Category Archives: Conferences

Symposium: ‘The Image of the Book: Representing the Codex from Antiquity to the Present’, Philadelphia, 16-18 Nov 2023, (in-person and online)

The 16th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium will explore the role of visual representations in understanding pre-modern books and launch the BASIRA project.

British Archaeological Association Post-Graduate Online Conference Programme, 29 November 2023, 12.30pm – 17.35pm (GMT)

The British Archaeological Association is thrilled to present the programme for their upcoming online postgraduate conference!

Conference: ‘Reliquary busts between Italy and Europe (XII-XVIth centuries’, 22-24 Sep 2023

This conference follows the exhibition ‘Gold and Silver Portraits exhibition. Medieval reliquaries in Piedmont, Valle d’Aosta, Switzerland and Savoy’.

Conference: ‘Visualizing Drugs & Dyes. Art and Pharmacology in (Early) Medieval Worlds (600–1400)’, 4-6 Sep 2023, University of Basel

Attend online or in person this wonderful conference all about the role of plants within material practice and medicine.

Colloquium: “Secular Knowledge in Medieval Art,” XIII ARS MEDIAEVALIS COLLOQUIUM, Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia), 6-8 October 2023

A substantial part of the scientific knowledge developed in the Middle Ages was inherited from Roman (in Western Europe) and Greek (in the Byzantine and Islamic domains) culture. However, new cognitive procedures were also developed in medieval societies, among them some related to vision, astronomy or zoology. Knowledge of the secular world was translated andContinue reading “Colloquium: “Secular Knowledge in Medieval Art,” XIII ARS MEDIAEVALIS COLLOQUIUM, Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia), 6-8 October 2023″

Study day: ‘The Invention of Greek origins in the textual and visual cultures of pre-modern Europe (1100-1600)’, University of Lille, 30th June 2023

Join the ERC AGRELITA for this study day at the University of Lille.

Conference: “Ethiopians Abroad in the Middle Ages”, Ecole francaise de Rome, 23rd-26th May 2023

The international conference of the ERC project HornEast (Horn & Crescent. Connections, Mobility and Exchange between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East in the Middle Ages). The project offers the first comprehensive study of medieval connections between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East in both Christian and Islamic contexts.

Symposium: “Intersections: Encounters with Medieval and Renaissance Textiles, 1100-1550”, The 28th Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Monday 22nd May 2023, 9am-6:30pm (BST)

The theme of this symposium centres on how Medieval and Renaissance textiles, real and depicted, combine, overlap or intersect in different ways.

Conference: Encountering Other People: Material Religion and Cultural Exchanges in Medieval Accounts of Asia, University of Fribourg, 3rd May 2023

This conference contextualizes the experiences of travellers within the religious landscape of Medieval Asia.