Dear Members
This newsletter, like the last, contains information in a number of sections:
1. Conferences
2. Study and Work Opportunities
3. Miscellanea
Thanks to those who have contributed items of interest, and please forward me anything you would like included in the next issue.
Regards,
Dr Bronwen Neil
Burke Lecturer in Ecclesiastical Latin
Centre for Early Christian Studies,
Australian Catholic University
Asia-Pacific Early Christian Studies Society Newsletter
June 2008
I. CONFERENCES
1. FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE AUSTRALIAN EARLY MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION entitled: Welcoming The Stranger In Late Antiquity And The Early Middle Ages will be held from Wednesday 1 to Friday 3 October 2008 at the Sebel Conference Suites, Charlotte Street, Brisbane, hosted by the Australian Catholic University, McAuley Campus, Queensland.
The period from late antiquity to the early middle ages was one of great social movement, of both individuals and people groups. How did people respond to demands made upon them for hospitality and charity by pilgrims, casualties of war, refugees, orphans, widows, those of other religions, the sick, the poor, itinerant monks and nuns, travelling traders and others?
Call for Papers
Papers are now invited on a broad range of topics related to the theme of 'Welcoming the Stranger in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages', tapping various sources including literature, archaeology, epigraphy and the arts. A title and a 250 word abstract should be sent by 30 June 2008 to the Conference Convenors: Dr Bronwen Neil b.neil@mcauley.acu.edu.au Dr Geoffrey Dunn g.dunn@mcauley.acu.edu.au
Please include affiliation and contact details with your abstract. Presenters will be invited to publish their papers in the refereed Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association.
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Dr Anna Silvas, University of New England.
Dr Wendy Mayer, Washington DC
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/conference2008/conferencehome.html
2. Asia-Pacific Early Christian Studies Society conference on “Letter Writing” will held at Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, JAPAN, in early September 2009 (tentative dates 10-12 September 2009). Dr Geoffrey Dunn and Dr Ken Parry have been invited to deliver keynote lectures. Contact Prof Miyako Demura, Tohoku Gakuin University.
3. Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church Conference VI: Politics and Religion, at Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, on 7-12 July 2010. Further details are available at http://www.prayerspirit.com.au/Home.html
4. Presbeia Theotokou: The Intercessory Function of Mary Vienna, will be helo on the 5-7 November 2009. A conference of the Institut für Byzanzforschung (IBF) convened by Johannes KODER, Andreas KÜLZER and Leena Mari PELTOMAA. http://www.oeaw.ac.at/byzanz/akt.htm
5. International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 13-16 July 2009, Heresy and Orthodoxy. Proposals on any topic related to the European Middle Ages (c. 300-1500) to be submitted by 31 August 2008 for Papers and by 30 September 2008 for Sessions. For further information visit the website at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc
6. North American Patristics Society annual conference, on 21-23 May 2009 at Holiday Inn Mart Plaza Hotel, Chicago.
See the NAPS website for more details (not yet available), http://moses.creighton.edu/NAPS/
7. Canadian Society for Patristic Studies annual conference, on 25-27 May 2009 at University of Ottawa, Ottawa.
More details will be available on the CSPS website, http://www.ccsr.ca/csps/. Contact the convenor Dr Geoffrey Dunn, g.dunn@mcauley.acu.edu.au
II. STUDY AND WORK OPPORTUNITIES
Last autumn, the Faculty of Protestant Theology and the "Centre for Religion and Society" (ZERG) of the University of Bonn jointly launched a new one-year Masters course in Ecumenical Studies (M.A.) which is specifically designed for foreign students who wish to study theology in a German context. Part of the course is taught in English. The lecturers, who are all high-ranking experts in their respective fields, are drawn from the Faculty of Protestant Theology, the Faculty of Catholic Theology, the Seminary of Old Catholic Theology, the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Germany and other university departments
The deadline for applications is 15 July 2008.
There will be a number of full scholarships for MESt-students. Contact Prof Wolfram Kinzig on mest@zerg.uni-bonn.de.
III. MISCELLANEA
1. Ecclesiastical Latin (3 units) and New Testament Greek (2 units) will be offered online in 2009 at Australian Catholic University. Please contact Dr Bronwen Neil, b.neil@mcauley.acu.edu.au for enquiries or see the website of the Centre for Early Christian Studies, www.cecs.acu.edu.au
2. Several members of the JSPS Poverty Project will be visiting ACU in Brisbane in October 2008 for collaboration on our joint research project on Poverty in Late Antiquity.