Upcoming gatherings on Early Christianity and Patristics
Upcoming talks by prominent scholars in the field
Summer programs, online courses, and more
Current exhibitions relating to the world of the Fathers
Opportunities to visit holy sites, monasteries, and ancient lands
Conferences
16-17 May 2024
Misattributions and Forgeries in Middle Eastern Manuscript Tradition (Vienna)
The purpose of this workshop, organize by Grigory Kissel (Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna), Sabine Schmidtke, and George Kiraz (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) is to study misattribution of content in and forgeries of Middle Eastern manuscript culture as intellectual history. This cross-discipline workshop aims to cover manuscripts in various languages, including, but not limited to, Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Persian, and Syriac, in addition to the ancient languages of Egypt and Mesopotamia. All time periods are of interest.
For details and information, click here.
Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2023
16-17 May 2024
The Bible and Biblical Apocrypha in Translation, Interpretation, and Tradition (Wrocław University, Poland)
The XI International Biblical Conference is hosted at the University of Wrocław, under the supervision of Dr Krzysztof Morta. This year's topic is the translation, interpretation, and reception of the Bible. All theologians, philologists, historians, and other scholars, whose research subject area is related to the Bible, apocrypha literature, or the Biblical tradition, are welcome to take part in the conference.
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Deadline for submissions: April 15, 2023
23--25 May 2024
NAPS - The North American Patristics Society, Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL)
The annual meeting of the North American Patristic Society is usually held in years when the Oxford Patristics Conference does not take place. Due to the postponement of Oxford 2023, both NAPS and the Oxford Patristics Conference will be held in 2024.
For details and information, click here.
Deadline for submissions: November 1, 2023
27--29 May 2024
Canadian Society of Patristic Studies Annual Meeting (St Augustine's Seminary, Toronto)
Since 1975, the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies has existed to promote and contribute to the academic study in Canada of the “church fathers”. The society meets annually as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, which is held at a different Canadian university each year.
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Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2024
29 May -- 1 June 2024
Second Annual Paideia Conference: Orthodoxy and Culture (Antiochian Village, Pennsylvania)
Second annual meeting of Paideia, a newly convened community of Orthodox Christian academics, clergy, monastics, and interested laity. This year's theme, 'Orthodoxy and Culture,' includes such questions as (1) the relation of American Orthodoxy to its native cultures of origin, (2) the relation of American Orthodoxy to modern (and increasingly, post-modern) Western culture, or to the specifically American culture and milieu, as they exist today, (3) the overall relation of Orthodoxy to culture as such, understood broadly as the spiritual element within which our worship and practice unfolds, and from which our language draws its lexicon and imagery.
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Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2024
4-8 June 2024
Nicaea and the Church of the Third Millenium (Rome)
An International Conference co-organized by the International Orthodox Theological Association (IOTA) and the Institute for the Ecumenical Studies of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum). The conference will focus on the theological and ecclesiological issues that unite and divide Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christians by discussing the legacy of the First Ecumenical Council.
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Deadline for submissions: March 21, 2024
19-20 June 2024
Interpreting the Septuagint in its Greco-Roman Context (McGill University, Montreal)
A conference of the John William Wevers Institute for Septuagint Studies and the McGill School of Religious Studies (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), this gathering seeks to examine the Septuagint’s value as a linguistic, literary, and cultural artifact for the study of early Judaism and Christianity.
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Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2024
1--4 July 2024
International Medieval Congress (Leeds, UK)
The IMC seeks to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of Medieval Studies, bringing together scholars from around the world in a variety of specializations and fields. The thematic strand for the 2024 Congress is "Crisis," examining the language of resilience, vulnerability, and adapatation in the field and inviting a plurality of viewpoints on and critical engagement with these concepts.
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Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2023
5--9 August 2024
Oxford Patristics Conference
Early bird registration ends July 31, 2023. Submit abstracts and workshops by August 31, 2023. The International Conference on Patristic Studies has taken place in Oxford every four years since 1951. Initially conceived as an oecumenical colloquium for a select group of clerical scholars, it has expanded decade by decade until in 2015 it welcomed almost a thousand delegates, clerical and lay, from all the world’s continents, and encompassed a great diversity of subjects from the New Testament to Palamas, and from liturgy to postmodern theories of gender. It is organized by a board of scholars from various universities in the United Kingdom, with the assistance of the presidents of the Association Internationale des Études Patristiques and the North American Patristics Society.
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Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2023
11--13 September 2024
International Conference on the Bible in Middle Byzantine Hagiography (KU Leuven)
In the framework of the Köln/Leuven research project funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and launched in 2022, KU Leuven Griekse Studies is organizing an international conference on The Bible in Middle Byzantine Hagiography (8th-10th century) at the picturesque Arenberg Castle on the outskirts of Leuven. The keynote paper will be delivered by Derek Krueger (Greensboro). Other confirmed speakers include Albrecht Berger (Munich), Stephanos Efthymiadis (Nicosia), Laurence Mellerin (Lyon), and Óscar Prieto Domínguez (Salamanca).
For details and information, click here.
Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2023
26-28 September 2024
Verdammt! Zur Vorgeschichte, Genese und Anwendung der Gattung der Anathematismen des Nizänums (325) (Berlin)
International conference on the History, Genesis, and Genre of Anathemas at the Council of Nicaea (325), organized by Uta Heil (Vienna), Christophe Markschies (Berlin). Keynote lecture by Jan Bremmer (Berlin), with contributions from Canan Arikan, Eberhard Bons, Jan Bremmer, Constanza Cordoni, Volker H. Drecoll, Ulrike Ehmig, Peter Gemeinhardt, Richard Gordon, Thomas Graumann, Uta Heil, Wolfram Kinzig, Christiane Kunst, Christoph Markschies, Thomas Nemeth, Tobias Nicklas, Emanuela
Prinzivalli, Claudia Rapp, Joseph Verheyden, Dietmar Winkler, Michael Wolter, Bernhard Zimmerman, and Christiane Zimmermann.
See poster here.
For questions and information, contact Marc Bergermann.
Lectures
9 May 2024 (Online)
Kelsie Rodenbiker, University of Glasgow
Canon, Lists, and Scriptural Vitality in the New Testament Manuscript Tradition
The Biblical and Early Christian Studies at ACU program hosts a monthly global research seminar series which showcases outstanding work in the field and nurtures scholarly conversation with participants from Australia and around the world.
For details and information, contact: BECS.seminar@acu.edu.au
6 June 2024 (Online)
Annette Weissenrieder, Martin Luther Universität, Halle-Wittenberg
A New Edition of the Codex VercellensisLuke Based on Multi-Spectral Images
The Biblical and Early Christian Studies at ACU program hosts a monthly global research seminar series which showcases outstanding work in the field and nurtures scholarly conversation with participants from Australia and around the world.
For details and information, contact: BECS.seminar@acu.edu.au
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Courses and Workshops
27--28 May 2024
Introduction to Syriac Online, Beth Mardutho
Students with no prior experience in Syriac will learn introductory reading, writing, and grammar using The New Syriac Primer, 2nd Edition and should be able to translate introductory texts by the end of the course using a dictionary. Classes are self-paced and are based off previously recorded lectures – however, to maintain a healthy pace, lectures will be disabled over time with advanced notice. We closely monitor class progress and will always be available for any questions that may arise from the lectures and/or readings. The Spring 2024 course opens online February 12 and students will have until May 31 to complete all the lectures and assignments unless other arrangements have been made. Fall 2024: September 9 – December 31.
For details and information, click here.
Registration deadline: open.
27--28 May 2024
Crash Course in Greek Paleography, Leiden University
The course, organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, Leiden University Library, and the Greek Department of Ghent University, is set up as an intensive two-day seminar. Five lectures by specialists in the field will give a chronological overview of the development of Greek handwriting, each followed by a practice session reading relevant extracts from papyri and manuscripts in smaller groups under the supervision of young researchers.
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Registration deadline: February 15, 2024.
May-June 2024 (Online)
22--26 July (In Person)
Coptic Summer School, Waldensian Faculty of Theology, Rome
Two offerings: Introduction to Sahidic Coptic and Advanced Coptic
For details and information, click here.
Registration deadline: May 8, 2024.
17-20 June 2024
Elements of Reasoning/Elements of Nature: Physis Seminar (Rome)
PHYSIS: the Notre Dame Laboratory for the Study of Nature in the Premodern World, housed in the University of Notre Dame’s John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values, in conjunction with the Notre Dame History of Philosophy Forum and with financial support of the Medieval Institute is seeking graduate student applicants to participate in a week-long advanced summer research seminars on the topic
of Elements of Nature/Elements of Reasoning.
For details and information, click here.
Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2024
1--27 July 2024
Byzantine Greek Summer School, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC
The principal course will be a daily 1½ hour session devoted to the translation of sample Byzantine texts. Each week, texts will be selected from a different genre, e.g., historiography, hagiography, poetry, and epistolography. Two afternoons a week, hour-long sessions on paleography will be held. In addition, each student will receive a minimum of one hour per week of individual tutorial. Approximately eleven hours per week will be devoted to formal classroom instruction. In the remaining hours of the week, students will prepare their assignments.
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Registration deadline: February 15, 2024.
8 July -- 2 August 2024
Introduction to Syriac, St John's University, Collegeville, MN
In partnership with Dumbarton Oaks, HMML will host an intensive four-week course as an introduction to the Syriac language and paleography in the summer of 2024. This course is intended for doctoral students or recent PhDs who can demonstrate a need for Syriac in their research. Priority is given to students who lack opportunities to continue studying Syriac at their own institutions. The program welcomes international applicants but does not sponsor J visas.
For details and information, click here.
Registration deadline: February 23, 2024.
8 July -- 2 August 2024
Introduction to Ge'ez, St John's University, Collegeville, MN
In partnership with Dumbarton Oaks, HMML will host an intensive three-week course as an introduction to the Ge’ez language and paleography in the summer of 2024. This course is intended for doctoral students or recent PhDs who can demonstrate a need for Ge’ez in their research. Priority is given to students who lack opportunities to continue studying Ge’ez at their own institutions. The program welcomes international applicants but does not sponsor J visas.