Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

U.Mich: An International Conference on The Church of Armenia

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • U.Mich: An International Conference on The Church of Armenia

    Armenian Studies Program
    University of Michigan, International Institute
    1080 S. University
    Suite 2660
    Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106
    Phone: 734/615-4304
    Fax: 734/763-9154
    Email: [email protected]
    Contact: Julie G. Septrion, Program Coordinator

    AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE CHURCH OF ARMENIA TO BE HELD AT THE
    UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    ANN ARBOR, APRIL 1-3, 2004


    An international conference entitled "Where the Only-Begotten
    Descended: the Church of Armenia through the Ages," will be held at
    the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Some forty papers, by experts
    from Armenia, Europe and the USA, will highlight certain aspects of
    the history, dogma, rites, literature and religious, social and
    political role of the Church of Armenia, and the nature and extent of
    the relations this 1700-year-old national church has had with other
    Christian Churches as well as Zoroastrianism and Islam. The
    conference is sponsored by Mike and Shirley Kojaian and the Alex and
    Marie Manoogian Foundation.

    The Church of Armenia has fashioned the Christian Armenian
    tradition and, until recently, has been nearly its sole custodian.
    There is no adequate history of this venerable tradition; and no
    comprehensive history of the Armenian people can be written without a
    history of its oldest and most influential institution. It is with
    the express purpose of filling this gap that this international
    conference is being convened. The proceedings will be published as an
    outline of a history of the Church. It is hoped that both the
    conference and the volume will inspire further research leading to
    even better histories of the Church of Armenia herself and the
    Armenian people.

    The conference has been organized by the Armenian Studies
    Program at the University of Michigan, and will be held in Ann Arbor,
    April 1-3, 2004. The sessions have been arranged chronologically and
    thematically and will meet from 9:00am to 5:00pm on each of the three
    days. At 7:00pm on the evening of April 1, Dr. Robert W. Thomson,
    Calouste Gulbenkain Professor Emeritus of Armenian Studies, Oxford
    University, will deliver the keynote lecture on "The Armenian
    Tradition of Biblical Commentary." This lecture is at the same time
    the fifth in the newly-inaugurated "Michigan Lectures in Early Judaism
    and Christianity" series. It will be followed by a public reception.
    For the benefit of those who might be able to attend, the sessions on
    April 1 will be held at Shorling Auditorium (School of Education) and
    those on April 2 and 3 at The Alumni Center, Founders Room. For more
    information, please contact Julie Septron ([email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>_), tel. 734/615-4304.
Working...
X