School of History

Symposium: -Professor Yervand Margaryan, Department of World History and Area Studies, Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan, -Professor Victoria Arakelova, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan, -Dr Lusine Margaryan, Marie Slodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship post-doctoral researcher, School of History, UCC.

Friday 4 February 2022, 14.00-17.00 (2PM-5PM)

The symposium will take place through MS Teams. To obtain a Teams link, please, contact Dr Jérôme aan de Wiel, School of History, UCC: j.aandewiel@ucc.ie

This symposium focuses on the history of Early Eastern Christianity and its characteristics. The spread of Christianity along the frontiers of the Roman and Persian Empires and the formation of Eastern Churches differed from that in the Roman world. Being on the crossroads of different political and cultural systems, the Euphrates zone was a birthplace of specific cultures. The symposium will explore this reality which undoubtedly influenced the process of the development of national Churches in the region. Western Asia also engendered such powerful religious systems as Paulicianism and Manichaeism. These heresies and the environment which gave birth to them will also be the topic of discussion during the symposium. Speakers: -Professor Yervand Margaryan, Department of World History and Area Studies, Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan: ‘Paulicianism as a product of the Divergent Environment of the Euphrates Contact Zone’ -Professor Victoria Arakelova, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan: Manichaeism: An Anti-System between the East and the West’ -Dr Lusine Margaryan, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship post-doctoral researcher, School of History, University College Cork: ‘The Armenian Church Between the Persian and Eastern Roman Empires’ Moderator: -Dr Damian Bracken, School of History, University College Cork