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IvOC's second annual Platform Day features a varied panel on the topic of "Trauma & Healing". How does the (orthodox) Christian faith help those dealing with various traumas as a result of migration, war, or military operations? What are the latest developments in terms of treatment, and what is the role of a spiritual advisor? The Platform Day is sponsored by NOSTER.

Would you like a crash course in Orthodox Christianity and its transformation throughout the ages to modern times? Expert Christos Veskoukis, from the University of Exeter, will take you on a fascinating journey through the history of the Christianity from the time of Jesus to present day Orthodox Christianity.

It's almost time! The ERC Conference on Rewriting Global Orthodoxy: Oriental Orthodox Communities in a Transnational World, 25-27 January 2024, focuses on the textual and visual culture as a (differentiated) religioscape that binds oriental Christian communities together, at the local, national and regional – European – level, as well as on the transnational level, connecting the communities in home and host countries.

Our institute is currently searching for someone to fill the position of Treasurer. As treasurer you will be a board member and fulfill a vital role in providing financial advice to our institute.

At the end of October 2023, our institute launched the totally revised Platform Oosters Christendom website, the online magazine for articles on Eastern & Oriental Christianity.

Christos Veskoukis has been selected as a scholarship recipient from the Institute of Eastern Christian Studies. He is a final-year doctoral candidate in Theology at the University of Exeter, where he is researching the concepts of freedom and sin in the works of John Chrysostom (c. 347-407) and Nikolai Berdyaev (1874-1948). He holds a BA in Eastern Orthodox Theology from the University of Athens (Greece) and two master’s degrees, one in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics from the University of Birmingham (UK) and one in Systematic Theology from Radboud University (Netherlands).

On Friday 16 June 2023, the Institute for Eastern Christian Studies (IvOC) celebrates the first anniversary of the Platform Oosters Christendom. The Platform was launched on 10 June 2022 and in a year’s time has grown into a lively and up-to-date website, full with new articles and opinion pieces on the theme of Eastern Christianity. Former Platform editor Nick Pouls handed over the reigns to our new editor Christel Jansen. Besides being the editor, she also produces the bi-monthly Platform newsletter.