Medieval Art Research

Lecture, 6pm, 18 January 2016. Architectural Practice in Spain, 1370-1450: Drawings, Documents & Historiography

The Coll & Cortés Medieval Spain Seminar in the Research Forum South Room in the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. By Dr Encarna Montero, University of Valencia

6-7pm, Monday 18th January, followed by a drinks reception. Free attendance, open to all

Model for a pinnacle, Valencia, c. 1442. Valencia Municipal Museum

A significant number of sources for the study of architectural practise survive from medieval Spanish kingdoms when compared to other European territories. Apprenticeship contracts, drawings, sketches and masons’ inventories shed light on the means by which architectural knowledge was transmitted in the Iberian peninsula between 1370 and 1450. This body of evidence – much of it newly discovered – also challenges many long-held assumptions, even if several key problems remain unresolved: the training requirements for masons’ apprentices, the specific skills that defined a master, or the role of drawing in the building process.

This is the second in the Coll & Cortés Medieval Spain Seminars, which take the theme of ‘Gothic Architecture, New Approaches’ from 2015-17. The first lecture in the series was delivered by Eduardo Carrero in October 2015.

News: 13th century paintings discovered at Poitiers Cathedral

Some thirteenth century wall paintings of exceptional quality were discovered at Poitiers Cathedral earlier this year. Measuring 900 square metres, these murals were covered by whitewash in the eighteenth century.

You can read more here at France Bleu and watch a video here at la Nouvelle Republique

Best wishes for your winter holidays from all at Medieval Art Research!

Call for Papers: Re/Generate – Medieval materiality and reuse (St Andrews, 6-7 May 2016)

Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2016

The University of St Andrews School of Art History in collaboration with the St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies (SAIMS) present

Re/generate: Materiality and the Afterlives of Things in the Middle Ages, 500-1500

an interdisciplinary conference on reuse and recycling in medieval Europe taking place on 6-7th May 2016.

In recent years, the discipline of Art History has been grappling with the concept of materiality, the very thingness of art. The material of medieval art, be it parchment, precious metal, gem, bone or stone, has emerged as a spearheading topic. Unsurprisingly, this “material turn” has prompted intriguing questions. To what extent does an ivory figure of the Virgin and Child embody the divine, rather than merely represent it? What exactly did pilgrims do with the holy dust or liquid which they carried away from saints’ shrines in little ampullae? It is within this context that we wish to explore how recycling was part of the medieval (re)creative process.

This conference will investigate the different ways in which medieval people used and reused goods, materials, and other elements from existing forms to create (or recreate) new art and architecture. Why did medieval people preserve, conserve, and recycle art and materials from a different era? Did such appropriation go beyond mere economic practicality? Could the very materiality of an object have been the reason for its retention or reinvention? The two-day conference is aimed at postgraduates and early career academics from a range of disciplines including, but not limited to history, art history, museum studies, archaeology, book studies and literature.

We invite twenty-minute papers on the following range of topics and their relationship to the study of materiality, recycling and reuse in middle ages:

Second-hand materiality of medieval art and/or everyday objects
The concept of refuse/garbage and its reuse
The medieval and post-medieval afterlives of things
Theoretical approaches to medieval materiality
Thing theory and Stuff theory
Semiotics and anthropology of medieval recycling and recreation
Issues of authorship, circulation and ownership of recycled art
Genealogy of recycled materials: spoils, heirlooms, relics, ruins and
remnants
Conservation, preservation and restoration in medieval thought and
practice

Papers on other issues related to the study of materiality and reuse of materials in the Middle Ages or of medieval materials in post medieval practice are also welcome.

Please direct your submissions (250 word abstract) along with a short biography (100 word) to regenerate2016@st-andrews.ac.uk no later than 1st of February 2016.

Conference website regenerate2016.wordpress.com

Publication: Predella, No. 35 – The Survival of the Trecento in the Fifteenth Century

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Announcing that No. 35 of PREDELLA is online at

http://www.predella.it/index.php/current-issue/index.html

EDITORIALE / EDITORIAL
Gerardo de Simone, Emanuele Pellegrini2001-2015: Odissea di distruzione

MONOGRAFIA / MONOGRAPH
The Survival of the Trecento in the Fifteenth Century

Louise Bourdua
Introduction

Zuleika Murat
Trecento Receptions in Early Renaissance Paduan Art. The Ovetari Chapel and its Models: Revival or Persistence?

Paolo di Simone
«Gente di ferro e di valore armata».Postille al tema degli Uomini Illustri, e qualche riflessione marginale sulla pittura profana tra Medioevo e Rinascimento

Fabio Massaccesi
Giovanni da Modena and the Relaunch of the Vita-panel in the Quattrocento

Joanne Anderson
Mary Magdalen and the Imagery of Redemption: Reception and Revival in Fifteenth-Century Tyrol

Gerardo de Simone
The use of Trecento sources in Antoniazzo Romano and Lorenzo da Viterbo

Gabriele Fattorini
Sano di Pietro: un’ennesima replica dell’Assunta di Camollia di Simone Martini

MISCELLANEA / MISCELLANY
FIGURE / FIGURES
Andrea Pinotti
El Greco at the Ophthalmologist’s

David Carrier
The Blind Spots of Art History: How Wild Art Came to Be – and Be Ignored

Johannis Tsoumas
Books, Windows and Walls: exploring the Pre-Raphaelite Movement second phase influence on Frederick James Shields’ decorative works

Cecilia Riva
La collezione Layard ?nel catalogo dattiloscritto 1896

Michele Fucich
«Un’immane critica delle confuse perifrasi». Introduzione a Carl Einstein critico d’arte (Parte II)

CORNICE / FRAME
Paolo Coen
The level of our defeat:? the Italian Memorial at Auschwitz and the history of art

Eliana Carrara
De-tutela, idee e pareri? sui beni culturali e la loro difesa nell’Italia del Verybello

Stella Bottai
Per conoscere Marisa Volpi

CUSPIDE /CUSP
Neville Rowley
Il Pollaiolo bruciato.? La Madonna col Bambino di Piero? del Pollaiolo nel Musée des Beaux-Arts di Strasburgo

Gigetta Dalli Regoli
Teste. Un’aggiunta ai disegni dall’antico: il ruolo di Lorenzo di Credi

Paolo di Simone
L’ambiguità del significante.? A proposito di alcune recenti letture della Tempesta, e di una possibile “fonte visiva” di Giorgione

Maria Barbara Guerrieri Borsoi
Nuovi documenti su Pietro da Cortona e il rinnovamento della cappella della Santissima Concezione?in San Lorenzo in Damaso

Elisa Tagliaferri
L’attività di Giacinto Fabbroni nel contado fiorentino: l’Impruneta e dintorni

IN MOSTRA / EXHIBITIONS
Gigetta Dalli Regoli
Antonio e Piero del Pollaiolo. “Nell’argento e nell’oro, in pittura e nel bronzo…”

Alessandro Grassi
Carlo Dolci (1616-1686)

IN LIBRERIA / BOOKS
Michele Cuppone
I Petrignani di Amelia.?Fasti, committenze, collezioni tra Roma e l’Umbria

Annamaria Ducci
Vers une Europe Latine. Acteurs et enjeux des échanges culturels entre la France et l’Italie fasciste

Conference: Medieval Tombs and their Spatial Contexts. Strategies of Commemoration in Christianity and Islam, University of Tubingen (18-20 February 2016)

Medieval Tombs and their Spatial Contexts. Strategies of Commemoration in Christianity and Islam

University of Tubingen, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Alte Burse, Bursagasse 1, Raum X, 72070 Tübingen, Germany,

Conference: February 18 – 20, 2016. Registration deadline: Feb 15, 2016

The idea that the shaping of tombs and funeral places goes beyond aspects of personal welfare and mirrors social functions and meanings of commemoration up to political claims is very popular in medieval research and leaves its mark on examples from Christian and Islamic contexts likewise. Beside an enhanced interest in ritual integration, recent investigations show a wider perspective on concrete location and spatial situation as main factor for the understanding of tombs and their function. As a result, space is interpreted beyond physical boundaries and frames as a relational definition based on social construct in the sense of collective perception, use and appropriation. The conference will give the opportunity to discuss these approaches within comparative perspectives on medieval objects, buildings and places of commemoration in Christianity and Islam. The focus lies on the relevance and the integration of tombs as places and spaces of formative and constitutive character in both religious cultures.

Registration now open:
http://www.transculturalstudies.ch/en/index/conferences/conference-tuebingen/registration.html

Programme

Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität Tübingen, Alte Burse, Bursagasse 1, Raum X, 72070 Tübingen

Thursday, 18.02.2016

13.45 Opening remarks

Francine Giese, Zürich / Kristina Seizinger, Jens Brückner, Markus Thome, Tübingen

Section I – Workshop des Graduiertenkollegs „Religiöses Wissen im vormodernen Europa“ Grabmaltopographien: Konstruktion und Wahrnehmung sakraler Orte und sozialer Distinktion

14.00 Jens Brückner, Tübingen

„Deus in cuius miseratione animae fidelium requiescunt…“ – die
liturgische Inszenierung von Grabmälern in Dom und Stadt Augsburg

14.45 Sebastian Scholz, Zürich

Totengedenken, Selbstdarstellung und Frömmigkeitspraxis im Spiegel der Inschriften vom 6. bis zum 15. Jahrhundert

15.30 Coffee break

16.00 Kristina Seizinger, Tübingen

Wer erhielt ein Denkmal in der Kirche? Standortwahl und Visualisierungsstrategien sozialer Gruppen zwischen Tradition und Wandel

16.45 Markus Hörsch, Leipzig

Die Zisterzienserabteikirche Heilsbronn – Hohenzollern-Grablege und Abbild höfischer Hierarchie
18.15 Keynote Lecture

Tanja Michalsky, Rom

“Napoli (…) che é pietosissima verso li suoi passati, ali quali ogn’hora edifica sepolcri, fabrica sepolture, inalza marmi, statue et colossi …“.Die historiographische Erfassung der Grabmalstopographie im Neapel der Frühen Neuzeit

19.30 Apéro

20.45 Night visit: Die Tübinger Stiftskirche als Begräbnisort

Friday, 19.02.2016
Section II
Location of the sepulchral monument: appropriaton and construction of commemoration places

09.00 Xenia Stolzenburg, Marburg

Sieben Kirchen für ein Stiftergrab. Santo Sepolcro in Mailand im
Spiegel des Stiftungsdokumentes um 1030

09.30 Richard McClary, Edinburgh

On a Holy Mountain? Remote and Elevated Funerary Monuments in Medieval
Islam

10.00 Patricia Blessing, Stanford

Urban Space Beyond the Walls: Siting Islamic Funerary Complexes in Konya

Coffee break

11.00 Susanna Blaser, Zürich

Die programmatische Einbindung der Königinnen-Grabmäler in die
dynastische Nekropole in Saint-Denis bis zur Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts

11.30 Eva Leistenschneider, Ulm

Aux piez et au plus près de la sepulture de nostre corps… – Die Gräber
von Familienmitgliedern und Höflingen des Königs in der
Herrschergrablege Saint-Denis

12.00 Fozia Parveen, Harrogate

Mythmaking, Symbols and Topography: The Ottoman Tombs of Selim I,
Suleiman I and Selim II

Lunch break

Section III
Shaping concepts: construction of meaning through formal, spatial and ritual reference frames

14.00 Francine Giese, Zürich

The Capilla Real in Córdoba. Transcultural Exchange in Medieval Spain

14.30 Antje Fehrmann, Berlin

Das Grabmal als Prozess: Form, Raum, Liturgie und Rezeption am englischen Königs- und Königinnengrabmal

Coffee break

15.30 Jessica Barker, London

Voices from the Grave: Tomb Monuments and Sound in Late-Medieval England

16.00 Sami L. De Giosa, London

The crosses of the Sultan: Sultan Qaytbay’s complex (1472-1474) and the mystery of two decorative elements carved in stone

16.30 Stefan Bürger, Würzburg

Zu den lokalen, liturgischen, historischen, genealogischen, baukulturellen und bautechnischen Kontexten der Grablege Bischof Thilo von Throtas im Merseburger Dom

18.15 Keynote lecture

Doris Behrens-Abouseif, London

Between written and unwritten testimonies: The Christian influences on
the mausoleum of Sultan Qalawun in Cairo

19.30 Conference dinner

Saturday, 20.02.2016

09.00 Markus Thome, Tübingen

Kathedralen als Gedächtnisräume. Das Bischofsgrabmal und die Visualisierung liturgischer Gemeinschaft im Spätmittelalter

09.30 Jörg Richter, Hannover

Eine Kathedrale ohne Bischöfe? Memorialtopographie und Memorialkalender am Halberstädter Dom im 15. Jahrhundert

Coffee break

Section IV
Political strategies: Power issues and sepulchral monuments as means of formation of identity

10.30 Barbara Franzé, Lausanne

Das Grabmosaik der Abtei von Saint-Bertin in Saint Omer (1109): Der Ausdruck der gräflichen Autorität zur Zeit der gregorianischen Reform

11.00 Christina Vossler-Wolf, Tübingen

Von Stiftern und Mönchen – Grablegen und monastische Raumkonzepte am Beispiel des ehemaligen Zisterzienserklosters Bebenhausen

11.30 Claudia Jentzsch, Berlin

„Florentiner Bescheidenheit“? Raumordnungen und Regulierungen der Begräbniskultur in spätmittelalterlichen Florentiner Sakralräumen

Lunch break

13.30 Sara Mondini, Venedig

A widespread ‘taste for the macabre’, apotropaic or political marks? Urbanism, landscapes and funerary architecture in the Indian Sultanates

14.00 Anna Pawlik, Köln

Ort des Gedenkens, Ort der Repräsentation. Das patrizische Grabmal im Spätmittelalter

14.30 Peyman Eshaghi, Karaj

From a Familial Grave to a National Shrine: Fundamental Changings in the Position of Safi-ad-din Ardabili’s tomb during the Safavid Dynasty in Iran

15.00 Final discussion

Registration deadline: Feb 15, 2016

Conference cycle: Visibility and presence of the iamge in the ecclesiastical space: Byzantium and the Western Middle Ages. Paris, 18 February – 16 June 2016

Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, salle Vasari, 2 rue Vivienne,
75002 Paris, February 18, 2016, February 18 – June 16, 2016

Cycle de conférences

Visibilité et présence de l’image dans l’espace ecclésial. Byzance et
Moyen Age occidental

Les jeudis 18 février, 24 mars, 19 mai et 16 juin 2016
INHA, salle Vasari (salle Jullian le 16 juin 2016)
2, rue Vivienne 75002 Paris

En quatre demi-journées, des spécialistes de l’Orient byzantin et de
l’Occident latin dialogueront autour de thématiques qui prolongeront la réflexion menée lors de la journée d’étude introductive du 25 septembre 2015.

Ce cycle s’inscrit dans le programme de recherche IMAGO-EIK?N. Regards croisés sur l’image médiévale entre Orient et Occident (Labex RESMED et HiCSA), dans une action collaborative avec le domaine médiéval de l’INHA, porté par Isabelle Marchesin.

Responsables scientifiques
Sulamith Brodbeck : sulamith.brodbeck@univ-paris1.fr,
Anne-Orange Poilpré : anne-orange.poilpre@univ-paris1.fr

PROGRAMME DU CYCLE

Première rencontre : jeudi 18 février 2016, 14h30-17h30, salle Vasari
Thème : L’image dans l’espace sacré : enjeux historiographiques et
perspectives

Introduction du cycle : Sulamith Brodbeck et Anne-Orange Poilpré (Paris
1 Panthéon Sorbonne)

Sharon Gerstel (University of California, Los Angeles) : Images in
Churches in Late Byzantium: Reflections and Directions
Jean-Pierre Caillet (université Paris Ouest) : L’image dans l’édifice
en Occident médiéval : le potentiel des ouvertures après un siècle de
réflexions
Répondant : Ioanna Rapti (EPHE)

Deuxième rencontre : jeudi 24 mars 2016, 14h30-17h30, salle Vasari
Thème : Lumière et éclairage de l’espace cultuel : perception et
réception des images

Lioba Theis (Universität Wien) : The Orchestration of Enlightenment:
Light in Sacred Space
Nicolas Reveyron (université Lumière Lyon II) : Image et lumière :
performance et polychronie
Répondant : Andréas Nicolaïdès (université Aix-Marseille)

Troisième rencontre : jeudi 19 mai 2016, 14h30-17h30, salle Vasari
Thème : Images monumentales et jeux d’échelle : les dynamiques
spatiales du lieu de culte

Isabelle Marchesin (INHA) : La mise en réseau des hommes et des
artefacts dans l’église Saint-Michel d’Hildesheim
Annemarie Weyl Carr (Southern Methodist University, Dallas) : Across a
Crowded Room: Paths of Perception in Cyprus’ Painted Churches
Répondant : Daniel Russo (université de Bourgogne)

Quatrième rencontre : jeudi 16 juin 2016, 14h30-17h30, salle Jullian
Thème : Visibilité et lisibilité du dialogue entre images et
inscriptions dans l’espace cultuel

Vincent Debiais (CNRS – CESCM Poitiers) : Absence/silence des
inscriptions en contexte liturgique : quelques exemples hispaniques
Catherine Jolivet-Lévy (EPHE) : Inscriptions et images dans quelques
églises byzantines de Cappadoce : visibilité/lisibilité, interactions
et fonctions
Répondant : François Bougard (IRHT)

Conclusion du cycle : Sulamith Brodbeck et Anne-Orange Poilpré
(université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)

Chaque rencontre sera suivie d’un cocktail servi en salle Warburg à
17h30

Conference: Celtic Revivals: Authenticity and Identity Conference, London 16-17 January 2016

Celtic Revivals: Authenticity and Identity Conference

British Museum, January 16 – 17, 2016

Although the Celtic Revival is usually associated with the late 19th century, this conference will demonstrate how it constitutes a whole series of revivals, beginning in the medieval period and continuing into the modern. Leading art and design historians, archaeologists and curators will present the Celtic Revival as a rewriting, recreation and reimagining of the past.

Central to these discussions will be the themes of national and cultural heritage and identities, authenticity and innovation, and the network of ‘Celtic’ connections that span across time, space, media, disciplines and national/cultural borders

Conference Details and Programme

Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum
Coffee and lunch provided
Conference Fee +exhibition visit £50 (£35 concessions/students)

Saturday 16 January

9:30 Registration and coffee

10.15 Introduction

10.30 The Concept of Style in Celtic Art – Colum Hourihane, Princeton University, Emeritus

11:00 TBC – Raghnall Ó Floinn, National Museum of Ireland

11:30 Break

11:45 Relics, Reliquaries, and the Presence of the Past – Karen Overbey, Tufts University

12:15 Celtic, Scotch and Stuart: Queen Victoria and Scottish Identity – Helen Ritchie, Fitzwilliam Museum

12:45 Lunch

14:00 ‘In the tradition of my race’: Evoking the Celtic past in
later medieval Ireland – Rachel Moss, Trinity College, Dublin

14:30 Medieval Gaelic manuscript miscellanies: changing cultural
contexts – Siobhán Fitzpatrick and Bernadette Cunningham, Royal Irish Academy

15:00 Celtic Revivals and Reappropriations in Art and Books 1760 –
1951 – Murdo Macdonald, University of Dundee

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Evoking Ireland’s Celtic “Golden Age”: Textiles for the Honan
Chapel at University College Cork – Nancy Netzer, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College

16:30 Compton Chapel – Revealing the Sources of its Celtic Symbolism – Louise Boreham, Independent Researcher

Sunday 17 January

8:00 Visit to Celts: art and identity (drop in between 8 and 10am)

10:00 Coffee

10:30 The Druids and the Evergreen: authenticity and originality in
fin de siècle Scotland – Frances Fowle and Heather Pulliam, University of Edinburgh

11:30 Celtic collections: the curatorial appetite for ‘Celtic
crosses’ in nineteenth-century Scotland – Sally Foster, University of Stirling

12.00 Lunch

13:00 Gods, warriors and saints: Celts on parade in Edwardian
Scotland – Elizabeth Cumming, University of Edinburgh

13:30 The Death of Tewdrig (1848): ‘A sculpture illustrative of
Cambro-British History.’ – Oliver Fairclough, National Museum Wales

14:00 Break

14:15 The Celtic Revival in the Visual Culture of Wales – Martin Crampin, University of Wales

14:45 Ireland 1893 – 1917: Celtic Revival or Celtic Twilight?

Organised by the British Museum and University of Edinburgh
The conference is supported by The Kilfinan Trust

Book round up: L’aventure des cathédrales, Le cloître de Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines, La scultura in Valnerina tra i secoli XIV e XVI: Scoperte e nuove proposte, Cisterciensi: Arte e storia & Byzantine Art and Italian Panel Painting: The Virgin and Child Hodegetria and the Art of Chrysography

Five recent publications that may be of interest to our readers:

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GÉRARD DENIZEAU. L’aventure des cathédrales, Larousse, 2015, 128 p. ISBN: 978-2035923455

The story of cathedral construction, told through the involvement of the artisans (carpenters, blacksmiths, masons, masters of stained glass and more).

scultura-valnerina-239x330 DIEGO MATTEI. La scultura in Valnerina tra i secoli XIV e XVI: Scoperte e nuove proposte. Dal Formichiere, 2015, 103 p. ISBN: 978-8898428564

New research into the sculptural traditions of the Valnerina region, containing many hitherto little known or unpublished works.

GÉRALDINE MALLET. Le cloître de Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines, Trabucaire, 2015, 80 p.ISBN: 978-2849742167

A study of the medieval cloister of Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines, often described as a “jewel” of the Romanesque.

TERRYL N. KINDER; ROBERTO CASSANELLI (ed.). Cisterciensi. Arte e storia, Jaca Book, 2015, 432 p. ISBN: 978-8816604414

An analysis of Cistercian art, culture, contribution and life from the twelfth century to the present, with 40 contributions from international scholars.

JAROSLAV FOLDA. Byzantine Art and Italian Panel Painting: The Virgin and Child Hodegetria and the Art of Chrysography, Cambridge University Press, 2015, 424 p. ISBN: 978-1107010239

Tracing the transformation of the Hodegetria, from the Byzantine virgin as human mother of God, to the Italian Madonna enthroned as Queen of Heaven.

Seminar: Professor Jean-Claude Schmitt on ‘Les rythmes au Moyen Âge (Rhythms in the Middle Ages)’ Monday 18 January 2016

The first UCL Iinterdisciplinary Medieval And Renaissance Seminar of 2016 will be held at 6.15pm Monday 18 January 2016.

Professor Jean-Claude Schmitt will be presenting his new book, Les rythmes au Moyen Âge (Rhythms in the Middle Ages).

Unlike previous UCL IMARS seminars this will take place in the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL in the Common Ground, South Wing, Wilkins Building, UCL.

It will, of course, be followed by a wine reception.

The IMARS programme for next term is available at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mars/seminars-lectures/imars

HISTORIANS OF ISLAMIC ART ASSOCIATION 2016 Biennial Conference

The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

October 20-22, 2016

Regionality: looking for the local in the arts of Islam

The Fifth Biennial Conference of the Historians of Islamic Art Association will take place at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, from October 20th to October 22nd, 2016. The Courtauld Institute of Art is one of the world’s preeminent centres for the study of art history and conservation. The introduction in 2013 of a dedicated teaching position for Islamic art history marks the enormous strides taken in our field in recent decades, and recognizes the fact that the study of the arts of Islam have become an integral part of the broader art historical discipline and have made important contributions to cross-cultural studies, trans-disciplinary approaches, and the general widening of the scope of art history.

The London venue celebrates the European ‘roots’ of the study of the arts that fall under the cultural umbrella of Islam, and the formation of the important early collections and exhibitions that launched its scholarship. Those early, mostly connoisseurial categories of regional types and styles – the “Moresque”, Persian painting, Turkish tiles, Indian decorative arts – formed the foundations from which universalizing narratives of “Islamic” arts emerged, especially in the period after the Second World War. Some fifty years later, we are witnessing a resurgence of the study of regional specificities, augmented with deeper research into the diverse facets of any given locality or artistic form, and a greater commitment to the linguistic and cultural particularities that shaped the arts, architecture and archaeology in a specific locale. Rigorous application of trans-disciplinary research strategies have contributed to the deepening of our understanding of the arts of Islam in local terms, and have allowed us to embrace broader historical trajectories to include the modern and contemporary in our field.

The conference organizers believe that this is a time to celebrate the diversity within HIAA’s specialist remit and to take stock of our field’s capacity for extending beyond nationalistic formulations of history, and for breaking out of Euro-centred identities and perspectives. As such we invite proposals for papers and pre-organized panels that take regionality as their principal theme, that complicate simplistic assumptions about ethno-national labels, and that highlight the local. Paper proposals from all parts of the field, from the late antique to the contemporary, from Spain to Southeast Asia, are welcome.

The conference program will feature guided object-handling sessions at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum, allowing direct access to a wide range of media from these two remarkable survey collections. On October 19th, there will be an opportunity to preview the exhibition Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural, at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford (travel to Oxford not provided). On October 23rd, the Sarikhani Collection of Persian Art in Oxfordshire has generously invited conference participants to a daylong visit to the collection (travel by coach will be provided).

Graduate students and early career scholars will be considered for travel and lodging grants. We urge our senior colleagues to seek funding in their home institutions. The conference schedule will be finalized by August 2016. There will be three keynote talks marking each day of the conference and a special dinner on October 22nd for all speakers, session chairs and discussants. Tea, coffee, and some lunches will be provided. The guided handling sessions – in small groups and focused by media – take place on the morning of Friday 21st October at the V&A and British Museum. Advance registration required. Details forthcoming.

Abstracts and Panel Proposals

Proposals may be submitted either for individual papers or for pre-arranged panels. Paper proposals should include your name, contact information, affiliated institution, professional/academic position, paper title, and the abstract.

Panel proposals should include a panel description of no more than 300 words and the names, contacts, and proposal abstracts of all participants.

The abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and should indicate the original contribution of the paper and/or panel.

Proposals should be submitted by Monday 4th January 2016 to Sussan Babaie, HIAA President-elect, at HIAABiennial2016@gmail.com.

Selected speakers will be given 20 minutes for their presentation followed by a short Q&A. Time will be allotted for panel discussions at the end of each panel.

All Symposium participants must be HIAA members in good standing. To join or renew your membership in HIAA, please follow the instructions on the HIAA website: http://www.historiansofislamicart.org

Program Committee for HIAA Biennial 2016:

Mariam Rosser-Owen, Victoria and Albert Museum

Scott Redford, SOAS, University of London

Sussan Babaie, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

Key dates:

Deadline for submission of abstracts and panel proposals: 4 January 2016

Accepted papers and panels announced via email: 28 February 2016

Deadline for draft paper submission: 1 September 2016

Conference dates: 20-22 October 2016

For further details please contact Sussan Babaie at HIAABiennial2016@gmail.com