Medieval Art Research

Lecture Series: Vortraege IEK Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Apr-Jul 17)

logo_iek_300 Universität Heidelberg – Institut für Europäische Kunstgeschichte, 27.04. – 13.07.2017

Das Institut für Europäische Kunstgeschichte lädt alle Interessierten zu den Gastvorträgen im Sommersemester 2017 ein.

Die Vorträge finden im Graimberg-Raum (001) um 18 Uhr c.t. statt; Institut für Europäische Kunstgeschichte, Seminarstraße 4, D – 69117 Heidelberg.

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27.04.2017
Prof. Dr. Thomas Hensel (Hochschule für Design, Pforzheim)
Das Bild der Bilder. Die Startseite von Google

04.05.2017
Michaël Wyss (Zürich)
“…alias ecclesias infra monasterio…” Die Kirchenbauten der karolingischen Basilika von Saint-Denis
Vortrag im Rahmen des DFG-Projekts “Ein karolingisches Teilkloster: Reichenau-Niederzell, Kirche und Schrankenanlage” (Prof. Dr. Untermann)

01.06.2017
Michio Hayashi (Sophia University, Tokyo)
What Happened around 1970: The End (Rebirth) of Landscape
Vortrag in Kooperation mit dem Institut für Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens

06.07.2017
Dr. Miriam Oesterreich (TU Darmstadt)
‘Ethno-Fashion’ im modernistischen Mexiko – modische Transferprozesse zwischen nationaler Tradition, individueller Identität und transnationaler Modernekonzeption

13.07.2017
Prof. Dr. Anne Eusterschulte (FU Berlin)
Cy Twombly und die Antike
Vortrag im Rahmen von ELAN (European Liberal Arts Network)

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Der Eintritt ist selbstverständlich frei und eine Voranmeldung nicht notwendig. Wir freuen uns auf Ihr Kommen.

CFP: Session at SECAC (Columbus, 25-28 Oct 17)

SECAC 2017 – Columbus, Ohio
73rd annual SECAC Conference, October 25-28, 2017.

Exploring/Expanding Neuroaesthetics and Art Historical Studies

PAPER PROPOSALS DEADLINE: APRIL 20, 2017. MIDNIGHT, EDT
Since the 1990s, neuroscientists have explored the mind-body responses to visual-cum-artistic imagery. Neuroaesthetics has emerged from this venture. Although interdisciplinary in spirit, few art historians have joined scientists in empirical research projects. Consequently, neuroaesthetics remains dominated by scientists whose research is limited by small samplings from visual culture. Art historian trailblazers John Onians and David Freedberg have also been limited by the models the scientists have fostered, such as mirror neurons. This session seeks to expand both the artistic media of scientific research and the neuroscientific models for art historical research. We propose
an exploration of the efficacy of neuroscience from the side of the viewer’s reception. How do neuroscientific models offer a way of approaching the experiential/embodied effect of art objects that exceed the pictorial frame? Can neuroscience help to better articulate both sensory impressions and the transformative effects of an art-viewing experience? To what extent can neuroscience reify a lived experience within a historical context? In the absence of raw empirical data, responses to these questions and others may be speculative or hypothetical. Paper topics should use individual case studies to speculate the efficacy of neuroscience in relation to an expanding field of art historical studies.
Please click URL link for full conference information and instructions for paper proposals.
https://secac.memberclicks.net/assets/documents/secac/conference/secac-2017-call-for-papers.pdf

Organizer: Professor Lauren S. Weingarden
Department of Art History
Florida State University
lweingarden@fsu.edu<mailto:lweingarden@fsu.edu>

CONF: Topographie und Infrastruktur juedischer Wohnquartiere (Erfurt, 11-12 May 17)

download (1) Erfurt, 11. – 12.05.2017
Registration deadline: May 2, 2017

3. Workshop der Arbeitsgruppe Mittelalter im „Netzwerk Jüdisches Kulturerbe“
INTER JUDEOS – TOPOGRAPHIE UND INFRASTRUKTUR JÜDISCHER WOHNQUARTIERE 1

Veranstaltet von der Arbeitsgruppe Mittelalter im Netzwerk Jüdisches Kulturerbe und der Stadt Erfurt in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Historicum – Zentrum für Geschichte und Archäologie der LMU München (Prof. Dr. Bernd Päffgen) und der Bet T‘fila – Forschungsstelle für jüdische Architektur, TU Braunschweig.
Leitung: Maria Stürzebecher und Simon Paulus

Die Arbeitsgruppe “Mittelalter” Im Rahmen des „Netzwerks Jüdisches Kulturerbe“ lädt zu ihrem nächsten Workshop am 11./12. Mai 2017 nach Erfurt ein. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Fragen nach Siedlungstopographie und “profaner” baulicher Infrastruktur in den jüdischen Wohnquartieren des Mittelalters, die sich aus laufenden archäologischen und bauarchäologischen Projekten ergeben. Ausgehend von den aktuellen Untersuchungen zu einem Häuserkomplex in Erfurt sollen Fallstudien diskutiert werden, die sich mit Bauzeugnissen, archäologischen Befunden und Textquellen zu baulichen Strukturen gewerblicher oder gemeinschaftlicher Nutzung in jüdischen Siedlungsquartieren beschäftigen (Kaufhäuser, Werkstätten, Lagerräume, Backhäuser, Schlachthäuser, Zu- und Abwassersysteme, Brunnen, Kloaken etc.). Zur weiteren Vertiefung des Themas ist ein weiterer Workshop im Herbst in Trier geplant.

Die Einladung richtet sich auch dieses Mal wieder an Interessierte aus allen Fachrichtungen (Bauforschung, Archäologie, Kunstgeschichte, Geschichtswissenschaften, Judaistik, Denkmalpflege und Museologie). Für das Forum am Freitagnachmittag, dem 12. Mai, besteht zudem die Möglichkeit, sich mit eigenen themenbezogenen Projekten und Fallstudien zu bewerben und dort zu diskutieren. Die Teilnehmerzahl für beide Tage ist begrenzt. Wir bitten daher um zeitnahe Anmeldung bis spätestens 2. Mai 2017. Reise- und Unterkunftskosten können leider nicht übernommen werden.
Für die Anmeldung und weitere Informationen wenden Sie sich bitte an:
maria.stuerzebecher@erfurt.de oder simon.paulus@ifag.uni-stuttgart.de

Adressen

Veranstaltungsort, 11./12. Mai 2017:
Kulturdirektion, Benediktsplatz 1, 99084 Erfurt
Beratungsraum (Eingang an der Stadtmünze, Ecke Rathausgasse)

Kontakt und Anmeldung:
Maria Stürzebecher, Kulturdirektion Stadt Erfurt
Tel. +49 361 655-1604 faxFax +49 361 655-1609
maria.stuerzebecher@erfurt.de

VORLÄUFIGES PROGRAMM:

DONNERSTAG, 11. Mai 2017
Benediktsplatz 1, 99084 Erfurt
(Eingang an der Stadtmünze, Ecke Rathausgasse)

14:00 – 16:30 Uhr
Begrüßung und Ortstermin1: Der Gebäudekomplex „Steinernes Haus“: mit Barbara Perlich (TU Berlin/Erfurt) und Julia Hurlbeck (FH Erfurt)

16:30 Uhr Pause

17:00 – 19:00 Uhr
Ortstermin 2: Das jüdische Viertel der zweiten Gemeinde „An der Stadtmünze“

ab 19:00 Uhr: gemeinsames Abendessen im Gasthaus „Feuerkugel“ Michaelisstraße 3-4, 99084 Erfurt

FREITAG, 12. Mai 2017
Benediktsplatz 1, 99084 Erfurt

09:30 – 13:00 Uhr:
Einführung: Topographie jüdischer Stadtquartiere im Mittelalter, Forschungsfragen
(Annette Weber, HJS Heidelberg, und Simon Paulus, Univ. Stuttgart/Bet Tfila Braunschweig)

Impuls 1: Das Erfurter jüdische Quartier aus archäologischer Sicht
(Karin Sczech, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie, Erfurt)

Impuls 2: Regensburg, München etc. – Einblicke in laufende Projekte am Historicum – Zentrum für Geschichte und Archäologie der LMU München
(Bernd Päffgen, LMU München, u.a.)

13:00 Uhr: Mittagspause

14:30 – 16:00 Uhr:
Forum und Abschlussrunde (Moderation: Maria Stürzebecher, Stadt Erfurt)

CFP: Italian Art Society at RSA conference (New Orleans, 22-24 Mar 2018)

Pontormo, Jacopo_Annuncation, detail, ca. 1527-8, Capponi Chapel, S. Felicita, Florence New Orleans, March 22 – 24, 2018
Deadline: May 1, 2017

Call for Session Proposals: Renaissance Society of America 2018

The Italian Art Society will sponsor up to three sessions at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA). RSA 2018 will be held in New Orleans, 22-24 March. Sessions are typically comprised of three 20-minute papers. IAS members interested in putting together a panel or linked panels on any topic of Italian Art c. 1300-1650 should send a brief abstract (150 words max) with session title(s) of less than 15 words each, keywords, name of organizer(s)/chair(s) with email addresses and affiliation, a short list of potential or desired speakers (they need not be confirmed), and a one page CV. The deadline for submission to the IAS is 1 May 2017. For any questions and to submit proposals contact programs@italianartsociety.org.

CFP: Session at UAAC-AAUC Conference (Banff, 12-15 October 2017)

Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, October 12 – 15, 2017
Deadline: May 12, 2017

UAAC-AAUC Conference 2017 Congrès Call for Paper: Session 13: The Art of Time October 12–15 Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
Submission deadline: May 12, 2017

Session 13: The Art of Time
Depictions of Time from Ancient Greece to the Modern and Contemporary have largely been informed by studies in anthropology, narratology, phenomenology, and philosophy. The writings of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Bergson, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Gell have shaped the images of time from its portrayal on art objects to its representation in new media. This panel seeks to explore the relationship between Art and Time and encourage an interdisciplinary dialogue on the meaning and function of Time in Art.

Session Chair: Samantha Chang, University of Toronto (samantha.chang@mail.utoronto.ca)

Submission Regulations:
1. Applicants may only submit one proposal.
2. Proposals for papers should be sent directly to the session chair (samantha.chang@mail.utoronto.ca).
3. Submissions must include: the name and email address of the applicant; the applicant’s institutional affiliation and rank; the paper title; an abstract (300 words maximum); and a brief bio (150 words maximum). Submissions must be provided as an editable document, preferably in MS word.
4. Proposals may be submitted by current members or non-members of UAAC. Non-members MUST become members of UAAC and pay registration fees in order to present a paper at the conference. Membership dues and registration fees must be received by September 15, 2017.
5. The conference is open to post-secondary faculty in all fields of the visual arts (art history, visual culture, material culture, museum studies, art conservation, etc.), visual artists, practitioner/researchers, as well as independent scholars in such fields.
6. Student members of UAAC who are pursuing a terminal degree (examples: a PhD in art history or related disciplines, an MFA, a Masters of Design) may submit proposals. MA students are not permitted to give papers at the conference.

Download CFP at
https://www.academia.edu/32139865/CFP_UAAC-AAUC_Conference_2017_Congr%C3%A8s_Session_13_The_Art_of_Time_Banff_Centre_October_12_15_2017_

2017 John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture

Date
24 May 2017, 18:00 to 24 May 2017, 20:00

Type
Lecture

Venue
The Chancellor’s Hall, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Description
Professor Judith Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, FBA, École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE)

Crossing palaeographical borders: bi-alphabetical Hebrew scribes and manuscripts in Egypt, Spain and Northern France (11^thto 15^th centuries)

Medieval Jewish scribal culture reflects long-standing post-biblical traditions elaborated by Jewish communities in Palestine, Egypt and Mesopotamia. Moreover, despite major linguistic and scribal differences, Jewish medieval scribes in both East and West were well aware of the palaeographical specificities of the non-Jewish cultures among which they resided. This awareness is apparent in the manuscripts themselves: some contain texts written in different languages and alphabets, others are written in Hebrew script with features echoing the scripts of the majority cultures. Taking as examples manuscripts written in Egypt, Spain and Northern France between the eleventh and the fifteenth centuries, I attempt to uncover some of the mechanisms, technical, aesthetic and social, underlying such scribal cross-cultural encounters.

Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger is the Director of Studies, École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Section des Sciences Historiques et Philogogiques, Sorbonne University, Paris and is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. She is a highly distinguished scholar, funded by the Rothschild Foundation to research uncatalogued material, and her subject is fundamental to current work on medieval Europe. She heads a pan-European project entitled ‘Books within Books’ (http://hebrewmanuscript.com), that seeks to locate, photograph and describe every Hebrew manuscript to be found in the bindings of books (these are mostly books written in Latin) now in libraries across Europe. She is a leading specialist in the study of Hebrew manuscripts, palaeography and diplomatic, the history of medieval linguistic thought and Christian Hebrew scholars in the Middle Ages.

2017 Palaeography Lecture Poster

CFP: Archaising/Classicising/Medievalising (Oxford, 17 Jun 17)

download Centre for Classical Studies, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, June 17, 2017
Deadline: May 2, 2017

Call for Papers:
Archaising/Classicising /Medievalising:
Self-Historicisation and its Discontents

Saturday June 17,
Centre for Classical Studies,
Corpus Christi College,
Oxford

Texts, songs, buildings, or objects that consciously refer to themselves using the visual, aural, or architectural vocabulary of a previous era present both interesting historical and critical, as well as historiographic, questions. This one-day symposium intends to ask what self-historicising means in the widest possible variety of contexts and media, and to address some the of theoretical gaps in the study of objects that are aware of their own temporality. Medievalising tendencies in the text style or decoration of Early Modern printed books, for instance, raise questions about what constitutes ‘humanist’ or ‘Renaissance’ content, and the geographic assumptions of Italianate origin often associated with classicising and not medievalising. Other possible topics include seventeenth through nineteenth century classicisms and their implications for the Grand Tour, classicisms and colonialisms, Protestant and Catholic classicisms during the Reformation, the association between materiality and archaising in general, as well as archaising tendencies (Roman to Greek, Imperial Roman to Republican &c) in classical text and art itself. Participants from across the humanities and social sciences are invited to submit an approximately 250 word abstract for a 15-20 minute paper on any related
topic, with the goal of mutual discussion across disciplinary and period lines in common. Provisions for slides, audio, or other media display, will be made ahead of time, and lunch is included with the £15 conference fee. Abstracts should be submitted by 2 May to Alexandra Marraccini at: avmarraccini@uchicago.edu.

CFP: III Congreso Tardogótico

El III Congreso Internacional del Tardogótico: Da traça à edificação: a arquitetura dos séculos XV e XVI em Portugal e na Europa, se celebrará en la Universidad de Lisboa entre el 20 y 22 de noviembre de 2017 en la Facultad de Letras (Universidad de Lisboa).

Este Congreso es una organización de ARTIS – Arte Instituto de Historia de la Facultad de Letras de la Universidad de Lisboa y CLEPUL– Centro de Literaturas y Culturas Lusófonas y Europeas (FLUL), en colaboración con la Universidad de Cantabria, la Universidad de Zaragoza, la Universidad de Sevilla y de la Red Temática de Investigación Cooperativa sobre el Arte Tardogótico (Siglos XV-XVI) (Red Tardogótica).

El Congreso, a través de la pluralidad de los temas en debate, permitirá la creación de un espacio relevante para la reflexión y el intercambio científico en torno a la arquitectura de finales del tardogótico portugués y europeo. Por lo tanto buscamos impulsar y fomentar el intercambio de conocimientos que permite nuevos enfoques tanto del punto de vista artístico-técnico, teórico, como metodológico, sobre los temas presentados en el III Congreso Internacional del Tardogótico.

FECHAS IMPORTANTES:

• Fecha límite para el envío de propuestas de comunicación y posters: 15 de mayo de 2017
Normas en http://congressotardogotico2017.weebly.com/
•Anuncio de la aprobación de las propuestas de comunicación: 15 de junio de 2017
• Celebración del congreso: 20, 21 y 22 de noviembre de 2017
• Envío del texto final para publicación: 30 de enero de 2018

ÁREAS TEMÁTICAS:

1) Formas e Ideas: movilidad y transmisión de los conocimientos en arquitectura

2) Los maestros de la arquitectura tardogótica y del renacimiento: recursos y obras

3) Mecenas y promotores. Identidad, magnificencia y prestigio

4) Trazas, muestras y otras representaciones gráficas como elementos ordenadores de la arquitectura de los siglos XV y XVI

5) Materiales, técnicas y procesos construtivos de los siglos XV y XVI

6) La arquitectura tardogótica y la permanencia del lenguaje constructivo

7) La investigación en arquitectura tardogótica y del renacimiento. Presentación de proyectos (área temática para posters)

8) Arquitectura de los espacios del Atlántico y del Índico en su relación con el contexto europeo

9) Definición de conceptos. Teoría e historiografía

10) Arquitectura figurada. Representaciones de arquitectura de los siglos XV y XVI en otras artes

11) Lenguajes y metalenguajes en la arquitectura europea de los siglos XV y XVI

MÁS INFORMACIÓN EN:

http://congressotardogotico2017.weebly.com/

Conference – Norwich and the Medieval Parish Church c.900 – 2017 – The Making of a Fine City (17-18 June 2017)

17-18 June 2017, The Weston Room, Norwich Cathedral Hostry (Followed by walking tours and site visits in Norwich on 19 June)

We are delighted to announce details of the research project’s forthcoming conference. All 58 churches, whether existing, ruined or lost, are included in the scope of the project, which seeks insight into how the medieval city developed topographically, architecturally and socially. The Project is intended to reveal the interdependent relationship between city, community and architecture showing how people and places shaped each other during the middle ages. The conference (supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Purcell) will present the medieval parish churches of Norwich in their immediate local context and in the broader framework of urban churches in Britain and northern Europe. The subject range will include documentary history, the architectural fabric of the buildings themselves and their place in the topography of Norwich, the development of the churches’ architecture and furnishings, the representation of the churches and their post-Reformation history.

Conference fee: £50 per delegate | £40 per student delegate (limited number of places available). The conference fee includes refreshments and sandwich lunch on both days, and a drinks reception in Norwich Cathedral cloister on Saturday evening. St Laurence clerestory

Online bookings: http://store.uea.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-and-humanities/conferencesevents/norwich-and-the-medieval-parish-church-c900-2017-the-making-of-a-fine-city

Booking enquiries, including alternative ways to book: please contact Katie Scales (artsandhumanitiesevents@uea.ac.uk)

For further information, including provisional programme: Conference provisional programme and booking information

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CFP: Art and Cross-Cultural Dialogue: Identity and Cultural Diversity

David Gareja Monastery, Georgia, 13-c. mural

The fourth international conference for PhD students and recent PhD graduates will take place in Tbilisi, 28-30 September 2017. The event will focus on cross-cultural dialogue, identity and cultural diversity in culture and art. The topic itself has been a part of our cultural identity, but has not been thoroughly researched due of its complexity.

From antiquity to the present, the history, culture and art of different countries and nations maintains the memory of relations and exchanges of ideas. The reasons for and forms of their relations were different. Whether a peaceful connection, or in some cases invasion and conflict, their coexistence was reflected in different fields of social life, culture and art. In this controversial process, politics, society and people played special roles.

The crossroads as a meeting point of many different states, people, religions and cultures was a very vibrant “place” where unique artistic phenomena were created, where the connections reflected societies, cultures, tastes and fashions. In this cultural diversity each element has a special role.

At our gathering we would like to discuss this topic in a new way from the most interesting and imaginative angles. We invite proposals with new approaches and new perspectives, rethinking old knowledge in relation to cross-cultural relations, cultural diversity and identity.

The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:

Crossroads as a meeting point of various cultures

Unexpected encounters: cross-cultural dialogue beyond space and time
Where is the border of identity and cultural diversity?
Geographical, epochal and cultural borders through the centuries: similarities and differences between them. Historical backgrounds, influences and cultural identity

Art as one of the main expressions of identity

Coexistence and the process of synthesis through the prism of localcultural traditions

Artists beyond borders
Designed structures in open space as carries of cultural identities
Cross-roads as a melting point of ideas

Memory and memorials

Memory, local traditions and foreign influences: idea, content and form
Places of shared memory. Sacred space and aspects of cultural and religious heritage and inter-faith dialogue

The role of individuals in the formation of the cultural process through history: rulers, clerics, missionaries, ambassadors and travellers
Religious diversity and cultural encounters

What defines identity in the globalisation process?

Rules of attraction: uniting and dividing cultural principles between idealization and demonization

Global and local in work of art or at art exhibitions
Lost in translation: the limits of cross-cultural dialogue

Proposals should include name, contact information (address, phone number, e-mail), title of the paper, short CV(maximum 200 words) and an abstract (maximm 400 words); to be sent by email to conference.phd2017@gmail.com.

For more information, please visit the link: http://phdconference2014.wixsite.com/dmr-ljubljana/copy-of-cfp-2016