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Call for Papers: Sixth International Hilandar Conference

 

The Sixth International Hilandar Conference will be held at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, July 19-21, 2013. The conference theme is Medieval Slavic Text and Image in the Cultures of Orthodoxy. We invite abstracts (not to exceed 500 words in length) of proposed presentations to be sent as Word.doc attachments to hilandar@osu.edu prior to February 1, 2013.

Image of a page from the manuscript entitled the Illumniated Life and Lament of Joseph the Beautiful (manuscript SPEC.OSU.HRL.SMS.15)

SPEC.OSU.HRL.SMS.15, The Illuminated Life and Lament of Joseph the Beautiful

A sub-committee of the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies (RCMSS) Advisory Council will review all submissions. Further details will be announced in the next issue of Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage (CMH) and through this blog, various listservs, and other venues.

The conference will follow immediately after the conclusion of the 2013 Medieval Slavic Summer Institute (MSSI), which is scheduled for June 24-July 19. We look forward to introducing participants and guests to the recently renovated Thompson Library, the Jack and Jan Creighton Special Collections Reading Room, and the enhanced research, teaching, and preservation opportunities now at the disposal of the HRL.

Source: Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage 31 (June 2012): 1.

Image Source: From an original manuscript, SPEC.OSU.HRL.SMS.15, among the holdings of the HRL

 

Conference: “Saints and Holy Places in the Balkans”

 

An  international conference was held June 14-16, 2012, which was organized as part of the Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum project by the Department of Cyrillo-Methodian Studies, Sofia University “St. Kliment Okhridski,” and the Institute of Literature of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Zograf Monastery, Mount Athos

Iskra Khristova-Shomova (Sofia) and Milan Mihaljević (Zagreb) presided over the plenary session of the conference “Saints and Holy Places in the Balkans,” where presentations were made by Ivan Dobrev (Sofia), Aleksei Pentkovskii (Moscow), Cynthia Vakareliyska (Eugene, Oregon), Elka Bakalova (Sofia), and Panaiot Karag’ozov (Sofia).

Panel topics focused on cults of saints in relation to history, images, hymnography, interfaith communication, ritual and culture in Bulgarian lands, and texts in the Balkans. Other panels included: Saints and Holy Places in Popular Culture, Hagiographic Texts and their Translations, Linguistic Features and Textual Versions of the Works Dedicated to Saints, the Martyr Saints, Hagiographic Texts on Women Saints; Hagiography and Culture;  and Cult, Commemoration, and Calendars: East and West.

Time was also given to project presentations and new books on hagiography. On the 16th there was discussion of the Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum project and a demonstration of this electronic reference.

 

Image Source: Photo by Walt Craig, 1970

 

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