Category Archives: Conferences

Conference: ‘Un art mamlouk: évolutions et questions d’attributions’, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 23 June 2025, 9am-5.30pm (CEST)

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Conceived in conjunction with the Mamluks 1250-1517 exhibition, this study day offers a reinterpretation of Mamluk art through an interdisciplinary and transregional approach, drawing on art history, archaeology, and technical analysis.

Conference: ‘Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300-1350’, London, The National Gallery, 20 June 2025, 9am-5.45pm (BST)

Join the National Gallery in London to hear about the remarkable achievements of Siena’s artists and the significance of Sienese painting in the wider world during the late Middle Ages.

Symposium: ‘Concertina-Fold Books across Time, Space and Cultures’, Lambeth Palace Library, Friday 2 May 2025, 10am-5.30pm (GMT)

The symposium is part of programming for the Unfolding Time exhibition, on medieval ‘pocket’ calendars, which looks at the way the concertina format was deployed in late medieval Europe, with a focus on England. In-person attendees will have the opportunity to visit the exhibition and play with concertina facsimiles.

International Two-Day Conference: ‘Tracing Jewish Histories: The Long Lives of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, Judaica, and Architecture’, Courtauld Institute of Art, 19-20 May 2025

The Courtauld and Case Western Reserve University are delighted to jointly host the two-day symposium Tracing Jewish Histories on 19-20 May 2025. The international symposium brings together museum curators and academics to examine the afterlives of art and architecture made by and for Jewish communities in the Middle Ages.

Symposium: ‘Tombs of the Aristocracy’, Church Monuments Society, 29-31 August 2025, West Dean College

The Church Monuments Society is delighted to invite you to the next symposium which will be held at West Dean College from Friday 29th to Sunday 31st August 2025.

Symposium: ‘From Jean le Bon to Good Duke Humfrey: a new manuscript witness to Anglo-French cultural exchange’, Weston Library, Friday 21 March 2025, 11am–5pm (GMT)

This symposium provides a first opportunity to explore the recently acquired unknown manuscript from the library of Humfrey Duke of Gloucester.

Conference: ‘Les arts de l’autel médiéval: De la genèse des objets aux stratégies muséographiques’, Paris EHESS / Musée du Louvre, 3-5 February 2025 

Learn more about the intricate relationship between medieval altars and their artistic adornments at the Paris EHESS/Louvre Museum conference from February 3-5, 2025.

Online Conference: ‘Refinement and/or Reduction Revisited: Gothic Art, Architecture and Culture, c. 1250 to 1350’, 6 December 2024, 10am-5pm (GMT)

This one-day conference organised by the Architecture, Space and Society Centre aims at an interdisciplinary reassessment of Gothic art and architecture between c. 1250 and 1350 in a broad European perspective.

Symposium: ‘Records of Care: informing approaches to the conservation of Britain’s wall paintings’, Courtauld Institute of Art, 31 January 2025 (9.30-18.30 GMT)

Hosted in partnership with colleagues at The Church of England, Icon, and English Heritage, this symposium marks the culmination of the first major phase of a grant-funded digitisation project to make the National Wall Paintings Survey publicly accessible through a dynamic new online database.