CFP: ‘Lexicographic Studies of Arts’ Session at The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting 2021, deadline July 15 2020

This panel aims to bring together coordinators of digital projects – completed or in progress – around the lexicon and the scientific edition of texts of artistic or technical literature, with researchers who have adopted this terminological approach to analyze in an innovative way well known or unpublished texts, related to the production, the practiceContinue reading “CFP: ‘Lexicographic Studies of Arts’ Session at The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting 2021, deadline July 15 2020”

Research Workshops: Venice Virtual Summer Camp on Digital and Public Humanities, 6-10 July 2020

Venice Virtual Summer Camp on Digital and Public Humanities, Online, July 6 – 10, 2020 It was with great disappointment that we had to cancel the first Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities due to the coronavirus emergency. All the more, we are now happy to announce the first Venice Virtual Summer Camp on DigitalContinue reading “Research Workshops: Venice Virtual Summer Camp on Digital and Public Humanities, 6-10 July 2020”

Job: Digital Humanities Scientist, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome

The Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome is a leading center for research in the history of art. As part of its recent expansion into digital and computational research in the humanities, it is looking to recruit a: Digital Humanities Scientist The full-time post will be offered for an initialContinue reading “Job: Digital Humanities Scientist, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome”

Call for Submissions: Rutgers Art Review, deadline 15 October 2020

Rutgers Art Review, a journal of graduate research in art history, hereby invites all current graduate students, as well as professionals who have completed their doctoral degrees within the past year, to submit papers for its 38th edition. Submissions are due to rutgersartreview@gmail.com by October 15 October 2020. Find out more here.

New Publication: Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar al-Durr, by D. Fairchild Ruggles

Shajar al-Durr—known as “Tree of Pearls”—began her remarkable career as a child slave, given as property to the Ayyubid Sultan Salih of Egypt. She became his favorite concubine, was manumitted, became the sultan’s wife, served as governing regent, and ultimately rose to become the legitimately appointed sultan of Egypt in 1250 after her husband’s death.Continue reading “New Publication: Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar al-Durr, by D. Fairchild Ruggles”

New publication: Architecture of Disjuncture: Mediterranean Trade and Cathedral Building in a New Diocese (11th-13th Centuries), by Joseph C. Williams

Through careful analysis of the Romanesque cathedral of Molfetta (in Apulia, southern Italy), Williams demonstrates how the commercial boom of the medieval Mediterranean changed the way churches were funded, designed, and built. The young bishopric of Molfetta, emerging in an economy of long-distance trade, competed with much wealthier institutions in its own diocese. Funding forContinue reading “New publication: Architecture of Disjuncture: Mediterranean Trade and Cathedral Building in a New Diocese (11th-13th Centuries), by Joseph C. Williams”

CFP: Histoire et transmission de la ‘Passio imaginis Salvatoris’, deadline 1 September 2020

La Passio imaginis Salvatoris est la première réitération de l’accusation de déicide imputée aux juifs (787). Repris et répété sans relâche, traversant au fils du temps des registres fort divers de la production littéraire, de la liturgie romaine et byzantine (avant 1000), en passant par les miracles de la Vierge du nord de la France (avant 1200),Continue reading “CFP: Histoire et transmission de la ‘Passio imaginis Salvatoris’, deadline 1 September 2020”

New Publication: Medieval Things: Agency, Materiality, and Narratives of Objects in Medieval German Literature and Beyond, by Bettina Bildhauer

What does medieval literature look like from the point of view not of knights and ladies, but of treasure, and rings, nets and the grail? How does medieval literature imagine the agency of material things, and what exactly distinguishes human subjects from inanimate objects? Medieval Things: Agency, Materiality, and Narratives of Objects in Medieval German LiteratureContinue reading “New Publication: Medieval Things: Agency, Materiality, and Narratives of Objects in Medieval German Literature and Beyond, by Bettina Bildhauer”

Call for Applications: ICMA Viewpoints Series Editor(s), deadline 15 July 2020

Applications due July 15, 2020, for position beginning January 1, 2021 The International Center of Medieval Art and the Pennsylvania State University Press announce a new book series: ICMA Books—Viewpoints. This series aims to engage with and instigate new conversations, debates, and perspectives not only about medieval art and visual-material culture, but also in relation toContinue reading “Call for Applications: ICMA Viewpoints Series Editor(s), deadline 15 July 2020”

CFP: New Perspectives on Italian Art, Italian Art Society sponsored session, Renaissance Society of America 67th Annual Meeting, deadline 13 July 2020

This is a sponsored session by the Italian Art Society for the Renaissance Society of America 67th Annual Meeting in Dublin, Ireland on 7–10 April 2021. This session aims to create a space for emerging scholars (recent Ph.D.s or Ph.D. candidates) of Italian art to present their work. Proposals on any area of Italian earlyContinue reading “CFP: New Perspectives on Italian Art, Italian Art Society sponsored session, Renaissance Society of America 67th Annual Meeting, deadline 13 July 2020”