{"id":10133,"date":"2026-09-29T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T13:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/news\/04-12-2026-speaker-series-oxana-shevel\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T13:50:11","slug":"04-12-2026-speaker-series-oxana-shevel","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/news\/04-12-2026-speaker-series-oxana-shevel\/","title":{"rendered":"04.12.2026: Speaker Series &#8211; Oxana Shevel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1441\" data-end=\"1747\">The Jean Monnet Centre of Montreal, in collaboration with the <strong data-start=\"1503\" data-end=\"1566\">Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS)<\/strong>, is pleased to present a talk by <strong data-start=\"1600\" data-end=\"1616\">Oxana Shevel<\/strong>, Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, as part of its <strong data-start=\"1685\" data-end=\"1708\">2026 Speaker Series<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n<p dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1749\" data-end=\"2384\">Entitled <em data-start=\"1758\" data-end=\"1920\">Safeguarding national security or violating religious freedom? State policies towards Russia-linked Orthodox churches in Ukraine and Estonia after February 2022<\/em>, the talk will examine how Ukraine and Estonia have responded to institutional ties between Orthodox churches in their countries and the Russian Orthodox Church since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It will explore the tensions between national security, \u201cspiritual independence,\u201d religious freedom, and minority rights, as well as how these concerns have been translated into law and public policy.<\/p>\r\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"2386\" data-end=\"2570\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><strong data-start=\"2386\" data-end=\"2395\">Date:<\/strong> December 4, 2026<br data-start=\"2412\" data-end=\"2415\" \/><strong data-start=\"2415\" data-end=\"2424\">Time:<\/strong> 12:00\u20131:30 PM<br data-start=\"2438\" data-end=\"2441\" \/><strong data-start=\"2441\" data-end=\"2454\">Location:<\/strong> Leacock 429, McGill University<br data-start=\"2485\" data-end=\"2488\" \/><strong data-start=\"2488\" data-end=\"2532\">In-person event \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScgTin2mair7SSFt71JTKJGRtlVzejMIR1lPjD-A4zep3Sk8Q\/viewform\">registration<\/a> required.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1198\" data-end=\"1386\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dr.-Oxana-Shevel-talk-December-4-poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dr.-Oxana-Shevel-talk-December-4-poster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dr.-Oxana-Shevel-talk-December-4-poster.png 1728w, https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dr.-Oxana-Shevel-talk-December-4-poster-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dr.-Oxana-Shevel-talk-December-4-poster-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dr.-Oxana-Shevel-talk-December-4-poster-1536x2048.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jean Monnet Centre of Montreal, in collaboration with the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS), is pleased to present a talk by Oxana Shevel, Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, as part of its 2026 Speaker Series. 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State policies towards Russia-linked Orthodox churches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[329,378],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10134,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10133\/revisions\/10134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10133"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanmonnet.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=10133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}