CFP: Power of the Bishop, Second Edited Volume

Deadline: 1 October 2016 The second volume ‘In the Hands of God’s Servants’: The Power of the Bishop and the Problem of Personality is being prepared, based on the conference Episcopal Personalities held at Cardiff University, 2015. We would like to invite submissions for this volume on the subject of personality and its impact in the formation, enhancementContinue reading “CFP: Power of the Bishop, Second Edited Volume”

CFP: Reconsidering the Concept of Decline and the Arts of the Palaiologan Era (University of Birmingham)

        Deadline: 30 September 2016 One day and a half Symposium & Workshop 24 and 25 February 2017, held at the University of Birmingham This one day and a half conference combines a symposium and a workshop. The aim is to examine and contextualise the artistic and cultural production of the geopoliticalContinue reading “CFP: Reconsidering the Concept of Decline and the Arts of the Palaiologan Era (University of Birmingham)”

CFP: Picturing Death 1200-1600 (Edited Volume)

Deadline: 1 September 2016 Picturing Death 1200-1600 Proposals sought for chapters in a peer-reviewed edited volume The glut of pictures of and for death has long been associated with the Middle Ages in the popular imagination. In reality, however, these images thrived in Europe in a much more concentrated period of time that straddles the Middle Ages andContinue reading “CFP: Picturing Death 1200-1600 (Edited Volume)”

CFP: Trecento Art beyond Italy Deadline 28th May 2016

Panel Session at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, 30 March – 1 April, 2017 Trecento Art beyond Italy (session sponsored by the IAS at the Chicago RSA): There is a great corpus of scholarship regarding the debts of Trecento visual culture to Byzantine, Gothic, and Islamic art or architecture. There remainsContinue reading “CFP: Trecento Art beyond Italy Deadline 28th May 2016”

CFP: In Search of Wisdom: Knowledge Spaces and Networks across the Mediterranean Sea  November 2nd, 3rd, and 4th 2016

In Search of Wisdom: Knowledge Spaces and Networks across the Mediterranean Sea 10th COMPLUTENSE CONFERENCE ON MEDIEVAL ART NOVEMBER 2nd, 3rd, AND 4th  2016 RESEARCH PROJECT: “Al-Andalus, the Hispanic Kingdoms and Egypt: Art, Power and Knowledge in the Medieval Mediterranean. Exchange Networks and their impact on the Visual Culture”(HAR2013-45578-R) The aim of this conference is toContinue reading “CFP: In Search of Wisdom: Knowledge Spaces and Networks across the Mediterranean Sea  November 2nd, 3rd, and 4th 2016”

CFP: SAH Annual Conference (Glasgow, 7-11 Jun 17)

Glasgow, Scotland, UK, June 7 – 11, 2017 Deadline: Jun 6, 2016 The Society of Architectural Historians is now accepting abstracts for its 70th Annual International Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, June 7–11. Please submit an abstract no later than June 6, 2016, to one of the 33 thematic sessions, the Graduate Student Lightning Talks or the open sessions. The thematic sessionsContinue reading “CFP: SAH Annual Conference (Glasgow, 7-11 Jun 17)”

CFP: Mediterranean Cities in Transition (7-11 June 2017: Glasgow)

Proposals are being sought for “Mediterranean Cities in Transition,” a session at the  Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Conference to be held in Glasgow, on 7-11 June  2017. Co-chairs:  D. Fairchild Juggles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Landscape Architecture, Champaign, IL 61820 Nikolai Bakirtzis, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus Mediterranean cities with long histories preserve the physical evidence ofContinue reading “CFP: Mediterranean Cities in Transition (7-11 June 2017: Glasgow)”

CFP: New Tendences in research on the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance

CFP: Neue Tendenzen der Italienforschung Workshop, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, Florence, November 7-9 2016 Deadline: May 31, 2016 Vom 7. bis 9. November 2016 findet am Kunsthistorischen Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut der interdisziplinäre Workshop “Neue Tendenzen der Italienforschung zu Mittelalter und Renaissance” für Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchswissenschaftler statt. Ziel des Workshops ist es, dieContinue reading “CFP: New Tendences in research on the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance”

CFP: The Genesis of a Window: Methods, Preparations and Problems of Stained Glass Manufacture, University of York, King’s Manor (26 – 27 May 2016), deadline 8 May 2016

The University of York’s Stained Glass Research School will be hosting its annual PhD conference on 26th and 27th May 2016. From the early medieval period stained glass design and manufacture has evolved and reacted to changing tastes, styles and technological advances.

CFP: From Prints to Paintings in Fifteenth-Century Northern Italy, Renaissance Society of America Conference

Call for Papers: Renaissance Society of America Conference, Chicago, March 30 – April 1, 2017 Deadline: May 20, 2016 This session considers the impact of prints on fifteenth-century Northern Italian painting. Topics may include, but are not limited to: ·      The use of prints as substitutes for workshop drawings ·      The transmission ofContinue reading “CFP: From Prints to Paintings in Fifteenth-Century Northern Italy, Renaissance Society of America Conference”