International Congress of Byzantine Studies
The International Congress of Byzantine Studies (French: Congrès international des études Byzantines) is a scholarly conference that seeks to promote the study and preservation of Byzantine history. It has been organized by the International Association of Byzantine Studies since 1948.[1]
History
[edit]The first International Congress of Byzantine Studies was held in Bucharest, Romania, in 1924. It was organized by members of the Romanian Academy to promote Byzantine history after the Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.[2][3] The second congress was held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, under the patronage of King Alexander I in 1929.[4] Subsequent congresses were held in: Athens, Greece, in 1930 & 1932,[5] and Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1934.[6] The sixth congress was supposed to be held in Algiers, French Algeria in October 1939 but was postponed due to the outbreak of World War II.
During World War II many of the institutions that had organized and contributed to the congress were either destroyed or cut off from each other. Leading to the creation of several disparate local and regional Byzantine congresses across Europe after the end of the war.[7] In 1948 the French historians Henri Grégoire and Gabriel Millet launched the International Association of Byzantine Studies after they found they had each organized a separate International Congress of Byzantine Studies for that year.[8] The sixth congress was held in Paris, France, in July 1948, and all subsequent conferences have been organized by the International Association of Byzantine Studies since then.[1][9]
In 2020 the twenty fourth congress was postponed and moved from Istanbul to Venice in protest of theTurkish Government's decision to reconvert the Hagia Sofia into a mosque.[10][2]
List of Congresses
[edit]•Bucharest, 1924
•Belgrade, 1929
•Athens, 1930
•Athens, 1932
•Sofia, 1934
•Algiers, 1939 (cancelled)
•Paris, 1948
•Brussels, 1948
•Palermo, 1951
•Thessaloniki, 1953
•Istanbul, 1955
•Munich, 1958
•Ohrid, 1961
•Oxford, 1966
•Bucharest, 1971
•Athens, 1976
•Vienna, 1981
•Washington, D.C, 1986
•Moscow, 1991
•Copenhagen, 1996
•Paris, 2001
•London, 2006
•Sofia, 2011
•Belgrade, 2016
•Venice, 2022
See also
[edit]- Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae
- International Association of Byzantine Studies
- Byzantine Studies
- Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
- Henri Grégoire
References
[edit]- ^ a b "The International Association of Byzantine Studies". AIEB. 2006-08-26. Archived from the original on 2012-02-18. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
- ^ a b "About us". International Congress of Byzantine Studies 2022. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
- ^ Marinescu, Constantin (1925). Compte-rendu du premier Congrès international des études byzantines Bucharest 1924 [Account of the First International Congress of Byzantine Studies Bucharest 1924] (in French). Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Imprimerie Datina Romaneasca (published 1978). pp. 4–6. ISBN 9783262001008.
- ^ Gravić, Philaret; Anastasijévić, D.N. (Dragutin N.) (1929). Deuxième Congrès international des études byzantines Belgrade 1927 [Second International Congress of Byzantine Studies Belgrade 1927] (in French). Belgrade, Serbia: Belgrade. Impr. pp. 1–3.
- ^ Orlandos, Anastasios K (1932). IIIme Congrès international des études byzantines Athènes 1930 [Third International Congress of Byzantine Studies Athens 1930] (in fr gr). Athens, Greece: Meissner & Kargadouris. pp. 1–2.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ International Congress of Byzantine Studies Sofia (in fr en de) (2nd ed.). Sofia, Bulgaria: Imprimerie de la Cour (published 1936). 1934. pp. 1–3.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Millet, Gabriel (1948). Résumés des rapports et communications du Sixième Congrès international d'études byzantines [Report Summaries and Communications from the Sixth International Congress of Byzantine Studies] (in French). Paris, France: Comité d'Organisation du Congrès. pp. 3–40.
- ^ "International Association for Byzantine Studies | UIA Yearbook Profile | Union of International Associations". uia.org. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
- ^ Actes, Paris, 27 juillet-2 août 1948 [Actions, Paris, 27 July - 2 August 1948] (in French). Paris, France: École des hautes études (published 1950). 1948. pp. 3–10.
- ^ Antonopoulos, Paul (2020-07-28). "Byzantine Studies Congress Protest Against Hagia Sophia Conversion By Changing Conference Location". Retrieved 2025-01-02.