The Department of History at Purdue University invites applications for a tenure-track, assistant professorship in Medieval History of Science and Religion.
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Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor, Art and Architecture of the Medieval Mediterranean, Duke University (Deadline 1st November 2021)
The Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University invites candidates to apply for a tenure-track faculty position in the History of Art or Architecture of the Medieval Mediterranean at the Assistant Professor level.
Online Lecture: ‘Promoting Conformity, Justifying Persecution: The Revival of Figurative Sculpture at the First Millennium’, by Deborah Kahn, Birkbeck Murray Seminar, 20th October 2021, 16:45 BST
Deborah Kahn wrote her thesis at the Courtauld Institute. She subsequently returned to America where she has taught at Boston University as an Associate Professor for twenty-five years.
Call for Entries: ‘Encyclopedia of Medieval Royal Iconography’ (Deadline 31st December 2021)
The Encyclopedia of Medieval Royal Iconography sets out to do the first extensive collection of information on royal iconography covering the whole Middle Ages (476–1492).
Online Conference: Religion and Enmity: A RaceB4Race Symposium, Arizona State University, 19-22 October 2021
This interdisciplinary symposium, hosted by Rutgers University, focuses on how premodern racial discourses are tied to cartographical markers and ambitions.
Call for Papers: ‘Traveling in the Eastern Mediterranean, ca. 1300-1500: Politics, Agency and Production of Historical Knowledge and Space’, Sessions at the Seventh Biennial Conference Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, University of Crete, Rethymnon, 11-15 July 2022 (Deadline 7 November 2021)
The panel sessions will focus on the period ca. 1300 to ca. 1500 which witnessed both the continuity of the contacts between the aforementioned worlds, as well as important changes, such as the Mamluk and the Ottoman expansion and the Renaissance movement, which caused interruptions and disruptions in cultural encounters in the eastern Mediterranean.
Job Opportunity: Assistant or Associate Professor in Medieval Studies, Macalester College (Deadline 5th November 2021)
The Macalester College Department of English invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in Medieval Studies
Postdoctoral Fellowships: Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art, 2022-2023 (Deadline 27 October 2021)
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art, made possible by the generous support of the Getty Foundation.
Conference: ‘(In)Materiality in Medieval Art’, 14th Jornadas Complutenses de Arte Medieval, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 11th and 12th November 2021
The 14th Jornadas Complutenses de Arte Medieval propose to focus on materiality as an essential factor in the artistic production, as well as on the poetics of immateriality and the intangible condition of the aesthetic experience.
Online Lecture: ‘Reflections of Identity on Silk: Towards a Re-Reading of the “Islamic” and the “Secular” in Greek Orthodox Church Fabrics’ Wednesday 13th October 2021, 22:00 BST
This lecture is part of the lecture series “Fabrics of Devotion: Religious Textiles in the Eastern Mediterranean”, convened by Esther Voswinckel Filiz (Orient-Institut Istanbul).
Medieval Art Research 