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Tours & Workshops: Revenants and Remains, Autumn 2022
This autumn, English Heritage has teamed up with Manchester Metropolitan University to organise a series of free weekend events at monasteries in northern England themed around their historical associations with the supernatural.
Online Course: IUS ILLUMINATUM: Legal Illuminated Manuscripts Between Art, History and Literature (29 August – 9 September 2022)
The IUS ILLUMINATUM International Summer Course will take place under the purview of the “Escola de Verão” of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (FCSH) of the NOVA University in Lisbon 2022 on the topic: Legal Illuminated Manuscripts Between Art, History and Literature. The course will run online from 29 August to 09 SeptemberContinue reading “Online Course: IUS ILLUMINATUM: Legal Illuminated Manuscripts Between Art, History and Literature (29 August – 9 September 2022)”
Online Course: Religious Cultural Heritage: Concepts and Issues in the Modern Middle East (14 & 21 October 2022)
This is a two-day introductory course on the theme of religious cultural heritage (RCH) in the Middle East. It aims to contextualise RCH as the living cultural heritage of its community of users. In addition, the course attempts to present RCH as a contemporary construct of its socio-political and religious context through its connections toContinue reading “Online Course: Religious Cultural Heritage: Concepts and Issues in the Modern Middle East (14 & 21 October 2022)”
Summer School: FORMA, FUNZIONE, TECNICA E MATERIA. GENESI E SVILUPPO DEL POLITTICO GOTICO A SIENA (26-30 September 2022)
The Università per Stranieri of Siena, in partnership with the Opera della Metropolitana of Siena, is organizing a Summer School in Higher Education dedicated to the genesis and development of the Gothic polyptych in Siena. Conceived as a seminar, the course combines lectures and visits to the complex of the Opera della Metropolitana, to publicContinue reading “Summer School: FORMA, FUNZIONE, TECNICA E MATERIA. GENESI E SVILUPPO DEL POLITTICO GOTICO A SIENA (26-30 September 2022)”
Short Course: ‘Islam and Creativity in Popular Culture’, Online 12, 19 and 26 September 2022, 13:30 – 16:00 BST
This is a three-day online course that addresses the many new expressions of mass mediated creative arts that make reference to Islam. These expressions may be motivated by a wish to express an Islamic interpretation or spirituality, but they may also be for other reasons, such as from anti-racism or critical perspectives. Muslims, as wellContinue reading “Short Course: ‘Islam and Creativity in Popular Culture’, Online 12, 19 and 26 September 2022, 13:30 – 16:00 BST”
Call for Participants: ‘Revoicing Medieval Poetry’, Online, May-June 2022
Revoicing Medieval Poetry will offer a workshop-conversation space for researchers, artists and practitioners who are engaged in exploring how, why, and to what effects medieval poetry is translated, reused, and resourced in twentieth- and twenty-first-century creative practices.
Course: ‘The History of Science in the Medieval World’ Summer School, St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo, 18th-22nd July 2022 (Deadline 29th April 2022)
In its pilot edition, the Summer School will problematize the medieval manuscript and approach it as a space and as a territory.
Course: “Fresco-Hunting” Photo Research Expedition to Medieval Balkan Churches, 21st May – 4th June 2022 (Deadline 21st April 2022)
The field school is designed for students and young specialists in heritage, archaeology and conservation as well as artists.
Workshop: Graduate Workshop on Diversity in the Medieval Middle East, 16th-20th May 2022 (Deadline 4th April 2022)
The workshop will invite graduate students to present a proposed topic for future research, while introducing participants to often overlooked evidence and scholarly resources for exploring diversity in the medieval Middle East.
Medieval Art Research 