The Santa Casa, or Holy House of the Virgin Mary, is a relic in constant motion. Legend holds that at the end of the thirteenth century, a company of angels flew Mary’s small brick house—the site of the Annunciation and Jesus’s childhood home—out of Nazareth before eventually depositing it in Loreto, a remote hill townContinue reading “Call for Papers: ‘The Itinerant Shrine: Art, History and the Multiple Geographies of the Holy House of Loreto’, The Courtauld Institute, 30th June-1st July 2022, Deadline: 15th March 2022”
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Call for Papers: ‘Steppe Medicine: Data, History, Applications, Concepts and Terms’, Al-Farabi Kaznu, Kazakhstan, 4th-5th October 2022, Deadline: 25th May 2022
AL-FARABI KAZNU FACULTY OF ORIENTAL STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER “WRITTEN MONUMENTS AND SPIRITUAL HERITAGE” October 4-5, 2022 Within the framework of the research project, the Research Center “Written Monuments and Spiritual Heritage” of the Turksoy Department of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of Al-Farabi KazNU invites scientists, researchers, teachers and doctoral students to take part inContinue reading “Call for Papers: ‘Steppe Medicine: Data, History, Applications, Concepts and Terms’, Al-Farabi Kaznu, Kazakhstan, 4th-5th October 2022, Deadline: 25th May 2022”
CFP: ‘Meta, Matrix, Mater – Renaissance Metaphors of the Matrix’, Université Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne (Deadline: 20th March 2022)
The female sex has become the core of an increasing number of Early Modern studies since the rise of a gender-sensitive feminist viewpoint in art history. Many have dealt with images of a hairless and polished vulva, sometimes ostensibly eroticized. Pending this approach, the 2022 CHAR Workshop wishes to re-explore the imaginary of the femaleContinue reading “CFP: ‘Meta, Matrix, Mater – Renaissance Metaphors of the Matrix’, Université Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne (Deadline: 20th March 2022)”
CFP: Artistic and Cultural Exchange between France and Germany (c.1400-1600), Colloquium zur Renaissance-Forschung, Paris, 1st-3rd June 2022, Deadline: 31st March 2022
Organized by the Art History departments of: Universidad de Jaén; Universität Leipzig; École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL (HISTARA) in Paris and Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. With the support of the Université franco-allemande/Deutsch-Französische Hochschule From 1 to 3 June 2022, the next conference dedicated to young researchers will be held in Paris. This conference is partContinue reading “CFP: Artistic and Cultural Exchange between France and Germany (c.1400-1600), Colloquium zur Renaissance-Forschung, Paris, 1st-3rd June 2022, Deadline: 31st March 2022”
CFP: ‘Charting Image and Self Image of Islam in Europe’, Collège d’Espagne, Paris, Deadline: 10th March 2022
This conference, organized by IS-LE COST Action (CA18129) Islamic Legacy: Narratives East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350-1750), aims to bring together scholars who work on the perception of Islam in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. The image of Islam in Europe was usually studied from a Christian-Western point of view, and withoutContinue reading “CFP: ‘Charting Image and Self Image of Islam in Europe’, Collège d’Espagne, Paris, Deadline: 10th March 2022”
CFP: Cuadernos de la Alhambra Issue 51, 2022, Deadline: 30th May 2022
For issue 51, which will be published in December 2022, interested researchers are invited to send their proposals through the journal’s page: https://cuadernosdelaalhambra.alhambra-patronato.es/index.php/cdalhambra Deadline: May 30, 2022 Cuadernos de la Alhambra is a scientific journal in the field of heritage research and diffusion; it was founded in 1965 and is free to access and freeContinue reading “CFP: Cuadernos de la Alhambra Issue 51, 2022, Deadline: 30th May 2022”
CFP: ‘Construction and Reconstruction in Medieval Urban Europe’, VII International Conference of the Middle Ages, Deadline: April 30th 2022
Cities were conspicuous in the Medieval landscape not only for being great concentrations of humanity, but also for their built-up areas. Buildings served various functions: military, religious, political-administrative, economic, and residential. Further, not all cities had the same buildings whilst, from neighbourhood to neighbourhood and from street to street, building characteristics could differ according toContinue reading “CFP: ‘Construction and Reconstruction in Medieval Urban Europe’, VII International Conference of the Middle Ages, Deadline: April 30th 2022”
CFP: Book Ornament and Luxury Critique, University of Zurich, Deadline: 15th April 2022
The research group “Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament” (https://textures-of-scripture.ch) invites paper proposals for a three-day international conference on “Book Ornament and Luxury Critique”. The conference, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, is scheduled to take place at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich fromContinue reading “CFP: Book Ornament and Luxury Critique, University of Zurich, Deadline: 15th April 2022”
CFP: Gothic Ivories between Luxury and Crisis, University of Bern, 27th-28th October 2022, Deadline 3rd June 2022
Despite military and pandemic crises, ivory carvings as luxury goods experienced a boom in the 13th and especially 14th centuries. This apparent contradiction raises questions about the value and significance of these objects in elite society. A large number of preserved utilitarian items such as boxes, combs, and mirror cases feature profane depictions of courtshipContinue reading “CFP: Gothic Ivories between Luxury and Crisis, University of Bern, 27th-28th October 2022, Deadline 3rd June 2022”
CFP: Gold in Renaissance Western Europe, Paris, June 2022, Deadline: 1st March 2022
Paris, Jun 9–10, 2022Deadline: Mar 1, 2022 International Symposium:“Gold in Renaissance Western Europe. Interdisciplinary Approaches” In his influential book on painting and visual culture in fifteenth-century Italy (Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy, 1972), Michael Baxandall described the abandonment of gold in painting practices as a sensitive phenomenon both in contracts between painters and patrons,Continue reading “CFP: Gold in Renaissance Western Europe, Paris, June 2022, Deadline: 1st March 2022”
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