These sessions seek to explore this extensive corpus of material from a range of temporal, regional, disciplinary, theoretical, and methodological perspectives. Especially welcome are contributions that reflect on how evolving research on the art and architecture of the parish church broadens, deepens, and transforms our understanding of medieval society.
Category Archives: Call for Papers
Call for Papers: The Dynamics of Media and Technology: From the Middle Ages to the Modern Classroom (Deadline 1 September 2021)
We encourage submissions that are concerned with issues of technological and material manipulation, as well as mnemonic devices, perception, tech methodology, and pedagogy.
Call for Papers: Reusing Medieval Sculpture: Ideology, Meaning, and Aesthetics of a Process over Time, ICMS Kalamazoo (9-14 May 2022) (Deadline 15 September 2021)
Papers will focus on episodes that allow to recover the “long life” of medieval sculptures over the centuries, in contexts similar or, on the contrary, completely different to the original ones and related phenomena of re-working and re-functionalization.
Call for Papers: Mary-Anne: Iconographies and Layers of Meaning (Deadline 10 October 2021)
The proposed volume concentrates on representations of the Virgin Mary and Saint Anne in the Middle Ages by bringing into discussion new approaches on their iconographies.
Call for Papers: ‘Restoring Medieval Art and Architecture I, II, III: Technology in Documentation and Research; Technology and Concepts of Authenticity; Technology and Access’, ICMS Kalamazoo (Deadline 15 September 2021)
“Restoring Medieval Art and Architecture I, II, III: Technology in Documentation and Research; Technology and Concepts of Authenticity; Technology and Access” (AVISTA sessions at ICMS Kalamazoo, 9th-14th May 2022)
Call for Papers: Ninth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 20-22 June 2022 (Deadline 31 December 2021)
While attending the Symposium participants are free to use the Vatican Film Library, the Rare Book and Manuscripts Collection, and the general collection at Saint Louis University’s Pius XII Memorial Library.
Call for Papers: The Red Sea as a Space In-Between the Wider Afro-Eurasian World (deadline 31 August 2021)
For a special issue of the The Medieval Globe, to be published in December of 2023 in digital and print versions, we invite proposals for articles on topics related to “Trade, Travels and Transformations: The Red Sea as a Space In-Between the Wider Afro-Eurasian World.”
Call for Papers: ‘New Approaches to the Art and Architecture of Angevin and Aragonese Naples (1265-1458)’, International Congress on Medieval Studies 2022, deadline 15 September 2021
This panel invites submissions from students that will build on recent scholarship and examine the relationship between the art, artists, and architecture of late-medieval Naples and the wider connected world.
Call for Papers: ‘Re-Using and Showing: Boundaries Between Re-Employment and Collecting of Medieval Sculpture During the Modern Age’, Borders, IMC, University of Leeds, July 4-7, 2022 (Deadline 31 August 2021)
The aim of this panel is to gather papers investigating the boundaries between re-employment and collecting of medieval sculpture during the Modern Age (roughly 15th-18th centuries).
Call for Papers: ‘From Prophet of Israel to Miracle-Working Saint: the Transformations of Elijah’s Story in Jewish and Christian Iconographic Traditions’, ICMA, 9th-14th May 2022 (Deadline 10 September 2021)
The main scope of this session is to stimulate research towards a more refined understanding of the circulation of biblical and hagiographical traditions correlated with the prophet Elijah.
Medieval Art Research 