On May 11-14, 2017, an International Conference on the general theme
will be organized by the Volos Academy for Theological Studies (Department for the Study of the Manuscript Tradition of the New Testament).
The conference will be held at Park Hotel, (Deligiorgi str. 1, Volos), in which eminent academics and scholars from Greece and worldwide will participate. The conference will start on Thursday, May, 11, 2017 at 5.00 pm, and will end on Sunday, May, 14, 2017 after the Divine Liturgy.
The language of the conference will be both English and Greek with simultaneous translation. The conference is generously sponsored by the Evangelical Church of Germany
Dr. Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Professor at the Brown University (USA) will give a series of lectures in Volos, Thessaloniki and Athens (Greece), invited by the Volos Academy for Theological Studies (Volos, Greece), under the topic: “Voices of the Liturgy: Gender and Performance in the early Byzantine Church”. In this public lecture, drawing particularly on the hymns of St. Ephrem the Syrian and St. Romanos the Melodist, and on the homilies of Greek and Syrian Fathers, she will explore the active