‘The Matter of Objects’: Medieval and Renaissance Materiality in Contemporary Conversation Queen Mary University of London 26th May 2016 Deadline for Proposals: 15th February 2016. Following the ‘Material Turn(s)’ of the last few decades the place of objects and their materiality has received invigorated attention within humanities research. Yet, approaches to the material often remain stifled by theContinue reading “‘The Matter of Objects’: Medieval and Renaissance Materiality in Contemporary Conversation (26th May 2016)”
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Workshop: ‘The world comes to Sinai: Saint Catherine’s monastery as a cultural magnet’ (London 6 February 2016)
The World Comes to Sinai: St Catherine’s Monastery and its Library as a Cultural Magnet A Workshop-Conference of the Saint Catherine Foundation Saturday, 6 February 2015, 10.00 to 13.00 Bridgewater House 14 Cleveland Row, SW1A 1DP, London Programme 10.00 Welcoming Remarks Jenny Richardson, Treasurer, Saint Catherine Foundation 10.10 How Did Syriac Manuscripts Get toContinue reading “Workshop: ‘The world comes to Sinai: Saint Catherine’s monastery as a cultural magnet’ (London 6 February 2016)”
CFP: ‘Seeing and Believing’ University of Toronto Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium (March 18, 2016)
The Graduate Union of Students of Art at the University of Toronto is still accepting abstractions for the third annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium, “Seeing and Believing.” The conference will take place at the University of Toronto on March 18, 2016, and will feature a keynote address by Jacqueline Jung of Yale University. All graduate studentsContinue reading “CFP: ‘Seeing and Believing’ University of Toronto Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium (March 18, 2016)”
CFP: “Representations of the Ordinary in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods.” North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (February 19 & 20, 2016)
Extended deadline for abstract submission: abstracts are now due on Thursday, January 14 Web Site: http://sites.duke.edu/representationsoftheordinary/ The 16th Annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies invites graduate students to submit proposals for twenty-minute paper presentations that investigate representations of everyday life––mimetic, descriptive, or prescriptive––from late antiquity through early modernity. How are the particularities of ordinary experienceContinue reading “CFP: “Representations of the Ordinary in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods.” North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (February 19 & 20, 2016)”
Call for Papers: Re/Generate – Medieval materiality and reuse (St Andrews, 6-7 May 2016)
Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2016 The University of St Andrews School of Art History in collaboration with the St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies (SAIMS) present Re/generate: Materiality and the Afterlives of Things in the Middle Ages, 500-1500 an interdisciplinary conference on reuse and recycling in medieval Europe taking place on 6-7th May 2016. In recent years, theContinue reading “Call for Papers: Re/Generate – Medieval materiality and reuse (St Andrews, 6-7 May 2016)”
Conference programme: Seals and Status 800-1700 (British Museum, 4-6 Dec 2015)
Programme for Seals and Status 800-1700, a major conference at the British Museum, 4-6 December 2015. Book tickets at the official site. £50 (£25 students and concessions) Friday 4 December 08.30 Coffee and registration 09.30 Introduction Jonathan Williams, British Museum 09.45 Keynote 1 Status: an impression Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, New York University 10.45 Break 11.00 SessionContinue reading “Conference programme: Seals and Status 800-1700 (British Museum, 4-6 Dec 2015)”
Study Day: Opus Anglicanum, British Museum, British Archaeological Association Study Day, 26 November 2015
In the course of the later middle ages, embroiderers in England produced some of the masterpieces of the age. Incredibly detailed and painstakingly created their work was sumptuous and expensive. Often created as church vestments and commissioned by both ecclesiastical and secular patrons, the base textiles were embellished with gold and silver thread, a myriadContinue reading “Study Day: Opus Anglicanum, British Museum, British Archaeological Association Study Day, 26 November 2015”
Call for Papers: ‘Shared Invention: From Antiquity to the 21st Century’ (Clermont-Ferrand, Aubusson and Limoges, 6–8 April 2016)
An international colloquium entitled ‘Shared Invention: From Antiquity to the 21st Century’ will be held 6–8 April 2016, and proposals for papers are now being accepted. The colloquium is being organized by Laurence Riviale and Jean-François Luneau, lecturers at Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand (France), in partnership with Musée national Adrien Dubouché, Limoges (France) and CitéContinue reading “Call for Papers: ‘Shared Invention: From Antiquity to the 21st Century’ (Clermont-Ferrand, Aubusson and Limoges, 6–8 April 2016)”
Continuous Page. Scrolls and scrolling from Papyrus to Hypertext (Courtauld Institute, deadline for applications, 17 April 2015)
Continuous Page. Scrolls and scrolling from Papyrus to Hypertext UPDATE: Programme Open to all, free admission, but advance booking required by 21 June: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/continuous-page-scrolls-and-scrolling-from-papyrus-to-hypertext-tickets-17187047923 PROGRAMME 09.30 – 10.00 Registration 10.00 – 10.10 Jack Hartnell (The Courtauld): Welcome 10.10 – 11.10 SESSION 1 – REACTION Rachel Warriner (University College, Cork): ‘This fragile thing – with bite’:Continue reading “Continuous Page. Scrolls and scrolling from Papyrus to Hypertext (Courtauld Institute, deadline for applications, 17 April 2015)”
CFP: Agency of Things: New Perspectives on European Art of the Fourteenth–Sixteenth Centuries (Warsaw, 11 – 12 June 2015)
Call for Papers: Agency of Things: New Perspectives on European Art of the Fourteenth – Sixteenth Centuries Warsaw, 11 – 12 June 2015 Deadline: 30 November 2014 Co-organized by Institute of History of Art, University of Warsaw and National Museum in Warsaw. Invited speakers: Prof. Susie Nash (The Courtauld Institute of Art, London) Prof. AndrewContinue reading “CFP: Agency of Things: New Perspectives on European Art of the Fourteenth–Sixteenth Centuries (Warsaw, 11 – 12 June 2015)”
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