The In via Dante Network at the University of Leeds are hosting three colloquia aimed at creating a platform for doctoral and early career researchers working on Dante across different institutions to come together to discuss their work.
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Online Lecture: ‘Art, Architecture & Reputation Management in Early Fourteenth-Century England’ by Dr Laura Slater, Courtauld Institute of Art, 17 February 2021, 5-6pm (GMT)
Dr Laura Slater explores the role of art and architecture in these processes of reputation management.
Online Lecture: ‘Intermedial Collaboration: Making the Double-Winged Altarpiece in the Late-Medieval Workshop’ with Dr Laura Tillery, Cambridge Graduate Seminar Series on Intermediality, 17 February 2021, 17:00 – 18:00 (GMT)
For the third ‘Intermediality’ Graduate Research Seminar, organised by the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge, we are joined by art historian Dr Laura Tillery (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) who will be discussing intermedial collaboration in the medieval workshop, focusing on fifteenth-century multimedia winged altarpieces in Lübeck, Germany and Scandinavia.
Online Lecture: ‘From Domestic to Divine: The Mosaics of Late Antique Syria’ with Dr Sean Leatherbury, 12 February 2021, 12pm (EST)
Join Yale for their up-coming Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture series.
Online Conference: The Courtauld’s 26th Annual Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium: ‘Display and Displacement in Medieval Art and Architecture’, Courtauld Institute of Art, 18-19 February 2021, 11:00 – 16:00 (GMT)
The Courtauld’s 26th Annual Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium has invited speakers from various academic fields (including, but not limited to, art history, archaeology, material culture and conservation studies) to consider various forms of displacement and their visual and experiential implications for medieval art and architecture.
CFP: ‘Precarious Lives: Loss, Recovery and/or Survival of MSS & Early Printed Books, 1350-1550’, Early Book Society, Bangor University (12-16 July 2021), deadline 15 March 2021
This conference theme may be as narrowly or broadly interpreted as necessary, though always with reference to the history of MSS and books from 1350 to 1550 and their material culture. Why do some texts survive? Who are their readers or makers?
Online Lecture: ‘The Art Historian and the Chapter Clerk: the joys and sorrows of ecclesiastical documentary evidence’ by Dr Lesley Milner, Society For Lincolnshire History & Archaeology, 10 February 2021, 19:30 (GMT)
In this lecture for the Society For Lincolnshire History & Archaeology Dr Lesley Milner explores the use of Lincoln cathedral documents in providing new evidence for the cathedral’s treasure house, for the shrine of St Hugh, and for the chapter’s Great Seal matrix.
Online Lecture: ‘Notre Dame of Paris: Past and Present’ with Professor Sandron and Professor Cook, ICMA, 3 February 2021, 1pm (EST)
The Friends of ICMA invites you to an online lecture/webinar on Wednesday, February 3, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. (EST) by Dany Sandron and Lindsay Cook, Notre Dame of Paris: Past and Present.
Podcast: The Illuminated World Chronicle with Nina Rowe, Les Enluminurers
In this episode Dr. Nina Rowe discusses her latest book The Illuminated World Chronicle: Tales from the Late Medieval City with our host Sandra Hindman. They discuss some of the thrilling and often titillating stories found in World Chronicle manuscripts including the tale of the Devil on Noah’s Ark.
Book Festival: 1st Online Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival, 5-7 February 2021
The Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival is the first of its kind as a way to learn about recently published books on any area of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (AD ca.300–ca.1500), including literature, history, archaeology, and material culture.
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