Call for Papers: Medieval Art & Architecture in East Anglia Symposium (Norwich, 7 May 2016)

  Saturday 7th May 2016 Norwich A one day event hosted by the Universities of East Anglia and Cambridge Call for Papers – Deadline 31st Jan 2016 Offers of papers are welcomed from new and established students and scholars on topics concerned with aspects of the production, reception, nature and after-lives of medieval art (visualContinue reading “Call for Papers: Medieval Art & Architecture in East Anglia Symposium (Norwich, 7 May 2016)”

Medieval conference double bill at The Courtauld (19-20 Feb 2016)

Many of our readers will be interested in this double bill of conferences at The Courtauld Institute of Art next month: the annual colloquium, followed by a conference in honour of the late Richard K. Morris. The annual postgraduate colloquium is in its 21st year, and allows current research students both at The Courtauld andContinue reading “Medieval conference double bill at The Courtauld (19-20 Feb 2016)”

CFP: Imaging Utopia – New Perspectives on Northern Renaissance Art (11-13 January 2017)

Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art (University of Leuven), Belgium, 11-13 January 2017 Deadline:  Friday, April 1, 2016 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE The twentieth symposium for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting will be held in Leuven in the context of the major exhibition In Search of Utopia. In 1516, Thomas MoreContinue reading “CFP: Imaging Utopia – New Perspectives on Northern Renaissance Art (11-13 January 2017)”

CFP: Discipline and Excess (Cambridge Friday, April 15, 2016)

DISCIPLINE AND EXCESS A Graduate and Early Career Conference, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge Friday, April 15, 2016 CFP Deadline:  1st February 2016 We invite paper proposals for Discipline and Excess, a conference which seeks to consider questions relating to boundaries and their transgression until 1750. The theme invites diverse interpretations of “discipline”—moral, religious, cultural, aesthetic,Continue reading “CFP: Discipline and Excess (Cambridge Friday, April 15, 2016)”

Conference Review: Seals and Status 800-1700 (British Museum)

From December 4-6, the British Museum was host to Seals and Status 800-1700. Though most topics were centered on the European Middle Ages, the program included speakers on Byzantium who broadened the European context and one each on Southeast Asia and China who provided global breadth. Likewise, the central focus temporally was medieval, but theContinue reading “Conference Review: Seals and Status 800-1700 (British Museum)”

CFP: Marian Iconography East and West (Rijeka, 2-4 June 2016)

Deadline: Mar 30, 2016 Tenth International Conference of Iconographic Studies Center for Iconographic Studies – University of Rijeka (Croatia) in collaboration with: Study of Theology in Rijeka, University of Zagreb (Croatia) University of Thessaly (Greece) University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) Gregorian Pontifical University Rome (Italy) The conference seeks to explore and discuss recent development in the dialogue betweenContinue reading “CFP: Marian Iconography East and West (Rijeka, 2-4 June 2016)”

Call for Papers: Re/Generate – Medieval materiality and reuse (St Andrews, 6-7 May 2016)

Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2016 The University of St Andrews School of Art History in collaboration with the St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies (SAIMS) present Re/generate: Materiality and the Afterlives of Things in the Middle Ages, 500-1500 an interdisciplinary conference on reuse and recycling in medieval Europe taking place on 6-7th May 2016. In recent years, theContinue reading “Call for Papers: Re/Generate – Medieval materiality and reuse (St Andrews, 6-7 May 2016)”

Conference: Medieval Tombs and their Spatial Contexts. Strategies of Commemoration in Christianity and Islam, University of Tubingen (18-20 February 2016)

Medieval Tombs and their Spatial Contexts. Strategies of Commemoration in Christianity and Islam University of Tubingen, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Alte Burse, Bursagasse 1, Raum X, 72070 Tübingen, Germany, Conference: February 18 – 20, 2016. Registration deadline: Feb 15, 2016 The idea that the shaping of tombs and funeral places goes beyond aspects of personal welfare and mirrors social functions and meanings of commemorationContinue reading “Conference: Medieval Tombs and their Spatial Contexts. Strategies of Commemoration in Christianity and Islam, University of Tubingen (18-20 February 2016)”

Conference cycle: Visibility and presence of the iamge in the ecclesiastical space: Byzantium and the Western Middle Ages. Paris, 18 February – 16 June 2016

Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, salle Vasari, 2 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris, February 18, 2016, February 18 – June 16, 2016 Cycle de conférences Visibilité et présence de l’image dans l’espace ecclésial. Byzance et Moyen Age occidental Les jeudis 18 février, 24 mars, 19 mai et 16 juin 2016 INHA, salle Vasari (salle Jullian le 16 juinContinue reading “Conference cycle: Visibility and presence of the iamge in the ecclesiastical space: Byzantium and the Western Middle Ages. Paris, 18 February – 16 June 2016”

Conference: Celtic Revivals: Authenticity and Identity Conference, London 16-17 January 2016

Celtic Revivals: Authenticity and Identity Conference British Museum, January 16 – 17, 2016 Although the Celtic Revival is usually associated with the late 19th century, this conference will demonstrate how it constitutes a whole series of revivals, beginning in the medieval period and continuing into the modern. Leading art and design historians, archaeologists and curators will presentContinue reading “Conference: Celtic Revivals: Authenticity and Identity Conference, London 16-17 January 2016”