The Assemani Seminar for Eastern Catholic History 2025

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

The Assemani Seminar for Eastern Catholic History aims to create a common platform for intellectual exchange between scholars interested in the history of the various Eastern Catholic traditions originating in the Middle East, the Mediterranean, South Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. The Assemani Seminar takes place on Zoom.

ALL EVENTS START AT 5 : 30 PM (CET) / 11: 30 AM (ET) 

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

3 March: Confession/alization and Eastern Christianities: A Roundtable on the State of the Debate 

Liliya Berezhnaya (Austrian Academy of Sciences) 

Alfons Brüning (Radboud U) 

Iryna Klymenko (Ludwig Maximilian U of Munich)

Cesare Santus (U of Trieste) 

7 April: Globalization: Eastern Catholics in New Geographies 

Natalie Kononenko (U of Alberta) 

Sonja Thomas (Colby College)

19 May: History and Liturgy: Methods, Questions, and Approaches 

Daniel Galadza (Pontifical Oriental Institute) 

Nadieszda Kizenko (U at Albany) 

Michael Shami (U of Notre Dame) 

2 June: The Damascus Events 

Roundtable on The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East with the author Eugene Rogan (University of Oxford) 

Dima de Clerck (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne U)

Denis Vovchenko (Northeastern State U, Oklahoma)