The Eastern European Liaison Committee (EELC) 

Est. in 1995

Chair:         Professor Tobias Nicklas, Regensburg, Germany

Co-Chairs: Professor Christos Karakolis, Athens, Greece

      Professor Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Jena, Germany

East-West Symposia

One of the major developments of the EELC has been the arrangement of East-West Symposia, bringing together New Testament scholars from Orthodox (east), Catholic and Protestant (west) traditions.

Regional Joint Conferences

Beside the East-West Symposia EELC has been involved in running other Regional Joint Conferences and in significant developments in the region.

Pre-conferences

2023 – Vienna, 24–25 July, jointly with Latin America Caribbean LC

2018 – Athens, 5 -7 August

2014 – Szeged, 4 - 5 August

2012 – Leuven, 31 July

2010 – Berlin, 27 July

Early Career Scholars

A new focus of the EELC’s work is Digital Meetings for Emerging Scholars, initiated by Tobias Nicklas from Regensburg, assisted by Marko Jovanovic and the Regensburg Research Centre for Advanced Studies.

Commenced in 2021 there have been meetings in June and December 2021, 2022; May, 2023 (a three-day-meeting between Early Career Scholars from Charles University Prague, the University of Prague and Trinity Western University Vancouver). A similar meeting is planned for 2024 in Zagreb.