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)”
Category Archives: Call for Papers
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)”
CFP: RSA-Session ‘Arts in Quattrocento Pisa I-II’ (Berlin, 26-28 March 2015)
RSA-Session ‘Arts in Quattrocento Pisa I-II’ Berlin, 26-28 March 2015 Deadline: 12 June 2014 The Quattrocento was a dramatic century for Pisa. The Tuscan town, formerly a leading “Maritime Republic” and one of the wealthiest and most splendid Mediterranean centers in the Middle Ages, lost its independence in 1406 and fell under the dominion of Florence. The political,Continue reading “CFP: RSA-Session ‘Arts in Quattrocento Pisa I-II’ (Berlin, 26-28 March 2015)”
Call For Chapters – The Material Culture of Magic
Book project, ed. by Dr Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie and Dr Leo Ruickbie Magic is a wide field of research comprising what we might call the occult, paranormal events, anomalous experience, spirituality and other phenomena throughout human history. However, research has often been focused more narrowly on the historical analysis of written sources, or the anthropologyContinue reading “Call For Chapters – The Material Culture of Magic”
Substitute paper wanted for Leeds session
Session 1135, Wednesday 9 July 2014: 11.15-12.45 Local Heroes: New Approaches to the Study of Minor Saints and Their Cults Organizer: Anne E. Bailey, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford Chair: Rodney M. Thomson, School of History & Classics, University of Tasmania One of the Hagiography Society sessions at Leeds this year has had a speakerContinue reading “Substitute paper wanted for Leeds session”
5th International annual conference “Actual Problems of Art Theory and History” 2014
The Departments of Russian Art and West-European Art of the Faculty of History of St. Petersburg State University, the Department of Art Theory and History of the Faculty of History of Lomonosov Moscow State University and The State Hermitage Museum invite you to participate in the 5th International annual conference “Actual Problems of Art TheoryContinue reading “5th International annual conference “Actual Problems of Art Theory and History” 2014”
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