CFP: ‘Carving Collective Practice: Working Against Monolithic Scholarship on Stone’, deadline 5 April 2024

We seek participants for Thinking with Stone, an interdisciplinary, experimental roundtable exploring collaborative methods and conversational approaches to studying stone in the medieval period. We welcome five- to ten-minute presentations on ideas for a work in progress on a stone object or structure, a particular methodological approach to stone, or new pedagogical ideas for engagement with stone. The session provides a forum for collaborative development of these projects in a way that looks outside traditional modes of single-authored expertise.

Thinking with Stone is Session III of a three-part series at IONA 2024 on Carving Collective Practice. Session I: Viewing Stone is a site visit and discursive workshop on early medieval stone sculpture, introducing questions about these multivalent and polyvocal monuments that will be further explored in Sessions II and III. Session II: Handling Stone is an immersive and interactive lab on the haptic qualities of stone. Used as we are to thinking about stone monuments as things not touched or moved, this hands-on lab focuses on the physical, material, and tactile properties of stone as a worked substance that was handled, carved, and subject to changes from weather and use.

Please include in the following Google form: 

• Google Form
• Name, contact details, a short CV, and a 200-word max abstract & title of a project that you would like to share in a five-minute roundtable discussion in Session III.
  • This should focus on your ideas for a work-in-progress, an object of focus, and your methodological approach to the stone object/architecture of your choice.
• Any questions may be sent to Dr Jill Hamilton Clements at jclements@uab.edu.
• DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: Friday 5 April 2024

We intend to inform participants of their participation by April 15th. We welcome applicants from postgraduates, non-traditional scholars, independent scholars, those holding non-faculty positions, and those underrepresented in the field of medieval studies.

More information can be found here.