Assemani Seminar for Eastern Catholic History 2024

Convened by Tomasz Hen-Konarski (IH PAN) and Jared Warren (IEG Mainz)

The Assemani Seminar for Eastern Catholic History aims to create a common platform for conversation between scholars interested in the history of various Eastern Catholic communities from the Middle Ages until today. This year we return to our original format bringing together scholars focused on the Middle East/Mediterranean region with experts in Central and Eastern Europe.

The Assemani Seminar is an online initiative; all events take place on Zoom. For more information or to register, please email EasternCatholicSeminar@gmail.com.

ALL EVENTS START AT 5:30 PM (CET) / 11: 30 AM (Eastern) except 11 March. Due to differences in daylight savings schedules, the 11 March event will begin at 5:30 (CET) and 12:30 (Eastern).

19 February

Keynote lecture: The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Pilgrimages in Poland: Re-storying Borders, Histories and Shrines

Julia Buyskykh (U College Cork) with short responses from Agnieszka Halemba (IAE PAN, Warsaw) and Anna Hager (Vienna)

11 March

Eastern-rite Confessions and Contemporary Pop Culture

Febe Armanios (Middlebury College)

Bohdan Shumylovych (Ukrainian Catholic U)

8 April

Round Table on Livres et confessions chrétiennes orientales (Brepols) with the editors

Aurélien Girard (U of Reims), Bernard Heyberger (EHESS-Paris), and Vassa Kontouma (EPEH-Paris) and a response from Ioana Feodorov (Romanian Academy)

13 May

Early Modern Visual Cultures at the Crossroads of Religions and Cultures

Alice Sullivan (Tufts U)

Charbel Nassif (Romanian Academy)

20 May

Saints and Empire-building in the Late Nineteenth Century

Kerstin Jobst (U Vienna)

Norig Neveu (CRNS)

10 June

Contemporary Orthodox Christians and Eastern-rite Catholics between Competition and Collaboration

Pavlo Smytsnyuk (Princeton U)

Antoine Fleyfel (Institut chrétiens d’Orient)

The seminar is organized with the support of the following institutions:

Leibniz-Institute for European History, Mainz
Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Ihor Skochylias Center for Religious Culture, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv
Institute of East and Southeast European History, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich