PhD Position: Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond: Training the New Generation of Researchers in Health Humanities (StoryPharm), deadline 15 December 2024

The StoryPharm project is pleased to announce 4 three-year Special Scientist PhD in Medieval Art History with a generous research allowance in an international, multi- partner EU project, employment beginning between June and August 2025.

The StoryPharm project, which is funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action – Doctoral Networks – Grant Agreement 101169114, is announcing a total of 19 PhD fellowships within the training programme “Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond: Training the New Generation of Researchers in Health Humanities” (https://www.ucy.ac.cy/storypharm/).

The focus of the project will be on premodern narratives and images involving medicine, health, and healing. These will be studied from a transdisciplinary and comparative perspective, across linguistic and cultural borders. 

This international doctoral network, funded by the European Marie Skłodowska-Curie program, involves the universities of Cyprus (leading institution), Salerno, Bamberg, Lund, and Cardiff. It aims to recruit 19 medieval studies researchers with excellent salaries.

In particular, we would like to draw attention to the positions related to Medieval Art History:

StoryPharm Fellow 7: “Images of Christ’s Miraculous Healings between Medical Awareness and Social Inclusion (9th–11th c. CE)” (Salerno, Italy, Project 2).

  • The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Maddalena Vaccaro (Salerno) and Katharina Schüppel (Bamberg).

StoryPharm Fellow 11: “The Pictorial Narratives of Herbal Medicine in Dioscorides’ De materia medica” (Lund, Sweden, Project 2).

  • The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Christian Høgel (Lund) and Katharina Schüppel (Bamberg).

StoryPharm Fellow 14: “Ecologies of Healing: Visual Storytelling in Medieval Medical Manuscripts and Herbals” (Bamberg, Germany, Project 3).

  • The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Katharina Schüppel (Bamberg) and Maddalena Vaccaro (Salerno).

StoryPharm Fellow 15: “The Healthy Place: Architecture and Images for Healing Devotional Experiences in Southern Italy in a Mediterranean Context” (Salerno, Italy, Project 3).

  • The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Maddalena Vaccaro (Salerno) and Maria Parani (Cyprus).

Applications, including the submission of a research proposal on the indicated topics, will be accepted from October 15 to December 15, 2024, according to the guidelines in the calls.

We also encourage you to consult the General Call, which outlines all the individual projects, including research in historical, philological, and literary disciplines, as well as Byzantine studies.

All calls are available on the dedicated project page, and we remain personally available for any clarification:
https://www.ucy.ac.cy/storypharm/vacancies/
Maddalena Vaccaro, University of Salerno: mavaccaro@unisa.it
Katharina Schüppel, University of Bamberg: katharina.schueppel@uni-bamberg.de

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Lecture Series: British Archaeological Association Programme of Meetings 2024-2025

The British Archaeological Association holds regular monthly lectures on the first Wednesday of each month between October and May in the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE.

The lectures are open to all and provide an opportunity for professionals, students and independent scholars to present research that falls within the BAA’s areas of interest.  We aim to cover both British and European topics that are susceptible to art-historical, archaeological, architectural, and historiographical investigation between the Roman period and the 19th century, but with a bias towards the medieval period.

Tea is served from 4.30 p.m. and the Chair is taken at 5.00 p.m. 

Find out more information here.

Lecture series programme:

6 November 2024

Dr Niamh Bhalla, ‘Newman University Church, Dublin: Architectural revivalism in the British Isles and the authority of form’

4 December 2024

Dr Michalis Olympios, ‘CoNUNdrum: Gleanings from 800 square metres of Salvage Excavation at the Cistercian Nunnery of St Theodore in Nicosia, Cyprus’

6 January 2025

Dr Nicola Coldstream, ‘Crowd-funding in the Architectural Patronage of Late Medieval English Merchants’

5 February 2025

Dr Katharine Harrison, ‘Crafting St Cuthbert: Narrative in the St Cuthbert Window, York Minster’

5 March 2025

Dr Alfred Hiatt, ‘The Antonine Itinerary and the Invention of Roman Britain’

2 April 2025

Professor Joanna Olchawa, ‘The Püsterich of Sondershausen: Explosive Bronze Figures between Art and Science’

7 May 2025

Dr Jackie Hall, ‘The Lost Cloister of Southwark Priory’

Postdoctoral Fellowship: Dan David Society of Fellows, deadline 15 December 2024

The Dan David Society of Fellows is accepting applications for outstanding postdoctoral research in the study of the past. This two-year fellowship offers generous funding for international and Israeli scholars to conduct innovative research at Tel Aviv University, while benefiting from professional mentorship offered by faculty members.

The fellowship is open to candidates from all disciplines studying the human past, including but not limited to history, archaeology, art history, history of education, history of science, technology and medicine, physical anthropology, literature, philosophy, and digital humanities. Applicants must have completed their PhD between October 1, 2020, and September 1, 2025.


Researchers who completed their PhD at Tel Aviv University are not eligible for the fellowship. Candidates who have not yet completed their degree should attach a formal statement signed by their institution indicating the prospective date of submission. Applicants who took parental leave are entitled to add an extra year for each child born since receiving their PhD.

The fellowship is awarded to suitable candidates, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, or age. The Dan David program is committed to excellence, interdisciplinarity, diversity, and equity.

Up to four fellowships will be awarded for a maximum of two years each, beginning October 1, 2025. Those accepted to the program must commit to completing a full two-year term. Fellows will be asked to spend at least three days a week at Tel Aviv University and be active members of the university’s scholarly community. They will be required to fully participate in the activities of the Dan David Society of Fellows, including a twice-monthly seminar dedicated to  utting-edge methodologies and historiographic approaches, and to present their research to the other fellows once a year. The program’s academic activities will all be conducted in English.

Fellows will receive an annual scholarship of $40,000.
Additional research and travel funding may be available.
Non-Israeli fellows will also be eligible for subsidized on-campus housing.

Applications must be submitted in English and should include:

  • A comprehensive CV, including a list of publications and
    research languages
  • A statement of research plans (maximum 5 pages)
  • A summary of the PhD dissertation (maximum 1 page)
  • Two letters of recommendation:
    • One from the applicant’s doctoral supervisor(s). If there are multiple supervisors, a joint letter is required.
    • One from a scholar outside the applicant’s university.

The deadline for applications for the 2025-2027 academic years is December 15, 2024.

The application process is completed online: https://en-humanities.tau.ac.il/dan-david-fellows-form

Candidates will be informed of the decision regarding their application by April 202

Online lecture: ‘The Winter Sun in Capricorn: Portal Imagery in Chaucer & Chartres Cathedral’ with Shelley Williams, American Friends of Chartres, 25 October 2024 (19.30-21.00pm EDT)

Join the American Friends of Chartres to find out how Chaucer’s poetic description inspired by the Labors of the Month matches the art of the north porch and portail royal.

At the dead center of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale, part of his Canterbury Tales written in Middle English between 1385-1400, is a striking visual emblem. This passage describes the feeling of winter when the sun is in the zodiac sign Capricorn, and then describes the Roman god Janus sitting by a Christmas feast. It was long ago recognized that this image was derived from the Labors of the Month tradition, a medieval motif in art which pairs zodiac signs with seasonal work or occupations. If this is so, then which version of the Labors of the Month, exactly? Are there visual matches with Chaucer’s poetic description and extant contemporary art? The answer is surprising: the only precise match with Chaucer’s emblem is at Notre-dame de Chartres, on the north porch and portail royal. I explore these analogous images and consider what this parallel may indicate, both for Chaucer’s tale and the cathedral sculptures.

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Conference: Owning Gothic Ivories: Buying, Giving, Circulating, British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum, 25-26 October 2024

Over the last three decades, research on Gothic ivories has seen a significant shift from studies concerned with stylistic attribution and classification towards the investigation of their materiality, iconography, function, and – last but not least – patronage. Although we now have a much better understanding of the social, devotional, and cultural contexts in which especially religious ivories were commissioned and produced, overall, we still know comparatively little about the owners of Gothic ivories. This is especially true for the secular sphere, where it has not yet been possible to link any surviving fourteenth-century carving to its first owner.

This conference aims to return to the question of the ownership of Gothic ivories, an area which offers great potential for further discoveries, particularly (but not only) through the combination of art historical object analysis with evaluations of contemporary written sources such as inventories, wills, and other documents. Illuminating the stories of historic owners, be they individuals or institutions, and their Gothic ivories is the first aim of this two-day conference, while the second is to shed light on the later life of these objects, and on their transition into new ownership contexts and uses.

Organised by Manuela Studer-Karlen (University of Bern), Naomi Speakman (British Museum, London) and Michaela Zöschg (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).

This conference is supported by the project “Love and War. Secular images on Gothic ivories”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Venue

  • 25th October: The British Museum, Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Great Russell Street, London
  • 26th October: Victoria & Albert Museum, Hochhauser Auditorium, Cromwell Road, London

Registration

Please note that attendees will need to book a separate ticket for each day. 

If you would like to receive a notification when booking is activated, please email Michaela Zöschg at m.zoschg@vam.ac.uk

Conference Programme

DAY 1: Friday, 25 October 2024, The British Museum

10.00 – 10.30: Registration and coffee

10.30 – 10.40: Welcome

Manuela Studer-Karlen & Naomi Speakman

10.40 – 11.00: The Ivories Study Group

Neil Stratford and Paul Williamson, London

11.00 – 12.30: SESSION 1: Religious Owners 

Chair: Catherine Yvard

  • Was There a Franciscan Patronage of Gothic Ivories? (Charles Little, New York)
  • Reading Sources on Prelates as Owners of Gothic Ivories (13th-14th centuries) (Michele Tomasi, Lausanne)
  • Navigating the Anticlerical Laws Storm: Circulation and Art Market Dynamics of the Certosa di Pavia Ivories between the 18th and 19th Centuries (Flaminia Ferlito, Lucca)

12.00: Discussion

12.30 – 13.30: Break

13.30 – 15.00: SESSION 2: Objects in Focus

Chair: Michaela Zöschg

  • Reflecting on Memory: Donors, Owners and Exemplars (Iris Ippel, Leiden)
  • The Lives and Afterlives of the Ivory Crozier of Archbishop Walter de Gray (Sophie Kelly, Bristol)
  • Write, Pray, Love – Owning an Ivory Booklet Throughout the Centuries (Svea Janzen, Jena)

14.30: Discussion

15.00 – 15.20: Coffee break

15.20 – 16.50: SESSION 3: Networks and Mobility

Chair: Lloyd de Beer

  • About Lost Objects: Gothic Ivories at the Court of Savoy According to the ‘Comptes de l’hôtel’ and the Castle Inventories (Simonetta Castronovo, Turin)
  • Quest for Ivory in the Kingdom of Bohemia: Imports, Substitutes, and National Historiography (Milan Matejka, Zurich)
  • ‘Let them pass freely when they go and come back to us’: The Florentine Merchant Baldassare degli Ubriachi and the Circulation of Gothic Ivories (Joanne Morice, Melbourne)

16.20: Discussion

16.50 – 17.00: Closing Remarks Day 1

DAY 2: Saturday, 26 October 2024, Victoria & Albert Museum

10.00 – 10.30: Registration and coffee

10.30 – 10.40: Welcome

James Robinson & Michaela Zöschg

10.40 – 12.40: SESSION 1: Collectors in Focus

Chair: James Robinson

  • The Ivory Collection of Nicole Gilles and Marie Turquam, a Parisian Bourgeois Couple, c. 1500 (Sarah Dyer Magleby, Kansas)
  • Collecting Gothic Ivories in the Time of Production: Queen Clémence of Hungary’s Ivories (Paula Mae Carns, Illinois)
  • Staging Ivories in 19th-century Paris: the Spitzer Collection (Paola Cordera, Milan)
  • Prince Władysław Czartoryski (1828–1894) as a Collector of Gothic Ivories (Elżbieta Musialik, Krakow)

12.00: Discussion

12.30 – 13.30: Break

13.30 – 15.00: SESSION 2: Displaying Gothic Ivories

Chair: Naomi Speakman

  • ‘Your ivories attracted a great deal of attention’: Display of the Mayer Collection of Ivories from 1850 to the Present (Nicola Scott, Liverpool)
  • Love & Reproduction: The Visual Biography of a Gothic Ivory Mirror Back (Tom Nickson, London)
  • From Gothic to ‘Medieval Style’: Perceptions of Fakery in Gothic Ivories, 1915-1930 (Marian Bleeke, Cleveland)

14.30: Discussion

15.00 – 15.20: Coffee Break

15.20 – 16.50: SESSION 3: Later Interpretations

Chair: Manuela Studer-Karlen

  • Beyond Late Antique Diptychs. Re-reading the Thesaurus by A. Francesco Gori in Search of Gothic Ivories (Benedetta Chiesi, Milan)
  • Gothic Ivories in the Treasures of Saint-Étienne d’Auxerre and Saint-Étienne de Sens: Medieval Artefacts and 19th-20th Century Scholars (Chloé Cazalet, Auxerre)
  • The Biography of a Fictile Collection (Jack Hartnell, London)

16.20: Discussion

16.50 – 17.00: Closing Remarks Day 2

Online conference: British Archaeological Association Post-Graduate Online Conference, Thursday 28th November 2024, 12.20pm-17.30pm (GMT)

The British Archaeological Association are excited to present a diverse conference which includes postgraduates and early career researchers in the fields of medieval history of art, architecture, and archaeology. The British Archaeological Association postgraduate conference offers an opportunity for research students at all levels from universities across the UK and abroad to present their research and exchange ideas.

The conference will take place online via Zoom.

Use this link to register for the conference.

Conference Programme: Thursday 28th November 2024

12.20 pm (GMT) Welcome

Panel 1: Sacred Spaces and Monumental Art

12.30 pm – 14.10 pm (GMT)

Chair: John McNeil

  • Isabella Schwarzer (Courtauld Institute of Art) – Reconsidering the Effigy of Archbishop Konrad of Hochstaden (d. 1261): Pathways of Metal Bodies in Cologne Cathedral
  • Klaudia Śnieżek (Jagiellonian University in Cracow) – Niccolò’s Influence and Lombard Roots in the Romanesque Sculpture of Czerwińsk Abbey
  • Tanja Kilzer M.A. M.A. (University of Trier) – Knights and Angels: The Discovery and Iconographic Programme of Romanesque Frescoes in the Chapel of Hohenwerfen Castle, Austria
  • Jules Teal (Northeastern University London) – Doom Painting in the East of England: Resurrection and Redemption at Waltham

14.10 pm – 14.20 pm (GMT) Break 

Panel 2: Devotional Objects and Personalised Practices

14.30 – 15.50 pm (GMT)

  • Anastasios Kantaras (Doctor of the School of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)) – Incised Enkolpia as Amulets in Byzantium: Magic or Faith?
  • Jillian Reid (London Museum) – Leaving her Mark: Seal Matrices and ‘Objectifying’ Women in Medieval Britain
  • Caroline Croasdaile (University of Oxford) – Strings of Time: Prayer Beads as Customisable Sites for the Curation of Memory

15.50 pm – 16.00 pm (GMT) Break

Panel 3: Reconsiderations and Rediscovering Medieval Material Culture

16.00 – 17.20 pm (GMT)

  • Sophia Adams (Courtauld Institute of Art) – The Early History of Beinecke MS 410 and its Display
  • Akari Takatsuka (University of Durham) – The Chertsey Tiles Tristram Series: A Reappraisal
  • Lúcia Valdevino (IHA – NOVA FCSH) – English Medieval Alabasters in Portuguese Collections

17.20 – 17.30 pm (GMT) Closing remarks

End of conference

Zoom talk: ‘Claus Sluter’s Well of Moses for the chartreuse de Champmol, Philip the Bold and the battle of Nicopolis’ with Susie Nash and Alexandra Gajewski, Wednesday 16 October, 5pm (BST)

The Great Cross (Well of Moses) at the Chartreuse de Champmol (1396-1404), built by Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy, is one of the most extraordinary and striking late medieval monuments.

In an article in this month’s Burlington Magazine, Professor Susie Nash offers a new reading of its imagery in the context of the failed Burgundian crusading ambitions, and provides a compelling explanation for its form and purpose. Professor Nash (The Courtauld) and Dr Alexandra Gajewski (The Burlington Magazine) will discuss the imagery and the circumstances of the creation of the work with reference to the article and the author’s three preceding articles published on the subject in the Burlington.

Professor Susie Nash has taught at the Courtauld since 1993, specialising in the art of northern Europe during the late medieval and Renaissance periods. She works on a wide range of panel painting, sculpture, textiles, metalwork, and illuminated manuscripts from across northern Europe, including Spain. She is particularly interested in the work of art as a physical object, considering its materials, making, condition, conservation history, afterlife, and reception, combining evidence from primary sources with the first-hand examination of the work itself.

Her current research projects focus on the Valois courts of France in the late 14th and early 15th centuries and include a book, Making Lists, about the Valois brothers Charles V, Louis of Anjou, Jean de Berry, and Philip the Bold, and their inventories. She is also working on a study of the Libretto of Louis of Anjou and its biography, the de Limbourgs and their interest in Italian painting, and ongoing work on the monuments at the Chartreuse de Champmol in Dijon, particularly the tombs of the Dukes of Burgundy. Additionally, she is working on a book about the Seilern Triptych in the Courtauld Collection and on paintings on parchment created as independent objects.

Dr Alexandra Gajewski, FSA, is the Deputy Editor of The Burlington Magazine and a fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, London. Her research focuses on Gothic architecture in Burgundy, monasticism, medieval women and Avignon as a papal residence.

Find out more on the London Art Week website.

Online seminar: ‘Trans Theory as Method in Manuscript Studies’ with J. D. Sargan, 15 October 2024, (5:30PM – 7:00PM (BST))

Modern bibliographical methods developed within the structures western imperialism and kyriarchical power as an investment in the construction of nationalist cultural heritage. This genesis has left a legacy, both in the unspoken investments of the field, and in the methodological manoeuvres needed to overcome them. This talk offers queer and trans theory as a tactic for negotiating this legacy. Building on work in trans studies, and on the interventions of archivists and scholars of later periods, it demonstrates how re-theorizing the methods of manuscript studies allows us to see through the material record to the communal relations and dissident experiences that underlie it.

Speaker: J. D. Sargan (University of Georgia)

This event is part of the London Palaeography Seminar Series.

Book your place on the IES website.

Conference: Southeast European Silversmithing: Artisans, Donors, and the Concept of Piety during the Early Modern Period, Sofia, Bulgaria, 17-18 October 2024

On 17th and 18th October 2024 in Sofia (Bulgaria) will be held the international scientific conference “Southeast European Silversmithing: Artisans, Donors, and the Concept of Piety during the Early Modern Period.” The conference aims to gather specialists studying sacral silver objects from the early modern period who, through their research, contribute to the field of applied arts with religious use. The scientific forum will enable the presentation of sacral silver objects still far unpublished and unknown to the academic community. It will stimulate the comparative analysis of silversmiths’ works in wide geographic regions, which will also help improve the methodological means of their interpretation. A more meticulous approach to this field will represent a valuable contribution to art historical scholarship and a more comprehensive understanding of the visual culture of the early modern period.

At the conference, 26 specialists from prestigious scientific organisations, universities, and cultural institutions from Austria, Armenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, the USA, Serbia, and Hungary will discuss issues related to the production and circulation of liturgical objects, as well as their role in shaping the pious image of the faithful in Southeastern Europe between the 15th and 19th centuries.


Academic Committee

  • Darina Boykina, PhD, Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
    Mateja Jerman, PhD, Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Croatia
    Vuk Dautović, PhD, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Conference locations:


Thursday 17 October 2024

  • Sofia, 6A Moskovska Str., Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Conference Hall 19

Friday 18 October 2024

  • Sofia, 21 Krakra Str., Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Conference Hall 1

Conference Programme

Thursday, 17 October 2024

Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 6A Moskovska Str. Conference Hall 19


9:30–10:00: Registration


10:00–10:15: Welcoming Address


10:15–11:30: Constructing Piety

Chair: Vuk Dautović

  • Dimitris Liakos, Constructing the Pious Image in Southeastern Europe at the Turn of an Era. Valuable Objects as Gifts to Athonite Monasteries from the 15th to the 16th Century
  • Miljana Matić, Monks as Authors and Donors of Applied Art Objects (15th – 17th Centuries) from the Serbian Orthodox Church Museum Collection
  • Darina Boykina, Artisans’ Patronage. The Case of the Guild of Silversmiths in Tatar Pazardzhik during the Early Modern Period


11:30–11:50: Coffee Break


11:50–13:30: Personal and collective patronage

Chair: Teodor Lucian Lechintan

  • Nikolaos Mertzimekis, The Silver Cover of the Gospel of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich (1645–1676) in the Sacristy of the Iviron Monastery
  • Paschalis Androudis, On a Pair of Candlesticks from the Metropolitan Church of Kastoria, 1708
  • Nicoleta Bădilă, Donors’ Portraits from the Silver Liturgical Fans from Wallachia
  • Nona Petkova, Examples of Faith and Community Belonging: Eucharistic Chalices from the National Church Museum of History and Archaeology in Sofia

13:30–15:0: Lunch

15:00–16:15: Influential Objects: Appearance and Morphology

Chair: Livia Stoenescu

  • Mila Santova, Once Again About the Gospel Covers from the Teteven Monastery of Prophet Elijah (Teteven Gospel Covers from 1675)
  • Georgi Parpulov, Two Romanian Ciboria at the Sinai Monastery
  • Mariam Vardanyan, Innovative Tendencies in the Art of Armenian Book Binding: Myrrophores Gospels Bindings

16:15–16:30: Coffee Break

16:30–18:10: Silver Objects as Emissary: Circulation, Diplomacy and Gifts

Chair: Paschalis Androudis

  • Mateja Jerman, Goldsmiths’ Works as Gifts to Our Lady of Trsat (Croatia)
  • Milena Ulčar, Collective Patronage of St. Tryphon’s Head Reliquary in Venetian Kotor
  • Arijana Koprčina, Gifts of Bishop Emerik Esterházy to Zagreb (Arch)diocese
  • Francesca Stopper, La Serenissima and the Papal States: Liturgical Objects as Diplomatic Gifts in the 18th Century

Friday, 18 October 2024

Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 21 Krakra Str., Conference Hall 1


9:30–10:45: Patrons and Silversmiths Creating Visual Culture
Chair: Darina Boykina

  • Dragoş Năstăsoiu, Cross-confessional Artistic Negotiation: Transylvanian Saxon Silversmith Masters and Their Orthodox Patrons in 14th to 17th-Century Wallachia and Moldavia
  • Teodor Lucian Lechintan, On Some Early Modern Silver Revetments of Romanian Icons: Donors, Techniques, Horizons
  • Vuk Dautović, Silver Votive Offerings of 19th-Century Serbian Rulers: Shaping Church Visual Culture and their Role in Changing Cultural Models


10:45–11:00: Coffee Break

11:00–12:15: Silversmithing Centres and Production of the Liturgical Objects

Chair: Mila Santova

  • Stavroula Sdrolia, Paschalis Androudis, 17th-Century Goldsmiths’ Enamelled Production in Thessaly
  • Barbara Kamler-Wild, Silversmithing in Vienna in the Golden Age of Empress Maria Theresia
  • Livia Stoenescu, To Be Worth a Potosí: Mines, Wealth, and Global Crafting of Silver Liturgical Objects in Early Modernity


12:15–12:30: Coffee Break

12:30–13:20: Silver Embodying Sanctity

Chair: Milena Ulčar

  • Konstantinos Dolmas, Like a Second Skin: The Head-Reliquary of St. Kliment of Ohrid
  • Simeon Tonchev, The Reliquary from the Church “Mother of God the Fountain of Life” in Svilengrad and its context


13:20–15:00: Lunch

15:00–16:40: Imagery and Iconography

Chair: Mateja Jerman

  • Anna Mária Nyárádi, Images Between the Latin and Greek Worlds. Prints and Book Illustrations as Models for Gospel Covers
  • Iglika Mishkova, Bread Stamps
  • Carmen Tănăsoiu, Behold the Lamb of God: About a Certain Iconographic Type Found on Diskoi from the Collection of the National Museum of Art of Romania
  • Ruth Bryant, Analyzing the Torah Shield: Understanding the Abundance of Animal Imagery through the Zohar


16:45–17:00: Closing remarks

The conference is organised within the framework of the project “Liturgical Objects in the Context of Silversmiths’ Art during the Ottoman Period (Based on Materials from the Diocese of Plovdiv),”  funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Bulgaria (contract No. КП-06-М80/2/7.12.2023).

For more information

Lecture: Entangled Objects of Eurasia: Persian Metalwork along the Silk Road (Vienna /online, Wednesday 16 October 2024, 15:00-17:00 CET)

https://persicacentropa.univie.ac.at/events/

Zoom registration required (anton.matejicka@univie.ac.at)

Coinciding with the 700th anniversary of the death of Marco Polo, this international research forum invites three distinguished art historians with particular expertise in non-European arts who will examine the modes and modalities of portable objects, other than silk textiles, from fresh perspectives. With the focus on metalwork, especially silver, three papers will collectively investigate different phases of material connectivities from the Asia Pacific to Mediterranean regions, from the time of Alexander the Great to the Mongol invasion of Eurasia.

This forum is organised by Persica Centropa: Cosmopolitan Artefacts and Artifices in the Age of Crises, 1900-1950 (FWF V-995) and held in conjunction with the workshop, “Entangled Charters of Eurasia”, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (16-18 October 2024).

https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/imafo/events/event-details/entangled-charters-of-eurasia

Programme

  • Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (ÖAW – IMAFO), Chair and moderator
  • Matthew Canepa (University of California, Irvine), Scriptive Things and Commensal Warfare: Luxury Vessels across post-Achaemenid Asia
  • Yukio Lippit (Harvard University), Echoes of Persian Silverware in the Shosoin Treasury
  • Yuka Kadoi (University of Vienna), Silver in the Mongol Empire: Alternative Nomadic Aesthetics