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Call for papers: Re-Nationalisierung oder Sharing Heritage? (Tallinn, 4-6 Oct 18)

Tallinn, Estland, 04. – 06.10.2018 Deadline: Feb 28, 2018 Re-Nationalisierung oder Sharing Heritage? Wo steht die Denkmalpflege im europäischen Kulturerbejahr 2018 Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Theorie und lehre der Denkmalpflege e.V. in Zusammenarbeit mit ICOMOS Estland und der Estnischen Kunstakademie (Eesti Kunstiakadeemia), Tallinn, 4.-6. Oktober 2018

Call for Papers: Petrarch and Portraiture, XIV-XVI century

University of Cambridge, 8 June 2018 Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr Federica Pich, University of Leeds. Confirmed Respondent: Dr Abigail Brundin, University of Cambridge. The aim of the conference is to investigate the interplay between Petrarch’s writings and later Petrarchan literature with portraiture. Through his works in both Latin and in vernacular Petrarch made crucial contributionsContinue reading “Call for Papers: Petrarch and Portraiture, XIV-XVI century”

Call for papers: Art, Artists, Materials and Ideas Crossing Borders (Cambridge, 15-16 Nov 18)

Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge, UK, November 15 – 16, 2018 Deadline: Feb 28, 2018 “Migrants: Art, Artists, Materials and Ideas Crossing Borders” This two-day conference organised by the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge, will reflect on the role of migration as embodied in works of art and material culture as documented in visual and written sources.

Call for Papers: Transmissions and Translations in the Medieval World

2 – 3 June 2018 Kings Manor, University of York Keynote: Professor Roger Stalley The Conference The concepts of transmission and translation are central to the evolution of the pan-European multi-cultural nature of medieval society. Cross-cultural connections in the political arena, mercantile trade routes, the dissemination of Christianity and interactions with Islam and JudaismContinue reading “Call for Papers: Transmissions and Translations in the Medieval World”

Call for papers “Arte y producción textil en el Mediterráneo Medieval”

International conference “Arte y producción textil en el Mediterráneo Medieval” Madrid, Museo del Traje. CIPE, 25-27 September 2018 Deadline: 15 March 2018 This conference aims to analyse medieval textile production from a cross-sectoral approach, focusing on the Mediterranean as an area of confluences that gave rise to varied manufactures with common links. This meeting, which will beContinue reading “Call for papers “Arte y producción textil en el Mediterráneo Medieval””

Call for Participation – Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval and Early Modern Cities

The Cyprus Institute, with support through the Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories initiative, is launching a new research seminar project: Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval and Early Modern Cities. Interested scholars at a formative stage of their careers are encouraged to apply for participation in the project’s three planned workshopsContinue reading “Call for Participation – Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval and Early Modern Cities”

Murray Seminars on Medieval and Renaissance Art at Birkbeck: Spring 2018

All this term’s seminars take place in the History of Art Department at Birkbeck (43, Gordon Sq., London WC1H 0PD) in Room 114 (The Keynes Library) at 5pm. Talks finish by 5.50pm (allowing those with other commitments to leave) and are then followed by discussion and refreshments. This term’s papers are as follows : 17 January: Carol Richardson BritonsContinue reading “Murray Seminars on Medieval and Renaissance Art at Birkbeck: Spring 2018”

Exhibition: The Medieval World at our Fingertips: Manuscript Illuminations from the Collection of Sandra Hindman, Art Institute of Chicago (27 Jan – 28 May 2018)

The Art Institute of Chicago, Allerton Galleries, January 27th to May 28th The Art Institute of Chicago will exhibit this impressive and broad-ranging collection of approximately thirty exquisite fragments, which was assembled over a lifetime by medieval manuscript scholar and long-time Chicagoan, Sandra Hindman.

CFP For the sessions on THE MEDIEVAL HORSE at the International Medieval Congress 2018 at Leeds, 2-5 July 2018

Palfreys and rounceys, hackneys and packhorses, warhorses and coursers, not to mention the mysterious ‘dung mare’ – they were all part of everyday life in the Middle Ages. Every cleric and monk, no matter how immersed in his devotional routine and books he would be, every nun, no matter how reclusive her life, every peasant,Continue reading “CFP For the sessions on THE MEDIEVAL HORSE at the International Medieval Congress 2018 at Leeds, 2-5 July 2018”

Conférence – Didier Martens, «Byzance dans le Nord : icônes de saint Luc dans la peinture flamande du XVe au XVIIe siècle»

Byzance dans le Nord : icônes de saint Luc dans la peinture flamande du XVe au XVIIe siècle par Didier Martens, historien de l’art et germaniste, professeur à l’Université libre de Bruxelles, auteur de nombreux ouvrages dont Peinture flamande et goût ibérique XVème-XVIème siècles (Le Livre Timperman, Bruxelles, 2010) Lieu : Académie royale de BelgiqueContinue reading “Conférence – Didier Martens, «Byzance dans le Nord : icônes de saint Luc dans la peinture flamande du XVe au XVIIe siècle»”