Middle Ages on the Move The Lands of the East through the eyes of travelling friars A project by DoSt-I, in collaboration with Federico De Renzi and Simone Costanzo The lecture series explores the experiences of travelling religious such as Dominicans, and Franciscans and the complicated creation of new cultural ties and in the lands …
Intereligious Dialogue In an Age of Volcanoes and Refugees In this conference we would like to rediscover why fraternal encounter with people from far-off lands is so important today. We’ll try to sketch the shape of Christian-Muslim relations as they were for the first decade or so of this century. Then, we’d explore some of …
Do You Remember Abraham? an almost brandnew podcast (in Turkish) The lecture entitled ‘Do you remember Abraham… A comparative approach to the stories of Abraham in the Quran and the Bible’, presented by Dr George Bristow on 17 April has been released as a podcast. You can listen to it on Spotify or on our …
Gregory of Nazianzus new podcast (in Turkish) The lecture “Gregory of Nazianzus and the question of the divinity of the Holy Spirit, presented by Dr Elif Tokay on 15 December 2022, is now available as a podcast on Spotify or on our website. Elif Tokay works in the History of Religions Department of the Faculty …
Les mots pour dire Dieu A new book by Claudio Monge and Denis Gril Within the framework of the group “Théologie en dialogue” which brings together Christian and Muslim theologians, Father Claudio Monge, director of the Dominican Istanbul study center (Dost-I), and Denis Gril, member of the institute of research on the Arab and Muslim …
On the Incarnation “On the Incarnation of the Word“, the theological essay written by the great father of the Church Athanasius bishop of Alexandria (296-373 a.D.), has been translated in Turkish by Onur Yöş and published by Kitab-ı Mukkades Şirketi Yayınları in 2020. Onur Yöş will introduce us into the life of Athanasius and present …
Translating Utopia Tommaso Campanella and the City of the Sun Not a purely visionary philosopher, an interpreter in his own way of Machiavelli and Galileo, Campanella looks to a possible world where the reasons of politics and modern science can find renewed support in the word of a God, who is not mere ‘geometer’. This …
Dominicans in Istanbul and the Church of St. Pierre A Conference at the Atatürk Kitaplığı Claudio Monge and Paolo Girardelli will retrace the history of the Dominicans in Istanbul until the building of the Church of Sen Piyer according to the project of Gaspare Fossati.The conference will be moderate by Elçin Macar. Claudio Monge : …
Gregory of Nazianzus and the question of the divinity of the Holy Spirit Elif Tokay teaches History of Religions at University of İstanbul. İn 2013 she gained her Phd. at the University of Cardiff with a thesis on arab translations of Gregory of Nazianzus’s homilies. İn 2021 she published the first book in Turkish on Gregory, …
Week 1 Hi everyone ! We’re Marie (right) and Thaïs (left) and we arrived in Istanbul a week ago. We’re gonna stay here for 3 months helping the Dominican’s community by doing multiples tasks such as : Gardening Rearranging/ cleaning the library Helping for prayers, communication, network,… It’s very exciting ! Moreover, we’re teachers 2 …
