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Call for Participants: Summer Intensive Course ‘Luminosus Limes’ (Budapest 2014)

Call for Participants: Summer Intensive Course – Luminosus Limes: Geographical, Ethnic, Social and Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity Central European University, Budapest, 7-12 July, 2014 Deadline: 14 February, 2014 What is a frontier? Does it serve to separate or to link countries, peoples, classes, ideas? Frontiers have become increasingly significant in the study ofContinue reading “Call for Participants: Summer Intensive Course ‘Luminosus Limes’ (Budapest 2014)”

Call for Papers: German Wood: Material and Metaphor from Forest to Fireside and beyond (Kansas City 2014)

Call for Papers: German Wood: Material and Metaphor from Forest to Fireside and Beyond German Studies Association Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference Kansas City, Missouri, 18-21 September 2014 Deadline: February 7, 2014 “The German Forest has moved into the German living room,” wrote liberal politician Friedrich Naumann in response to a 1906 exhibition of modern wooden furniture designed byContinue reading “Call for Papers: German Wood: Material and Metaphor from Forest to Fireside and beyond (Kansas City 2014)”

Publication News: New Issue of Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes

Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes – Volume LXXVI (2013) This volume was issued online in two parts: Part I (October) and Part II (November), to be followed by the print edition as a complete volume (expected publication date 18 December 2013). For further information, see the journal’s website. Part I Xenophon and the Barberini:Continue reading “Publication News: New Issue of Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes”

Call for Papers: Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World 1100 – 1600 (London 2014)

Call for Papers Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World 1100 – 1600 London, Queen Mary, University of London, September 8-9, 2014 Deadline: 21 February 2014 The Leverhulme Network ‘Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World’ aims to promote comparative, cross-disciplinary scholarship on Islamic and European cartography by bringing together experts in these two fields forContinue reading “Call for Papers: Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World 1100 – 1600 (London 2014)”

Call for Papers: Looking for Leisure. Court Residences and their Satellites, 1400-1700 (Prague 2014)

Call for Papers: Looking for Leisure Court Residences and their Satellites, 1400-1700 Prague, June 5 – 07, 2014 Deadline: Jan 31, 2014 Website: http://www.courtresidences.eu/index.php/events/workshops-and-colloquia/Prague2014/ This PALATIUM conference draws attention to small buildings in residential complexes – small in size but not in importance – which were meant only for temporary, seasonal use, unlike the permanent use of the main palace.Continue reading “Call for Papers: Looking for Leisure. Court Residences and their Satellites, 1400-1700 (Prague 2014)”

Call for Papers: Emblems and Enigma: the Heraldic Imagination (London 2014)

Call for Papers: Emblems and Enigma: the Heraldic Imagination An Interdisciplinary Symposium at the Society of Antiquaries of London London, Burlington House, April 26, 2014 Deadline: Jan 10, 2014 Conference website: http://heraldics2014.wordpress.com ‘Time has transfigured them into / Untruth’ (Philip Larkin) In his 1844 short story ‘Earth’s Holocaust’, Nathaniel Hawthorne sees heraldic signs reaching ‘like lines of light’ intoContinue reading “Call for Papers: Emblems and Enigma: the Heraldic Imagination (London 2014)”

Publication News: New Issue of Journal of Art Historiography

Number 9 of the Journal of Art Historiography is online! Of particular interest to the medieval art researcher is this issue’s focus on Travelling Artists in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, as well as a review of the 2012 publication Reassessing the Roles of Women as ‘Makers’ of Medieval Art and Architecture, edited by Therese Martin. See belowContinue reading “Publication News: New Issue of Journal of Art Historiography”

Forthcoming Exhibition: Charlemagne. Power, Art and Treasure (Aachen 2014)

Forthcoming Exhibition: Charlemagne. Power, Art and Treasure Aachen, 20 June – 21 September 2014 Charlemagne died in Aachen on 28 January 814. 1200 years later, the City of Aachen will be putting on three special exhibitions on the life and works of this legendary Emperor of the Francs. Under the title “Charlemagne. Power, Art andContinue reading “Forthcoming Exhibition: Charlemagne. Power, Art and Treasure (Aachen 2014)”

Call for Papers: Embodied Identities: Figural and Symbolic Representation of the Self in Anatolia (Istanbul 2014)

Call for Papers: Embodied Identities: Figural and Symbolic Representation of the Self in Anatolia Istanbul, 7-8 June 2014 Deadline: Feb 10 2014 This two-day workshop will be hosted at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, in Taksim. The organizers invite the submission of abstracts presenting excavation data relating to identity, territoriality and artisticContinue reading “Call for Papers: Embodied Identities: Figural and Symbolic Representation of the Self in Anatolia (Istanbul 2014)”