The Centre for the Study of the Christian East (ZECO) of Paris Lodron University of Salzburg in cooperation with the International Institute for Central Asian Studies (IICAS) of the UNESCO Silk Road Programme, held a high-profile academic conference in Samarkand, Uzbekistan in September 2023. In a unique interdisciplinary synopsis of theology, religious studies and history, archaeology, philology, manuscript studies and epigraphy, the latest research on the “Church of the East” was exchanged.

2 May 2023 | in presence: A lecture by Prof. Hamlet Petrosyan, Chair of Cultural Studies, Yerevan State University, on the art and culture of Armenia from the fourth to the seventh century.

This year, for the first time, Armenian Studies at the Center for the Study of the Christian East at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, under the direction of Armenologist Jasmine Dum-Tragut, awarded five young researchers with scholarships to study the spiritual and cultural heritage of Artsakh (Karabakh).