Author Archives: Roisin Astell

Lecture: ‘Reflections on the Cushion Capital’ with Dr Richard Plant, Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (CRSBI) Annual Lecture, Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square Campus, 24th April 2023, 6.30pm-8.30pm (BST)

Join the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (CRSBI) for their Annual Lecture with Dr Richard Plant.

Hybrid Lecture: ‘Maintenance Work & the Long Life of Materials in Medieval Art’ with Dr Jessica Barker, University of York, King’s Manor, Tuesday 9 May 2023, 5.30pm (BST)

In this lecture Dr Jessica Barker (The Courtauld Institute) will explore an extraordinarily detailed set of maintenance instructions set down by an early sixteenth-century English bishop which offer a remarkable window onto the practicalities of historical conservation procedures, as well as metaphysical ideas about the transience of the material world.

Colloquium: Revisiting the Cloisters Cross: A One-day Colloquium, Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, London, Friday 12th May 2023, 10.30am-6.30pm (BST)

This one-day colloquium, jointly held by the British Archaeological Association and The Courtauld, will review and extend the debates about the origins and history of the Cloisters Cross.

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.