Oxford Patristic & Byzantine Study Week: The Sacred in Art

OXFORD PATRISTIC AND BYZANTINE STUDY WEEK
INAUGURAL EVENT: THE SACRED IN ART
EXHIBITION AND PRESENTATIONS

VENIA DIMITRAKOPOULOU, PAVLOS SAMIOS, and VANA XENOU

The Patristic & Byzantine Study Week, is taking place at Wolfson College and St Gregory House​, Oxford, 3-8 July 2015. The week will be dedicated to interdisciplinary research in the fields of theology and medieval studies with special emphasis in Patristics and Byzantine studies.

A series of distinguished lecturers, researchers and artists will offer lectures and seminars dedicated to the Bible, spirituality, sacred art, the study of history, and the way Patristic and Byzantine Studies may be relevant to us today. Among them are: the Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia (Oxford), Sebastian Brock (Oxford), Hugh Wybrew (Oxford), Andrew Louth (Durham), Richard Price (London), Mary Cunningham (Nottingham), ​Ida Toth (Oxford), Andreas Andreopoulos (Winchester), Pantelis Kalaitzidis (Volos), Niki Tsironi (Athens), Eirini Panou (Jerusalem), Rebecca White (Oxford), Stephen Platt (Oxford), Nikolaos Asproulis (Volos), George Calofonos (Athens), Theofili Kampianaki (Oxford) and others.

Painting by Pavlos Samios

The Study Week will be inaugurated with an event dedicated to “The Sacred in Art”, which will include an exhibition by the celebrated Greek artists Venia Dimitrakopoulou, Pavlos Samios and Vana Xenou; all three of them will be present and will speak about their works.

For further information and registration, see: http://www.ainosculture.org/

Sculpture by Vana Xenou

The context of the Study Week is to explore the open dialogue between the timeless reality of the sacred and its approach by thinkers, intellectuals and artists at specific periods of time, such as the Byzantine era. The Sacred in Art has been one of the topics on which we –as organizers– have focused our attention in the past 10 years, yet on which these three artists have dedicated their thought, energy and work over a lifetime. Dimitrakopoulou, Samios and Xenou will present their works in the space of Wolfson College and they will also talk about their thought and their views regarding this invisible and yet palpable sacred nucleus of art – ecclesiastical and secular – of the past and the present.

Be there with us: FRIDAY 3^RD JULY, 16:30 – 18:30, WOLFSON COLLEGE, OXFORD

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PARTICIPANTS OF THE STUDY WEEK:
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