All-Russian Scientific Conference with International Participation “The New Past-5: Empire and Nationalism in the Light of Political Theology”, Rostov-on-Don, September 21–23, 2023 [

The article is devoted to the review of the All–Russian scientific conference with international participation “The New Past-5: Empires and Nationalism in the light of political theology”, which was held in Rostov-on-Don from September 21 to 23, 2023. The conference was organized by the Institute of History and International Relations of the Southern Federal University. The conference was attended by specialists from
leading universities and institutes in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Minsk, Voronezh, Orel, Stavropol, Tomsk and other cities. The fifth (anniversary) conference was a continuation and development of traditional research issues, which is relevant both for the Institute of History and International Relations and for the scientific journal “New Past”. The intellectual tuning fork that tuned the work of the conference participants was
the theological-historiosophical concept “Moscow — the Third Rome” and the work of Karl Schmitt “Political Theology”. The thematic reports of the participants were organized in the following areas: politics and economics in a modernizing empire; national and religious identities in critical epochs; nationalism as a “quasi-religion”: the Irish case; ideas, symbols, narratives of the Russian Middle Ages and Modern Times; sacred and
profane; power, intellectuals and the image of the past; British studies; memory, myths, politics, war. Numerous questions and active discussions of the reports became an important component of the conference. At the round table “Topical issues of British History”, experts and students discussed topical issues of British and Irish studies.