DR KEN PARRY
Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts with Honours (Manchester 1983)
Doctor of Philosophy (Manchester 1993)
Subject area
Church History
Status
Sessional / Visiting (Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University)
RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP & RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Research activity
Current research
Early Christianity in Asia
City of Constantine
Silk Road Studies
Books
Depicting the Word: Byzantine Iconophile Thought of the Eighth and Ninth Centuries. The Medieval Mediterranean, 12. Brill: Leiden, 1996.
Books edited
Sole editor The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
Sole editor Art, Architecture and Religion along the Silk Roads. Silk Road Studies Series. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006.
From Palmyra to Zayton: Epigraphy and Iconography, eds. S. Lieu (Macquarie), I. Gardner (Sydney), and K. Parry (Macquarie). Silk Road Studies X. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005.
Editor-in-chief and contributor of introduction and 120 entries (100,000 words) to The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999, paperback edition, 2001.
Joint editor and contributor to a special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 78/3 (1996), entitled Church of the East: Life and Thought, edited in conjunction with J. F. Coakley (Harvard).
Chapters in books
‘Reading Proclus Diadochos in Byzantium,’ in Plato’s Ancient Readers, eds. H. Tarrant (Newcastle) and D. Baltzly (Monash). London: Duckworth, 2006, 223-35.
‘The Art of the Church of the East in China’, in Jingjiao: The Church of the East in China and Central Asia, eds. R. Malek (Munich) and P. Hofrichter (Salzburg). Collectanea Serica. Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica, 2006, 321-39, with 12 illustrations.
‘The Buddha as Colossus in Central Asia and China’, in Art, Architecture and Religion along the Silk Roads, ed. Ken Parry (Macquarie). Silk Road Studies Series. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006, 162-84, with 10 illustrations.
‘The Iconography of the Christian Tombstones from Quanzhou’, in From Palmyra to Zayton: Epigraphy and Iconography, eds. S. Lieu (Macquarie), I. Gardner (Sydney), and K. Parry (Macquarie). Silk Road Studies X. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005, 229- 246, with 24 illustrations.
‘Vegetarianism in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: The Transmission of a Regimen’, in Feast, Fast or Famine: Food and Drink in Byzantium, eds. Wendy Mayer (Adelaide) and S. Trzcionka (Brisbane). Byzantina Australiensia 15. AABS: Brisbane, 2005, 171-187.
‘Origen and Image-Making’, in The Westminster Handbook to Origen, ed. John McGuckin (New York). Louisville & London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, 128-31.
‘Byzantine and Melkite iconophiles under iconoclasm,’ in Porphyrogenita: Essays in Honour of Julian Chrysostomides, eds. Judith Herrin (London) et al. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003, 137-151.
‘Japan and the Silk Road Legacy,’ in Worlds of the Silk Roads Ancient and Modern: Walls and Frontiers in Inner Asian History, eds. S. Lieu (Macquarie) and C. Benjamin (Grand Rapids). Silk Road Studies Series 6. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002, 215-223 with 8 illustrations.
Contributor of 10 entries (10,000 words) to The Dictionary of Historical Theology, ed. Prof. Trevor Hart (St Andrews). Carisle/Michigan: Paternoster/Eerdmans, 2000.
Contributor of 5 entries (5,000 words) to the Who’s Who of World Religions, ed. Prof. John Hinnells (SOAS). London: Macmillan 1991.
Articles in refereed journals
‘An Unusual Christian Artefact from South China’, TAAS Review (The Journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia) 15/2 (June 2006), 12-13, with 4 illustrations.
‘The Ascetical Theology of Maximus the Confessor,’ Phronema 17 (2002), 51-57.
‘The Stone Crosses of Kerala in South India’, TAASA Review (The Journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia) 14/2 (June 2005), 10-12, with 7 illustrations.
‘Angels and Apsaras: Christian Tombstones from Quanzhou,’ TAASA Review (The Journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia) 12/2 (June 2003), 5-7, with 2 illustrations.
‘Crisis in the Balkans: The Byzantine Monuments of Kosovo,’ The Eastern Churches Journal 8/3 (2001), 83-90, with 4 illustrations.
‘Images in the Church of the East: the evidence from Central Asia and China,’ in The Church of the East: Life and Thought, special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 78/3 (1996), 160-180, with 9 illustrations.
‘The Role of the Icon in the Eastern Christian Communities,’ Sophia 1 (Manchester, 1991), 12-18.
‘Theodore Studites and the Patriarch Nicephorus on Image-Making as a Christian Imperative,’ Byzantion 59 (1989), 164-83.
Book reviews in refereed journals
G. Peers, Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001) for Prudentia 34/1 (2002) 25-27.
Review article ‘On not seeing the icon,’ The Modern Churchman 34/3 (1992) 16-19.
Creative works
Photographic Exhibition ‘Constantinople-Istanbul through the Ages’, Macquarie University Library, 2006.
Photographic Exhibition ‘Christian Angels on the South China Coast’, Macquarie University, 2003.
Photographic Exhibition ‘The Stone Crosses of Kerala’, Macquarie University, 2004.
Exhibition of ‘Byzantine Icons’, Macquarie University, 2001.
Research projects(last five years only)
Project details
Manichaean and Nestorian Christian Remains in South China (Macquarie University)
City of Constantine (Macquarie University)
Role in team
Senior Research Officer
Professional standing (last five years only)
Conference papers
‘Aristotle and the Icon: The Use of the Categories by Byzantine Iconophile Writers’, paper for the Australian Society for Ancient Philosophy conference on Aristotle’s Categories in the Latin, Byzantine and Arab Traditions, South Cross University, 2006.
‘An Unholy Alliance: The Theological Marriage-Bed of Justinian and Theodora’, paper for conference on The Reign of Justinian and Theodora, Macquarie University, 2006.
‘Heretics in Purple: Christian Dogma and Imperial Power in Byzantium’, paper given at the Religious History Society/Australian Historical Association Conference, ANU, 2006.
‘Aspects of Yelikewen Iconography in South China’, paper given at the Second International Conference on Nestorianism in China, Salzburg, 2006.
‘Pioneers of Cultic Property: Rematerializing Early Christianity,’ paper given at the annual conference of the Society of Early Christianity, Macquarie University, 2006.
‘The Buddha as Colossus in Central Asia and China’, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2005.
‘Did the Apostle Thomas go to India,’ paper given at the annual conference of the Society for the Study of Early Christianity, Macquarie University, 2005.
‘The Buddha as Colossus in Central Asia and China’, paper given at the conference of the Australasian Society for Inner Asian Studies, Macquarie University, 2004.
‘Torture without Tears: The Iconography of Martyrdom in Byzantium’, lecture given at the Senior Research Seminar, Division of Humanities, Macquarie University, 2004.
‘The Iconography of the Christian Tombstones at Quanzhou’, lecture given at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 2004.
‘Origen, the Icon and the Vision of God’, lecture for the annual conference of the Society for the Study of Early Christianity, Macquarie University, 2004.
‘Origen of Alexandria and Byzantine Iconoclasm’, Conference on Iconography in Early Egypt, organised by the Coptic Orthodox Church Diocese of Sydney, 2003.
‘The Art of the Nestorians in Quanzhou’, St Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute, Kerala, South India, 2003.
‘Vegetarianism in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: The Transmission of a Regimen,’ International Conference on Food and Drink in Byzantium, Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, Adelaide, 2003.
‘The Iconography of the “Nestorian” Tombstones at Quanzhou,’ First International Conference on Nestorianism in China, Salzburg, Austria, 2003.
‘Jacob d’Ancona and the Jews in Medieval China,’ conference on Foreigners in Asia, Asian Arts Society of Australia, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 2003.
‘West Meets East: Iconography of the Quanzhou Project,’ annual conference of the Society for the Study of Early Christianity, Macquarie University, 2003.
‘A Religion of Pots and Pans: The Early Christian Polemic Against the Gods and their Idols,’ Society for the Study of Early Christianity, Macquarie University, 2002.
‘Reading Proclus in Byzantium,’ paper for the Australian Society for Ancient Philosophy conference on Plato’s Ancient Readers, University of Newcastle, 2002.
‘A Fresh Look at the Frescoes in the Dura Europos Synagogue,’ paper given at the annual conference of the Society for the Study of Early Christianity, Macquarie University, 2002.
Referee for journal
Phronema
Role in the organisation of conferences, lecture series and speakers
Convener of ‘Reign of Justinian and Theodora’ two-day Conference at Macquarie University, 2006
Convener of ‘Art, Architecture and Religion along the Silk Roads’ two-day Conference at Macquarie University, 2004.
Occasional lectures
Centre for Christian Spirituality, Broken Bay Institute
School of Asian Language Study, UNSW
Dept of Studies in Religion, University of Sydney
Media commentary
‘The Bamiyan Buddhas’, ABC National Radio interview with John Hayfield Aug 2005, published on ABC website.
Interviewed by Rachael Kohn from ABC National Radio for her program ‘The Ark’ about my photographic exhibition ‘Stone Crosses from Kerala in South India’, Macquarie University Library, Nov-Dec 2004, published on ABC website.
Interviewed by Rachael Kohn from ABC National Radio for her program ‘The Ark’ about my photographic exhibition entitled ‘Christian Angels on the South China Coast’, Macquarie University Library, March-April 2003, published on ABC website.
This last exhibition was featured with an interview on the ABC TV program ‘Asia-Pacific Focus’ in June 2003.
Membership of professional bodies and offices currently held
Member, Australian Association for Byzantine Studies
Member, Australian Society for Ancient Philosophy
Member, Society for the Study of Early Christianity
Member, Australasian Society of Inner Asian Studies
Awards and prizes
Macquarie University Flagship Grant for developing postgraduate course entitled City of Constantine (2005-7).
UNESCO travelling scholarship for research in India (2006).
Macquarie University, Division of Humanities equipment fund for digital camera (2005).
Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation scholarship for research on Nestorian Christianity in China (2004-6).EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP, CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND TEACHING (last five years only)
Course co-ordination, development of curriculum and teaching methodology
Course Coordinator for Church History, St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College.
Tertiary teaching
Church History, St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College
Byzantine Studies, Ancient History, Macquarie UniversityCONTRIBUTION TO INSTITUTIONAL PLANNING AND GOVERNANCE (last five years only)
Membership of committees and bodies in the Member Institution
Member, Faculty, St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College
