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SUMMARY:'Resistance and Conscience' - Dr Philip Boobbyer - Dr Philip Boobb
 yer (University of Kent)
DTSTART:20130221T173000Z
DTEND:20130221T190000Z
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CONTACT:Victoria Lever
DESCRIPTION:Soviet dissidents opposed to communism placed great emphasis o
 n 'conscience'. They saw themselves as involved both in a campaign against
  state oppression and an existential struggle for moral survival. This lec
 ture will address the origins and nature of this stress on conscience\, an
 d explore some of the philosophical and theological issues arising out of 
 it. The ideas and strategies of figures like Vladimir Bukovsky\, Andrei Sa
 kharov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn will be considered. There will also be d
 iscussion of the interrogation experiences of Walter Ciszek\, a Polish-Ame
 rican Jesuit priest who was imprisoned in the Lubyanka in the early 1940s.
   \n\nDr Philip Boobbyer (University of Kent) will deliver the eighth lect
 ure as part of the 'Resistance in Russia and Eastern Europe' public lectur
 e series\, organised by the Department of Slavonic Studies and the Cambrid
 ge Committee for Russian and East European Studies.
LOCATION:Umney Theatre\, Robinson College
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