Christianity in Iraq IX: Martyrdom in the Iraqi Church: Historic and Modern Perspectives; Conference

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

• Opening Addresses - Dr. Erica C D Hunter (Study of Religions, SOAS), Sir Harold Walker (JMECA), Mrs. Joan Porter McIver (BISI)
• Child martyrs in Syriac literature - Prof. Cornelia Horn (St. Louis, Missouri)
• Sogdian versions of the ‘Acts of the Persian Martyrs’ - Prof. Desmond Durkin Meisterernst (Berlin)
• Elias of Nisibis on the martyrs of the Church of the East - Prof. Francois de Blois (Cambridge)
• Did the Sassanids persecute Christians? - Prof. Richard Payne (Mt. Holyoke, Massachusetts)
• The trajectory of martyrdom in the Syriac Orthodox Church - Dr. Mikael Oez (Oxford)
• The Assyrians of Iraq and literary manifestations of post-Saddam Persecution - Mr. Nineb Lamassu (Cambridge)
• The impact of martyrdom on Iraqi Christians post-2003 - Dr. Suha Rassam (ICIN)
• 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

www.soas.ac.uk

www.easternchristianity.com