Medieval Art Research

Call for Papers: II International Conference. Sevilla, 1514: Arquitectos tardogóticos en la encrucijada

Call for Papers
II International Conference. Sevilla, 1514: Arquitectos tardogóticos en la encrucijada
Seville, November 12-15, 2014
Deadline: 31 May 2014

After the I International Conference Arquitectura tardogótica en la Corona de Castilla held in Santander in 2010, the II International Conference. Sevilla, 1514: Arquitectos Tardogóticos en la encrucijada, aims to serve as a forum for discussion on the latest research developed in this thematic area in an international context.

The conference will be celebrated as a joint activity between the Universities of Cantabria, Seville, Lisbon (Portugal) and Palermo (Italy) and will be held in the city of Seville during the month of November, 2014, with a duration of 4 days distributed into scientific sessions and guided visits. The scientific sessions will focus on the following topics:

Magister: Biographies and trajectories of the Late Gothic master builders.
The role of promoters and patrons.
1514 as a milestone: the Late Gothic period and the “Franciscan, German and Moorish skeins”.
The councils of master builders in the Late Gothic period.
Science, technique and archaeology.
Engravings, treatise and microarchitectures.

Those interested in presenting a paper must send the title and abstract in Spanish or in English (max. 1,000 characters) before the 31st of May, 2014, along with their personal information (full name, e-mail address, mailing address and telephone number) to the following e-mail address: congresosevilla@unican.es (only one paper will be admitted per person).

For more information, please visit the following website: www.tardogotico.es

Conference: Orfèvrerie gothique en Europe (Lausanne, 26-28 March 2014)

Lausanne University, 26. – 28.03.2014

Orfèvrerie gothique en Europe. Production et réception.

Université de Lausanne – Site de Dorigny
Bâtiment Amphimax, salle 414
26-28 mars 2014

PROGRAMME

Mercredi 26 mars 2014

14h00 Accueil des participant-e-s
Ouverture des travaux, par Élisabeth Antoine-König (Musée du Louvre, Paris) et Michele Tomasi (Université de Lausanne)

Entre villes et cours
14h30 Sophie Cassagnes-Brouquet (Université de Toulouse) Riches et puissants, la domination d’un groupe artistique au sein d’une société urbaine à la fin du Moyen Âge : l’exemple de Toulouse
15h10 Marie-Claude Léonelli (DRAC, Avignon) L’orfèvrerie à la cour pontificale d’Avignon et sa diffusion outre Rhône au XIVe siècle
Pause
16h10 Jörg Richter (Université de Berne) Goldschmiedearbeiten in den Rechnungen der Grafen von Tirol
16h50 Élise Banjenec (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne) Philippe le Bon et les orfèvres : statuts des fournisseurs et répartition des commandes d’orfèvrerie du duc de Bourgogne

Jeudi 27 mars 2014

Ateliers et foyers
9h00 Élisabeth Antoine-König (Musée du Louvre, Paris) Thème et variations dans l’Œuvre de Limoges : la question des modèles
9h40 Gerhard Lutz (Dom-Museum, Hildesheim) Hildesheim as a centre of goldsmiths’ work in the 14th and 15th century
Pause
10h40 Evelin Wetter (Fondation Abegg, Riggisberg) ‘Networking’ among Transylvanian Goldsmiths in the Late Middle Ages
11h20 Philippe Trélat (Université de Rouen) D’or et d’argent : l’orfèvrerie chypriote entre Orient et Occident (XIIe-XVe siècle)

Figures d’orfèvres
14h30 Stefano Riccioni (Université de Venise) Le ‘firme’ degli orafi nel Trecento senese : autocoscienza d’artista o marketing di bottega ?
15h10 Glyn Davies (Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres) Siena and the Chalice Trade, 1250-1500 : creativity and standardization
Pause
16h10 Elisabetta Cioni (Université de Sienne) Per l’oreficeria senese della seconda metà del Trecento. Un’ulteriore proposta per la bottega ‘dei Tondi’
16h50 Anna Molina Castellà (Université de Barcelone) Pere Bernés, platero de Valencia y de la casa del rey de Aragón

Vendredi 28 mars 2014

La production sacrée et sa réception
9h00 Christine Descatoire (Musée de Cluny, Paris) Des reliquaires à succès des régions
septentrionales : phylactères et croix staurothèques (fin du XIIe – première moitié du XIIIe siècle)
9h40 Daniela Mondini (Accademia di Architettura, USI, Mendrisio) Pierre et Paul sous les
insignes de la monarchie française. Encore sur les reliquaires des Capita apostolorum au Latran
Pause
10h40 Clario di Fabio (Université de Gênes) L’arca processionale del Battista nella cattedrale di Genova. Le ‘radici’ internazionali e il ‘cantiere’ di una micro-cattedrale gotica
11h20 Sara Minelli (Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare, Verceil) Reliquiari parlanti e attivi : stato delle ricerche

La production profane et sa réception
14h30 Sarah Zingraff (Université d’Aix-Marseille) Les objets de parure orfévrés en Italie
du nord entre la seconde moitié du XIVe et la fin du XVe siècle : l’apport de l’iconographie
15h10 Joan Domenge i Mesquida (Université de Barcelone) Caballería y orfebrería. El collar emblemático en los reinos hispánicos en torno a 1400
Pause
16h10 Michele Tomasi (Université de Lausanne) L’orfèvrerie dans la Chronique du règne de
Charles VI
16h50 John Cherry (Londres) Patronage and Purpose : the silver seal matrices of Colleges in late medieval England

La participation au colloque est gratuite.

Il est conseillé d’utiliser l’arrêt du Métro m1 UNIL- Sorge.
Pour davantage d’informations concernant l’accès au site de l’UNIL,
consultez le site : http://www.unil.ch/acces/page36432_fr.html#2

Organisation : Élisabeth Antoine-König (Musée du Louvre) et Michele
Tomasi (UNIL)

Renseignements :
Michele Tomasi
Université de Lausanne
Section d’histoire de l’art
bâtiment Anthropole
CH 1015 LAUSANNE
Tél. : ++41.21.692.35.74
Fax : ++41.21.692.29.35
Courriel : michele.tomasi@unil.ch

Conference: Textilien & Inventare (Vienna, 27-28 March 2014)

WORKSHOP
Inventories of Textiles – Textiles in Inventories (Late Medieval and Early Modern Period)

PROGRAM

March 27 (Late Middle Ages)

CHAIR: Thomas Ertl
14.00: Opening Remarks
14.15: Christiane M. Elster, Inventories and Textiles of the Papal
Treasury around 1300. Concepts of Papal Representation in written and material media
15.00: Sarah-Grace Heller, Revisiting the Inventories of Artois:
Mahaut and the Line between Treasure and Fashion
15.45 Break
16.15: Sharon Farmer, Finding Parisian Silk in Aristocratic and Royal Accounts
17:00: Lisa Monnas, Reading English Royal Inventories: the Inventory of Henry V (1423)

March 28 Morning (Early Modern Period I)

CHAIR: Barbara Karl
9.30: Annemarie Stauffer, A List of Garments for Charles the Bolds Entourage Sent to Tommaso Portinari in Bruges in 1473
10.15: Richard Stapleford, The Fabric of Life in the 1492 Inventory of the Estate of Lorenzo de’ Medici
11.00 Break
11.30 Jessica Hallett, All His Worldly Possession, Textiles in the Inventory of the Fifth Duke of Braganza, 1563
12.15 Paula Hohti, European Influences on Scandinavian Noble Dress: Textiles and Clothing in the Surviving Inventories in Finland, 1550-1600

March 28 Afternoon (Early Modern Period II)

CHAIR: Corinne Thepaut- Cabasset
14.00: Chiara Buss, A “Book of Foreign Samples” Dated 1628 from the State Archives in Milan
14.45: Burkhard Pöttler, Clothes and Cloths in Styrian Probate Inventories of the Late 17th and 18th Centuries
Break 15.30
16.15: Hedda Reindl-Kiel, The Empire of Fabrics – The Range of Fabrics in Internal Ottoman Gift Traffic and Textiles as Ottoman Diplomatic Gifts (16th-18th Centuries)
17.00: Kim Siebenhüner & Gabi Schopf & John Jordan, Cottons and Indiennes in Early Modern Swiss Inventories
17:45 Concluding Discussion

The workshop is a joint initiative of MAK (Museum für angewandte Kunst, Wien) and WISO (Department of Economic and Social History, University of Vienna). Guests are most welcome. All presentations will be given in English. For further information please contact:

Prof. Thomas Ertl
Department of Economic and Social History
University of Vienna
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Austria
thomas.ertl@univie.ac.at

Dr. Barbara Karl
Curator of Textiles and Carpets
MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst
Stubenring 5, 1010 Wien
barbara.karl@mak.at

Postdoctoral Fellowship: Hulme University Fund and John Fell OUP Research Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities

University of Oxford – Humanities Division and Brasenose College
Grade 7: £29,837 p.a.

Debate at King’s College, London, Department of Greek and Latin Office

The King’s Classics Department and Institute of Classical Studies are delighted to announce a lecture by Prof. Luca Giuliani (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), with response by Prof. Dyfri Williams (Université libre de Bruxelles):

The Warren Cup: A piece of mimetic craftsmanship around 1900?
The ‘Warren Cup’ – a small, silver drinking cup decorated in low relief with scenes of homosexual intercourse – was purchased by the British Museum for £1.8m in 1999; today, it is one of the most cherished pieces in the British Museum’s Roman Galleries (and a highlight of Neil MacGregor’s History of the World in 100 Objects). In this lecture, Prof. Luca Giuliani re-examines the cup’s modern reception since its initial purchase by Edward Perry Warren in 1911. Rather than date the cup to the first century AD, however, Prof. Giuliani suggests that the object is in fact a modern forgery, its imagery specially designed for its first, eponymous owner.

Luca Giuliani’s research on the ‘Warren Cup’ has attracted much media attention in Germany. This will be the first time that Prof. Giuliani addresses a British audience on the subject: to enrich discussion, the British Museum has nominated Prof. Dyfri Williams (author of The Warren Cup, published by the British Museum Press in 2006) to act as respondent. The collaborative event marks the close of this year’s lectures on Medium and Mimesis in Classical Art, and will be followed by a reception at ‘Chambers’ on the King’s College London Strand campus (sponsored by the Department of Classics).

This is an open public event, and all are warmly invited.

Location S-1.27 Strand Campus
When 12/03/2014 (17:15-18:30)
Contact For more information, please contact Michael Squire (michael.squire@kcl.ac.uk) or Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (alexia.petsalis-diomidis@kcl.ac.uk)

37th Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies

University of Winchester
Thursday 24 July – Monday 28 July 2014

Booking has now opened for the Battle conference at Winchester in July 2014. This will be handled via the University of Winchester; please visit their website, at http://store.winchester.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=10&catid=10&prodid=139, to register. The final date for booking is 7 July 2014.

It is possible to book as Resident or non-Resident delegate for the whole conference (respectively £366.65 or £234.95) or per day. Whatever your choice may be, there is also a conference fee of £30.00 pp for overheads as this conference, organised by the Allen Brown Memorial Trust, is unsubsidised and self-funded.

The full package and conference fee include all accommodation (for residents) as well as meals, tea/coffee, entrance fees and wine for the conference dinner on Saturday. On other nights wine is available but will need to be paid for on location.

Accommodation is located very near the conference venue (West Downs Centre) but delegates should be aware that it is on a fairly steep slope! It consists of ensuite single rooms in groups of five which share a kitchen with tea/coffee making facilities. The conference centre is at a distance of approximately 20 minutes walk from Winchester centre and on a bus route.

Alongside the main lecture room, there will be access to two break-out rooms for the duration of the conference.

Summer Institute: The Invisible (Cologne, 15-23 July 2014)

Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung, Universität zu Köln, July 15 – 23,
2014
Deadline: Apr 2, 2014

Cologne University’s international interdisciplinary summer institute 2014 will take place from 15th to 23rd of July 2014. After last year’s founding event on “Techniques of Imagination”, participants and faculty of 2014 will focus on historiographical perspectives on “The Invisible”. We invite graduate and postgraduate students from Art History, Media, Film, Theatre, Performance and Cultural Studies to apply for our international program. Each participant may choose from three seminars led by a pair of scholars from Northwestern University
(Evanston, USA) and the University of Cologne. 2014’s program includes seminars on Art History, Theatre and Performance Studies and Film and Media Studies. In addition to our seminars we offer interdisciplinary academic workshops that allow for a dialogue across the seminars. Each participant can choose one seminar and a workshop, thus composing his/her individual study program. Seminars and workshops are framed by study trips, evening lectures by faculty, and poster presentations by students.

The summer institute will be hosted by the Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung (TWS) of Cologne University, one of the largest archives of theatre history in Europe. Situated in the picturesque manor house Schloss Wahn, located in the outskirts of Cologne, it provides a unique setting for learning and discussion, combining gracious surroundings with facilities for daily meetings, and offering access to exceptional archival materials in proximity to one of Germany’s most vibrant metropolises.

All sessions will be conducted in English.

A provisional timetable and more information can be found on our
website http://sic.uni-koeln.de

Call for Participants: Roots and Routes III – Sociability and Material/Digital Mediterranean (26 May – 3 June 2014, Toronto)

Format:
Unlike traditional academic conferences, the Roots & Routes Summer Institute features a combination of informal presentations, seminar-style discussions of shared materials, hands-on workshops on a variety of digital tools, and small-group project development sessions. The institute welcomes participants from a range of disciplines with an interest in engaging with digital scholarship; technical experience is not a requirement. Graduate students (MA and PhD), postdoctoral fellows and faculty are all encouraged to apply.
Hosted by the University of Toronto Scarborough, the institute allows participants to develop a more coherent and explicitly transdisciplinary analytical framework for future scholarship using digital tools and methodologies. Participants will explore new formats for conducting research and presenting their findings. By teaming up with information technology specialists and digital scholarship experts working outside the Mediterranean, participants will have a chance to develop long-term collaborative projects to enhance their ongoing individual research agendas. In order to maximize the potential for future collaboration and broad, thematic conversations, groups will be composed of participants from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and at different stages of their scholarly careers, from senior scholars to advanced undergraduates. Participants are encouraged to engage each other’s materials, bring insights from their own fields of expertise to a broader methodological and conceptual discussion, and begin to draw out connections between what are often seen as disparate fields of knowledge.

Annual theme:
This year’s theme, “Sociability and Materiality,” aims to capture a range of historical problems and their attendant methodological and epistemological challenges. Participants are invited to define and approach this theme from the position of their individual disciplines and research interests. For example, what place does “the Mediterranean” have in discussions about manuscript, print, and digital cultures and their interpretation? What can historians, art historians, archaeologists, and other scholars learn from one another when tackling these problems? (How) are themes such as sociability and materiality useful in the study of the premodern Mediterranean? How can attention to materiality and sociability make salient the various practices of knowledge production of different disciplinary traditions, and what do such practices entail? What new ways of envisioning archives (as processes as well as products) are being facilitated by digital technologies? How do digital media and methodologies change the ways in which we identify, access, and interpret historical records? What might “collaborative research” in digital environments have to learn from (and teach) the history of earlier forms of scholarly sociability? How does the recent resurgence in the history of material culture speak to longer-term interest among historians of the book in the materiality of textual artifacts?

Application Guidelines:
Applicants should submit a CV and a brief proposal (up to 600 words) that includes a discussion of their current research and a specific object they would like to present and further develop digitally. This object may be a text, an artifact, a dataset, or a cluster of any of the above. Once accepted, participants will be asked to compile a bibliography of relevant readings to share with others in advance, as well as to install and become familiar with a few digital tools (e.g. Zotero), to allow us to explore more advanced features and digital skills at the institute itself. Participants are not expected to have prior programming knowledge or other advanced digital skills, but should be genuinely interested in the potential of digital tools to challenge and transform current research practices.
Application deadline: March 21, 2014

See http://ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/utsc/RRSI3/announcement/view/139
** Travel bursaries may be available for some out-of-town graduate student participants. **
Please contact the organizers at rrsi2014[at]utsc.utoronto.ca for further information or to get involved in the organizing process.
“Roots & Routes: Scholarly Networks and Knowledge Production in the Premodern Mediterranean and in the Digital Age” is a three-year Summer Institute (2011, 2012 & 2014) hosted by the University of Toronto Scarborough and is generously supported by a grant from the University of Toronto’s Connaught Fund.

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Bates College

The Department of History, Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine, invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellow, with a particular emphasis on pedagogical innovation. The fellowship is funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation and begins August 1, 2014. Candidates must complete the Ph.D. by September 1, 2014, and should be no more than three years out of their doctorate. This is a half-time teaching position with salary and benefits of a full-time assistant professor. The fellow will teach three courses during the academic year 2014-15 and two courses in 2015-16. The reduced teaching load is designed to support innovation in teaching and on-going professional research. Some funds to support scholarly work are also available. Bates is a highly selective liberal arts college and will provide an excellent climate for professional development and scholarship.

We seek historians of the western Mediterranean between 300 and 1650 C.E., with strong preferences for those who study Spain before 1500. The following areas of specialization are of particular interest: interfaith relations, the Mediterranean world, and/or the Atlantic world. We anticipate a close integration of this position among programs in History and Classical and Medieval Studies, so applicants should explain how their own work might complement some of the work of relevant members of these departments. The successful candidate must be interested in, and will conduct faculty workshops on, innovative teaching and research. The department recognizes that innovation can take many forms. Some possibilities could include techniques in the digital humanities; methods for attracting diverse groups to the study of history; pedagogies focused on different learning styles; creative ways of structuring assignments and the use of classroom time; techniques for connecting student learning to wider local and global communities; or creative approaches to promoting student engagement and interest in History at Bates. The college, the History Department, and the Classical and Medieval Studies Program are committed to enhancing the diversity of the campus community and the curriculum. The search committee expects candidates who can contribute to this goal to identify their strengths and experiences in this area.

Applicants should submit electronically, in PDF format, to Nancy LePage, Project Specialist, 207-786-6480 atacademicservices@bates.edu, a letter of application, C.V., writing sample, teaching statement, and three letters of recommendation. Please include your last name and R2527 in the subject line of all submissions. Consideration of applications will begin on March 17, 2014, and continue until the position is filled. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
For more information about the college, please visit the Bates website: www.bates.edu.

Workshop: Early Modern Colour Practices II, 1450-1650

Early Modern Colour Practices II, 1450 – 1650, 21/22 March 2014

Main Conference Room, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstr. 22, 14195 Berlin

Organisers:

Sven Dupré, Max Planck Research Group Director / Freie Universität Berlin

Karin Leonhard, MPIWG / Universität Bonn

In recent years colour has become the focus of discussion for scholars interested in the interactions between art, craft, science and technology. While this discussion has drawn in scholars from various disciplines (history of art, history of science and technology, technical art history and conservation science), the focus on interactions between categories of art, craft, science and technology, unreflectively defined according to modern disciplines, is not helpful in understanding colour in the early modern period. This workshop takes colour practices, cutting across the categories of art, craft, science and technology, as its central category of analysis, while it also acknowledges the different sources and types and the various uses of colour knowledge. The workshop deals with a diversity of such practices, from painting, limning and colour printing to medical diagnosis and optical or meteorological observation to botanical or anatomical drawing, in the period between 1450 and 1650.

If you would like to have more information, please see the MPIWG’s events page:

http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/news/index.html

and the workshop’s web page:

http://public.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/workshops/node/23

Observers are welcome but space is limited. To register, please email officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.

University of Oxford – Humanities Division and Brasenose College Grade 7: £29,837 p.a.

University of Oxford – Humanities Division and Brasenose College
Grade 7: £29,837 p.a.