Eastern Christianity Lecture Seminar Series (9th Edition)

PAST EVENT | 19 October 2022 17:00 - 23 November 2022 18:30

Members of the public and students are welcome to attend the Eastern Christianity Lecture Seminar Series (9th edition) at Pembroke College.

Details of each seminar can be found in the poster here, and below: 

 

Conveners: Dr Hratch Tchilingirian & Prof Theo Maarten Van Lint 

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 

Wednesdays, 5:00-6:30 pm, The Allen & Overy Room, Pembroke College, Oxford 

 

Week 2 |  19 October 

Eucharistic Fast in the Discipline of Eastern and Western Christianity 

~ Fr Máté Szaplonczay 

Researcher at the Saint Athanasius Greek Catholic Theological College, Hungary and a priest of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church 

 

Week 3 | 26 October 

Cosmopolitanism as Hospitality: Armenian World-Making in the ‘Mongol Thirteenth Century’ 

~ Dr Kate Franklin 

Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Birkbeck, University of London, Director of Studies, BA Programs in History, Classics and Archaeology  

 

Week 4 |  2 November 

Eastern Christianity at the verge of extinction in the Middle East? Current challenges and Prospects for the future. 

~ Dr Hratch Tchilingirian 

Associate of Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Oxford; Maître de Conférences, IMAS, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales 

 

Week 5 | 9 November 

John bar Andreas and Syro-Armenian polemics in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. 

~ Dr Andy Hilkens British Academy Newton International Fellow, Oxford; Research Fellow at Wolfson and Senior Postdoctoral Fellow (FWO) at Ghent University 

 

Week 6 |  16 November  

Ecumenical Dialogue and Ecclesial Exchange between the Holy See and the Coptic Orthodox Church since the Second Vatican Council until the death of Shenouda III (1971-2012)   

~ Dr Anthony O’Mahony 

Fellow, Blackfriars, University of Oxford  

 

Week 7 |  23 November  

Anqäs’ä Amin: A window into Christian-Muslim engagement in the sixteenth century from an Ethiopian Christian perspective 

~ Dr Yohannes Bekele   

Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life 

 

For further details please contact: hratch.tchilingirian@orinst.ox.ac.uk   

These lecture series are organised with the support of Oxford Armenian Studies and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. 

Eastern Christianity Lecture Seminar Series (9th Edition)

PAST EVENT | 19 October 2022 17:00 - 23 November 2022 18:30

Members of the public and students are welcome to attend the Eastern Christianity Lecture Seminar Series (9th edition) at Pembroke College.

Details of each seminar can be found in the poster here, and below: 

 

Conveners: Dr Hratch Tchilingirian & Prof Theo Maarten Van Lint 

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 

Wednesdays, 5:00-6:30 pm, The Allen & Overy Room, Pembroke College, Oxford 

 

Week 2 |  19 October 

Eucharistic Fast in the Discipline of Eastern and Western Christianity 

~ Fr Máté Szaplonczay 

Researcher at the Saint Athanasius Greek Catholic Theological College, Hungary and a priest of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church 

 

Week 3 | 26 October 

Cosmopolitanism as Hospitality: Armenian World-Making in the ‘Mongol Thirteenth Century’ 

~ Dr Kate Franklin 

Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Birkbeck, University of London, Director of Studies, BA Programs in History, Classics and Archaeology  

 

Week 4 |  2 November 

Eastern Christianity at the verge of extinction in the Middle East? Current challenges and Prospects for the future. 

~ Dr Hratch Tchilingirian 

Associate of Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Oxford; Maître de Conférences, IMAS, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales 

 

Week 5 | 9 November 

John bar Andreas and Syro-Armenian polemics in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. 

~ Dr Andy Hilkens British Academy Newton International Fellow, Oxford; Research Fellow at Wolfson and Senior Postdoctoral Fellow (FWO) at Ghent University 

 

Week 6 |  16 November  

Ecumenical Dialogue and Ecclesial Exchange between the Holy See and the Coptic Orthodox Church since the Second Vatican Council until the death of Shenouda III (1971-2012)   

~ Dr Anthony O’Mahony 

Fellow, Blackfriars, University of Oxford  

 

Week 7 |  23 November  

Anqäs’ä Amin: A window into Christian-Muslim engagement in the sixteenth century from an Ethiopian Christian perspective 

~ Dr Yohannes Bekele   

Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life 

 

For further details please contact: hratch.tchilingirian@orinst.ox.ac.uk   

These lecture series are organised with the support of Oxford Armenian Studies and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.