Christians and Muslims: Early Encounters A Symposium at Brown University Sunday, February 23, 2014|2-6pm|RI Hall108 The seventh-century rise of Islam opened a new era of religious “pluralism” in the Middle East. Yet, it would be more than a century before early Muslim scholars recorded the first Arabic accounts of the changes taking place. Syriac andContinue reading “Symposium: Christians and Muslims: Early Encounters”
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Call for Papers: “Travel Accounts in Arabic Literature: New Perspectives and New Findings”
Middle Eastern travelers have a rich history in writing about their interactions with other cultures. The authors, many of whom are Arabs, documented their encounters using various genres and forms, such as travel accounts, memoirs, and autobiographical histories. This panel, to be proposed for the Middle East Association Studies Annual Conference, (November 22-25, 2014 – Washington,Continue reading “Call for Papers: “Travel Accounts in Arabic Literature: New Perspectives and New Findings””
Conference: Power and Authority: Orthodoxy, Heresy and Dissent in the Middle Ages
The London Medieval Society Colloquium, Power and Authority: Orthodoxy, Heresy and Dissent in the Middle Ages Saturday 22nd February from 10.15 – 6pm (followed by a wine reception until 7pm). There could be a better line-up to discuss medieval power, authority, dissent and heresy: Robert I Moore, Bernard Hamilton, Brenda Bolton and, over from the States Jay Rubenstein,Continue reading “Conference: Power and Authority: Orthodoxy, Heresy and Dissent in the Middle Ages”
Publication News: New Issue of Art History
The latest issue of Art History, Volume 37, Issue 1 Pages 4 – 199, February 2014, is available on Wiley Online Library. Abstracts & Authors’ Biographies (pages 4–7) Editorial (page 9) Gavin Parkinson Original Articles Ladies-in-Waiting in Waiting: Picturing Adolescence in Dmitry Levitsky’s Smolny Portraits, 1772–76(pages 10–37) Rosalind P. Blakesley The Motionless Look of a Painting: Jules Bastien-Lepage, Les Foins, andContinue reading “Publication News: New Issue of Art History”
Call for Papers: Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages
Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages, 5-7 June 2014 We are pleased to announce the call for papers for Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages 2014, an interdisciplinary conference hosted by the University of St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies (SAIMS). Entering into its sixth year, this conference welcomes participation from postgraduate, postdoctoral and earlyContinue reading “Call for Papers: Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages”
Conference: Naxos and the Byzantine Aegean
Naxos and the Byzantine Aegean Saturday 12th – Sunday 13th April 2014, Naxos Chora Background The Norwegian Institute at Athens has carried out field work on Naxos at the 7th century Byzantine urban fortress of Kastro Apalirou in collaboration with The 2nd Ephoria of Byzantine Antiquities since 2010. The project has recently been widened toContinue reading “Conference: Naxos and the Byzantine Aegean”
Call for Proposals: Innovation and its Contestants
INNOVATION AND ITS CONTESTANTS 5th Annual Emerging Scholars Conference McGill University Department of Art History and Communications Studies 18 April 2014 Keynote Speaker: Keith Moxey, Barbara Novak Professor of Art History and Department Chair at Barnard College (Columbia University) Deadline for Submissions: 24 January 2014 The concept of innovation buttresses a paradigmatically modern Western belief in the possibilityContinue reading “Call for Proposals: Innovation and its Contestants”
Call for papers: Miracles and Wonders in Antiquity and Byzantium
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Miracles and Wonders in Antiquity and Byzantium University of Cyprus, 16-18 October 2014 Tales of miracle and wonder decorate both ancient and Byzantine literature and seem to have had a great impact upon ancient and Byzantine thought. A strong interest in the wondrous is already apparent in the works of Homer and Hesiod. However, a moreContinue reading “Call for papers: Miracles and Wonders in Antiquity and Byzantium”
Call for Papers: Military History of the Mediterranean
Fati̇h Üni̇versi̇tesi̇ – Tari̇h Bölümü will present the International Conference on the Military History of the Mediterranean Sea, to be held 26-28 June 2015 at Buyukcekmece, Istanbul. With an uninterrupted history of nearly 1,500 years, Istanbul has been the centre of the world and the capital of two great Empires. The confluence of the Sea of Marmara,Continue reading “Call for Papers: Military History of the Mediterranean”
Conference: Romanesque Art: Patrons and Processes, British Archaeological Association Conference, Barcelona (7-9 April 2014)
7-9 April 2014, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona Following earlier conferences on Romanesque and the Past (London, 2010), and Romanesque and the Mediterranean (Palermo, 2012), the British Archaeological Association is collaborating with the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya and the Research project Magistri Cataloniae to stage the third in a biennial series of internationalContinue reading “Conference: Romanesque Art: Patrons and Processes, British Archaeological Association Conference, Barcelona (7-9 April 2014)”
Medieval Art Research 