This one-day workshop of lightning talks offers participants opportunities to explore their own encounters with issues of light and darkness in pre-modern cultures, and set them within broader scholarly frameworks.
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Call for Papers: The Ugliness of Beauty and the Beauty of Ugliness: Materializing Ugliness and Deformity in the Middle Ages (IMC 2019), deadline 15 September 2018
The proposed session will discuss and debate on the various definitions and functions of the concept of “ugliness.” What is ugliness and how is it conceptualized? This session seeks original research which investigates debates on the concept of “ugliness” in various contexts.
CFP: ICMA-sponsored session at 54th ICMS (Kalamazoo, 9-12 May, 2019)
The Other Half of Heaven: Visualizing Female Sanctity in East and West (c. 1200-1500) I-II An ICMA-sponsored session at the 54th ICMS (International Congress of Medieval Studies) Kalamazoo, 9-12 May 2019 If, according to the well-known Chinese proverb, women hold half the sky, did medieval female saints hold half of heaven? In her book ofContinue reading “CFP: ICMA-sponsored session at 54th ICMS (Kalamazoo, 9-12 May, 2019)”
CFP: Intersectional Medievalisms (54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 9-12 May 2019)
Intersectional Medievalisms 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9 to 12, 2019 Organizers: Bryan C. Keene (The J. Paul Getty Museum) and Benjamin C. Tilghman (Washington College) Sponsored by The J. Paul Getty Museum The close ties between medieval revivalism and the construction of cultural identities have long been recognized. The appropriation ofContinue reading “CFP: Intersectional Medievalisms (54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 9-12 May 2019)”
CFP: Re-defining the Monster (ICMS 9-12 May 2019), deadline 15 September 2018
Call for Papers for Special Session at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS 9-12 May 2019), Western Michigan University The proposed session will discuss and debate on the various definitions of the concept of the “monster.” Defining the monster is a challenge. Monsters and monstrosity-related aspects have been topics of academic research either connectedContinue reading “CFP: Re-defining the Monster (ICMS 9-12 May 2019), deadline 15 September 2018”
CFP: Fuerstbischoefliche representation (Passau, 5-6 Oct 18)
Oberhausmuseum Passau, 05. – 06.10.2018 Deadline: May 25, 2018 Call for Papers Fürstbischöfliche Repräsentation im Spätmittelalter und der Frühen Neuzeit Die oberhalb Passaus gelegene fürstbischöfliche Veste Oberhaus wird erstmals 1219 schriftlich fassbar. Zum 800jährigen Jubiläum wird 2019 im Oberhausmuseum Passau die Entwicklung der Burganlage zur Residenz- und Festungsanlage in einer Sonderausstellung thematisiert. Ergänzend werden in einer MultimediainstallationContinue reading “CFP: Fuerstbischoefliche representation (Passau, 5-6 Oct 18)”
CFP: Negotiation the Past. Islamic Heritage in Italy and Spain, Venice (1-2 February 2019), deadline 30 April 2018
The conference will focus on the discussion about the Islamic heritage in Italy and Spain and its later reception in the post-Islamic context. Sharing an Islamic past, both countries display this heritage in different ways through art and architecture. As cultural contact zones, Italy and Spain had a rich Islamic tradition, which has been adoptedContinue reading “CFP: Negotiation the Past. Islamic Heritage in Italy and Spain, Venice (1-2 February 2019), deadline 30 April 2018”
CFP: Moving Violence: Transgressing the Boundaries of Experience in Medieval Imagery, Tel Aviv University, (11-13 December 2018), deadline 18 June 2018
Violence imagery in medieval art reveals a parade of brutal acts: various stages of decapitation, splitting skulls, amputating limbs, enucleating eyes, yanking teeth, cutting off breasts, and other repugnant horrors. Often stripped of direct devotional context and thus presented as violence inflicted upon the imagined bodies of the depicted saints, these portrayals also attacked theContinue reading “CFP: Moving Violence: Transgressing the Boundaries of Experience in Medieval Imagery, Tel Aviv University, (11-13 December 2018), deadline 18 June 2018”
CFP: ‘Art of The Invisible’, Courtauld Institute of Art (19 October 2018), deadline 14 May 2018
Art of the Invisible aims to investigate artistic strategies for the invisible, across disciplinary, chronological, geographical, and medial boundaries. This interdisciplinary conference will bring together a variety of speakers to examine the problems and strategies for visualising the invisible, providing answers across these boundaries.
CFP: Illuminating the Dark Ages: Manuscript art and knowledge in the Early Medieval world (c. 600-1100) (University of Edinburgh 28-29 June 2018) deadline 15 March 2018
“Illuminating the Dark Ages” has been conceived as a bilingual (English-French) conference that aims to bring together researchers of all levels, including postgraduate students, working on the wider Early Middle Ages and the decorated manuscript as a cultural medium. From a variety of perspectives, this conference intends to shed light on how and why manuscripts were decorated in the early medieval period, from lavishly illuminated religious cycles to illustrations of written works of Classical literature.
Medieval Art Research 