To celebrate its opening in 2025, BRON Research Centre (Musea Brugge), in collaboration with the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA, Brussels), is organising a two-day conference on new and ongoing research on the oeuvre of Early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling.
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New Publication: ‘The Social Lives of Medieval Rings’, edited by Jitske Jasperse
“The Social Lives of Medieval Rings,” edited by Jitske Jasperse, explores the intricate roles of medieval rings as social artifacts that connect people, places, and cultural practices from 1100 to 1500 across Europe, revealing their significance in historical and contemporary contexts.
In-person/online conference: ‘The Challenge of Historical Distance Historicism and Anachronism in the Study of Art’, 6-7 November 2025
Join the international conference “The Challenge of Historical Distance: Historicism and Anachronism in the Study of Art” to honour Prof. Gervase Rosser.
Online Lecture Series: ‘Participation through Prayer in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World’, 21 October 2025 – 10 February 2026, Tuesdays, 4–6 pm (CET)
Join PRAYTICIPYTE for this lecture series on prayer in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World, which takes place online.
Lecture Series: Oxford Medieval Visual Culture Seminar series 2025-2026
Check out the upcoming Oxford Medieval Visual Culture Seminar series. Please note all lectures take place in person.
CFP: ‘Materialising the Holy. Matter, Senses, and Spiritual Experience in the Middle Ages (12th-15th century)’, University of Padua (6-8 May 2026), deadline 31 October 2025
The University of Padua is hosting the 4th International Multidisciplinary Conference on “Materialising the Holy,” exploring the interplay of materiality, sensory experience, and spiritual practices in the Middle Ages from 6-8 May 2026, with proposals due by 31 October 2025.
CFP: ‘Elevating the Word. Bimah – Ambo – Minbar – Pulpit as Spaces of Sacred Speech’, deadline 31 October 2025
The international conference seeks paper proposals, focusing on the acoustic and architectural dimensions of the Bimah, Ambo, and Minbar.
CFP: ‘Carrying Across: Translation as Material Practice in the Pre/Early Modern World,’ AAH 2026 Annual Conference (8–10 April 2026), deadline 2 November 2025
This session at the AAH 2026 Annual Conference invites papers exploring how portable objects function as means of translation across cultural and temporal boundaries.
Call for Contributions: ‘The Medieval in Museums’, deadline 3 November 2025
The edited volume “The Medieval in Museums” seeks short abstracts for contributions that explore the presentation and interpretation of medieval objects, texts, and histories in museums and related institutions, emphasising global perspectives and the cultural implications of these representations.
Murray Seminar: ‘The artist’s new body, burle, and the praise of caricature in early modern Italy’, with Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, Birkbeck, 20 October 2025, 17:00-18:30 (GMT)
Please join Birkbeck for the first Murray Seminar of this academic year. Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius will share her research on ‘The artist’s new body, burle, and the praise of caricature in early modern Italy’.
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