CFP: Artistic and Cultural Exchange between France and Germany (c.1400-1600), Colloquium zur Renaissance-Forschung, Paris, 1st-3rd June 2022, Deadline: 31st March 2022

Organized by the Art History departments of: Universidad de Jaén; Universität Leipzig; École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL (HISTARA) in Paris and Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.

With the support of the Université franco-allemande/Deutsch-Französische Hochschule

From 1 to 3 June 2022, the next conference dedicated to young researchers will be held in Paris. This conference is part of a longstanding collaborative project, created in 2002, which consists in regularly organizing a symposium aiming to assess the current status of the research on Renaissance art and culture. Since 2002 the conferences have been held in turn in one of the four organizing institutions (Art History department of the University of Jaén, Leipzig, Würzburg and of the École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL (HISTARA) in Paris.

These conferences offer young scholars the occasion to explore and discuss their different research methods and lines of inquiry, and give a comprehensive view of the many different emerging research approaches to architectural history and to the analysis of the relations between architecture and the other visual arts in the Renaissance.

For this edition the organizers invite submissions that explore the artistic and cultural exchange between France and Germany in the Early modern era (ca.1400-1600) in the European context (Italy, Eastern Europe, Low Countries, etc.). History of Collecting and Antiquities as active sources of inspiration are also themes that are encouraged. We warmly welcome interdisciplinary approaches.

So as to leave space for discussion, proposals should be for 25-30 minute papers (preferably in French or German, but English, Italian and Spanish are accepted).

The third day will include guided visits to various monuments and to an exhibition of architectural models.

The texts of the papers will be published on the webpage HISTARA 7347.

For the contributors: lodging will be provided, together with a reimbursement of 150 euros max to cover travelling costs.

In view of the uncertainty due the COVID-19 pandemic the organizers may be obliged to postpone the event.

Proposal must include a title, a brief abstract of 2000 characters (250-300 words), a brief CV. Please submit the proposals by e-mail before March 31, 2022, to one of these addresses:

Prof. Dr. Sabine Frommel, École Pratique des Hautes Études; e-mail: sabine.frommel@ephe.sorbonne.fr

Prof. Dr. Pedro A. Galera Andreu, Universidad de Jaén; e-mail: pagalera@ujaen.es

Prof. Dr. Eckhard Leuschner, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg; e-mail: eckhard.leuschner@uni-wuerzburg.de

Online Lecture: ‘Power and Production in Late Medieval Lucca’, Taylor Zaneri (University of Amsterdam), 24th February 2022, 17:15-19:15 (GMT)

The next IHR Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy seminar will take place on 24th February at 5:15 pm. Taylor Zaneri (University of Amsterdam) will speak on ‘Power and Production in Late Medieval Lucca’.

To book for this event, please register for the Zoom link here.

Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, Ancient/ Medieval World, Appalachian State University (Deadline: Until Filled)

The Art and Visual Culture program at Appalachian State University draws from a number of disciplines to explore the meanings, practices, and processes of looking and imaging across historical periods and diverse cultures. The BA degree in Art and Visual Culture has three concentrations: in Art History, Art Management, and Studio Art. All three concentrations provide students with unique opportunities to integrate an in-depth study of art and visual culture with a minor in another discipline and foreign language study. The Art and Visual Culture program also offers General Education courses in the form of art history surveys.

The Art and Visual Culture program has five full-time faculty in Art History, two full-time faculty in Art Management, additional faculty in Studio Art, and is one of six degree programs in the Department of Art. Students in the program regularly work in gallery positions on campus, study abroad, and complete internships at institutions in North Carolina and beyond.

The Department of Art is NASAD-accredited and has 45 full-time faculty members, approximately 22 part-time faculty members, over 760 undergraduate majors, and an Honors program. It offers BFA degrees in Art Education, Graphic Design, and Studio Art; a BA degree in Art and Visual Culture with concentrations in Art History, Art Management, and Studio Art; and a BS degrees in Graphic Communications Management. Beginning in Fall 2022, the department will also offer a BFA in Photography. The Department of Art typically offers a range of travel opportunities including trips to the university’s New York Loft and study abroad trips to China, Cuba, Italy, the Netherlands, Scotland, and Spain. Additional information about the department, the university, and the surrounding area can be found at www.art.appstate.edu.

The teaching load is three courses per semester (9 hours) including art history surveys, introductory to advanced undergraduate courses in visual culture, and areas of specialization.

Appalachian State University, in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, prepares students to lead purposeful lives as global citizens who understand and engage their responsibilities in creating a sustainable future for all. The transformational Appalachian experience promotes a spirit of inclusion that brings people together in inspiring ways to acquire and create knowledge, to grow holistically, to act with passion and determination, and embrace diversity and difference. As one of 17 campuses in the University of North Carolina system, Appalachian enrolls about 20,000 students, has a low student-to-faculty ratio and offers more than 150 undergraduate and graduate majors.

To apply, please follow this link.

Online Webinar: ‘After the Book of Kells: Insular Art in Scotland and Ireland 900-1900’, 4th – 5th March 2022

Examinations of Insular art typically focus upon the eighth and early ninth centuries; and yet, the Insular artistic tradition in Scotland and Ireland continued to flourish and develop into the early modern era. The reliquaries, monuments, and manuscripts made in the earlier period had long lives, with additions and transformations occurring across many generations and even into the twenty-first century. This material is less familiar to the general public, possibly due to antiquarian perception of it as a waning and degenerate manifestation of the art of the earlier period. As are composite objects, an assemblage of parts and repairs that span centuries, they have challenged traditional ways of categorizing, conserving and valuing artworks and monuments. 

Co-organizers: Rachel Moss, Trinity College Dublin & Heather Pulliam, University of Edinburgh

Full programme of talks, speakers and roundtables, https://afterkells.com/programme/

To register, please follow this link.

CFP: ‘Charting Image and Self Image of Islam in Europe’, Collège d’Espagne, Paris, Deadline: 10th March 2022

This conference, organized by IS-LE COST Action (CA18129) Islamic Legacy: Narratives East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350-1750), aims to bring together scholars who work on the perception of Islam in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. 


The image of Islam in Europe was usually studied from a Christian-Western point of view, and without a longue durée approach. The aim of this workshop is to create a methodological framework for studying this topic, comparing different case studies through time and space, from the Middle Ages to the end of the Early Modern period, from Iberia to the Balkans, from the Christian and non-Christian point of view. We would like to map this game of perceptions between image and self-image, between identity and representation, breaking with the stereotypes and preestablished ideas and proposing new paths of analysis.


Scholars who have been working on these topics and have material related to them are invited to submit a proposal for consideration.

The themes may include, but are not limited to:
– The Muslim as a literary and historical character.
– Race, religion, and cultural stereotypes. Methodological considerations. 
– Images and self-images of Islam at odds. 
– Key moments and key places of the construction of the image of Islam in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

Deadline and details:
This call for papers is now open for those researchers who are interested to participate in the conference. They are invited to submit their proposals with a title, an abstract (no more than 300 words) and a brief bio (maximum of 15 lines) before March 10, 2022 to: Borja FRANCO LLOPIS (bfranco@geo.uned.es).

Reimbursement of expenses:
Due to budgetary reasons, the number of reimbursed participants will be limited. CA1829 might be able to reimburse travel and accommodation expenses to a limited number of researchers not yet affiliated to the Action. Applications should be submitted along with the proposals.

More information: please, see https://is-le.eu/
Working Group: 1
Scientific Coordinators: Youssef El Alaoui (youssef.elalaoui@univ-rouen.fr) and Luis Bernabé (Luis.Bernabe@ua.es)

Online Course: Manuscripts in Arabic Scripts- Introduction to Codicology, 12th-13th May 2022

This online course aims to introduce key concepts in the field of Arabic manuscripts and codicology. It is designed to attract participants who want to learn basic knowledge about Arabic manuscripts. The first day will provide an overview of the field of codicology and its role in the manuscript field in general and in identifying key features of manuscripts in particular. The second session will be dedicated to writing supports, the structure of quires, ruling and page layout, bookbinding, ornamentation, tools and materials used in bookmaking, and the palaeography of book hands. Some practical examples will be given based on the lecturers’ long experiences. The second day will focus on the importance of manuscripts in research. While the first session will cover the paratextual features in the Arabic manuscripts, the second session will demonstrate the different approaches in editing manuscripts.

This introductory course is intended for students, researchers, and librarians who wish to increase their knowledge in the manuscript field.

Learning Outcomes:

– Basic understanding of the field of Arabic manuscript studies.
– Identify the role of manuscripts in knowledge production in different areas of studies in Muslim cultures.

Download course structure: https://fal.cn/3m59r

Course Convenors:

Dr Walid Ghali is the Head of the Aga Khan Library, London, Associate Professor of Islamic and Arabic studies at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and a Chartered Librarian of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). Dr Ghali received his PhD in Islamic Manuscript Studies from the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University (2012). Dr Ghali’s current research projects focus on Islamic manuscript traditions, particularly in Arabic script and book history. He has published on Arabic literature, Sufi traditions and Islamic manuscripts cultures.

Dr Anne Regourd is researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, France. She has published extensively in the fields of history and philology dealing with codicology, paper studies, and papyrology. She is the editor of book, The Trade in Papers Marked with Non-Latin Characters, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2018, and heads the free access online journal, Nouvelles Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen.

Dr Eléonore Cellard is a specialist in Qurʾānic manuscripts. She started her research activities in 2008 under the supervision of Professor François Déroche. In 2015, she submitted her dissertation entitled The Written Transmission of the Qur’an: Study of a Corpus of Manuscripts from the 2nd Century AH/ 8th Century CE (INALCO/EPHE). She has collaborated on several international projects about Qurʾānic manuscripts, and recently carried out a research project on one of the Qurʾān copies attributed to the caliph ʿUthman ibn Affan’. She has also authored several monographs and articles on Qurʾānic manuscripts.

Date and Time:

12-13 May 2022, 11:00-15:00 (London Time).

Tickets and Booking:

£80 professionals | £50 students, AKU alumni and staff. Book as soon as possible: https://fal.cn/3m59s

Organiser: 

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

*The course will be delivered via Zoom. Further details will be provided later upon registration.

Find more information here.

Funding Opportunity: PhD Funding, Project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus, University of Würzburg, Deadline: 15th April 2022

Call for Applications
One three-year PhD student position for a Latinist, an Arabist, or a historian of medieval or early modern science

The Project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus (PAL) is dedicated to the edition and study
of the Arabic and Latin versions of Ptolemy’s astronomical and astrological texts and related
material. These include works by Ptolemy or attributed to him, commentaries thereupon
and other works that are of immediate relevance to understanding Ptolemy’s heritage in the
Middle Ages and the early modern period up to 1700 A.D.


The Project is hosted by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich for
a period of 25 years from 2013 to 2037. It is supervised by Prof. Dr. Dag Nikolaus Hasse
(University of Würzburg) and carried out by five scholars, namely two research leaders, Dr.
David Juste and Dr. Benno van Dalen, two post-doctoral researchers and one doctoral
student.


We welcome applications for the doctoral student position:
– One 3-year position expected to commence on 1 October 2022 or as soon as possible
thereafter.
– The monthly allowance is € 2648 (German pay scale 65% TV-L E13), liable to
deductions for tax, social security benefits and retirement provisions.
– The contract will be with the University of Würzburg and Professor Hasse will normally
serve as the main supervisor or as a co-supervisor. There is also provision for the student
to spend a period of time at our partner institute, the Warburg Institute (University of
London), under the supervision of Professor Charles Burnett. The doctoral student is
otherwise expected to work in Munich, together with the research team, or in Würzburg.
Proposals for collaboration with other institutions and professors are welcome, and the
main supervisor may be from a different university.

– Qualifications and skills: applicants must hold a Master or an equivalent degree in an area
relevant to the Project, have an excellent knowledge of Latin and/or Arabic and a good
command of English (the primary language of publication of the Project). Applicants
should also have research interests in line with PAL objectives, in particular in the history
of medieval or early modern science, in the making of critical editions of Arabic or Latin
texts, and/or in handling manuscripts. The doctoral dissertation can be written in English
(preferred) or German.
– The doctoral student will be able to spend most of his/her working time on his/her
dissertation, whose topic will be in line with PAL objectives and will normally include
the edition of an Arabic or Latin text (or both). The contract carries with it no teaching
or administrative duties, but the doctoral student is expected to devote part of his/her
time to other aspects of the Project.

– The doctoral student will be given the opportunity to publish his/her doctoral
dissertation in the PAL book series (Brepols) and, where relevant, on the PAL web
interface, and he/she should agree to publish his/her dissertation in priority through
those media. All contributions by the doctoral student will be published under his/her
own name and authorship will be duly acknowledged in every collaborative output,
including online publications.
– Applications should be sent in English or German to Prof. Dr. Dag Nikolaus Hasse by
email (applications@ptolemaeus.badw.de) no later than 15 April 2022. Applications
should include a complete CV (with a list of publications where applicable); an outline
(1-3 pages) of the proposed research project; and two letters of recommendation by
academic referees. The letters of recommendation must be sent directly by the referees,either by email or by post (Prof. Dr. Dag Nikolaus Hasse, Institut für Philosophie, Julius-
Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Residenz – Südflügel, 97070 Würzburg, Germany).

Receipt of all applications will be acknowledged.
The outcome of all applications will be notified by email as soon as a decision is made.
Short-listed applicants will be invited to an on-campus or online interview.

Information on the Project, including the Project Outline, can be found on our website
(http://ptolemaeus.badw.de).


For further enquiries and consultation on possible projects, please contact Dag Nikolaus
Hasse, David Juste or Benno van Dalen at info@ptolemaeus.badw.de.

CFP: Cuadernos de la Alhambra Issue 51, 2022, Deadline: 30th May 2022

For issue 51, which will be published in December 2022, interested researchers are invited to send their proposals through the journal’s page:

https://cuadernosdelaalhambra.alhambra-patronato.es/index.php/cdalhambra

Deadline: May 30, 2022

Cuadernos de la Alhambra is a scientific journal in the field of heritage research and diffusion; it was founded in 1965 and is free to access and free of charge. It publishes original studies on heritage and its management that focus on circulating research and actions related to both the context of the Alhambra and other Spanish and international enclaves with a similar interest in heritage. Its fields of interest are: anthropology, archival studies, archaeology, architecture, the fine arts, librarianship and documentation, biodiversity, botany, artistic creation, conservation and restoration, Arab and Islamic studies, geography and geological land management, history, art history, engineering, gardens, mathematics, museum studies, landscaping, new technology for heritage knowledge and dissemination, education, sustainable tourism and the analysis of its economic and social impact.

The journal publishes research articles in Spanish, English, Italian, French, Portuguese and German.

The journal is aimed at the scientific and academic community, as well as all Spanish and international professionals, researchers and specialists interested in the complex of monuments at the Alhambra and the Generalife and in historical heritage in general.

CFP: ‘Construction and Reconstruction in Medieval Urban Europe’, VII International Conference of the Middle Ages, Deadline: April 30th 2022

Cities were conspicuous in the Medieval landscape not only for being great concentrations of humanity, but also for their built-up areas.  Buildings served various functions: military, religious, political-administrative, economic, and residential.  Further, not all cities had the same buildings whilst, from neighbourhood to neighbourhood and from street to street, building characteristics could differ according to an assortment of factors including the financial and material resources available, the type of labour-force employed in the building, the technical know-how applied, the length of the construction period, and the interests of those commissioning the work.

In moments of convulsion such as wars and rebellions, urban buildings could be destroyed requiring works of rebuilding and/or renovation that were not always easily affordable. In these present times of reconstruction, the Institute of Medieval Studies of NOVA-FCSH and the Municipality of Castelo de Vide have come together to organize the VII International Conference of the Middle Ages which will be held from 6th to 8th October 2022 under the theme: Construction and Reconstruction in Medieval Urban Europe.

A principal focus will be on Christian and Islamic Medieval Europe, embracing varied angles of approach.  Researchers from any scientific discipline (including, History, Archaeology, Art History, Literature, Law, etc) with an interest in the foregoing, are invited to submit proposals for panels and/or individual papers within the following thematic groupings:

  1. Current construction
  2. Prestigious housing
  3. Military buildings
  4. Religious buildings
  5. Buildings serving urban utilities and facilities/infrastructure
  6. Financing construction and reconstruction
  7. Construction techniques
  8. Supply of construction raw materials
  9. Reuse of construction materials
  10. Construction regulations
  11. The faces of construction: salaried workers, masters and others
  12. Destruction and Reconstruction in “crisis” periods
  13. Archeology of Architecture
  14. Construction and reconstruction in urban space: representations in literature and art
  15. The construction and reconstruction of Castelo de Vide during the Middle Ages

The Conference will comprise 4 plenary sessions featuring researchers invited by the organizing committee, along with separate thematic panels. Each panel will be made up of three paper presentations and will be 60 minutes long. Researchers wishing to participate are requested to submit proposals for whole panels and/or individual papers, the latter being arranged by the organizing committee into coherent panels. The Conference includes a full cultural program with guided tours, Conference Dinner, and a public Book Launch to present the published volume which brings together a selection of articles gathered from the VI International Conference of the Middle Ages and the Autumn School of October 2021.

Conference languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French and English.  

Keynote speakers: Four keynote speakers to be confirmed.

Scientific committee: Adelaide Millán Costa (U. Aberta)
Alberto García Porras (U. Granada)
Antonio Collantes de Terán (U. de Sevilha)
Antonio Malpica Cuello (U. de Granada)
Arnaldo Sousa Melo (U. de Minho)
Beatriz Arizaga Bolumburu (U. de Cantábria)
Catarina Tente (U. Nova de Lisboa)
David Igual Luis (U.de Castilla-La Mancha)
Denis Menjot (U. Lyon 2)
Dominique Valérian (U. Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Eloísa Ramirez Vaquero (U. Pública de Navarra)
Emilio Martín Gutiérrez (U. de Cadiz)
Gregoria Cavero Domínguez (U. de León)
Hermenegildo Fernandes (U. Lisboa)
Hermínia Vilar (U. Évora)
Iria Gonçalves (U. Nova de Lisboa)
Isabel del Val Valdivieso (U. de Valladolid)
Jean Passini (EHESS-Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales)
Jean-Luc Fray (U. Clermont Auvergne)
Jesús Solórzano Telechea (U. de Cantábria)
José Avelino Gutiérrez González (U. de Oviedo)
Louis Sicking (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/Universiteit Leiden)
Luísa Trindade (U. de Coimbra)
María Asenjo González (U. Complutense de Madrid)
Maria João Branco (U. Nova de Lisboa)
Maria Filomena Barros (U. de Évora)
Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho (U. de Coimbra)
Mário Barroca (U. do Porto)
Michel Bochaca (U. de La Rochelle)
Pere Verdés Pijuan (IMF-CSIC)
Peter Clark (U. de Helsínquia)
Raphaella Averkorn (U. Siegen)
Sara Prata (U. Nova de Lisboa)
Sauro Gelichi (U. Ca ‘Foscari de Veneza)
Stéphane Péquignot (École Pratique des Hautes Études/Université PSL)
Wim Blockmans (U. de Leiden)  

Organizing Committee:
Amélia Aguiar Andrade (IEM | NOVA FCSH)
Gonçalo Melo da Silva (IEM | NOVA FCSH)
Patrícia Martins (CMCV)

Secretariat:
Mariana Pereira (IEM | NOVA FCSH)
Ricardo Cordeiro (IEM | NOVA FCSH)

Supporters: IEM – NOVA FCSH; CMCV; FCT; NOVA FCSH

Transportation The organization will provide transport by coach for speakers from campus NOVA-FCSH-Castelo de Vide-campus NOVA-FCSH. The registration pack for speakers includes coach transport from Lisbon Airport – Castelo de Vide – Lisbon Airport, lunch during conference days, guided tour of  Castelo de Vide and Conference Dinner.

Deadline for proposals for panels and papers: April 30th
Panels, Papers and Posters acceptance: May 7th

Conference fees Speakers (general): 50 €
University students (undergraduates, MA and PhD): 40 €
IEM integrated researchers and students at NOVA FCSH: 30 €

More information: http://idade-media.castelodevide.pt/en_GB/

Call for Papers PT [PDF]
Call for Papers EN [PDF]
Call for Papers ES [PDF]
Call for Papers FR [PDF]

Funding Opportunity: British Archaeological Association Travel Grants 2022, Deadline: 15th March and 15th May

Applications for travel grants are invited from students registered on post-graduate degree courses (at M.A., M.Litt., M.St., M.Phil., and Ph.D. level). Grants of up to £500 are available to cover travel for a defined purpose (such as essential site visits, attendance at an exhibition/conference, short research trip, etc). The awards are made twice yearly, with deadlines for applications on 15 March and 15 May.

Applicants are required to provide one reference, together with a timetable and travel budget, while the objective of the travel must fall within the Association’s fields of interest (as defined below). Applicants should either be registered at a UK University, or be undertaking work on material from, in, or related to, the art, architecture or archaeology of the British Isles. Applicants are also responsible for asking their nominated referee to forward a reference directly to the Hon. Secretary within one week of the closing date for applications.

An application form follows on a second page. Once complete this should be sent as an email attachment to the Hon. Secretary on secretary@thebaa.orgFunds are limited, so the awards are competitive. Given current Covid-related travel restrictions, it is possible that successful applicants will be unable to undertake the travel for which an award was made. In that event, we would ask that the grant instead be used for high-quality dissertation or thesis illustrations or be used within a year for future travel with an art-historical or archaeological objective. If successful, the Association would like candidates to write a short account (150-350 words) of the travel facilitated by the award that could be posted on the BAA website.

BAA STATEMENT OF INTEREST

The Association’s interests are defined as the study of archaeology, art and architecture from the Roman period to the present day, principally within Europe and the Mediterranean basin. The core interests of the BAA are Roman to 16th century. We only entertain applications that cover the 17th to 21st centuries if they are of an historiographical, conservationist or antiquarian nature and link back to the BAA’s core interests.

REPORTS FROM AWARDEES

Alfie Robinson (2021)

Millie Horton-Insch (2021)

Winners of the Travel Awards

YEARWINNERTITLE
2021Alfie RobinsonLate Medieval architectural models – for travel to east Lincolnshire, Oxford and Arlingham (Gloucs)
2021Kelli Anderson Romanesque architecture – for travel to Waltham Abbey, Romsey Abbey, Durham, Norwich and Lichfield cathedrals
2021Megan BunceEarly medieval stone sculpture – for travel to Edinburgh, Tarbet, Elgin and Lerwick
2021Alex ElliottLate Roman naval organisation – for travel to Saxon Shore forts at Portchester, Pevensey and Dover
2021Nicholas FloryFemale Carthusian patronage – for travel to Cartuja de Miraflores, Burgos
2021Millie Horton-InschEleventh-Century Embroidery in England – for travel to Edinburgh and Orkney (St Magnus, Kirkwall)
2021Cian KinsellaOvid and Art: for travel to Rome (Galleria Borghese and Villa Farnesina)
2021Scott McCreadieViking stone sculpture – for travel and fieldwork in Shetland
2021Teresa PorcianiAnglo-Saxon stone sculpture – for travel to Lindisfarne, Norham, Bewcastle and Ruthwell
2021Michela YoungVallombrosan monasticism – for travel to northern Tuscany (Florence and hinterland)

To download the application form, click here