Conferences

SEESA Conferences

• 1973: The first AASES national conference in New York (some of the papers were published as the first volume of  Balkanistica in 1974).

• 1976: The second AASES national conference in St. Louis (papers published in Balkanistica, Vol. 3, 1976).

• 1977: The first Ohio State University Symposia/Conference on Southeastern Europe (papers published in Balkanistica, Vol. 4, 1977-1978, Vol. 5, 1979, and Vol. 6, 1980).

• 1981: The second Ohio State University Symposia/Conference on Southeastern Europe.  

• 2002: The first SEESA conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• 2005: The second SEESA meeting at The University of Ohio State.

• 2007: The third SEESA meeting at The University of Ohio State.

BSS Conferences

The Balkan and South Slavic series of conferences was initiated in 1978 by Howard I Aronson and Bill J. Darden of the University of Chicago. A conference has been held every two years since then at a location in North America. The majority of participants come from North American universities but international participation is on the rise.

Although most papers are in linguistics, there has been consistent representation from other fields of interdisciplinary humanities research, particularly in literary, film, folklore and cultural studies.

• 1978: BSS I at the University of Chicago 

• 1980: BSS II at the University of Chicago

• 1982: BSS III at the Indiana University, Bloomington

• 1984: BSS IV at the University of Chicago

• 1986: BSS V at the Indiana University, Bloomington

• 1988: BSS VI at the University of Chicago

• 1990: BSS VII at the University of Toronto

• 1992: BSS VIII at the University of Chicago

• 1994: BSS IX at the Indiana University, Bloomington

• 1996: BSS X at the University of Chicago

• 1998: BSS XI at the University of Arizona, Tucson 

• 2000: BSS XII at the University of Kansas

• 2002: BSS XIII at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• 2004: BSS XIV at The University of Mississippi

• 2006: BSS XV at the University of California, Berkeley (conference site)

• 2008: BSS XVI at the University of Calgary, in Banff (conference site)

• 2010: BSS XVII  at The Ohio State University, in Columbus (conference site)

• 2012: BSS XVIII at the University of Washington, in Seattle (conference site)

• 2014: BSS XIX at the University of Chicago (conference site)

• 2016: BSS XX at the University of Utah (conference site)

• 2018: BSS XXI at Montana State University Billings (conference site)

• 2022: BSS XXII at The Ohio State University, in Columbus (conference site)

• 2024: BSS XXIII at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS (conference site)