The British Archaeological Association invites submissions for the Reginald Taylor and Lord Fletcher Essay Prize. Deadline is 1 December 2023.
Author Archives: Roisin Astell
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.
CFP: ‘Ecologies of Visual Culture in the Global Middle Ages’, Association for Art History 2024 Annual Conference, University of Bristol, deadline 10 November 2023
The Association for Art History plans its 50th anniversary 2024 conference on ecologies of visual culture during the Middle Ages in collaboration with the University of Bristol.
Lecture:’Towers, travel, and architectural habits’ with Dr Tom Nickson, Courtauld Institute of Art, Wednesday 25th October 2023, 5.30pm-7pm (BST)
Dr. Tom Nickson discusses the historical importance of tower climbing as an architectural experience in global contexts.
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