Author Archives: Roisin Astell

Student scholarships: British Archaeological Association’s Toulouse Romanesque Conference, deadline 31 January 2026

The British Archaeological Association are excited to announce that they have a number of Student scholarships for those wishing to attend the ninth biennial International Romanesque Conference. Deadline for applications is 31st January 2026.

Murray Seminar: ‘Like himself and no other: The Story of Morgante Nano at the Florentine Court of Cosimo I de’ Medici’ with Sarah McBryde, 9 December 2025, Birkbeck, 17:00—18:30 (GMT)

Please join Birkbeck on 9 December 2025, at Birkbeck and online, for the Murray Seminar by Sarah McBryde. In this seminar, Sarah McBryde will share her research on ‘Like himself and no other: The Story of Morgante Nano at the Florentine Court of Cosimo I de’ Medici’.

Online Lecture: ‘Learning Late Antiquity: The Quarry Church at Deir al-Ganadla and the Lost Timber Nave’, with Mikael Muehlbauer, 9 December 2025, 12:00–1:30 pm (Eastern Standard Time, UTC -5)

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtot Chair of Armenian Studies at Harvard University is hosting an online lecture by Mikael Muehlbauer on December 9, 2025, focusing on the Quarry Church at Deir al-Ganadla and its significance for understanding Late Antique architecture in Egypt and the Mediterranean.

Online Lecture: ‘Worshipping the Mother Goddess: An Underground Cult Complex in Late Antique Aphrodisias’ with Ine Jacobs, 2 December 2025, 12:00–1:30 pm (Eastern Standard Time, UTC -5)

Ine Jacobs from the University of Oxford will discuss the discovery of a well-preserved underground cult complex dedicated to the mother goddess Kybele in Late Antique Aphrodisias, exploring its architecture, cultic artifacts, and the persistence of pagan worship until the 7th century, during a lecture hosted by the Mary Jaharis Center on December 2, 2025.

Lecture: ‘The Many Lives of the Asante Ewer’ with Lloyd de Beer, British Archaeological Association, 3 December 2025, online and Society of Antiquaries, 5.30pm (GMT) 

Join the British Archaeological Association for the December lecture by Lloyd de Beer on ‘The Many Lives of the Asante Ewer’. This will be followed by a celebratory drinks reception for a new volume honouring Professor Sandy Heslop.

Conference: ‘Art and Proof in the Ninth Century’, Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University, 5-6 December 2025

The conference “Art and Proof in the Ninth Century,” hosted by Princeton University’s Index of Medieval Art on December 5-6, 2025, will explore the significance of images in the Carolingian world, examining their role as proof and the complexities surrounding their representation across various cultures and regions.

CFP: The Long Middle Ages (A New Seminar Series Hosted at the University of Leeds), deadline 28 November 2025

A new interdisciplinary seminar series for postgraduate students and early career researchers on the Long Middle Ages invites submissions for 20-30 minute papers, with seminars commencing in early 2026 at the University of Leeds, in a hybrid format.

CFP: ‘Tractive Forces’ Potentials of Art in the Trecento Workshop of the DFG-Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Imaginaria of Force’, Warburg-Haus Hamburg (6-8 May 2026), deadline 15 December 2025

The DFG-Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Imaginaria of Force’ is calling for papers for a workshop on ‘Tractive Forces’ in fourteenth-century Italian art, exploring the dynamics of attraction and engagement between art and its viewers, to be held in May 2026. Deadline for submissions is 15 December 2025.

Conference: ‘Sanguis Christi: Visual Culture / Visionary Culture (13th–18th Centuries)’, Université Catholique de Louvain, 3-5 December 2025

The conference ‘Sanguis Christi: Visual Culture / Visionary Culture (13th–18th Centuries)’ will be held from December 3 to 5, 2025, in Louvain-la-Neuve. It focuses on the relationship between devotion to the Holy Blood of Christ and the development of visual culture in Europe during the Middle Ages through the 18th century.