Invitation to the Assemani Seminar for Eastern Catholic History

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. The main goal of this initiative is to enable exchange between scholars specialised in different periods and fields. Building on the success of our first season that took place in the first half of 2022, this time we focus on East Central Europe, covering the lands of the former Habsburg Monarchy and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Each seminar will feature a presentation by an invited scholar followed by a friendly discussion. In most cases, draft papers will be circulated in advance.

All sessions of the Assemani Seminar will take place online on Zoom.

For more information or to register, please email EasternCatholicSeminar@gmail.com

Programme:

25 October 2022
Anca Șincan (ICSU “Gheorghe Șincai”)
“I was never silent again”: Greek Catholic women building the underground church in 1950s Romania

15 November 2022
Michał Jasiński (IHN PAN)
Warsaw and Rome: The Significance of Basilian Residences in the West

6 December 2022
Barbara Skinner (Indiana State U)
Rethinking the ‘Reunion’ of 1839

10 January 2023
Anatole Upart (RSA)
Between Rome and Borderlands: Printed Images and Texts

31 January 2023
Radu Nedici (U of Bucharest)
Greek Catholics and Orthodox: Dealing with Confessional Otherness in Habsburg Transylvania, c. 1750s–1760s

21 February 2023
Melchior Jakubowski (IH PAN)
Building a Uniate monastery: The Case of Krystynopol, 1763–1781

14 March 2023
Greta-Monica Miron (Babeș-Bolyai U)
Image and Confessional Identity in the Bishopric of Făgăraș-Transylvania (18th Century)

4 April 2023
Anna Bisikalo (Harvard U)
Young Hearts and Minds: Recruiting a New Generation of Clandestine Greek Catholics in Western Ukraine, 1968–1980

25 April 2023
Wioletta Zielecka-Mikołajczyk (Copernicus U in Toruń)
One of Many or an Original? Organization of the Uniate Diocese of Przemyśl against the Background of the Kyiv Metropolis of the Eighteenth Century

16 May 2023
Frank Sysyn (U of Alberta)
Religious Union and the Formation of Confessional Allegiance: The Transformation of Rus’ through the Union of Brest