CFP: ‘Memory and Medieval Material Culture’, Courtauld Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium, deadline 14 December 2025

The Courtauld Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium invites PhD candidates to submit proposals exploring the intricate relationship between memory and medieval material culture, with a focus on artworks, buildings, and the socio-political agendas surrounding them, by December 14, 2025.

CFP: ‘Materialising the Holy. Matter, Senses, and Spiritual Experience in the Middle Ages (12th-15th century)’, University of Padua (6-8 May 2026), deadline 31 October 2025

The University of Padua is hosting the 4th International Multidisciplinary Conference on “Materialising the Holy,” exploring the interplay of materiality, sensory experience, and spiritual practices in the Middle Ages from 6-8 May 2026, with proposals due by 31 October 2025.

CFP: ‘Elevating the Word. Bimah – Ambo – Minbar – Pulpit as Spaces of Sacred Speech’, deadline 31 October 2025

The international conference seeks paper proposals, focusing on the acoustic and architectural dimensions of the Bimah, Ambo, and Minbar.

CFP: ‘Carrying Across: Translation as Material Practice in the Pre/Early Modern World,’ AAH 2026 Annual Conference (8–10 April 2026), deadline 2 November 2025

This session at the AAH 2026 Annual Conference invites papers exploring how portable objects function as means of translation across cultural and temporal boundaries.

CFP: ‘Animal Representation in the Global Middle Ages: Bridging the Natural and Social Worlds’ (AAH Conference Panel), deadline 2 November 2025

Abstracts are invited for the session ‘Animal Representation in the Global Middle Ages: Bridging the Natural and Social Worlds’, which will take place at the next Association for Art History Conference.

CFP: ‘Confounding Images: Frustration as Art Historical Method’, Association for Art History 2026 Annual Conference, University of Cambridge (8-10 April 2026), deadline 2 November 2025

Submissions are invited for the session ‘Confounding Images: Frustration as Art Historical Method’, which will take place at the Association for Art History 2026 Annual Conference.

CFP: ‘WORK: Traces, Constellations, Valuations’, 8th Forum Kunst des Mittelalters (Bochum/ Dortmund 2026), deadline 15 October 2025

Papers are invited for submission for this year’s Forum Kunst des Mittelalters, on the theme: ‘WORK: Traces, Constallations, Valuations.’

CFP: ‘Rethinking Popular Religion from Late Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period’, deadline 30 September 2025

Abstracts are invited for the conference ‘Rethinking Popular Religion from Late Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period’, which will take place in Venice in March 2026.

CFP: ‘New Research on the Art and Architecture of Medieval Parish Churches’, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo 2026, deadline 15 September 2025 

Papers are invited to this panel session, ‘New Research on the Art and Architecture of Medieval Parish Churches’, which will take place at Kalamazoo’s International Congress on Medieval Studies in 2026.

Deadline for submissions is 15 September 2015.

CFP: ‘Instrumenta altaris’. Ritual Artefacts and Their Images for Medieval Liturgy, Madrid 2026, deadline 1 October 2025

Applications are invited for the conference ‘Instrumenta altaris’. Ritual Artefacts and Their Images for Medieval Liturgy, which takes place in Madrid next year.