Roisin Astell

Call for Journal Submissions: Irish Heritage Studies: The annual research journal of the Office of Public Works, Ireland, deadline 15 December 2023

The Office of Public Works in Ireland invites submissions for the first volume to be published in spring 2025.

Call for Submissions: ‘Speculations: The Centennial Issue of Speculum’, deadline 1 December 2023

Submissions are invited for the 100th anniversary of the journal Speculum.

Essay Prize: Reginald Taylor and Lord Fletcher Essay Prize, British Archaeological Association, deadline 1 December 2023

The British Archaeological Association invites submissions for the Reginald Taylor and Lord Fletcher Essay Prize. Deadline is 1 December 2023.

Call for Applications for 2024-2025 Predoctoral Research Residencies at La Capraia, Naples, deadline 31 January 2024

Applications now open for the 2024-2025 La Capraia’s Research Residency in Naples.

CFP: ‘The Senses, Cognition, and the Body in Medieval Devotional Practices’, deadline 30 November 2023

Scholars are invited to submit abstracts for the upcoming conference ‘The Senses, Cognition, and the Body in Medieval Devotional Practices’.

Conference programme: ‘From Name to Space, and to Myth’, 17 November 2023

Explore the mythicisation of holy places in this conference where multidisciplinary perspectives unveil the power of names, topography, and visuals.

Lecture: ‘Birth, death and protective imagery in a rock-hewn church from tenth-century Cappadocia’, with Dr Niamh Bhalla, Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, Wed 15 November 2023, 5.30pm-7pm (GMT)

Discover how medieval Byzantium navigated life’s uncertainties through divine imagery, as Dr. Niamh Bhalla explores Eğri Taş’s Nativity in this lecture.

Online Lecture: ‘The Wall Paintings of Angers Cathedral’ with Professor Paul Binski, Dr Emily Guerry, and Dr Lucy Wrapson, Monday 27 November 2023 5-7pm (GMT)

Professor Binski, Dr Guerry, and Dr Wrapson will discuss their work on Gothic Wall Paintings in Angers Cathedral in this online lecture.

Online Lecture: ‘Chess and Skin Colour in the Global Middle Ages’ with Dr Krisztina Ilko, Wednesday 8 November 2023, 9am-10.30am (GMT)

In this online lecture, Dr. Ilko discusses chess’s role in mediating cross-cultural interaction in medieval times.

Lecture: ‘Seeing and being seen in an illuminated Tractatus Moralis de Oculo (c. 1274-1289)’, with Roisin Astell, British Archaeological Association, Wednesday 1 November 2023, 5pm (GMT)

Join Dr Roisin Astell for this month’s British Archaeological Association Lecture.