The Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies will take place from May 27-29, 2024, at the downtown campus of Saint Augustine’s Seminary in Toronto, Ontario, located at Alumni Hall, 121 St. Joseph Street, Toronto ON M5S 3C2. (Please note that we will not be meeting with Congress this year in order to better facilitate …
Lumen et Vita‘s Spring Graduate Conference, “Synodality, Dialogue and Reconciliation,” will be held Saturday, March 16, 2024, at Boston College. This conference will explore the fundamental questions about synodality, dialogue and reconciliation. How does theology inform understandings of synodality, dialogue and reconciliation? How can the practices of ecumenical and interfaith dialogue be lived out by …
From Life to Literature? Genre and Performance in Hellenistic and Roman LiteratureBoston University Graduate Student Conference, 27 April 2024 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Richard Hunter (Cambridge) Timon of Phlius famously labeled the Alexandrians “cloistered librarians in the cage of the Muses” (fr. 786 SH = 12D), caricaturing Hellenistic literature as completely bookish and divorced from the …
On the occasion of the upcoming 2024 Oxford Patristics Conference (August 5-9, 2024), we are pleased to announce the Call for Papers “Fathers and Fatherhood in early Christianity”. Abstract: Although the subject of God as a father and spiritual fatherhood has been discussed many times, the physical side of fatherhood, or issues related to conception, birth, …
The Board of Directors of the Oxford Patristics Conference have set the date of the next conference to 5-9 August 2024. Accordingly, abstract and workshop proposals are now open for submission. The deadline for both are 31 August 2023, and the submission portal can be accessed here. Conference registration is also open, and the early …
