CFP: Sophia Institute of Orthodox Thought and Culture conference (Dec. 12, 2011)

[Natalia Ermolaev]

Call for Papers

The Sophia Institute for Orthodox Thought and Culture will hold its fourth annual conference on Friday December 2, 2011 on the campus of Union Theological Seminary in New York City. 

The theme of this year’s conference is:“Beauty Will Save the World”: The Notion of the Beautiful in Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
 
Keynote speakers include the Orthodox philosopher David Bentley-Hart, Robert Bird (Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago), Peter Jeffery (Musicology, Notre Dame), and Daniel Munteanu (Bamberg University).

In addition to keynote lectures, there will be a series of panels examining the notion of the beautiful in various aspects of Orthodox thought and culture including art, music, literature, film, media, spirituality, patristics, ethics, and dogmatic theology.

Interested scholars are invited to present 20-minute talks at the panel sessions. Please send abstracts to Prof. John McGuckin at jmcguckn at uts.columbia.edu. The deadline for both abstracts and discounted early registration: November 15, 2011. 


*** Named in honor of Divine Wisdom, the Sophia Institute of Orthodox Thought and Culture is an independent Orthodox educational society housed at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in New York City. The Institute aims to foster the study of Eastern Christianity and demonstrate the engagement of its ethical and philanthropic principles with the problems of the contemporary world.  For more information about the Sophia Institute and becoming an Institute Fellow see http://www.utsnyc.edu/Page.aspx?pid=1317 ***

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Natalia Ermolaev
Instructor of Russian
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Columbia University
804 Hamilton Hall
New York, NY
10027



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