Notices of FoMA Events

2013 Madingley Hall Conference: 8-10 March 2013 The next conference at Madingley will take place over the weekend of 8-10 March 2013. The theme will be ‘Spiritual Guidance on Mount Athos’. The following have agreed to speak: Dr Andreas Andreopoulos (Winchester), Fr Maximos (Simonopetra), Metropolitan Kallistos (Oxford), Sister Seraphima (Oxford), Frs Kirill and Methodiy (St Petersburg), Sister Theoktisti (Larisa) and Bishop Alexander Golitzin. For further details please see the Reservation Form.   Pilgrimage to Armenia & Western Georgia: 26 October - 3 November, 2013   Hilandar Appeal Phase Three: Icons and Manuscripts Conservation Room at Hilandar   A Photograph Contest for FoMA Members: Are you a member of FoMA who has great photos from your visit to Mount Athos? Read on...   Hold the date! -- Notices of FoMA Events Being Planned (Watch these pages for detailed announcements.) 2013 Annual General Meeting: 8 June at St. Anne's The poster image is of the Elder Paisios (1924-1994), photo by George Stafanopoulos, from the English translation of the biography of the Elder Paisios by Hieromonk Isaac.

Notices of Events of Related Interest

• The Courtald Gallery, Illuminating Objects (30 October 2012 – 4 February 2013)
  

  "a pilot programme of The Courtauld Gallery which aims to shine new light on unexpected objects from the decorative arts and sculpture collections, through partnerships with SOAS, King’s College London, the University of Kent in Canterbury, Imperial College and University College London. respectively."
  Currently featured: The Mount Athos Cross (featured in the Gallery Blog)

• The Royal Geographical Society photographic exhibition and lectures, The Serbian Mecieval Cultural Heritage (1-15 April, 2012, London)
  

  Among the lectures accompanying the exhibition are featured FoMA scholars Dr. Graham Speake and Mrs. Maria Andipa, speaking on the topics, "Monastic Communities at Mt. Athos and Hilandar Monastery" and "Icons and spiritual dimension of church paintings," respectively.
  

• The Pyrgos rugs. Nov. 10, 2011
  Lecture by Denise Harvey and Jennifer Speake
   
• Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Nov. 4, 2010
  Lecture by His Eminence Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia, president of the Friends of Mount Athos
   
• Sir John Soane's Museum Oct. 12, 2010; exhibition ongoing
  Artists in Paradise by Doug Patterson (Illustrated Talk -- invitation to members of FoMA)
   
• Amsterdam Centre for Eastern Orthodox Theology (ACEOT) Oct. 21, 2010
  Symposium: Peace in Orthodox Theology
  Speakers include Prof. Wim Janse, His Eminence Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia, and Revd. Prof. Andrew Louth)