One Day Workshop
Council for the Care of Churches
Church House
Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3NZ
Saturday July 12th 2003
1000 (registration) to 1800
Contributions are invited for the above informal workshop.
This short workshop seeks to bring together scholars working on the
archaeology (which may include art/architectural history) of the churches
of
the east, the so-called oriental churches. Our parameters, for the
sake of
simplicity, include the churches described in A Atiya (1968), A History
of
the Eastern Churches. In short, we are focusing predominantly on the
historical non-Chalcedonian churches of the east. Geographically we
are
encompassing northeastern Africa (Coptic Egypt/Ethiopia/Old Nubia),
the
Levant, the Caucasus, the middle east, Arabia, India and China. Temporally
we are focusing on the period of church development up to the 13th
century
CE.
The workshop will be run in three parallel sessions:
Northeastern Africa:
Coptic Egypt, Ethiopia, Old Nubia
Caucasus:
Armenia and also to include Georgia for sake of geographical inclusiveness.
>From Antioch to Nanking:
East and west Syrian churches, Indian and Chines (Silk Road), also
Maronite
for sake of geographical inclusiveness.
At this stage the organisers require an expression of interest, and
if
available an outline abstract of a potential paper (perhaps 20 minutes'
duration). We will endeavour to try to accommodate all papers offered,
with
a view to publication. The emphasis is on bringing together a
work-in-progress forum, primarily for UK scholars, with a view to
establishing a larger base for a future extended conference. Cost will
be
£12 (concessions £7) to include tea, coffee and sandwich
lunch. Please pass
this message on to others who may be interested.
We will be happy to discuss any further queries
Organisers:
Dr Joe Elders, Church of England (e-mail joseph.elders@ccc.c-of-e.org.uk)
Dr Niall Finneran, Department of Art and Archaeology, SOAS, London (e-mail
nf16@soas.ac.uk)
Dr Geoffrey King, Department of Art and Archaeology, SOAS, London (e-mail
ggking@eurobell.co.uk)
Dr Emma Loosley, University of York (e-mail emma@eloosley.freeserve.co.uk)