Call for ICMA Sponsored Session Proposals College Art Association, Washington DC, 3-6 February 2016 Deadline: 15 August 2014 The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2016 at the annual College Art Association. Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members. Proposals for ICMAContinue reading “Call for ICMA Sponsored Session Proposals (CAA 2016)”
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CFP: The Cross in Medieval Art (Kalamazoo 2015)
Call for Papers: The Cross in Medieval Art International Center of Medieval Art Sponsored Session (Kalamazoo 2015) Deadline: 15 September 2014 Recent art-historical research has brought us new understandings of the central symbol of Christianity, the Cross, in different places, at different times, in different media, and with different theoretical and conceptual foci. The Cross,Continue reading “CFP: The Cross in Medieval Art (Kalamazoo 2015)”
CFP: Aby Warburg and Nature (Hamburg, 15-16 Jan 15)
ABY WARBURG AND NATURE Workshop, University of Hamburg, Warburg-Haus, 15 – 16 January 2015 Deadline: 31 August 2014 Organizers: Frank Fehrenbach and Cornelia Zumbusch (University of Hamburg) Aby Warburg’s references to enlivenment, life forces, and the afterlife of images are evidence for the paradigmatic meaning of the natural for his conceptualization of the emergence and re-emergence of pictorial formulas.Continue reading “CFP: Aby Warburg and Nature (Hamburg, 15-16 Jan 15)”
CFP: Visual Narratives – Cultural Identities (Hamburg, 27-29 Nov 14)
CFP: Visual Narratives – Cultural Identities. A trans- and interdisciplinary conference at the University of Hamburg Hamburg, 27-29 November 2014 Deadline: 31 July 2014 Increasingly, cultural studies focus on stories and the narration of stories as important catalysts for the constitution, confirmation, and modification of cultural identities. Not only in times of what seems like floods of images but sinceContinue reading “CFP: Visual Narratives – Cultural Identities (Hamburg, 27-29 Nov 14)”
CFP: Memorializing the Middle Classes (Edited volume)
CFP: Memorializing the Middle Classes (Edited volume) Deadline: 30 June 2014 Building on the session “Memorials for Merchants: The Funerary Culture of Late Medieval Europe’s New Elite” (College Art Association Annual Meeting, 2014), this edited volume offers papers that investigate the habits and strategies of patrons of commemorative art ca. 1300-1700, while considering what relationship, if any, existed betweenContinue reading “CFP: Memorializing the Middle Classes (Edited volume)”
CFP: Meanings of Erasure (Kalamazoo, 14-17 May 2015)
CFP: Meanings of Erasure Session at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, 14-17 May 2015 Deadline: 15 September 2015 Recent scholarly interest in whiteness, emptiness, and material destruction that pervade medieval visual culture demonstrate a shift in focus: where art historians have historically focused on figuration, they now turn to the instances ofContinue reading “CFP: Meanings of Erasure (Kalamazoo, 14-17 May 2015)”
CFP: The Afterlife of Cicero (London, 7-8 May 2015)
Call for Papers: The Afterlife of Cicero London, The Warburg Institute, 7-8 May 2015 Deadline: 11 July 2014 The Warburg Institute, the Institute of Classical Studies and the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London will be hosting an international conference on the afterlife of Cicero in London on 7–8 May 2015, organisedContinue reading “CFP: The Afterlife of Cicero (London, 7-8 May 2015)”
CFP: Foldable Pictures. Implications of Mediality (Zürich, 21-22 November 2014)
Call for Papers: Foldable Pictures. Implications of Mediality Conference, University of Zürich, 21-22 November 2014 Deadline: 4 July 2014 Book pages, diptychs, and triptychs were popular formats for the presentation of images in the medieval and early modern periods. In addition to their ubiquity, these objects also share one essential material feature: the supports that carry the imagesContinue reading “CFP: Foldable Pictures. Implications of Mediality (Zürich, 21-22 November 2014)”
CFP: Object Fantasies. Forms & Fictions (Munich, 7-9 October 2015)
CFP: Object Fantasies. Forms & Fictions (Munich, 7-9 Oct 15) Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 7 – 9 October 2015 Deadline: 31 July 2014 Interdisciplinary Conference of the Junior Research Group “Premodern Objects. An Archaeology of Experience“ (Elite Network of Bavaria / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) In modern understanding, the word “object” signifies something material, spatially defined and functionally determined. These notions are accentuated by theContinue reading “CFP: Object Fantasies. Forms & Fictions (Munich, 7-9 October 2015)”
CFP: RSA-Session ‘Artists in Habits’ (Berlin, 26-28 March 2015)
RSA-Session ‘Artists in Habits’ Berlin, 26-28 March 2015 Deadline: 10 June 2014 This panel seeks papers that explore the dual identities of artists who were members of a religious order. More than fifteen years since seminal studies on the “frate-dipintore” by William Hood and Megan Holmes, on Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi respectively, we askContinue reading “CFP: RSA-Session ‘Artists in Habits’ (Berlin, 26-28 March 2015)”
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