Call for Sessions: ‘360° – Places, Boundaries, Global Perspectives,’ IV Forum Medieval Art

Call for Sessions: ‘360° – Places, Boundaries, Global Perspectives,’ IV Forum Medieval Art, Berlin and Brandenburg, September 20 – 23, 2017 Deadline: June 1, 2016. The 4th Forum Medieval Art will focus on research at the geographical and methodological boundaries of classical medieval studies. The various venues in Berlin and Brandenburg are the starting point, where, onContinue reading “Call for Sessions: ‘360° – Places, Boundaries, Global Perspectives,’ IV Forum Medieval Art”

CFP: Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar @QMUL

Call for papers: Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar @ the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary, University of London, June 23-24, 2016. Deadline: 25 April 2016 Papers concerning any aspect of the literature, language, history and culture of the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages will be considered. They will be delivered in eitherContinue reading “CFP: Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar @QMUL”

CFP: Modelling Medieval Vaults symposium at the University of Liverpool in London, 14 July 2016.

Call for Papers: Modelling Medieval Vaults symposium University of Liverpool in London, Finsbury Square,  July 14, 2016. Deadline: 30 April 2016 The use of digital surveying and analysis techniques, such as laser scanning, photogrammetry, 3D reconstructions or reverse engineering offers the opportunity to re-examine historic works of architecture. In the context of medieval vaults, this hasContinue reading “CFP: Modelling Medieval Vaults symposium at the University of Liverpool in London, 14 July 2016.”

CFP: Textile Gifts in the Middle Ages – Objects, Actors, and Representations

Call for Papers: Textile Gifts in the Middle Ages – Objects, Actors, and Representations (Textilschenkungen im Mittelalter) Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rome, November 3-4 2016. Deadline: March 24, 2016 As art history has given greater attention to material culture and its social contexts as a whole, the applied arts have also re-entered the scopeContinue reading “CFP: Textile Gifts in the Middle Ages – Objects, Actors, and Representations”

The Courtauld Institute of Art Third Year PhD Symposium: Showcasing New Research 2016

The Courtauld Institute of Art Third Year PhD Symposium: Showcasing New Research The Courtauld Institute of Art, London March 10-11, 2016 The Symposium is a platform for third year PhD students to present their research and to initiate critical discussion about their materials, media and approaches with a broad scholarly audience. The papers tabled coverContinue reading “The Courtauld Institute of Art Third Year PhD Symposium: Showcasing New Research 2016”

CFP: The Economy of Dress and Textiles: Avenues of Trade, Production and Consumption in the Early Modern Period

Call for Papers: The Economy of Dress and Textiles:  Avenues of Trade, Production and Consumption in the Early Modern Period University of Bologna, Dipartimento di Storia Culture e Civiltà, San Giovanni in Monte, Bologna, Italy, September 15, 2016 Deadline: Apr 30, 2016 The cloth and textile market is of central importance to the late medievalContinue reading “CFP: The Economy of Dress and Textiles: Avenues of Trade, Production and Consumption in the Early Modern Period”

CFP: Construir lo sagrado en la Europa románica: reliquia, espacio, imagen y rito – VI coloquio Ars Mediaevalis

Call for Papers: Construir lo sagrado en la Europa románica: reliquia, espacio, imagen y rito – VI coloquio Ars Mediaevalis Fundación Santa María la Real del Patrimonio Histórico, Avda. Ronda, 1-3; Monasterio de Santa María la Real; Centro Cultural Provincial (Diputación de Palencia) in Aguilar de Campóo, Spain, September 30 – October 2, 2016 Deadline:Continue reading “CFP: Construir lo sagrado en la Europa románica: reliquia, espacio, imagen y rito – VI coloquio Ars Mediaevalis”

CFP: The lettering of prints. Forms and functions of writing in the printed image in 16th-century Europe.

  Call for Papers: The lettering of prints. Forms and functions of writing in the printed image in 16th-century Europe. Paris, Centre André Chastel, Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), November 17 – 18, 2016 Deadline: Mar 31, 2016   Words, titles, legends, commentaries, artists’ names, privileges – necessarily – fine speeches, addresses to the “reader”, showy dedications.Continue reading “CFP: The lettering of prints. Forms and functions of writing in the printed image in 16th-century Europe.”

CFP: Treasure in heaven, treasures on Earth: the secular world and material consumption in Western European monasticism c.1050 – c. 1250, 21-23rd September 2016, Hatfield College, Durham University

CALL FOR PAPERS Treasure in heaven, treasures on Earth: the secular world and material consumption in Western European monasticism c.1050 – c. 1250 21-23rd September 2016, Hatfield College, Durham University Deadline: 1st June 2016 Abstracts are invited for a conference entitled ‘Treasure in heaven, treasures on Earth: the secular world and material consumption in WesternContinue reading “CFP: Treasure in heaven, treasures on Earth: the secular world and material consumption in Western European monasticism c.1050 – c. 1250, 21-23rd September 2016, Hatfield College, Durham University”

Symposium: The 49th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (18–20 March 2016)

Inscribing Texts in Byzantium: Continuities & Transformations Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Exeter College, Oxford, 18–20 March 2016 In spite of the striking abundance of extant primary material – over 4000 Greek texts produced in the period between the sixth and fifteenth centuries – Byzantine Epigraphy remains largely uncharted territory, with a reputationContinue reading “Symposium: The 49th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (18–20 March 2016)”