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Latest News
Workshop: Virtual/Material: Color/Pigment, Penn State University (9–13 August 2021), Deadline 14 December 2020
The Department of Art History at Penn State University is seeking applications from doctoral students in art history and related disciplines for the week-long workshop, Virtual/Material: Color/Pigment.
Online Lecture: ‘Searching for Identity: Byzantine Southern Italy’ with Paul Arthur, British School at Rome, 2 December 2020, 6:00–7:30 pm (CET)
Join the British School at Rome for Paul Arthur’s online lecture ‘Searching for Identity: Byzantine Southern Italy’.
Online Lecture: ‘”The face of one making for Jerusalem”: The Angel Choir of Lincoln Cathedral & Joy’ with Katherine Turley, BAA Lecture, 2 December 2020, 5:00 PM (GMT)
The British Archaeological Association’s December Lecture will be by Katherine Turley (Birkbeck College) who will be presenting ‘”The face of one making for Jerusalem”: The Angel Choir of Lincoln Cathedral & Joy’.
Medieval Views Virtual Arts Festival Crowdfund Campaign
Medieval Views: A Virtual Arts Festival seeks to address that need while simultaneously being more inclusive to the public. Let us try a creative solution. Let us, as scholars and researchers, take it upon ourselves to hold a virtual gathering. In short let’s be inclusive, show some kindness and have an art party for all to enjoy if they so choose.
New North of Byzantium Digital Project: Mapping Eastern Europe
North of Byzantium has launched a new open access digital project – Mapping Eastern Europe – intended to promote study, research, and teaching about the history, art, and culture of Eastern Europe between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries among students, teachers, scholars, and the wider public.
Call for Papers: Saint Angelus, Carmelite: between history, hagiography & iconography on the Eighth Centenary of his martyrdom, deadline mid-December 2020
The Eighth Centenary of the martyrdom of Saint Angelus (1220-2020) who is, together with Saint Albert of Trapani (†1307), one of the earliest saints of the Carmelite Order represents an important occasion to rediscover and revalue this figure.
Online Lecture: Raphael 500: New Perspectives on Raphael, The Warburg Institute, 8 December, 17:30 – 19:00 (GMT)
In the last few years, a plethora of international events, books, articles and exhibitions have focused on Raphael to shed new light on his processes of production, his operation of networks, his engagement with the environment, and much more. Please join us and our panel of distinguished Raphael specialists to explore the new perspectives on Raphael that arise from the long year marking his death and celebrating his life.
Online Conference: Germanias & Other Renaissance Revolts: Art & Architecture, University of Valencia, 3-4 December 2020
On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Revolt of the Germanías (1519–1522), or ‘Brotherhoods’, this seminar focuses on the precedents, events and aftermath of this rebellion and some other European upheavals in art, architecture and visual culture, in order to evaluate the unique features of the Valencian revolt and its commonalities with other contemporary uprisings in Spain and the rest of Europe.
Online Conference: The church of Santa Maria dei Servi & the Venetian community of the Servants of Mary, 3-4 December 2020
This conference has the primary scope to reconstruct the history of the church and its convent, which was the headquarter of the Servite Order in Venice.
Online Conference: ‘The Afterlife of Medieval Sculpture’, 7th Annual Ards Conference, 3, 4 & 10 December 2020, 13:00 – 18:00 (CET)
The 7th ARDS annual colloquium, which celebrates new research in the field of renaissance and medieval sculpture will focus on the theme of the Afterlife of medieval sculpture.
Call for Papers: 10th Annual Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North, Deadline 5 December 2020
We invite submissions to our 10th annual Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North, which will take place at the University of Iceland April 15–17, 2021. Featured are keynote speakers Dr. Luke John Murphy and Dr. Beeke Stegmann.
Job: Professor in European, Mediterranean Medieval, or Early Modern Art History, University of Hong Kong, deadline 10 December 2020
Applications are invited for appointment as Professor/Associate Professor on tenure terms or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in European and/or Mediterranean Medieval or Early Modern Art History in the School of Humanities (Art History), to commence on September 1, 2021 or as soon as possible thereafter.
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Seminars and Lectures
Call for Papers
CFP: ‘Self-Representation in Late Antiquity & Byzantium’ Oxford University Byzantine Society Conference 2021, deadline 30 November 2020
Oxford University Byzantine Society invites applications for their 23rd International Graduate Conference in 2021.
CFP: Animals and Humans on the Move, Viator Essay Cluster, Deadline: 16th November 2020
The relationship between humans and their nonhuman traveling companions changed over time, and over the distances they traveled. Who would Don Quixote be without Rocinante, or Alexander without Bucephalus? This cluster of short essays proposes to look at moving/traveling animals and animals as the companions of traveling/moving humans in the Middle Ages and early modernity.Continue reading “CFP: Animals and Humans on the Move, Viator Essay Cluster, Deadline: 16th November 2020”
CFP: ‘Remarkable women’: Female patronage of religious institutions, 1300-1550, Courtauld Institute of Art, deadline 27 November 2020
This conference seeks to explore the ways in which women patronised and interacted with monasteries and religious houses during the late Middle Ages, how they commissioned devotional and commemorative art for monastic settings, and the ways in which these donations were received and understood by their intended audiences.
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Conferences
Online Conference: Precious and Rare: Islamic Metalwork from The Courtauld, 26 November 2020, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm (GMT)
This symposium will explore curatorial, practical and public engagement aspects of The Courtauld’s touring display of Islamic metalwork to four venues in the UK.
Virtual Conference: Medieval Heraldry, London Medieval Society, 21 November 2020
The London Medieval Society is proud to announce our first online colloquium, where we will be discussing all things heraldic.
Online Conference: E-Quadrivium: Researching remotely– Libraries, archives, & digital resourcing, Friday 27 – Saturday 28 November 2020
E-Quadrivium is an online webinar for postgraduate researchers exploring means of accessing and analysing pre-modern primary materials.
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New Publications
Online Book Launch: Continuous Page: Bringing Art Online in a Pandemic, 23 November 2020, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm (GMT)
To celebrate the launch of the latest volume in the Courtauld Books Online series—Continuous Page: Scrolls and Scrolling from Papyrus to Hypertext—this roundtable discussion will reflect on art history’s recent rush online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
New Publication: ‘Tree of Jesse Iconography in Northern Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries’ by Susan L. Green
This book is the first detailed investigation to focus on the late medieval use of Tree of Jesse imagery, traditionally a representation of the genealogical tree of Christ.
Online Book Launch: ‘The Illuminated World Chronicle: Tales from the Late Medieval City’ by Nina Rowe, 22 November 2020, 1pm (ET)
Join Fordham University for a conversation celebrating the publication of Nina Rowe’s new book, The Illuminated World Chronicle: Tales from the Late Medieval City (Yale UP, 2020).
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Medieval Jobs
Job: Assistant Professor of Ancient or Medieval Art and Architecture, Tufts University, deadline 15 December 2020
The Department of History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University invites applications to fill a full‐time faculty position at the rank of assistant professor, starting in September 2021 in the field of Ancient or Medieval art and architecture.
Post Doc: Universitat Hamburg, deadline 30 November 2020
The Center for Advanced Study “RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), invites applications for Resident fellowships (Post Doc) (starting 2021, duration between 1 and 12 months)
Job: Assistant Director for Archaeology at British School at Rome, deadline 23 November 2020
British School at Rome seeks to appoint an Assistant Director for Archaeology to join them in Rome, to play a vital role in the delivery of the BSR’s Research Strategy and Strategic Plan.
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Journal Publications
New Journal Publication: Gesta, Volume 59, Number 2 | Fall 2020
The latest issue of Gesta is now available to view online, edited by Diane J. Reilly and Susan L. Boynton. The journal is sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art Articles include: Kathryn A. Smith, Found in Translation: Images Visionary and Visceral in the Welles-Ros Bible Jonathan Andrew Turnock, The Earls of Hereford and Their Retinue:Continue reading “New Journal Publication: Gesta, Volume 59, Number 2 | Fall 2020”
New Journal Issue: Different Vision, ‘Are We Post-Theoretical?’, Issue 6, July 2020
We are excited to present this new issue of Different Visions featuring four essays that engage with the relevance of theory to medieval art history – and to art history in general – today.
New Issue of Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture
The Autumn 2020 issue of Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture (Kenyon College) is out now. As always, online access to Peregrinations is free and available to all interested students and scholars. The current issue features articles highlighting shifts in medieval iconography and its various interpretations. Six book reviews are also included. To accessContinue reading “New Issue of Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture”
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Funding & Scholarships
PhD Position: History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture, UCLouvain, deadline 15 October 2020
Offer for 1 full-time PhD position for the project ‘Magnificent Architecture: Giving Form to Inherent Greatness in Fifteenth-Century Antwerp, Rouen en Strasbourg’.
Grants: Association for Art History, deadline 30 September 2020
The Association for Art History offer grants of up to £1,000 which provide support to aid scholarly research, to develop professional practice and to further the teaching and learning of art history at all education levels.
PhD Funding: UCLA Department of Art History Establishes the Diane C. Brouillette Graduate Fellowship
The UCLA Department of Art History has established the Diane C. Brouillette Graduate Fellowship in Art History, thanks to a $250,000 tribute gift in memory of the late UCLA alumna Diane Brouillette. The gift qualified for an additional $125,000 in matching funds from the UCLA Humanities Centennial Matching Gift Fund.
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Exhibitions & Art Fairs
Exhibition: Architecture & Ornament, Sam Fogg Gallery, London, 22 October – 19 November 2020
The works of art in this exhibition provide an overview of the diversity that existed in Romanesque and Gothic architecture, which continually transformed across space and time. They range from the tenth century, when Lombard architecture and sculpture formed the so-called first Romanesque, to the late fifteenth century, when openwork spires towered over cities. TheContinue reading “Exhibition: Architecture & Ornament, Sam Fogg Gallery, London, 22 October – 19 November 2020”
Virtual Exhibition: Les Enluminures at Frieze Viewing Room – October 9 – 16, 2020
Les Enluminures have collaborated with Frieze to create a virtual showcase of selected medieval and early modern manuscripts and jewellery. Their public statement is detailed below: ‘Les Enluminures is delighted to participate in Frieze Viewing Room, which opens to the general public at 12pm BST this Friday October 9. Our Viewing Room will showcase a curated selectionContinue reading “Virtual Exhibition: Les Enluminures at Frieze Viewing Room – October 9 – 16, 2020”
Virtual Exhibition: Black Monuments Matter – A Virtual Exhibition of Sub-Saharan Architecture
Black Monuments Matter recognises and highlights African contributions to world history by exhibiting World Heritage Monuments and architectural treasures from Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Resources
Online Animation: ‘King Oswald’s Raven’
Peterborough Cathedral is delighted to host King Oswald’s Raven, an animation and a series of online activities that are part of the 2020 Being Human Festival.
Virtual Tour: Center for the Study of Material & Visual Cultures of Religion, Mosque of Christ of the Light, Toledo with Dr Tom Nickson
MAVCOR – the Center for the Study of Material & Visual Cultures of Religion – is delighted to announce the first in a series of virtual tours of buildings around the world.
Recorded Webinar: Race, Racism, and Teaching the Middle Ages
On 20 July 2020, The Medieval Academy of America hosted the webinar Race, Racism, and Teaching in the Middle Ages. In the wake of recent events and ongoing racially motivated violence, there have been many institutional responses to raise awareness of race and racism in the U.S. and beyond. This webinar focused on pedagogy andContinue reading “Recorded Webinar: Race, Racism, and Teaching the Middle Ages”
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