An international conference on Evagrius of Pontus—a philosopher, theologian, desert ascetic, spiritual writer, and intellectual of the fourth century, who had a significant impact on the curriculum, spirituality, and intellectual culture of medieval Armenian monasteries—is to be held at St. Nersess Armenian Seminary from June 4th–6th.

The conference, organized by SNAS professors Dr. Roberta Ervine and Dr. Ani Shahinian, is co-sponsored by St. Vladimir’s Seminary, and brings together most of the leading scholars working on Evagrius and his reception in the various languages of the medieval Christian world (Greek, Coptic, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, Arabic, etc.)

The Armenian reception of Evagrius is notable because Armenian manuscripts, along with Syriac, preserve works of Evagrius that were otherwise suppressed and lost in the original Greek, due to Evagrius’ embroilment in the “Origenist” theological controversies of the sixth century AD.

The hybrid conference may be followed by registering at this Zoom link.