Call for Papers: Autodidacts, Workshops, Academies – Architectural Education 1400 -185o, Sixth Colloquium on Architectural Theory at the Werner Oechslin Library, Werner Oechslin Library, Einsiedeln, April 20 – 23, 2017 Deadline: 5 October 2016 Before the establishment of the major schools of architecture in the nineteenth century, there were various ways to become an architect,Continue reading “CFP: ‘Autodidacts, Workshops, Academies – Architectural Education 1400 -1850,’ Sixth Colloquium on Architectural Theory at the Werner Oechslin Library, Einsiedeln, April 20 – 23, 2017”
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CFP: Towards an Art History of the Parish Church, 1200-1399, The Courtauld Institute of Art (2-3 June 2017), deadline 15 December 2016
Towards an Art History of the Parish Church, 1200-1399, to be held on 2-3 June, 2017 at The Courtauld Institute of Art, will gather scholars to revisit the question of the parish church and its relationship to medieval visual culture. Participants will contribute to a vibrant discussion of the Gothic parish church, its utility as an object of study, and the insights offered on the subject by diverse methodologies.
CFP: Reconsidering the Concept of Decline and the Arts of the Palaiologan Era
CFP: Reconsidering the Concept of Decline and the Arts of the Palaiologan Era, One day and a half Symposium & Worshop, University of Birmingham, February, 24-25, 2017. Deadline: 30 September 2016 Organisers: Andrea Mattiello – University of Birmingham Maria Alessia Rossi – The Courtauld Institute of Art Keynote Speakers: Niels Gaul – University ofContinue reading “CFP: Reconsidering the Concept of Decline and the Arts of the Palaiologan Era”
CFP: IV. FORUM KUNST DES MITTELALTERS, Berlin and Brandenburg, September 20–23, 2017
Call for Papers: IV. FORUM KUNST DES MITTELALTERS, Berlin and Brandenburg, September 20–23, 2017. Deadline: 31 October 2016 Organisers: Christian Freigang und Antje Fehrmann (Freie Universität Berlin), Kai Kappel und Tina Zürn (Humboldt-Universität Berlin), other partners in Berlin and Brandenburg Sektion 1: Immobil – Mobil? Bezugsräume bau- und kontextgebundener Kunstgattungen Organisation: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften –Continue reading “CFP: IV. FORUM KUNST DES MITTELALTERS, Berlin and Brandenburg, September 20–23, 2017”
CFP: Topographies of devotion. Visual cultures of pilgrimage in the 14th and 15th century @International Medieval Congress 2017, Leeds, 3-6 July 2017
CFP: Topographies of devotion. Visual cultures of pilgrimage in the 14th and 15th century @International Medieval Congress 2017, Leeds, 3-6 July 2017 Organiser: Isabella Augart, University of Hamburg, Department of Art History Deadline: 10th September 2016. The medieval pilgrimage routes were spaces of cultural and material exchange upon which diverse travellers set off on aContinue reading “CFP: Topographies of devotion. Visual cultures of pilgrimage in the 14th and 15th century @International Medieval Congress 2017, Leeds, 3-6 July 2017”
CFP: In Search of Crusader Art: Current Approaches and New Perspectives, 4th Forum Medieval Art, Berlin (20-23 September 2017), deadline 31 October 2016
Although the concept of crusader art is effortlessly understood by scholars, its precise definition is notoriously elusive. Crusader art has traditionally been described as the figural art and architecture produced for the Crusaders in the Holy Land.
Call for Contributions: Of Man Eating Men: Medieval and Early Modern Cannibalism (edited volume)
Call for papers: Edited volume: Of Man Eating Men: Medieval and Early Modern Cannibalism, edited by Sarah Lambert, under consideration with the series Explorations in Medieval Culture (Brill). The “headline” idea of cannibalism evokes images of depraved killers feasting on the flesh of their victims, Sweeny Todd-style. Modern society has been fascinated by cases of murderContinue reading “Call for Contributions: Of Man Eating Men: Medieval and Early Modern Cannibalism (edited volume)”
CFP: The Stones Cry Out: Modes of Citation in Medieval Architecture, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (11-14 May, 2017), deadline 15 September 2016
This session invites papers that pursue these kinds of questions as they pertain to the diverse building cultures of the Middle Ages, West and East, between c.300 to c.1500. Highly encouraged are contributions that investigate the stimuli for citation, the media that make it possible, and the agents that make it productive.
CFP: The Idea of Luxury and the Role of the Object, ICMS, Kalamazoo, May 2017
Call for Papers: The Idea of Luxury and the Role of the Object International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 11-14 May 2017 Organizers: Andrew Sears, University of California, Berkeley; Laura Tillery, University of Pennsylvania As Christopher Berry has shown in The Idea of Luxury, the concept of luxury is determined by countless factors: it is situatedContinue reading “CFP: The Idea of Luxury and the Role of the Object, ICMS, Kalamazoo, May 2017”
CFP: Digital Reconstructions: Italian Buildings and their Decorations, ICMS, Kalamazoo, May 2017
Call for Papers: Digital Reconstructions: Italian Buildings and their Decorations International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 11-14 May 2017 Organizers: Amy Gillette (Temple University) and Kaelin Jewell (Temple University) Sponsored by the Italian Art Society Historians of medieval architecture have productively used digital technologies to reimagine lost monuments or furnishings, reveal aspects of correspondence in pictorialContinue reading “CFP: Digital Reconstructions: Italian Buildings and their Decorations, ICMS, Kalamazoo, May 2017”
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