Call for Submissions: ‘Art(ifice),’ North Street Review, Spring 2017

ingolstadt_liebfrauenmc3bcnster_weinschenkenkapelle_astwerkCall for Submissions: ‘Art(ifice),’ North Street Review, University of St. Andrews
Deadline: December 1, 2016

Artifice, n. (Oxford English Dictionary ):

1. Human skill or workmanship as opposed to nature or a natural phenomenon.

2. Skill in devising and using expedients; artfulness, cunning, trickery.

These definitions of artifice contrasts human workmanship with the natural, leaving us with the dichotomy of nature versus humanity. But is art really the opposite of nature, or is there a way to bridge these two disparate domains? How do artists, curators, or collectors navigate the divide? How did viewers and creators of art approach this issue in the past, and is it even relevant question today?

How to submit: The editors of the North Street Review welcome submissions on this topic from postgraduates in Art History courses. Works between 3,000-5,000 words must be submitted to northstreetreview@gmail.com by 1 December, 2016 to be considered for publication in Spring 2017. Please format the document as a docx., adhere to Chicago style citations, and include a brief biography, with your name and affiliated institute. The North Street Review is a peer-reviewed post-graduate journal published by the School of Art History and Museum and Galleries Studies at the University of St. Andrews. Now in its twenty-first year, it has gone through many incarnations and is now a fully digital publication. For more information, please see our website.

Lectureship in Classics (Roman Art) (Including Late Antique/Early Byzantine art to c. 700 AD), School of Human Environment, University College Cork, Ireland

logo-web-englishJob: Lectureship in Classics (Roman Art), Including Late Antique/Early Byzantine art to c. 700 AD), School of Human Environment, University College Cork, Ireland
Deadline: 5pm, 01 November 2016

Contract Type: Permanent Whole-Time
Job Type: Academic
Salary: €31,821 – €56,967/€62,353 – €76,942

UCC wishes to appoint an experienced academic to the role of Lecturer in Classics (Roman Art).  Reporting to the Head of the Department of Classics, the Lecturer in Classics (Roman Art) will have a specialist interest in Roman Art, broadly understood to include Late Antique Art. The successful applicant will be required to deliver foundation and advanced teaching on aspects of Roman Art from the early Republican to the Late Antique periods, with an emphasis on art of the Imperial period. An ability to teach a classical language (Greek or Latin) is desirable, but not essential. The successful candidate may be required to teach in other areas of classical culture or history according to changing departmental needs. Candidates must hold a doctoral qualification in an area of Roman, or Late Antique, Art from a recognised University at the time of application. The holder of this post will be expected to promote student research at masters and doctoral level on different aspects of Roman Art. S/he will also be required to contribute to the academic administration of the department and college, and to engage with external bodies in areas relating to Classics.

Please note that Garda vetting and/or an international police clearance check may form part of the selection process.

How to apply: For an information package including full details of the post, selection criteria and application process see www.ucc.ie/hr/vacancies.  The University, at its discretion, may undertake to make an additional appointment(s) from this competition following the conclusion of the process.

Informal enquiries can be made in confidence to Dr. David Woods, Tel: 0035321-4903491, Email: d.woods@ucc.ie.  Further information on the Department is available at: http://www.ucc.ie/en/classics/.

Appointment may be made on the Lectureship Salary Scale: €31,821 – €56,967/€62,353 – €76,942.

To Apply:

Candidates should apply, in confidence, before 5pm on Tuesday 1st November 2016 by emailing a completed application form to recruitment@ucc.ie.

 

 

Job: Professor in Medieval Art History, Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques, Université de Montréal

logo-udemJob: Professor in Medieval Art History, Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques, Université de Montréal
Starting date: June 1st, 2017Deadline: November 9, 2016

The Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques is seeking applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Medieval Art History.

Ø Responsibilities

The appointed candidate will be expected to teach at all three levels of the curriculum, supervise graduate students, engage in ongoing research and publication, and contribute to the academic life and reputation of the University.

Ø Requirements

  • Ph.D. in Art History
  • Dossier of publications and research on Medieval art
  • Teaching experience in the field of Medieval art at College/University level
  • Research interest and/or teaching experience in non-Western art would be an asset
  • Proficiency in the French language

Linguistic Policy : The Université de Montréal is a Québec University with an international reputation. French is the language of instruction. To renew its teaching faculty, the University is intensively recruiting the world’s best specialists. In accordance with the institution’s language policy, [http://secretariatgeneral.umontreal.ca/fileadmin/user_upload/secretariat/doc_officiels/reglements/administration/adm10-34_politique-linguistique.pdf], the Université de Montréal provides support for newly-recruited faculty to attain proficiency in French.

Ø Salary

The Université de Montréal offers a competitive salary and a complete range of employee benefits.

 Échelle salariale

Ø Constitution of application

The application must include the following documents:

– a cover letter

– a curriculum vitæ

– 3 samples of recent publications and research

– Teaching evaluations at college/university level (if applicable)

– Three letters of recommendation are also to be sent directly to the department chair by the referees.

Application and letters of recommendation must be sent to the chair of the Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques by November 9, 2016 at the following address:

Madame Silvestra Mariniello, directrice

Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques

Faculté des arts et des sciences

Université de Montréal

  1. P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville

Montréal (QC) H3C 3J7

The complete application and letters of recommendation may also be sent electronically to the following e-mail : annie.tremblay.2@umontreal.ca.

 

For more information about the Department, please consult its Web site at:

http://www.histart@umontreal.ca

 

Programme: IHR European history 1150-1550 Seminar, 2016–2017

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Programme: IHR European history 1150-1550 Seminar, 2016–2017
Fortnightly Thursdays 17:30, IHR Wolfson II unless noted; free, all welcome

Winter Term
29th September ** Senate House South Block Room 349 (3rd Floor)**
Chris Wickham (Oxford): Jiangnan style: Doing global economic history in the medieval period

13th October
Giorgio Lizzul (KCL): The republic, commerce, and public debt in the forged orations of Doge Tommaso Mocenigo

Kenneth Duggan (KCL): The limits of strong government: Attempts to control criminality in thirteenth-century England

27th October (jointly with History of Liturgy seminar)
Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth & UCL): Liturgy and devotion in the aftermath of the FourthCrusade: Nivelon of Soissons, the relics of 1204, and the cathedral of Soissons

10th November
Andrew Jotischky (Royal Holloway): The image of the Greek: Western views of orthodox monks and monasteries, c.1000-1500

24th November
Nikolas Jaspert (Heidelberg): Military expatriation to Muslim lands: Aragonese Christian mercenaries as trans-imperial subjects in the Late Middle Ages

8th December (** Senate House Room 246 **)
Justine Firnhaber-Baker (St Andrews): Who were the Jacques and what did they want? Social networks and community mobilization in the Jacquerie of 1358

Spring Term 2017

18th January (jointly with Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, **time & venue to be confirmed**)
Roundtable discussion of Cathars in Question ed. Antonio Sennis (Boydell & Brewer, 2016)

19th January (** Senate House, The Court Room**)
Sylvain Piron (EHESS): An individual institutionalization: Opicino de Canestris (1296– c.1354)

2nd February
Nicholas Vincent (UEA): Henry II’s Irish colony: Truth and fiction

16th February
Dominique Iogna-Prat (CNRS/EHESS): A stone church? Visibility, monumentality and spatiality of the Medieval Church (500-1500)

2nd March
Ella Kilgallon (QMUL): Visualising castitas in the Franciscan tradition: An analysis of three frescoes from central Italy

Ella Williams (UCL): History and prophecy in Naples: The Faits des Romains at the court of KingRobert ‘the Wise’

16th March
Jonathan Lyon (Chicago): Offices, officials and bureaucracy in late medieval Europe: The view from Germany

Convenors: David Carpenter (KCL), Matthew Champion (Birkbeck), Johanna Dale (UCL), David d’Avray (UCL), Serena Ferente (KCL), Andrew Jotischky (RHUL), Patrick Lantschner (UCL), Cornelia Linde (German Historical Institute), Sophie Page (UCL), Eyal Poleg (QMUL), Miri Rubin (QMUL), John Sabapathy (UCL), Alex Sapoznik (KCL), Alice Taylor (KCL); IHR page http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/114.

Contact: John Sabapathy & Alice Taylor (j.sabapathy@ucl.ac.uk & alice.taylor@kcl.ac.uk).

Call for Submissions: Revista Digital de Iconografía Medieval

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERACall for Submissions: Revista Digital de Iconografía Medieval

The open-access peer-reviewed Revista Digital de Iconografía Medieval seeks articles for publication in one of the journal’s two sections:

  • Monographic studies of iconography: from a general point of view, it will be analyzed a topic or symbol of medieval repertory, either of biblical precedence or apocryphal, mythological, scientific, etc.
  • Transversal studies of iconography: from a specific point of view, it will be analyzed one or several works of art with an iconographical relationship.

Articles for should be sent by email to irgonzal@ghis.ucm.es. The text must be written in Spanish, English or French, in a Word file.
Images, only accepted in JPG, GIF, TIFF, of BMP file, should be attached together with a list of contents including all the information concerning the work of art depicted and the origin of the reproduction.
The work must be original and conform to the rules of publication of the journal, both in extent and in the organization of the content and formal requirements.

For more information and for the journal’s editorial guidelines, click here.

CFPs: Bibliography Among the Disciplines Conference, Philadelphia, October 12-15, 2017

tumblr_nid8xdrz0n1soj7s4o4_500Call for Papers: Bibliography Among the Disciplines Conference, Philadelphia, October 12-15, 2017
Deadline: October 25, 2016

For more information on panels, round-tables, short presentations and working groups, and for submission guidelines, see: http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/

Bibliography Among the Disciplines, a four-day international conference to be held in Philadelphia from 12 to 15 October 2017, will bring together scholarly professionals poised to address current problems pertaining to the study of textual artifacts that cross scholarly, pedagogical, professional, and curatorial domains. The conference will explore theories and methods common to the object-oriented disciplines, such as anthropology and archaeology, but new to bibliography. The Bibliography Among the Disciplines program, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aims to promote focused cross-disciplinary exchange and future scholarly collaborations. The conference sessions will include both traditional and innovative formats: plenary addresses, short presentations, roundtables, workshops, working groups, and site visits. Calls for Proposals and Participants (CFPs) are listed below. The project will culminate in 2019 with a volume of essays contributed by conference participants. The conference and subsequent volume will seek to build on the ongoing series of symposia conducted by Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography, established in 2012 through funding from the Foundation.

Call for Papers- Panels:

Graphic Representation: Illustration & Diagrams
Session Organizers: Claire Eager (University of Virginia), Jeannie Kenmotsu (University of Pennsylvania)

Textual Instruments
Session Organizer: Nick Wilding (Georgia State University)

Questions of Scale, Production & Labor
Session Organizer: Juliet Sperling (University of Pennsylvania)

Transmission & Transfer of Images
Session Organizer: Aaron Hyman (University of California, Berkeley

Degradation, Loss, Recovery & Fragmentation
Session Organizer: Jane Raisch (University of California, Berkeley)

Materiality of Digital Objects
Session Organizer: Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University)

The Social Life of Books: Uses of Text & Image Beyond Reading & Viewing
Session Organizers: Aaron Hyman (University of California, Berkeley), Hannah Marcus (Harvard University), Marissa Nicosia (Penn State University, Abington College)

Books as Agents of Contact
Session Organizers: Hansun Hsiung (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), András Kiséry (The City College of New York), Yael Rice (Amherst College)

Manuscript in the Age of Print
Session Organizers: Rachael King (University of California, Santa Barbara), Marissa Nicosia (Penn State University, Abington College)

Reading the Whole Book: Object Interpretation
Session Organizer: Lauren Jennings (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Comparative Histories of the Book
Session Organizers: Megan McNamee (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts), Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi)

Reappraising the Redundant: The Value of Copies in the Study of Textual Artifacts
Session Organizer: Kappy Mintie (University of California, Berkeley)n and

Call for Papers – Roundtables:

Performance, Textuality & Orality
Session Organizer: Glenda Goodman (University of Pennsylvania)

Authorship
Session Organizers: András Kiséry (The City College of New York), Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi)

Digitization, Representation & Access
Session Organizer: Paul Fyfe (North Carolina State University)

Materiality as a Sustainable Humanistic Discourse
Session Organizers: Meghan Doherty (Berea College), Dahlia Porter (University of North Texas), Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa)

Ethics & Responsibility in the Bibliosphere
Session Organizer: Claire Eager (University of Virginia)

 Call for papers – Short Presentations:

Tools for Data Analysis & Visualization
Session Organizer: Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University)

Innovative Pedagogy with Material Objects
Session Organizer: Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa)

Teaching Global Book History
Session Organizers: Devin Fitzgerald (Harvard University) & Ben Nourse (University of Denver)

Dynamics of Digital Collections
Session Organizer: Paul Fyfe (North Carolina State University)

The Book and Its Time: Developing a ‘Period Eye’
Session Organizer: Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire (Winterthur Museum)

Call for Papers: Working Groups:

Globalizing Book History & Bibliography
Working Group Organizers: Hwisang Cho (Xavier University), Ben Nourse (University of Denver), Rachel Stein (Columbia University in the City of New York)

Resembling Science: The Unruly Object Across the Disciplines
Working Group Organizers: Meghan Doherty (Berea College), Dahlia Porter (University of North Texas), Courtney Roby (Cornell University)

 

Workshop: Playing with Medieval Visions, Sounds, Sensations, Kings College London, 13 and 17 October 2016

Workshop: Playing with Medieval Visions, Sounds, Sensations, KCL, October 13 and 17, 2016

Discover the complex and beautiful physical and aural properties of two medieval poems – The House of Fame and Dream of the Rood – in this series of events produced by current King’s PhD researchers.

Two workshops will explore Chaucer’s The House of Fame; a fourteenth century poem composed in Middle English, which follows a dreaming narrator as they encounter Lady Fame’s mystical palace, located somewhere between heaven and earth, where reputations are made and broken. We will find inspiration in its shifting sonic architecture and strange signs.

Two workshops will focus on the Old English Dream of the Rood. Preserved as a complete poem only in the 10th century Vercelli Book, lines of the poem are also found carved onto the 8th century Ruthwell Cross, a huge stone sculpture still standing in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The mysterious voice of the Rood and the runic writing of the Ruthwell Cross reveal the various ways early Christians imagined their God.

This is an opportunity to make creative work across 2D, 3D and audio and video media, completely open to all creative and technical abilities. Learn how to speak Old and Middle English aloud, and create written, visual, and spoken responses to these medieval poems. You’ll be guided through text translations, collage and drawing techniques, 3D-making, and video and audio recording.

The workshops are open to all, and the organisers are especially interested to have a range of ‘medieval experience’ in the room: from scholars to members of the public who have never thought twice about medieval poetry.

An exhibition will bring together the work created in these workshops. Examples of contemporary creative works that reinvent the middle ages will also be on display, along with a temporary library for you to explore at your leisure. Artists, writers, and translator-poets will be on display, as well as new discoveries from the King’s archive, on show for the first.

A symposium on the range of medieval and creative work that inspired ‘Playing with Medieval dreams’, will be led by King’s researchers. This symposium (open to members of the public and workshop participants) will include readings of new compositions made during the workshops, along with readings in Old and Middle English.

Events are free to attend but booking is required.

Workshops:
14.30-17.00 & 18.00-19.30 Thursday 13 October 2016
Anatomy Museum, King’s Building, Strand Campus

14.30-17.00 & 18.00-19.30 Monday 17 October 2016
River Room, King’s Building, Strand Campus

Exhibition
12.00-21.00 Friday 21 October 2016

Symposium
17.30-18.30 Friday 21 October 2016
River Room, King’s Building, Strand Campus

Organisers: Charlotte Rudman, Fran Allfrey, Francesca Brooks, Charlotte Knight, Carl Kears, Beth Whalley.

CFP: Medieval Materialities: Encountering the Material Medieval, St Andrews, School of Art History/St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies, January 19 – 20, 2017

cskf7tovyaa3ku6-jpg_largeCall for Papers: Medieval Materialities: Encountering the Material Medieval, St Andrews, School of Art History/St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies, January 19 – 20, 2017
Deadline: November 15, 2016

The University of St Andrews School of Art History in collaboration
with the St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies (SAIMS) present
Encountering the Material Medieval, the second edition of an
interdisciplinary conference on materiality and material engagements
with the medieval, taking place on 19-20 January 2017 in Scotland.

The academic year 2016-2017 looks like it is going to be the year of
modern medievalisms, with three conferences addressing how the medieval
fits into our modern world in the UK, France and the USA. While the
idea of medievalism directly impacts modern scholarship and culture at
large, it encourages an engagement with a theoretical abstraction of
the medieval culture. This way, the materiality of the sources, and the
intrinsic materiality of our embodied engagement with the medieval, is
neglected.

Beyond the digital humanities, we are interested in material
engagements with the medieval. This takes place in the library, where
we encounter manuscripts in an intimate, skin-to-skin contact; during
fieldwork, when we need to crouch in order to enter a medieval altar;
in one’s own kitchen, when we try to reproduce a recipe freshly
transcribed from a manuscript; or on the fairground, where we can hold
in our own hand a replica of medieval pottery.

We are dedicated to encouraging multi-mediality and non-traditional
presentation methods during the conference. Therefore, we invite
interactive presentations, installations and posters, workshop and
hands-on activities proposals (45-50 minutes), as well as papers (not
longer than 20 minutes) on the following range of topics and their
relationship to the study of materiality, physicality and embodiment
in/with the Middle Ages:
– The concept of materiality and physicality as research and teaching
methodology;
– Bringing the materiality of the medieval to the institution or the
wider public;
– Semiotics and anthropology of the material Middle Ages in modern or
medieval thought and practice;
– The human and non-human, material and embodied, materiality and
boundaries;
– Medieval to modern (dis)continuities in genealogy of material.
Papers and workshops on other issues related to the study of
materiality and physicality in the Middle Ages are also welcome.

How to submit: Please send your submissions (250 word abstract) along with a short
biography (max. 100 words) to medmat@st-andrews.ac.uk no later than
15th of November 2016.

For more info, visit our website Medievalmaterialities.wordpress.com
Find us on Twitter: @medievalmateriality and tweeting with #medmat17

CFP: Worship in Regensburg’s Institutions: On the Diversity of Liturgical Traditions in the Pre-Modern Period, Regensburg, 6-8 July 2017

dom_st_peter_regensburg_hCall for Papers: Worship in Regensburg’s Institutions: On the Diversity of Liturgical Traditions in the Pre-Modern Period (Gottesdienst in Regensburger Institutionen. Zur Vielfalt liturgischer Traditionen in der Vormoderne) Regensburg, 6-8 July 2017
Deadline: October 31, 2016

In der Vormoderne war Regensburg als weit überregional bedeutendes politisches Zentrum und international vernetzte Handelsstadt auch kirchlich durch eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Institutionen geprägt: Neben dem von Bonifatius gegründeten Bistum, das manche seiner liturgischen Traditionen bis lange nach dem Konzil von Trient hochhielt, gingen auch die selbstbewußte Benediktinerabtei St. Emmeram und das Kollegiatsstift der Alten Kapelle genauso wie die Kanonissenstifte Niedermünster und Obermünster auf das Frühmittelalter zurück; insbesondere St. Emmeram betrieb neben seiner reichen Bibliothek ein auch künstlerisch herausragendes Skriptorium. Im Hochmittelalter ergänzten das Benediktinerinnenkloster Mittelmünster auf weiblicher und das Kollegiatsstift von St. Johann auf männlicher Seite die kirchliche Landschaft, wenn auch nicht die erhaltene liturgische Handschriften-überlieferung. Das Schottenkloster St. Jakob strahlte im Rahmen der zweiten iroschottischen Bewegung durch Neugründungen aus, die Abtei Prüfening vor den Toren der Stadt gehörte zur Hirsauer Reform; das Doppelkloster Prüll wurde später zur Kartause.
Mit dem Spätmittelalter erweiterten Klöster männlicher und weiblicher Bettelorden die kirchliche Vielfalt, die in der Neuzeit zusätzliche Komplexität gewann, als sich die Stadt mehrheitlich der lutherischen Reformation anschloß, was zur Übernahme neuer Bräuche, aber auch zu bemerkenswerten Kompromissen führte. Als Tradentinnen und
Produzentinnen von Handschriften, aber auch als Bauherrinnen liturgischer Räume und Auftraggeberinnen von Kunstwerken, nicht zuletzt in ihrem Zusammenspiel im städtischen Raum und in ihrer Prägung durch überregionale Einflüsse sind Regensburger Institutionen ein Prisma, durch das die bunte Vielfalt vormoderner Liturgie und ihrer kulturellen Ausdrucksformen sichtbar wird.
Angesichts großer Unterschiede in Quellenbestand und Forschungslage lohnt sich ein neuer Blick auf die wichtigsten kirchlichen Institutionen, historischen Phasen und überregionalen Bezugssysteme der Liturgiegeschichte Regensburgs in der Vormoderne. Beiträge aus Liturgiewissenschaft, Musikwissenschaft, Kunstgeschichte und verwandten Disziplinen sollen exemplarisch die verschiedenen Dimensionen liturgischen Lebens und ihre künstlerischen, musikalischen und architektonischen Ausdrucksformen erhellen, die bisherige Forschung kritisch sichten, auf bestehende Lücken hinweisen und neue Perspektiven künftiger Erschließung eröffnen. Äußerer Anlaß für die Tagung ist die Wiederbelebung des Institutum Liturgicum Ratisbonense des Bistums Regensburg, welches sich seit der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts der Liturgiegeschichte im Spiegel ihrer handschriftlichen Quellen sowie der Erforschung lokaler Eigentraditionen widmet.
Die vom Lehrstuhl für Liturgiewissenschaft der Universität Regensburg mit Mitteln des Institutum Liturgicum Ratisbonense und in Zusammenarbeit einerseits mit dem Akademischen Forum Albertus Magnus des Bistums Regensburg, andererseits mit dem Forum Mittelalter der Universität Regensburg und dem Themenverbund “Metropolität in der Vormoderne” organisierte Tagung findet von Donners-tag 6. bis Samstag
8. Juli 2017 voraussichtlich in den Räumen der Bischöflichen
Zentralbibliothek statt und wird von einer kleinen Ausstellung
begleitet.

How to Submit: Bewerbungen für Vorträge (25 Minuten) und Kurzbeiträge (15 Minuten) auf Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch oder Italienisch werden bis 31. Oktober
2016 mit einem Abstract von maximal 250 Worten an
harald.buchinger@theologie.uni-regensburg.de erbeten; ein
interdisziplinär besetzter Beirat wird bis 30. November 2016 darüber
entscheiden. Es ist geplant, den akzeptierten Beitragenden die Spesen
für Aufenthalt und Verpflegung sowie – im vertretbaren und möglichen
Rahmen – die Reise zu vergüten; die Tagung ist zur Publikation
vorgesehen. Neben etablierten Kolleginnen und Kollegen sind auch
Jungwissenschaftlerinnen und Jungwissenschaftler besonders herzlich
eingeladen.

CFP: 1st Annual Conference of Byzantine and Medieval Studies (CBMS), Nicosia, Cyprus, January 13-14

hagios-sozomenos-wikipediaCall for Papers: 1st Annual Conference of Byzantine and Medieval Studies (CBMS), Nicosia, Cyprus, January 13-14
Deadline for abstracts: October 1, 2016
The Byzantinist Society of Cyprus (ΒΕΚ: Βυζαντινολογική Εταιρεία Κύπρου) invites papers to be presented at the First Conference of Byzantine and Medieval Studies, to be held in Nicosia, Cyprus, on Friday, 13 and Saturday, 14 of January 2017.
Honorary President: Athanasios Papageorghiou, Director Emeritus, Dept. of Antiquities.
Keynote Speaker: Ioli Kalavrezou, Professor, Harvard University.
Scholars, researchers and students are encouraged to present their ongoing research, work-in-progress or fieldwork report on any aspect of the history, archaeology, art, architecture, literature, philosophy and religion of Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean during the Byzantine, Medieval and Ottoman periods.
The languages of the conference will be Greek, English, French and German.
Programme Committee: Nikolas Bakirtzis (Chair), Stavros Georgiou, Maria Parani, Ourania Perdiki, Andreas Foulias.
Organizing Committee: Doria Nicolaou, Christina Kakkoura, Andriani Georgiou, Despoina Papacharalampous.
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How to Submit:
1. A cover sheet detailing the paper’s title, author’s details and session information (if applicable; see below)
2. An abstract between 300 and 500 words in English and/or Greek summarizing the presented research, report or work-in-progress and indicating its original contribution.
3. A second copy of the paper abstract in a separate page without the author’s details.
Submit your proposal as an email attachment to the address: abstractCBMS@ byzantinistsociety.org.cy
Sessions of up to five papers can be submitted together as separate attachments by the session organizer.
Paper proposals will be reviewed based on their abstract and accepted on merit by the conference’s Programme Committee. This review will be anonymous.
Notification of paper review will be send by email or fax by the end of October, 2016. Papers will be grouped in sessions according to their topic and theme.
Each participant may deliver only one paper limited to 20 minutes. Accepted paper abstracts will be published in the conference’s ‘Book of Abstracts’.

Graduate Paper Award: The best graduate student paper will be selected by the Programme Committee and awarded upon the conclusion of the conference.

Student bursaries: A small number of bursaries will be available, upon application, to assist graduate students’ travel and participation.

The conference is organized in conjunction with the annual meeting of the members of the Byzantinist Society of Cyprus. For membership information please visit the society’s website: http://www.byzantinistsociety.org.cy
For inquiries send email to: secretary@byzantinistsociety.org.cy
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Paper proposal preparation instructions

Prepare the 3-page paper proposal as a single Microsoft WORD document. Font: Times New Roman, 12 point. Line spacing: single.
Cover Sheet
Include the following information in the listed order. Please align text left and allow a blank line between each information detail:
Name, position or graduate status and academic affiliation (i.e. PhD Candidate, University of…), address, phone, email address, title of paper, indication of proposed session (if any). Graduate students must also indicate their interest to be considered for the Graduate Prize Competition and/or travel bursary (see above).
Abstract
Title line: Title in capitals. No more than two lines. Boldface and centered. Skip one line.
Author line: Author’s name followed by institutional affiliation in parentheses or, for independent scholars their city. No titles or degrees (i.e. Prof., Dr, PhD). Boldface and centered. Lower case, capitalize first letters of words. Skip two lines.
Abstract text: Justify text. No intend in the first line of paragraphs. Skip one line between paragraphs. Foreign language words transliterated and italicized. No footnotes or images.