Through the generosity of Mr. Dean Shahinian, we kicked off an annual lecture series titled “The Grace and Paul Shahinian Armenian Christian Art and Culture Lecture Series.” The inaugural lecture was on March 23, 2023 at 5 pm (Heritage Hall, The Catholic University of America). The speaker was Prof. Christina Maranci (Harvard University) and the … “Armenia and the World in Art and Text”
On Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 5pm Justin Mann (Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks) offered a lecture on the monastic landscapes of Byzantine Hellas.
On Friday, February 10, 2023, ISEC offered a seminar for our Catholic University of America doctoral students (in theology, Greek and Latin, Early Christianity) on how to produce a critical edition of a Greek text. This event was organized with support from Dumbarton Oaks, the School of Theology and Religious Studies, and the Center for … Greek Text Seminar
On November 5, 2022, The Catholic University of America bestowed an honorary degree to His Eminence Metropolitan Serapion of the Coptic Church, and a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the University and the St. Athanasius & St Cyril Coptic Orthodox Theological School. For more information, see https://communications.catholic.edu/news/2022/11/university-bestows-honorary-degree,-formalizes-relationship-with-coptic-orthodox-seminary.html.
On October 31, 2022, Fr. Damaskinos Olkinuora, a monk of Xenophontos Monastery (Mt Athos) and professor at the University of Eastern Finland, offered our graduate students a lecture titled on Byzantine liturgical texts. For a video of the lecture, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bITzaHPE76Q
On October 28, 2022, we celebrated the Gift of the Robert W. Thomson Research Collection – the late Prof. Thomson was the Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies at Oxford University, and his family graciously donated his personal research library to the Semitics Department/ICOR Library of The Catholic University of America. For a video of … Celebrating the Gift of the Robert W. Thomson Research Collection
On September 28, 2022, the first chair and professorship within the Institute for the Study of Eastern Christianity was formally installed. The Ukrainian Catholic liturgical scholar Very Rev. Peter Galadza, Ph.D., was installed as the Bishop Basil H. Losten Endowed Professor and Chair in Ukrainian Church Studies in the School of Theology and Religious. Studies. … ISEC Installs First Endowed Chair with Prof. Peter Galadza in Ukrainian Church Studies
On April 12, 2022, ISEC hosted Fr. Eugen Pentiuc of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology who engaged doctoral students from both Biblical and Liturgical Studies in discussing his new book, Hearing the Scriptures: Liturgical Exegesis of the Old Testament in Byzantine Orthodox Hymnography, published by Oxford University Press (2021). For a video of … Hearing the Scriptures: Liturgical Exegesis of the Old Testament in Byzantine Orthodox Hymnography
On April 12, 2022, Prof. Emanuel Fiano (Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, Fordham University) offered a lecture which tackled such topics as the distinction between human and divine law, and whether God gave Christians any secular precepts—contained at the outset of the Legal Codes produced by two seventh-to-eighth-century authors, Shemʿon and Ishoʿbokht of Rev Ardashir, both East-Syriac … “Christian Law in Seventh-to-Eighth-Century Fars (modern day Iran): Ishoʿbokht and Shemʿon of Rev Ardashir”
On March 15, 2022, Fr. John Chryssavgis offered a in honor of Gr. George Alexson, an alumnus of The Catholic University of America. Over 100 people were in attendance. His Eminence, Archbishop Elpidophoros honored Fr. George and the Institute with His presence. For a video of the lecture, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVyiWS-ZbIY.