23ο Διεθνές Συνέδριο Βυζαντινών Σπουδών.  

Βελιγράδι, Σερβία, 22-27/8/2016.

Πρόγραμμα Συνεδρίου- Conference Program

Γ' ΔΙΕΘΝΕΣ ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΟ ΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗΣ ΑΓΙΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ 25-27 ΦΕΒΡΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ 2016

Η Ιερά Μητρόπολη Κωνσταντίας - Αμμοχώστου και η Πολιτιστική Ακαδημία «Άγιος Επιφάνιος» διοργανώνουν το Γ΄ Διεθνές Συνέδριο Κυπριακής Αγιολογίας. Το συνέδριο θα πραγματοποιηθεί στο Συνοδικό της Ιεράς Μητροπόλεως στο Παραλίμνι, από τις 25 μέχρι τις 27 Φεβρουαρίου 2016. 

Το συνέδριο αυτό, όπως και τα προηγούμενα, σκοπό έχει να συμβάλει στη μελέτη του βίου, του έργου και της τιμής των Κυπρίων Αγίων. Ως γνωστόν η Κυπριακή Αγιολογία είναι ένα πολύ σημαντικό κεφάλαιο της Ιστορίας της Κύπρου, αλλά και της Ορθόδοξης Εκκλησίας γενικότερα, το οποίο δεν έχει μελετηθεί συστηματικά και επαρκώς μέχρι σήμερα. Η διοργάνωση των αγιολογικών συνεδρίων από την Ιερά Μητρόπολη Κωνσταντίας ευελπιστεί να καλύψει αυτό το επιστημονικό κενό. 

Το Γ΄ Διεθνές Συνέδριο Κυπριακής Αγιολογίας φέρει τον γενικό τίτλο: «Γ΄ Διεθνές Συνέδριο Κυπριακής Αγιολογίας. Φραγκοκρατία-Ενετοκρατία-Τουρκοκρατία (1191-1878)» και σ’ αυτό θα συμμετάσχουν διακεκριμένοι Καθηγητές και ερευνητές από την Κύπρο, την Ελλάδα και άλλες ευρωπαϊκές χώρες (Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο, Γερμανία και Ιταλία) με θέματα που άπτονται διαφόρων επιστημονικών κλάδων, όπως Θεολογία, Φιλολογία, Ιστορία, Αρχαιολογία και Τέχνη, Παλαιογραφία, Δίκαιο, Κοινωνιολογία και Λαογραφία. 

Η έναρξη του συνεδρίου θα γίνει την Πέμπτη, 25 Φεβρουαρίου 2016, και ώρα 10:00 π.μ. στο Συνοδικό της Ιεράς Μητροπόλεως Κωνσταντίας στο Παραλίμνι. Οι εργασίες του συνεδρίου θα λήξουν το Σάββατο, 27 Φεβρουαρίου και ώρα 1:00 μ.μ. 

Στο πλαίσιο του συνεδρίου θα τελεσθεί Αρχιερατική Θεία Λειτουργία στον ιερό ναό Αγίου Γεωργίου Εξορινού στην εντός των τειχών κατεχομένη πόλη της Αμμοχώστου, την Κυριακή, 28 Φεβρουαρίου (7:30-10:30). Ακολούθως θα γίνει ξενάγηση των συνέδρων στα μνημεία της μεσαιωνικής πόλης της Αμμοχώστου και προσκυνηματική επίσκεψη στην Ιερά Μονή Αποστόλου Βαρνάβα, στην πρωτοχριστιανική βασιλική του Αγίου Επιφανίου στην κατεχόμενη Σαλαμίνα και στη Μονή του Αγίου Αναστασίου στην Περιστερωνοπηγή.

Όσοι επιθυμούν να παρακολουθήσουν τις εργασίες του Συνεδρίου, μπορούν να συμπληρώσουν το Έντυπο Συμμετοχής Συνέδρου και να το αποστείλουν μέσω τηλεομοιοτύπου (23812456/7) ή ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου (ekdosis@imconstantias.org.cy). 

Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες: Τηλ. 23812456/7 ή στην ηλεκτρονική διεύθυνση ekdosis@imconstantias.org.cy.

• Έντυπο Συμμετοχής Συνέδρου.doc (114.50 KB)
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Institute for Medieval Studies of the University of Leeds

 

Visions of Community at the
International Medieval Congress 2013

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VISCOM Sessions | Associated Sessions

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In 2013, VISCOM will have a large presence at the International Medieval Congress, which takes place from 1-4 July, and is organized by the Institute for Medieval Studies of the University of Leeds. In the course of this VISCOM Session Strand, on Monday 1 and Tuesday 2 July, the Junior and Senior members of VISCOM, as well as a great number of invited guests, will present papers on a wide variety of topics, showcasing both the diversity and the internal coherence of the Project, as well as its emphasis on comparative approaches to the Middle Ages.

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Sessions:

110: Visions of Community I: After the End of Ancient Christianity - The Reconfiguration of Late Antique Topographies in Merovingian Historiography and Hagiography

• Helmut Reimitz (Princeton University)  – The Merovingian six book-version of Gregory of Tours’ Histories and the creation of new Spielrδume for the spiritual topography of Gaul
• Jamie Kreiner (University of Georgia) – A Contest at Brioude: Hagiography after Gregory of Tours
• Gordon Blennemann (DHI Paris/Universitδt Erlangen-Nόrnberg) – The Creation of Martyrs in Early Medieval Burgundy: King Sigismund as Archetype?

Moderator: Ian Wood (University of Leeds)

As Christendom had consolidated its foothold in the hearts and minds of the peoples in Western Europe, and the political influence of the Roman Empire was gradually fading from view, the new intellectual elite, consisting mainly of ecclesiastical officials who had imposed themselves on the legacy of Rome, went at lengths to reconfigure the spiritual landscape of the lands they had inherited. Chief among these authors, as Helmut Reimitz will argue, was the sixth-century bishop Gregory of Tours, whose Histories perhaps most clearly reflects these shifts and the subsequent search for new boundaries – both real and spiritual. Building on this paper, Jamie Kreiner will then look at the cult of Saint Julian to demonstrate how this process continued in hagiographical narratives produced in the seventh century, which both adopted and challenged Gregory's topographies. Finally, Gordon Blennemann will show how the two "genres" would essentially overlap by focusing on the Passio Sancti Sigismundi regis, a strikingly dyadic text in which a Burgundian origo gentis is combined with the life of this saintly king. As such, all three papers focus not only on narrative references to the Roman and Biblical past, but also try to situate these within the specific social and political context of the production of these texts, as well as to the longue durιe of hagiographical and historiographical traditions.

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210: Visions of Community II: Related Narratives, Entangled Communities - Strategies of Identification in Central European Historiography and Hagiography

• Christina Lutter (University of Vienna)– Narrating Community: Methodological Approaches
• Bernhard Zeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences) – A Community in Search of Itself: Sankt Gallen and the Making of Saint Otmar
• John Eldevik (Hamilton, NY) – Communities of Violence: Saracens and Saints in Medieval Bavaria
• Martin Haltrich (Klosterneuburg)– The Stories of a Community: Zwettl and the Magnum Legendarium Austriacum

Moderator: Steffen Patzold (University of Tόbingen

Whenever a group of people gets together, whenever a community gradually comes into being, its members inevitably start reflecting on their own histories and retelling them in terms of how their lives had become intertwined, and, eventually how their shared feeling of belonging together had developed. In doing so, they would of course also take recourse to the previously existing narratives that inspired them to make their own story one worth relating to, and look to other communities around them for comparison and inspiration – both positive and negative. As such, stories developed into narratives and the people and communities that produced them would develop almost continuously throughout the ages, feeding off one another and becoming increasingly intertwined: a fascinating process, which this session hopes to address more fully. First, Christina Lutter will present an overview of the methodological issues that arise when one considers the functions of narrative sources and their uses in the formation and consolidation of communities. Bernhard Zeller will then focus on a particular case by showing how the formation, use and and Nachleben of Saint Otmar in the Carolingian age helped the monastery of Sankt-Gallen find its own way in history. John Eldevik will then go on to examine the peculiar tradition of the Passio of the crusading archbishop Thiemo of Salzburg. As he argues, the images of violence in this work should not only be seen an example of medieval (mis)perceptions of Islam as a polytheistic cult, but also were also appropriated for negotiating conflicts and identities in other contexts, particularly monastic reform.  Finally, Martin Haltrich will then present the case of the Magnum Legendarium Austriacum, a huge and ostentatious twelfth-century collection of mostly older, but also some contemporary saints' lives that may only be found in Austrian libraries, addressing the observation that not only the composition, but also the copying of texts could help bring a community together

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310: Visions of Community III: Time and History in the Construction of Authority

• Veronika Wieser (Austrian Academy of Sciences) – The Best Prophets of the Future: Bishops and Kings in Late Antiquity
• Erik Goosmann (Utrecht University) – From dux Francorum to custos anserum: Managing Perceptions in Carolingian Historiography: the Case of Carloman's Conversion (747)
• Graeme Ward (University of Cambridge) – (Re)sources of Authority in Frechulf of Lisieux's Histories

Moderator: Helmut Reimitz (Princeton University)

This session revolves around the question to what extent time, history and authority interact in the historiographical output of late antiquity and the early middle ages. On the one hand, it was often implied that authority was often found in the past – be it to establish the political power of a dynasty aspiring, or to have the last word on a theological issues. On the other hand, however, the progression of time itself could factor into this equation as well, changing the status of certain historical actors as their presence became increasingly subject to (carefully managed) perceptions. Starting in Late Antiquity, Veronika Wieser will show one curious aspect of this, by showing how images of the future also became ever more authoritative as their age increased. This observation is then taken up by Erik Goosmann, who will demonstrate that not only intellectual phenomena, but also controversial figures such as Carloman could be used by Carolingian historiographers, who can be shown to have been very astute managers of their dynasty's sometimes turbulent past indeed. Graeme Ward will then turn these questions around, by focusing on the relationship between textual authority and ideas of rulership as seen through the eyes of Frechulf of Lisieux, for whom ancient texts both were invested with special qualities and packed full of examples which aimed at shaping the morals of more contemporary actors.

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 510: Visions of Community IV: Urban Communities in Late Medieval Central Europe, 1350-1550 – Regions

• Michaela Malanikovα (Masaryk University Brno) – South Moravian Urban Communities within the Corona regni Bohemiae in the Late Middle Ages
• Judit Majorossy (CEU Budapest) – Urban Communities and Their Networks in the Western Part of Late Medieval Hungary
• Niels Petersen (University of Gφttingen) – Salt, Money, Politics: The Sόlfmeister of Lόneburg as a Leading Group in the City and Duchy of Brunswick and Lόneburg
• Christian Opitz (University of Vienna – The Dominican Communities of Konstanz and the Many Faces of Saint John

Moderator: Elisabeth Gruber (University of Vienna)
During the late Middle Ages, a number of cities located in the duchy of Austria, the kingdom of Bohemia including Moravia, as well as the West-Hungarian region represented relevant nodes in terms of infrastructure, knowledge, political influence and administration, and thus played an important role within economic, political and cultural relations in Central Europe. The main issue of this session is to describe the influence exerted by these cities when shaping and structuring the specific regions to obtain a comprehensive picture of the reasons for their importance and, more specifically, of the role of various social groups in an urban context.

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610: Visions of Community V: Urban Communities in Late Medieval Central Europe, 1350-1550 – Relations

• Elisabeth Gruber (University of Vienna) – Trust is Good – Kinship is Better: Kinship Relations among Late-Medieval Urban Elites in the Duchy of Austria
• Karoly Goda (Mόnster University) – A Self-Made Community? Eucharistic Fraternities in Medieval Vienna and Beyond
• Maria Theisen (University of Vienna) – Creating Infrastructure for Crafts and Arts in the City of Prague During the Late 14th Century: the Noble, the Church and the Urban Community
• Response: Simon Teuscher (University of Zόrich)

Moderator: Christina Lutter (University of Vienna)
Social relations in late medieval cities are intra- and interurban and manifest themselves in terms of kinship related, legal, institutional and economic aspects. To reconstruct the interplay of these elements and their impact on community building different methodological approaches are required. Analysing urban society as a social network of differently structured groups can be fruitful especially in times of social, political or economic change. We will focus on different social groups, their different forms of interaction and ask for different patterns of representation in terms of social heritage, family, affiliation with confraternities, but also age and gender.

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710: Visions of Community VI: Conflict and Competition

• Maria Mair (University of Vienna)– Negotiating Community: Narratives of Conflict in Late Medieval Vernacular Austrian Historiography
• Fabian Kόmmeler (University of Vienna)– Social Conflict in Rural Communities in the Southern Dalmatian Areas of  Korčula and Split (1420-1540)
• Daniel Mahoney (Austrian Academy of Sciences/University of Chicago)– The Divisive Formation and Contentious Competition of Tribal Groups in the Highlands of South Arabia during the Early Medieval Period

Moderator: Christina Lutter (University of Vienna)
By approaching conflict as a social practice that helps shape communities, the groups involved and their motivations may be interpreted as reflecting a wider picture of political competition in a specific historical context.  Using comparative examples from both medieval Europe and Asia, this session will explore the ways social conflict appears explicitly and implicitly in a variety of media such as historiographical narratives, court records, wall paintings, and even geographical descriptions.  Additionally, it will demonstrate how these accounts of conflict may be used to indicate the social tensions of both the original context of the conflict itself and the period when it was recorded or retold. 
To that end, Maria Mair will look at how authors of Austrian vernacular verse chronicles in the late 13th century used conflict narratives to establish and reinforce the political position of their own social groups and to discuss concepts of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ community. Fabian Kόmmeler will then examine the role of conflicts in the everyday life of rural communities in late medieval Dalmatia on the basis of court records using pastoral nomads acting in confrontation with their urban, patrician, and rural counterparts as an example. Finally, Daniel Mahoney will look at the political competition and conflict within the tribal community of highland South Arabia as manifested in the genealogies, geographies, and anecdotes found in texts of the early medieval period.

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810: Visions of Community VII: Enclaves of Learning - Religion, Ideologies, and Practices in Europe, Arabia, and Tibet

• Rutger Kramer (Austrian Academy of Sciences/Utrecht University) – Monks on the Via Regia? Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel between Ideal and Reality
• Eirik Hovden (Austrian Academy of Sciences)– Managers of Knowledge: Hijras and Madrasas in medieval South Arabia
• Mathias Fermer – (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Enlightened Activities of Buddhist Masters: The Religious Establishment(s) of the Sakya School in Southern Central Tibet

Moderator: Walter Pohl (Austrian Academy of Sciences/University of Vienna)
In all major religions, communities may be found that exist for the purpose of safeguarding the knowledge and propagating the practices upon which the culture they operated in were founded – from the monasteries that dotted the religious landscape of the Christian west, to the the Sakya institutions of Tibetan Buddhism, and the hijras and madrasas in South Arabia. These communities all had a central place in their respective societies, but were also kept isolated in order to guard the knowledge they keep against outside contamination. In reality, however, they all also interacted with the world around them, and depended upon its secular wealth as much as the world depended on their spiritual prowess.
In spite of these apparent similarities in the social, religious and economic functions of such communities, it has proven to be surprisingly difficult to find a definition that fits all of them, due to the fact that there are also major differences between them – differences that only become apparent when they are looked at in a comparative context. This session aims to do just that. First, Rutger Kramer will provide a backdrop by presenting a vision of monastic communities described by the Carolingian abbot Smaragdus, who thus simultaneously fulfilled the roles of participant and observer in the monastic world of the turbulent early ninth century. Eirik Hovden will then showcase a specific type of enclave existing in Yemen, the hijras, and show how they had found a peculiar balance between their religious heritage and the wide array of social and economic responsibilities they also carried. Finally, moving further eastwards, Mathias Fermer will present the way the activities of the spiritual masters of the Sakya sect of Tibetan Buddhism provided a blueprint for monastic life that also is both strikingly similar and surprisingly different from the European situation. In all cases, however, these enclaves of learning were shaped as much by the needs of the community around them as by forces operating from within, and by analysing the interplay between these, surprising observations are brought to light.

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Associated Sessions

Below, you will find a list of sessions organized by researchers or projects associated with VISCOM.
103: New Research in Late Antique and Early Medieval Monasticism
203: Neglected Texts in Late Antique and Early Medieval Monasticism

Organization: Network for the Study of Late Antique & Early Medieval Monasticism

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824: The Growth of Religious Reform Movements in Late Medieval Central and Eastern Europe: Contexts and Comparisons

Organization: Kateřina Hornνčkovα, (Universitδt Salzburg)

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1003: Being Roman after Rome I
1103: Being Roman after Rome II

Organization: ERC Advanced Grant: Social Cohesion, Identity & Religion in Europe (SCIRE)

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1010: Texts and Identities I: Governing the Body - Governing the Soul: Christianity and Society in the Carolingian Period
1110: Texts and Identities II: Early Medieval Episcopal Self-Fashioning
1210: Texts and Identities III: Organising Knowledge and Constructing Communities
1310: Texts and Identities IV: Violence, Legitimacy, and Identity during the Transformation of the Roman World
1510: Texts and Identities V: The Merovingians and Their Past
1610: Texts and Identities VI: Barbarians, Arians, and Other Monsters
1710: Texts and Identities VII: Defining Community in Early Medieval Kingdoms - Theory and Practice

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1203: The Rules of Debate in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages I
1303: The Rules of Debate in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages II

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1503: The Reign of Louis the Pious and the Productivity of an Empire I: High Fidelity
1603: The Reign of Louis the Pious and the Productivity of an Empire II: The Return of the King

Organization: Rutger Kramer (project: Hludowicus: Die Produktivitδt einer Krise/La Productivitι d'une Crise)

Θεολογία Διαλεγόμενη - Εκδήλωση στην Κοζάνη

Τη  Δευτέρα 4 Απριλίου 2011 το περιοδικό ΛΕΙΜΩΝΑΡΙΟΝ, της Ιερ.Μητροπόλεως Σερβίων και Κοζάνης, σε συνεργασία με την ΑΚΑΔΗΜΙΑ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΚΩΝ ΣΠΟΥΔΩΝ, της Ιεράς Μητροπόλεως Δημητριάδος, διοργάνωσε ημερίδα με θέμα: Θεολογία διαλεγόμενη - Το έργο και οι εκδόσεις της Ακαδημίας Θεολογικών Σπουδών.

Τις εργασίες της ημερίδας χαιρέτισαν ο Σεβ. Μητροπολίτης Σερβίων και Κοζάνης κ.Παύλος και ο συντονιστής της Ακαδημίας κ. Παντελής Καλαϊτζίδης.
    Ο Σεβασμιότατος στο χαιρετισμό του αναφέρθηκε στην αγωνία τόσο της Ακαδημίας όσο και του περιοδικού «Λειμωνάριον» να αφουγκράζεται το σύγχρονο θεολογικό  προβληματισμό και να δίνει τη δυνατότητα μιας σοβαρής θεολογικής σπουδής στο εκκλησιαστικό σώμα.
    Ο κ. Καλαϊτζίδης στο χαιρετισμό του τόνισε πως η Ακαδημία Θεολογικών Σπουδών λειτουργεί, εδώ και 10 χρόνια, ως ένα ανοιχτό εργαστήρι σκέψης και διαλόγου της Εκκλησίας με τη διανόηση και την κοινωνία, οργανώνοντας με τη μορφή του ανοιχτού πανεπιστημίου ετήσιους θεματικούς κύκλους σπουδών, σεμινάρια, διεθνή συνέδρια και εκδόσεις. Ο κ. Καλαϊτζίδης αναφέρθηκε στα θέματα τα οποία μελέτησε η Ακαδημία τα παρελθόντα έτη και ιδιαίτερα στο πρόγραμμα της φετινής χρονιάς. Στο πλαίσιο των συγκαιρινών προκλήσεων οικονομικών- κοινωνικών  διερευνάται  ποιός ο ρόλος της Εκκλησίας στην εδραίωση της παγκόσμιας ειρήνης και της κοινωνικής δικαιοσύνης.

     

Στην ημερίδα εισηγήθηκαν οι:
α. Ο κ. Μιλτιάδης Κωνσταντίνου, καθηγητής της Θεολογικής Σχολής Α.Π.Θ.
β. Ο κ.Παναγιώτης Βολάκης, εκπαιδευτικός θεολόγος υπ. Διδ.Αγιολογίας και
γ. Ο κ.Θεόφιλος Αμπατζίδης, εκπαιδευτικός θεολόγος υπ. Διδ.Θεολογίας.

     Ο κ.Κωνσταντίνου στην εισήγησή του έκανε μια ιστορική αναδρομή του διαλόγου της εκκλησίας με το θεολογικό χώρο ξεκινώντας απότη γνωστή εγκύκλιο του Οικουμενικού Πατριαρχείου το 1920 μέχρι το συνέδριο της Ακαδημίας Θεολογικών Σπουδών με θέμα: «Αναταράξεις στη μεταπολεμική θεολογία. Η Θεολογία του ‘60».

    Ο κ. Βολάκης τόνισε πως η ίδρυση και η λειτουργία της Ακαδημίας Θεολογικών Σπουδών μεταξύ άλλων και την ανάγκη κοινωνίας και ανατροφοδότησης των Θεολόγων και παρουσίασε τα πρακτικά των προγραμμάτων δύο ακαδημαϊκών ετών. Του 2000-2001 με θέμα εκκλησία και εσχατολογία, και του 2003-2004 με θέμα «Φύλο και Θρησκεία- Η θέση της γυναίκας στην Εκκλησία».

Ο κ.Βολάκης τόνισε τη σημασία της ενασχόλησης της Ακαδημίας με πρώτο θέμα την εσχατολογική κατανόηση της εκκλησίας και το καίριο ερώτημα για την ταυτότητά της και την παράδοξη και  αντινομική θέση των χριστιανών μέσα στον κόσμο και την Ιστορία. Η διάκριση του φύλου στην Εκκλησία, το δεύτερο θέμα, που παρουσίασε ο κ.Βολάκης επαναπροσδιορίζεται μέσα από την εσχατολογική δυναμική της Εκκλησίας. Η ‘εν Χριστώ’ ενότητα νοείται ως συμμετοχή όλων στη ζωή της κοινότητας με βάση τα ιδιαίτερα χαρακτηριστικά και χαρίσματά τους.
     Ο κ.Αμπατζίδης παρουσίασε τα θέματα «Ορθοδοξία και Νεωτερικότητα» και «Ισλάμ και φονταμενταλισμός- ορθοδοξία και παγκοσμιοποίηση». Ο κ.Αμπατζίδης τόνισε ότι τα θέματα αυτά είναι συνέχεια της εσχατολογικής προβληματικής της Ακαδημίας και οτι ο διάλογος ορθοδοξίας και νεωτερικότητας παραμένει ουσιαστικά ζητούμενο και ένα καίριο ζήτημα σήμερα είναι ο ρόλος της ορθόδοξης χριστιανικής Εκκλησίας στη νεωτερικότητα. Η προσπάθεια της Ακαδημίας για το διάλογο θεολόγων και κοσμικών διανοουμένων και το άνοιγμα της τοπικής Εκκλησίας της Δημητριάδος στη θύραθεν διανόηση αποτελεί μία από τις ελάχιστες προσπάθειες υπέρβασης της αμοιβαίας άγνοιας  και καχυποψίας προκειμένου να διερευνηθεί, αν υπάρχει ριζική ασυμβατότητα των δύο μεγεθών (ορθοδοξίας και νεωτερικότητας) ή αν αντίθετα ιστορικές συγκυρίες στάθηκαν εμπόδιο στο διάλογο και τη συνάντησή τους.
     Την εκδήλωση έκλεισε με παρέμβασή του ο Μητροπολίτης Δημητριάδος κ. Ιγνάτιος, ο οποίος ευχαρίστησε το Μητροπολίτη Σερβίων και Κοζάνης κ.Παύλο για τη συνεργασία αυτή, και υπογράμμισε το χρέος όλων μας για την πορεία της θεολογίας, η οποία καλείται, σε κάθε εποχή και ιδιαίτερα σε περιόδους κρίσης, να λειτουργήσει ως η προφητική φωνή για την επανεύρεση της αυτοσυνειδησίας της Εκκλησίας.

 
Η Συντονιστική Επιτροπή του «Λειμωναρίου» και
η Ακαδημία Θεολογικών Σπουδών

Conference Announcement & Call For Papers: Family & Children in the Patristic Tradition, Brookline, Massachusetts, October 13-15, 2011

Conference Announcement & Call For Papers: Family & Children in the Patristic Tradition, Brookline, Massachusetts, October 13-15, 2011

Source: NAPS. 

October 13-15, 2011

Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology

Brookline, Massachusetts

The Stephen and Catherine Pappas Patristic Institute of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology is pleased to announce its annual thematic conference on "Family and Children in the Patristic Tradition", which will be held next Fall on the school's campus in Brookline, Massachusetts beginning Thursday evening, October 13, and ending with dinner on Saturday, October 15, 2011. 

The Conference Theme: Children play a surprising role in several of the narratives in the canonical gospels. They are even viewed by Jesus as paradigmatic of the Kingdom of God, -"to such as these the Kingdom of Heaven belongs" (Mat 19:14). In other writings of the New Testament, and in the later patristic corpus, the treatment of children is more varied and complex, including shared viewpoints with the Graeco-Roman culture. The purpose of our conference is to engage those patristic writings, Greek, Latin, and Syriac, that treat the subjects of family and children; we will seek to examine both theological and socio-historical treatments of the family and children, attempting to deal with any gaps between the theoretical and the historical. Paper proposals that examine the use of "family" and "children" as metaphors will also be welcomed, including those treating monasticism. 

If you would be interested in presenting a paper related to the topic of the conference (approximately 20 minutes in length), please submit a one-to-two paragraph abstract of your paper between December 15, 2010 and February 15, 2011. Abstracts should: 1) present a clear thesis; 2) indicate knowledge of the sources; 3) show awareness of relevant methodological, historiographical, or philosophical issues; and 4) treat subject matter that falls within the parameters of Late Ancient and Patristic Studies. Please send your abstract, registration, or any inquiries, to Dr. Bruce Beck, Director, Pappas Patristic Institute (pappaspatristic@comcast.net). All papers will be considered for publication in our series Holy Cross Studies in patristic Theology and History published annually by Baker Academic. 

Please register at your convenience by email to Dr. Bruce Beck at pappaspatristic@comcast.net, with your name, institutional affiliation, address, and phone number. There is a $125 registration fee, which also includes all the meals and breaks during the conference. This fee is payable upon check-in. The registration fee for students is $40.00. The registration fee is waived for those presenting a paper. The conference hotel is the Sheraton of Needham. Shuttle service will be provided between the conference hotel and the campus. 

Funded in 2003 by a generous grant from the late Stephen Pappas and his wife Catherine, the goal of the Pappas Patristic Institute is the advancement and promotion of primarily eastern patristic studies and education in the service of the academy and the Church.

Dumbarton Oaks: An upstanding research centre for Byzantinists

UPCOMING EVENT FOR 2011

Saints and Sacred Matter: The Cult of Relics in Byzantium and Beyond
Friday, April 29 – Sunday, May 1, 2011

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 The Mission of Dumbarton Oaks

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, in Washington, DC, is an institute of Harvard University dedicated to supporting scholarship internationally in Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian studies through fellowships, meetings, exhibitions, and publications. Located in Georgetown and bequeathed by Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks welcomes scholars to consult its books, images, and objects, and the public to visit its garden, museum, and music room for lectures and concerts.

The program in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks supports scholarship on the civilization of the Byzantine Empire from the fourth to fifteenth centuries and its interactions with neighboring cultures. Since its establishment in 1940, the program has hosted a continuous series of residential fellows and academic events such as public lectures, symposia, and colloquia. An active publications program sponsors an annual journal, symposium proceedings, and occasional monographs. Staff and fellows have access to an incomparable research library, Image Collections & Fieldwork Archives, and the Byzantine Collection.

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CONFERENCES FOR SUMMER 2010

4–5 June 2010. "Litterature et folklore dans le recit medieval," an international colloquium to be held in Budapest, Hungary. Le Centre Interuniversitaire d'Études Françaises et le Département d'Études Françaises de l'Université ELTE, avec le concours de l'Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle, se proposent d'organiser un colloque international de Littérature française du Moyen Age, dont le thème sera la reprise et l'adaptation de motifs folkloriques dans le récit médiéval.

La littérature de l'Europe médiévale, savante ou moins savante, religieuse ou laïque, "vaine et plaisante" ou édifiante, entretient des rapports étroits avec le folklore, dont on pourrait dire qu'il l'irrigue profondément. Des personnages surnaturels, fées, géants, monstres divers, mais encore des scénarios d'origine folklorique sont entrés de plein droit ou subrepticement dans le récit littéraire médiéval.

Ce colloque s'intéresse non à élucider les sources folkloriques de tel ou tel texte mais à retracer le cheminement complexe des motifs. Il s'agira d'examiner comment un motif folklorique est repris et adapté dans des contextes littéraires variés. On pourra suivre par exemple le transfert et l'évolution d'un motif d'une culture ou d'une langue à une autre; ou à l'intérieur de la même aire linguistique, l'adaptation d'un même motif folklorique en vers et en prose, d'un siècle à un autre (début du moyen âge/ fin du moyen âge), d'un genre à l'autre (roman/ hagiographie/ épopée...).

UNIVERSITÉ EÖTVÖS LORÁND, CENTRE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE D'ÉTUDES FRANÇAISES, DÉPARTEMENT D'ÉTUDES FRANÇAISES, H-1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 4/f., Hungary (+36-1-485-52-74; fax: +36-1-485-52-75; cief@ludens.elte.hu)

4–6 June 2010. "Displaying Word and Image," the International Association of Word and Image Studies (IAWIS/AIERTI) Focus Conference, at the University of Ulster, School of Art and Design, Belfast, U.K. This conference will bring together word and image, as well as literary scholarship, art history and theory, art practice, curatorial practice, museology, and visual culture, in order to address the interrelationship between word & image and display.

Relevant questions will be, e.g., how does the art exhibition function as mediator of literature? Which approaches to Word and Image are specific to curators or museum practitioners? How do Word and Image studies theorize, inform or imply display? We also wish to investigate the use of text/writing in and surrounding exhibitions, and the semiotics of museums' visual identities. How do competencies interact in the tri-disciplinary field between (1) art/art history/theory, (2) museum studies/curatorial practice and (3) literary studies? How are competencies acquired, and how do policies and funding structures enable work in this field?

We seek with this conference to (in)form a network that will investigate literary art exhibitions and work on relevant outputs. A publication on the conference theme is being planned.

Contact: Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes (m.lermhayes@ulster.ac.uk) or Dr Karen Brown (karen.brown@ucd.ie).

5 June 2010. "Imagining Inquisition in Medieval England" to be held at Queen Mary College, London. Inquisitio (‘inquiry’, ‘investigation’) in the later medieval period was one means of investigating crime in general and heresy in particular. Scholarship on medieval inquisition, ranging from Edward Peters’s, Inquisition (1989), to John Arnold’s Inquisition and Power (2001) and Christine Caldwell Ames’s Righteous Persecution (2009), has done much to illuminate its role in continental Europe, not only in combating heresy but also in shaping individuals and communities. However, the place of inquisition in England has not been so clearly established. As has often been noted by historians of the Middle Ages, England occupied a unique position in relation to ecclesiastical developments in medieval Europe, being somewhat outside the immediate influence of Rome and the continent. Our aim is to investigate the role of inquisitio in medieval England and the medieval English imagination, not only by exploring inquisition’s specific legal and pastoral applications, but by examining its more general role as a dialogic mode of inquiry and means of discerning truth. This workshop, which is part of a research project on inquisition and confession in medieval England, is an opportunity to reconsider the standard history and role of inquisitio in medieval England and to explore it not merely as part of a developing ‘Inquisition’ but as part of a broader development in the medieval English consciousness.

Call for papers: We particularly welcome interdisciplinary proposals that address the following questions:

• How do both the historical practice and the constructed idea of inquisition in England differ from those in continental Europe during this period?

• Where are inquisitional discourses located? What are the sources for inquisitional discourse outside of the context of heresy, and in fictional contexts in particular?

• How is inquisition imagined? Can we make claims (as we have for confession) for the role of inquisition in a) creating a sense of self, and b) for generating poetry in later medieval England? What impact do legal and pastoral developments have on fictional inquisition and on literary activity?

• How is the relationship between inquisition and truth imagined in medieval English literature, law, and pastoralia?

• What is the extent of the role of inquisition in legal and pastoral contexts in medieval England? What are its goals? How do they differ from and/or collapse into those of confession?

• Are there medieval roots to the post-medieval concept of "The Inquisition"? To what extent does this concept differ (if at all) from medieval discourses and ideas concerning inquisition?

Proposals for papers should be sent to Mary Flannery (m.flannery@qmul.ac.uk) or Katie Walter (katie.walter@rub.de) by 15 January 2010.

8 June 2010. "Late Medieval Episcopal Humanism," in the Queen Mary Seminar series, at Queen Mary College, London.

Professor Andrew Cole (Princeton), will talk on 'Acting on Advice: Scenes of Episcopal Humanism in the work of Thomas Chaundler'. Andrew Cole is the author of Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer and the forthcoming From Modern to Medieval: Hegel, the Dialectic and Other Stories. He also co-edited the forthcoming book The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages: On the Unwritten History of Theory and is co-editor of The Yearbook of Langland Studies. He is spending spring 2010 at All Souls in Oxford.

There will be responses from Dr Warren Boutcher (QM), Professor Virginia Davis (QM), and Dr Daniel Wakelin (Cambridge), as a prelude to further questions and discussion. The seminar will be followed by a wine reception.

Queen Mary contacts: Professor Miri Rubin, History (m.e.rubin@qmul.ac.uk) Professor Julia Boffey, English (j.boffey@qmul.ac.uk)

10–12 June 2010. "Studium Conference: Sacred Space, Sacred Memory: Bishop-Saints and their Cities," an international conference to be held in Tours, France. The keynote speaker will be Maureen Miller (Univ. of California Berkeley).

The history of many European cities was shaped by one or more saintly figures whose ties to the city—real or imagined—had both spiritual and tangible consequences. The topography of the city, its economy, its institutions, its liturgy, its reputation, and even its inhabitants’ sense of civic pride, could all be shaped by and were dependent upon an idiosyncratic understanding of the saint’s association with the city. The figure of the bishop-saint, moreover, bestowed with extraordinary spiritual and temporal prerogatives, represents a distinctive type which this conference seeks to address. What was his impact on religious, political, and cultural practices and institutions in a given city? What are some of the privileges associated with promoting his cult? In what ways do local claims on the bishop-saint evince tensions on a regional/national level or between elites and the masses? Possible perspectives on these and other related issues may include, but are not restricted to, liturgy, music, hagiography, art history, theology, history, and paleography.

Call for papers: The conference organizers are soliciting abstracts for individual papers and proposals for complete sessions for its 2010 Conference, and are inviting scholars from a wide variety of disciplines to offer their perspectives on issues coinciding with the Conference’s theme. Ideally, papers will deal with different parts of Europe and address periods ranging from the Middle Ages to the present. Abstracts in French or English of 300 words or less for a 20-minute paper should be e-mailed no later than 30 January, 2010. Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel costs and conference registration fee (reduced for students and post-docs). Contact: Christine Bousquet (Christine.bousquet@univ-tours.fr) or Yossi Maurey (ymaurey@mscc.huji.ac.il).

10–13 June 2010. "Mapping Late Medieval Lives of Christ," at Queen's University, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The culmination of the AHRC-funded "Geographies of Orthodoxy" project, the "Mapping Late Medieval Lives of Christ" conference hosts leading international scholars who will be exploring all aspects of late medieval Christological piety, with a particular emphasis on the cultural manifestations of the pseudo-Bonaventuran tradition, in a variety of European contexts. Registration for the conference is now open and a draft programme is online (http://www.qub.ac.uk/geographies-of-orthodoxy/discuss/conference-mapping-late-medieval-lives-of-christ/).

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16–17 June 2010. "The Digital Middle Ages: Teaching And Research," the Third International MARGOT Conference (Moyen Age et Renaissance Groupe de recherches - Ordinateurs et Textes), will be held at Barnard College, Columbia University New York. This conference is co-sponsored by the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Plenary speakers: David Trotter (Aberystwyth University, Wales) and John Unsworth (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) For full program information and registration see the conference website (http://margot.uwaterloo.ca/DMAConference/index.html).

18–19 June 2010. "Rethinking Medieval Liturgy: New Approaches across Disciplines," in London. The workshop will take place in London at the Lock-keepers Cottage, Queen Mary, University of London, E1 4NS.

The study of medieval liturgy has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years. As the lines between various kinds of cultural studies have become increasingly blurred, musicologists, art historians, literary scholars, and historians have realised its centrality and importance. Liturgy provides fundamental insights into the experience of worship and devotion in the middle ages, as the medium through which religious ideas were transmitted. There is now a need, we believe, to find coherent expression and a voice for the emerging generation of students of the liturgy, by breaking institutional and disciplinary boundaries, and by bringing so-called para-liturgical genres, such as drama, hagiography, and sermons, as well as art and architecture, back into their liturgical contexts.

To this purpose, we are holding a two-day international workshop for post-graduate students from a variety of disciplines on the subject of medieval liturgy. It will include a training session in recent developments of liturgical studies, led by acclaimed professor Susan Boynton of the Department of Music at Columbia University.

Call for papers: Proposals are invited from researchers who are engaged in or have recently finished their post-graduate studies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Theories of ritual and their application to medieval liturgy

- Musicology and music history

- Art and architecture as related to liturgy

- Worship and devotion as cultural phenomena

- Liturgy in the history of religious institutions

- Christianization and reform

- Liturgy and material culture - The social role of liturgy

- Hagiography, sermons and drama in their liturgical contexts

- Manuscripts and the representation of liturgical texts

Papers will be 20 min. in length. Individual paper proposals (papers and proposals should be in English) to a maximum of 300 words should be sent by 1 March 2010 to: Kati Ihnat, Queen Mary, University of London (kati_ihnat@yahoo.ca) or Erik Niblaeus, Kings College London (erik.niblaeus@kcl.ac.uk).

18–19 June 2010. "Studies in Cotton Nero A X (the Gawain-Manuscript)," the 10th Annual Summer Conference organized by LOMERS (London Old and Middle English Research Seminar).

Speakers will include Alcuin Blamires, Helen Cooper, Tony Davenport, Rosalind Field, Susanna Fein, Julian Harrison, Derek Pearsall, Ad Putter

Call for papers: Proposals are invited for 20 minute papers on relevant topics such as: Workshop, Palaeography; Codicology; Patronage; Reception; History and Context; Texts; Illustrations; Authorship(s); Literary Contexts; Textual Editing . . . Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words by the end of February to Ruth Kennedy (r.kennedy@rhul.ac.uk).

Proceedings will be edited by Ruth Kennedy and Simon Meecham-Jones. For previous proceedings see: http://us.macmillan.com/author/ruthkennedy.

18–19 June 2010. "Rethinking Medieval Liturgy: New Approaches across Disciplines," in London. The workshop will take place in London at the Lock-keepers Cottage, Queen Mary, University of London, E1 4NS, from Friday June 18 (10am) to Saturday June 19 (5pm) 2010. Application for AHRC funding pending.

The study of medieval liturgy has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years. As the lines between various kinds of cultural studies have become increasingly blurred, musicologists, art historians, literary scholars, and historians have realised its centrality and importance. Liturgy provides fundamental insights into the experience of worship and devotion in the middle ages, as the medium through which religious ideas were transmitted. There is now a need, we believe, to find coherent expression and a voice for the emerging generation of students of the liturgy, by breaking institutional and disciplinary boundaries, and by bringing so-called para-liturgical genres, such as drama, hagiography, and sermons, as well as art and architecture, back into their liturgical contexts.

To this purpose, we are holding a two-day international workshop for post-graduate students from a variety of disciplines on the subject of medieval liturgy. It will include a training session in recent developments of liturgical studies, led by acclaimed professor Susan Boynton of the Department of Music at Columbia University. Call for papers: Proposals are invited from researchers who are engaged in or have recently finished their post-graduate studies.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Theories of ritual and their application to medieval liturgy

- Musicology and music history - Art and architecture as related to liturgy

- Worship and devotion as cultural phenomena

- Liturgy in the history of religious institutions

- Christianization and reform

- Liturgy and material culture

- The social role of liturgy

- Hagiography, sermons and drama in their liturgical contexts

- Manuscripts and the representation of liturgical texts

Papers will be 20 min. in length. Individual paper proposals (papers and proposals should be in English) to a maximum of 300 words should be sent by 1 March, 2010 to: Kati Ihnat, Queen Mary, University of London (kati_ihnat@yahoo.ca) or Erik Niblaeus, Kings College London (erik.niblaeus@kcl.ac.uk).

23–27 June 2010. "Perceptions of Place: English place-name study and regional variety," an international conference to be held in association with the English Place-Name Society at the Institute for Name-Studies, University of Nottingham, in England.

Speakers include:

• Professor Thomas Clancy (Glasgow) on English place-names in the Scottish border region

• Professor Richard Coates (UWE) on place-names and linguistics

• Professor Klaus Dietz (Freie Universität Berlin) on place-names and English historical dialectology

• Professor Gillian Fellows-Jensen (Copenhagen) on the Scandinavian background to English place-names

• Professor Carole Hough (Glasgow) on women in English place-names

• Professor John Insley (Heidelberg) on personal names in place-names

• Dr Kay Muir (Northern Ireland Place-Name Project) on English place-names in Ireland

• Dr Oliver Padel (EPNS president) on the Celtic element in English place-names

• Dr Matthew Townend (York) on the Scandinavian element in English place-names

Contact: Perceptions of Place, Institute for Name-Studies, School of English, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD (rebecca.peck@nottingham.ac.uk). Further details on arrangements and costs will be available on the conference website (http://ww.nottingham.ac.uk/english/ins/).

24–26 June 2010. "Translatio," the 7th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society, Paris (IMS), in collaboration with the Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris (LAMOP).

Keynote speakers: Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania, and Serge Lusignan, Université de Montréal & LAMOP.

The medieval term translatio brings into contact linguistic, material, and cultural fields. It was attached to a group of related concepts: the physical displacement of objects, the rewriting of a text in a new language, or the transfer of meaning proper to metaphor. Eventually, writers of the Latin West began to employ the concepts of translatio studii et imperii in an attempt to define their conflicted relationship with the authority and learning of Classical, Muslim, and Byzantine cultures; the term thus expressed their understanding of cultural contact and exchange. Recent work has shown how these various iterations of translatio can indicate complex acts of cultural negotiation or appropriation, which repositioneded the opposing forces of old and new, the other and the self.

The present symposium will bring together scholars from diverse disciplines, in order to study the various modes and meanings of translatio. Papers might address such topics as: the adaptation of texts from one language into another in literary or musical sources; the transfer of themes from one medium to another (among, for example, texts, music, painting, sculpture, or textiles); the use of spolia in building or orfèvrerie; the translation of relics; the exploitation of Classical themes or narratives by medieval political figures or historiographers; the controversies over Biblical translation; the function of translatio as metaphor in religious or secular writing; the appropriation of words from one language into another.

Call for papers: The International Medieval Society of Paris (IMS-Paris) is soliciting abstracts for individual papers and proposals for complete sessions for its 2010 Symposium, which will explore the practice and function of translatio in medieval France. The International Medieval Society of Paris (IMS-Paris) is soliciting abstracts for individual papers and proposals for complete sessions for its 2010 Symposium, which will explore the practice and function of translatio in medieval France. Papers should address France, Francia, or post-Roman Gaul in some way, but they need not be exclusively limited to this geographic area.

We encourage submissions from a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to: Anthropology * Archaeology * Art History * Classical Studies * Comparative Literature * Gender Studies * History * History of Medicine * History of Science * Linguistics * Literary Studies * Musicology * Philosophy * Religious Studies * Theology * Urban Studies. Abstracts of no more than 300 words for a 20-minute paper should be e-mailed to contact@ims-paris.org no later than 1 February 2010. In addition to the abstract, please submit full contact information, a CV, and a tentative assessment of any audiovisual equipment required for your presentation.

The IMS will review submissions and respond via e-mail by 15 February 2010. Titles of accepted papers will be made available on the IMS website. Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel costs and conference registration fee (35 euros, reduced for students). The registration fee will be waived for IMS members. The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary and bilingual (French/English) organization founded to serve as a center for medievalists who research, work, study, or travel to France. For more information about the IMS and the schedule of last year’s Symposium, please see our website: www.ims-paris.org.

28–30 June 2010. "Orthodox Constructions of the West," a conference hosted by the Christian Orthodox Studies program at Fordham University, and co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies, at the Rose Hill campus. Contact George Demacopoulos (demacopoulos@fordham.edu) or Aristotle Papanilolaou (papanilolaou@fordham.edu).

8–10 July 2010, "Central Asian Islamic Manuscripts and Manuscript Collections," the Sixth Islamic Manuscript Conference, organized by the Islamic Manuscript Association, will be held at Queens' College, University of Cambridge, England. The Conference will be hosted by the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, the Cambridge Central Asia Forum, and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge.

Call for papers: The Association invites the submission of abstracts on topics related to the study of Islamic manuscripts—particularly codicology—and the care and management of Islamic manuscript collections. Preference will be shown to submissions pertaining to the Conference's theme. The Conference will be organised around the Association's four key working areas: cataloguing, conservation, digitisation, and research and publishing; and papers falling into these broad categories will be included in the relevant panel. The Association will also consider submissions on topics that do not fall directly under the purviews of the working groups but are yet concerned with scholarship on Islamic manuscripts or the care and management of Islamic manuscript collections. Please note that the total number of papers accepted will not exceed 25 and that preference will be given to speakers who have not presented papers at the Association's previous conferences.

The invitation is open to members and non-members of the Association. The languages of the Conference will be Arabic and English and submissions will be accepted in both languages. The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2010. Late submissions will not be considered. The duration of each conference paper is 30 minutes inclusive of 10 minutes of questions and answers.

Please send an abstract of 500 words, a resume, and the cover sheet (available at http://www.islamicmanuscript.org/conferences/2010conference/CallForPapers.html) to the Association's Executive Committee: The Islamic Manuscript Association Ltd, c/o 33 Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1QY, United Kingdom (fax: +44 (0)1223 302 218; ima@islamicmanuscript.org; http://www.islamicmanuscript.org/conferences/2010conference/SixthIslamicManuscriptConference.htm).

12–14 July, 2010. "Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible," a conference hosted by the Centre for the History of the Book, at the University of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

At the beginning of the thirteenth century a new type of Bible emerged from Paris and southern England and spread rapidly throughout Western Europe. Innovations in script and parchment enabled the creation of single-volume Bibles, some of which could easily fit a modern pocket; other features, such as the modern chapter division, introduced unprecedented ease of usage. These Bibles became the template for Gutenberg's celebrated 42-line version and have had an influence on printed Bibles ever since. Today, hundreds of these manuscripts survive, bearing witness to one of the most popular books of the Middle Ages. The ubiquity of these Bibles has only recently been met by scholarly interest, and questions remain regarding their evolution as well as their place within the medieval university, pulpit and priory.

The conference will bring together experts in medieval liturgy and sermons, art, religion and manuscripts, to examine the material culture of the Late Medieval Bible and its setting. Presentations, discussions and two workshops would draw on the wealth of manuscripts in the University Library and the NLS in analysing variants of text and layout, imagery and addenda. Speakers will include: • Nicole Bériou (Université Lumière Lyon 2) • Laura Light (Independent Scholar, Boston) • John Lowden (Courtauld Institute of Art, London) • Eyal Poleg (CHB, University of Edinburgh) • Diane J. Reilly (Indiana University, Bloomington) • Paul Saenger (The Newberry Library, Chicago) • Paul Antonio (Calligrapher, London).

Call for papers: Papers are invited on any aspect of the late medieval Bible (c.1230–c.1450) and its place within medieval religion, culture and society; sessions will address the evolution of the late medieval Bible, its layout, addenda and art, as well as its connection to exegesis, preaching and liturgy. Proposals (up to 300 words) should be e-mailed to L.M.B@ed.ac.uk or sent to the Centre for the History of the Book, 22a Buccleuch Place, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LN, Scotland, by December 20.

A small number of postgraduate bursaries will be made available towards defraying costs of travel and registration. The date of the conference is planned to enable attendees to take part in the CHB's Material Cultures 2010 conference, 16–18 July.

12–15 July 2010. The 17th International Medieval Congress (IMC) will be held at Leeds, England. Contact: International Medieval Congress Administration, Institute for Medieval Studies, Parkinson Bldg. 1.03, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. (+44-113-343-3614; fax: +44-113-343-3616; imc@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc).

15–19 July 2010. The Seventeenth Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society will take place in Siena, Italy, in 2010. In keeping with the suggestions made at the 2003 Glasgow Congress, there is no single theme for the Congress. The overall structure reflects areas of inquiry that emerged from members' initial proposals for sessions. Sessions will consequently follow several threads: Chaucerian Temporalities; Medievalisms; Found in Translation: Italy and England in the Age of Chaucer; Transnationalism; Insular Multilingualisms; Political Languages; Visual Cultures; Religious Practice, Institutions, and Theology: Chaucerian Contexts; Bodies; Animal Discourses; Philosophy and Science; and Manuscripts and Printed Books. In addition, there will be a number of non-aligned panels and sessions, and several plenary sessions.

Call for papers: paper sessions will comprise three or four fifteen-minute papers. At least one paper will be given by a graduate student or research student. Panel sessions will comprise seven or eight five-minute presentations. For both paper and panel sessions, organizers will enforce time limits to allow for discussion.

The NCS Constitution requires that Congress participants (except for invited speakers from other fields) be members with their dues paid. We encourage you to share information about the Congress with other interested people who may not be NCS members at present—graduate students, new colleagues, and others working outside the field who may find sessions related to their specialisms. (Graduate students and research students may join NCS at a reduced membership rate.) Finally, a tight limit has been set on prior invitations to participate in any session. The overwhelming majority of participants in the Congress will be those who respond to this call.

NCS members who wish to give papers or participate in panels at the Congress should send a one-paragraph abstract to the organizer(s), to arrive before 15 July 2009, preferably at the e-mail addresses given below in the session description. Please indicate any specific audio-visual needs. Session organizers will select papers and panels soon afterwards, in consultation with the Program Chairs. The Program Committee will form additional sessions as interests arise. Names of Congress participants will be announced in an upcoming Chaucer Newsletter. Members may apply to participate in more than one session, but they may finally take part in only one.

The program committee is composed of Thomas Hahn (Chair), Marion Turner, David Wallace, Jessica Brantley, Orietta Da Rold, and Stefania D'Agata D'Ottavi (Chair of the Local Arrangements Committee) with Richard Firth Green (NCS President) and David Lawton (NCS Executive Director) ex officio. For more information, visit the NCS website (http://artsci.wustl.edu/~chaucer/congress/congress2010call.php).

17–19 July 2010. "Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles," the second biennial Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium (CICS) will be held at the University of Cambridge. The new symposium will comprise keynote addresses, panel discussions, a tour of Cambridge College Libraries, formal conference dinner, publications fair and wine reception. Refreshments and lunches are provided for conference guests and college accommodation is available. As on the previous occasion, a limited number of small bursaries will be awarded.

Call for papers: the organizers are accepting proposals from scholars in the disciplines including but not limited to English, History, Literature, Philosophy, and Religious Studies. Topics for discussion could include:

-Kingship and queenship, earls and ealdormen;

-Abbots and abbesses, monks and nuns;

- Ecclesiastical and secular authorities;

- Institutional authority;

- National authority and identity;

- Masculine, feminine, and neuter: linguistic authority;

- Auctors and Auctoritas;

- Textual authority, witnesses, and scribal traditions;

- Kinglists and genealogies;

- Nuns in the scriptorium;

- Female voices, male scribes—authority and authorship;

-Gender and legal practices;

- Moral authority;

- Ritual and authority;

Establishment of authority: feuds, force, and warfare;

- The construction of gender in chronicles.

Abstract (of approximately 250 words) are due no later than 15 December 2009. In special cases, papers will be commissioned for publication without presentation at the conference (contact the organisers for more information). Please check the website for regular updates (CambridgeICS@gmail.com; http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/diary/cics/index.html).

19–23 July 2010. "1212–1214: El trienio que hizo a Europa." XXXVII Semana de Estudios Medievales de Estella, at the Palacio de los Reyes de Navarra, in Estella, Spain.

Speakers will be

* Prof. Dr. D. William Chester Jordan University of Princeton

* Prof. Dr. D. Jacques Verger Université de Paris-Sorbonne

* Prof. Dra. Dña. Maria Ginatempo Università degli Studi di Siena

* Prof. Dr. D. Laurent Macé Université de Toulouse

* Prof. Dr. D. José Manuel Nieto Soria Universidad Complutense de Madrid

* Prof. Dr. D. Francisco García Fitz Universidad de Extremadura

* Prof. Dra. Dña. María Joao Branco Universidade Aberta de Lisboa

* Prof. Dr. D. Martín Alvira Cabrer Universidad Complutense de Madrid

* Prof. Dr. D. Pascual Martínez Sopena Universidad de Valladolid

* Prof. Dr. D. Agostino Paravicini Bagliani Università della Svizzera italiana. Lugano

* Prof. Dr. D. Nicholas Vincent University of East Anglia

* Prof. Dra. Dña. Eloísa Ramírez Vaquero Universidad Pública de Navarra

* Prof. Dra. Dña. Monique Bourin Université de Nantes

* Prof. Dr. D. Luigi Provero Università di Torino

Contact: +848-424-681/86; athrebas@cfnavarra.es; mperezom@navarra.es; http://www.cfnavarra.es/medieval/

19–24 July 2010. The 13th Colloquium of SITM (Société internationale pour l'étude du théâtre médiéval) will meet in Giessen, Germany. Papers will be in English, French, or German. Contact: Prof. Dr. Cora Dietl, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Institut für Germanistik, Otto-Behaghel-Straße 10 B, 35394 Gießen, Germany (http://www.uni-giessen.de/~g91159/sitm.htm).

21–24 August 2010. "Music for the Office and Its Sources in the Low Countries (1050–1550)," an international conference in Antwerp, Belgium. The conference, supported by the International Musicological Society Study Group "Cantus Planus", will take place during the yearly festival Laus Polyphoniae (Flanders Festival Antwerp), and in close collaboration with the festival program.

The office is the most substantial portion of the liturgy: in all types of communities and services, whether of monastic, cathedral, or courtly signature, it formed a crucial part of their musical culture. Because the Low Countries knew an unprecedented variety of communities and institutions, the contexts in which the office was celebrated in the region were equally varied. Indeed, the wealth of sources for the office from the Low Countries has led many scholars to study selected aspects of the celebration of the office in the region, such as prose or versified historiae, tropes and prosulas, motets composed for Vespers and Salve services, and 'paraliturgical' pieces. The conference sets out to explore the variety of the extant repertory and its sources, by bringing together new research into the music for the office in, or related to, the Low Countries (understood to include Northern France and the Meuse-Rhineland), and studying plainchant as well as polyphony and their interrelations.

Call for papers: Scholars and performers studying chant and/or polyphony from analytical, historical, liturgical, or interdisciplinary perspectives are invited to send proposals of no longer than 350 words to Pieter Mannaerts (pieter.mannaerts@arts.kuleuven.be) before 15 February 2010. Notification of acceptance will be given by 15 March 2010. The final conference program will be published around 1 April 2010, on the website of the Alamire Foundation (http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/alamire). A selection of conference papers will be published in the internationally peer-reviewed Journal of the Alamire Foundation in 2012.

23–27 July 2010. "In Principio Fuit Interpres," the international Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages, at the Università degli Studi di Padova, in Padua, Italy.

Linguistic and literary traditions include translation in their myth of origin–thus the linguistic and scholar Gianfranco Folena proposed to substitute the motto In principio fuit poëta with the humbler In principio fuit interpres. Following his suggestion, we welcome papers addressing translation in the Middle Ages, marking the relationship between classical, Middle Eastern, and vernacular languages, and studying translation as the representation of ideas and texts in different media.

Plenary speakers: Roger Ellis, Domenico Pezzini, David Wallace.

Contact: Alessandra Petrina and Monica Santini, Dipartimento di Lingue e Lett. Anglo-Germaniche e Slave, Via Beato Pellegrino, 26, 35100 Padua, Italy (or to both: alessandra.petrina@unipd.it and monica.santini@unipd.it).

25–30 July 2010. The Thirteenth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS) will take place in Montreal, Canada. The Congress's overarching theme is "Courtly Cultures on the Move," and speakers are especially invited to consider the theme in relation to three areas:

transmission and reception of courtliness;

books and courtly culture; and

languages of courtliness.

The organizers also welcome proposals for thematic sessions organized by individuals or groups.

Call for papers: Please submit a title and a 250-word abstract by 15 December 2009 to the program committee (icls2010@listes.umontreal.ca). Papers may be given in any of the official languages of the ICLS: French, English, or German. All speakers must be members of the ICLS and should indicate their branch affiliation in their abstract. Anyone not yet a member should contact the secretary of the appropriate national branch to join. For more information, see the conference website (http://www.icls2010.ca/en/home.html).

17–19 August 2010. "New techniques for old documents: Scientific examination methods in the service of preservation and book history." The IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section and The Rare Books and Manuscripts section invite speakers to present papers for a satellite meeting in conjunction to the IFLA World Library and Information Conference 2010. The satellite conference takes place at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

Within this theme we welcome papers on scientific techniques such as DNA, infrared spectroscopy, imaging techniques and micro x-ray fluorescence. All these techniques may be used in conservation treatments and material bibliographic issues such as the determination of animals for leathers, provenance through DNA-analysis, measuring paper strength, examination of pigments and inks for palimpsests and other documents, and ICR - (Intelligent Character recognition) for the recognition of hand-written text. We would like to encourage a multi-disciplinary meeting and therefore, relevant papers from both scientists, conservators, book-historians and others who may add interesting and new knowledge within the overall topic, are welcome to submit abstracts for a paper.

The conference will be a two-day meeting, including social events. Visits are planned for August 19. Please note that speakers will have to cover their own expenses for travel and accommodation. However, IFLA satellite conferences normally attract a worldwide audience with many opportunities for discussions and interesting meetings.

Call for papers: Please send an abstract of no more than 350 words by e-mail only, to Per Culhed (Per.Cullhed@ub.uu.se) and Raphaele Mouren (Raphaele.Mouren@enssib.fr) before 1 March 2010. The submissions will be examined during March and prospective speakers will be notified on 6 April. The abstract should include the following: name of the speaker, institutional affiliation and address, title of the paper, and short biography.

21–24 August 2010. "Music for the Office and Its Sources in the Low Countries (1050–1550)," At the Conference Center Elzenveld, Antwerp, Belgium.

The office is the most substantial portion of the liturgy, and has incited medieval and Renaissance composers to contribute to its musical splendour for at least half a millennium. In all types of communities and services, whether of monastic, cathedral, or courtly signature, the office formed a crucial part of their musical culture. Because the Low Countries knew an unprecedented variety of communities and institutions, the contexts in which the office was celebrated in the region were equally varied. Indeed, the wealth of sources for the office from the Low Countries has led many scholars to study selected aspects of the celebration of the office in the region, such as prose or versified historiae, tropes and prosulas, motets composed for Vespers and Salve services, and 'paraliturgical' pieces.

This conference sets out to explore the variety of the extant repertory and its sources, by bringing together new research into the music for the office in, or related to, the Low Countries (understood to include Northern France and the Meuse-Rhineland), and studying plainchant as well as polyphony and their interrelations.

Scholars and performers studying chant and/or polyphony from analytical, historical, liturgical, or interdisciplinary perspectives are invited to send proposals of no longer than 350 words to before 15 February 2010. Notification of acceptance will be given by 15 March 2010. The final conference program will be published around 1 April 2010, on the website of the Alamire Foundation (www.arts.kuleuven.be/alamire). The program committee is currently being composed, and will be announced within the coming weeks.

All International Musicological Society languages may be used (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish); the principal conference language will be English.

The conference, supported by the International Musicological Society Study Group "Cantus Planus," will take place during the yearly festival Laus Polyphoniae (Flanders Festival Antwerp), and in close collaboration with the festival program. Participants will have a unique opportunity of hearing concerts related to the conference theme, which will thus include both chant and polyphony from Low Countries sources. A selection of conference papers will be published in the internationally peer-reviewed Journal of the Alamire Foundation in 2012 (www.arts.kuleuven.be/alamire).

Διεθνές Συνέδριο, 3-6 Ιουνίου 2010



Το Διεθνές συνέδριο με θέμα «Νεο-πατερική σύνθεση ή Μετα-πατερική θεολογία: Το αίτημα της συναφειακότητας στην ορθοδοξία» (3-6 Ιουνίου), θα καλυφθεί ζωντανά από το διαδικτυακό τηλεοπτικό κανάλι www.intv.gr , και θα υπάρχει ταυτόχρονη μετάφραση (ελληνικά-αγγλικά).

3-6-2010

Νεο-πατερική σύνθεση ή «Μετα-πατερική» Θεολογία: Το αίτημα της θεολογίας της συνάφειας στην Ορθοδοξία Διεθνές Συνέδριο (με ταυτόχρονη μετάφραση στα ελληνικά / αγγλικά) στο Συνεδριακό Θεσσαλίας, Βόλος, 3-6 Ιουνίου 2010 με την παρουσία κορυφαίων Ορθοδόξων Θεολόγων απ' όλο τον κόσμο Η Ακαδημία Θεολογικών Σπουδών σε συνεργασία με το Πρόγραμμα Ορθοδόξων Σπουδών του Fordham University (Νέα Υόρκη), την Έδρα Ορθοδόξου Θεολογίας του Πανεπιστημίου του Münster (Γερμανία) και το Ρουμανικό Ινστιτούτο Διορθοδόξου, Διαχριστιανικού και Διαθρησκειακού Διαλόγου (INTER) Cluj-Napoca οργανώνει διεθνές συνέδριο με θέμα: Νεο-πατερική σύνθεση ή «Μετα-πατερική» Θεολογία: Το αίτημα της θεολογίας της συνάφειας στην Ορθοδοξία. Το συνέδριο αυτό εντάσσεται στο πλαίσιο του φετινού προγράμματος της Ακαδημίας με γενικό θέμα: Η Ορθοδοξία στον 21ο αιώνα. Ο 20ος αιώνας υπήρξε για την Ορθοδοξία μια περίοδος σημαντικών αλλαγών και ανακατατάξεων. Για πρώτη φορά, έπειτα από πολλούς αιώνες, με την αφορμή της οικουμενικής κίνησης και στο πλαίσιο κυρίως της ορθόδοξης διασποράς, η ορθόδοξη θεολογία βγήκε από την εσωστρέφεια και την ομολογιακή της περιχαράκωση ερχόμενη σε διάλογο με τις άλλες μεγάλες χριστιανικές παραδόσεις και με τις προκλήσεις του μοντέρνου κόσμου. Αυτή η ελπιδοφόρα πορεία ανανέωσης της Ορθοδοξίας συνδέθηκε στενά με τη λεγόμενη «νεο-πατερική σύνθεση» και με μεγάλα θεολογικά αναστήματα όπως ο π. Γεώργιος Φλωρόφσκυ, ο Βλαδίμηρος Λόσκι, και τη συμβολή Ελλήνων θεολόγων όπως ο Νίκος Νησιώτης, ο Σάββας Αγουρίδης, ο π. Ιωάννης Ρωμανίδης, ο Σεβ. Μητρπολίτης Περγάμου Ιωάννης Ζηζιούλας, ο Χρήστος Γιανναράς, κ. ά. Η ορθόδοξη θεολογία έχει συχνά χαρακτηρισθεί ως παραδοσιακή, παραπέμποντας έτσι στη βασική πηγή εμπνευσής της και το πλαίσιο διαμόρφωσής της. Πρόκειται για την πλούσια πατερική της παράδοση, η οποία συχνά τείνει να απολυτοποιείται σε ένα είδος μοναδικού, αν όχι και αλάθητου, κριτηρίου αλήθειας και «ορθοδοξίας». Παρατηρείται έτσι στις μέρες μας το φαινόμενο η ορθόδοξη θεολογία να θεολογεί προσκολλημένη σε μεθόδους και αρχές που προϋποθέτουν ένα τελείως διαφορετικό κοσμοείδωλο, όπως αυτό λ.χ. της βυζαντινής εποχής, ενώ η γλώσσα και ο λόγος της συνδέεται σε μεγάλο βαθμό, αν όχι και αποκλειστικά, με τις κατηγορίες σκέψης της ελληνικής φιλοσοφίας και οντολογίας. Σήμερα δεν γίνεται εύκολα αντιληπτό ότι η σπουδαία σε σημασία πατερική παράδοση, δεν υπήρξε ποτέ ένα μονολιθικό, ανιστορικό και αμετάβλητο κατασκέυασμα, αλλά ότι διαρκώς ανακαινιζόταν με τη χάρη του Πνεύματος, προσλάμβάνοντας και αγιάζοντας τα εκάστοτε και εκασταχού νέα πολιτισμικά, κοινωνικά και ιστορικά δεδομένα. Αυτή η δυναμική φαίνεται σήμερα να έχει μάλλον ατονήσει ή και συσκοτισθεί, με αποτέλεσμα η θεολογία να προβάλλει συνήθως ως ένα απηρτισμένο κλειστό σύστημα, έξωθεν ερχόμενο, αν όχι και επιβαλλόμενο, που με τη μεθοδολογία, τη γλώσσα και το λόγο οριστικά και αμετάκλητα ξεπερασμένων εποχών επιχειρεί τάχα να προσφέρει στο σήμερα την «καλή αγγελία» για τη σωτηρία της κτίσης και του ανθρώπου. Οι παραπάνω διαπιστώσεις εισάγουν το κεντρικής σημασίας ερώτημα, για το εάν και κατά πόσο μπορεί η Ορθοδοξία παραμένοντας πιστή στην πλούσια πατερική της παράδοση να διαλεχθεί ή, μάλλον, να σαρκωθεί στον μετανεωτερικό κόσμο του 21ου αιώνα, κατά το πρότυπο του σαρκωνθέντος Κυρίου της, αναλαμβάνοντας έτσι στην πράξη τις θεολογικές, ανθρωπολογικές αλλά και ιστορικές/πολιτισμικές συνέπειες που απορρέουν από το γεγονός της Σάρκωσης. Με άλλα λόγια, το κεντρικό ζήτημα που τίθεται είναι εάν υπάρχει ενδογενώς η δυνατότητα για την ορθόδοξη θεολογία να λειτουργήσει όχι μόνο ως παραδοσιακή αλλά και ως συναφειακή. Το ερώτημα, όμως, αυτό δεν μπορεί να απαντηθεί ούτε εύκολα αλλά ούτε και μονοδιάστατα. Απαιτεί σοβαρή και κυρίως ειλικρινή, χωρίς προκαταλήψεις, εργασία μέσα στους κόλπους της ορθόδοξης θεολογίας, προκειμένου να αναδειχθούν εκ νέου τα στοιχεία εκείνα που συνέβαλαν στη διαμόρφωση της φυσιογνωμίας της πατερικής παράδοσης που για την εποχή της λειτούργησε περισσότερο ως συναφειακή παρά ως παραδοσιακή μορφή θεολογίας. Θα τολμήσει η Εκκλησία να σαρκώσει στο μετανεωτερικό μας κόσμο την αιώνια αλήθεια του Ευαγγελίου, προσλαμβάνοντας κριτικά και δημιουργικά τη σάρκα ακριβώς του μετανεωτερικού κόσμου, και όχι κάποιας μακρινής ή και χιμαιρικής «χριστιανικής» κοινωνίας; Στο Διεθνές Συνέδριο από τις 3 έως τις 6 Ιουνίου στο Βόλο με θέμα: «Νεο-πατερική σύνθεση ή “μετα-πατερική” θεολογία», σύμφωνα με το παρακάτω πρόγραμμα. Στο συνέδριο θα λάβουν μέρος κορυφαίοι ορθόδοξοι θεολόγοι, επίσκοποι, κληρικοί και λαϊκοί, κοσμήτορες και καθηγητέςς ορθοδόξων θεολογικών σχολών απ΄όλο τον κόσμο, που θα λαμπρύνουν με την παρουσία τους την Ακαδημία Θεολογικών Σπουδών, την Μητρόπολη Δημητριάδος και την πόλη του Βόλου. ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ ΠΕΜΠΤΗ 3 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ 2010 18.00-18.30                 Εγγραφή-Παραλαβή φακέλων 18.30-19.00                 Έναρξη – Χαιρετισμοί Α΄ Συνεδρία Προεδρεύων: Παντελής Καλαϊτζίδης Συντονιστής της Ακαδημίας Θεολογικών Σπουδών 19.00-19.30 Αρχιεπίσκοπος Βολοκολάμσκ Ιλαρίων Alfeyef, Ορθόδοξη Παράδοση και συναφειακή θεολογία 19.30-20.00 Γεώργιος Μαρτζέλος, Καθηγητής στη Θεολογική Σχολή Α.Π.Θ.,Ο ρόλος της συναφειακής θεολογίας στην Ορθόδοξη παράδοση ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ 4 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ 2010 Β΄ Συνεδρία Προεδρεύων: George Demacopoulos Αν. Καθηγητής, Συνιδρυτής-Διευθυντής του Προγράμματος Ορθοδόξων Σπουδών Πανεπιστημίου Fordham, Νέα Υόρκη 09.00-09.30                 Marcus Plested, Διευθυντής Σπουδών στο Ορθόδοξο Ινστιτούτο του Cambridge, Η εμφάνιση της νεο-πατερικής σύνθεσης: Περιεχόμενο, προκλήσεις και όρια 09.30-10.00 Διακ. Pavel L. Gavrilyuk, Αν. Καθηγητής στο Παν/μιο S. Thomas, Επισκέπτης Καθηγητής στη Θεολογική Σχολή του Harvard, Ο Χριστιανικός Ελληνισμός» του π. Γεωργίου Φλωρόφσκυ: μια κριτική αξιολόγηση 10.00-10.30                 John Behr, Κοσμήτωρ του Θεολογικού Σεμιναρίου Αγίου Βλαδιμήρου, Νέα Υόρκη, Επέκεινα της Νεο-πατερικής σύνθεσης Γ΄ Συνεδρία Προεδρεύουσα: Monica Herghelegiu Επ. Καθηγήτρια στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Tübingen 12.00-12.30                 π. Vladan Pericic, Καθηγητής Πατρολογίας, πρ. Κοσμήτωρ της Θεολογικής Σχολής του Παν/μίου  Βελιγραδίου, Λειτουργική θεολογία και συναφειακή θεολογία την πατερική εποχή και σήμερα 12.30-13.00                 Tamara Grdzelidze, Υπεύθυνη Προγράμματος του Τμήματος “Πίστις και Τάξις”, Παγκόσμιο Συμβούλιο Εκκλησιών, Η συναφειακή διάσταση των Πατέρων της Εκκλησίας στο πλαίσιο της οικουμενικής κίνησης Δ΄ Συνεδρία Προεδρεύουσα: Ελένη Κασσελούρη-Χατζηβασιλειάδη, Διδάσκουσα στο Ελληνικό Ανοικτό Παν/μιο, Επιστημονικός συνεργάτις της Ακαδημίας Θεολογικών Σπουδών, 15.00-15.30                 Daniel Ayuch, Αν. Καθηγητής στο Ινστιτούτο Ορθόδοξης Θεολογίας St. John of Damascus του Παν/μίου του Balamand, (Λίβανος), Η σχέση μεταξύ βιβλικών και θεολογικών επιστημών 15.30-16.00                 John Fotopoulos, Αν. Καθηγητής στο Τμήμα Θρησκευτικών Σπουδών στο Κολέγιο Saint Mary του Παν/μίου Notre Dame, Η.Π.Α, Η ορθόδοξη θεολογία και η ιστορικο-κριτική μέθοδος 16.00-16.30                 Monica Herghelegiu, Επ. Καθηγήτρια στο Παν/μιο του Tübingen, Η ιεραρχική δομή της Εκκλησίας. Κανονικά και βιβλικά θεμέλια μέσα από την προοπτική της συναφειακής θεολογίας Ε΄ Συνεδρία Προεδρεύων: Θεοφ. Επίσκοπος Δυτικής Αμερικής κ. Μάξιμος Εκκλησία της Σερβίας Καθηγητής Θεολογικής Σχολής Πανεπιστημίου Βελιγραδίου 18.00-18.30                 George Demacopoulos, Αν. Καθηγητής, Συνιδρυτής-Διευθυντής του Προγράμματος Ορθοδόξων Σπουδών στο Παν/μιο Fordham (Νέα Υόρκη), Ιστορία, μετα-αποικιακή θεωρία και κάποιες νέες δυνατότητες για την ανάκτηση του παρελθόντος της θεολογίας 18.30-19.00                 Alexei V. Nesteruk, Ερευνητής-Λέκτορας στο Τμήμα Μαθηματικών του Πανεπιστημίου του Portsmouth, Μ. Βρετανία, Επισκέπτης Καθηγητής στο St. Andrews Biblical Theological Institute, Μόσχα, Ορθοδοξία στον αιώνα της επιστήμης: Από τη Νεο-πατερική σύνθεση στη ριζοσπαστική θεολογική δέμευση ΣΑΒΒΑΤΟ 5 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ 2010 ΣΤ’ Συνεδρία Προεδρεύων: Βασίλειος Μακρίδης Καθηγητής Κοινωνιολογίας Ορθόδοξου Χριστιανισμού Πανεπιστημίου Erfurt, Γερμανία 09.00-09.30                 Assaad Elias Kattan, Διευθυντής του Κέντρου Θρησκευτικών Σπουδών και Καθηγητής στην έδρα Ορθόδοξης Θεολογίας στο Παν/μιο του Münster, Η επανεξέταση της Ουσιοκρατίας. Ο μύθος μιας μη ερμηνευτικής προσέγγισης στην Ορθόδοξη παράδοση 09.30-10.00 Διάκ. John Panteleimon Manousakis, Επ. Καθηγητής Φιλοσοφίας στο Κολλέγιο Τιμίου Σταυρού, Worcester (Η.Π.Α), Θεός: ον και γεγονός. Στο μεταίχμιο μεταξύ θεολογίας και οντολογίας 10.00-10.30                 π. Δημήτριος Μπαθρέλλος, Δρ. King’s College, Επισκέπτης Καθηγητής στο Ορθόδοξο Ινστιτούτο του Cambridge, εφημέριος Ι.Ναού Αγιάς Σοφίας Ντράφι Ι. Μητροπόλεως Μεσογαίας, Η συστηματική θεολογία ως μια νέα μορφή ορθόδοξης θεολογίας; Ζ΄ Συνεδρία Προεδρεύων: Aristotle Papanikolaou Αν. Καθηγητής, Συνιδρυτής-Διευθυντής του Προγράμματος Ορθοδόξων Σπουδών Πανεπιστημίου Fordham, Νέα Υόρκη 12.00-12.30                 Μητροπολίτης Περγάμου Ιωάννης Ζηζιούλας, Ακαδημαϊκός (Οικουμενικό Πατριαρχείο), Η επικαιρότητα και διαχρονικότητα της Νεο-πατερικής σύνθεσης 12.30-13.00 π. Andrew Louth, Καθηγητής Πατρολογίας Πανεπιστημίου Durham, Μ. Βρετανία, Η αυθεντία των Πατέρων της Εκκλησίας στην προοπτική μιας «μετα-πατερικής ορθόδοξης θεολογίας» Η’ Συνεδρία Προεδρεύων: Κωνσταντίνος Δεληκωνσταντής Καθηγητής Θεολογικής Σχολής Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών 15.00-15.30                 Michail Neamtu, Διδάκτωρ Θεολογίας, Senior Fellow, CADI/Eleutheria (Ρουμανία, Η εθνο-θεολογία ως μια ιδιαίτερη περίπτωση της συναφειακής θεολογίας 15.30-16.00 Radu Preda, Αν. Καθηγητής Κοινωνικής Θεολογίας στο Παν/μιο Babes-Bolyai, (Ρουμανία), Ορθόδοξη κοινωνική θεολογία και συναφειακή θεολογία 16.00-16.30                 Aristotle Papanikolaou, Αν. Καθηγητής, Συνιδρυτής-Διευθυντής του προγράμματος Ορθοδόξων Σπουδών στο Παν/μιο Fordham (Νέα Υόρκη), Ορθόδοξος φιλελευθερισμός: Η πολιτική θεολογία μετά την αυτοκρατορική εποχή Θ΄ Συνεδρία Προεδρεύουσα: Tamara Grdzelidze Υπεύθυνη Προγράμματος του Τμήματος “Πίστις και Τάξις”, Παγκόσμιο Συμβούλιο Εκκλησιών, 18.00-18.30                 Peter Bouteneff, Αν. Καθηγητής στο Θεολογικό Σεμινάριο Αγίου Βλαδιμήρου, Νέα Υόρκη , Θεολογίες της απελευθέρωσης: Προκλήσεις για τη σύγχρονη Ορθοδοξία από την πλευρά των θεολογιών της συνάφειας; 18.30-19.00                 Ελένη Κασσελούρη-Χατζηβασιλειάδη, Διδάσκουσα στο Ελληνικό Ανοικτό Παν/μιο, Επιστημονικός συνεργάτις της Ακαδημίας Θεολογικών Σπουδών, Η Φεμινιστική θεολογία και η συναφειακότητά της: Πρόκληση ή ευκαιρία για την Ορθόδοξη Θεολογία; ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ 6 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ 2010 Θεία Λειτουργία στον Ι. Ναό Αναλήψεως του Χριστού Βόλου Αναχώρηση λεωφορείων για Συνεδριακό Θεσσαλίας: 10.45 Ι’ Συνεδρία Προεδρεύων: Assaad Elias Kattan Διευθυντής του Κέντρου Θρησκευτικών Σπουδών και Καθηγητής στην έδρα Ορθόδοξης Θεολογίας στο Παν/μιο του Münster 11.30-12.00                 π. Εμμανουήλ Κλάψης, Καθηγητής της Ελληνορθόδοξης Θεολογικής Σχολής  Τιμίου Σταυρού Βοστώνης, Ευαγγέλιο και πολιτισμοί. Προς μια θεολογία των θρησκειών 12.00-12.30                 Θανάσης Ν. Παπαθανασίου, Δρ. Θεολογίας, Αρχισυντάκτης του περιοδικού Σύναξη, Η ιεραποστολή ως πρόκληση για την ορθόδοξη συναφειακή θεολογία 12.30-13.00                 Παντελής Καλαϊτζίδης, Δρ. Θεολογίας, Συντονιστής της Ακαδημίας Θεολογικών Σπουδών, Προς μια μετα-πατερική θεολογία;