The symposium is part of programming for the Unfolding Time exhibition, on medieval ‘pocket’ calendars, which looks at the way the concertina format was deployed in late medieval Europe, with a focus on England. In-person attendees will have the opportunity to visit the exhibition and play with concertina facsimiles.
Category Archives: Symposiums
Symposium: ‘Tombs of the Aristocracy’, Church Monuments Society, 29-31 August 2025, West Dean College
The Church Monuments Society is delighted to invite you to the next symposium which will be held at West Dean College from Friday 29th to Sunday 31st August 2025.
Symposium: ‘From Jean le Bon to Good Duke Humfrey: a new manuscript witness to Anglo-French cultural exchange’, Weston Library, Friday 21 March 2025, 11am–5pm (GMT)
This symposium provides a first opportunity to explore the recently acquired unknown manuscript from the library of Humfrey Duke of Gloucester.
‘Afterlives: Reusing the Past’ – A Day of Short Papers to celebrate the Life of Jill Franklin, Tuesday 30 April 2024
The Society of Antiquaries, British Archaeological Association, and the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland are coming together to host a day of celebration in honour of Jill Franklin.
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.
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.
Symposium: ‘Medieval Matters: A Symposium in honour of Professor Miri Rubin’, 29-30 June 2023, QMUL School of History, London
Join this two day Symposium in honour of Professor Miri Rubin.
Hybrid Symposium: Consortium Medievalists: ‘Sensory Experiences Across Medieval Communities’, Fordham University, New York, Saturday 6 May 2023
The Consortium Medievalists is excited to invite you to our 2023 symposium, Sensory Experiences Across Medieval Communities, on May 6 2023.
Colloquium: Revisiting the Cloisters Cross: A One-day Colloquium, Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, London, Friday 12th May 2023, 10.30am-6.30pm (BST)
This one-day colloquium, jointly held by the British Archaeological Association and The Courtauld, will review and extend the debates about the origins and history of the Cloisters Cross.
Symposium: ‘Bringing the Holy Land Home’, Rehm Library College of the Holy Cross, Saturday 25 March 2023
In conjunction with the Cantor Art Gallery exhibition, Bringing the Holy Land Home, this daylong symposium explores the impact that the Crusades had on medieval western Europe.