SEELANGS: CFP: "Reform Movements in Eastern Christian Culture: Renewal, Heresy, and Compromise"

[Christine Worobec]

The Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and 
Culture, Inc. (ASEC) announces its third biennial conference to take 
place in Columbus, Ohio from October 1 to October 3, 2009. We are   
pleased to invite papers for a multi-disciplinary conference on the 
theme “Reform Movements in Eastern Christian Culture: Renewal, 
Heresy, and Compromise.” The conference aims to explore reform 
movements within the Eastern Christian traditions, contemporary 
reactions to them and their continuing legacies in the living Eastern 
Christian communities. 

Papers may deal with any historical period or with contemporary 
issues and come from all disciplines including anthropology, cultural 
studies, history, literary criticism, linguistics, sociology and religious 
studies.   

The conference will be held at the Pfahl Hall Conference Center at The 
Blackwell Hotel on The Ohio State University campus in Columbus, Ohio. 
The conference will include a keynote address and opening reception on 
the evening of October 1, followed by two days of plenary panels. 

Panel proposals of three presenters plus chair/discussant are 
preferred but individual papers are also encouraged. Please send panel 
and paper proposals with abstracts of 100-200 words for each paper, 
and a short CV for each participant to Christine Worobec 
( worobec at comcast.net ). Proposals must be received by March 1, 2009. 

Registration is $50 and participants must be members of ASEC, Inc. by 
the time of the conference.  Registration for graduate students is 
$25. Fees are waived for students and faculty of The Ohio State 
University with current university identification.   

To become a member of ASEC, please make out a check to ASEC, Inc. 
for $25.00 ($10.00 for graduate students and retirees) and send it to 
Lucien Frary, Rider University, 2083 Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville NJ 
08648 ( lfrary at rider.edu ). 

The conference is co-sponsored by ASEC, Inc. and The Ohio State 
University’s Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Resource 
Center for Medieval Slavic Studies, the Hilandar Research Library, 
and the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and 
Literatures. 

For more information contact Russell Martin, martinre at westminster.edu . 

Respectfully submitted by 
Christine Worobec 
Secretary, ASEC, Inc. 
Department of History 
Northern Illinois University 
DeKalb, IL 60115 
worobec at comcast.net 
worobec at niu.edu 



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