These fellowships grow out of the longstanding collaboration between the Humboldt, the Hertziana, and the Warburg in the research project Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance.
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Funding: British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants (Deadline 31st May 2023)
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provided to cover the cost of the expenses arising from a defined research project.
Fellowship: Ad Astra Fellow, University College Dublin School of History (Deadline 26th May 2023)
The School of History welcomes applications from excellent candidates whose expertise expands and strengthens the School’s research and its undergraduate and graduate teaching programmes. The School has identified the history of the Middle Ages as a strategic area of interest in which it would particularly like to receive applications.
Workshop: “Materializing Transparency”, eikones Forum, University of Basel, 26th May 2023
Scheduled to coincide with the release of two important new books on transparency, this workshop engages with current scholarship in the history of art, science, architecture, religion, museology, and conservation.
New Publication: ‘L’art medieval est-il contemporain? (Is Medieval Art Contemporary)’, ed. by Charlotte Denoel, Larisa Dryansky, Erik Verhagen, and Isabelle Marchesin
This publication brings together essays by scholars of both medieval and contemporary art, offering a cross-disciplinary approach of both periods.
Call for Papers: Witchcraft and Magic Symposium, University of York, 22nd – 23rd June 2023 (Deadline Early May 2023)
The conference will be held in the historic city of York, kindly hosted by the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.
Call for Papers: Digitally Mapping the Middle Ages, Medieval Academy of America 2024 Annual Meeting (Deadline 30th May 2023)
The papers in this MAA panel chart, from start to finish, the process of mapping the Middle Ages.
New Publication: Medieval World: Culture & Conflict Issue 6, “King Louis IX of France (r. 1226-1270)”
Issue 6 of Medieval World: Culture & Conflict looks at the world of King Louis IX of France (r. 1226–1270) – “the most Christian king” – who was a keen diplomat, ardent crusader, and remarkable patron.
Lecture: “Giotto’s Ugliness: Art, Literature, and Pictorial Naturalism”, by Marco Ruffini, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 3rd May 2023, 17:00 GMT
This talk will explain that the painter’s ugliness is a symbolic attribute of Giotto’s pictorial naturalism focused on the faithful imitation of the natural world, at the time juxtaposed to ideal beauty.
New Publication: “Rethinking the Dialogue between the Verbal and the Visual: Methodological Approaches to the Relationship Between Religious Art and Literature (1400–1700)”, ed. Ingrid Falque and Agnes Guiderdoni
With contributions from Ralph Dekoninck, Anna Dlabačová, Grégory Ems, Ingrid Falque, Agnès Guiderdoni, Walter S. Melion, Kees Schepers, Paul J. Smith, and Elliott D. Wise.
Medieval Art Research 