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CFP: Pilgrimage, Exploration, and Travel (Kalamazoo 2015)

Call for Papers:Pilgrimage, Exploration, and TravelSession sponsored by Hortulus at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 14-17, 2015Deadline: 15 September 2015 Hortulus will sponsor a session on “Pilgrimage, Exploration, and Travel,” a theme selected by our readers, at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo,Continue reading “CFP: Pilgrimage, Exploration, and Travel (Kalamazoo 2015)”

CFP: The Empire of the Palaiologoi: Ruin or Renewal? (Leeds 2015)

Call for Papers:The Empire of the Palaiologoi: Ruin or Renewal?Session at Leeds International Medieval Congress, 6–9 July 2015Deadline: 31 August 2014 The entry of Michael VIII Palaiologos into Constantinople in 1261 seemed to herald a new beginning for the Byzantine empire, consigning the shattering experience of the Fourth Crusade to the past. Initial hopes were soon dashed asContinue reading “CFP: The Empire of the Palaiologoi: Ruin or Renewal? (Leeds 2015)”

CFP: Rethinking Medieval Maps I and II (Kalamazoo 2015)

Call for Papers Rethinking Medieval Maps I and II 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 14-17 May 2015 Deadline: 15 September 2015 Rethinking Medieval Maps I: The Unmapped, Marginalized and Fictitious This panel is devoted to the cartography of spaces that are far—either geographically or conceptually—from the umbilicus terrae at Jerusalem and the seeminglyContinue reading “CFP: Rethinking Medieval Maps I and II (Kalamazoo 2015)”

Call for Papers: Liturgical and Secular Drama in Medieval Europe: Text, Music, Image (c. 1000-1500), deadline 31 December 2014

The Gregorian Institute of Canada and The University of British Columbia’s Medieval Studies Committee invite paper and session proposals for THE 43rd UBC MEDIEVAL WORKSHOP / THE 10th GIC COLLOQUIUM, a joint interdisciplinary research conference:

CFP: Figurations of Male Beauty in Medieval Culture (Kalamazoo 2015)

Call for Papers: Figurations of Male Beauty in Medieval Culture Special session, 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, 14-17May 2015 Deadline: 15 September 2015 During the central and later Middle Ages, there existed a complex set of typologies for understanding male beauty. Although often problematized, physical beauty could be seen as a positive trait inContinue reading “CFP: Figurations of Male Beauty in Medieval Culture (Kalamazoo 2015)”

CFP: Approaching Portraiture Across Medieval Art (Kalamazoo 2015)

Call for Papers: Approaching Portraiture Across Medieval Art Special Session at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, 14–17 May 2015 Deadline: 15 September 2014 Organizer: Maeve Doyle, Bryn Mawr College, mkdoyle@brynmawr.edu Figural representations of specific, contemporary people served numerous purposes in medieval societies, from commemorative and memorial functions to assertions of political power or social status, markers of ownershipContinue reading “CFP: Approaching Portraiture Across Medieval Art (Kalamazoo 2015)”

Call for Papers: Law, Custom and Ritual in the Medieval Mediterranean (Lincoln, July 2015)

Call for Papers: Law, Custom and Ritual in the Medieval Mediterranean Fourth biennial conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean University of Lincoln, 13-15 July 2015 Deadline: 18 October 2014 We are pleased to announce that the fourth biennial conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean will take place at the University ofContinue reading “Call for Papers: Law, Custom and Ritual in the Medieval Mediterranean (Lincoln, July 2015)”

CFP: The Eye of the Dragon: Viewing a Medieval Iconography from the Other Side (Kalamazoo 2015), deadline 15 September 2014

This panel calls for papers that will look at the slayer iconography from the position of the slain rather than the slayer. It seeks papers that will approach the image visually and conceptually from bottom up and explore alternative and innovative interpretations.

Call for Papers: Epigrams on Art in Byzantium (Kalamazoo 2015)

Call for Papers: Epigrams on Art in Byzantium 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, 14-17 May 2015 Deadline: 15 September 2014 Organizer and presider: Dr. Ivan Drpić, University of Washington, Seattle Sponsor: Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture Papers are invited for Epigrams on Art in Byzantium, a Mary Jaharis CenterContinue reading “Call for Papers: Epigrams on Art in Byzantium (Kalamazoo 2015)”

CFP: Conference on Anglo-Norman History Books (Trinity College Dublin, 22-23 May 2015)

Call for Papers: Conference on Anglo-Norman History Books Trinity College Dublin, 22-23 May 2015 Deadline: 12 September 2014 Amongst the key sources for medieval history are the manuscripts in which medieval writers recorded their views of the past. These documents provide historians with more information than simply their textual content. The layout, decoration, script andContinue reading “CFP: Conference on Anglo-Norman History Books (Trinity College Dublin, 22-23 May 2015)”