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.

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.

New Publication: ‘ Représenter et nommer la Grèce et les Grecs (XIVe-XVIe siècle)’, edited by Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas

Discover how Western European authors and artists of the 14th-16th centuries perceived Greece in the new book ‘Representing and Naming Greece and the Greeks’.