Medieval Art Research

CFP: SAH Annual Conference (Glasgow, 7-11 Jun 17)

Glasgow, Scotland, UK, June 7 – 11, 2017
Deadline: Jun 6, 2016

The Society of Architectural Historians is now accepting abstracts for its 70th Annual International Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, June 7–11. Please submit an abstract no later than June 6, 2016, to one of the 33 thematic sessions, the Graduate Student Lightning Talks or the open sessions. The thematic sessions have been selected to cover topics
across all time periods and architectural styles. SAH encourages submissions from architectural, landscape, and urban historians; museum curators; preservationists; independent scholars; architects; and members of SAH chapters and partner organizations.

Thematic sessions and Graduate Student Lightning Talks are listed
below. Please note that those submitting papers for the Graduate
Student Lightning Talks must be graduate students at the time the talk
is being delivered (June 7–11, 2017). Open sessions are available for
those whose research does not match any of the themed sessions.
Instructions and deadlines for submitting to themed sessions and open
sessions are the same.

Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts must be under 300 words.
The title cannot exceed 65 characters, including spaces and punctuation.
Abstracts and titles must follow the Chicago Manual of Style.
Only one abstract per conference by author or co-author may be
submitted.
A maximum of two (2) authors per abstract will be accepted.

LIST OF PAPER SESSIONS

‘A Narrow Place’: Architecture and the Scottish Diaspora
Architectural Ghosts
Architecture and Carbon
Architecture and Immigration in the Twentieth Century
Chinese Architecture and Gardens in a Global Context
City Models: Making and Remaking Urban Space
Colour and Light in Venetian Architecture
Culture, Leisure and the Post-War City: Renewal and Identity
Evidence and Narrative in Architectural History
Graduate Student Lightning Talks
Heritage and History in Sub-Saharan Africa
Landscape and Garden Exchanges between Scotland and America
Mass Housing ‘Elsewhere’
Medieval Vernacular Architecture
Mediterranean Cities in Transition
National, International: Counterculture as a Global Enterprise
Natural Disasters and the Rebuilding of Cities
On Style
Penetrable Walls: Architecture at the Edges of the Roman Empire
Piranesi at 300
Preserving and Repurposing Social Housing: Pitfalls and Promises
Publicly Postmo / dern: Government Agency and 1980s Architecture
Questions of Scale: Micro-architecture in the Global Middle Ages
Reading the Walls: From Tombstones to Public Screens
Reinserting Latin America in the History of Modernism: 1965–1990
Reopening the Open Plan
Rethinking Medieval Rome: Architecture and Urbanism
Spaces of Displacement
The Architecture of Ancient Spectacle
The Architecture of Coal and Other Energies
The Global and the Local in Vernacular Architecture Studies
The Poetics of Roman Architecture
The Politics of Memory, Territory, and Heritage in Iraq and Syria
The Tenement: Collective City Dwelling Before Modernism

From: Helena Dean <hdean@sah.org>

Talk: The Making of the British Museum’s ‘Sicily’ Exhibition 1st June 2016

The Making of the British Museum’s Sicily Exhibition

Dr Dirk Booms, Department of Greek and Roman, British Museum, in conversation with Dr Caroline Goodson.

Dr. Booms, the curator of the current landmark exhibtion Sicily: Culture and Conquest, will discuss the process of developing this exhibition, from first concept to final installation.

6 pm, 1 June 2016 Room G16, Main Building (Malet Street) Birkbeck, University of London Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX

This event is free; all are welcome to attend.

For further information, email: c.goodson@bbk.ac.uk

Tour of V&A’s Collection of Medieval Ironwork Thursday 12th May 2016

On Thurs 12 May Jane Geddes has kindly offered to lead a tour of the V&A’s unparalleled collection of medieval ironwork. Prof Geddes is the world expert on medieval ironwork and this promises to be a wonderful opportunity to learn about an often neglected aspect of medieval material culture. We will meet at the information desk at the main entrance to the V&A at 10am on the 12th, and will finish by 12.

Spaces are limited so please email Margaret.Crosland@courtauld.ac.uk if you would like to come.

CFP: Mediterranean Cities in Transition (7-11 June 2017: Glasgow)

Proposals are being sought for “Mediterranean Cities in Transition,” a session at the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Conference to be held in Glasgow, on 7-11 June 2017.

Co-chairs: D. Fairchild Juggles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Landscape Architecture, Champaign, IL 61820

Nikolai Bakirtzis, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus

Mediterranean cities with long histories preserve the physical evidence of their role as economic and cultural hubs. The historic complexity of their contemporary state reveals their transition through time, with the medieval and early modern period setting the foundations for subsequent growth and development. As cities change through time, visible historic layers emerge (sometimes exposed by excavation) that reveal reforms made for new social needs. The layered architectural heritage is an integral part of the urban fabric of many modern cities, shaping the character and lived experience of the city. But a building’s value today is often very different from how it was valued at the time it was built. The material object connects past and present in a deeply meaningful way, but it does so on new terms. Therefore, making connections between past and present can pose challenges as contemporary residents try to determine the role of the historic fabric in contemporary rapidly growing cities.

We invite papers that will consider the city as a heritage field:

1) How and why does medieval fabric survive to the present?

2) How does this fabric of monuments, architectural tissue (walls and gates), urban spaces, and services (water supply and sewage) serve as a resource for the present? Is the value utilitarian, in the sense of a usable palimpsest, or is it valued because of how it is interpreted?

3) Does medieval architecture guide the subsequent character of the city? If so, does the old footprint pose a limit to growth, its narrow streets and enclosure walls impeding the city’s entry into modernity, or in contrast, does heritage fabric enrich a city’s sense of identity, cultural vigor, and connection to its own place?

4) What is the role of medieval architectural heritage in the context of contested and divided urban space?

HOW TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL: Please submit your 300-word abstract for a paper by 3:00pm on June 7, using the SAH conference portal: http://www.sah.org/conferences-and-programs/2017-conference-glasgow/call-for-papers.

Note that only papers submitted through this portal will be accepted. We will not read nor can we accept papers sent directly to the co-chairs.

Lecture: ‘The Seal Makes the Man – or Woman: London in the Thirteenth Century ’ 23rd May 2016

London Record Society

‘The Seal Makes the Man – or Woman: London in the Thirteenth Century ’

a talk by Dr John McEwan, Centre for Digital Humanities, Saint Louis University, Missouri

Monday 23 May 2016 at 6.30pm at

The Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great

West Smithfield London EC1A 9DS

Free lecture All welcome

CFP: New Tendences in research on the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance

1280px-san_miniato_intarsio_dei_12_segni_zodiacali_06 CFP: Neue Tendenzen der Italienforschung Workshop, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, Florence, November 7-9 2016
Deadline: May 31, 2016

Vom 7. bis 9. November 2016 findet am Kunsthistorischen Institut in
Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut der interdisziplinäre Workshop “Neue
Tendenzen der Italienforschung zu Mittelalter und Renaissance” für
Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchswissenschaftler statt. Ziel
des Workshops ist es, die jüngeren Ansätze der Italienforschung in
Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte zusammenzubringen, zu kommentieren,
kritisch zu würdigen und vor allem die Italienforschung in Deutschland
durch den Austausch insgesamt zu stärken. Die Veranstaltung gibt
fortgeschrittenen Doktoranden/Doktorandinnen, Post-Docs und
Habilitanden/Habilitandinnen vor allem aus der Geschichte und
Kunstgeschichte des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit bis um 1600 die
Gelegenheit, ihre Projekte vorzustellen und diskutieren zu lassen.
Vertreter und Vertreterinnen beider Epochen, beider Disziplinen und
aller anschlussfähigen Nachbardisziplinen sind willkommen.

Der Call for papers richtet sich an Nachwuchswissenschaftler/innen, die
unter anderem zu folgenden Schwerpunktbereichen arbeiten: Raum- und
Stadtgeschichte, Kartographie und Weltbild, Mittelmeergeschichte,
Sakralität und Objekte, Kirchen-, Ordens- und Papstgeschichte,
Schriftlichkeit, Gender Studies, Kunsttheorie und Begriffsgeschichte.

Geplant ist die Einladung von ca. 15 ausgewählten Doktoranden/innen und
Habilitanden/innen, deren Arbeiten wechselweise kommentiert werden.
Dazu sollte eine Kurzform der jeweiligen Präsentationen bis spätestens
zum 30. Oktober eingereicht werden, um schon vor der Tagung
wechselweise gelesen zu werden. Im Workshop selbst steht die Diskussion
im Vordergrund. Die Betreuung erfolgt seitens der Geschichte durch
Prof. Dr. Ingrid Baumgärtner (Universität Kassel) und Prof. Dr. Klaus
Herbers (FAU Erlangen Nürnberg), seitens der Kunstgeschichte durch
Prof. Dr. Tanja Michalsky (BH Rom), Prof. Dr. Alessandro Nova (KHI
Florenz) und Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wolf (KHI Florenz).

Die Kosten für Reise und Unterbringung können anteilig übernommen
werden, wenn eine Finanzierung von anderer Seite nicht möglich ist.

How to submit: Bitte schicken Sie ein einseitiges Abstract für eine 20-25minütige
Präsentation sowie einen kurzen akademischen Lebenslauf auf Deutsch,
Englisch oder Italienisch an ibaum@uni-kassel.de und
klaus.herbers@fau.de.

Bei Rückfragen stehen wir gern zur Verfügung.

Veranstalter: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Baumgärtner (Kassel), Prof. Dr. Klaus
Herbers (Erlangen Nürnberg), Prof. Dr. Tanja Michalsky (Rom), Prof. Dr.
Alessandro Nova (Florenz) und Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wolf (Florenz)

Call for Sessions: Mary Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel, 4th Forum Medieval Art

Call for Sessions: Mary Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel at the 4th Forum Medieval Art, Berlin and Brandenburg, September 20–23, 2017.

Deadline: May 9, 2016

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 4th Forum Medieval Art, Berlin and Brandenburg, September 20–23, 2017. The biannual colloquium is organized by the Deutsche Verein für Kunstwissenschaft e.V.

The theme for the 4th Forum Medieval Art is 360° – Places, Boundaries, Global Perspectives. It will focus on research at the geographical and methodological boundaries of classical medieval studies. The various venues in Berlin and Brandenburg with their medieval heritage and their rich collections of Byzantine and Middle Eastern will be taken as a starting point. Accordingly, the conference will highlight the interaction of Central European medieval art and artistic production with other regions ranging from Eastern Europe, Byzantium, the Middle East, the Caucasus and the Mediterranean to the British Isles and the Baltic region. Thus research areas such as Byzantine Studies or Islamic Art History will be brought into the focus and consciousness of medieval studies, particularly in the context of the endangered artistic and architectural monuments of the Middle East. Especially welcome are topics discussing phenomena such as migration, media transformation and changing cultural paradigms. By asking for culturally formative regions at the borders of “Europe” and transcultural contact zones, definitions of the Middle Ages can be put up for debate. As a counterpart to this panorama, research about the region of Brandenburg and Berlin will also be presented. This includes subjects of museum studies and the history of art of and in Berlin, where the development of areas of cultural exchange has a long tradition.

We invite session proposals that fit within the 360° – Places, Boundaries, Global Perspectives theme and are relevant to Byzantine studies.

How to submit: Session proposals must be submitted through the Mary Jaharis Center website (http://www.maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/4th-forum-medieval-art). The deadline for submission is May 9, 2016. Proposals should include:

*Title

*Session abstract (500 words)

*Proposed list of session participants (presenters and session chair)

*CV

Applicants will be notified of the status of their proposal by May 16, 2016. The organizer of the selected session is responsible for submitting the session proposal to the Forum by June 1, 2016.

If the proposed session is approved, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse session participants (presenters and chair) up to $300 maximum for residents of Germany, up to $600 maximum for EU residents, and up to $1200 maximum for those coming from outside Europe. Funding is through reimbursement only; advance funding cannot be provided. Eligible expenses include conference registration, transportation, and food and lodging. Receipts are required for reimbursement.

CFP: The Genesis of a Window: Methods, Preparations and Problems of Stained Glass Manufacture, University of York, King’s Manor (26 – 27 May 2016), deadline 8 May 2016

CFP: The Genesis of a Window: Methods, Preparations and Problems of Stained Glass Manufacture, Stained Glass Research School – PhD Summer Symposium, University of York, King’s Manor, May 26 – 27, 2016
Deadline: May 8, 2016

The University of York’s Stained Glass Research School will be hosting its annual PhD conference on 26th and 27th May 2016. From the early medieval period stained glass design and manufacture has evolved and reacted to changing tastes, styles and technological advances. The conception and creation of stained glass windows are influenced by factors as diverse as their architectural settings, pictorial and textual sources, and the politics of their patrons and custodians.

Proposals are invited for papers presenting research into any aspects of stained glass design and creation from the development of iconographic and structural design, to production methods and craftsmanship.

How to submit: Please send proposals for 20 minute papers (no more than 300 words, including title and name of corresponding author) to Katie Harrison (keh504@york.ac.uk) and Oliver Fearon (of509@york.ac.uk) by Sunday 8th May.

Conference: “The most beautiful is also the holiest”: aesthetic aspects of the sacred in medieval art and Islamic calligraphy

Conference: “Das Schönste ist auch das Heiligste” – Ästhetische Aspekte des
Heiligen in den mittelalterlichen Bildkünsten und der islamischen
Kalligraphie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, May 11-13, 2016

Programme

Mittwoch, 11.5.2016, Wassersaal, Orangerie

19.00 Uhr Begrüßung Klaus HERBERS (Erlangen)
19.15 Uhr Jens KULENKAMPFF (Erlangen): Das Schöne und das Heilige.
Ein Versuch

Donnerstag, 12.5.2016, Sitzungssaal (2.012), Alte UB (Nachmittag:
Bamberg)

9:00 Uhr Begrüßung und Einführung von Heidrun STEIN-KECKS und
Georges TAMER
Moderation: Georges TAMER (Erlangen)
9:15–10:00 Rebecca SAUER (Heidelberg): Der Schreiber zwischen
Oralität, Ikonizität und Schriftlichkeit: Al-Qalqashandi (1355–1418)
zur Bedeutung der Schrift in der islamischen Kultur
10:00–10:45 Berenike METZLER (Erlangen): Von schöpferischen
Pinselstrichen, Engelsfedern gleich: Auf Spurensuche nach ästhetischer
Motivik in Texten zur islamischen Kalligraphie (14.–17. Jhdt.)

10:45–11.30 Pause

Moderation: Hartmut BOBZIN (Erlangen)
11.30–12:15 Jitka EHLERS (Köln): Mobilia ornamenta. Bildliche und
inschriftliche Ausstattung der sog. vasa sacra des 12. Jahrhunderts.
12:15–13:00 Marina KEVKISHVILI (Florenz): Bild und Schrift, Medien
der Heiligenverehrung in Svanetien (Georgien)

13:26 Uhr Abfahrt nach Bamberg

14:30–15:15 Führung im Islamischen Museum durch Lorenz KORN
(Bamberg)
15:15–16:00 Anja-Ruth DREISER (Bamberg): Magically Empowered by
Sacred Language – Islamic Mirrors (Durch Sprache magisch aufgeladen –
Islamische Spiegel), Bamberg, Raum: U11/00.16
16:15–18 Uhr Besuch des Diözesanmuseums und des Doms

Freitag 13.5.2016, Sitzungssaal (2.012), Alte UB

Moderation: Heidrun STEIN-KECKS (Erlangen)
9.00–9.45 Delia KOTTMANN (Paris): Schönheit in romanischen sakralen
Wandmalereien? Das Beispiel von Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe
9.45–10.30 Miriam KÖCKEIS (Erlangen): “Domum tuam decet sanctitudo
Domine” (Ps. 93,5). Schönheit und Heiligkeit in den romanischen
Wandmalereien von San Tommaso ad Acquanegra sul Chiese

10.30–11.00 Kaffeepause

Moderation: Tobias FRESE (Heidelberg)
11.00–11.45 Emine KÜÇÜKBAY (Bamberg): Hilye-i şerīf: Inwiefern fügen
sich zu den ‚Beschreibungen des Propheten‘ islamische Ästhetik und
religiöse Andacht zusammen? Betrachtungen hinsichtlich kalligraphischer
und graphischer Komponenten
11.45-12.30 Julia GAUS (Tübingen): Byzantinische Enkolpien des
8.-13. Jahrhunderts. Bild, Text, Form und Reliquie – ein Zusammenspiel?
12.30–13.15 Abschlussdiskussion

Conference: II INTERNATIONAL MEETING MAGISTRI CATALONIAE: Art and Ceremony in the Latin West and the Byzantine East, Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, 27 April 2016

granmagistricataloniae4 Conference: II INTERNATIONAL MEETING MAGISTRI CATALONIAE: Art and Ceremony in the Latin West and the Byzantine East, Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, 27 April 2016.

The II INTERNATIONAL MEETING MAGISTRI CATALONIAE will be held next 27 April 2016 at the Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). This meeting has been organized by the Research Group (GdR UAB) MAGISTRI CATALONIAE and the Research Project “Mobility and Artistic Transfer in Medieval Mediterranean (1187-1388): artists, objects and models-MAGISTRI MEDITERRANEI”, in collaboration with Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres (UAB).

Scientific Coordinators: Manuel Castiñeiras and Verónica Abenza

The aim of the II INTERNATIONAL MEETING MAGISTRI CATALONIAE: “Art and Ceremony in the Latin West and the Byzantine East”, is to explore the relationship between civil and religious ceremonies and the art and architecture of both Western and Byzantine traditions over the long centuries since the earliest Christian worship to the Late Middle Ages.

Further to the main purposes of this meeting, papers will address two diverse issues: the reinforcement of ritual practices through imagery and the way how drastic reformations of liturgy and civil observances as well as fashion changes often resulted in the modification of architectural arrangements and ceremonial furnishings.

Programme:
Presentation
Manuel Castiñeiras, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

The Byzantine Imperial Coronation Depicted in Art and a New Interpretation of the Assembly of the Archangels inside a Secular Context
Anastasios Papadopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Court ceremonies and rituals of power in Sicily (1187-1222)
Verónica Abenza, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Bishop Bernward and St. Michael of Hildesheim – A Donator and his Inscription-bearing Artworks
Wilfried Keil, Universität Heidelberg.

Jerusalén en procesión
Avital Heyman, Independent Scholar.

La imagen del profeta Daniel en las ceremonias de coronación. El caso de San Michele de Pavía
Juan Antonio Olañeta, Universitat de Barcelona.