Category Archives: Conferences

The 20th Australasian Association for Byzantine Studies Conference Macquarie University, Sydney, July 19-21 2019 Keynote speakers: Professor David Olster (University of Kentucky) Title: The Idolatry of the Jews and the Anti-Judaizing Roots of Seventh- and Early Eighth-Century Iconoclasm Associate Professor … Continue reading →

On Saturday 18 August 2018, the Australasian Association for Byzantine Studies will hold a symposium at Macquarie University entitled “Hymns, Homilies and Hermeneutics in Byzantium.” The symposium coincides with the first ever visit to Australia by Dr Damaskinos Olkinuora, a … Continue reading →

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 5th Forum Medieval Art, Bern, September 18–21, 2019. The biannual colloquium is organized by the Deutsche Verein für Kunstwissenschaft e.V. … Continue reading →

To encourage the integration of Byzantine studies within the scholarly community and medieval studies in particular, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 54th International Congress on … Continue reading →

The Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS) will hold its 40th Annual Meeting and Conference at the University of New England in Armidale, NSW, Australia, ‪from 4-7 Feb 2019.  We welcome abstracts on all aspects of the classical world, its reception, and traditions. … Continue reading →

The 20th AABS conference will be on the theme of Dissidence and Persecution in Byzantium and will be held at Macquarie University, Sydney, July 19-20, 2019.  The keynote speaker will be Professor David Olster from the University of Kentucky.  Please … Continue reading →

Split, Croatia, 28-30 September 2018 Croatian Society for Byzantine Studies & Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Split The field of Byzantine Studies has recently gained impetus in Croatia from the establishment of … Continue reading →

On Wednesday July 25 2018 a colloquium will be held at Macquarie University on the topic of “Envisioning the Roman Emperor in Speech and Word in Late Antiquity”. This colloquium is organised by Dr Meaghan McEvoy as part of the … Continue reading →

As part of its ongoing commitment to Byzantine studies, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 44th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference to be held in San Antonio, … Continue reading →

Submission online by: February 15, 2018, Thursday, 11:59 EST Notification email by: March 15, 2018, Thursday The Forty-fourth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference (BSC) will be held in San Antonio, Texas, October 4-7 2018. For information on BSANA, please consult the … Continue reading →

University of Reading, 4-5 May 2018 Keynote speech: Dr. Chiara O. Tommasi (University of Pisa): Esotericism in Classical and Late Antiquity Late Antiquity was once regarded as an age of decadence and barbarisation as well as a ‘marginal’ field of study. … Continue reading →

The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), a world association of academics and researchers based in Athens, organizes its Annual International Conference on Classical and Byzantine Studies on 4-5 June 2018, Athens, Greece.  You are more than welcome to … Continue reading →

Macquarie University, November 15 2017 Building W3A, Room 328 (Moot Court) I am organising an informal work-in-progress day on the topic of Late Roman and Early Byzantine Politics, to enable scholars of this period in Australasia to meet, hear papers … Continue reading →

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 25th International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 2–5 2018. We invite session proposals on any topic relevant to Byzantine … Continue reading →

The 2nd Annual Pacific Partnership in Late Antiquity conference will be held at the University of Auckland from July 11-13 2018. Proposals can be for papers in any area of late antique, early medieval or Byzantine studies and the conference is intended … Continue reading →

IAS/UWA Classics and Ancient History/CHE Symposium, Institute of Advanced Studies, The University of Western Australia 15 September 2017 More info: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/grief-and-consolation Submissions Deadline: 1 August, 2017 Submissions: Send to Lara O’Sullivan (lara.osullivan@uwa.edu.au) Grief, particularly the grief associated with bereavement, has … Continue reading →

October 19-20 2017, Vanderbilt University ReLACS, now in its fifth year, is a regional workshop of scholars of Late Antiquity held on a rotating basis at Vanderbilt University, the University of Tennessee, and the University of Kentucky. The 2017 meeting … Continue reading →

Special Thematic Strand for 2017: “Byzantium and the Slavs: Medieval and Modern Perceptions and Receptions”, Skopje, 17-18 November 2017 Organised by “EURO-BALKAN UNIVERSITY, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia and UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA, Italy, in partnership with the Institute of National History … Continue reading →

The 39th conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies will be held at the University of Queensland from 30 January to 2 February 2018.  Full details and the call for papers are available on the conference web site. Submission of … Continue reading →