28--30 May 2023

Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies (Toronto)

This year’s meeting will take place in person, with some capacity for virtual presentations and virtual access to in-person sessions via Zoom. Papers are invited on any theme relevant to the study of late antiquity, patristic studies, or the study of Christianity between the second and seventh centuries CE. Submissions that consider this year’s Congress theme, “Reckonings & Re-Imaginings,” as it might relate to our discipline are especially encouraged (though not required). For details, click here.

 

11--14 June 2023

9th North American Syriac Symposium (Yale University)

Held every four years since 1991, the North American Syriac Symposium brings together scholars and students for exchange and discussion on a wide variety of topics related to the language, literature, and cultural history of Syriac Christianity, extending chronologically from the first centuries CE to the present day and geographically from Syriac Christianity’s homeland in the Middle East to South India, China, and the worldwide diaspora. In 2023, the event will be hosted at the Yale Divinity School, with the opportunity to visit the Dura-Europos exhibit at the Yale University Art Gallery and to see an exhibition of Syriac manuscripts from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The theme of this Symposium is “Syriac at the Center.” Syriac has often been treated as an auxiliary language in the modern humanities, an adjunct tool to scholarship on Early Christianity, Late Antiquity, early Islam, the histories of theology and of science, and other areas of inquiry. It is an “extra language” in humanistic curricula. This conference welcomes papers on topics that treat Syriac as central, not peripheral, to scholarly investigation. How do our research subjects look when we stand with Syriac and regard other traditions and areas as peripheral? For conference details and information, click here.

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12--14 June 2023

Tenth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (St Louis University)

The Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies provides a convenient summer venue in North America for scholars in all disciplines to present papers, organize sessions, participate in roundtables, and engage in interdisciplinary discussion. The goal of the symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation on all topics and in all disciplines of the medieval and early modern world.​ The plenary speakers for 2023 will be Uta-Renate Blumenthal, of Catholic University of America, and Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library. For details, click here.

 

22--23 June 2023

Christian Political Cultures in Late Antiquity (University of Liverpool)

A conference (and planned edited volume) on Christian Political Cultures in Late Antiquity. The remarkably homogeneous ways of thinking about Christian political authority across the Roman world in late antiquity (c. 250-700 CE)—so carefully reconstructed in classic mid-20th century accounts—mask the immense diversity of the social and institutional contexts in which those ideas mattered. The character of Christian governance could look very different to an official placed at the centre of power as against an ordinary Christian standing in the nave of an urban basilica, a civic grandee sitting in the plush seats of a provincial town council, or an ascetic keeping vigil in a remote monastic cell. In fact, widely divergent visions of what the divine sanctioning of earthly rule meant in practice are visible even across the many different (and sometimes competing) institutions of late ancient states. The deadline for proposals is 30 June 2022. Please send a title and an abstract (no longer than 500 words) to Dr Robin Whelan. See here for more information on the project.

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7--9 July June 2023

Christian and Non-Christian Theories of War and St Gregory Palamas' Philosophy and Theology

The Palamas Seminar, in collaboration with the Holy Metropolis of Veroia, Naousa, and Campagnia invites you to an international conference in Veroia, Greece, with the option of a visit to the Holy Mountain of Athos. Topics of particular interest include (but are not limited to): philosophical approaches to war, violence and vonflict, Christian (Orthodox and non-Orthodox) approaches to violence, war and conflict, just war theories and just war tradition, etc. Researchers interested in presenting their work are requested to send a brief CV and a brief abstract in English or Greek of no more than 200 words by March 1, 2023 to Dr C. Athanasopoulos, cathanasop@googlemail.com.

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26--27 September 2023

The Church of the Early Centuries and Christianity, Sulkhan-Saba Orbelian University (Tblisi, Georgia)

1st International Conference in Theology and Religious Studies, Sulkhan-Saba Orbelian University (Tblisi, Georgia). Click here for more information. Register here by August 1, 2023 (applications ans abstracts due by July 1).