This is a talk open to everyone. Presentation to be followed by Vespers (sung evening prayer) in the Byzantine Rite.

It will take place at the Newman Centre of McGill University, 3484 Peel Street [main hall].

Brian A. Butcher arrives at McGill as Adjunct Professor after three years of teaching in the Toronto School of Theology, where he remains a Fellow of the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptysky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies. From 2011-2017, he taught courses at Saint Paul University in Ottawa in both Eastern and Western Christian traditions. As Adjunct Professor of Catholic Studies, Dr. Butcher will bring to the School of Religious Studies expertise in Eastern (-Rite) Catholicism and comparative liturgy; his research interests include sacred music, patristics, philosophical hermeneutics and interreligious dialogue.