This event aims to demonstrate the range of career options available to medievalists, especially those studying in Art History and adjacent disciplines such as History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies.
Author Archives: Roisin Astell
CFP: ‘Immured Relics – Display, Signs and Memory’, deadline 18 March 2024
Call for papers are invited for the upcoming workshop in Rome on ‘Immured Relics – Display, Signs and Memory’.
CFP: ‘Velum Templi: Veiling and hiding the sacred’, 2nd Colloquium on Art and Liturgy, deadline 1 April 2024
Abstracts for papers are invited for the 2nd Colloquium on Art and Liturgy in October, entitled ‘Velum Templi: Veiling and hiding the sacred.’
CFP: ‘Medieval Sensorium: Medieval Sensorium: Exploring the Archaeology of the Senses’, EAA Annual Meeting, deadline 8 February 2024
Submissions are invited for the upcoming EAA Annual Meeting, Rome 2024, 28-31 August 2024, for a session that focuses on the medieval senses.
Workshop: Rediscovering the Cultural Heritage of Upper Svanti in Georgia, deadline 15 March 2024
MA and PhD students are invited to apply for this ten-day workshop in Upper Svaneti, Georgia, to explore its rich cultural heritage, medieval art, and unique local traditions with hands-on field activities.
New Resource: BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art)
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies is pleased to introduce the scholarly community to BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art), a new, open-access online database of representations of books and other textual documents in the figurative arts between approximately 1300 and 1600 CE.
Lecture: ‘tannczen, helsen, kussen, vnd rawmen: Of Dancing and Dalliance in the Late Middle Ages’, with Nina Rowe, Vernon Square Campus, Courtauld Institute of Art, Wednesday 7 February 2024, 5.30-7pm (GMT)
Discover the dual nature of dance in late medieval Germany through art, revealing celebration & caution in Bavaria and Austria circa 1450-1500 with Professor Nina Rowe.
Research Grants: Grants for Research on Chartres Cathedral, deadline 29 March 2024
The American Friends of Chartres is accepting proposals from current graduate students and emerging scholars for its annual research grant for the study of Chartres.
Lecture: Murray Seminar at Birkbeck: ‘Faith, Race and the ‘Other’ in North Italian Sculpture, c.1480-1700’ with Andrew Horn (6 February 2024, 5pm)
In this lecture, Andrew Horn explores how early modern Northwest Italian religious sculptures, featuring ‘othered’ characters, reflect premodern European faith and society.
Lecture: ‘Chivalry, justice and love: Royal architecture in fourteenth-century Castile’, with Elena Paulino-Montero, Vernon Square Campus, Courtauld Institute of Art, Wednesday 6 March 2024, 5.30-7pm (GMT)
In this upcoming lecture, Dr Elena Paulino-Montero explores 14th-century Castilian architecture’s evolution, the influential roles of queens and Islamic models in shaping royal spaces and power images.
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