47th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, December 9–12, 2021

The Forty-Seventh Annual Byzantine Studies Conference (BSC) will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, from Thursday, December 9, through Sunday, December 12, 2021. The conference will be hosted by Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Local Arrangements Chair is Elizabeth S. Bolman, Chair, Department of Art History and Art.

Please note that we will be closely following the Covid-19 situation and that there is a possibility that the conference will have to be moved completely online. In the meantime, we are planning an in-person conference with several blended sessions that will allow for some remote participation. 

The BSC is the annual forum for the presentation and discussion of papers on every aspect of Byzantine Studies and on related topics relevant to the field. Conference attendance is open to all, regardless of nationality or academic status. However, to deliver your paper at the BSC, you must be a member of BSANA in good standing. 

The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines related to Byzantine Studies, broadly construed. While there are no set themes for the BSC, the Program Committee is especially interested in papers that offer larger commentaries on the field, or situate Byzantium/Byzantine developments in a larger historical, regional, and/or global contexts. With the goal of engaging a wider audience, we encourage panels that forge a dialogue between Byzantine studies and cognate fields.