Symposium: ‘Concertina-Fold Books across Time, Space and Cultures’, Lambeth Palace Library, Friday 2 May 2025, 10am-5.30pm (GMT)

The symposium is part of programming for the Unfolding Time exhibition, on medieval ‘pocket’ calendars, which looks at the way the concertina format was deployed in late medieval Europe, with a focus on England. In-person attendees will have the opportunity to visit the exhibition and play with concertina facsimiles.

Symposium: ‘Tombs of the Aristocracy’, Church Monuments Society, 29-31 August 2025, West Dean College

The Church Monuments Society is delighted to invite you to the next symposium which will be held at West Dean College from Friday 29th to Sunday 31st August 2025.

Symposium: ‘From Jean le Bon to Good Duke Humfrey: a new manuscript witness to Anglo-French cultural exchange’, Weston Library, Friday 21 March 2025, 11am–5pm (GMT)

This symposium provides a first opportunity to explore the recently acquired unknown manuscript from the library of Humfrey Duke of Gloucester.

Symposium: ‘Records of Care: informing approaches to the conservation of Britain’s wall paintings’, Courtauld Institute of Art, 31 January 2025 (9.30-18.30 GMT)

Hosted in partnership with colleagues at The Church of England, Icon, and English Heritage, this symposium marks the culmination of the first major phase of a grant-funded digitisation project to make the National Wall Paintings Survey publicly accessible through a dynamic new online database.

Symposium: ‘The Image of the Book: Representing the Codex from Antiquity to the Present’, Philadelphia, 16-18 Nov 2023, (in-person and online)

The 16th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium will explore the role of visual representations in understanding pre-modern books and launch the BASIRA project.

Symposium: “Intersections: Encounters with Medieval and Renaissance Textiles, 1100-1550”, The 28th Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Monday 22nd May 2023, 9am-6:30pm (BST)

The theme of this symposium centres on how Medieval and Renaissance textiles, real and depicted, combine, overlap or intersect in different ways.

Hybrid Symposium: Consortium Medievalists: ‘Sensory Experiences Across Medieval Communities’, Fordham University, New York, Saturday 6 May 2023

The Consortium Medievalists is excited to invite you to our 2023 symposium, Sensory Experiences Across Medieval Communities, on May 6 2023.

Symposium: ‘Bringing the Holy Land Home’, Rehm Library College of the Holy Cross, Saturday 25 March 2023

In conjunction with the Cantor Art Gallery exhibition, Bringing the Holy Land Home, this daylong symposium explores the impact that the Crusades had on medieval western Europe.

Symposium: ‘The Medieval Treasury in Iberia and Beyond’, CCHS-CSIC Madrid, 28-30 November 2022

This project delves into the medieval objects once gathered in ecclesiastical treasuries in order to highlight long-distance and transcultural networks, shining a light on issues of broad relevance for scholarship and society today.