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Fellowships: Call for Expressions of Interest from Postdoctoral Scholars, British School at Athens (Deadline 9th June 2023)

The British School at Athens invites expressions of interest from postdoctoral scholars who wish to apply for a range of fellowships schemes.

PhD Funding: “Dynamics of Conventionality (400-1550)”, University of Cologne (Deadline 3rd July 2023)

The research training group conducts research from an interdisciplinary perspective into the dynamics of conventionality from late antiquity to the early modern era. Under the overarching motto of convention, phenomena such as custom, regularity, tradition, and habitualisation are examined in order to understand their inner dynamics.

Fellowship: Research Fellowship, DFK Paris and INHA (Deadline 30th June 2023)

The fellowship is intended for outstanding art historians from France, Germany, or abroad who are at the beginning of their careers (doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers).

Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor in Spatial Approaches to Digital Humanities, Vrije Universiteit (Deadline 9th June 2023)

The successful candidate will contribute to the broadening and strengthening of the department’s profile in digital humanities by develop their own line of teaching and research in the spatial approaches to the past. 

Conference: “Ethiopians Abroad in the Middle Ages”, Ecole francaise de Rome, 23rd-26th May 2023

The international conference of the ERC project HornEast (Horn & Crescent. Connections, Mobility and Exchange between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East in the Middle Ages). The project offers the first comprehensive study of medieval connections between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East in both Christian and Islamic contexts.

Call for Papers: Late Medieval Stencil Painting, Saxon State Office for the Protection of Monuments, Dresden, 26th-28th October 2023 (Deadline 30th June 2023)

The aim of the interdisciplinary conference is to bring together the results of current and past research, to place them in an international context and, if necessary, to re-evaluate them.

Job Opportunity: Tutor, History of Art, University of Edinburgh (Deadline 2nd June 2023)

The successful candidate may be enrolled on a PhD, within their maximum period of study, or may have completed their PhD studies, and/or have a proven record of teaching undergraduate students in the context of a University degree course.

Lecture: “From Simone Martini (briefly) to Donatello: Recreating the Objects of the Goldsmith’s Art” by Amy Bloch, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 17:00 GMT

This lecture will consider, in reliefs and statues Donatello fashioned for Florentine, Sienese, and Paduan contexts, his recreation of objects typically produced by goldsmiths, including miters, chalices, processional crosses, parade armor, and framed and unframed medallions worn as personal adornment.

Fellowship: Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study Residential Fellowships 2024-25 (Deadline 1st June 2023)

The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) offers a General Residential Fellowship Programme, mainly in the humanities and social sciences, open to scholars from all countries.