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CFP: Imaging Utopia – New Perspectives on Northern Renaissance Art (11-13 January 2017)

Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art (University of Leuven), Belgium, 11-13 January 2017 Deadline: Friday, April 1, 2016 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE The twentieth symposium for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting will be held in Leuven in the context of the major exhibition In Search of Utopia. In 1516, Thomas MoreContinue reading “CFP: Imaging Utopia – New Perspectives on Northern Renaissance Art (11-13 January 2017)”

Seminar Series: Murray Seminars at Birkbeck, Spring 2016

This term promises an interesting and varied programme. Our speakers are: Zuleika Murat, sharing discoveries about Guariento and the Tomb of Doge Giovanni Dolfin in Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice (Wednesday 20th January) Tom Nickson, looking at the significance of light and its subsequent obscuration in gothic buildings (Wednesday, 10th February) Paula Nuttall, on dance and low-life subjectsContinue reading “Seminar Series: Murray Seminars at Birkbeck, Spring 2016”

CFP: Discipline and Excess (Cambridge Friday, April 15, 2016)

DISCIPLINE AND EXCESS A Graduate and Early Career Conference, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge Friday, April 15, 2016 CFP Deadline: 1st February 2016 We invite paper proposals for Discipline and Excess, a conference which seeks to consider questions relating to boundaries and their transgression until 1750. The theme invites diverse interpretations of “discipline”—moral, religious, cultural, aesthetic,Continue reading “CFP: Discipline and Excess (Cambridge Friday, April 15, 2016)”

CFP: COMITATUS: A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES (Deadline: 1st Feb 2016)

FINAL REMINDER: COMITATUS: A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES, published annually under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, invites the submission of articles by graduate students and recent PhDs in any field of medieval and Renaissance studies. SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 47 (2016): 1 FEBRUARY 2016. The Comitatus editorial board will makeContinue reading “CFP: COMITATUS: A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES (Deadline: 1st Feb 2016)”

CFP: Marian Iconography East and West (Rijeka, 2-4 June 2016)

Deadline: Mar 30, 2016 Tenth International Conference of Iconographic Studies Center for Iconographic Studies – University of Rijeka (Croatia) in collaboration with: Study of Theology in Rijeka, University of Zagreb (Croatia) University of Thessaly (Greece) University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) Gregorian Pontifical University Rome (Italy) The conference seeks to explore and discuss recent development in the dialogue betweenContinue reading “CFP: Marian Iconography East and West (Rijeka, 2-4 June 2016)”

Lecture: ‘Royal Relations between the Danes and the Baltic Slavs in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries’, Dr Paul Gazzoli, London Society for Medieval Studies, IHR London, 12 January 2016

The London Society for Medieval Studies is hosting a lecture on Tuesday evening, January 12th, at 7.00pm in the Wolfson Room (NB01), IHR Basement, Senate House (located on Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU) by: Paul Gazzoli (Cambridge) who will be speaking on ‘Royal Relations between the Danes and the Baltic Slavs in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries’. All those whoContinue reading “Lecture: ‘Royal Relations between the Danes and the Baltic Slavs in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries’, Dr Paul Gazzoli, London Society for Medieval Studies, IHR London, 12 January 2016”

Workshop: ‘The world comes to Sinai: Saint Catherine’s monastery as a cultural magnet’ (London 6 February 2016)

The World Comes to Sinai: St Catherine’s Monastery and its Library as a Cultural Magnet A Workshop-Conference of the Saint Catherine Foundation Saturday, 6 February 2015, 10.00 to 13.00 Bridgewater House 14 Cleveland Row, SW1A 1DP, London Programme 10.00 Welcoming Remarks Jenny Richardson, Treasurer, Saint Catherine Foundation 10.10 How Did Syriac Manuscripts Get toContinue reading “Workshop: ‘The world comes to Sinai: Saint Catherine’s monastery as a cultural magnet’ (London 6 February 2016)”

CFP: ‘Seeing and Believing’ University of Toronto Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium (March 18, 2016)

The Graduate Union of Students of Art at the University of Toronto is still accepting abstractions for the third annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium, “Seeing and Believing.” The conference will take place at the University of Toronto on March 18, 2016, and will feature a keynote address by Jacqueline Jung of Yale University. All graduate studentsContinue reading “CFP: ‘Seeing and Believing’ University of Toronto Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium (March 18, 2016)”

CFP: “Representations of the Ordinary in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods.” North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (February 19 & 20, 2016)

Extended deadline for abstract submission: abstracts are now due on Thursday, January 14 Web Site: http://sites.duke.edu/representationsoftheordinary/ The 16th Annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies invites graduate students to submit proposals for twenty-minute paper presentations that investigate representations of everyday life––mimetic, descriptive, or prescriptive––from late antiquity through early modernity. How are the particularities of ordinary experienceContinue reading “CFP: “Representations of the Ordinary in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods.” North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (February 19 & 20, 2016)”

UCL IMARS Seminar: 6:15pm, Monday, 18th January 2016. Professor Jean-Claude Schmitt: ‘Les rythmes au Moyen Âge (Rhythms in the Middle Ages)’

We are delighted to announce the next UCL IMARS Seminar of 2015-16. The seminar will be held on Monday, 18th January 2016 with Professor Jean-Claude Schmitt – Doyen of the modern Annales School – speaking. He will be presenting his latest book: ‘Les rythmes au Moyen Âge (Rhythms in the Middle Ages)’ As usual the seminar begins at 6:15pm,Continue reading “UCL IMARS Seminar: 6:15pm, Monday, 18th January 2016. Professor Jean-Claude Schmitt: ‘Les rythmes au Moyen Âge (Rhythms in the Middle Ages)’”