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
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Session 6: Christianity in the World
Chair/Discussant: Christine Worobec, Northern Illinois University
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Session 7: Icons and the Visual at the Center of Religious Controversy
Chair/Discussant: Valeria Z. Nollan, Rhodes College
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Session 8: Orthodoxy Amidst the “Other”
Chair/Discussant: Eve Levin, University of Kansas
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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).
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)
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 Slovene Studies (SSS)
Southeast European Studies Association
Slavic and East European Folklore Association
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.