Centre of Eastern and Orthodox Christianity
Saturday 5th May 2012, 10-30 am to 4-30 pm
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London. All welcome
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Opening Addresses – Dr. Erica C D Hunter (Study of Religions, SOAS), Sir Harold Walker (JMECA), Mrs. Joan Porter McIver (BISI)
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Child martyrs in Syriac literature – Prof. Cornelia Horn (St. Louis, Missouri)
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Sogdian versions of the ‘Acts of the Persian Martyrs’ – Prof. Desmond Durkin Meisterernst (Berlin)
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Elias of Nisibis on the martyrs of the Church of the East – Prof. Francois de Blois (Cambridge)
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Did the Sassanids persecute Christians? – Prof. Richard Payne (Mt. Holyoke, Massachusetts)
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The trajectory of martyrdom in the Syriac Orthodox Church – Dr. Mikael Oez (Oxford)
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The Assyrians of Iraq and literary manifestations of post-Saddam Persecution – Mr. Nineb Lamassu (Cambridge)
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The impact of martyrdom on Iraqi Christians post-2003 – Dr. Suha Rassam (ICIN)
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Statements by representatives of Iraqi Christian and Mandaean communities in London.
Supported by:
- The British Institute for the Study of Iraq (BISI)
- Jerusalem and the Middle East Church Association (JMECA)
- Department for the Study of Religions, SOAS
- Faculty of Arts & Humanities, SOAS
For further information please contact:
Dr. Erica C D Hunter
Centre of Eastern and Orthodox Christianity,
Department of the Study of Religions,
School of Oriental and African Studies,
Thornhaugh Street, London, WC1H 0XG
Email: eh9@soas.ac.uk