Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize & ARTES-CEEH Scholarships, deadline 30 April 2025

ARTES and the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica (CEEH) are delighted to invite applications for the 2025 Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize and ARTES-CEEH Scholarships.

CFP: ‘Good Governance and the Built Environment of Late Medieval Cities (ca. 1200–1600)’, deadline 7 April 2025

Applications are welcomed for this upcoming conference that explores how—and to what extent—building was integral to governing a late medieval city.

CPF: ‘Communication – Cooperation – Confrontation: Queens, Noblewomen, and Burgher Women in the Middle Ages’, deadline 20 April 2025

Applications for papers are invited for the conference Communication – Cooperation – Confrontation: Queens, Noblewomen, and Burgher Women in the Middle Ages’.

Symposium: ‘From Jean le Bon to Good Duke Humfrey: a new manuscript witness to Anglo-French cultural exchange’, Weston Library, Friday 21 March 2025, 11am–5pm (GMT)

This symposium provides a first opportunity to explore the recently acquired unknown manuscript from the library of Humfrey Duke of Gloucester.

CFP: ‘La sculpture monumentale médiévale à l’épreuve du musée: enjeux, conceptions, réceptions’, deadline 1 March 2025

The Musée du Louvre, the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, the Université de Toulouse, and the research group Patrimoines en partage are organising two events focusing on the challenges of presenting sculptures from mostly vanished religious buildings in the permanent collections of museums.

Online Lecture: ‘Luxury for All? Jewelry and People in the East Roman Empire’, with Georgios Makris, 11 March 2025, 4pm (GMT)

Join this online lecture with Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art & Culture, where Dr Georgios Makris (University of British Columbia) explores issues of taste in the East Roman Empire.

Murray Seminar: ‘Nicola and Giovanni Pisano at the Fontana Maggiore in Perugia’ with Laura Jacobus, 19 March 2025 (5-6.30pm GMT)

Join the March Murray Seminar with Laura Jacobus will share her research on A ‘Most Pleasing Flower among Equally Excellent Sculptors’: Nicola and Giovanni Pisano at the Fontana Maggiore in Perugia.

Online Lecture: Cambridge Medieval Art Seminar, ‘Playing with Fools?’ with Dr Krisztina Ilko, 17 February 2025 (5-6:30pm, GMT)

Join the second Cambridge Medieval Art Seminar of 2025, Krisztina Ilko (Queens’ College, University of Cambridge) will speak on her new research project on medieval chess pieces.