This event explores the topic of theosis or deification with a particular reference to the theme of the icon. Philosophical questions of aesthetics, anthropology, epistemology and theology converge in the ancient theological problem of construing the relationship between theosis and icon, image and archetype.

Keynote Address: Professor Douglas Hedley (Cambridge University)

Organizatori: ISVS, Institutul pentru studiul valorilor și spiritualității, Facultatea de Filosofie și Științe Social-Politice, Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași, Departamentul de Filosofie, Facultatea de Filosofie, Universitatea din București, Centrul de Cercetare a Istoriei Ideilor Filosofice.

Organized by Institute for the Study of Values and Spirituality (ISVS), Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași in cooperation with Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in Romania.

Organizatori: Institutul pentru studiul valorilor și spiritualității (ISVS), Facultatea de Filosofie și Științe Social-Politice, Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași, Departamentul de Filosofie, Facultatea de Filosofie, Universitatea din București,  Centrul de Cercetare a Istoriei Ideilor Filosofice.

Organized by The Institute for the Study of Values and Spirituality (ISVS), Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași in cooperation with Dokuz Eylul University, İlahiyat Faculty, Turkiye.
In today’s fast-changing world, unexpected developments and crises are arising on the international arena, yet no less on individual or community scales, so new challenges are to be faced. What can be the role of spiritual values in responding to such challenges?

Organized by Institute for the Study of Values and Spirituality (ISVS), Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, România.
The Iași Conference is continuing the Palamas Seminar investigations of the influence of the Philokalia texts on St Gregory Palamas and on Orthodox philosophy and theology in general (meetings in Braga in July 2019 and Pskov in November 2019). Onsite and online event.

Organized by Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, USA, Romanian Academy-Iași Branch, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, România.
The conference participants came from United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Zimbabwe, Romania.