CFP: "Reform Movements in Eastern Christian Culture: Renewal, Heresy, and Compromise," Columbus, Ohio, 1-3 October 2009
Christine Worobec
worobec at COMCAST.NET
Mon Feb 9 23:25:27 UTC 2009
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 .
Christine D. Worobec
Board of Trustees Professor and
Distinguished Research Professor
Department of History
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
815-753-6821
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