THE FRIENDS OF MOUNT ATHOS

Autumn Meeting

There will be a meeting of the society in London on Tuesday 25 November 2008.

The meeting begins at 6.00 pm with a service of

Orthodox Vespers

in the church of St Dunstan in the West, 184 Fleet Street, EC4,

served by Metropolitan Kallistos.

After the service there will be a glass of wine at St Bride’s Institute in Bride Lane.

At about 7.15 pm, also in St Bride’s Institute,

Dr Veronica della Dora

will give a talk entitled

Gazes from the Sea: Mount Athos, Women, and the Geographical Imagination, 1880–1980

A native of Venice, Veronica della Dora wrote her doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Los Angeles, on ‘Geographies of the Holy Mountain. Post-Byzantine and Western Representations of the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos’. She is now a lecturer in geography at the University of Bristol with particular interests in cultural and historical geography, landscape representations, the history of cartography, and sacred geographies. She is the co-editor of High Places: Cultural Geographies of Mountains, Ice and Science (London, IB Tauris, 2008).

There is no charge for attending the meeting. As always non-members are most welcome.

Some dates for your diary

Vasilopitta party: Thursday 8 January 2009 at the Andipa Gallery, Knightsbridge.

Private view of the British Museum’s icons: Tuesday 3 February 2009.

Madingley conference: 20-22 February 2009.

Next AGM: Saturday 30 May 2009 at St Anne’s College, Oxford.