CFP: History Lab Seminar (London, 2014-2015)

Call for Papers: History Lab Seminar 2014-2015 London, Institute of Historical Research Deadline: 1 September 2014 The History Lab Seminar is now inviting papers for the 2014-15 academic year. You must be a member to apply, but membership is free and you can join at  http://www.history.ac.uk/historylab/joinus. These seminars are a great opportunity to present yourContinue reading “CFP: History Lab Seminar (London, 2014-2015)”

CFP: Fluctuating Networks: The Constructive Role of Broken Bonds in the Medieval Mediterranean and Beyond (Kalamazoo 2015)

Call for Papers: Fluctuating Networks: The Constructive Role of Broken Bonds in the Medieval Mediterranean and Beyond Kalamazoo, MI, 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 14-17 May 2015  Deadline: September 15, 2014 The Medieval Studies Research Group at the University of Lincoln (UK), seeks papers for one sponsored panel at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies atContinue reading “CFP: Fluctuating Networks: The Constructive Role of Broken Bonds in the Medieval Mediterranean and Beyond (Kalamazoo 2015)”

CFP: Presence and InVisibility – Sign-bearing Artefacts in Sacral Spaces (Heidelberg, 23-25 February 2015)

Call for Papers: Presence and InVisibility – Sign-bearing Artefacts in Sacral Spaces International research conference Heidelberg, 23-25 February 2015 Deadline: 15 September 2014 For many cultures sign-bearing artefacts are an immanent component of sacral spaces, which constitute themselves through their presence. This applies to actual specific places, as well as to cultural space in itsContinue reading “CFP: Presence and InVisibility – Sign-bearing Artefacts in Sacral Spaces (Heidelberg, 23-25 February 2015)”

Call for Papers/Sessions: International Medieval Congress “Reform and Renewal” (Leeds 2015)

Call for Papers/Call for Sessions: Reform and Renewal International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 6-9 July 2015 Deadline for paper proposals: 31 August 2014 Deadline for session proposals: 30 September 2014 The IMC seeks to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of medieval studies. Papers and sessions on any topic or theme in theContinue reading “Call for Papers/Sessions: International Medieval Congress “Reform and Renewal” (Leeds 2015)”

CFP: The Cross in Medieval Art (Kalamazoo 2015)

Call for Papers: The Cross in Medieval Art International Center of Medieval Art Sponsored Session (Kalamazoo 2015) Deadline: 15 September 2014 Recent art-historical research has brought us new understandings of the central symbol of Christianity, the Cross, in different places, at different times, in different media, and with different theoretical and conceptual foci. The Cross,Continue reading “CFP: The Cross in Medieval Art (Kalamazoo 2015)”

CFP: Aby Warburg and Nature (Hamburg, 15-16 Jan 15)

ABY WARBURG AND NATURE Workshop, University of Hamburg, Warburg-Haus, 15 – 16 January 2015 Deadline: 31 August 2014 Organizers: Frank Fehrenbach and Cornelia Zumbusch (University of Hamburg) Aby Warburg’s references to enlivenment, life forces, and the afterlife of images are evidence for the paradigmatic meaning of the natural for his conceptualization of the emergence and re-emergence of pictorial formulas.Continue reading “CFP: Aby Warburg and Nature (Hamburg, 15-16 Jan 15)”

CFP: Visual Narratives – Cultural Identities (Hamburg, 27-29 Nov 14)

CFP: Visual Narratives – Cultural Identities. A trans- and interdisciplinary conference at the University of Hamburg Hamburg, 27-29 November 2014 Deadline: 31 July 2014 Increasingly, cultural studies focus on stories and the narration of stories as important catalysts for the constitution, confirmation, and modification of cultural identities. Not only in times of what seems like floods of images but sinceContinue reading “CFP: Visual Narratives – Cultural Identities (Hamburg, 27-29 Nov 14)”

CFP: Memorializing the Middle Classes (Edited volume)

CFP: Memorializing the Middle Classes (Edited volume) Deadline: 30 June 2014 Building on the session “Memorials for Merchants: The Funerary Culture of Late Medieval Europe’s New Elite” (College Art Association Annual Meeting, 2014), this edited volume offers papers that investigate the habits and strategies of patrons of commemorative art ca. 1300-1700, while considering what relationship, if any, existed betweenContinue reading “CFP: Memorializing the Middle Classes (Edited volume)”

CFP: The Afterlife of Cicero (London, 7-8 May 2015)

Call for Papers: The Afterlife of Cicero London, The Warburg Institute, 7-8 May 2015 Deadline: 11 July 2014 The Warburg Institute, the Institute of Classical Studies and the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London will be hosting an international conference on the afterlife of Cicero in London on 7–8 May 2015, organisedContinue reading “CFP: The Afterlife of Cicero (London, 7-8 May 2015)”

CFP: Object Fantasies. Forms & Fictions (Munich, 7-9 October 2015)

CFP: Object Fantasies. Forms & Fictions (Munich, 7-9 Oct 15) Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 7 – 9 October 2015 Deadline: 31 July 2014 Interdisciplinary Conference of the Junior Research Group “Premodern Objects. An Archaeology of Experience“ (Elite Network of Bavaria / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) In modern understanding, the word “object” signifies something material, spatially defined and functionally determined. These notions are accentuated by theContinue reading “CFP: Object Fantasies. Forms & Fictions (Munich, 7-9 October 2015)”