St. Vladimir's Seminary,575 Scarsdale Rd.,10707,Yonkers,NY,US

On Saturday, September 17, 2016, at 7 p.m., St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary will host a panel discussion titled, “Rethinking Sacred Arts.” The event, which is open to the public, will feature 11 renowned international scholars and artists, drawing on their expertise in the study, practice, and interpretation of the visual arts, music, rhetoric, and aesthetics.

The panel discussion will top off a weekend-long “Sacred Arts Symposium,” which is the first in a series of events planned between Fall 2016 and Spring 2018 by the Seminary, all of which are a part of the Seminary’s Sacred Arts Initiative (SAI). These SAI events are funded by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, and are designed to explore the Seminary’s contribution to the study and practice of the Sacred Arts.

The prestigious panel will be made up of Fr. Ivan Moody, Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Gordon Graham, Princeton Theological Seminary; Helen Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Vasileios Marinis, Yale Divinity School; George Kordis, University of Athens; Christina Maranci, Tufts University; Annemarie Weyl Carr, Southern Methodist University (Emerita); Peter Jeffery and Margot Fassler, University of Notre Dame; Judith Wolfe, St. Andrews, Scotland; and Mary Carruthers, New York University (Emerita). Peter C. Bouteneff, professor of Systematic Theology at St. Vladimir’s and director of the SAI, will introduce the discussion.

The event will be held in the Metropolitan Philip Auditorium of the John G. Rangos Family Building on the seminary campus. Admission is free.

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