Call for papers: Art, Artists, Materials and Ideas Crossing Borders (Cambridge, 15-16 Nov 18)

Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge, UK, November 15 – 16, 2018 Deadline: Feb 28, 2018 “Migrants: Art, Artists, Materials and Ideas Crossing Borders” This two-day conference organised by the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge, will reflect on the role of migration as embodied in works of art and material culture as documented in visual and written sources.

Call for Papers: Transmissions and Translations in the Medieval World

  2 – 3 June 2018 Kings Manor, University of York Keynote: Professor Roger Stalley The Conference The concepts of transmission and translation are central to the evolution of the pan-European multi-cultural nature of medieval society. Cross-cultural connections in the political arena, mercantile trade routes, the dissemination of Christianity and interactions with Islam and JudaismContinue reading “Call for Papers: Transmissions and Translations in the Medieval World”

‘Transmission and Communication,’ The Cambridge Medieval Art Seminar Series

CFP: Warburg Institute Postgraduate Symposium (17 November 2016)

Cultural Encounters: Tensions and Polarities of Transmission from the Late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment 17 November 2016 The Warburg Institute will host its first Postgraduate Symposium on 17 November 2016. It will explore the concept of cultural encounters and focus particularly on their productive outcomes. We are interested, above all, in the dynamics ofContinue reading “CFP: Warburg Institute Postgraduate Symposium (17 November 2016)”

CFP: Pastoralia in the Late Middle Ages: Teaching, Translation, Transmission

Call for Papers: Pastoralia in the Late Middle Ages: Teaching, Translation, Transmission, The University of Kent, Canterbury, June 24-25, 2016 Deadline: 18 March 2016 Pastoralia–the corpora of catechetical, homiletic and pastoral texts designed to aid in teaching the tenets of Christianity to the laity –flourished in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council’s plea forContinue reading “CFP: Pastoralia in the Late Middle Ages: Teaching, Translation, Transmission”