowledge: Economic Theory, Health Care-Ecology, 25 March, 2011 at 777 UN PLAZA, NYC, NY 10017, 2nd floor, 29 March, 2010 at State University of New York at Old Westbury.

SPECRS work on the MGNI project The Problem of Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Science, Religion, and Culture: Preparing Community Leaders for the Twenty-First Century, starting from March 2011 will be supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation (JTF) Grant ID #15 562.

Award from The International Society for Science and Religion Library (ISSR Library) of 225 books on science and religion to be delivered from ISSR, UK, to SRPh, Russia

Dr. Pecherskaya presentation of a paper Religious Multidiversity and the Challenges of Globalization in Religious Studies at the international conference “Religious Freedom and Intraconfessional Dialogue: Global Challenges and Local Demonstrations”, 20-21 May 2011, in Kiev, held by the Coordinative Council of CIS and Baltic States on the religious studies questions of theory and practice, at the Institute for Philosophy of Unkranian National Academy of Sciences.

Conference "Science and Religion in Globalizing World oraganized by Fr. Kirill Kopeikin, JTF project member, 23d May 2011, at the ST.Petersburg State University, with the attendance of the representatives of the ST. Petersburg Orthodox Theological Academy and Seminary, Moscow Patriarchate, St.Petersburg scientific organization.

Fr. Dimitry Kiryanov, JTF project member, presenting a series of lectures on science and religion at Moscow Theological Academy, 25-28 May 2010.

Fr. Dimitry Kiryanov, received an individual grant F. Crowe bursary of 2010 г. from Lonergan Research Institute (Regis College, Toronto) for buying books for his work on dissertation. Also, Lonergan Research Institute sent to him books (about 30 volumes) by B. Lonergan http://lonergan-lri.ca/news/2011/02/21/frederick-e-crowe-bursary

Printing the Collected Scholarly Publications SRPh, v. 10, (First Readings), SRPh Publ., 2011, pp.222 (in Russian).

Successful defense by Dr. Alexei Oskolsky, JTF project member, of his doctoral thesis “Evolutionary morphology and phylogenetics of the plant family Araliaceae Juss”, 1st June 2011, at the Botany Institute, Russian Academy of Science.

International Conference on GLOBALIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE: Economics, Ecology, and the Humanities 25-26 July, Shanghai, PRC, East China Normal University, and Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, PRC. Pecherskaya presentation The Triple Response of Russia to Challenges of Globalization: Traditional Orthodoxy, Nationalism, and Internationalization of Trade and Culture.

18-19 August, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, International Conference THE FUTURE OF CREATION OEDER, organized by The Association for Reformational Philosophy, Free University of Amsterdam. JTF members Dr. Alexei Vyazmin, Fr. Dimitri Kiryianov, and DR. Natalia Pecherskaya are invited to make presentations at the Round tables in the frame of the conference.

Joint SRPh-GSP decision about co-sponsoring International Journal of Decision Ethics on Global Conflicts, Higher Education, Business and Economics (IJDE), Publisher-GSP, sponsor - Department of Educational Studies, Oxford University, UK.

Starting preparing English translation of the papers of the Collected Scholarly Publications SRPh, v. 10 (First Readings) to be published in the International Journal for Decision Ethics, IJDE, Oxford: 2012.

Dr. Dr. Grigori Benevitch, JTF project member, published a paper "John Philoponus and Maximus the Confessor: From Christianization of Philosophy to Christian Philosophy" // Religious Studies, v.1, 2011, p. 107-112

Dr. Fr. Kiryanov published Evolutionary Biology and Foundations of Ethics// European Journal of Science and Theology, September 2011, Vol.7, No.3, 13-27 (http://www.ejst.tuiasi.ro)

Dr. Natalia Pecherskaya, visiting Faraday Institute at Cambridge, UK, to meet Dr. Denis Alexander, Director, to discuss possible cooperation.

Second International Scholarly Consultation, November 17-19, 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia, Round Table: REFLECTIONS ON PHILOSOPHICAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND THEOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF INTERFACING, and the Second Readings dedicated to Prof. Dr. Alexei Chernyakov in the frame of the project The Problem of Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Science, Religion, and Culture: Preparing Community Leaders for the Twenty-First Century, supported by the Templeton Foundation (see the Program and photos).

Reflections on Some Challenges of the Revival of Theological Studies and Religious Studies in the Universities of the Russian Federation, GSP Publisher: Department of Educational Studies, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, International Journal of Decision Ethics, v. VII.3, 2010

Planning SPECRS activities for 2012