Paper submissions are invited for the 2024 Courtauld Postgraduate Medieval Colloquium which focuses on the theme ‘Authority and Identity in the Middle Ages’.
Author Archives: Roisin Astell
Conference: ‘SUPERFICIES Surfaces, Skins and Textures Sensory Encounters with Books and Related Multi-layered Objects’, University of Zurich, 18-20 January 2024
This conference aims to take a fresh look at the diversity of surface landscapes in books and other multi-layered objects.
Lecture: ‘Entanglement in Shared Cultural Spaces: Hebrew Book Art in Iberia, c. 1300’, with Katrin Kogman-Appel, Vernon Square Campus, Courtauld Institute of Art, 17 Jan 2024, 5.30-7pm (GMT)
Katrin Kogman-Appel explores how Hebrew Bibles from Tudela and Perpignan circa 1300 blend Islamicate and Gothic styles, and were influenced by diverse cultural encounters and urban settings.
New Working Group: ‘Medieval Manuscripts Working Group’, Merton College, Oxford University
This is a new seminar series whose goal is to foster a community at Oxford University, and beyond, of those who study medieval manuscripts.
Lecture Series: Medieval Visual Culture Seminar, University of Oxford, Hilary Term 2024
Join the University of Oxford for their in-person Medieval Visual Culture Seminar Series this Hilary Term.
Exhibition: Ethiopia at the Crossroads, The Walters Art Museum, 3 December 2023– 3 March 2024
The Walters Art Museum presents an extraordinary exhibition celebrating the artistic traditions of Ethiopia from their origins to the present day.
New Publication: ‘Phenomenology of the Icon: Mediating God through the Image’ by Stephanie Rumpza
Check out this new publication which develops a fresh and original approach to the icon by weaving together the interdisciplinary strands of aesthetics, Byzantine studies, theology, and phenomenology.
PhD Position: Project ‘Holy Networks: Locating, Shaping, and Experiencing Palestinian Loca Sancta (1187-1852)’, University of Fribourg, deadline 15 December 2023
Applications are invited for the PhD position as part of the project ‘Holy Networks: Locating, Shaping, and Experiencing Palestinian Loca Sancta (1187-1852)’.
Graduate Position: ‘Notre-Dame in Color’, University of Alabama, deadline 15 December 2023
The University of Alabama seeks a graduate student to assist with their NEH funded project to digitally visualise layers of polychrome of Notre-Dame’s sculpture.
Online Conference: ‘New Perspectives on Personifications in Roman, Late Antique and Early Byzantine Art’, LMU Munich, 26-27 January 2024
An international conference on ‘New Perspectives on Personifications in Roman, Late Antique and Early Byzantine Art (200-800 AD)’ takes place at LMU Munich on January 26th and 27th, 2024.
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