8th North American Syriac Symposium, Brown University, June 16–19, 2019
The 8th North American Syriac Symposium will convene at Brown University on June 16-19, 2019. Held every four years since 1991, the North American Syriac Symposium brings together scholars and students for exchange and discussion on a wide variety of topics related to the language, literature, and cultural history of Syriac Christianity, extending chronologically from the first centuries CE to the present day and geographically from Syriac Christianity's homeland in the Middle East to South India, China, and the worldwide diaspora.
The theme for the 2019 conference is Syriac Worlds: Interactions, Exchanges, Contributions.