Talks today and Wednesday

[Syrimis, George]

Monday, February 6, 5:00 PM
Luce Hall 102, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Fr. Stefanos Alexopoulos
Yale Institute for Sacred Music

"The Greek Orthodox Church in Context: History, Structure and Function"

Rev. Stefanos Alexopoulos received a B.A. in Religious Studies from Hellenic College in Brookline, MA, and his M.Div. from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, also in Brookline. He holds a Ph.D. in Theology (Liturgical History) from the University of Notre Dame, where his main area of concentration was Liturgical Studies, with minors in Byzantine Art and Patristics. He is a member of the North American Academy of Liturgy and the Society of Oriental Liturgy of which he is the secretary. Since September of 2009 he contributes to the “New Catalogue of Byzantine Manuscripts” project of the Protestant Theological University, Kampen, Holland as an expert/consultant on issues of Byzantine liturgical history. He also serves as a parish priest (parish of St. George, Halandri, Archdiocese of Athens, Church of Greece).

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Wednesday, February 8, 4:30 PM
Hall of Graduate Studies 211, 320 York Street

Cemal Kafadar
Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, Harvard University

“How Dark is the History of the Night, How Black the Story of Coffee, How Bitter the Tale of Love: The Changing Measure of Leisure and Pleasure in Early Modern Istanbul”


Co-sponsored with the Çağatay Fund at the Council on Middle East Studies, The MacMillan Center.

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