THE
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY SOCIETY
The Ecclesiastical History Society (EHS) aims to foster interest in,
and to advance the study of, all areas of the history of the Christian
Churches.
is open to scholars who are professionally engaged in
the study and/or teaching of ecclesiastical history at universities or other
institutions of higher education in the UK and abroad, as well as individuals
who have a general interest in the subject.
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are held twice a year. A four-day conference in July and
a one-day conference on the following January are organized around a theme
proposed by the Society's President.
The
conferences for 2008-09 are on the theme of GOD'S BOUNTY? THE CHURCHES AND THE
NATURAL WORLD, proposed by the President for the year, Bill Sheils (York University).
The Summer
Meeting will take place from 23-26 July 2008, at the National University
of Ireland, Galway. Further details of the theme, along with a call for
communications for the Summer Meeting and a proposal form for those wishing to
offer communications, can be found by clicking here.
For conference
booking forms, click here.
Some bursaries
are available for postgraduate students wishing to deliver communications; for
a bursary application form, click here.
For travel
information (it is worth booking tickets early), click here.
For a
programme, or for any urgent inquiries during the week before the Meeting,
please e-mail the Conference Secretary, Dr Barbara Bombi,
at b.bombi@kent.ac.uk.
Provisional
dates for future Summer Meetings
2009: 22-25
July
The last POSTGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM on the History of
Christianity was held on Saturday 1 March 2008
at the University of
Manchester. These informal days are intended for
graduates to practise delivering a short paper (20 minutes) and benefit from
feedback and comments. If you would like to be added to our postgraduate
mailing list, please e-mail Hannah Williams at ehsoc@hotmail.com.
Other conferences of interest
Women
Religious and the Political World
H-WRBI [Historians of Women Religious in Britain and Ireland], National
University of Ireland, Galway, 22-23 August 2008
Papers are invited on the theme of 'Women Religious and the Political
World'. How do women religious conceive the political world? What kinds of
political activity (in the broadest sense) do women religious engage in? Topics
might include, but are not limited to: Missionary work, Political activism and
participation, Internal politics of the order, Impact
of the political world on communities of women religious, Literary/visual
political engagements. H-WRBI encourages papers on consecrated women from all
historical periods, from medieval and early modern through to the present, and
from different religious traditions within the history of Britain and Ireland.
Postgraduate students are particularly welcome.
Papers should be 20 minutes long. Abstracts of no more than 200 words
should be sent by 31 March 2008 to Dr Marie-Louise Coolahan.
Summer school in Research on Religion, Culture and
Society in Europe (1750-): Religion and Modernity
Leuven, 20-29 August 2008
http://kadoc.kuleuven.be/summer_school/
Religion in
The 2008 Summer School on Religion, Culture and
Society in
This summer school offers its students an
introductory training by means of a balanced programme
of seminars, lectures and field trips. Established researchers in the field
develop specific topics and cases, students have the possibility to present
their own work and discuss their ideas in a relaxed and open atmosphere and
within a multidisciplinary framework.
A joint initiative of: VU University Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam);
University of Fribourg; K.U.Leuven; Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, EPHE Sorbonne Paris; and the University of Trnava. KADOC, the Documentation
and Research Centre on Religion, Culture and Society of the K.U.Leuven
ensures the office of the summer school.
Forms and all other information are
available on: http://kadoc.kuleuven.be/summer_school
For other questions, contact: summerschool@kadoc.kuleuven.be
The Oxford Movement, Europe and the Wider World
Pusey House and Somerville College, Oxford, 15-18 September 2008
This conference is being organised by Professor Nigel Yates (University of Wales, Lampeter), Dr Peter Nockles (John
Rylands University Library, Manchester) and Fr
Jonathan Baker (Pusey House, Oxford) to commemorate the 175th
anniversary of the Oxford Movement in the centenary
year of Pusey House. Under the presidency of Bishop Geoffrey Rowell,
distinguished scholars from Australia, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden,
the United Kingdom and the United States will be reviewing the impact of the
Oxford Movement beyond the borders of the Church of
England and on ecumenical relations between Anglican and Non-Anglican churches
in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Further
details of the conference are available from Professor Nigel Yates, Department
of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Wales, Lampeter
SA48 7ED, United Kingdom, or by email.
The
Church of England in the Twentieth Century: Historical Readings
The Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University,
Saturday 27 September 2008
A
second one-day symposium examining the history of the Church of England in the
twentieth century. All welcome.
Registration fee (including a basic lunch and refreshments) is
£7.50. Further details may be obtained
from: The Revd Dr J.N. Morris, Dean, Trinity Hall, Cambridge CB2 1TJ: jnm20@cam.ac.uk
Provisional
programme: Introduction – Jeremy Morris; Alex Hughes
– ‘Oliver Chase Quick and church theology’; James Rigney
– ‘”The Triumph of the Cross”: the Atonement in the culture of twentieth
century Anglican theology’; Charlotte Methuen – ‘George Bell and the ecumenical
movement between the wars’; Matthew Grimley – ‘Anglicans
and the permissive society’; Stewart Mews - ‘“Don’t get napooed”:
Bishop Charles Gore in the First World War’.
The Second International
Conference on Religion and Media will be held in Tehran and Qom, Iran, from
9-12 November 2008. We cordially invite all media researchers and scholars,
representatives from diverse religious traditions, professionals and students
involved with the subjects of the conference to attend and submit a paper.
Further information could be found at conference website: http://www.religion-media.ir/,
or contact rm2008@religion-media.ir.
A few scholarships are available to partially subsidize the costs of
participants with selected papers.
John Calvin
and His Influence, 1509-2009
University of Geneva, 24-27 May 2009
For details of the conference, or to propose a paper or a panel of
papers, click here.
International
Conference on Baptist Studies V
Whitley College, Melbourne, Australia,
15-18 July 2009
Following four successful
International Conferences on Baptist Studies at Oxford in 1997, Wake Forest in
2000, Prague in 2003 and Acadia in 2006, there is to be a fifth at Whitley
College, Melbourne, Australia, from Wednesday 15 to Saturday 18 July 2009. All
the conferences take Baptists as their subject matter, but are not restricted
to Baptists as speakers or attenders. The theme this
time is ‘Interfaces: Baptists and Others’, which includes relations with other
Christians, other faiths and other movements such as the Enlightenment. What
has been the Baptist experience of engaging with different groups and
developments? The theme will be explored by means of case studies, some of
which will be very specific in time and place while others will cover long
periods and more than one country. A number of main speakers will address
aspects of the subject, but offers of short papers to last no more than 25
minutes in delivery are welcome. They should relate in some way to the theme of
‘Baptists and Others’. The title should be submitted to Professor D. W. Bebbington, Department of History, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4TB,
United Kingdom (email: d.w.bebbington@stir.ac.uk). We are planning that a volume
containing some of the conference papers will appear in the series of Studies
in Baptist History and Thought published by Paternoster Press. Papers from the first
conference have appeared in that series as The Gospel in the World:
International Baptist Studies, edited by David Bebbington,
and volumes representing the subsequent conferences are also being published.
Full board over three days will be provided by the college, and charges will be
kept low. Programmes and application forms will be
available later.
Reformation Hungary
Monday 6 October – Monday 13 October 2008
Prestige
Travel I Fridays Court, Ringwood, BH24 1JA
Leader:
Anthony Earl
Hungary has
a distinguished association with the Reformation, as well as with the Roman
Catholic Church. The present day Reformed Church counts three and a half
million adherents, and the Lutheran Church another half million. Debrecen is a
major centre of Calvinist and Reformed study and has a very large main Reformed
church building. Sarospatak
contains a College of which the head at one time was Comenius. The country
displays major castles and churches, and the cultural (and thermal) attractions
of Budapest are fabled. A Hungarian-speaking guide will be present for much of
the week, (included in the price). The intention will be to create a party of
church spirit similar to the tours centred on Erasmus
and Luther.
The
provisional programme includes three days in Budapest
and Esztergom, two in Sarospatak
and two in Debrecen.
Price for
double room, with breakfast; including flights, transfers, intercity rail
travel, five evening meals, entrance to major museums: £759; single room
supplement £180.
Full details
are available from:
ANTHONY EARL, 36 Village Way Ashford Middlesex TW15 2LB, tel: 01784 254019, anthonyjearl@googlemail.com
Applications
should be addressed to:
Mr David Nash, Prestige Travel, tel: 01425 480600, who supplies
the official form and a copy of terms and conditions.
The target number for this party is 20. Deposits of
£100 will be required as soon as possible.
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Selected proceedings of the Society's conferences are published in the series Studies in Church History,
now at its forty-fourth volume.
Past titles include: The Church and War, Women and the Church, Christianity
and Judaism, The Church and Childhood, Unity and Diversity in the Church,
Continuity and Change in Christian Worship, The Church and the Book, The Church
and Mary, Retribution, Repentance, and Reconciliation, Signs, Wonders,
Miracles: Representations of Divine Power in the Life of the Church, Elite and
Popular Religion.
These books are normally available at a discounted price to EHS members.
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