The CSCS with other partners organizes an annual Coptic Studies Symposium.

Fourteenth Annual Coptic Studies Symposium

Iconography and Hagiography: Picturing Holiness in Coptic Christianity

Saturday, October 30, 2021  On ZOOM

Co- sponsors: The  Canadian Society for Coptic Studies, the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilisations and the Coptic Museum of Canada.

Thirteenth Annual Coptic Studies Symposium

Coptic Heritage:  The Challenges of Negotiating Identities

Saturday, October 31, 2020 on ZOOM
Co-Sponsored by: The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies, the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations University of Toronto and the Coptic Museum of Canada, Toronto

Twelfth Annual Coptic Studies Symposium

The Twelfth Annual Coptic Studies Symposium was held jointly with the 19ème Journée d’études de l’Association Francophone de Coptologie (AFC) on 19-22 June 2019 in  Ottawa. It is the first time that the Journée d’études was held outside of Europe, and on Canadian soil.

Co-sponsored by the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, Saint Paul University, and the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies.

Eleventh Annual Coptic Studies Symposium

Christian Pilgrimages in Egypt: Ancient and Modern

University of Toronto

Saturday, April 28, 2018
Co-Sponsored by: The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, and the Coptic Museum of Canada

Tenth Annual Coptic Studies Symposium

Coptic Heritage and Egyptology: Saint Shenouda the Archimandrite and the Extraordinary Scope of His Writings

University of Toronto

Saturday, April 1, 2017
Co-Sponsored by:
The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies
Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
University of Toronto

Ninth Annual Coptic Studies Symposium

Coptic Heritage and Egyptology: Continuities and Particularities

University of Toronto

Saturday, April 2, 2016
Co-Sponsored by:
The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies
Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
University of Toronto

Eighth  Annual Coptic Studies Symposium

Interchanges between the Coptic and Ethiopian Churches
Literature, Monasticism, Culture

University of Toronto

Saturday, April 18, 2015
Co-Sponsored by:
The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies
Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto, Scarborough
Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
University of Toronto 

Seventh Annual Coptic Studies Symposium

Coptic Heritage: Monasticism – Consistency and Change

University of Toronto

Saturday, March 1, 2014
Co-Sponsored by:
The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies
Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
University of Toronto 

Sixth Annual Coptic Studies Symposium 

Coptic Heritage: Traditions  and Transitions

University of Calgary

Saturday, February 8 and Saturday February 9, 2013
Co-Sponsored by: The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies
Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary
Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary
Chair of Christian Thought, University of Calgary

Fifth Annual Coptic Studies Symposium

Coptic Heritage: Literature and Continuity

University of Toronto

Saturday March 24, 2012
Sponsored by the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies, the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, and the Coptic Museum of Canada

Fourth Annual Coptic Studies Symposium

Coptic Heritage: Dynamics and Diversity

University of Ottawa

Saturday February 11, 2011
Co- Sponsored by the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies and the Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa.

Third Annual Coptic Studies Symposium

Coptic Heritage: Archaeology and Ritual

University of Toronto

Saturday May 29, 2010
Sponsored by the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies
The Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, and the Coptic Museum of Canada

Second Annual Coptic Studies Symposium

Coptic Heritage: History and Creativity

University of Toronto

Saturday March 21, 2009
University of Toronto
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, the University of Toronto Art Centre, and the Coptic Museum of Canada

First Annual Coptic Studies Symposium

Coptic Heritage: Ancient and Modern

University of Toronto

Saturday March 29, 2008
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations and the Coptic Museum of Canada