Call for Papers for Special Session at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS 9-12 May 2019), Western Michigan University The proposed session will discuss and debate on the various definitions of the concept of the “monster.” Defining the monster is a challenge. Monsters and monstrosity-related aspects have been topics of academic research either connectedContinue reading “CFP: Re-defining the Monster (ICMS 9-12 May 2019), deadline 15 September 2018”
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CFP: Visualizing Women in the Apocrypha
Call for Papers for Special Session at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS 2019) May 9 to 12, 2019 Western Michigan University The proposed session is devoted to the construction and visualization of women as reflected in apocryphal sources with the aim of bringing into attention this generally neglected topic/sources which seem to beContinue reading “CFP: Visualizing Women in the Apocrypha”
CFP: Windows into the Medieval Mediterranean
Call for Chapters Windows into the Medieval Mediterranean Despite the excellent work done in the fields of Mediterranean history and studies, the Medieval period remains an area of less attention. Contributors are sought for an edited collection, under contract with publishers Taylor and Francis, that illuminates the many worlds of the Medieval Mediterranean, from 470Continue reading “CFP: Windows into the Medieval Mediterranean”
CFP: Teaching Race in the Renaissance
Deadline: Aug 1, 2018 Call for Contributors: A Volume on Teaching Race in the Renaissance Edited by Anna Wainwright, University of New Hampshire Matthieu Chapman, University of Houston Race is a hot button issue all over the globe. From Black Lives Matter and immigration policies in the US, to Germany announcing that multiculturalism has “failed,” toContinue reading “CFP: Teaching Race in the Renaissance”
CFP: Ruling an Empire in a Changing World. Studies on Origin, Impact, and Reception of the Notitia Dignitatum
In the late 4th and the first half of the 5th century, administrative lists were compiled, which have become known under the name of Notitia Dignitatum. This collection of lists offers us nowadays a unique insight in the administrative and military structures of the Roman Empire, in both its Western and its Eastern part. TheContinue reading “CFP: Ruling an Empire in a Changing World. Studies on Origin, Impact, and Reception of the Notitia Dignitatum”
CFP: Animals: Theory, Practice, Representation (Leiden, 4-5 Apr 19)
Leiden, Netherlands, April 4 – 05, 2019 Deadline: Oct 1, 2018 <https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2019/04/lucas-2019-graduate-conference-animals-theory-practice-representation> Call for Papers Animals: Theory, Practice, Representation The field of human-animal studies has become a lively domain where diverse disciplines examine the divergences and convergences between humans and animals, their evolutions, demarcations, and entanglements. Not only do we conceptualize, historicize, and embody animals in our lives, butContinue reading “CFP: Animals: Theory, Practice, Representation (Leiden, 4-5 Apr 19)”
CFP: Permeable Bodies in Medieval and Early Modern (London, 5-6 Oct 18)
University College London, October 5 – 06, 2018 Deadline: Jul 23, 2018 Permeable Bodies in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture In recent years, the human body has gained a prominent position in discussions of medieval and early modern cultures. The troublesome contingency of the human body encompassed critical boundaries between inside and outside, and became a central concernContinue reading “CFP: Permeable Bodies in Medieval and Early Modern (London, 5-6 Oct 18)”
2018 AAANZ: Aesthetics, Politics & Histories (Melbourne, 5-8 Dec 18)
School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, December 5 – 08, 2018 Deadline: Jun 25, 2018 <http://aaanz.info/aaanz-home/conferences/2018-conference/> Panel Proposals for Aesthetics, Politics & Histories: The Social Context of Art The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference 2018 (AAANZ) Convenors: Professor Daniel Palmer and Dr Marnie Badham, Vice Chancellors post Doc Research Fellow at RMIT University The conference willContinue reading “2018 AAANZ: Aesthetics, Politics & Histories (Melbourne, 5-8 Dec 18)”
CFP: Fieri Fecit. Patronage in Rome and in the Campagna Romana from 1050–1300
«…FIERI FECIT» –– is the established wording, with which commissioners usually memorized their donations. Partly these cut deeply into the body and shape of a sacred space, as for example in S. Lorenzo fuori le mura, where Cencius Camerarius, treasurer of the Holy Chair, transformed the crypt over the martyr’s grave of Saint Lawrence. FarContinue reading “CFP: Fieri Fecit. Patronage in Rome and in the Campagna Romana from 1050–1300”
CFP: Eclecticism at the Edges: Medieval Art and Architecture (Princeton, 5-6 Apr 19)
Princeton University, April 5 – 06, 2019 Deadline: Aug 15, 2018 Eclecticism at the Edges: Medieval Art and Architecture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Cultural Spheres (c.1300-c.1550) Organizers: Alice Isabella Sullivan, Ph.D. (University of Michigan) Maria Alessia Rossi, Ph.D. (The Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University) Description: In response to the global turn in artContinue reading “CFP: Eclecticism at the Edges: Medieval Art and Architecture (Princeton, 5-6 Apr 19)”
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