Between the 17th and early 19th centuries, travel played an essential role in the rediscovery of medieval art. Cultured men from all over Europe visited Mediterranean countries to see Greek and Roman monuments, but they were often confronted with artefacts and buildings from later centuries. How didthey perceive medieval monuments that fell before their eyesContinue reading “Call for Papers: The Early Discovery of Medieval Art by Travelers Looking for Antiquity in South Europe (Deadline: 15 March 2023)”
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Call For Papers: Intersections: Entanglements with Medieval and Renaissance Textiles, 1100-1550. (Deadline 20 March, 2023)
The Courtauld Postgraduate Medieval Symposium 2023 – Monday 22nd May 2022, London, UK During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, textiles wrapped up and coated walls, people, furniture, and objects. They provided omnipresent, and often complex, symbolic and visual demarcations of spaces. Diplicare, the root of display, is in unfolding: so much of the frameworks ofContinue reading “Call For Papers: Intersections: Entanglements with Medieval and Renaissance Textiles, 1100-1550. (Deadline 20 March, 2023)”
Call for Papers: Skin and Bone, Wood and Stone: Medieval Animals Heritage Conference
The NLHF Medieval Animals Heritage Conference organisers invite abstracts for 20-minute academic papers or panel sessions of 90 minutes that explore aspects of research on the theme of medieval and early modern animal studies, green heritage, sustainability, and wellbeing engagement.Medieval animals traditionally are linked to St Francis, but this conference also discusses how books ofContinue reading “Call for Papers: Skin and Bone, Wood and Stone: Medieval Animals Heritage Conference “
Call for Participation: Graduate Lightning Talks, 2nd Annual Symposium, New York City via Zoom and in person, 6 May 2023 (Deadline: 15 March, 2023)
The Consortium Medievalists invite participation from graduate students in all disciplines for a series of lightning talks, which will take place during our forthcoming second annual symposium, “Sensory Experience Across Medieval Communities.” This symposium aims to explore fresh approaches to the “sensory turn” in studies of the Global Middle Ages. How does sensory experience connect culturesContinue reading “Call for Participation: Graduate Lightning Talks, 2nd Annual Symposium, New York City via Zoom and in person, 6 May 2023 (Deadline: 15 March, 2023)”
Call for Papers: The Middle Ages in Modern Games Twitter Conference: Fantasy and Apocalypse (Deadline: 9 April 2023)
The Public Medievalist and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research at the University of Winchester present The Fourth Middle Ages in Modern Games Twitter Conference (@MidAgesModGames, #MAMG23) on 6 to 9 June 2023. The central themes of this year’s event are ‘Fantasy’ and ‘Apocalypse’. Fantasy and Apocalypse are closely tied to medievalist games. Pseudo-medievalContinue reading “Call for Papers: The Middle Ages in Modern Games Twitter Conference: Fantasy and Apocalypse (Deadline: 9 April 2023)”
Call for Papers: Conques at the Crossroads of Histories: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Deadline: 15 February 2023)
The aim of this conference is to collectively rethink the cultural, material, and performative history of Conques-en-Rouergue. Despite being a site of major importance with a millennium of accumulated history, premodern Conques has often been the object of sectorial studies: specialists in architecture have been interested in the abbey church, historians of visual culture inContinue reading “Call for Papers: Conques at the Crossroads of Histories: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Deadline: 15 February 2023)”
Call for Papers – Cultures of Skin: Skin in Literature and Culture, Past, Present, Future (Deadline: 1 February 2023)
This conference brings together scholars working on literary and cultural representations of skin, across historical periods and transnational contexts, to create new dialogues on the cultural meanings of skin from the past through to the present day, and consider the current and future state of the field(s) of skin studies. Building on an earlier setContinue reading “Call for Papers – Cultures of Skin: Skin in Literature and Culture, Past, Present, Future (Deadline: 1 February 2023)”
CFP: ‘Rituals of Gender Staging and Performance in the Middle Ages’, University of Bamburg, 3-4 May 2023, Deadline: 15 January 2023
The Network for Medieval Arts & Rituals (NetMAR), an international, interdisciplinary network investigating the intersections between medieval arts and rituals, invites proposals for 20-minute papers that address the role of rituals in the staging and performance of medieval gender roles. The conference, which will include scholars of different career stages, will be held at theContinue reading “CFP: ‘Rituals of Gender Staging and Performance in the Middle Ages’, University of Bamburg, 3-4 May 2023, Deadline: 15 January 2023”
CFP: Fragmentology, online/Lugano, 3-4 March 2023, Deadline 7 February 2023
The Research Centre for European Philological Tradition organises a conference dedicated to Fragmentology, in hybrid mode, in presence in Lugano and via Zoom. New studies and research will be presented concerning liturgical-musical fragments, reused fragments, disiecta membra of codices of which the parent manuscript can be reconstructed. Anyone interested in participating as a speaker isContinue reading “CFP: Fragmentology, online/Lugano, 3-4 March 2023, Deadline 7 February 2023”
CFP: ‘Soundscapes of Naples: From the Medieval to the Early Modern’, 8-9 June 2023, Naples. Deadline 31 January 2023
Musical practices are inherently woven into a city’s urban fabric: as marker of identity, expression of religious devotion, sonic manifestation of power, or form of entertainment, musicking punctuates the salient moments of a city’s culture. In Naples, for centuries a cultural and political capital and among the most densely populated cities in Europe, music makingContinue reading “CFP: ‘Soundscapes of Naples: From the Medieval to the Early Modern’, 8-9 June 2023, Naples. Deadline 31 January 2023”
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