PROGRAMME (subject to change)
Conference venue: Auditorium AT100, Agora building, Joensuu Campus, University of Eastern Finland (Yliopistonkatu 2, Joensuu)
Tuesday, May 31
Arrivals.
20:00 Dinner for invited speakers.
Wednesday, June 1
9:00- Registration and refreshments
10:00 Opening session
SESSION 1: ORTHODOX ICONOGRAPHY (Chair: Fr Damaskinos Olkinuora)
11:00 Dn Evan Freeman: Seeing icons: medieval, modern, and new perspectives
11:45 Fr Andreas Andreopoulos: Modern Greek Iconography: Trajectories and Directions
12:30 Lunch (Restaurant Aura, Joensuu)
SESSION 2: EXPERIENCING LITURGY (Chair: Fr Chrysostomos Nassis)
13:45 Maria Takala-Roszczenko: Community and Worship: Observations on 21st-century Lived Orthodoxy in Finland
14:30 Fr Damaskinos (Olkinuora) of Xenophontos: Recent Developments in Liturgical Studies vs. “Pastoral Liturgics”: A Conflict of Interests?
15:15 Coffee break
15:45 Fr Serafim Seppälä: A Sacred Cyberspace? Towards the Ontology of Virtual Worship
17:15 Vespers at the Church of St John the Theologian (Torikatu 41)
18:00 Reception for the speakers at the Orthodox Seminary, hosted by the Finnish Orthodox Church
Thursday, June 2
7:30 Liturgy at the Church of St John the Theologian
SESSION 3: LANGUAGE AND THE NATURE OF THEOLOGY (Chair: Rastko Jovic)
10:00 Octavian Gordon: Against a Linguistic ‘aggiornamento’ within Orthodoxy: The Case of Romanian
10:45 Fr Ernesto Sergio Mainoldi: Rediscovering the Importance of the Theology of Language in the Contemporary Orthodox Discourse
11:30 Coffee break
12:00 Cosmin Murariu: The Temptation of Theology or the Distance between Mind and Heart: A Discussion of the Hagioritic Tome of Saint Gregory Palamas and Its Implications for Theology Today
12:45 Lunch break
SESSION 4: ORTHODOX LITURGY (Chair: Maria Takala-Roszczenko)
14:00 Stig Frøyshov: Too much feast? The Historical Transformation of Regular Time and the Place of Penitence in the Eastern Orthodox Daily Office Today
14:45 Dn Mark Roosien: Rethinking ‘The Liturgy Outside the Liturgy’: The Kingdom of God in Schmemann, Zizioulas, and Bulgakov
15:30 Coffee break
SESSION 5: PERSONALISM AND ITS CHALLENGES (Chair: Fr Ernesto Sergio Mainoldi)
16:00 Georgios Siskos: The Roman Catholic and Protestant aspects of Christian Personalism: Remarks on the history of 20th century personalistic theology
18:00 Reception for speakers, hosted by the City of Joensuu (City Hall)
Friday, June 3
SESSION 6: ORTHODOXY AND (POST-)POSTMODERN SOCIETY (Chair: Fr Serafim Seppälä)
10:00 Rastko Jovic: Orthodox Theology and the Fluidity of Postmodernity
10:45 Fr Konstantinos Kenanides: Orthodox Tradition between Tradition and Assimilation
11:30 Coffee break
SESSION 7: PATRISTICS IN THE 21st CENTURY (Chair: Octavian Gordon)
12:00 Dragoljub Garic: “Made Perfect in Weakness”: The Employment of 2 Cor 12:9 in Chrysostom’s Martyrdom Theology and Its Implications for Contemporary Orthodox Thought
12:45 Lunch break
SESSION 8: CANONICAL ISSUES (Chair: Dn Mark Roosien)
14:00 David Heith-Stade: Public Church Law in the Eastern Orthodox tradition: Contemporary principles of church-state relationship and the problem of the constitution of the church
14:45 Fr Chrysostomos Nassis: Contemporary discussions concerning the Orthodox Liturgical Diptychs with special reference to the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (Crete 2016)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Final discussion and concluding remarks
(18:00 Vespers at the Church of St John the Theologian)
19:30 Dinner for the speakers
Saturday, June 4: Excursion to the monasteries of Valamo and Lintula (speakers only)
9:00 Departure from the Orthodox Seminary
10:00 Abbot’s reception, guided tour of the monastery, lunch
14:00 Departure to the Lintula Monastery
14:30 Guided tour at the Lintula Monastery, afternoon coffee
Arrival in Joensuu at ca. 18:00
19:00 Dinner for speakers
Sunday, June 5
9:00 Liturgy at the Church of St John the Theologian
Coffee and departures