Call for Papers: ‘The Invention of Greek Origins in the Textual and Visual Cultures of Pre-Modern Europe (1100-1600)’, University of Lille, 15th-16th June 2023 (Deadline 1st June 2022)

The ERC AGRELITA invites papers on the topic of “The Invention of Greek origins in the textual and visual cultures of pre-modern Europe (1100-1600)” for its workshops to be held on 15th and 16th June 2023.

Call for Papers: ‘Beyond the Sabbath: Witchcraft and its Stereotypes in Early Modern Europe’, Medici Archive Project, 16th September 2022 (Deadline 1st July 2022)

Ideal papers will interpret in a new and critical way the phenomenon of witch hunts, with particular emphasis on issues related to infamy, scapegoating, ignominy, violence, sexual behavior, sabbaths, legal proceedings, beliefs, folklore, hallucinations, therapeutic magic, medicine, and gender discrimination.

Call for Papers: ‘Utopia’, 2022 NYU MARGIN Graduate Symposium (Deadline 11th April 2022)

The Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Interdisciplinary Network (MARGIN) is pleased to announce a call for papers for the 2022 MARGIN Symposium on Friday, May 6th, to be held virtually (via Zoom). 

Call for Papers: ‘Community & Identity, Unity & Diversity in Medieval Europe (c. 700-1300)’, Aberystwyth Medieval Conference, 29 June – 1 July 2022 (Deadline 21 March 2022)

The fifth Aberystwyth Medieval Conference will explore strategies for uniting and dividing medieval communities, how those writing about the past helped to construct – or to overcome – borders between communities, and how their visions of communal identities may have shaped, and may in turn have been shaped by, the construction of medieval polities.

CFP: Book Ornament and Luxury Critique, University of Zurich, Deadline: 15th April 2022

The research group “Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament” (https://textures-of-scripture.ch) invites paper proposals for a three-day international conference on “Book Ornament and Luxury Critique”. The conference, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, is scheduled to take place at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich fromContinue reading “CFP: Book Ornament and Luxury Critique, University of Zurich, Deadline: 15th April 2022”

CFP: Editing Late-Antique and Early Medieval Texts. Problems and Challenges, Deadline 28th February 2022

Editing Late-Antique and Early Medieval Texts. Problems and Challenges II, University of Milan, October 10–12, 2022 This workshop continues the project inaugurated in 2017 in Lisbon (link), aiming at fostering and promoting the exchange of ideas on how to edit late Antique and early Medieval texts (mostly Latin texts, but without excluding possible extensions toContinue reading “CFP: Editing Late-Antique and Early Medieval Texts. Problems and Challenges, Deadline 28th February 2022”

CFP: ‘Mapping Eastern Europe’, deadline 15 February 2022

The Mapping Eastern Europe website is a platform intended to promote study, teaching, and research about Eastern Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries through historical and thematic overviews, case studies and videos of monuments and objects, ongoing projects, as well as reviews of books and exhibitions. This year, we are expanding our content withContinue reading “CFP: ‘Mapping Eastern Europe’, deadline 15 February 2022”

CFP: Fenestella. Inside Medieval Art, Thematic Issue 3/2022: ‘Configuring Monastic Architectural Settings: Early Medieval Experiments’, deadline: 30 June 2022

Fenestella is a scholarly, multilingual, and peer-reviewed open access journal. Fenestella publishes scholarly papers on medieval art and architecture, between Late Antiquity and c. 1400, covering the Latin West, the Byzantine East and medieval Islam. We are now accepting proposals for the 2022 Thematic Issue: CONFIGURING MONASTIC ARCHITECTURAL SETTINGS: EARLY MEDIEVAL EXPERIMENTS The planimetric andContinue reading “CFP: Fenestella. Inside Medieval Art, Thematic Issue 3/2022: ‘Configuring Monastic Architectural Settings: Early Medieval Experiments’, deadline: 30 June 2022”

CFP: ‘The Traces of the Colorful Souls: Visual & Material Arts in the Chromatic Middle Ages’, 2-4 March 2022, Madrid, deadline: 1 February 2022

Organised by: Medieval Colors Network. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (CAPIRE Research Group), Freie Universität Berlin, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Università di Bologna, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Helsingin Yliopisto. In recent years, the research of the chromatic reality of the Middle Ages has received increasing attention from specialists in different academic disciplines. Fortunately, the vision of aContinue reading “CFP: ‘The Traces of the Colorful Souls: Visual & Material Arts in the Chromatic Middle Ages’, 2-4 March 2022, Madrid, deadline: 1 February 2022”