Conference: Anglo-Saxons 2016 – Exchange: Cultures, Ideas, and Materials

Conference: Anglo-Saxons 2016 – Exchange: Cultures, Ideas, and Materials, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, June 9-10, 2016 Anglo-Saxons 2016 is a two-day conference hosted by the University of Edinburgh. It will bring postgraduate and early career researchers from eight countries and an equally large range of disciplines together to present their diverse researchContinue reading “Conference: Anglo-Saxons 2016 – Exchange: Cultures, Ideas, and Materials”

CFP: Artistic Dialogue during the Middle Ages. Islamic Art – Mudéjar Art

Call for Papers: Artistic Dialogue during the Middle Ages. Islamic Art – Mudéjar Art, Córdoba, Casa Arabe, November 18 – 20, 2016 Deadline: Apr 30, 2016 The research about Spain’s medieval cultural heritage has experienced a great development in the last centuries. With the reassessment of the legacy of al-Andalus and of the Reign of Castile andContinue reading “CFP: Artistic Dialogue during the Middle Ages. Islamic Art – Mudéjar Art”

Conference: Paper and Parchment: Medieval Music, Architectural Drawings, and Illuminated Books

Conference: Paper and Parchment: Medieval Music, Architectural Drawings, and Illuminated Books, Kyle Morrow Room, 3rd Floor, Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, Texas, April 6, 2016   Co-sponsored by the Minter Chair and the Department of Art History. Free and open to the public. Schedule: 9:30–9:45 a.m. Welcome 9:45–11:45 a.m. Session No. 1: New Directions inContinue reading “Conference: Paper and Parchment: Medieval Music, Architectural Drawings, and Illuminated Books”

International Symposium on the Freisinger Lukasbild: A Byzantine Icon and Its Millenary History

Conference: Internationales Symposium zum Freisinger Lukasbild: Eine byzantinische Ikone und ihre tausendjährige Geschichte, Diözesanmuseum, Freising, Germany, April 21-22, 2016. Registration closes April 7, 2016. The Treasury of the Cathedral of Freisinger has held since 1440 a Byzantine icon with a priceless metalwork frame, traditionally attributed to the hand of St Luke. The international Symposium willContinue reading “International Symposium on the Freisinger Lukasbild: A Byzantine Icon and Its Millenary History”

CFP: Pastoralia in the Late Middle Ages: Teaching, Translation, Transmission

Call for Papers: Pastoralia in the Late Middle Ages: Teaching, Translation, Transmission, The University of Kent, Canterbury, June 24-25, 2016 Deadline: 18 March 2016 Pastoralia–the corpora of catechetical, homiletic and pastoral texts designed to aid in teaching the tenets of Christianity to the laity –flourished in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council’s plea forContinue reading “CFP: Pastoralia in the Late Middle Ages: Teaching, Translation, Transmission”

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”