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| CONFERENCE PLANNING. IOTA plans to hold its mega-conferences every four years: 2023, 2027, 2031, and so on. Unless there are compelling reasons to make an alternative arrangement, each mega-conference will take place in January, starting no earlier than the 8th and ending no later than the 15th of the month. Plan accordingly. In order to prepare each mega-conference, IOTA’s group chairs will hold an international symposium two years before each mega-conference on the model of the Jerusalem Symposium of January 2018. We are happy to note that we have the blessing of the Patriarchate of Alexandria to hold the next Chairs’ Symposium in January 2021 in Egypt. In addition, IOTA has a standing invitation of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to organize its subsequent Chairs’ Symposium in Turkey. |
| PUBLICATION PLANS. IOTA plans to launch its publications in 2020 with the Flagship Volume, which will include public addresses, group vision statements, and institutional statements. IOTA Group Chairs will constitute an Advisory Committee to IOTA Publications. Individual conference presentations have already been made available online on IOTA’s YouTube Channel (as videos, over 27, 000 views and 430 subscribers to date) and on the Ancient Faith Ministries website (as podcasts). |
| ANNOUNCEMENTS. IOTA’s co-laborer organization, Orthodox Theological Society in America invites papers on the topic of “Orthodox Unity” for its annual meeting in Glenview (suburban Chicago), Illinois, on November 7-9, 2019. The deadline for the submission of the paper proposals is September 1. Orthodox scholars residing outside of North America are encouraged to attend as observers. For more information, visit this page. The OTSA meeting is being held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Orthodox Christian Association of Medicine, Psychology, and Religion (OCAMPR). |
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