Communicating Objects: Material, Literary and Iconographic Instances of Objects in a Human Universe in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, University of Bucharest [Online], 27–29 November 2020 Material culture occupies a special place in most research conducted on Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Interdisciplinary approaches have allowed for the enrichment of traditional paradigms used by archaeologistsContinue reading “CFP: Communicating Objects: Material, Literary & Iconographic Instances of Objects in a Human Universe in Antiquity & the Middle Ages, Online Conference (27–29 November 2020), deadline 14 September 2020”
Category Archives: Call for Papers
CFP: ‘Seeing Climate through Medieval Art & Architecture’, IMC Leeds (5–8 July 2021), deadline 25 September 2020
Call for Papers for ‘ICMA Student Committee’ Session Proposal In keeping with this year’s theme at the Medieval Congress, this session aims to explore medieval objects and buildings created with an awareness of climate. Climate is intimately intertwined with nature and environments, with as much of a profound impact on medieval lives as on oursContinue reading “CFP: ‘Seeing Climate through Medieval Art & Architecture’, IMC Leeds (5–8 July 2021), deadline 25 September 2020”
CPF: ‘Representations of Temperate/Intemperate Emotions in Visual Art and Literature’, IMC Leeds (5–8 July 2021), deadline 15 September 2020
Proposals exploring medieval texts and/or images looking for cues that indicate excessive or temperate feelings, the range of their expression, and the rhetorical devices employed will be welcome.
CFP: Gender and Medieval Studies conference 2021: ‘Gender and Mobility’ (11–13 January 2021), deadline 31 August 2020
The organisers welcome proposals on any aspect of gender and mobility in the medieval world from scholars at any stage of study or career.
CFP: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence at the ICM Kalamazoo (13–16 May 2021), deadline 15 September 2020
The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence invites proposals for 5 sponsored panels for the International Congress on Medieval Studies 2021.
CFP: ‘Sinne / Senses’, VIth Forum Kunst des Mittelalters (Frankfurt am Main, 29 Sep – 2 Oct 2021), deadline 15 October 2020
On the conference topic “Senses”: The arts and the senses have always been reciprocally related to one another. In the Middle Ages, sensual encounters with art and architecture offered a variety of ways to perceive, comprehend and structure the world.
CFP: ‘Space and the Hospital’ (Lisbon, 26-28 May 2021), deadline: 30 September 2020
The International Network for the History of Hospitals (INHH), the ‘Hospitalis: Hospital Architecture in Portugal at the Dawn of Modernity’, and the ‘Royal Hospital of All Saints: city and public’ health Research Projects are pleased to announce the call for papers for Space and the Hospital. The conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal from 26-28 May 2021.
CFP: Marco Manuscript Workshop 2021: ‘Immaterial Culture’ (5-6 February 2021), deadline 9 October 2020
How can our field, which has always emphasized the importance of physical place and tactile artifacts, work successfully in isolation and at a distance? What does it mean for us when our work takes place in an incorporeal world of light and numbers rather than ink and flesh, in matrices of data rather than dusty rooms?
CFP: Global Islamic Archaeology Showcase, online conference (26 September 2020), deadline 22 August 2020
Global Islamic Archaeology Showcase A FREE online postgraduate and early-careers research event hosted by the Centre for Islamic Archaeology (CfIA), Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter 26 September 2020 ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 22 August 2020 GIAS invites early-careers researchers working within the field of Islamic archaeology and material culture to submit papers to our first virtualContinue reading “CFP: Global Islamic Archaeology Showcase, online conference (26 September 2020), deadline 22 August 2020”
CFP: The Total Library: Aspirations for Complete Knowledge in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, deadline 1 September 2020
The 27th Biennial Conference of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program of Barnard College (New York City) is seeking paper proposals for their online conference to be held December 5, 2020. According to Borges, “The fancy or the imagination or the utopia of the Total Library has certain characteristics that are easily confused with virtues.” This one-day conference willContinue reading “CFP: The Total Library: Aspirations for Complete Knowledge in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, deadline 1 September 2020”