The Eighth North American Syriac Symposium
Syriac Worlds: Interactions, Exchanges, Contributions
The Eighth North American Syriac Symposium will convene at Brown University on June 16-19, 2019. Held every four years since 1991, the North American Syriac Symposium brings together scholars and students for exchange and discussion on a wide variety of topics related to the language, literature, and cultural history of Syriac Christianity, extending chronologically from the first centuries CE to the present day and geographically from Syriac Christianity's homeland in the Middle East to South India, China, and the worldwide diaspora.
Local Steering Committee:
Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Brown University, Chair
Sargon Donabed, Roger Williams University
Jae Hee Han, Brown University
Sandra Keating, Providence College
Nancy Khalek, Brown University
Ute Possekel, Harvard Divinity School
For more information, contact nasyriacsymposium@gmail.com. Additional information will be posted in due course.
Generously supported by Classics Department, The Cogut Institute for the Humanities, the Program in Early Cultures, the History Department, the Joukowsky Institute for Achaeology and the Ancient World, the Program in Judaic Studies, Middle East Studies, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Starr Lectureship Fund.
