The Graduate Union of Students of Art at the University of Toronto is still accepting abstractions for the third annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium, “Seeing and Believing.” The conference will take place at the University of Toronto on March 18, 2016, and will feature a keynote address by Jacqueline Jung of Yale University. All graduate studentsContinue reading “CFP: ‘Seeing and Believing’ University of Toronto Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium (March 18, 2016)”
Category Archives: Call for Papers
CFP: “Representations of the Ordinary in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods.” North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (February 19 & 20, 2016)
Extended deadline for abstract submission: abstracts are now due on Thursday, January 14 Web Site: http://sites.duke.edu/representationsoftheordinary/ The 16th Annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies invites graduate students to submit proposals for twenty-minute paper presentations that investigate representations of everyday life––mimetic, descriptive, or prescriptive––from late antiquity through early modernity. How are the particularities of ordinary experienceContinue reading “CFP: “Representations of the Ordinary in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods.” North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (February 19 & 20, 2016)”
Call for Papers: Re/Generate – Medieval materiality and reuse (St Andrews, 6-7 May 2016)
Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2016 The University of St Andrews School of Art History in collaboration with the St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies (SAIMS) present Re/generate: Materiality and the Afterlives of Things in the Middle Ages, 500-1500 an interdisciplinary conference on reuse and recycling in medieval Europe taking place on 6-7th May 2016. In recent years, theContinue reading “Call for Papers: Re/Generate – Medieval materiality and reuse (St Andrews, 6-7 May 2016)”
HISTORIANS OF ISLAMIC ART ASSOCIATION 2016 Biennial Conference
The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London October 20-22, 2016 Regionality: looking for the local in the arts of Islam The Fifth Biennial Conference of the Historians of Islamic Art Association will take place at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, from October 20th to October 22nd, 2016. The Courtauld Institute of Art isContinue reading “HISTORIANS OF ISLAMIC ART ASSOCIATION 2016 Biennial Conference”
CFP: Heraldry in Medieval and Early Modern State-Rooms
Münster, Germany, March 16 – 18, 2016 Deadline: Dec 15, 2015 Heraldry in Medieval and Early Modern State-Rooms: Towards a Typology of Heraldic Programmes in Spaces of Self-Representation Heraldry was an ubiquitous element of state-rooms. Whether in palaces of kings and princes, castles of noblemen, residences of patricians, city halls or in cathedral chapters, heraldic display wasContinue reading “CFP: Heraldry in Medieval and Early Modern State-Rooms”
CFP: Dialogue and Difference in the Middle Ages (University of Bristol, February 25-6, 2016)
Dialogue and Difference is an interdisciplinary conference bringing together scholars from all fields to explore the ways in which cultural, social, political, religious, scientific and intellectual exchange and interaction unfolded throughout the Middle Ages. Dialogues took place both across borderlines and within the heart of medieval societies, in monasteries, universities, courts and market places asContinue reading “CFP: Dialogue and Difference in the Middle Ages (University of Bristol, February 25-6, 2016)”
CFP: Time and Temporality in Medieval and Early Modern Art (May 18 – 19, 2016, The Open University of Israel, Raanana), deadline 31 December 2015
IMAGO – The Israeli Association for Visual Culture of the Middle Ages, and the Department of Literature, Language and Arts, The Open University of Israel The subject of time was frequently encountered in medieval and early modern thinking and culture, from the notion of eternity as an abiding “now” outside of time (as defined byContinue reading “CFP: Time and Temporality in Medieval and Early Modern Art (May 18 – 19, 2016, The Open University of Israel, Raanana), deadline 31 December 2015”
Use of Models in Gothic Art (Geneva, 4-5 Nov 2016)
Call for Papers University of Geneva, November 4 – 05, 2016 Deadline: Dec 15, 2015 The University of Geneva’s Art History Unit and the University of Strasbourg’s Institute of Art History are organizing an international conference: Supposed Models, Identified Models: Their Uses in Gothic Art The topic of models, whose use is inherent to theContinue reading “Use of Models in Gothic Art (Geneva, 4-5 Nov 2016)”
Call for Papers: Dialogue and Difference in the Middle Ages (Bristol 25-26 Feb 2016)
Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies – 22nd annual postgraduate conference Thursday 25th – Friday 26th February 2016 Call for Papers Dialogue and Difference is an interdisciplinary conference bringing together scholars from all fields to explore the ways in which cultural, social, political, religious, scientific and intellectual exchange and interaction unfolded throughout the Middle Ages. DialoguesContinue reading “Call for Papers: Dialogue and Difference in the Middle Ages (Bristol 25-26 Feb 2016)”
CFP: Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age (The University of Arizona, Tucson, April 28 – 1 May 2016), deadline 31 January 2016
Organizer and Chair: Dr. Albrecht ClassenUniversity Distinguished ProfessorDept. of German Studies, 301 LSB, The University of Arizona520 621-1395; aclassen@u.arizona.edu; aclassen.faculty.arizona.edu Magic and the magician are two critically important aspects of cultural epistemology, challenging and contributing to the world of science, undermining it at the same time. Who was the magician, what did s/he do, how didContinue reading “CFP: Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age (The University of Arizona, Tucson, April 28 – 1 May 2016), deadline 31 January 2016”