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
25--26 September 2026
The Athonite Collections and Their Challenges: Open Access, Traveling Exhibitions, and Digital Surrogates
This symposium at Princeton University aims to tackle the challenges of studying the Athonite collections (including religious icons, liturgical objects, manuscripts and other documents containing valuable insights into the past) and other such religious repositories. These are challenges that restrict scholarly inquiry and therefore limit the development of new perspectives and the full appreciation of the unique collections and the history of the communities themselves.
Call for papers deadline: December 20, 2025
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8--10 October 2026
Patristic Exegesis as Contemplation: The Spiritual Sense of Scripture
This international conference on the campus of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology will bring together a wide range of scholars and specialists in biblical studies and historical and systematic theology to examine the relationship between the Church Fathers and the spiritual reading of Scripture. It will explore the tradition of patristic exegesis as a form of contemplation or contemplative activity in which theoria, as both vision and interpretation, is applied to the inner meaning or spiritual depths of the biblical text.
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9--11 October 2026
Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference (PMR), Villanova University
The International Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Conference is an annual academic conference bringing together keynote speakers and scholars from around the world and across the country. This three-day event has been held since the mid-1970s and is a true tradition of scholarship. This year's conference has for its theme 'Poverty, Simplicity, the Common Life, and the Mendicant Legacy.'
Call for papers deadline: June 30, 2026
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16—17 October 2026
Florovsky Tantur Symposium: Retrieving the Unity of Christian Theology (Notre Dame)
Following the tradition of the original Florovsky Symposiums at Princeton University, the biennial Florovsky Tantur Symposiums at Notre Dame seek to honor the legacy of the Orthodox theologian, Fr. Georges Florovsky, by providing a forum wherein adherents of different Christian traditions can explore core theological themes with reference to the Patristic witness of the undivided Church. These gatherings are co-sponsored by Notre Dame’s Department of Theology the Tantur Ecumenical Institute. The Symposia are organized by Fr. Khaled Anatolios, Senior Ecumenical Fellow of the Tantur Ecumenical Institute and the John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.
Call for papers deadline: July 15, 2026
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22--25 October 2026
52nd Annual Byzantine Studies Conference (BSANA) - University of Notre Dame
The BSC is the annual forum for the presentation and discussion of papers on every aspect of Byzantine Studies and on related topics relevant to the field. Conference attendance is open to all, regardless of nationality or academic status.
Call for papers deadline: May 25, 2025
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27 November 2026
Voices from the Ambo: Homiletic Discourse in Byzantium and Beyond (Bucharest)
Participants: Dimitris Agoritsas, Aleksandar Anđelović, Theodora Antonopoulou, Marie-Hélène Blanchet, Archimandrite Policarp Chițulescu, Olivier Delouis, Mircea Duluș, Cristian Ioan Dumitru, Maria-Lucia Goiană, Marco Fanelli, Guoda Gediminskaitė, Raúl Estangüi Gómez, Petre Guran, Tasoula M. Markomihelaki, Mihail Mitrea, Elissaveta Moussakova, Antonio Rigo, Elisabeth Schiffer.
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17--21 January 2027
International Orthodox Theological Association (IOTA) Conference 2027 (Republic of Georgia)
IOTA’s third mega-conference will take place in Poti and Kobuleti, Republic of Georgia. The conference will include pilgrimage to area monasteries and a keynote address by John Behr (University of Aberdeen). The theme of the conference is “Tradition and Traditions."
Call for papers deadline: May 15, 2026
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3—5 February 2027
Late Antique Encounters (Ghent)
The Ghent Centre of Late Antiquity proudly presents the inaugural Late Antique Encounters Conference, a forum designed to capture and celebrate the field’s remarkable breadth and methodological richness. We envision Late Antiquity as a crossroads where multiple disciplines converge. Whether you approach the period through papyrology or prosopography, numismatics or narratology, linguistics or art history, this conference wants to offer space for dialogue across traditional boundaries. We seek to create an environment where a historian studying Coptic tax receipts might discover connections with a literary scholar analyzing Syriac poetry, where an archaeologist excavating a Gallic villa can engage with a theologian parsing conciliar debates or a linguist studying lexical phenomena. Moreover, this conference embraces interdisciplinarity not only through collaboration among diverse fields within late antique studies, but also by fostering dialogue between late antiquity and other historical periods, including its reception and enduring influence.
Call for papers deadline: May 15, 2026
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13—15 May 2027
62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies
The International Congress on Medieval Studies is an annual gathering of scholars interested in medieval studies. It features hundreds of sessions of papers, roundtables, workshops, demonstrations, performances, and poster sessions. There are also business meetings and gathering sponsored by learned societies, associations and institutions. The exhibits hall boasts a variety of exhibitors, including publishers, used book dealers and purveyors of medieval sundries.
Call for papers deadline: June 1, 2026
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2--6 August 2027
20th International Conference on Patristic Studies (Oxford)
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.
Workshop proposal deadline: August 31, 2026
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Lectures
September 15, 2026 (4 PM Central European Time)
Generative Authority: The Followers of the Apostles in Cultic Contexts Seminar
Addai, Protonike, and the Veneration of the Cross
Kelli Bryant Gibson
The GenAut Project hosts a monthly online research seminar with papers from scholars that work on these traditions from other perspectives or on different languages than our project.