Lecture by Andy Hilkens (PhD, Ghent University) at Princeton University, United States: A short history of the entanglement between Syriac and Armenian Christianities

Despite the publication of the foundational studies of Erwand Ter-Minassiantz of relations between the Syriac and Armenian churches more than a century ago, contacts between Syriac and Armenian Christianities are still marginalized. In this talk I will argue the case for the emerging field of Syro-Armenian studies, addressing some key events and issues in Syro-Armenian history.

Andy Hilkens (PhD, Ghent University 2014) is a religious and cultural historian of the premodern Eastern Mediterranean. He is currently Lecturer in Coptic and a postdoctoral researcher in the FWF START-Project “Generative Authority: The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters, and Paratext”, in the Department of History of Christianity at the University of Vienna. He is co-editor of the series “Eastern Christian Cultures in Contact” (Brepols).

For more information https://hellenic.princeton.edu/events/2025/csla-lecture-andy-hilkens-short-history-entanglement-between-syriac-and-armenian