The eikones Graduate School at the Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel invites applications for two positions for doctoral study on the theory and history of the image for four years beginning September 1, 2025.
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CFP: BAA Romanesque Conference: Transmission, Reception, Imitation, Toulouse (13-17 April 2026), deadline 30 June 2025
The British Archaeological Association invites submissions for their ninth in its series of biennial International Romanesque conferences.
Online Lecture: ‘The Blood of His Flesh? Controversial Relics from Byzantium in Venice’, with Karin Krause, 10 April 2025, 12–1.30 pm (ET)
The upcoming Mary Jaharis Center lecture will be by Karin Krause (University of Chicago), who will discuss the history and veneration of two relics of the Holy Blood of Christ kept in the church of San Marco in Venice.
The CRSBI Annual Lecture: ‘Romanesque Sculpture and Water: the Art of Carved Vessels’, with Michele Luigi Vescovi, 30 April 2025, 6-7.30pm (BST)
Join the CRSBI for their Annual Lecture at the Courtauld Institute of Art with Dr Michele Luigi Vescovi who will be speaking about ‘Romanesque Sculpture and Water: the Art of Carved Vessels’.
Symposium: ‘Tombs of the Aristocracy’, Church Monuments Society, 29-31 August 2025, West Dean College
The Church Monuments Society is delighted to invite you to the next symposium which will be held at West Dean College from Friday 29th to Sunday 31st August 2025.
ICMA Annual Lecture: ‘Word/Play: Interiority, Performance, and Reading in Late Medieval Flanders’, with Alexa Sand, 14 May 2025, 5.30pm-7pm (BST)
Join the ICMA for their annual lecture with guest speaker Dr Alexa Sand, who will be talking about the relationship between performance marginalia and the reader experience.
Conference: ‘Medieval Art on the Move’, Courtauld Institute’s Postgraduate colloquium, 28 March 2025, 10am – 5.45pm (GMT)
Join the Courtauld Institute of Art for their annual Postgraduate Colloquium.
Pasold Research Fund Grants
The Pasold Research Fund offers grants for projects, publications, and conferences to those researching textile history.
Online talk: ‘Unfolding Concertina-Fold Almanacs: The Making of an Exhibition’, 28 March 2025 12-1.30pm (EDT)
In this online talk, Sarah Griffin, curator of the exhibition, and Megan McNamee, a collaborator, will introduce the concertina corpus and discuss the process of putting these frighteningly fragile, fiendishly complex, and wonderfully dynamic little books on public view.
New Open Access Publication: ‘Art médiéval et médiévalisme’, edited by Philippe Cordez
This new open-access volume, the result of work carried out in 2015/2016 at the German Centre for Art History in Paris, brings together fifteen studies on medieval artefacts and their subsequent history, up to the present day.
Medieval Art Research 