Online Lecture: ‘Chôra and the Creation of Sacred Space in Byzantine Architecture’ with Jelena Bogdanović, Thursday 30 March 2023, 12pm (EDT)

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the final lecture in its 2022–2023 lecture series.

Online Lecture: ‘Divine King or Sacrilegious Upstart? The Portrait of Emperor Yǝkunno Amlak in Gännätä Maryam’ with Jacopo Gnisci, Tuesday 21 March 2023,12:00pm (EDT)

East of Byzantium is pleased to announce the next lecture in its 2022–2023 lecture series.

Call for Sessions: Mary Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel, 49th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, deadline 3 April 2023

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 49th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference

CFP: ‘Visualizing Drugs & Dyes: Art & Pharmacology in (Early) Medieval Worlds (600–1400)’ conference at Basel University, deadline 2 April 2023

Visualizing Drugs & Dyes seeks a dialogue among scholars engaged in the history of science, literary studies, history of medicine, art history, and the burgeoning field of plant studies and related disciplines.

Call for Journal submissions: ‘De coloribus: Material, Symbolic and Social Crossroads of Medieval and Renaissance Painting’, Dossier CAIANA #23, deadline 29 May 2023

This dossier aims to open a new field of debate on the ways in which colour appears and acts on pictorial surfaces of different images, objects, devices and spaces produced between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries.

Call for submissions: ‘The frontiers of art history and visual studies: Thoughts on their object of study’ (Eikón Imago Vol. 13, 2024), deadline for submissions 30 June 2023

Submissions are welcome for a new volume of Eikon/Imago.

Symposium: ‘Bringing the Holy Land Home’, Rehm Library College of the Holy Cross, Saturday 25 March 2023

In conjunction with the Cantor Art Gallery exhibition, Bringing the Holy Land Home, this daylong symposium explores the impact that the Crusades had on medieval western Europe.

Workshop on Medieval Wall Paintings, 17 May 2023, The Courtuald, Vernon Square Campus, London

This interdisciplinary research workshop invites participation from PhD and Early Career Researchers in art-history, history, literature, conservation, and other disciplines whose research projects involve medieval wall paintings.

Lecture: ‘Medieval Stained Glass in the Churches of the Golden Valley’, with Robert Walker in Church of St Michael & All Angels, 11 March 2023, 7pm (GMT)

Join Robert Walker for a discussion of his new book The Medieval Stained Glass of Herefordshire and Shropshire in the Church of St Michael & All Angels in Eaton Bishop.