PROGRAMME

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