19 May 2021

A Christian ‘Oriental question’ or an ‘Orient belonging only to Easterners’?

In this webinar, the panellists will discuss European cultural diplomacy in Ottoman and Mandate Syria and Palestine, how it impacted the cultural identification of indigenous Christians, and the variety of Christian Arab agendas towards such policies, relying predominantly on unpublished sources.

They will present some of the conceptual and archival challenges, and link the study of the micro-scale level of everyday cultural and religious life to the macro-narratives of global change affecting Christian communities, in a connected perspective.
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The Panellists:
Karène Sanchez Summerer
Konstantinos Papastathis
Lora Gerd
Dimitrios M. Kontogeorgis

Chair:
Sarah Irving