The Warburg Institute is hosting its first Postgraduate Symposium Cultural Encounters: Tensions and Polarities of Transmission from the Late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment on 17 November 2016. The Symposium explores the concept of cultural encounters, focusing particularly on their productive outcomes and on the dynamics of cultural changes across time and space. This multidisciplinary encounterContinue reading “Symposium: ‘Cultural Encounters: Tensions and Polarities of Transmission from the Late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment’, 17th November 2016”
Category Archives: Conferences
Conference: Textile Gifts in the Middle Ages (Rome, 3-5 November 2016)
Gifts of textiles and clothing appeared in diverse contexts and fulfilled various functions in pre-modern Europe. They could be offered in the course of an initiation rite and or an act of social transition, including upon investiture, marriage, or entry into a monastery. Gifts of clothing to the poor, meanwhile, were among the works of charity thematized in theContinue reading “Conference: Textile Gifts in the Middle Ages (Rome, 3-5 November 2016)”
Conference: al-Murabitun (Granada, 19-22 October 2016)
Palace of Charles V, Alhambra (Granada, Spain), October 19 – 22, 2016 Between 19th and 22nd October 2016, in the Palace of Charles V of the Alhambra in Granada, will be held the International Seminar “al-Murabitun. Noveno centenario del esplendor de un Imperio”, in memory of Professor Henri Terrasse. During the Seminar, many scholars from France, Morocco, United States, SpainContinue reading “Conference: al-Murabitun (Granada, 19-22 October 2016)”
CFPs: Bibliography Among the Disciplines Conference, Philadelphia, October 12-15, 2017
Call for Papers: Bibliography Among the Disciplines Conference, Philadelphia, October 12-15, 2017 Deadline: October 25, 2016 For more information on panels, round-tables, short presentations and working groups, and for submission guidelines, see: http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ Bibliography Among the Disciplines, a four-day international conference to be held in Philadelphia from 12 to 15 October 2017, will bring togetherContinue reading “CFPs: Bibliography Among the Disciplines Conference, Philadelphia, October 12-15, 2017”
Conference: Minority Influences in Medieval Society, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, 25-26 November 2016
Friday 25 November 9.45 Welcome (Nora Berend) Session 1. 10-11.15 Nikolas Jaspert (Heidelberg) Influences of mudejar spirituality on majority Christian religious life Teresa Shawcross (Princeton) Ethno-religious Minorities and the Shaping of Byzantine Society during the Crusades COFFEE Session 2. 11.30-12.45 Annette Kehnel (Mannheim) Minority language, minority culture, minority tradition: Who exactly cares? Amira Bennison (Cambridge)Continue reading “Conference: Minority Influences in Medieval Society, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, 25-26 November 2016”
International Workshop: Relics @ the Lab, KIK-IRPA, Brussels, October 27-28 2016.
International Workshop: Relics @ the Lab, KIK-IRPA, Brussels, October 27-28 2016. Over the past decade the scientific interest in relics and kindred artifacts has grown enormously. Without any doubt relics as well as relic shrines and associated objects have played a prominent role in European history since the introduction of Christianity. While in the pastContinue reading “International Workshop: Relics @ the Lab, KIK-IRPA, Brussels, October 27-28 2016.”
Conference: Heraldic Badges: From Miniature to Monumental, 1300–1500, Courtauld Institute of Art, Thursay 29 September, 2016
Conference: Heraldic Badges: From Miniature to Monumental, 1300–1500, Courtauld Institute of Art, Thursay 29 September, 2016 The question of how to represent a person was of great importance to artists and patrons in the later Middle Ages. While much attention has focused on the development of facial likeness in portraiture, the concurrent fashion for expressingContinue reading “Conference: Heraldic Badges: From Miniature to Monumental, 1300–1500, Courtauld Institute of Art, Thursay 29 September, 2016”
Conference: Obra congrua: Girona Cathedral, 1416-2016, University of Girona, October 19-21, 2016
Conference: Obra congrua: Girona Cathedral, 1416-2016, University of Girona, October 19-21, 2016 Programme: Wednesday 19 October 2016 09:00h Opening of the symposium. Institutional introductions. 09:30h Opening lecture: La nave de la Catedral de Girona y la cultura del gótico meridional. Pere Freixas. 10:30h Presentation of the Thematic Network: DOCOGOTHIC Network for documentation of late Gothic architectureContinue reading “Conference: Obra congrua: Girona Cathedral, 1416-2016, University of Girona, October 19-21, 2016”
Conference: Fatimids and Umayyads: Competing Caliphates, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 23-25 September 2016
Conference: Fatimids and Umayyads: Competing Caliphates, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 23-25 September 2016 Relations between the Fatimid caliphate and its neighbour and opponent, the Umayyad caliphate of al-Andalus constitute a field of study that merits careful and extensive consideration. Scholarship has tended to study both dynasties separately and the existing entanglements between the twoContinue reading “Conference: Fatimids and Umayyads: Competing Caliphates, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 23-25 September 2016”
Conference: Greek Manuscripts in the British Library, British Library Conference Centre, 19 September 2016
Click here for the Conference Programme To mark the completion of the third phase of the Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Project and the launch of the Greek Manuscripts Online web resource, the British Library is hosting a one-day conference devoted to Greek Manuscripts on 19 September, 2016. Confirmed participants include Sebastian Brock (Oxford), Charalambos Dendrinos (RoyalContinue reading “Conference: Greek Manuscripts in the British Library, British Library Conference Centre, 19 September 2016”
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