Day 1: Monday, 31/10/2022
Venue: MESHS, Maison Européenne des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société
08.00 – 08.30 Welcome and registration
08.30 – 09.00 Opening remarks
Introduction to Languages and Documents of Oriental Christianities
09.00 – 10.30 Language Major – Classical Armenian (Federico Alpi) / Language Minor – Middle (Christian) Arabic (Joseph Faragalla)
10.30 – 10.45 Break
10.45 – 12.15 Language Major – Classical Armenian (Federico Alpi) / Language Minor – Old Georgian (Alexey Muraviev)
12.15 – 13.15 Lunch Break
Keynote lecture
13.15 – 14.35 Sebastian Brock, “Varietas syriaca in long Late Antiquity” 
14.35 – 14.50 Break
Thematic Lecture Sessions
Session 1: Interconnected Cultures of the Near East
14.50 – 16.10 Richard Payne, “Iranian Christians”
16.10 – 16.25 Break
16.25 – 17.45 Philip Wood, “Christians under the Umayyads and Abbasids”
17.45 – 18.00 Break
18.00 – 19.20 Vittorio Berti, “Syriac translations from Greek: building cultural (and spiritual) bridges and erecting theological walls”
Day 2: Tuesday, 01/11/2022
Venue: Hotel Ibis Lille Centre Gares
Introduction to Languages and Documents of Oriental Christianities
09.00 – 10.30 Language Major – Classical Armenian (Federico Alpi) / Language Minor – Middle (Christian) Arabic (Joseph Faragalla)
10.30 – 10.50 Break
10.50 – 12.20 Language Major – Classical Armenian (Federico Alpi) / Language Minor – Old Georgian (Alexey Muraviev)
12.20 – 14.00 Lunch Break
Thematic Lecture Sessions
Session 2: Caucasus in the Eurasian Cultural and Commercial Continuum
14.00 – 15.20 Giusto Traina, “Armenian connections (IV-VI CE)”
15.20 – 15.40 Break
15.40 – 17.00 Tamara Pataridze, “How the Rise of the Cristian Literature in Arabic (8th-10th centuries) Reconnected the Syriac and Georgian Literatures again”
17.00 – 17.20 Break
17.20 – 18.40 Ian Colvin, “Placing Late Antique Lazika in a Eurasian Cultural and Commercial Continuum—Black Sea, Caucasian, or Eurasian?”
Day 3: Wednesday, 02/11/2022
Venue: MESHS, Maison Européenne des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société
Introduction to Languages and Documents of Oriental Christianities
09.00 – 10.30 Language Major – Classical Armenian (Federico Alpi) / Language Minor – Old Georgian (Alexey Muraviev)
10.30 – 10.50 Break
10.50 – 12.20 Language Minor – Middle (Christian) Arabic (Joseph Faragalla) / Language Minor – Old Georgian: Calligraphy workshop (Oleksii Chekal & Alexey Muraviev)
12.20 – 14.00 Lunch Break
Thematic Lecture Sessions
Session 3: Material History of the Eurasian Connections: Archaeology and Architecture
14.00 – 15.20 Pavel Lurje, “Wine for Christians, Moslems and Manichaeans: Sogdian dedicative inscriptions from Semirechie” 
15.20 – 15.40 Break
15.40 – 17.00 Emma Loosley, “Neither East nor West? The Architecture and Archaeology of the Churches in the East”
17.00 – 17.20 Break
17.20 – 18.40 Johnathan Hardy, “Reconstructing the Past: 3D Modelling and Spatial Analysis of Sasanian and Christian Art and Architecture”
Day 4: Thursday, 03/11/2022
Venue: MESHS, Maison Européenne des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société
Introduction to Languages and Documents of Oriental Christianities
09.00 – 10.30 Language Major – Classical Syriac (Eastern) (Alexey Muraviev) / Language Minor – Middle (Christian) Arabic: Calligraphy workshop (Oleksii Chekal & Joseph Faragalla)
10.30 – 10.50 Break
10.50 – 12.20 Language Major – Classical Syriac (Eastern) (Alexey Muraviev) / Language Major – Sogdian (Antje Wendtland)
12.20 – 14.00 Lunch Break
Thematic Lecture Sessions
Session 4: Intellectual Cultures Along the Silk Roads
14.00 – 15.20 Andrea Piras, “Textual Imageries of Manichaeism and Christianity in Turfan area”
15.20 – 15.40 Break
15.40 – 17.00 Yuliya Minets, “Languages and Linguistic Awareness in Syriac Late Antiquity”
17.00 – 17.20 Break
17.20 – 18.40 Emilie Villey, “Quelques observations à propos de l’influence culturelle chinoise et indienne sur les savants de langue syriaque des 6e-8e s”
Day 5: Friday, 04/11/2022
Venue: MESHS, Maison Européenne des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société
Introduction to Languages and Documents of Oriental Christianities
09.00 – 10.30 Language Major – Classical Syriac (Eastern) (Alexey Muraviev) / Language Major – Sogdian (Antje Wendtland)
10.30 – 10.50 Break
10.50 – 12.20 Language Major – Classical Syriac (Eastern) (Alexey Muraviev) / Language Major – Sogdian (Antje Wendtland)
12.20 – 14.00 Lunch Break
Thematic Lecture Sessions
Session 5: The Written Word. Manuscripts & Inscriptions from the Caucasus to Central Asia
14.00 – 15.20 Oleksii Chekal, “The Aesthetics of Letterforms of the Christian Near East: Bridging the Worlds and Scripts with Calligraphy and Typography”
15.20 – 15.40 Break
15.40 – 17.00 Bernard Outtier, “Usages inconnus de l’encre rouge dans des manuscrits géorgiens des X-XI-èmes siècles”
17.00 – 17.20 Break
17.20 – 18.40 Simon Brelaud, “An epigraphic perspective on Syriac communities: from the Middle to the Far East”
Day 6: Saturday, 05/11/2022
Venue: Maison de la Recherche du campus Pont-de-Bois (bâtiment F)
! Not to be confused with the MESHS, Maison Européenne des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société
Introduction to Languages and Documents of Oriental Christianities
09.00 – 10.30 Language Major – Classical Syriac (Eastern) (Alexey Muraviev) / Language Major – Sogdian (Antje Wendtland)
10.30 – 10.50 Break
10.50 – 12.20 Language Major – Classical Syriac (Eastern): Calligraphy workshop (Oleksii Chekal & Alexey Muraviev) / Language Major – Sogdian (Antje Wendtland)
12.20 – 14.00 Lunch Break
Thematic Lecture Sessions
Session 6: Christian Communities through the Changing Worlds (Rome, Persia, Central Asia)
14.00 – 15.20 Alexey Lyavdansky, “Protecting Mother and her Child: Incantations against the Child-stealing Demon in the Syriac Tradition of Charms”
15.20 – 15.40 Break
15.40 – 17.00 Alexey Muraviev, “Researching Syro-Persian Christian community in the medieval Central Asia: marriage custom according to unique manuscript witness”
17.00 – 17.20 Break
17.20 – 18.40 Simon Brelaud, “Le christianisme parmi les Arabes au tournant de l’islam”
Day 7: Sunday, 06/11/2022
Venue: Musée du Louvre-Lens
Visit of the Louvre-Lens museum
08.30 – 10.00 Bus ride to Lens
10.00 – 13.00 Visit of the exhibition “Champollion : la voie des hiéroglyphes” + free time in the museum
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break
Round Table
14.00 – 16.00 “Conflicting and Merging: The Construction of Christian Identities in the Persianate Worlds of Late Antiquity”
16.15 – 17.30 Closing reception
18.30 Bus ride to Lille