CFP, ICMS (“Kalamazoo”) 2016: Gendered Spaces Hortulus-sponsored session Session organizer and presider: Melissa Ridley Elmes, co-editor of Hortulus The concept of gendered spaces—areas in which particular genders and types of gender expression are considered welcome or appropriate while other gender types are unwelcome or inappropriate—is a key element in the study of human geography. GenderingContinue reading “Kalamazoo 2016: Gendered Spaces (sponsored by Hortulus)”
Yearly Archives: 2015
‘Transforming Male Devotional Practices’ from the Medieval to the Early Modern (Hudderfield, 16-17 September 2015)
Extended call-for-papers submission deadline: July 20th, 2015 Conference date(s): September 16, 2015 – September 17, 2015 This conference is co-hosted with the Universities of Reading and Liverpool Hope. It aims to explore the social, economic and spatial factors underpinning the changing way ordinary men demonstrated their commitment to God and the church(es) in a periodContinue reading “‘Transforming Male Devotional Practices’ from the Medieval to the Early Modern (Hudderfield, 16-17 September 2015)”
Leeds 2015 Art History session: Grisaille, Shades of Meaning in Late Medieval Manuscripts
Session: 1702 Grisaille: Shades of Meaning in Late Medieval Manuscripts Thursday 9 July 2015: 14.15-15.45 Organiser Sophia Rochmes (Department of History of Art & Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara) and Anna Russakoff (American University of Paris) Moderator/Chair Anna Russakoff, American University of Paris Grisaille, or imagery in monochrome tones of grey, proliferated in late-medievalContinue reading “Leeds 2015 Art History session: Grisaille, Shades of Meaning in Late Medieval Manuscripts”
Chiaroscuro as Aesthetic Principle, 1300-1600 (Bern, 29-30 April 2016)
Chiaroscuro since Leon Battista Alberti’s De pictura (1435) has been one of the central subjects characterising painting and sculpture in practice and theory in Italy. Primarily, it concerns the articulation of plastic qualities, the formulation of relief, both in painting and sculpture. In the northern tradition, too, chiaroscuro has been highly valued. Through chiaroscuro, the textures of materials and the structuralContinue reading “Chiaroscuro as Aesthetic Principle, 1300-1600 (Bern, 29-30 April 2016)”
Taking architectural history to the bridge: International Bridges Group inaugural meeting report
The study of architecture largely focuses on the study of buildings: constructions with their most essential function as shelter for the human body. But architectural history can forget that constructions with other functions are also ripe for interpretation of their structure and ideologies. This is what the ambitiously-named International Bridges Group intends to promote for crossingsContinue reading “Taking architectural history to the bridge: International Bridges Group inaugural meeting report”
Call for Papers: The Architecture of Death (London, 11 March 2016)
The Mausolea & Monuments Trust Student Symposium The Forum, Bloomsbury Baptist Church Friday 11 March 2016 Call for papers of 20 minutes: for the inaugural student symposium of The Mausolea & Monuments Trust to be held in The Forum, Bloomsbury Baptist Church, London on Friday 11 March 2016. This event will provide an opportunity toContinue reading “Call for Papers: The Architecture of Death (London, 11 March 2016)”
CfP: Netherlandish Art and Luxury Goods in Renaissance Spain (Leuven, 4-6 Feb 2016)
Call for Papers deadline 1 Oct 2015 University of Leuven, Belgium, 4-6 February 2016 International conference Initiated and organized by Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art | KU Leuven In 2010, Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art (KU Leuven) acquired the archive of the eminent Belgian art historian professorContinue reading “CfP: Netherlandish Art and Luxury Goods in Renaissance Spain (Leuven, 4-6 Feb 2016)”
Images: Signs and Phenomena of Time (Hamburg 12-14 Nov 2015)
A trans- and interdisciplinary conference at the University of Hamburg, 12–14 November 2015 The capacity to distinguish between past, present, and future plays an important role in the formation of (self-)consciousness. Time is an essential criterion to order the flow of contingent events and experiences and to build up coherence and meaning. In turn, theContinue reading “Images: Signs and Phenomena of Time (Hamburg 12-14 Nov 2015)”
CFP: Memory and Identity in the Middle Ages: The Construction of a Cultural Memory of the Holy Land in the 4th-16th centuries (Amsterdam, 26-27 May 2016), deadline 1 December 2015
The Holy Land has played an important role in the definition of the identities of the three majorAbrahamic religions. Constitutive narratives about the past of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam werelargely bound to this shared and contested space. As put forward both by Maurice Halbwachs and Jan Assmann, memory adheres to what is ‘solid’, stored away inContinue reading “CFP: Memory and Identity in the Middle Ages: The Construction of a Cultural Memory of the Holy Land in the 4th-16th centuries (Amsterdam, 26-27 May 2016), deadline 1 December 2015”
Call for Papers: ‘Shared Invention: From Antiquity to the 21st Century’ (Clermont-Ferrand, Aubusson and Limoges, 6–8 April 2016)
An international colloquium entitled ‘Shared Invention: From Antiquity to the 21st Century’ will be held 6–8 April 2016, and proposals for papers are now being accepted. The colloquium is being organized by Laurence Riviale and Jean-François Luneau, lecturers at Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand (France), in partnership with Musée national Adrien Dubouché, Limoges (France) and CitéContinue reading “Call for Papers: ‘Shared Invention: From Antiquity to the 21st Century’ (Clermont-Ferrand, Aubusson and Limoges, 6–8 April 2016)”
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