Conference: English Alabaster Carvings: Current Research and Future Prospects (University, of Warwick, 12 September 2014)

Conference: English Alabaster Carvings: Current Research and Future Prospects Friday 12 September 2014, 10.30 – 16.45 University of Warwick IAS Seminar Room, The Institute of Advanced Study, Millburn House, Millburn Hill Road, University of Warwick Science Park, Coventry CV4 7HS Conference Programme 10.30-10.50 Introduction – Zuleika Murat (University of Warwick) 10.50-11.20 Nigel Ramsay (UCL): Introduction: What’sContinue reading “Conference: English Alabaster Carvings: Current Research and Future Prospects (University, of Warwick, 12 September 2014)”

CFP: Medieval Narratives (Saint Louis University, 20-21 February 2015)

Call for Papers: Medieval Narratives 32nd Annual Illinois Medieval Association Saint Louis University, 20-21 February 2015 Deadline: 21 November 2014 We are pleased to announce the 2015 annual conference of the Illinois Medieval Association, co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University. The conference will take place on Saint Louis University’s campus FebruaryContinue reading “CFP: Medieval Narratives (Saint Louis University, 20-21 February 2015)”

CFP: Against Gravity: Building Practices in the Pre-Industrial World (Philadelphia, 20-22 March 2015)

Call for Papers: Against Gravity: Building Practices in the Pre-Industrial World Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, 20-22 March 2015 Deadline: 15 November 2014 Following on the success of “Masons at Work” (held in spring 2012, and published as  http://www.sas.upenn.edu/ancient/publications.html), the symposium aims to assemble specialists to examine building practices in the pre-industrial world, with an emphasis on Greek, Roman,Continue reading “CFP: Against Gravity: Building Practices in the Pre-Industrial World (Philadelphia, 20-22 March 2015)”

CFP: Speculation, Imagination, and Misinterpretation in Art (Tel Aviv, 22-23 March 2015)

Call for Papers: Speculation, Imagination, and Misinterpretation in Art  Tel Aviv University, Israel, 22 – 23 March 2015 Deadline: 10 November 2014 IMAGO– The Israeli Association for Visual Culture of the Middle Ages, and the Art History Department, Tel Aviv University Art history, as we knew it, had changed in the year 1989 with the publication of twoContinue reading “CFP: Speculation, Imagination, and Misinterpretation in Art (Tel Aviv, 22-23 March 2015)”

Conference: Sacred Art in Sacred Collections (Florence, 3 October 14)

Conference: Sacred Art in Sacred Collections  Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici – San Jacopo in Campo Corbolini Via Faenza 43, Florence 3 October 2014 For the second event of our Forum on Museums and Religion, we propose a study day that addresses the particular issues associated with the conservation and display of collections of objects historically belonging to religious institutions—aContinue reading “Conference: Sacred Art in Sacred Collections (Florence, 3 October 14)”

CFP: Vagantes 2015 Medieval Graduate Student Conference (University of Florida, February 2015)

Call for Papers: Vagantes 2015 Medieval Graduate Student Conference Gainesville University, Florida, February 19-21, 2015 Deadline: 3 November 2014 Vagantes, North America’s largest graduate student conference for medieval studies, is seeking submissions for its 2015 meeting at the University of Florida, February 19-21. Since its founding in 2002, Vagantes has nurtured a lively community of junior scholarsContinue reading “CFP: Vagantes 2015 Medieval Graduate Student Conference (University of Florida, February 2015)”

CFP: Nunneries in Medieval Europe: New Historiographical and Methodological Approaches (Kalamazoo 2015)

Call for Papers: Nunneries in Medieval Europe: New Historiographical and Methodological Approaches  Special Sessions at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo,Michigan, 14-17 May 2015 Deadline: 15 September 2014 Although in the last two decades a large amount of research has pointed out different significant issues regarding female monasticism in Europe, partly overcoming the previousContinue reading “CFP: Nunneries in Medieval Europe: New Historiographical and Methodological Approaches (Kalamazoo 2015)”

CFP: Sharing the Holy Land: Perceptions of Shared Sacred Spaces (London, June 12-13 & Leeds, July 6-9, 2015)

Call for Papers: Sharing the Holy Land: Perceptions of Shared Sacred Spaces International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 6-9 July 2015 Deadline: 12 September 2014 A symposium, Sharing the Holy Land: Perceptions of Shared Sacred Space in the Medieval and Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean will be held at The Warburg Institute, in London on 12-13 JuneContinue reading “CFP: Sharing the Holy Land: Perceptions of Shared Sacred Spaces (London, June 12-13 & Leeds, July 6-9, 2015)”

Workshop: Catastrofi e ricostruzioni nei centri storici italiani (Florence, 15 September 2014)

Workshop: Catastrofi e ricostruzioni nei centri storici italiani Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut 15 September 2014 organised by Carmen Belmonte, Elisabetta Scirocco and Gerhard Wolf Le recenti catastrofi sismiche in Abruzzo e in Emilia hanno ancora una volta mostrato la vulnerabilità del patrimonio monumentale italiano. Nonostante gli interventi istituzionali, il lavoro e l’attività scientificaContinue reading “Workshop: Catastrofi e ricostruzioni nei centri storici italiani (Florence, 15 September 2014)”

Call for Papers: Holy Heroes of Reform: Saints and their Roles in Medieval Reformation Movements, from Late Antiquity to the Protestant Reformation (Leeds 2015)

Call for Papers: Holy Heroes of Reform : Saints and their Roles in Medieval Reformation Movements, from Late Antiquity to the Protestant Reformation International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 6-9 July 2015 Deadline: 15 September 2014 Whether involved in local reformations of monastic houses, larger-scale regional reformations such as the Anglo-Saxon Benedictine Reform and theContinue reading “Call for Papers: Holy Heroes of Reform: Saints and their Roles in Medieval Reformation Movements, from Late Antiquity to the Protestant Reformation (Leeds 2015)”