Conference: ‘Zooming In and Out: Reconsidering Hans Memling’, Musea Brugge, Bruges, 20-21 November 2025

To celebrate its opening in 2025, BRON Research Centre (Musea Brugge), in collaboration with the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA, Brussels), is organising a two-day conference on new and ongoing research on the oeuvre of Early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling.

Conference: 18th International Complutense Conference on Medieval Art, Madrid, 7–8 October 2025

This year’s conference International Complutense Conference on Medieval Art, titled Transculturality and Medieval Art in Dialogue: Negotiating New Identities, will once again offer a specialised forum for scholarly exchange. The conference organisers invite all members of the academic community to attend.

Online conference: British Archaeological Association Post-Graduate Online Conference, 27 Nov 2025, 12.20pm-17.30pm (GMT)

The British Archaeological Association are excited to present a diverse conference which includes postgraduates and early career researchers in the fields of medieval history of art, architecture, and archaeology. The British Archaeological Association postgraduate conference offers an opportunity for research students at all levels from universities across the UK and abroad to present their research and exchange ideas.

Conference: ‘Good Governance and the Built Environment of Late Medieval Cities (1200-1700)’, Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels, 3-5th September 2025

Join the Royal Library of Brussels to discuss and explore how the built environment of late medieval cities was conceptualized and physically shaped in relation to ideals of good governance.

Conference: The Jeweled Materiality of Late Antique/Early Medieval Objects and Texts: From Cloisonné to Stained Glass to Experimental Poetry (4th–9th Centuries), 11–12 November 2024

Explore the interplay of material, visual, and literary cultures from the 4th to the 9th century at this conference on November 11–12, 2024, focusing on the jeweled aesthetics of late antiquity.

Online conference: British Archaeological Association Post-Graduate Online Conference, Thursday 28th November 2024, 12.20pm-17.30pm (GMT)

The British Archaeological Association are excited to present a diverse conference which includes postgraduates and early career researchers in the fields of medieval history of art, architecture, and archaeology. The British Archaeological Association postgraduate conference offers an opportunity for research students at all levels from universities across the UK and abroad to present their research and exchange ideas.

Conference: ‘Authority and Identity in the Middle Ages’, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square Campus, Friday 15 Mar 2024 (10-16:30 GMT)

Join the Courtauld Institute of Art for their Postgraduate conference on ‘Authority and Identity in the Middle Ages’.

Conference: ‘SUPERFICIES Surfaces, Skins and Textures Sensory Encounters with Books and Related Multi-layered Objects’, University of Zurich, 18-20 January 2024

This conference aims to take a fresh look at the diversity of surface landscapes in books and other multi-layered objects.

Conference Programme: ‘La sculpture bourguignonne du XVe siècle’ / ‘Burgundian sculpture of the 15th century’, 11-13 December 2023

The conference on December 11-13, 2023 will explore various themes in sculpture and iconography, showcasing research on 15th-century Burgundian sculpture.