This session seeks papers that consider the contents and mechanics of concertinas in various cultural contexts. By taking a comparative approach, we aim to identify commonalities that may signal formal imperatives whilst sharpening our understanding of particularities preserved in different traditions.
Author Archives: Roisin Astell
CFP: ‘African Networks and Entanglements in a “Medieval World”’, IMC 2023, deadline 19 Sep 2022
Seeking to utilise the special thematic strand of “Networks and Entanglements” of the 2023 International Medieval Congress in Leeds, we aim to put together a series of sessions that address the topic and question of “African Networks and Entanglements in a ‘Medieval World’”.
CFP: ‘Intersections and Entanglements: Objects of Mobility in the Ancient and Early Modern Periods’, CAA Annual Conference 2023, deadline 31 August 2022
From ceramic vessels to elaborate textiles, the ancient and early modern periods are rich with portable objects. This session seeks to discuss approaches such as pilgrimage, itinerancy, trade, phenomenology, cartography, encounters, and memory, among others.
CFP: ‘Questioning ‘Gregorian Reform Art’ (11th–12th c.): Challenges, Strategies, and New Approaches’, Kalamazoo ICMS 2023, deadline 15 September 2022
The Italian Art Society invites proposals for their session ‘Questioning ‘Gregorian Reform Art’ (11th–12th c.): Challenges, Strategies, and New Approaches’ for next years International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo.
CFP: ‘What is Eastern European Art?’, SHERA-sponsored session at CAA Annual Conference 2023, deadline 31 August 2022
This panel explores and challenges understanding about Eastern European art from the Middle Ages to the present through presentations that engage with the artistic production of different regions.
CFP: ‘Premodern Parchment’, IMC Leeds 2023, deadline 12 September 2022
Proposals welcome for the session ‘Premodern Parchment’ for the IMC Leeds 2023.
New extended deadline for CFP: British Archaeological Association Post-Graduate Online Conference (23-24 November 2022), now deadline 5 September 2022
The British Archaeological Association has extended their invitation for proposals from postgraduates and early career researchers in the field of medieval history of art, architecture, and archaeology.
CFP: ‘Social Agency of Secular Goldsmiths’ Work in the Late Middle Ages’, IMC 2023, deadline 12 September 2022
This session seeks to explore the arena of secular goldsmiths’ work in the later Middle Ages and its manifestations in different contexts such as domestic, civic, courtly, juridical, academic, diplomatic, etc.
CFP: ‘Medieval sculpture in the aftermath of the World War II: destruction, dispersion and restitution. The impact on research methodologies and tools’, International Cirice Congress 2023, deadline 20 September 2022
The session aims to investigate, through the discussion of case studies, how and to what extent World War II conditioned and posed new methodological questions in the field of medieval sculpture studies. The session is part of the activities of the MemId project (Memory and identity. Reuse, rework and repurposing of medieval sculpture in the Modern Age, between historical research and new technologies, FISR 2019).
Tours & Workshops: Revenants and Remains, Autumn 2022
This autumn, English Heritage has teamed up with Manchester Metropolitan University to organise a series of free weekend events at monasteries in northern England themed around their historical associations with the supernatural.
Medieval Art Research 