Call for Papers: Emblems and Enigma: the Heraldic Imagination An Interdisciplinary Symposium at the Society of Antiquaries of London London, Burlington House, April 26, 2014 Deadline: Jan 10, 2014 Conference website: http://heraldics2014.wordpress.com ‘Time has transfigured them into / Untruth’ (Philip Larkin) In his 1844 short story ‘Earth’s Holocaust’, Nathaniel Hawthorne sees heraldic signs reaching ‘like lines of light’ intoContinue reading “Call for Papers: Emblems and Enigma: the Heraldic Imagination (London 2014)”
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Call for Papers: Galloping History (Ankara, 2014)
Call for Papers: Galloping History Ankara, 16-19 April 2014 Deadline: Dec 20, 2013 There would hardly be any exaggeration in assuming that horses have been one of the most important companions to humankind since the development of civilized societies. Horses and equine culture have played great many roles in almost all historical epochs. Thus, historicalContinue reading “Call for Papers: Galloping History (Ankara, 2014)”
Call For Papers: Art’s Productive Economies, Toronto
Call For Papers: Art’s Productive Economies University of Toronto, March 20, 2014 Deadline: Jan 1, 2014 2014 Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium, a one-day graduate symposium hosted by the Graduate Union of Students of Art, University of Toronto. Given the multivalent definitions “work” denotes (including, but not limited to: the product of labour; action involving effort directed towardContinue reading “Call For Papers: Art’s Productive Economies, Toronto”
Call For Papers: Medworlds 6 “Symbols and Models of the Mediterranean”, Cosenza
Call For Papers: Medworlds 6 “Symbols and Models of the Mediterranean” University of Calabria, Department of Humanities, September 9-11, 2014 Deadline: 1 March 2014 The Mediterranean Sea is a milieu in which it is possible to observe, through an interdisciplinary lens, the undertaking of elements defining an idea which conflicts with its immediate sensitive aspect; anContinue reading “Call For Papers: Medworlds 6 “Symbols and Models of the Mediterranean”, Cosenza”
Call For Papers: Medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean, Modena
Call For Papers: Medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean, Modena Modena, 26-29 June 2014 Deadline: 23 December The Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP seeks proposals for papers for a panel on Medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean to be proposed for the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, that will take place 26-29 JuneContinue reading “Call For Papers: Medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean, Modena”
Call For Papers: Magic, Religion, Science
Call For Papers: Magic | Religion | Science Indiana University, Bloomington. March 7-8, 2014 Deadline: 10 January 2014 26th Annual Indiana University Medieval Studies Symposium In his famous work, The Golden Bough, James Frazer proposed that human societies evolved from cultures dependent on magic to ones subject to religion and finally to ones guided by science.Continue reading “Call For Papers: Magic, Religion, Science”
Call for Papers: Writing Britain, 500-1500, (University of Cambridge, 30 June-2 July 2014), deadline 20 February 2014
Writing Britain is a biennial event which aims to draw on a range of approaches and perspectives to exchange ideas about manuscript studies, material culture, multilingualism in texts and books, book history, readers, audience and scribes across the medieval period. The 2014 iteration of the Writing Britain Conference will take place in the English FacultyContinue reading “Call for Papers: Writing Britain, 500-1500, (University of Cambridge, 30 June-2 July 2014), deadline 20 February 2014”
Call For Papers: Heraldic Artists and Painters in the Middle Ages
Call For Papers: Heraldic Artists and Painters in the Middle Ages (Poitiers, 10-11 Apr 2014) The big names of art history such as the Limbourg brothers, Donatello, Pisanello, Barthélemy d’Eyck, Jean Fouquet or Albrecht Dürer have left important traces of their preoccupation with heraldic and emblematic depictions, whether in preserved artwork or by being mentioned in financial sources. BesidesContinue reading “Call For Papers: Heraldic Artists and Painters in the Middle Ages”
Call For Papers: Other Animals and Humans in Medieval Art, Kalamazoo 2014
Call for Papers: Other Animals and Humans in Medieval Art, Kalamazoo 2014 Session to be held at the 2014 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8-11, 2014. Sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA). Organizers: Corine Schleif (Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona) Martha Easton (Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey) ForContinue reading “Call For Papers: Other Animals and Humans in Medieval Art, Kalamazoo 2014”
Call for Papers: Twelfth Annual Material Culture Symposium
Winterthur Museum and Garden, Wilmington, Delaware, April 12, 2014 Deadline: Dec 2, 2013 The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware invites submissions for papers to be given at the Twelfth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars. Focus: “Consuming” is a multivalent word, fraught with provocative denotations and connotations. Whether we buy them,Continue reading “Call for Papers: Twelfth Annual Material Culture Symposium”
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