Author Archives: Roisin Astell

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.

Scholarship: British Archaeological Association 2024 OCHS Scholarship, deadline 1 February, 2024

Applications are invited for the British Archaeological Association 2024 OCHS Scholarship.

Lecture: ‘The House of Mirth: the ethics of laughter and ridiculous Gothic art’ with Alixe Bovey, Vernon Square Campus, Courtauld Institute of Art, 26 March 2024, 6-8pm (GMT)

Discover the role of laughter in medieval art in this upcoming lecture, which explores how witty and crude imagery reflects contemporary ethics.

Call for Submissions: Special Issue Miradas Journal: ‘Experience and Reception of Images, Objects, and Spaces in the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas’, deadline 26 January 2024

he next Special Issue of the journal Miradas, will focus on the analysis of the experience and reception of images, objects, and spaces in the territories of the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas.