Scholarly Programs in Byzantine Studies
Symposia and Colloquia Proposals
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection invites proposals for scholarly conferences in the three programs of study that we support: Byzantine Studies, Pre-Columbian Studies, and Garden and Landscape Studies. For more information about provision for events, eligibility, and selection criteria, please refer here.
Awards for Students
Advanced undergraduate and graduate students may apply for Bliss Symposium Awards to support attendance at the annual Byzantine Studies symposium.
2022–2023
Spring Symposium
Coins and Seals Summer Program
Dumbarton Oaks/HMML Coptic and Syriac Summer School
Past Events
2020s
2023
Byzantine Studies Teaching Day
March 4, 2023 | Friend, Foe, or Something in Between
2022
Special Series: From Kyivan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine: Virtual Conversations on History, Art, and Cultural Heritage
April through December, 2022 | A Lecture Series co-organized by Dumbarton Oaks in collaboration with North of Byzantium and Connected Central European Worlds, 1500–1700
Taste, Social Class, and Oriental Carpet Design in the Eighteenth-Century Cossack Hetmanate
December 15, 2022 | From Kyivan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Halyna Kohut
Anna Yaroslavna, Queen of France, in History and in Ukrainian Imagination
December 1, 2022 | From Kyivan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Talia Zajac
Historical Memory
November 16, 2022 | From Kyivan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine | Byzantine Studies Roundtable, Svitlana Olianina, Danylo Sudyn, and Alexandra Vukovich
Dynastic Jewels: A Late Antique Rhetoric of Treasure and Adornment
November 10, 2022 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Cecily J. Hilsdale
The Hypapante between East and West: Liturgical themes and iconography of the Gospel event and feast of the Presentation of Christ Child in the Temple
October 28, 2022 | Byzantine Study Colloquium; Mary B. Cunningham, Francesca Dell’Acqua, and Fr. Damaskinos Olkinuora, Colloquiarchs
Changing Climates, Changing Histories: Perspectives from the Humanities
October 21–22, 2022 | A symposium organized by the Directors’ Office and the programs of Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian Studies.
The Sovereign's Image and its Site-Specificity in Kyivan Rus'
October 13, 2022 | From Kyivan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Nazar Kozak
Displaced Cultural Heritage
September 29, 2022 | From Kyivan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine | Byzantine Studies Roundtable; Anna E. Kijas, Waldemar Deluga, and Elizabeth Bolman
The Image of the Mother of God on Byzantine Lead Seals: Ubiquitous Presence/ Rare Selection
September 23, 2022 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, John Cotsonis (His Grace Bishop Joachim of Amissos)
Reading the Image of Prince Volodymyr Sviatoslavych in Seventeenth-Century Kyiv
September 8, 2022 | From Kyivan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Maria Grazia Bartolini
Dumbarton Oaks/HMML Syriac and Armenian Summer School
July 11–August 5, 2022 | Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML)
Byzantine Greek Summer School
July 5–29, 2022 | Alexandros Alexakis, University of Ioannina, and Stratis Papaioannou, University of Crete
Endangered Monuments: A lecture on the endangered cultural monuments of Kyivan Rus
July 28, 2022 | From Kyivan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Alina Kondratiuk and Özlem Eren, respondent Robert G. Ousterhout
Mazepa's Women Before and After Poltava
July 07, 2022 | From Kyivan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Dr. Liudmyla Sharipova
Medieval Origins and Modern Constructs, Rus –Ukraine –Russia
June 16, 2022 | From Kyivan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Dr. Christian Raffensperger
The Cathedral of St. Sophia, Kyiv
June 8, 2022 | From Kyivan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine | A round table discussion with Thomas Dale, Ioli Kalavrezou, and Sofia Korol'
The Holy Rus’: Concept and Religious Art with Political Connotations
May 19, 2022 | From Kyivan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Dr. Mariana Levytska
Byzantine Missions: Meaning, Nature, and Extent
April 29–30, 2022 | Byzantine Studies Symposium
Lacunae of Art History and Kyiv’s Visual Culture
April 22, 2022 | From Kyivan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Olenka Z Pevny
The Gold of Banjska
March 24, 2022 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Ivan Drpić
From Individual Stories to Imperial Policy: Seals and the Reign of Basil II
March 17, 2022 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Jonathan Shea
From Syria to Xi'an: Syriac along the Silk Road
February 26, 2022 | Byzantine Studies Teaching Day
2021
Worth Their Weight in Gold: The Significance of Lead Seals to Byzantine Studies
October 28, 2021 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Alicia Walker
Seals and Society in the Medieval World
October 29, 2021 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak, Eric McGeer, and Jonathan Shea, Colloquiarchs
Slaying the Dragon: Byzantine Survivals in the Greek War for Independence
October 2, 2021 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Nikos Panou; Cosponsored by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture, University of California, Los Angeles
2021 Dumbarton Oaks/HMML Syriac and Armenian Summer School
July 12–August 6, 2021 | Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, directed by Salam Rassi, Alberto Rigolio, Jesse Siragan Arlen, and Abraham Terian
2021 Byzantine Coins and Seals Summer Program
June 28–July 23, 2021 | Alan Stahl and Jonathan Shea
On Being Conquered in Byzantium
April 16–17, 2021 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Adam J. Goldwyn, Symposiarch
The Concept and Experience of Holy Wisdom in Hagia Sophia
April 1, 2021 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Bissera Pentcheva
Whose Byzantium? Identity, Ownership, and Legacy
February 27, 2021 | Byzantine Studies Teaching Day
2020
“The chatter, dialogue, and squabble of the Byzantine corridors of power”: Writing History in the Aftermath of Mantzikert (1071)
November 18, 2020 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Eric McGeer
People and Power in Byzantium
November 5–6, 2020 | Byzantine Studies Virtual Colloquium, Claudia Rapp, Colloquiarch
Rethinking Byzantine Masculinities: Gender, Sexuality, Emotions, Devotion
October 30, 2020 | Byzantine Studies Webinar, Claudia Rapp and Derek Krueger, Organizers
Hagia Sophia: The History of the Building and the Building in History
September 1, 2020 | Byzantine Studies Webinar
2020 Byzantine Greek Summer School
June 29–July 25, 2020 | Alexandros Alexakis, University of Ioannina, and Stratis Papaioannou, University of Crete
Byzantine Missions: Meaning, Nature, and Extent
CANCELLED | April 24–25, 2020 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Sergey Ivanov and Andrea Sterk, Symposiarchs
Virtue and Politics: A Byzantine Debate
CANCELLED | March 26, 2020 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Dimiter Angelov
2010s
2019
In Honor of Cécile Morrisson: Byzantine History through Coins and Seals
December 4, 2019
The Insular Worlds of Byzantium
November 15, 2019 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium
Spheres of Influence: Byzantine Art in the Global Middle Ages
November 14, 2019 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Helen C. Evans
2019 Byzantine Coins and Seals Summer Program
July 1–26, 2019 | Alan Stahl and Jonathan Shea
2019 Dumbarton Oaks/HMML Coptic and Syriac Summer School
July 7–August 2, 2019 | Robert Kitchen, Sergey Minov, Alin Suciu, and Victor Ghica
Processions: Urban Ritual in Byzantium and Neighboring Lands
April 12–13, 2019 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Leslie Brubaker and Nancy Ševčenko, Symposiarchs
Resourcing Archives: New Research on Old Data—Reception and Formation in Late Antique Syria-Palestine
March 29, 2019 | Byzantine Studies Workshop, Konstantina Karterouli, Gideon Avni, and Alan Walmsley, Organizers
Gift-Giving and Donation in the Medieval World
February 9, 2019 | Byzantine Studies Teaching Day
From the Fall of Rome to Byzantium: New Light from DNA, Ice Cores, and Harvard’s Science of the Human Past
May 1, 2019 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Michael McCormick, Harvard University
Mary, a Multivalent Figure and the Mother of All
January 24, 2019 | Juggling the Middle Ages and Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Ioli Kalavrezou, Harvard University
2018
The Virgin and the Juggler: Mary East and West
November 8, 2018 | Juggling the Middle Ages and Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Southern Methodist University
2018 Dumbarton Oaks/HMML Syriac Summer School
July 2–August 3, 2018 | Alberto Rigolio, Princeton University, and Jeffrey Wickes, Saint Louis University
2018 Byzantine Greek Summer School
July 2–27, 2018 | Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks, and Stratis Papaioannou, Brown University
The Diagram Paradigm: Byzantium, the Islamic World, and the Latin West
April 20–21, 2018 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Jeffrey F. Hamburger, David Roxburgh, and Linda Safran, Symposiarchs
The Outsider in Byzantium
February 17, 2018 | Byzantine Studies Teaching Day
2017
The Byzantine Neighborhood: Urban Space and Political Action
November 17, 2017 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Benjamin Anderson and Fotini Kondyli, Colloquiarchs
Byzantium, the Arabs, and the Rise of Islam: Colloquium in Memory of Irfan Shahîd (1926–2016)
October 13, 2017 | Georgetown University and Dumbarton Oaks, Emma Gannagé, Colloquiarch
2017 Syriac and Armenian Summer Schools
July 10–August 12, 2017 | Kristian Heal, Brigham Young University, Sergio LaPorta, Fresno State University, Michael Pifer, University of Michigan, and Salam Rassi, American University of Beirut; Dumbarton Oaks and the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
2017 Byzantine Coins and Seals Summer Program
July 3–28, 2017 | Eurydice Georganteli and Jonathan Shea
Rethinking Empire
April 21–22, 2017 | Byzantine Studies Symposium
At the Center of Empire
February 25, 2017 | Byzantine Studies Teaching Fellows’ Day
2016
Monumental Painting in Byzantium and Beyond: New Perspectives
November 4, 2016 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Ivan Drpić and Tolga Uyar, Colloquiarchs
An Uneasy Relation: Byzantium and the Nomads
October 13, 2016 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Florin Curta, University of Florida
2016 Syriac Summer School
July 10–August 6, 2016 | Scott Johnson, University of Oklahoma, and Adam McCollum, University of Vienna; Dumbarton Oaks and the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
2016 Byzantine Greek Summer School
July 5–29, 2016 | Alexander Alexakis, University of Ioannina, and Stratis Papaioannou, Brown University
Worlds of Byzantium
April 22–23, 2016 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Elizabeth S. Bolman, Scott F. Johnson, and Jack Tannous, Symposiarchs
Graduate Student Workshop in Medieval Studies
March 2016
From Olympus to the Streets of Constantinople: The Byzantine Retirement of the Ancient Gods
March 3, 2016 | Public Lecture, Anthony Kaldellis. National Gallery of Art, West Building Lecture Hall
Discovering Byzantine Lives: Evidence in Texts, Images, and Material Culture
February 20, 2016 | Byzantine Studies Teaching Fellows’ Day
The Afterlives of Alexander in the Byzantine World
February 11, 2016 | Panel Discussion, Ioli Kalavrezou, Dimitris Kastritsis, and Jonathan Shea; Michael Mass moderating. National Gallery of Art, West Building Lecture Hall
2015
Climate, Ecology, and Mobility in the History of the Eurasian Steppe Nomads
December 9, 2015 | Inter-Program Lecture, Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study
Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Humanities
November 13, 2015 | Byzantine Studies 75th Anniversary Discussion
Saint Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai and Its Hidden Manuscript Treasures
October 1, 2015 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Claudia Rapp, University of Vienna
2015 Byzantine Coins and Seals Summer Program
July 6–31, 2015 | Eric McGeer and Vasiliki Penna
The Holy Apostles
April 24–26, 2015 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Margaret Mullett and Robert Ousterhout, Symposiarchs
Byzantium’s Eastern Frontier
February 28, 2015 | Byzantine Studies Teaching Fellows' Day, Scott Johnson and Jonathan Shea, Organizers
2014
Managing Emotion: Passions, Emotions, Affects, and Imaginings in Byzantium
December 12-13, 2014 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium
Ancients and Moderns: Reconsidering Style in the Visual Arts of Late Antiquity
September 25, 2014, at 6:15 p.m. | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Sarah E. Bassett, University of Indiana, Bloomington
2014 Byzantine Greek Summer School
July 7–August 1, 2014 | Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks, and Stratis Papaioannou, Brown University
Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls: Sense Perceptions in Byzantium
April 25–27, 2014 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Susan Ashbrook Harvey and Margaret Mullett, Symposiarchs
Center and Periphery: Byzantine Capitals outside Byzantium
March 29, 2014 | Byzantine Studies Teaching Fellows' Day, Scott Johnson and Jonathan Shea, Organizers
Witnessing Byzantium: The Greek Perspective
January 16, 2014 | Public Lecture, Sharon E. J. Gerstel, West Building Lecture Hall, National Gallery of Art
2013
Visualizing Community: City and Village in Byzantine Greece
November 15–16, 2013 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Robert Ousterhout and Margaret Mullett, Colloquiarchs
2013 Byzantine Coins and Seals Summer Program
July 8–August 2, 2013 | Cécile Morrisson and Eric McGeer
New Testament in Byzantium
April 26–28, 2013 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Robert S. Nelson and Derek Krueger, Symposiarchs
“Render unto Caesar”: Coins and Seals in Byzantium
April 13, 2013 | Byzantine Studies Teaching Fellows' Day, Scott Johnson and Jonathan Shea, Organizers
Byzantine Survey Archaeology: Reflections and Approaches
March 29-30, 2013 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Sharon Gerstel and John Haldon, Colloquiarchs
2012
Imperial Radiance: Solar Imagery and Cosmic Order
November 15, 2012 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Ioli Kalavrezou
The (Mis)interpretation of Byzantine Dream Narratives
November 8–10, 2012 | Byzantine Studies Workshop
Conceiving Byzantium: Behind the Scenes at 'Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition'
September 20, 2012 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Helen C. Evans
2012 Byzantine Greek Summer School
June 4–29, 2012 | Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks, and Stratis Papaioannou, Brown University
Rome Re-Imagined: Byzantine and Early Islamic Africa, ca. 500–800
April 27–29, 2012 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Susan T. Stevens and Jonathan P. Conant, Symposiarchs
Monks, Monasteries, and Monasticism in the Eastern Mediterranean
April 6, 2012 | Byzantine Studies Fellows' Workshop
Pagans, Christians, and Muslims: Mediterranean Transitions
March 31, 2012 | Byzantine Studies Teaching Fellows' Day, Örgü Dalgiç, Scott Johnson, Jonathan Shea, and Jack Tannous, Organizers
The Social Network in Byzantium and its Neighbors
March 16–17, 2012 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Margaret Mullett and Adam Schor, Colloquiarchs
Conversations on Byzantine Archaeology in North America: The Role of the American Overseas Research Centers
January 13–14, 2012
2011
Dialogues in Byzantium: The Long History of a Literary Form
November 10, 2011 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Averil Cameron
A Prince and his Monastery: Isaac Comnenus and the Church of the Virgin Kosmosoteira in Thrace
September 29, 2011 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Nancy Ševčenko
International Standards for Iconography
July 8–11, 2011 | Byzantine Studies Workshop
2011 Byzantine Coins and Seals Summer Program
July 5–29, 2011 | Cécile Morrisson, Eric McGeer, and Vivien Prigent
Saints and Sacred Matter: The Cult of Relics in Byzantium and Beyond
April 29–May 1, 2011 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Cynthia Hahn and Holger Klein, Symposiarchs
After Evagrius: The Controversial Legacy of Evagrius of Pontus
April 15–16, 2011 | Byzantine Studies Round Table, Robin Darling Young and Joel Kalvesmaki, Organizers
Cyprus from Byzantium to the Renaissance
April 1, 2011 | Study Day, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Chair, with the Embassy of the Republic of Cypus
Dumbarton Oaks and the Byzantine Churches of Cyprus
March 31, 2011 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Annemarie Weyl Carr
Cross Talk
March 26, 2011 | Byzantine Studies Teaching Fellows' Day, Örgü Dalgiç and Jack Tannous, Organizers
The Byzantine Self
March 18-19, 2011 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Maria Mavroudi and Stratis Papaioannou, Colloquiarchs
The Many Worlds of Ihor Ševčenko
February 26, 2011 | Byzantine Studies Workshop
Looking into Carolingian Monastic Libraries: Reichenau and St. Gall
February 17, 2011 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Patrick Geary
2010
Cataloguing and Publishing Byzantine Seals in a Digital Age
December 7–9, 2010 | Byzantine Studies Workshop, Margaret Mullett, Gudrun Bühl, Eric McGeer, and Jonathan Shea, Organizers
Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives in a Digital Age
December 2–3, 2010 | Byzantine Studies Workshop, Margaret Mullett and Gunder Varinlioğlu, Organizers
Rhetoric, Ambition, and the Function of the Capella Palatina in Palermo
November 18, 2010 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Beat Brenk
The Songbook of William Villehardouin, Prince of Frankish Greece
November 4, 2010 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, John Haines
Dante and the Greeks
October 1–3, 2010 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Jan Ziolkowski, Organizer
Byzantine Theatron
July 29, 2010
2010 Byzantine Greek Summer School
June 7–July 2, 2010 | Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks, and Stratis Papaioannou, Brown University/Dumbarton Oaks
Warfare in the Byzantine World
April 30–May 2, 2010 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, John Haldon, Symposiarch
Antioch-on-the-Orontes
April 15, 2010 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Gunnar Brands
Conversations on Byzantine Archaeology in North America
April 9–10, 2010 | John Haldon, Michael McCormick and Margaret Mullett, Organizers
Theology and Social Criticism: Salvian of Marseilles and the End of the Roman Empire in the West
April 1, 2010 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Peter Brown
The Boundaries of Byzantine Friendship
March 5–6, 2010, Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Margaret Mullett and Stratis Papaioannou, Colloquiarchs
Reading and Writing the Qur'an with Riccoldo da Monte di Croce
March 3, 2010 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Thomas Burman
2000s
2009
Light, Surface, Spirit: Phenomenology and Aesthetics in Byzantine Art
November 12–13, 2009 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Ioli Kalavrezou and Bissera Pentcheva, Colloquiarchs
Iconoclasms: Practices of the Past, Interpretations of the Present
September 25–26, 2009 | Byzantine Studies Round Table, Leslie Brubaker and Richard Clay, Organizers
Nectar and Illusion: Nature and Rhetoric in Byzantium
September 23, 2009 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Henry Maguire
2009 Byzantine Coins and Seals Summer Program
August 7–31, 2009 | Cécile Morrisson and John Nesbitt
The Art of Stratification: Levels of Discourse in Byzantine Literature
May 14, 2009 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Panagiotis Roilos
Morea: The Land and Its People in the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade
May 1–3, 2009 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Sharon Gerstel, Symposiarch
Climate Change and the Fall of the Roman Empire
April 25, 2009 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Michael McCormick
Climate Change under the Late Roman Empire
April 24–25, 2009 | Byzantine Studies Workshop
The Art of Monasticism: Aesthetic Manifestations of the Angelic Life in Late Antique Upper Egypt
April 23, 2009 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Elizabeth Bolman
How Cunning was El Cid? Arabo-Andalusian hiyal in Medieval Castilian Literature
April 2, 2009 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Luis Girón Negrón
Splashing out of the Bath: The Digital Archimedes Palimpsest
January 29, 2009 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, William Noel
2008
Mont Saint-Michel or Toledo: Greek or Arabic Sources for Medieval European Culture?
October 23, 2008 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Charles Burnett
2008 Byzantine Greek Summer School
June 2–27, 2008 | Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks, and Stratis Papaioannou, Brown University/Dumbarton Oaks
Trade and Markets in Byzantium
May 2–4, 2008 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Cécile Morrisson, Symposiarch
Excavating Shipwrecks in Constantinople’s Theodosian Harbor
January 17, 2008 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Cemal Pulak
2007
Byzantine Science
December 12, 2007 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Maria Mavroudi
Islam and the Heritage of Late Antiquity
November 14, 2007 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Hugh Kennedy
Byzantine Literature: New Voices and Current Approaches
November 9–10, 2007 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, John Duffy and Stratis Papaioannou, Organizers
From Enrico to Andrea Dandolo: Imitation, Appropriation and Meaning at San Marco in Venice
April 28, 2007 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Henry Maguire and Robert Nelson, Colloquiarchs
Wood, Bone, Iron and Stone: Multidisciplinary Investigations of Daily Life at Late Byzantine Cherson (Crimea)
March 14, 2007 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Adam Rabinowitz
2006
Old Testament in Byzantium
December 1–3, 2006 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Paul Magdalino and Robert Nelson, Symposiarchs
The Virgin's Church at Asinou, Cyprus: A Small Paradise in Time
November 7, 2006 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Annemarie Weyl Carr
Becoming Byzantine: Children and Childhood in Byzantium
April 28–30, 2006 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Arietta Papaconstantinou and Alice-Mary Talbot, Symposiarchs
The Secret of Liquid Fire—An Early Medieval Terror Weapon
February 16, 2006 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, John Haldon
2005
Romanos the Melode
November 12, 2005 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium
Confessions of a Troglodyte: A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia
September 29, 2005 | Byzantine Studies Public Lecture, Robert Ousterhout
Urban and Rural Settlement in Anatolia and the Levant, 500-1000 AD: New Evidence from Archaeology
April 22–24, 2005 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Clive Foss and Johannes Koder, Symposiarchs
Ernst Kitzinger Memorial
March 4–5, 2005 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Henry Maguire and Alice-Mary Talbot, Colloquiarchs
2004
2004 Byzantine Coins and Seals Summer Program
July 6–29, 2004 | Cécile Morrisson and John Nesbitt
Egypt and the Byzantine World, 450–700
April 30–May 2, 2004 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Roger Bagnall, Symposiarch
2003
Occult Sciences
November 7-8, 2003 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium
2003 Byzantine Greek Summer School
June 2–27, 2003 | Alexander Alexakis, Richard Stockton College, and Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks
The Sacred Screen: Origins, Development, and Diffusion
May 9–11, 2003 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Sharon Gerstel and George Majeska, Symposiarchs
Gardens of the Roman Empire
February 14–15, 2003 | Joint Byzantine Studies and Garden and Landscape Studies Colloquium
2002
Byzantine Glass
November 16, 2002 | Byzantine Studies Workshop, Alice-Mary Talbot and David Whitehouse, Organizers
2002 Byzantine Coins and Seals Summer Program
July 1–26, 2002 | Cécile Morrisson and John Nesbitt
Realities in the Arts of the Medieval Mediterranean, 800–1500
April 26–28, 2002 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Anthony Cutler and Angeliki Laiou, Symposiarchs
2001
2001 Byzantine Greek Summer School
June 4–29, 2001 | Alice-Mary Talbot, George T. Dennis, and Alexander Alexakis
Late Byzantine Thessalonike
May 4–6, 2001 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Jean-Michel Spieser, Symposiarch
Focus on Byzantine Textiles and Costume: A Workshop on Current Research
Byzantine Studies Workshop, Alice-Mary Talbot, Organizer
2000
2000 Byzantine Greek Summer School
June 5–29, 2000 | Alice-Mary Talbot, George T. Dennis, and Alexander Alexakis
Pilgrimage in the Byzantine Empire, 7th–15th c.
May 5–7, 2000 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Alice-Mary Talbot, Symposiarch
New Insights into Byzantine Monasticism: The Evidence of the Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents
March 3–4, 2000 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Alice-Mary Talbot, Colloquiarch
1990s
Byzantine Eschatology: Views on Death and the Last Things (8th to 15th Centuries)
April 30–May 2, 1999 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, George Dennis and Ioli Kalavrezou, Symposiarchs
Byzantium in the Medieval World: Monetary Transactions and Exchange
1999 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Alice-Mary Talbot and Cécile Morrisson, Colloquiarchs
Constantinople: The Fabric of the City
May 1–3, 1998 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Henry Maguire and Robert Ousterhout, Symposiarchs
Computerized Access to Byzantine Saints' Lives: Roundtable on the Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database Project
March 1998 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Alice-Mary Talbot, Colloquiarch
The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World
May 2–4, 1997 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Angeliki Laiou and Roy Mottahedeh, Symposiarchs
Byzantine Garden Culture
November 2–3, 1996 | Byzantine and Garden and Landscape Studies Colloquium, Henry Maguire and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Colloquiarchs
The Balkans and Cyprus in the Light of Recent Surveys and Digs: New Results for Settlement Patterns and Economy in the Byzantine Period (Fourth through Fifteenth Centuries)
Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Angeliki Laiou and Jean-Pierre Sodini, Colloquiarchs
History of Byzantine Literature
Byzantine Studies Roundtable, Alexander Kazhdan and Lee Sherry, Organizers
Aesthetics and Presentation in Byzantine Literature, Art, and Music
May 3–5, 1996 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, John Duffy, Symposiarch
Women's Space in Byzantium and the Medieval West
March 2–3, 1996 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Henry Maguire, Colloquiarch
Palestine and Transjordan before Islam
April 28–30, 1995 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Jean-Pierre Sodini, Symposiarch
Materials Analysis of Byzantine Pottery
April 1–2, 1995 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Henry Maguire, Colloquiarch
Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204
April 22–24, 1994 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Henry Maguire, Symposiarch
Internal Diaspora of the Byzantine Empire
October 1993 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Hélène Ahrweiler and Angeliki Laiou, Colloquiarchs
Byzantine Epigrams Devoted to Works of Art
June 14–July 9, 1993 | Byzantine Studies Seminar
Byzantium and the Italians, 13th–15th Centuries
April 30–May 2, 1993 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, John Barker and Angeliki E. Laiou, Symposiarchs
Magic and Visual Culture in Byzantium
Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Henry Maguire and Stanley Tambiah, Colloquiarchs
Law and Society in Byzantium, 9th–12th Centuries
May 1–3, 1992 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Dieter Simon, Symposiarch
Gardens and Garden Culture in Byzantium
Autumn 1991 | Byzantine Studies Round Table, Henry Maguire, Organizer
Sexual Relations in Marriage and outside Marriage in Ancient and Medieval Societies: The Issue of Consent
Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Angeliki Laiou, Colloquiarch
Byzantine Civilization in the Light of Contemporary Scholarship
May 3–5, 1991 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Speros Vryonis, Jr., Symposiarch
The Familiar Stranger: Byzantium in Modern Greece
May 24-6, 1991 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Margaret Alexiou, Colloquiarch
The Holy Image
April 27–29, 1990 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Hans Belting and Herbert Kessler, Symposiarchs
1980s
The Byzantine Family and Household
May 5–7, 1989 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Angeliki Laiou, Symposiarch
Byzantium and the Caucasus: Confrontation and Interaction between the Empire, Armenia, and Iberia
April 29–May 1, 1988 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Nina G. Garsoïan and Robert W. Thomson, Symposiarchs
Byzantium and Armenia: Reciprocal Influences
November 14, 1987 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium
Mount Athos
May 1–3, 1987 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Nicolas Oikonomides, Symposiarch
Ecclesiastical Silver Plate in Sixth-Century Byzantium
May 16–18, 1986 | Byzantine Studies Symposium
Mysticism and Philosophy
November 10-12, 1985 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Isadore Twersky and Robert Thomson, Colloquiarchs
Byzantium and the Barbarians in Late Antiquity
May 3–5, 1985 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Evangelos Chrysos, Symposiarch
Law and Society: Adaptations and Influences of Roman Law in Byzantium and the Medieval West
February 8-9, 1985 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Robert Benson and Angeliki Laiou, Colloquiarchs
Byzantine Art and Literature around the Year 800
April 27–29, 1984 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, David H. Wright, Symposiarch
Philosophy and Mysticism to the Sixteenth Century
November 13-15, 1983 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Giles Constable, Colloquiarch
Byzantine Medicine
April 29–May 1, 1983 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, John Scarborough, Symposiarch
Imperial Symbolism East and West
November 5-7, 1982, Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Robert Benson and Florentine Mütherich, Colloquiarchs
Continuity and Change in Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Society
May 14–16, 1982 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Anthony Bryer and Heath Lowry, Symposiarchs
Medieval Bulgaria between East and West (Seventh through Eleventh Century)
November 5–7, 1981 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium
Art in Norman Sicily
May 1–3, 1981 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Ernst Kitzinger, Symposiarch
Syria and Armenia in the Formative Period
May 9–11, 1980 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Nina G. Garsoïan, Thomas F. Matthews, and Robert W. Thomson, Symposiarchs
1970s
Byzantine Liturgy
May 10–12, 1979 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, John Meyendorff, Symposiarch
Venetian Mosaics and Their Byzantine Sources
May 11–13, 1978 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Otto Demus, Symposiarch
The Transmission and Reception of Knowledge
May 5–7, 1977 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, John Murdoch, Colloquiarch
Urban Societies in the Mediterranean World
April 30–May 2, 1976 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, David Herlihy, Symposiarch
Mediterranean Cities
November 18, January 20, February 19, March 9, April 6, April 27, May 11 | Byzantine Studies Seminar, Professor Krekić, Organizer
Monte Cassino
May 1–3, 1975 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Herbert Bloch, Symposiarch
Liturgy and Art
October 31, November 13, January 7, January 17, March 18, April 10 | Byzantine Studies Seminar
Greek Palaeography
June 25-August 2, 1974 | Byzantine Studies Seminar, Linos Politis, Organizer
The Decline of Byzantine Civilization in Asia Minor, Eleventh-Fifteenth Century
May 2–4, 1974 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Speros Vryonis, Jr., Symposiarch
Art, Letters, and Society in Byzantine Provinces
May 3–5, 1973 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Ihor Ševčenko, Symposiarch
Letters of Ignatius the Deacon
Byzantine Studies Seminar, Cyril Mango, Organizer
Readings in Byzantine Greek
Byzantine Studies Seminar, Mrs. Neil Levine, Organizer
Current Work in Medieval and Byzantine Studies
May 4–5, 1972 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Ernst Kitzinger, William Loerke, Cyril Mango, and Ihor Ševčenko, Symposiarchs
Byzantine Books and Bookmen
April 29–May 1, 1971 | Byzantine Studies Colloquium, Cyril Mango and Ihor Ševčenko, Colloquiarchs
Byzantium and Sasanian Iran
April 30–May 2, 1970 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Ihor Ševčenko, Symposiarch
1960s
Byzantine Society
May 1–3, 1969 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Peter Charanis, Symposiarch
After the Fall of Constantinople
May 2–4, 1968 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Kenneth M. Setton, Symposiarch
Justinian and Eastern Christendom
May 4–6, 1967 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, John Meyendorff, Symposiarch
The Age of Constantine: Tradition and Innovation
May 5–7, 1966 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Alfred R. Bellinger and Richard Krautheimer, Symposiarchs
The Byzantine Contribution to Western Art of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
April 29–May 1, 1965 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Ernst Kitzinger and Kurt Weitzmann, Symposiarchs
The Byzantine Mission to the Slavs: St. Cyril and St. Methodius
May 7–9, 1964 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Francis Dvornik and Roman Jakobson, Symposiarchs
The Relations between Byzantium and the Arabs
May 2–4, 1963 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Hamilton A. R. Gibb, Symposiarch
The Hellenistic Origins of Byzantine Civilization
May 3–5, 1962 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Romilly J. H. Jenkins, Symposiarch
The History of Byzantine Science
May 4–6, 1961 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Milton V. Anastos, Symposiarch
The Mosaics and Frescoes of the Kariye Djami, Their Cultural and Artistic Background
May 5–7, 1960 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Paul A. Underwood, Symposiarch
1950s
Antioch-on-the-Orontes in the Byzantine Period
April 30–May 2, 1959 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Glanville Downey, Symposiarch
Studies in Byzantine Art
May 1–3, 1958 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Sirarpie Der Nersessian, Symposiarch
Byzantium in the Seventh Century
May 2–4, 1957 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Ernst Kitzinger, Symposiarch
The Cappadocian Fathers
May 3–4, 1956 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Werner Wilhelm Jaeger, Symposiarch
Palestine in the Byzantine Period
April 21–23, 1955 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Carl H. Kraeling, Symposiarch
Byzantine Liturgy and Music
April 29–30, 1954 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, A. M. Friend, Jr., Symposiarch
The Cultural Era of Constantine Porphyrogenitus
April 30–May 2, 1953 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Kurt Weitzmann, Symposiarch
Byzantium and the Slavs
April 24–26, 1952 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Reverend Francis Dvornik, Symposiarch
Iconoclasm
April 26–28, 1951 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, A. M. Friend, Jr., Symposiarch
The Emperor and the Palace
April 27–29, 1950 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, André Grabar, Symposiarch
1940s
The Relations between Byzantium and Its Neighbors
April 28–30, 1949 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Robert P. Blake, Symposiarch
The Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople
April 22–24, 1948 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, S. Der Nersessian, Symposiarch
Byzantine Art and Scholarship
April 25–26, 1947 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Concluding Sessions of the Bicentennial Conferences of Princeton University
Hagia Sophia
May 2–4, 1946 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, A. A. Vasiliev, Symposiarch
The Decorations in the Synagogues of Dura-Europos
April 26–28, 1945 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Albert Mathias Friend, Jr., Symposiarch
Portraits and Biographies in Byzantine Manuscripts
April 27–29, 1944 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, Albert Mathias Friend, Jr., Symposiarch
Byzantine and Mediaeval Art and Literature
April 29–May 1, 1943 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, George La Piana, Symposiarch
Byzantine Seminary
October 9–11, 1941 | Byzantine Studies Symposium, E. K. Rand, Symposiarch