The Global Turn in Medieval Studies: the 94th Annual Meeting of The Medieval Academy of America University of Pennsylvania 7-9 March 2019 | http://www.medievalacademy.org The 94th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place in Philadelphia on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. The meeting is jointly hosted by the MedievalContinue reading “CFP: The Global Turn in Medieval Studies (Deadline 15 June 2018)”
Category Archives: Call for Papers
CFP: Crossing Rivers in Byzantium and Beyond (Vienna, 2-3 Nov 18) (Deadline 1 June 18)
Crossing Rivers in Byzantium and Beyond Department of Art History, University of Vienna, 02. – 03.11.2018 Deadline: Jun 1, 2018 “It is always dramatic to cross a frontier, even though the frontier is only a brook” (V. S. Pritchett, Geographical Magazine, December, 1942) This workshop is organized as part of the project “Byzantine Stone Bridges: Material Evidence andContinue reading “CFP: Crossing Rivers in Byzantium and Beyond (Vienna, 2-3 Nov 18) (Deadline 1 June 18)”
CFP: Studienkurs des Warburg-Hauses: Medialitaet des Sakralen (Hamburg, 24-28 Sep 18) (deadline: 7/05/18)
CFP: Studienkurs des Warburg-Hauses: Medialitaet des Sakralen (Hamburg, 24-28 Sep 18) Hamburg, Warburg-Haus, 24. – 28.09.2018 Deadline: May 7, 2018 Call for Papers Medialität des Sakralen: Bilder und Vermittlungsstrategien des Heiligen in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit Studienkurs des Warburg-Hauses Leitung: Prof. Dr. Peter Schmidt und Lena Marschall, M.A., Universität Hamburg Wird die Welt in getrennten Sphären vonContinue reading “CFP: Studienkurs des Warburg-Hauses: Medialitaet des Sakralen (Hamburg, 24-28 Sep 18) (deadline: 7/05/18)”
Call for Paper: Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (New York, 13-16 Feb 2019)
Call for Paper: Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (New York, 13-16 Feb 2019) CAA Conference, New York, February 13 – 16, 2019 Deadline: Apr 18, 2018 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Call for Panel Proposal College Art Association New York, 13-16 February 2019 The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (http://ssemw.org/) willContinue reading “Call for Paper: Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (New York, 13-16 Feb 2019)”
Call for Papers: “Das Mittelalter”, Themenheft: Theorien und Praktiken des Gebets im Mittelalter (Deadline 30/04/2018)
Themenheft der Zeitschrift “Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung”: “Theorien und Praktiken des Gebets im Mittelalter” Das Gebet ist in nahezu allen sozialen Bereichen, Diskursen und medialen Formationen des Mittelalters präsent. Es organisiert einen wesentlichen Bereich der gesellschaftlichen Kommunikation als Kommunikation mit der jenseitigen Welt, überbrückt die Grenze von Diesseits und Jenseits, trägt zur Medialisierung vonContinue reading “Call for Papers: “Das Mittelalter”, Themenheft: Theorien und Praktiken des Gebets im Mittelalter (Deadline 30/04/2018)”
CFP: Negotiation the Past. Islamic Heritage in Italy and Spain, Venice (1-2 February 2019), deadline 30 April 2018
The conference will focus on the discussion about the Islamic heritage in Italy and Spain and its later reception in the post-Islamic context. Sharing an Islamic past, both countries display this heritage in different ways through art and architecture. As cultural contact zones, Italy and Spain had a rich Islamic tradition, which has been adoptedContinue reading “CFP: Negotiation the Past. Islamic Heritage in Italy and Spain, Venice (1-2 February 2019), deadline 30 April 2018”
CFP: Moving Violence: Transgressing the Boundaries of Experience in Medieval Imagery, Tel Aviv University, (11-13 December 2018), deadline 18 June 2018
Violence imagery in medieval art reveals a parade of brutal acts: various stages of decapitation, splitting skulls, amputating limbs, enucleating eyes, yanking teeth, cutting off breasts, and other repugnant horrors. Often stripped of direct devotional context and thus presented as violence inflicted upon the imagined bodies of the depicted saints, these portrayals also attacked theContinue reading “CFP: Moving Violence: Transgressing the Boundaries of Experience in Medieval Imagery, Tel Aviv University, (11-13 December 2018), deadline 18 June 2018”
Call for Papers: Der Akt der Bildwerdung. Kreativität und Schöpfungskraft zwischen 1430 und 1530, Cologne 2-3/11/2018 (Deadline 29/04/2018)
Das Werkstattgespräch wird sich inhaltlich mit Produktions- und Rezeptionsmechanismen innerhalb von Bildmedien des 15. und frühen 16. Jahrhunderts beschäftigen. Zentrales Thema ist der Prozess der Bildwerdung, also die Frage, wie die Idee und die inventio des Künstlers ins Bild übertragen werden und vor allem, wie sich dieser Übertragungsprozess im Bild nachvollziehen lässt. Dieser Frage wollenContinue reading “Call for Papers: Der Akt der Bildwerdung. Kreativität und Schöpfungskraft zwischen 1430 und 1530, Cologne 2-3/11/2018 (Deadline 29/04/2018)”
Call for Papers: Mary of Guelders – Her Life and Prayer Book (ca. 1400) – Nijmegen, 23-24/11/2018 (Deadline 30/03/2018)
Mary of Guelders’ richly illuminated prayer book, written by Helmich die Lewe and completed in 1415, is extraordinary for several reasons: it originally consisted of more than 600 folia, it is richly illuminated, it was written in the Lower Rhine vernacular, and it contains an unusual compilation of prayers, hours and components of a breviary.Continue reading “Call for Papers: Mary of Guelders – Her Life and Prayer Book (ca. 1400) – Nijmegen, 23-24/11/2018 (Deadline 30/03/2018)”
Call for Papers: ‘On Monumentality’, Acropolis Museum, Athens, 4-6 of April, 2019 (Deadline 15/06/2018)
A century separates us from the “rupture of history” and the historical ambiguities that the early heroic modernism introduced in the urban space, and eighty years from the destruction of the European monumental deposit from the bombings of WWII, a defining moment for the introduction of new kinds of monumentality alongside the old ones. Yet,Continue reading “Call for Papers: ‘On Monumentality’, Acropolis Museum, Athens, 4-6 of April, 2019 (Deadline 15/06/2018)”
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