The Association for Art History plans its 50th anniversary 2024 conference on ecologies of visual culture during the Middle Ages in collaboration with the University of Bristol.
Category Archives: Call for Papers
CFP: ‘Owning Gothic Ivories: Buying, Giving, Circulating’, British Museum and V&A (25-26 October 2024), deadline 15 January 2024
Papers are invited for this conference that investigates the ownership history of Gothic ivories, focusing on how artefacts transitioned into new usage and ownership contexts.
CFP: ‘The Medieval in Museums’, IMC Leeds 2024, deadline 18 September 2023
Proposals are invited for the IMC Leeds 2024 session ‘The Medieval in Museums’.
CFP: ‘Commemoration and the Senses in Late Medieval Europe’, IMC Leeds 2024, deadline 24 September 2023
Abstracts are welcomed for the session ‘Commemoration and the Senses in Late Medieval Europe’ at IMC Leeds 2024.
CFP: ICMS Kalamazoo 2024 – two sessions on Queer(ing) Medieval Art, deadline 15 September 2023
This session seeks papers that bring queer methodologies to the study of medieval visual culture.
CFP: “Monastic libraries and book collections in times of crisis, c. 1000-c. 1600,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, Deadline 12 September 2023
The proposed session(s) focuses on religious communities’ responses to crisis in relation to convent libraries and book collections. We aim to investigate what happened to medieval convent libraries and book collections in times of peril during the Middle Ages, but also the early modern period and up until our time. At certain times, these changesContinue reading “CFP: “Monastic libraries and book collections in times of crisis, c. 1000-c. 1600,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, Deadline 12 September 2023″
CFP: “Virgin Mary’s relics – Prestige, Rivalry, Forgery and Reproducibility,” International Congress on Medieval Studies (Online Session), Deadline 15 September 2023
This special online session wishes to analyze the power of the Virgin Mary’s relics as triggers not only to processions and pilgrimages but also to Marian cults competition. The scientific importance of the session lies in understanding how these devotional objects could be perceived as activators of civic prestige. The possession of these relics encouragedContinue reading “CFP: “Virgin Mary’s relics – Prestige, Rivalry, Forgery and Reproducibility,” International Congress on Medieval Studies (Online Session), Deadline 15 September 2023″
CFP: “Saints in Crisis: Emotional Responses to Sanctity in the Middle Ages,” International Medieval Congress (IMC 2024), University of Leeds, Deadline 12 September 2023
They were frightened and they hit in great pain their heads and hearts– How do people react when they encounter the sanctity of saints? How do they feel? Are they in crisis – crisis for whom? Does crisis change individuals? The proposed session focuses on the emotional responses of individuals/communities in relation to sanctity. SuggestedContinue reading “CFP: “Saints in Crisis: Emotional Responses to Sanctity in the Middle Ages,” International Medieval Congress (IMC 2024), University of Leeds, Deadline 12 September 2023″
CFP: New Perspectives on Personifications in Roman, Late Antique and Early Byzantine Art (200-800 AD), deadline 15 September 2023
This international workshop invites proposals exploring personifications in Roman, Late Antique, and Early Byzantine Art from 200-800 AD.
CFP: “Landscapes of Sanctity,” Leeds International Medieval Congress 2024, Deadline 31 July 2023
The AHRC-funded project “Liturgical and Literary Landscapes” welcomes applications from Early Career Researchers to participate in panels on ‘Landscapes of Sanctity’ to be put forward for the Leeds International Medieval Congress 2024. The four successful applicants will each be given a bursary of £450 towards the costs of attending the conference. ‘Liturgical and Literary Landscapes’,Continue reading “CFP: “Landscapes of Sanctity,” Leeds International Medieval Congress 2024, Deadline 31 July 2023″
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