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.
Category Archives: Conferences
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.
Conference: The Jeweled Materiality of Late Antique/Early Medieval Objects and Texts: From Cloisonné to Stained Glass to Experimental Poetry (4th–9th Centuries), 11–12 November 2024
Explore the interplay of material, visual, and literary cultures from the 4th to the 9th century at this conference on November 11–12, 2024, focusing on the jeweled aesthetics of late antiquity.
Conference: SMA Student Colloquium 2024, University of Leicester, 4-6 November 2024
The Society for Medieval Archaeology, in association with the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, is pleased to announce this year’s annual Student Colloquium.
Conference: Owning Gothic Ivories: Buying, Giving, Circulating, British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum, 25-26 October 2024
Join the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum for this two day conference on Gothic Ivories.
Online conference: British Archaeological Association Post-Graduate Online Conference, Thursday 28th November 2024, 12.20pm-17.30pm (GMT)
The British Archaeological Association are excited to present a diverse conference which includes postgraduates and early career researchers in the fields of medieval history of art, architecture, and archaeology. The British Archaeological Association postgraduate conference offers an opportunity for research students at all levels from universities across the UK and abroad to present their research and exchange ideas.
Conference: Southeast European Silversmithing: Artisans, Donors, and the Concept of Piety during the Early Modern Period, Sofia, Bulgaria, 17-18 October 2024
On 17th and 18th October 2024 in Sofia (Bulgaria) will be held the international scientific conference “Southeast European Silversmithing: Artisans, Donors, and the Concept of Piety during the Early Modern Period.”
Conference: Glass in the Islamic World, Europäisches Romanik Zentrum, Merseburg, Thursday 4 – Sunday 7 July 2024
The upcoming ‘Glass in the Islamic World’ explores the transformative role of glass in Islamic art and architecture.
Conference: ‘Texture in the Medieval World’, University of York, 1-2 June 2024
This two-day conference focuses on the visual, conceptual and haptic qualities of textual and visual material and their importance and use in the medieval world.
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