Author Archives: Roisin Astell

International Two-Day Conference: ‘Tracing Jewish Histories: The Long Lives of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, Judaica, and Architecture’, Courtauld Institute of Art, 19-20 May 2025

The Courtauld and Case Western Reserve University are delighted to jointly host the two-day symposium Tracing Jewish Histories on 19-20 May 2025. The international symposium brings together museum curators and academics to examine the afterlives of art and architecture made by and for Jewish communities in the Middle Ages.

Murray Seminar: ‘Natural Disorder: Art and Unruliness in Norwich Priory’ with Dr Jessica Barker, Birkbeck, 7 May 2025, 17-18:30 (GMT)

Join the next Murray Seminar with Dr Jessica Barker, who will be presenting on representations of the natural world within a particular late-medieval monastic community.

2 PhD positions, University of Basel, Eikones: Center for the Theory and History of the Image, deadline 27 April 2025

The eikones Graduate School at the Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel invites applications for two positions for doctoral study on the theory and history of the image for four years beginning September 1, 2025.

CFP: BAA Romanesque Conference: Transmission, Reception, Imitation, Toulouse (13-17 April 2026), deadline 30 June 2025

The British Archaeological Association invites submissions for their ninth in its series of biennial International Romanesque conferences.

Online Lecture: ‘The Blood of His Flesh? Controversial Relics from Byzantium in Venice’, with Karin Krause, 10 April 2025, 12–1.30 pm (ET)

The upcoming Mary Jaharis Center lecture will be by Karin Krause (University of Chicago), who will discuss the history and veneration of two relics of the Holy Blood of Christ kept in the church of San Marco in Venice.

The CRSBI Annual Lecture: ‘Romanesque Sculpture and Water: the Art of Carved Vessels’, with Michele Luigi Vescovi, 30 April 2025, 6-7.30pm (BST) 

Join the CRSBI for their Annual Lecture at the Courtauld Institute of Art with Dr Michele Luigi Vescovi who will be speaking about ‘Romanesque Sculpture and Water: the Art of Carved Vessels’.

Symposium: ‘Tombs of the Aristocracy’, Church Monuments Society, 29-31 August 2025, West Dean College

The Church Monuments Society is delighted to invite you to the next symposium which will be held at West Dean College from Friday 29th to Sunday 31st August 2025.

ICMA Annual Lecture: ‘Word/Play: Interiority, Performance, and Reading in Late Medieval Flanders’, with Alexa Sand, 14 May 2025, 5.30pm-7pm (BST)

Join the ICMA for their annual lecture with guest speaker Dr Alexa Sand, who will be talking about the relationship between performance marginalia and the reader experience.