Theophanes presents his book to the Virgin Hodegetria; Painted vellum manuscript. Felton Bequest 1960 710-2; with permission from the National Gallery of Victoria

 

1999

8-11 January. Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church. Second International Triennial Conference. Sydney, Australia. Contact: Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, PO Box 786, Frankston, VIC 3199.

Tel: (03) 9904 4240 Fax: (03) 9781 3066. email: margaret.hill@education.monash.edu.au
 

26-29 March. The XXXIII Spring Symposium for Byzantine Studies, University of Warwick, UK.
 

16-18 July . Orthodoxy and Unorthodoxies . The 11th Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney. For registration details see the Conference Web site: http://www.museum.mq.edu.au/docs_centre/ahdrc.html
 

18-20 July . International Association of Manichaean Studies Symposium: The Manichaean community at Kellis (Ismant el-Kharab) , Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
 

16-21 August . 13th International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford, UK . Opening lecture: Averil Cameron.

Registration enquiries to: Prof. R.W. Thomson, The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, England. Registration forms and submissions for papers should be sent by 15 December 1998.
 

24-30 August. XIth Congress of the International Federation of the Societies of Classical Studies, Kavala, Macedonia, Greece.

Programme includes sessions on The Fathers of the Church and their Social Environment; and The Reception of the Ancient World in the Works of the Byzantine Writers. Those wishing to receive further information, please write to: XIth Congress of the FIEC, Parnassos Literary Society, 9 St George Karytsis Sq., 105 61 Athens - Greece.
 

20-27 September . Early Christianity between Rome and Constantinople . Congressus Internationalis XIV Archaeologiae Christianae, Vienna.
 

28 - 31 October. (or 21-24, subject to the vagaries of the football season). Twenty-fifth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, University of Maryland, USA. Final dates and details to be announced.
 

2001

19-25 August. XXe Congrès International des Études Byzantines, Paris (Sorbonne and Collège de France). Proposed plenary sessions and round tables: Recherches sur le droit byzantin: un bilan; Les Occidentaux dans les villes de province de l'Empire byzantin; Les villages dans l'Empire byzantine, Ve-XIVe s.; Permanences et changements dans l'occupation du sol: densités, modalités et extension/régression; Byzance entre Occident chrétien et monde musulman. Les relations artistiques; La périphérie dans le temps et l'espace; Altérité religieuse et identité culturelle: les chétientés orientales non grecques; Reliques de la Passion (the indirect relics of Christ); La pétition à Byzance; L'Italie byzantine; Lire et écrire à Byzance; La Lettre diplomatique; Philosophie et sciences à Byzance; Théologiens et méthodes théologiques à Byzance; Byzance et son histoire en l'an 2000.

Papers related to the themes of plenary sessions and round tables are strongly encouraged.

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