Vanderbilt University Divinity School is pleased to call for paper proposals for the 10th North American Syriac Symposium to be held June 27-July 1, 2027 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Full information is at https://vu.edu/nass
Proposals for papers and panels are due November 15th, 2026.
The symposium theme is “The Teaching and Study of Syriac”. The program will feature an exhibit on Syriac in North America, a pre-conference workshop by Syriaca.org, and student panels to encourage undergraduate and master’s students to also present.
A highlight of the program will be the following keynote lectures:
Jeff Childers, Abilene Christian University, “Living Word: Stewarding the Gifts of Syriac Biblical Scholarship for the Sake of the Church”
Jimmy Daccache, Yale University, “Rethinking Syriac Studies through Epigraphy”
Robin Darling-Young, Catholic University of America, “From γνωστικός to ܝܕܥܢܐ : How a Greek Pedagogue Became a Syriac Instructor”
George A. Kiraz, Institute for Advanced Study & Gorgias Press, “Syriac Pedagogy in Transition: Between the Seminar Room and the Heritage Classroom”
Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Marquette University, “Gathering the Crumbs and Pressing the Grapes: Food Poetics in Syriac Christianity”
Jincy Othottil, St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute, “Syriac Studies in India: Historical Development, Academic Significance and Future Perspectives”
Adrian Pirtea, Austrian Academy of Sciences, “Learning Syriac after Chalcedon: The Maronite Chronicle of 713 and Greek-Syriac Interactions in the Early & Middle Byzantine Period”
Inquiries may be directed to Prof. David Michelson (nass2027@vanderbilt.edu) and details are online at http://vu.edu/nass.