This session seeks papers which investigate how medieval Italian spaces impacted experiences of the sacred. How did Christians, Jews, and Muslims experience the sacred in the spaces of medieval Italy? In what ways did navigating through medieval religious spaces, homes, governmental spaces, streets and squares, or the countryside inform encounters with the sacred?
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CFP: ‘Byzantium Bizarre: Storytelling through Sacred Spaces’, deadline 15 September 2021, International Congress on Medieval Studies 2022
Proposals are invited for “Byzantium Bizarre: Storytelling through sacred spaces” at the 2022 International Congress on Medieval Studies, taking place online from May 9-14, 2022.
CFP: ‘Senses and Affects in the Middle Ages’, International Congress on Medieval Studies 2022, deadline 15 September 2021
Abstracts are invited for the ‘Senses and Affects in the Middle Ages’ for the 2022 International Congress on Medieval Studies.
Call for Papers: ‘Performing Death I & II’, ICMS Kalamazoo, 9-14 May 2022, Deadline 15 September 2021
Papers are sought that examine the emotional, social, gendered, and cultural contexts of mourning among Christians, Muslims, and Jews across the medieval Mediterranean.
Call for Papers: ‘Saints in the Slavic Christian World (900-1400)’, 9 November 2021 (Deadline 30 September 2021)
The session invites speakers to focus on the brokering and shaping of Slavic Christian culture, power, religion and language, as its comes to the surface in these types of sources.
Call for Papers: ‘Legacy and Afterlife of the Middle Ages’, ICMA Sponsored Session, CAA Annual Conference 2022, 16-19 February (Deadline 16 September 2021)
This session invites papers from diverse fields to interrogate how memory, legacy, and myths of the Middle Ages live on today, in tangible or intangible ways.
Call for Papers: ‘The Materiality in the Fourteenth Century II: Art and Architecture’, ICMS Kalamazoo, 9-14 May 2022 (Deadline 15 September 2021)
This session invites submissions on all forms of art and architecture including from Latin, Byzantine, and Islamic contexts.
Call for Papers: ‘Digital Methods in Preservation of Medieval Cultural Heritage: New Approaches and Technologies’, ICMS Kalamazoo, 9-14 May 2022 (Deadline 15 September 2021)
This session aims to present various methods in digital recording and presentation of medieval visual culture that has been recently developed and implemented, as well as to highlight the importance of digitization in certain groups of monuments or objects particularly vulnerable at the present moment.
Call for Papers: ‘Decentering the Self: Liminality and Marginality in Self-Presentation’, International Congress on Medieval Studies, deadline 15 September 2021
Speakers are encouraged to address de-centered subjects, either patrons or iconographies, and ask how the arena of self-presentation can aid our understanding of what liminal and marginal meant to medieval patrons and viewers.
Call for Participants: Studying East of Byzantium VIII: Material Culture (Deadline 13 September 2021)
The three-part workshop intends to bring together doctoral students studying the Christian East to reflect on how to study the material world of the Christian East, to share methodologies, and to discuss their research with workshop respondents
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