This study day is hosted by the British Archaeological Association, of which Cathy was a longstanding member. It will concentrate of various aspects of Marian devotion a subject close to Cathy’s heart and the focus of her book, Ora Pro Nobis: The Virgin as Intercessor in Medieval Art and Devotion (2008), from which this day takes its title.
Category Archives: Conferences
Online Conference: ‘Pluriversality at Play: Art and material culture in the thirteenth-century Mediterranean’, University of St Andrews, 17-18 June 2021, 2:15pm-6pm (BST)
This workshop, organised by Dr Anthi Andronikou, aims to relocate regional arts and cultures within a broader Mediterranean context from an interdisciplinary point of view. Scholars in the fields of Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish and Western Medieval studies will probe interconnections across different ethnic, political, artistic and confessional spheres through historical and art historical perspectives.
Online Conference: ‘Mod Gothic? Medieval Architecture in the Modern Ages’, Courtauld Institute of Art, 1-2 July 2021, 2pm (BST)
Join the Courtauld Institute of Art for a conference in tribute to Peter Kidson (1925-2019) and Paul Crossley (1945-2019), where speakers will consider the personalities, technologies and geographies that determined how medieval architecture was studied and taught after 1945.
Online Conference: Liturgy, Literature & History: Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the High Middle Ages, 5th-6th August 2021
This conference, focussed on the cult of Oswald of Northumbria in the high Middle Ages, brings together historians, literary scholars, musicologists and art historians to explore the cult of saints through texts, objects, space, sound and the senses and particularly interrogates the influence of the liturgy on society.
Online Conference: ‘Iconography and Religious Otherness’,15th Conference of Iconographic Studies, 10th-11th June 2021
The conference will take place on 10th and 11th June 2021 online via Zoom.
Online Conference: Materiality in the Eastern Mediterranean World, 28th-29th May 2021
The Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) at Central European University (Vienna/Budapest) is proud to announce the 7th International Graduate Conference on “Materiality in the Eastern Mediterranean World”, Vienna, 28-29 May 2021. The conference will provide a forum for graduate and advanced undergraduate students working on the Eastern Mediterranean to present their current research, exchange ideas, and develop scholarly networks.
Online Conference: The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Medieval Studies – A Global Digital Medievalist Symposium (The Americas: Images and Imaging), 24th May 2021
The theme, The Past, Present and Future of Medieval Digital Studies is both retrospective and prospective in scope, bringing digital medievalist practitioners into conversation with each other as we step into a new scholarly environment where digital methods take on a new importance.
Online Conference: Medieval and Early Modern Spaces and Places: Courtly Encounters, The Open University, 9th-11th June 2021
In 2021 The Open University’s interdisciplinary Spaces and Places conference will address the theme of ‘Courtly Encounters’ by exploring instances of cultural exchange that shaped the day-to-day and extraordinary sensory experiences of court life.
Online Conference: Collecting Orthodoxy in the West: A History and Look Towards the Future, Museum of Russian Icons (11th-12th June 2021)
This international conference, organized and sponsored by the Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton, MA (USA), considers why, how, where, and by whom these objects have been and continue to be acquired.
Conference: Fifteenth Century Conference, University of Bristol, 2nd – 4th September 2021
The next Fifteenth Century Conference will be held at the University of Bristol from 2nd to 4th September 2021. This is planned to be an in-person event, subject to government guidelines at the time.
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