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CFP: Memorializing the Middle Classes (Edited volume)

CFP: Memorializing the Middle Classes (Edited volume) Deadline: 30 June 2014 Building on the session “Memorials for Merchants: The Funerary Culture of Late Medieval Europe’s New Elite” (College Art Association Annual Meeting, 2014), this edited volume offers papers that investigate the habits and strategies of patrons of commemorative art ca. 1300-1700, while considering what relationship, if any, existed betweenContinue reading “CFP: Memorializing the Middle Classes (Edited volume)”

CFP: Meanings of Erasure (Kalamazoo, 14-17 May 2015)

CFP: Meanings of Erasure Session at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, 14-17 May 2015 Deadline: 15 September 2015 Recent scholarly interest in whiteness, emptiness, and material destruction that pervade medieval visual culture demonstrate a shift in focus: where art historians have historically focused on figuration, they now turn to the instances ofContinue reading “CFP: Meanings of Erasure (Kalamazoo, 14-17 May 2015)”

Conference: Colour (London, 26 June 2014)

Conference: Colour Warburg Institute, London, 26 June 2014 Registration deadline: 22 June 2014 This colloquium is being organised by the Warburg Institute and the National Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition on “Making Colour” at the National Gallery and will include an early morning viewing of the exhibition from 9.00 to 10.00 a.m. The conference is organised byContinue reading “Conference: Colour (London, 26 June 2014)”

CFP: The Afterlife of Cicero (London, 7-8 May 2015)

Call for Papers: The Afterlife of Cicero London, The Warburg Institute, 7-8 May 2015 Deadline: 11 July 2014 The Warburg Institute, the Institute of Classical Studies and the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London will be hosting an international conference on the afterlife of Cicero in London on 7–8 May 2015, organisedContinue reading “CFP: The Afterlife of Cicero (London, 7-8 May 2015)”

CFP: Foldable Pictures. Implications of Mediality (Zürich, 21-22 November 2014)

Call for Papers: Foldable Pictures. Implications of Mediality Conference, University of Zürich, 21-22 November 2014 Deadline: 4 July 2014 Book pages, diptychs, and triptychs were popular formats for the presentation of images in the medieval and early modern periods. In addition to their ubiquity, these objects also share one essential material feature: the supports that carry the imagesContinue reading “CFP: Foldable Pictures. Implications of Mediality (Zürich, 21-22 November 2014)”

Event: Puerta Vilchez lecture at the V&A (London, 19 June 2014)

Puerta Vilchez lecture at the V&A: Evening Lecture and Reception José Miguel Puerta Vílchez Qurtuba/Córdoba: Monumentality and artistic sensibility in al-Andalus Thursday 19 June 2014, 7pm Seminar Room Three, Learning Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum, London The patronage of the Umayyad caliphs of al-Andalus (Muslim-ruled Spain) created one of the highpoints of classical Islam. The splendourContinue reading “Event: Puerta Vilchez lecture at the V&A (London, 19 June 2014)”

Event: historyLab Plus – History within the Academy: Ask the Experts (London, 27 June 2014)

History within the Academy: Ask the Experts Friday, 27 June 2014 from 09:15 to 13:30 London, Institute of Historical Research This half day workshop is organised jointly with the Royal Historical Society & History Lab Plus. The workshop is aimed at early career historians and anyone seeking an academic post in history. Those who haveContinue reading “Event: historyLab Plus – History within the Academy: Ask the Experts (London, 27 June 2014)”

CFP: Object Fantasies. Forms & Fictions (Munich, 7-9 October 2015)

CFP: Object Fantasies. Forms & Fictions (Munich, 7-9 Oct 15) Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 7 – 9 October 2015 Deadline: 31 July 2014 Interdisciplinary Conference of the Junior Research Group “Premodern Objects. An Archaeology of Experience“ (Elite Network of Bavaria / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) In modern understanding, the word “object” signifies something material, spatially defined and functionally determined. These notions are accentuated by theContinue reading “CFP: Object Fantasies. Forms & Fictions (Munich, 7-9 October 2015)”

CFP: RSA-Session ‘Artists in Habits’ (Berlin, 26-28 March 2015)

RSA-Session ‘Artists in Habits’ Berlin, 26-28 March 2015 Deadline: 10 June 2014 This panel seeks papers that explore the dual identities of artists who were members of a religious order. More than fifteen years since seminal studies on the “frate-dipintore” by William Hood and Megan Holmes, on Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi respectively, we askContinue reading “CFP: RSA-Session ‘Artists in Habits’ (Berlin, 26-28 March 2015)”

New Publication: Special Issue of Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies on ‘Women’s Creativity’

New Publication: Special Issue of Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (vol. 6, no. 1, 2014) Julie A. Harris (ed) Women’s Creativity and the Three Faiths of Iberia / Reassessing the Roles of Women as ‘Makers’ of Medieval Art and Architecture Julie A. Harris Finding a place for women’s creativity in medieval Iberia andContinue reading “New Publication: Special Issue of Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies on ‘Women’s Creativity’”