These seminars will be taking place on Tuesdays, from 5:00-6:30 pm in The Allen & Overy Room, Pembroke College, Oxford.

Conveners: Dr Hratch Tchilingirian and Prof Theo Maarten Van Lint

Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford

Week 2 | 7 May

Symbolism in Ethiopian art: Gold, Text & Images

~ Dr Jacopo Gnisci

ERC Research Associate, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies

Week 3 | 14 May

The decade that changed Orthodox Church history: the See of Kyiv between Constantinople and Moscow in the late 17th century

~ Dr Vera Tchentsova

Associate, ‘Stories of Survival’ Project, Faculty of History, Oxford

Week 4 | 21 May

From Syria to Armenia: Renegotiating home, identity and belonging among Syrian Armenian youth

~ Jessica Page

St. Edmund Hall, MPhil, Modern Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of
Oriental Studies, Oxford

Week 5 | 28 May

Electing “Patriarch of Constantinople”: Church and State relations since the establishment of the Republic of Turkey

~ Dr Hratch Tchilingirian

Associate of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford

Week 6 | 4 June

Deaconesses in the Syriac tradition.

~ Prof Sebastian Brock

Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford

Week 7 | 11 June

An Indian Monk’s Psalmic Odes (so-called ‘Odes of Solomon’) from Apostolic times discovered in the 20th century

~ Dr Bernard Kilroy

D.Th., Vidyajyoti Jesuit College, Delhi

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

These lecture series are organised with the support of Oxford Armenian Studies.