Schedule

*Please see the daily schedules for locations and additional information*

* 2023_BSC_Program.pdf
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Thursday, October 26th

Registration Tables Open

  • 3:00 - 7:00pm

Byzantine Studies in Canada

  • 4:00 - 5:00

Book Exhibit

  • 5:00 - 8:00pm

Opening Reception

  • 5:00 - 7:00pm

BSANA Governing Board Meeting

  • 6:00 - 8:00pm

Friday, October 27

Registration Tables Open

  • 7:00 am – 3:00 pm | Closed for lunch break 12:00 – 1:00 pm

Coffee/Breakfast

  • 7:00 – 8:00 am

Book Exhibit

  • 7:00 – 5:00 pm

 

Panel 1A | Writing and Ideology

Panel 1B | Byzantine Things

  • 8:00 – 10:00 am

 

Break

  • 10:00 – 10:15 am

 

Panel 2A | Medieval Contact Zones: Literary Encounters around the Greek-Speaking World

Panel 2B | Studies in Iconography

  • 10:15 am – 12:15 pm

 

Lunch Break

  • 12:15 – 2:00 pm

 

Graduate and Early Career Lunch

Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Centre for Byzantine Art and Culture

  • 12:15 - 2:00pm

 

Panel 3A | New Approaches to Religion in Byzantium, Part 1

Panel 3B | History, Memory, and Prophecy in the Twelfth Century

  • 2:00 – 4:00 pm

 

Break

  • 4:00 – 4:15 pm

 

Panel 4A | New Approaches to Religion in Byzantium, Part 2

Panel 4B | Technological Approaches

  • 4:15 – 6:15 pm

Saturday, October 28

Registration Tables Open

  • 7:00 am – 3:00 pm | Closed for lunch break 12:00 – 1:00 pm

Coffee/Breakfast

  • 7:00 – 8:00 am

Book Exhibit

  • 7:00 – 5:00 pm

 

Panel 5A | Gender

Panel 5B | Art, Reception, and Performance

  • 8:00 – 10:00 am

 

Break

  • 10:00 – 10:15 am

 

Panel 6A | Graduate Student Session

Panel 6B | Justice and Morality

  • 10:15 am – 12:15 pm

 

BSANA Lunch

  • 12:15 – 2:15 pm

 

Panel 7A | Intersecting Sexes: Byzantine, Sasanian and Eurasian Masculinity

Panel 7B | Space and Identity

Panel 7C | Law and Authority

  • 2:15 - 4:15 pm

 

Break

  • 4:15 – 4:30 pm

 

Panel 8A | Texts and Contexts

Panel 8B | Imperial Matters

  • 4:30 – 6:30 pm

 

BSANA Governing Board Meeting

  • 7:00 - 8:00 pm

Sunday, October 29

Graduate and Early Career Breakfast

Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture

  • 8:00 – 9:30 am

 

Breakfast/Coffee

  • 8:00-9:30am

 

Book Exhibit

  • 8:00 – 11:30 am

 

Panel 9A | Imagining, Experiencing, and Participating in Governance in Byzantium

Panel 9B | Archaeology, Place, and Space

  • 9:30 – 11:30 am

The Byzantine Studies Association of North America acknowledges the generous financial contributions of the Mary Jaharis Center, Hellenic College Holy Cross, and the Byzantine Studies Program, Dumbarton Oaks, which support graduate student and early career and contingent scholar programming, travel stipends, and awards.

The recipients of the Dumbarton Oaks travel grants to support the participation of Early Career and Contingent Scholars for the 2023 Byzantine Studies Conference are Lucas McMahon (University of Ottawa) and Gregory Tucker (University of Regensburg).