New Journal: Analekta Stagon kai Meteoron – Analecta Stagorum et Meteororum 1 (2022)

The first issue of the new journal “Analekta Stagon kai Meteoron/Analecta Stagorum et Meteororum” was recently published and is available now. An initiative of the Diocesan Academy of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of Stagoi and Meteora, the journal seeks to present and illuminate various unknown or little known aspects of the historical and material heritage of the local Church, the Meteora monasteries and, by extension, north-west Thessaly as a whole. The inaugural issue is bilingual and printed in full colour.

Analekta Stagon kai Meteoron – Analecta Stagorum et Meteororum 1 (2022), ISSN: 2944-9022, 430 p., 30 €

  1. ΣΥΜΕΩΝ ΟΥΡΕΣΗΣ ΠΑΛΑΙΟΛΟΓΟΣ, ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑΣ ΤΩΝ ΤΡΙΚΑΛΩΝ
    Brendan Osswald
  2. THESSALY UNDER THE SERBS (1348 – c. 1373)
    Maja Nikolić
  3. ΠΡΟΣΩΠΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΠΟΙ ΣΤΟΝ ΒΙΟ ΤΩΝ ΟΣΙΩΝ ΝΕΚΤΑΡΙΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΘΕΟΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΑΨΑΡΑΔΩΝ
    Demetrios Agoritsas
  4. THE MONASTERIES OF METEORA DURING THE OTTOMAN PERIOD AND THE PRACTICE OF MONASTIC CONFINEMENT
    Elif Bayraktar Tellan
  5. ΒΗΜΟΘΥΡΟ ΣΤΗ ΜΟΝΗ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΜΕΤΕΩΡΟΥ ΑΠΟΔΙΔΟΜΕΝΟ ΣΤΟΝ ΘΕΟΦΑΝΗ ΤΟΝ ΚΡΗΤΑ
    Paraskevi Papademetriou
  6. THE ARTISTIC ACTIVITY OF THEOPHANES ΤΗΕ CRETAN IN WESTERN THESSALY AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE “CRETAN SCHOOL” OF PAINTING IN OTTOMAN GREECE
    Konstantinos M. Vapheiades
  7. RECREATING A SOCIETY’S MATERIAL CULTURE: TEXTILES IN THE TRIKKE CODEX EBE 1471
    Nikolaos Vryzidis
  8. ‘FROM THE ORTHODOX MEGALOPOLIS OF MOSCOVY OF GREAT RUSSIA’: RUSSIAN HEIRLOOMS FROM THE MONASTERY OF TATARNA, SIXTEENTH -SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
    Yuliana Boycheva (with an appendix by Daria Resh)
  9. Η ΕΠΙΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΣΤΑΣΗ ΕΝΑΝΤΙ ΜΟΣΧΟΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΩΝ ΕΚΔΟΣΕΩΝ ΠΕΡΙ ΑΓΙΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΡΥΔΑΛΙΚΗΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΟΓΡΑΦΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΡΗΤΟΡΙΚΗΣ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΝ 18º ΑΙΩΝΑ
    Elias Tempelis

The journal will be distributed by Tsigaridas Books (orders@tsigaridasbooks.gr). To find out more, click here: https://independent.academia.edu/AnalectaStagorumetMeteororum

Call for Papers: Movement & Activation: Social Sculpture in the Global Middle Ages (Deadline: 15 September 2022)

This special session will take place at the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies (11-13 May, 2023). Organizers: Ariela Algaze (NYU Institute of Fine Arts), Kris Racaniello (CUNY Graduate Center)

Drawing performance studies into the larger field of medieval art history, this session seeks to address the methodological unity between materiality, sensory experience, and activation studies through the paradigm of “social sculpture.” Since Joseph Beuys introduced the term in the late 1960s, contemporary art historians investigated the potentialities of sculpture and bodies-as-sculpture to shape social communities and identity through performance. This session proposal seeks to identify ways in which this phenomenon can be applied to the study of art in the Global Middle Ages. 

Transformative and performative, medieval art was integrated into the lived experience of everyday people through religious and political institutions in the form of procession, liturgy, and urban planning. Medieval viewers responded to art through offerings, drawing, graffiti, and ritual actions. We invite papers that might address how medieval sculptural programs shaped and transformed various social, political, or religious communities through direct and indirect contact. We welcome investigations excavating premodern performance practices through the paradigm of social sculpture.

We seek to open this relatively new field of study through a diverse panel focused on different geographies across Afro-Eurasia and welcome papers focused on subjects from the fifth to sixteenth century. Please submit the proposed paper title, affiliation, and an abstract of no more than 250 words for this in-person session through the ICMS portal AND email them to aa8765@nyu.edu and kristen.racaniello@gmail.com by September 15th. 

Papers might consider, but are not limited to, the following subjects and questions: 

  • Participatory sculpture, performance, and spectacle
  • The role of the sculpted body-in-space in structuring religious and civic ritual
  • Portable sculpture along pilgrimage, processions, and trade routes 
  • The representation of the body with ephemeral or recyclable materials, such as votive offerings in shrine space and on cult objects 
  • Delimiting premodern race and community building through public oaths and acts of conversion
  • Manipulation of the body in penitential and confessory settings

Call for Papers: IVº Coloquio de Hagiografía // 4th Colloquium on Hagiography (Deadline: 14 August 2022)

It is the purpose of this IVth Colloquium on Hagiography, convened by the Augustinian Library in Buenos Aires, to be able to reflect on the research in the hagiographic field referring to Saints, Blesseds and venerable ones who have given their testimony of holiness in the midst of the Blessed of the Gospel (Cf. Mt V, 3-12).

Discourses on poverty, minorities and the exclusion of these for various reasons related to religion, gender, ethnic origin, health and life decisions, are highly cultivated nowadays. Following a path of scientific production that began a couple of decades ago, studies related to the social field, cultures, practices of writing and reading, ways of preaching, the practice of power and the hagiographic models, continue to enjoy a vitality from different disciplines, which contribute to the debate and generate the challenge of also providing a living contribution and an analysis of what is happening to us in the present as a society from the academic field.

For this, we invite researchers with work in progress who want to share their contributions from their disciplinary or confessional approaches, within the time frame of the call (From Early Christianity to the 18th century), with special emphasis on those witnesses of the Christian faith. who have been in contact with Judaizing minorities, Moors, excluded for reasons of origin, ethnicity or race, slaves, poor, migrants, etc. Likewise, the modern period includes the possibility of also analyzing the relationship between preaching and holiness with the original cultures of the New World as it was called at that time. In turn, the approach used may include any of the three main aspects of the act of preaching: the preacher as the transmitter of the message, the sermon as an instrumental, documentary and textual reflection of that act, and the audience as the objective, receiver and interpreter of the message. speech.

The event will be in Hybrid and/or Virtual format according to the development of the ongoing COVID-19 health situation. The rules for presenting papers are similar to those of the publication Bibliotheca Augustiniana ISSN 2469 – 0341, where those that pass peer review will be edited once presented at the Colloquium.

The Abstract submission date is open until August 19 and the delivery of the final paper on Friday, October 7, 2022. This allows us to have Abstracts and Final Papers peer reviewed prior to the event. It is suggested to send the abstract in the following way: Title of the work, Author and Academic membership, a text of no more than 250 words and at least four keywords.

The date of the event, as is tradition, will be in the Spring of the Southern Cone, at the beginning of November 2022, on November 3 and 4. We would like to count on your collaboration, participation and assistance. The dynamics of the Colloquium is following the Liturgical Hours of the day, with a Conference of Terce, one of Median Hour and one of Vespers. The Discussion Tables of the Presentations have 20 minutes of oral presentation per work and about ten minutes of general consultations at the end of each Table, composed of no more than three exhibitors.

Our contact emails for the Colloquium are: bibcisao@gmail.com bibliothecaugustiniana@gmail.com & biblioteca@sanagustin.org

Sponsors of the event

  • CITCEM, UNIVERSIDADE DA PORTO / IIBICRIT – CONICET 
  • UNTREF / PROGRAMA DE HISTORIAS DE LAS CULTURAS DEL MEDITERRÁNEO
  • SAEMED, SOCIEDAD ARGENTINA DE ESTUDIOS MEDIEVALES
  • FHE, FUNDACIÓN PARA LA HISTORIA DE ESPAÑA

Academic Committee

  • EMILIA JAMROZIAK, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
  • PAULA CRISTINA ALMEIDA MENDES, CITCEM / FAC. DE LETRAS – UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO MARCELA BORELLI, IHUCSO LITORAL – UNL/UBA -CONICET
  • HORACIO BOTALLA, UBA – UNTREF ALFONSO ESPONERA CERDÁN, OP ALFONSO HERNANDEZ, UNIPE / CONICET
  • ANTONIO BUENO GARCIA, UVA UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLIDESPAÑA SEBASTIAN PROVVIDENT, IMHICIHU / CONICET
  • MARIANO SPLENDIDO, UNLP – CONICET
  • FR. JAVIER CAMPOS, OSA –  REAL  XMONASTERIO DE SAN LORENZO DE EL ESCORIAL 
  • FR. EMILIANO SÁNCHEZ PÉREZ, OSA – SAN AGUSTÍN DE BUENOS AIRES

Call for Papers: The Potential of Prosopography for Historical and Art Historical Studies on the Charterhouses and the Carthusian Order, Ljubljana on August 23-25, 2023. (Deadline: 30 September 2022)

The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (France Stele Institute of Art History), the University of Vienna and the University Jean-Monnet in Saint-Étienne cordially invite you to submit your proposals for the international conference “The Potential of Prosopography for Historical and Art Historical Studies on the Charterhouses and the Carthusian Order”. The conference will be held in-person in Ljubljana on August 23-25, 2023.

Please send your proposals for papers that can be presented in about 30 minutes maximum in English, German, French, Spanish or Italian. The proposals should include the following: the title, an abstract of about 250 words, and a short CV of no more than a single page. Please submit your proposals to the conference e-mail address – cfp.uifs@zrc-sazu.si – by 30 September 2022.

The selection of papers will be completed by 30 November 2022. Conference participants’ accommodation expenses and a visit to the Slovenian Charterhouses will be covered, though the participants will need to meet their own transport costs. After the conference the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, France Stele Institute of Art History will coordinate the publication of an edited monograph of papers presented at the conference.

Click here for a downloadable CFP. For more information, please visit: https://uifs.zrc-sazu.si/en/novice/the-potential-of-prosopography-for-historical-and-art-historical-studies-on-the

Organisers:

  • Asst. Prof. Mija Oter Gorenčič, PhD, ZRC SAZU, France Stele Institute of Art History, Ljubljana, and University of Maribor, Faculty of Arts
  • Prof. Meta Niederkorn, PhD, Department of History, University of Vienna
  • Sylvain Excoffon, PhD, Lecturer in Medieval History, Université Jean-Monnet, Saint-Étienne, UMR CNRS 8584 LEM-CERCOR, France (for CERCOR and co-editors of the Analecta Cartusiana)

Job Opportunity: Research Associate, Institute of Art History, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Deadline: 15 August 2022)

The Institute of Art History at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen has a vacancy for the position of a research assistant (m/f/d; salary group 13 TV-L, 100 %) to be filled. The position is assigned to the Chair of Medieval Art History (Prof. Dr. Andrea Worm). It is initially limited to three years (with the option of extension for a further three years). Requirements are an outstanding doctorate in art history and a focus on the art of the Middle Ages.

The duties of the post holder include teaching to the extent of 4 SWS. The willingness to habilitate/write a second book is a prerequisite; the successful candidate should have a knowledge of German or the willingness to learn the language (courses are available).

The University of Tübingen aims to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching and therefore invites applications from suitably qualified female academics. Disabled persons with equal qualifications will be given preferential consideration.

Please send your application with the usual documents (cover letter, curriculum vitae in table form, certificates, list of publications) as well as a short synopsis of the habilitation project, if possible in electronic form, to the secretariat of the Institute of Art History (bettina.meier@uni-tuebingen.de), Bursagasse 1, 72070 Tübingen by 15 August 2022. Recruitment is carried out by the central administration.

If you have any questions, please contact Prof. Dr. Andrea Worm directly (andrea.worm@uni-tuebingen.de).

Online Course: Religious Cultural Heritage: Concepts and Issues in the Modern Middle East (14 & 21 October 2022)

This is a two-day introductory course on the theme of religious cultural heritage (RCH) in the Middle East. It aims to contextualise RCH as the living cultural heritage of its community of users. In addition, the course attempts to present RCH as a contemporary construct of its socio-political and religious context through its connections to ethnicity, gender, nationalism, as much as religion. Read and download course structure: https://fal.cn/3lcRS

Learning Objectives
Following the course, participants will be able:

  • To identify religious cultural heritage as one constituent of the community’s broader cultural heritage;
  • To address the challenges that religious cultural heritage faces in its cultural, religious and socio-political context;
  • To examine the process of constructing relationship between people and their religious cultural heritage and its changes over time;
  • To appreciate religious cultural heritage through the community’s values and their various processes of meaning making rather than the intrinsic values of the religious cultural heritage site itself.

Convenors
Professor Dick Douwes holds the chair of Global History at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He studied Languages and Cultures of the Middle East at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. From 1994 to 1998 he was coordinator of the programme Indonesian-Netherlands’ Cooperation in Islamic Studies (INIS) at Leiden University. From 1998 onwards, he was academic coordinator – later executive director – of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) and editor of the ISIM Newsletter/Review and ISIM Paper Series. He has published on late Ottoman history in Syria and on religious plurality in the Middle East, as well as on Muslims in Western Europe. Currently, he researches changes in shrine culture and politics in Syria and Lebanon, including the destruction of shrines.

Mohamad Meqdad is a PhD student at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His main research focuses on religious cultural heritage at times of crisis. In 2006, Mohamad received his BA in Archaeology and Museum Studies from Aleppo University, Syria. He also took part in several national and international archaeological expeditions in Syria (2002-2008), where he worked on discovering its rich cultural heritage and preserving it for future generations. In 2010, Mohamad received an MA in Muslim Cultures from the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London, with focus on researching the display of Muslim material culture in international museums, specifically at the British Museum’s John Addis Islamic Gallery. Between 2011-2019, he was the Arabic editor, and later the acting manager, of the Muslim Civilisations Abstracts Project (MCA) at AKU-ISMC.

Date and Time
14 October (13:15 – 16:00) and 21 October (13:30 – 16:00) 2022, UTC/GMT+1. The course will be delivered via Zoom, and will not be recorded. Readings and further details will be provided later upon registration.

Tickets and Booking
£75 professionals | £45 students, AKU alumni and staff. Book soon: https://fal.cn/3lcRV

Organiser
The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), London.

More information can be found here.

Call for Journal Submissions: Metropolitan Museum Journal (Deadline: 15 September 2022)

The Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Metropolitan Museum Journal invites submissions of original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection.

The Journal publishes Articles and Research Notes. All texts must take works of art in the collection as the point of departure. Articles contribute extensive and thoroughly argued scholarship, whereas research notes are often smaller in scope, focusing on a specific aspect of new research or presenting a significant finding from technical analysis. The maximum length for articles is 8,000 words (including endnotes) and 10–12 images, and for research notes 4,000 words with 4–6 images.

The process of peer review is double-anonymous. Manuscripts are reviewed by the Journal Editorial Board, composed of members of the curatorial, conserva­tion, and scientific departments, as well as external scholars.

Articles and Research Notes in the Journal appear both in print and online, and are accessible via MetPublications and the Journal’s home page on the University of Chicago Press site. The Editorial Board invites submissions which draw inspiration from the museum’s collection.

The deadline for submissions for Volume 58 (2023) is September 15, 2022. Please send submission materials to: journalsubmissions@metmuseum.org. Submission guidelines can be found here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/met/instruct.

Online Roundtable: Ukraine Lecture Series Roundtable: Endangered Monuments (28 July 2022)

The monuments and rich cultural heritage of Kyivan Rus are currently endangered due to the ongoing war. This roundtable discussion engages with cultural heritage and its intangible aspects in times of conflict, underscoring key aspects of early Rus architecture and its development in a broader context, and the important monastic complex of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

Speakers:
Alina Kondratiuk (Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra), “The Early Modern Role of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Painting School in the Formation of Ukrainian National Art”
Özlem Eren (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Oldest Churches in Rus’ and Destruction of Cultural Memory”

Respondent:
Robert G. Ousterhout (University of Pennsylvania), “Intangible Heritage, Multiple Narratives”

The lecture will begin at Thursday 28 July at 12:00 PM (EST, UTC/GMT-4). To register for the event, please click here.

This event is co-organized by Dumbarton Oaks in collaboration with North of Byzantium and Connected Central European Worlds, 1500-1700.

Sponsors and Endorsers: Dumbarton Oaks | Princeton University | Boise State University | Tufts University College Art Association (CAA) | Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA) | Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA) | Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent | Historians of German, Scandinavian, and Central European Art (HGSCEA) | British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) | International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) | Renaissance Society of America (RSA)

Call for Papers: Pray and Play with Mary: From Processions and Pilgrimages to Performances (Deadline: 13 September 2022)

This special session wishes to analyze the multiple sources and multimedia of Marian processions and pilgrimages. The scientific importance of the session lies in understanding how these devotional practices could be perceived as a form of theatrical performance. The polysensoriality of these ephemeral events encouraged liturgical unity outside the church. Therefore, how did the civic environment interact and participate in these religious rituals? And finally, how did processions and pilgrimages contribute to developing an urban Marian cult by enhancing a deep local cohesion?

The session will encourage an interdisciplinary approach. Liturgy, music, drama, and visual arts were deeply interconnected with the expression of Marian devotions. For this reason, these elements will be examined in relation to processions and pilgrimages to understand the dramatization of the Virgin’s cult. This multimedia approach provides the groundwork for new perspectives on Medieval performance in general. Moreover, the analysis of case studies will not only aim to highlight specific aspects and general phenomena in Late Medieval Europe, but also to define identities and devotees’ experiences in the reality of processional performance.

Scholars are invited to submit a 300-word abstract, excluding references. Proposals should also include name, affiliation, email address, the title of the presentation, 6 keywords, a selective bibliography, and a short CV. The panel is expected to take place as part of the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, which will be in a hybrid format, Thursday, May 11, through Saturday, May 13, 2023. Please send the documents to maryandthecity.imc2022@gmail.com by September 13, 2022.

Summer School: FORMA, FUNZIONE, TECNICA E MATERIA. GENESI E SVILUPPO DEL POLITTICO GOTICO A SIENA (26-30 September 2022)

The Università per Stranieri of Siena, in partnership with the Opera della Metropolitana of Siena, is organizing a Summer School in Higher Education dedicated to the genesis and development of the Gothic polyptych in Siena. Conceived as a seminar, the course combines lectures and visits to the complex of the Opera della Metropolitana, to public and private city collections and to places normally difficult to access. Siena and the complex of the Opera della Metropolitana are an ideal setting for studying this important subject. Thanks to Duccio’s activity the city performed a decisive role in the genesis and success of the polyptych with several registers, in open dialogue with other cities, above all Giottoesque Florence. It is no coincidence that the leading characters of early 14th century Sienese painting, Simone Martini and Pietro Lorenzetti, both implemented Duccio’s experimentations around 1320. The course will examine extensively their inspiring role, the relentless success of these complex microarchitectures in Siena and outside Siena, and their increasingly complicated development between the 14th and 15th century. Issues regarding conservation and fruition of Gothic polyptychs, often housed in museums following traumatic alterations and dismemberment, will also be discussed. A philological and multidisciplinary approach is indispensable for the reconstruction of their original layout.

The course, lasting five days and divided into 30 hours, will be held in Siena from 26 to 30 September 2022 and is aimed at young graduates, postgraduates, university doctoral students and other professionals within the cultural sector.  The deadline to apply is 15 July 2022. Please send applications to corsiOPA@unistrasi.it.

For more information, please visit: https://www.unistrasi.it/1/10/7222/Prima_Summer_School_Conoscere_e_conservare.htm