Author Archives: Roisin Astell

CFP: ‘Music and the Visual Arts’, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo 2026, deadline 15 September 2025 

Papers are invited to this panel session, which will take place at Kalamazoo’s International Congress on Medieval Studies in 2026.

CFP: ‘Funerary Art, Memory, and Contexts in Medieval Iberia: Bishops and Cathedrals’, Leeds International Medieval Congress 2026, deadline 19 September 2025

Papers are invited for this panel session at next year’s Leeds International Medieval Congress.

CFP: ‘The Archival Art Historian’, College Art Association Conference, Chicago (18-21 February 2026), deadline 29 August 2025

Papers are invited to submit abstracts for this panel session, which the ICMA sponsors at the 2026 College Art Association Conference.

CFP: ‘Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out: Psychedelic Approaches to Medieval Objects’, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo 2026, deadline 15 September 2025

Papers are invited to this panel session, which will take place at Kalamazoo’s International Congress on Medieval Studies in 2026.

CFP: ‘Agencies and temporalities in complex artefacts from religious communities (c.1000-1600)’, Leeds International Medieval Congress 2026, deadline 19 September 2025

Abstracts are invited for this panel session that will take place at Leeds International Medieval Congress in 2026.

CFP: ‘The Spatial Turn in Medieval Studies’, Leeds International Medieval Congress 2026, deadline 19 September 2025

Abstracts are invited for this panel session that will take place at Leeds International Medieval Congress in 2026.

CFP: ‘A Sensory History of Devotion in the Late Medieval Mediterranean World’ (ICMS, Kalamazoo 2026), deadline 15 September 2025

This panel invites papers on Christian devotional practices in the late medieval Mediterranean that foreground the senses. This session will be part of the 2026 International Congress on Medieval Studies.

CFP: ‘Across Seas, Across Cultures: The Transmission of Female Saint Cults from East to West’, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, deadline 10 August 2025

Papers are invivted for the session ‘Across Seas, Across Cultures: The Transmission of Female Saint Cults from East to West’ which will be at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in San Francisco, 19-21 February 2026.

CFP: ‘Troubling Desires: Queer and Trans Approaches to Medieval Art’, Congress of the Swiss Association of Art Historians, deadline 12 September 2025.

Submissions are invited for the session ‘Troubling Desires: Queer and Trans Approaches to Medieval Art’ for the 2026 Swiss Congress for Art History.