Category Archives: Call for Papers

CFP: ‘Troubling Desires: Queer and Trans Approaches to Medieval Art’, Congress of the Swiss Association of Art Historians, deadline 12 September 2025.

Submissions are invited for the session ‘Troubling Desires: Queer and Trans Approaches to Medieval Art’ for the 2026 Swiss Congress for Art History.

CFP: ‘Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Medieval Roofing Systems from Europe to the Christian East’ (ICM Leeds 2026), deadline 14 September 2026

Papers are invited for this panel that focuses on the roofing systems of medieval architecture. Deadline for applications is 14 September 2025.

CFP:  ‘Contesting the Sacred: Profanation, Theft, and Claims over Religious Images’ (ICMS Kalamazoo 2026), deadline 13 September 2025

Papers are invited for this session that investigates the complex dynamics involving sacred images and relics in the medieval period, focusing on profanation, theft, and disputes over ownership that reshaped their spiritual, social, and cultural significance. Deadline is 13 September 2025.

CFP: ‘Polyptychs’ fortune and misfortune: Provenance, reconstruction, restitution’, Lucca (October 7-9 2025), deadline 20 July 2025

This conference explores the themes of dispersion and unity in the context of artistic production, encompassing both the materiality of works and their contextual significance and reception.

CFP: ‘“As stiffe twin compasses”: Allegory and Sciences, 1300-1700’, deadline 15 June 2025

Papers are invited for this upcoming conference that investigates the multifaceted roles of allegory within scientific and intellectual traditions from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern period in Europe.

CFP: BAA Post-Graduate Conference, deadline 31st July 2025

The BAA invites proposals by postgraduates and early career researchers in the field of medieval history of art, architecture, and archaeology. Papers can be on any aspect of the medieval period, from antiquity to the Later Middle Ages, across all geographical regions.

CFP: ‘Cultural Crossroads: Artistic Encounters between the Low Countries and Spain, 15th-17th Centuries’, deadline 6 June 2025

Applications are invited for the Moll Institute (Madrid) and the Fondation Périer-D’Ieteren (Brussels) research study days that focus on identifying and studying the art that developed in the Low Countries between the 15th and 17th centuries and that is preserved in Spanish collections.

CFP: BAA Romanesque Conference: Transmission, Reception, Imitation, Toulouse (13-17 April 2026), deadline 30 June 2025

The British Archaeological Association invites submissions for their ninth in its series of biennial International Romanesque conferences.