Call for Papers: Byzantine Maritime Technology and Trade

Proposed Colloquium Session for the 2015 AIA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Jan. 8-11, 2015 Sponsored by: AIA Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology Interest Group and the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University Organizers: Rebecca Ingram and Michael Jones, Institute of Nautical Archaeology Session Overview: Maritime activity played a vital role in the political andContinue reading “Call for Papers: Byzantine Maritime Technology and Trade”

Seminar: The Turkish Straits – Inquiries into a Crossroad

The Turkish Straits between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea are often described as a symbolic dividing line between Europe and Asia, but historically their function has been uniting and not separating. At the crossroads of land routes between the Balkans and Anatolia, and the sea route between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, theyContinue reading “Seminar: The Turkish Straits – Inquiries into a Crossroad”

Call for Papers: II International Conference. Sevilla, 1514: Arquitectos tardogóticos en la encrucijada

Call for Papers II International Conference. Sevilla, 1514: Arquitectos tardogóticos en la encrucijada Seville, November 12-15, 2014 Deadline: 31 May 2014 After the I International Conference Arquitectura tardogótica en la Corona de Castilla held in Santander in 2010, the II International Conference. Sevilla, 1514: Arquitectos Tardogóticos en la encrucijada, aims to serve as a forumContinue reading “Call for Papers: II International Conference. Sevilla, 1514: Arquitectos tardogóticos en la encrucijada”

“FLAWS” – Medieval Research Conference, University College London

“FLAWS” – Medieval Research Conference Hoccleve’s Regiment of Princes, BL MS Arundel 38, London Medieval Graduate Network, UCL, 29th May 2014 The London Medieval Graduate Network welcomes submissions for research papers on “Flaws” for its 2014 annual conference, hosted by UCL. This inter-disciplinary conference examines how deliberate or mistaken defects, errors, limitations and imperfections have beenContinue reading ““FLAWS” – Medieval Research Conference, University College London”

Call for papers: Eating Anatolia: Remembered Histories and Forgotten Foods

“First we eat, then we do everything else.”  – MFK Fisher Koç University’s department of Archaeology and History of Art is pleased to announce “Eating Anatolia: Remembered Histories and Forgotten Foods,” its second annual Graduate Student Symposium, May 3rd, 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey. Few aspects of our shared human experience are more fundamental than food.  The act ofContinue reading “Call for papers: Eating Anatolia: Remembered Histories and Forgotten Foods”

Call for Papers: VIII Jornadas Complutenses de Arte Medieval. Alfonso VIII and Eleanor of England, Artistic Confluences Around 1200 (Madrid 2014)

Call for Papers VIII Jornadas Complutenses de Arte Medieval. Alfonso VIII and Eleanor of England, Artistic Confluences Around 1200. Madrid, Faculty of Geography and History (University Complutense of Madrid) – Casa de Velázquez, November 12-14, 2014 Deadline: 25 May 2014 October 6, 1214. The Castilian monarch, Alfonso VIII, died on his way to Plasencia. BeforeContinue reading “Call for Papers: VIII Jornadas Complutenses de Arte Medieval. Alfonso VIII and Eleanor of England, Artistic Confluences Around 1200 (Madrid 2014)”

Call for Participation: Medieval Graduate Student Symposium, University of North Texas

8th Annual Medieval Graduate Student Symposium, University of North Texas, October 2, 2014 “Interdiciplinarity in the era of ‘Relevance:’ Graduate Research across the Disciplines and Beyond.” Details can be found on the UNT symposium website: http://art.unt.edu/medieval-symposium/ http://art.unt.edu/medieval-symposium/cfp.php?year=2014 This year the symposium will be held in conjunction with the annual conference of the Texas Medieval Association, October 3-4, 2014. All symposium participantsContinue reading “Call for Participation: Medieval Graduate Student Symposium, University of North Texas”

Commemoration of the Dead: New Approaches, New Perspectives, New Material

Call for Papers for Commemoration of the Dead: New Approaches, New Perspectives, New Material conference to be held 10.00- 17.00, Saturday 15 November 2014 at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Proposals are invited for papers to be presented at a one-day conference, jointly sponsored by the Monumental Brass Society andContinue reading “Commemoration of the Dead: New Approaches, New Perspectives, New Material”

Call for Papers: “Muslim Subjects and Clients in the Pre-Modern Christian Mediterranean,”

The Mediterranean Seminar is seeking proposal for two proposed panels, on “Muslim Subjects and Clients in the Pre-Modern Christian Mediterranean,” organized by Abigail Balbale [Bard Graduate Center/University of Massachusetts Boston] and Brian Catlos [Religious Studies, CU Boulder/Humanities, UC Santa Cruz] to be submitted for consideration for the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association to be held November 22-25 inContinue reading “Call for Papers: “Muslim Subjects and Clients in the Pre-Modern Christian Mediterranean,””

Call for Papers: The Making of the Humanities IV, Rome, 16-18 October 2014

The Making of the Humanities IV, Rome, 16-18 October 2014 http://makingofthehumanities.blogspot.com The fourth conference on the history of the humanities, “The Making of the Humanities IV”, will take place in Rome from 16 till 18 October 2014. Goal of the Conference This is the fourth of a biennially organized conference that brings together scholars and historians interested inContinue reading “Call for Papers: The Making of the Humanities IV, Rome, 16-18 October 2014”