This session aims at exploring a fundamental issue: female authority through the lens of visual/material culture. It involves prominently the Virgin Mary – as well as figures of female authority in the medieval world – because in the late decades of the 20th century, feminist thinkers pointed at the ‘negative model’ offered by the Virgin Mary since for centuries she had been branded by the Catholic Church as a role model for modesty, submission and virginity.
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Call for Papers: Caused Selves: Embodying the Material World in the Middle Ages, Seminar Series at Sewanee Medieval, deadline: 1 Oct 2020
This seminar stages a conversation about the Middle Ages’ varied tactics for embodying the material world, both in medicine and in other spheres. We’ll inquire into the entailments and possibilities of the Middle Ages’ multiplicitously “caused selves,” especially as these were understood to participate in physical, material environments.
CFP: The Nordic Association of Conservators XXII Congress, deadline 1 July 2020
The Nordic Association of Conservators (NKF) was founded in 1950 and functions as a regional group in The International Institute for the Conservation of Artistic and Historic Works (IIC), and is known as IIC Nordic Group.
CFP: Gender and Death in the late middle ages and early modernity, Renaissance Society of America 67th Annual Meeting, deadline 1 August 2020
This is a session for the Renaissance Society of America 67th Annual Meeting in Dublin, Ireland on 7–10 April 2021.
CFP: ‘Lexicographic Studies of Arts’ Session at The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting 2021, deadline July 15 2020
This panel aims to bring together coordinators of digital projects – completed or in progress – around the lexicon and the scientific edition of texts of artistic or technical literature, with researchers who have adopted this terminological approach to analyze in an innovative way well known or unpublished texts, related to the production, the practiceContinue reading “CFP: ‘Lexicographic Studies of Arts’ Session at The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting 2021, deadline July 15 2020”
CFP: Histoire et transmission de la ‘Passio imaginis Salvatoris’, deadline 1 September 2020
La Passio imaginis Salvatoris est la première réitération de l’accusation de déicide imputée aux juifs (787). Repris et répété sans relâche, traversant au fils du temps des registres fort divers de la production littéraire, de la liturgie romaine et byzantine (avant 1000), en passant par les miracles de la Vierge du nord de la France (avant 1200),Continue reading “CFP: Histoire et transmission de la ‘Passio imaginis Salvatoris’, deadline 1 September 2020”
CFP: New Perspectives on Italian Art, Italian Art Society sponsored session, Renaissance Society of America 67th Annual Meeting, deadline 13 July 2020
This is a sponsored session by the Italian Art Society for the Renaissance Society of America 67th Annual Meeting in Dublin, Ireland on 7–10 April 2021. This session aims to create a space for emerging scholars (recent Ph.D.s or Ph.D. candidates) of Italian art to present their work. Proposals on any area of Italian earlyContinue reading “CFP: New Perspectives on Italian Art, Italian Art Society sponsored session, Renaissance Society of America 67th Annual Meeting, deadline 13 July 2020”
CFP: ‘Hidden Gems’ Virtual Conference, ICOM International Committee for Museums and Collections of Decorative Arts and Design, deadline 1 July 2020
“Hidden Gems” Virtual Conference ICOM International Committee for Museums and Collections of Decorative Arts and Design 15–16 October 2020 The 2020 Annual Conference and General Assembly of ICOM International Committee for Museums and Collections of Decorative Arts and Design was meant to take place in Lisbon, Portugal, in October of 2020. Due to the COVID-19Continue reading “CFP: ‘Hidden Gems’ Virtual Conference, ICOM International Committee for Museums and Collections of Decorative Arts and Design, deadline 1 July 2020”
CFP: BAA Post-Graduate Conference, deadline 31st July 2020
Abstract deadline: 31st July 2020 BAA Post-Graduate Conference, Saturday 28th November 2020The Gallery at Alan Baxter, 77 Cowcross St, Clerkenwell, London, EC1M 6EL / potentially virtual The BAA invites proposals by postgraduates and early career researchers in the field of medieval history of art, architecture, and archaeology. Papers can be on any aspect of the medievalContinue reading “CFP: BAA Post-Graduate Conference, deadline 31st July 2020”
CFP: ‘What does animation mean in the Middle Ages?Theoretical and Historical Approaches’, Bialystok, Poland, deadline 30 April 2020
International conference in Bialystok, Poland from the 17th-20th September 2020 Organised by The A. Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art Branch Campus in Bialystok, Poland and University of Bergen, Norway This conference is concerned with the agency and life of material objects and evolves around the investigation of two interlaced objectives. First, the conference willContinue reading “CFP: ‘What does animation mean in the Middle Ages?Theoretical and Historical Approaches’, Bialystok, Poland, deadline 30 April 2020”
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