INNOVATION AND ITS CONTESTANTS 5th Annual Emerging Scholars Conference McGill University Department of Art History and Communications Studies 18 April 2014 Keynote Speaker: Keith Moxey, Barbara Novak Professor of Art History and Department Chair at Barnard College (Columbia University) Deadline for Submissions: 24 January 2014 The concept of innovation buttresses a paradigmatically modern Western belief in the possibilityContinue reading “Call for Proposals: Innovation and its Contestants”
Category Archives: Call for Papers
Call for papers: Miracles and Wonders in Antiquity and Byzantium
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Miracles and Wonders in Antiquity and Byzantium University of Cyprus, 16-18 October 2014 Tales of miracle and wonder decorate both ancient and Byzantine literature and seem to have had a great impact upon ancient and Byzantine thought. A strong interest in the wondrous is already apparent in the works of Homer and Hesiod. However, a moreContinue reading “Call for papers: Miracles and Wonders in Antiquity and Byzantium”
Call for Papers: Military History of the Mediterranean
Fati̇h Üni̇versi̇tesi̇ – Tari̇h Bölümü will present the International Conference on the Military History of the Mediterranean Sea, to be held 26-28 June 2015 at Buyukcekmece, Istanbul. With an uninterrupted history of nearly 1,500 years, Istanbul has been the centre of the world and the capital of two great Empires. The confluence of the Sea of Marmara,Continue reading “Call for Papers: Military History of the Mediterranean”
Call for Papers: The Face of Battle in Medieval History and Literature
In recent years there has been a revolution in the study of medieval warfare. Traditional paradigms that emphasised pitched battles and the charge of heavily armed mounted knights have given way to a focus upon sieges and raids, as well as a more nuanced understanding of medieval generalship and of the place of war withinContinue reading “Call for Papers: The Face of Battle in Medieval History and Literature”
Deadline Extended: Mediterranean Minorities
Proposals are being accepted for the one-day symposium “Minorities in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean” to be held in conjunction with the Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP Winter Workshop on “Minorities” to be held at San Francisco State University on 7-8 March, 2014. On 7 March, three round-table sessions, “Opportunity,” “Assimilation and Exchange,” and “Vulnerability” will be held, each for discussing the status and circumstances ofContinue reading “Deadline Extended: Mediterranean Minorities”
Deadline Extended: Medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean
Call For Papers: Medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean The Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP seeks proposals for papers for a panel on Medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean to be proposed for the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, that will take place 26-29 June 2014 at the University of Modena e ReggioContinue reading “Deadline Extended: Medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean”
Call for Papers: The Art and Archaeology of Lusignan and Venetian Cyprus
Call for Papers: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE THE ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF LUSIGNAN AND VENETIAN CYPRUS: RECENT RESEARCH AND NEW DISCOVERIES Deadline: 30 April 2014 The art and archaeology of the Latin East have regularly been marginalised in broader accounts of medieval material culture, largely because they cannot fit within the restrictive parameters established for either the ByzantineContinue reading “Call for Papers: The Art and Archaeology of Lusignan and Venetian Cyprus”
Call for Papers: Moving Body Parts: Transcendence of Time and Space
Call for Papers: Moving Body Parts: Their Transcendence of Time and Space in Pre-Modern Europe Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, April 11 – 12, 2014 Deadline: Jan 10, 2014 According to Jean-Claude Schmitt, “the dead have no existence other than that which the living imagine for them” – and sometimes, the living not only force them to exist in their memory butContinue reading “Call for Papers: Moving Body Parts: Transcendence of Time and Space”
Call for Papers: Fifty years after Panofsky’s Tomb Sculpture (London 2014)
Call for Papers: Fifty years after Panofsky’s Tomb Sculpture: New Approaches, New Perspectives, New Material London, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 21 June 2014 Deadline: 16 February 2014 ‘Tomb Sculpture will remain….among the basic works which determine turning points in the history of our discipline’. (Review in Art Bulletin, 1967) The Courtauld Institute will beContinue reading “Call for Papers: Fifty years after Panofsky’s Tomb Sculpture (London 2014)”
Call for Papers: The Fifteenth Century Conference (Aberdeen 2014)
Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers: The Fifteenth Century Conference (Open Theme) University of Aberdeen, 4-6 September 2014 Deadline: 1 March 2014 The annual gathering known as the Fifteenth Century Conference was first held in Cardiff, 1970. In 2014 the conference will meet at the University of Aberdeen. It is expected that there will be plenary sessions,Continue reading “Call for Papers: The Fifteenth Century Conference (Aberdeen 2014)”
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