On Thursday, April 20, 2023, the Bishop H. Losten Center for Ukrainian Church Studies at The Catholic University of America and the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount University co-hosted a Zoom webinar event. The event, moderated by: the Very Reverend Mitred Archpriest Dr. Mark Morozowich, Dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies … The Weaponization of Prayer: An Analysis of the Russian Orthodox Military Cathedral
Through the generosity of Mr. Dean Shahinian, we kicked off an annual lecture series titled “The Grace and Paul Shahinian Armenian Christian Art and Culture Lecture Series.” The inaugural lecture was on March 23, 2023 at 5 pm (Heritage Hall, The Catholic University of America). The speaker was Prof. Christina Maranci (Harvard University) and the … “Armenia and the World in Art and Text”
On Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 5pm Justin Mann (Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks) offered a lecture on the monastic landscapes of Byzantine Hellas.
On Friday, February 10, 2023, ISEC offered a seminar for our Catholic University of America doctoral students (in theology, Greek and Latin, Early Christianity) on how to produce a critical edition of a Greek text. This event was organized with support from Dumbarton Oaks, the School of Theology and Religious Studies, and the Center for … Greek Text Seminar
On November 5, 2022, The Catholic University of America bestowed an honorary degree to His Eminence Metropolitan Serapion of the Coptic Church, and a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the University and the St. Athanasius & St Cyril Coptic Orthodox Theological School. For more information, see https://communications.catholic.edu/news/2022/11/university-bestows-honorary-degree,-formalizes-relationship-with-coptic-orthodox-seminary.html.
On October 31, 2022, Fr. Damaskinos Olkinuora, a monk of Xenophontos Monastery (Mt Athos) and professor at the University of Eastern Finland, offered our graduate students a lecture titled on Byzantine liturgical texts. For a video of the lecture, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bITzaHPE76Q
On October 28, 2022, we celebrated the Gift of the Robert W. Thomson Research Collection – the late Prof. Thomson was the Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies at Oxford University, and his family graciously donated his personal research library to the Semitics Department/ICOR Library of The Catholic University of America. For a video of … Celebrating the Gift of the Robert W. Thomson Research Collection