CFP: ‘Charting Image and Self Image of Islam in Europe’, Collège d’Espagne, Paris, Deadline: 10th March 2022

This conference, organized by IS-LE COST Action (CA18129) Islamic Legacy: Narratives East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350-1750), aims to bring together scholars who work on the perception of Islam in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe.  The image of Islam in Europe was usually studied from a Christian-Western point of view, and withoutContinue reading “CFP: ‘Charting Image and Self Image of Islam in Europe’, Collège d’Espagne, Paris, Deadline: 10th March 2022”

Online Conference: ‘The Umayyads from West to East: New Perspectives’, 22 – 23 March 2021 (CEST)

Join RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire & Transcultural Studies Universität Hamburg for the upcoming conference ‘The Umayyads from West to East: New Perspectives’.

CFP: Islamic Legacy: Narratives East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350-1750), deadline 1 April 2021

IS-LE and COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) invite papers for the workshop Islamic Legacy: Narratives East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350-1750): a thesaurus under discussion.

Online Lecture: ‘The Impostor Sea: Fraud in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Dr. Hussein Fancy, 29 September 2020, 5:30pm (EST)

The Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University, New York City, sponsors many events throughout the year to encourage increased interest, knowledge, and study of the Middle Ages. In light of covid-19, their Fall 2020 lecture series is now virtual. Join the Center for its first virtual lecture of the semester on Tuesday, September 29Continue reading “Online Lecture: ‘The Impostor Sea: Fraud in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Dr. Hussein Fancy, 29 September 2020, 5:30pm (EST)”

Seminar Series: KRC Research Seminars: The Archaeology and Material Culture of the Medieval Islamic West

Tuesdays, 2 PM, KRC Lecture Room 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG 25 April 2017: ʿAlā fuwīr Tuṭīla. Bilingual contracts and written culture during the Christian conquest of al-Andalus, Mr Rodrigo García-Velasco Bernal (University of Cambridge) 2 May 2017: The origins of royal funerary architecture in al-Maghrib al-Aqṣā, Mr Péter Tamás Nagy (Khalili Research Centre)Continue reading “Seminar Series: KRC Research Seminars: The Archaeology and Material Culture of the Medieval Islamic West”

CFP: CEMS International Graduate Conference (Budapest, 1-3 Jun 17)

Budapest, Central European University, June 1 – 03, 2017 Deadline: Jan 31, 2017 The Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) at Central European University and its junior members are proud to announce the forthcoming Fifth International Graduate Conference on Building, Bending, and Breaking Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean World.   This three-day conference invites graduate students of Late Antique, Islamic,Continue reading “CFP: CEMS International Graduate Conference (Budapest, 1-3 Jun 17)”

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: Material culture and diplomatic relations between the Latin West, Byzantium, and the Islamic East, Liege

Material culture and diplomatic relations between the Latin West, Byzantium, and the Islamic East (11th-16th c.) / Culture matérielle et contacts diplomatiques entre l’Occident latin, Byzance et l’Orient islamique (XIe-XVIe siècle). Submissions are invited for this international conference to be held at the University of Liege (Belgium) on 27-28 April 2015. The deadline for submissions isContinue reading “Call for papers: Material culture and diplomatic relations between the Latin West, Byzantium, and the Islamic East, Liege”

Byzantine Studies Conference Proposals Vancouver

Propose a session for the upcoming BSC in Vancouver this fall (November 6-9, 2014), and, with ICMA sponsorship, be able to pay travel expenses for your speakers, even if they come from abroad! Thanks to the generosity of the Kress Foundation, the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA: medievalart.org) is able to provide travel and hotelContinue reading “Byzantine Studies Conference Proposals Vancouver”