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CFP: ASEC 2015 at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee

Leaf from a Hilandar Monastery Slavic Manuscript

Leaf from a Hilandar Monastery Slavic Manuscript 71

Association for the Study of
Eastern Christian History and Culture, Inc. (ASEC)
Call for Papers
Sixth Biennial Conference
Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee
September 18-19, 2015
(Pre-conference reception on the evening of September 17)
The Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture is pleased to invite scholars of all disciplines working in Slavic, Eurasian, and East European studies to submit proposals for individual papers and panels for its biennial conference, to be held at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, and The Westin Memphis Beale Street Hotel.Scholars from the U.S.and around the world are welcome.All participants must be members of ASEC.
Proposals for individual papers and panels should be submitted by email to Dr. Randall Poole, Acting Vice President of ASEC (rpoole@css.edu) no later than December 1, 2014.All proposals should include:
–Participant name, affiliation, and email contact information                                  
–For individual papers:title and brief description (50-75 words)                            
–For panels: panel title + above information for each participant and discussant (if applicable).
Limited funding is available to provide graduate students with assistance for travel expenses.  General information regarding the hotel and meeting, and the conference registration form, will be available after October 1, 2014, on the following website of Rhodes College:
Image Source: Hilandar Research Library slide from Hilandar Monastery Slavic Manuscript 71
Text Source: ASEC listserv, moderated by ASEC Secretary, Eugene Clay

More Selected Papers of the 2007 ASEC Conference Published

 

The latest issue of Russian History has been released – and it contains more selected papers from the  second conference of the Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture (ASEC), “Centers and Peripheries: Interaction and Exchange in the Social, Cultural, Historical, and Regional Situations of Eastern Christianity” that was held at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, October 5–6, 2007.


Russian History
40.2 (2013): Centers and Peripheries in Eastern Christianity–Part 2.

Guest editors: J. Eugene Clay, Russell E. Martin, Barbara J. Skinner

Section 3. Community: Social and Perceptual Dynamics of the Center

Charles J. Halperin, “Church Immunities in Practice During the Reign of Ivan IV”

Marlyn Miller, “Social Revolution in Russian Female Monasticism: The Case of the Convent of the Intercession, 1700-1917 ”

Sergei I. Zhuk, “Popular Religiosity in the ‘Closed City’ of Soviet Ukraine: Cultural Consumption and Religion During Late Socialism, 1959-1984”

Amy A. Slagle, “A View from the Pew: Lay Orthodox Christian Perspectives on American Religious Diversity”

Section 4. Division and Inclusion: Defining Center and Peripheries of Orthodoxy

J. Eugene Clay, “Russian Spiritual Christianity and the Closing of the Black-Earth Frontier: The First Heresy Trials of the Dukhobors in the 1760s”

Page Herrlinger, “Trials of the Unorthodox Orthodox: The Followers of Brother Ioann Churikov and Their Critics in Modern Russia”

Bryan Rennie, “Mircea Eliade’s Understanding of Religion and Eastern Christian Thought”

 

 

Source of the Russian History 40.2 table of contents: Lawrence Langer (University of Connecticut) via the Early Slavic Studies listserv.

 

ASEC Conference, Day 2: March 9, 2013

 

The Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture (ASEC) held its fifth biennial conference at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, on March 8-9, 2013.

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Session 5: Vladimir Solov’ev and Russian Orthodoxy (Philosophy and the Church)

Chair/Discussant: Patrick Michelson, Indiana University

Papers:

  1. “Humanity, Divinity, and All-Unity in Vladimir Solov’ev’s Critique of Abstract Principles” – Randall A. Poole, College of St. Scholastica
  2. “Does Philosophic Orthodoxy Have a Future?” – Paul Valliere, Butler University
  3. “The Russian Orthodox Church in Italy Today: A Kaleidoscope Clarifying Itself”  – Valeria Z. Nollan, Rhodes College

Session 6: Christianity in the World

Chair/Discussant: Christine Worobec, Northern Illinois University

Papers:

  1. The Contemplation of Nature in Eastern Christianity: Greek Patristic Foundations” – Joshua Lollar, University of Kansas
  2. “Slaves of the Sultan: Russian Reactions to Christian Captives during the Greek Revolution (1821–1830)” – Lucien J. Frary, Rider University
  3. “Lived Christianity in the Donbass: The Activities of Donetsk’s Transfiguration Brotherhood in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century” – Dezeree Hodish, University of Kansas
  4. “Orthodox and Protestant Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs in the Former Soviet Union” – Mark R. Elliott, Asbury University

Session 7: Icons and the Visual at the Center of Religious Controversy

Chair/Discussant: Valeria Z. Nollan, Rhodes College

Papers:

  1. “Framing the Miraculous: The Physical and Temporal Reordering of Image Oriented Lay Religious Devotions in Early Modern Greek-rite Catholicism” – Wojciech Bełtkiewicz, Kenyon College
  2. “Old Believers and Icons” – Evgeny Grishin, University of Kansas
  3. “Digitized Resources on Religious Debate: Rare and Unique Items from the Hilandar Research Library″ – M.A. Johnson, The Ohio State University

Session 8: Orthodoxy Amidst the “Other”

Chair/Discussant: Eve Levin, University of Kansas

Papers:

  1. “‘The Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem: A Documentary History” – Paul du Quenoy, American University of Beirut
  2. The American YMCA and the St. Sergius Theological Academy in Paris” – Matt Miller, Northwestern College
  3. “‘In the Shadow of the Orient’: Orthodox Christianity and Orientalism” – Christopher D.L. Johnson, College of the Bahamas
  4. “Prophecy, Miracles, and Pilgrimage in Interwar Romania” – Roland Clark, Eastern Connecticut State University

The conference was sponsored by ASEC, Inc.; Georgetown University’s Medieval Studies Program, Center for Eurasian, Russia and East European Studies, and the Departments of History and Theology; The Ohio State University’s Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies (Columbus, OH); and the Department of History of Eastern Kentucky University (Richmond, KY).

ASEC Conference, Day 1: March 8, 2013

 

The Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture (ASEC) held its fifth biennial conference at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, on March 8-9, 2013. The theme of the conference was “Antecedents and Subsequents of Iosif Volotsky: Exploring Eastern Christian Concerns.”

Over 40 participants and attendees congregated on Georgetown University’s historic campus for two days of intense historical, philosophical, and theological discourse during eight panels of scholarly presentations as well as a keynote lecture and numerous social gatherings.

Congratulations to the conference host David Goldfrank (Department of History, Georgetown University), his Medieval Studies associate Sandra Strachan-Vieira, and conference staff and assistants Carol Dockham and Alyssa Gomes, for arranging the on-site logistics of a highly successful conference.

Image of the front cover of the program for the 2013 ASEC conference

ASEC Conference Program 2013

 

Friday, March 8, 2013

Session 1: Iosif Volotskii

Chair/Discussant: J. Eugene Clay, Arizona State University

Papers:

  1. “Iosif Volotsky’s sui generis Ars Disputandi” – David Goldfrank, Georgetown University
  2. “An Imagined Disputation: The Prenie s Iosifom Volotskim” – Donald Ostrowski, Harvard University
  3. “What Was New about Commemoration in the Iosif Volotskii Monastery? A Reassessment”  – Ludwig Steindorff, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Session 2: Iosif Volotskii’s Legacy in the Russian Orthodox Church

Chair/Discussant: Scott Kenworthy, Miami University of Ohio

Papers:

  1. Metropolitan Macarius and Muscovite Politics during the Reign of Ivan IV” – Charles J. Halperin, Indiana University
  2. “Deacon Feodor Ivanov as a Follower of Iosif Volotsky or a Comparative Analysis of Feodor’s ‘Authentic Testimony’ about the Wolf and Predator and One-Marked-by-God Nikon who is Pastor in Sheep’s Skin and Forerunner of the Antichrist and Iosif’s Enlightener” – Kevin M. Kain, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
  3. “Defining Orthodoxy in Imperial Russia: The Heresiological Heirs of Iosif of Volokolamsk” – J. Eugene Clay, Arizona State University

Session 3: Tradition and Change in Monasticism through the Centuries

Chair/Discussant: Jennifer Spock, Eastern Kentucky University

Papers:

  1. “What is Late Antique Monasticism?” – Rod Stearn, University of Kentucky
  2. “From Ascetic Hermit to Communal Monk: The Changing Image of Saint Nil Stolbenskii in the Early Seventeenth Century” – Isolde Thyret, Kent State University
  3. “The Last Basilians in Russia: Conversion and Cultural Change in Russia’s Western Borderlands, 1820–1840” – Barbara Skinner, Indiana State University

Session 4: Theological Controversy in the Early Church

Chair/Discussant: Joshua Lollar, University of Kansas

Papers:

  1. “‘No one can doubt that the Father is greater’: Constantius II and the Council of Sirmium” – Edward Mason, University of Kentucky
  2. Canonical Fathers and the Creation of Authority in the Disputatio cum Pyrrho (PG 91, 287-353)” – Ryan W. Strickler, University of Kentucky
  3. “Schism, Unity, and Social Networks in Sixth-Century Byzantine-Papal Relations” – Joshua Powell, University of Kentucky

The conference was sponsored by ASEC, Inc.; Georgetown University’s Medieval Studies Program, Center for Eurasian, Russia and East European Studies, and the Departments of History and Theology; The Ohio State University’s Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies (Columbus, OH); and the Department of History of Eastern Kentucky University (Richmond, KY).

 

Organizational Meetings at ASEEES 2012

 

Many academic organizations find it convenient to meet at their annual national conferences. Among the association meetings included on the schedule for this year’s Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies convention (ASEEES) in New Orleans are:

American Association for Ukrainian Studies and Shevchenko Scientific Society (meeting together)

Association for Croatian Studies

Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture (ASEC) (see also its Facebook page)

Bulgarian Studies Association

Czechoslovak Studies Association

Early Slavic Studies Association (ESSA)

Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association

North American Association for Belarussian Studies

North American Society for Serbian Studies

Society for Albanian Studies (no website)

Society for Romanian Studies

Society for Slovene Studies (SSS)

Slovak Studies Association

Southeast European Studies Association

Slavic and East European Folklore Association

 

 

Conference: ASEC, March 8-9, 2013, Georgetown

 

The Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture (ASEC, Inc.) will hold its fifth biennial conference at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, on March 8-9, 2013.

The theme of the conference is “Antecedents and Subsequents of Iosif Volotsky: Exploring Eastern Christian Concerns” (2015 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Iosif Volotsky, founder of the Iosif-Volokolamsk Monastery), yet it is designed to “embrace topics from any period, and all regions related to Eastern Christian groups…. The topic is broadly conceived to address the interests and concerns of Iosif, a monastic reformer, whose life and work influenced the religious culture of Muscovy as well as modern scholarship of his period. Iosif’s interests encompassed the multi-faceted issues of religious and spiritual life and ranged from monastic reform to patristics, liturgics, education, administration, spirituality, heresy, and secular Christian life, among others.”

Registration is $50 ($25 for graduate students) and participants must be members of ASEC by the time of the conference.

To become a member of ASEC, please contact ASEC treasurer, Lucien Frary (lfrary@rider.edu).

Source: “Call for Papers” issued by the ASEC.