The conferences invites participants to look at the printed book and manuscript as an archival phenomenon in terms of content (accumulation of knowledge) and form (accumulation of books). The conference is also aimed at the reflection on the creation of the book and its structure, the press, its dynamics in socio-cultural processes, highlighting the role of the author, publisher, distributor, reader, and book collector.
Category Archives: Call for Papers
Call for Papers: Eikón / Imago Journal 2022, ‘Pre-Modern “Pop Cultures”? Images and Objects Around the Mediterranean (c. 350-1918)’ (Deadline 30th June 2021)
Eikón / Imago requests paper submissions for their 2022 issue: ‘Pre-Modern “Pop Cultures”? Images and Objects Around the Mediterranean (c. 350–1918)’. Special Guest Editors will be Ivan Foletti, Zuzana Frantová, and Adrien Palladino.
Call for Papers: Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History, German Historical Institutes of Paris and Rome (Deadline 15th June 2021)
The German Historical Institutes of Paris and Rome are launching an online seminar series on “Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History” in the academic year 2021/2022. They are aimed at both young scholars and established scholars from all medieval disciplines.
Call for Papers: Society of Architectural Historians 2022 Annual International Conference, 27th April – 1st May 2021 (Deadline June 2nd 2021)
The Society of Architectural Historians is now accepting abstracts for its 75th Annual International Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 27–May 1, 2022.
Call for Papers: History of Illuminated Manuscripts Online (Deadline 15th June 2021)
The international Society of History of Illuminated Manuscripts calls researchers of the discipline to communicate their ongoing investigations in a webinar that will take place on 17th and 18th September 2021.
Call for Papers: From Fragment to Whole: Interpreting Medieval Manuscript Fragments (Deadline 31st May 2021)
This conference, hosted by the Centre for Medieval Studies, is devoted to the study of manuscript fragments, and what these fragments can tell us about lost books, medieval and post-medieval book history, and textual history.
Call for Papers: Session at International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 9th -14th May 2022), Deadline: 10th May 2021
IAS Sponsored Sessions at ICMS 2022 Call for IAS-Organized Session Proposals (https://:www.italianartsociety.org)57th International Congress on Medieval Studies 2022Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 9-14 May 2022 https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress The IAS sponsors up to three linked sessions at the annual meeting of the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS). The Congress is an annual gathering of more than 3,000 scholarsContinue reading “Call for Papers: Session at International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 9th -14th May 2022), Deadline: 10th May 2021”
Call for Papers: ‘Facciate Parlanti’, Opus Incertum, Issue 8 (2022), Deadline: June 30th, 2021
Since antiquity buildings have carried inscriptions on their surface. In particular, the habit of decorating façades with epigraphs spread in early modern Europe in keeping with the all’antica revival. The 2022 issue of the journal Opvs Incertvm (Department of Architecture, University of Florence) aims to investigate the role of new and ancient inscriptions (i.e. spolia)Continue reading “Call for Papers: ‘Facciate Parlanti’, Opus Incertum, Issue 8 (2022), Deadline: June 30th, 2021”
CFP: Aural Architectures of the Divine – Sacred Spaces, Sound and Rites in Transcultural Perspectives (Florence, 24-26 Feb 22), Deadline: June 30th 2021
An interdisciplinary conference to be held in Florence in February 2022 will focus on the complex interrelation of sacred space, sound and rites in transcultural perspectives from ancient to premodern times. The research project “CANTORIA – Music and Sacred Architecture” (University of Mainz) and the “Dipartimento di Storia, Archeologia, Geografia, Arte e Spettacolo” (University ofContinue reading “CFP: Aural Architectures of the Divine – Sacred Spaces, Sound and Rites in Transcultural Perspectives (Florence, 24-26 Feb 22), Deadline: June 30th 2021”
Call for Papers: Conference, Communities and Networks in Late Medieval Europe (c. 1300–1500), St Catherine’s College, Cambridge, 9th-10th September 2021, Deadline: 7th June 2021
Historical research has witnessed a rapidly growing interest in ‘networks’ since the turn of the twenty-first century. This is due not only to the utility of networks in describing interrelations between historical actors, but also to the adoption of the concepts and methodologies associated with social network analysis (SNA). Our conference, which will take placeContinue reading “Call for Papers: Conference, Communities and Networks in Late Medieval Europe (c. 1300–1500), St Catherine’s College, Cambridge, 9th-10th September 2021, Deadline: 7th June 2021”
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