Jan
31
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Applications: Council of the Church Monuments Society, Church Monuments Essay Prize, Due 31 January 2025

Call for Applications

Council of the Church Monuments Society

Church Monuments Essay Prize

Due 31 January 2025

The Council of the Church Monuments Society offers a biennial prize of £500 called the Church Monuments Essay Prize, to be awarded with a certificate for the best essay submitted in the relevant year. The prize will only be awarded if the essay is considered by the judges to be of sufficiently high standard to merit publication in the peer-reviewed journal Church Monuments. Entries in addition to the winner may be considered for publication.

The competition is open only to those who have not previously published an article in Church Monuments. Entrants need not be members of the Church Monuments Society, but are recommended to familiarise themselves with Church Monuments: abstracts and indexes can be found on the website https://churchmonumentssociety.org.

The focus of the essay must be a monument/s in a church, churchyard or cemetery, of any period and location. Entries must be submitted in English.

The length (including notes) should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words, with a maximum of 10 illustrations.

The closing date for new entries is 31 January 2025.

Please contact the Hon. Journal Editor (Jonathan Trigg, jrtrigg@gmail.com) for a copy of the rules and the guidelines to contributors and/or for advice on the suitability of a particular topic. Download rules and criteria also here: link.

Contact: https://churchmonumentssociety.org/contact-us

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Jan
31
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Applications: 2025-2026 Predoctoral Research Residencies, Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities “La Capraia,” Naples, Due By January 31, 2025

Call for Applications

2025-2026 Predoctoral Research Residencies

Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities “La Capraia,” Naples

Due By January 31, 2025

The Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities “La Capraia” (Centro per la Storia dell’Arte e dell’Architettura delle Città Portuali “La Capraia”) was founded in 2018 as a collaboration between the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas, Franklin University Switzerland, and the Amici di Capodimonte.

Housed in “La Capraia,” a rustic eighteenth-century agricultural building at the heart of the Bosco di Capodimonte, the Center engages the Museo di Capodimonte and the city of Naples as a laboratory for new research in the cultural histories of port cities and the mobilities of artworks, people, technologies, and ideas. Global in scope, research at La Capraia is grounded in direct study of objects, sites, collections, and archives in Naples and southern Italy. Through site-based seminars and conferences, collaborative projects with partner institutions, and research residencies for graduate students, La Capraia fosters research on Naples and the south as a site of cultural encounter, exchange, and transformation, and cultivates a network of scholars working at the intersection of the global and the local.

The Advisory Committee of the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities “La Capraia” invites applications for Predoctoral Research Residencies for PhD students in the earlier stages of their dissertation research. Projects, which may be interdisciplinary, may focus on art and architectural history, archaeology, music history, histories of collecting, the digital humanities, or related fields, from antiquity to the present. Projects should address the cultural histories of Naples and southern Italy as a center of exchange, encounter, and transformation, and, most importantly, make meaningful use of local research materials including artworks, sites, archives, and libraries.

2025-2026 Predoctoral Research Residencies will run from 8 September 2025 through 7 June 2026. Research Residents are granted free lodging at La Capraia (private bedroom/study/bath and communal study/living/kitchen spaces) and a modest stipend of 7,000 EUR, administered by the Amici di Capodimonte, to help defray the cost of living. During their time in Naples, Residents are expected to work on their projects full time and in residence, and to participate in scholarly programs that La Capraia organizes over the course of the year. La Capraia advises Residents on access to collections, sites, archives, and libraries as needed for their projects; at Capodimonte, we arrange access to collections and research resources insofar as it is possible during the museum’s current partial closure for renovation. In the spring semester, Residents are expected to present their research in an informal seminar, gallery talk, or site visit. In the summer following the residency period, Residents are invited to contribute a short essay to the Center’s annual research report.

Research Residents are responsible for obtaining appropriate visas (the Center provides official letters of support) and for providing proof of health insurance. Residents must arrange their own travel to and from Naples.

We welcome applications from doctoral students of any nationality, in the earlier stages of research for the dissertation. Applicants are invited to submit a letter of interest, a CV, and a research proposal of 1,000-1,500 words that frames the central questions, methods, and scholarly contributions of project, and describes the resources that will be used while on site in and around Naples. Materials should be sent in a single PDF file, with last name as the title of the file, to Center Coordinator, Dott.ssa Francesca Santamaria (francesca.santamaria@utdallas.edu). In addition, applicants must invite three recommenders to send letters of support directly to the same email address. All materials, including letters of recommendation, are due by January 31, 2025. Finalists will be invited to interviews held via Zoom with representatives from the O’Donnell Institute and Capodimonte.

Learn more about the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities “La Capraia” at https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/port-cities/, where you will also find digital editions of our annual research reports. Download an overview of La Capraia at https://tinyurl.com/La-Capraia-overview. Learn about our Research Residencies at https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/port-cities/residencies/. View past and upcoming scholarly programs at https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/port-cities/programs/.

Download a pdf version of this call at https://tinyurl.com/LaCapraia2025-2026Call.

Centro per la Storia dell'Arte e dell’Architettura delle Città Portuali "La Capraia"
a collaboration between
The Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte
The Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History
Franklin University Switzerland
and Amici di Capodimonte

Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte / La Capraia
Via Miano 2 Napoli 80131
+39 3494706237
lacapraia@gmail.com | https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/port-cities/

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Jan
31
9:00 AM09:00

Symposium: Records of Care:informing approaches to the conservation of Britain’s wall paintings, The Courtauld, London, 31 January 2025 9:00-18:30

Symposium

Records of Care:
informing approaches to the conservation of Britain’s wall paintings

31 January 2025, 9:00-18:30

Vernon Square Campus, Lecture Theatre 2, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England

To book tickets and for more information, click here.

£15.00, concessions available

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.

Begun by Professor David Park at The Courtauld in 1980, the Survey has grown into a vast and internationally important resource, comprising records of all known British medieval wall paintings as well as extensive material on post-medieval schemes of painted decoration. Encompassing photographic records, conservation reports, annotated publications and previously unpublished research, the archive documents the UK’s most lavish courtly and ecclesiastical murals alongside paintings in more humble contexts. Incorporating material bequeathed from the archives of some of the UK’s earliest pioneering conservators, the Survey constitutes an exceptional record of the condition of Britain’s wall paintings and forms an essential point of reference, both for scholars of art history and for those charged with the ongoing care of these works.

This interdisciplinary study day is an opportunity for those working across the field of British wall paintings to reflect upon the evolution of approaches to their study and conservation, and to explore collaborative endeavours which might better inform their future care. Comprising three sessions of short papers from a diverse and engaging line-up of scholars and heritage professionals, the day will conclude with an informal panel discussion around the theme of collaboration.

Organised by Emily Howe (Project Lead, National Wall Paintings Survey at The Courtauld) with Tracy Manning (Cathedral & Church Buildings Department, Church of England), Sarah Pinchin (Chair, Icon Stone & Wall Paintings Group) and Sophie Stewart (Collections Conservation, English Heritage).

Programme:

9.30 – 10.00: Registration opens
Coffee and tea provided

10.00 – 11.15: Session I – Emerging Approaches
Chaired by Caroline Babington, formerly Palace of Westminster 

Emily Howe, National Wall Paintings Survey Project,
Towards a national repository for the documentation of wall paintings
Tracy Manning, Cathedral & Church Buildings Department, Church of England,
Managing the care of wall paintings in churches: following the rules and finding good advice
Sophie Stewart, English Heritage,
From the Ministry of Works to English Heritage: conserving the nation’s wall paintings
Mark Perry, Perry Lithgow Partnership,
Wall painting conservation in private practice

11.15 – 11.45: Break
Coffee and tea provided

11.45 – 13.00: Session II – Improving Approaches
Chaired by Jane Spooner, The Courtauld

Kate Giles, Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture, University of York,
Writing on the walls: locating and using historical sources to inform understanding of past conservation practices
Tobit Curteis, Tobit Curteis Associates,
Working with others: wall painting conservation in building projects
Lizzie Woolley, Opus Conservation,
Imaging techniques for the conservator’s toolbox
Stephen Rickerby, Rickerby & Shekede
Focusing conservation aims and requirements

13.00 – 14.00: Lunch 
Provided for all attendees with ticket purchase

14.00 – 15.30  Session III – Interdisciplinary Approaches
Chaired by Alixe Bovey, The Courtauld

Miriam Gill, University of Leicester,
Variations and identifications: intersections between conservation and art history
Andrea Kirkham, Andrea Kirkham Conservation,
Recording domestic wall paintings
Florence Eccleston, The Courtauld,
Navigating the challenges of researching wall paintings
Jane Rutherfoord, Rutherfoord Conservation,
‘The Conservator as Art Historian’ and the approach to the wall paintings at Llancarfan
Sophie Godfraind, Historic England,
The role of Historic England in the care of wall paintings

15.30 – 16.00: Break
Coffee and tea provided

16.00 – 17.00  Session IV – Collaborative Approaches
Chaired by Sarah Pinchin, Icon/Historic Royal Palaces

Discussion session, led by a panel of heritage professionals, conservators and conservation scientists.

Participants include:

Jonathan Deeming, Heritage Architect, Purcell,
Helen Howard, Scientific Department, National Gallery,
Katy Lithgow, Formerly Head of Conservation, National Trust,
Peter Martindale, Peter Martindale Conservation
Ruth McNeilage, McNeilage Conservation,
Nigel Walter, Archangel Architects

17.00 to 18.00: Drinks reception

The National Wall Paintings Survey Project is funded by grants from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Pilgrim Trust, and Marc Fitch Fund.

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Jan
31
10:00 AM10:00

New Exhibition with Sam Fogg: Treasures of the Medieval World, 31 Jan. – 8 Mar. 2025, Luhring Augustine Tribeca, New York

New Exhibition

Sam Fogg & Luhring Augustine Tribeca

Treasures of the Medieval World

31 January – 8 March 2025

Luhring Augustine Tribeca, NYC, 17 White Street, New York, NY 10013

Tilman Riemenschneider (c. 1460-1531), The Virgin and Child Enthroned, Germany, Lower Franconia, Würzburg, c. 1500-1505

Special Monday Opening: 3 Februrary 2025  

Public Reception: Friday 31 January; 6pm – 8pm

Treasures of the Medieval World is the fourth in a series of exhibitions showcasing medieval works of art in a contemporary context to be mounted in collaboration with Luhring Augustine, New York. Following the success of the first three iterations, Of Earth and Heaven (2018), Gothic Spirit (2020), and The Medieval Body (2022), this new iteration will open at Luhring Augustine Tribeca on 31st January and runs through 8th March.Treasures of the Medieval World brings together over forty rare objects spanning the fields of sculpture, painting, ceramics, textiles, and goldsmith’s work. Collectively they evince medieval Europe’s astonishing and enduring artistic legacy.

Highlights include one of only five autograph works carved by the master sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider still in private hands, an early ‘inhabited’ carpet made by Anatolian weavers in the years around 1500, a stupendous silver-gilt Portuguese display ewer made for a member of the royal court in the first two decades of the sixteenth century, a complete English alabaster altarpiece from the first half of the fifteenth century, and a Renaissance altarpiece by the famed Sevillian panel painter Alejo Fernandez.   

For more information, visit https://www.samfogg.com/exhibitions/59/.

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Jan
31
6:00 PM18:00

Last look at "Figures du Fou Du Moyen Âge aux Romantiques" at Musée du Louvre

ICMA in Paris
Last look and exhibition tour Figures du Fou Du Moyen Âge aux Romantiques

Friday 31 January 2025, 18:00
Musée du Louvre
In person


Register HERE
Register by Friday 24 January 2025

ICMA members are invited to a last look at the exhibition Figures du Fou Du Moyen Âge aux Romantiques at the Musée du Louvre on Friday 31 January 2025 at 18:00. Exhibition co-curator Pierre-Yves Le Pogam will lead the group through the exhibition. Afterwards, members are invited to an offsite café for an apéro.

Capacity is limited to 15 people. Please register by Friday 24 January 2025. Attendees must be ICMA or IMS members; guests will be added to a waitlist and receive confirmation the week of the event, should spaces be available.

The exhibition examines the omnipresence of fools in Western art and culture at the end of the Middle Ages, and attempts to parse the meaning of these figures, who would seem to play a key role in the advent of modernity. The fool may make us laugh, with his abundance of frivolous antics, but he also harbours a wealth of hidden facets of an erotic, scatological, tragic or violent nature. Capable of the best and of the worst, the fool entertains, warns or denounces; he turns societal values on their head and may even overthrow the established order.

Within the newly renovated Hall Napoléon, this exhibition, which brings together over 300 works from 90 French, European and American institutions, brings us on a one-of-a-kind journey through Northern European art (English, Flemish, Germanic, and above all French), illuminating the profane aspects of the Middle Ages and revealing a fascinating era of surprising complexity. The exhibition explores the disappearance of the figure of the fool with the Enlightenment and the triumph of reason, and its resurgence at the end of the 18th century and all throughout the 19th. The fool then became a figure with which artists identified, wondering: ‘What if I were the fool?

For more information on the exhibition, click HERE.

Register HERE

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Feb
1
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Applications: Mary Jaharis Center Grants 2025–2026, Due 1 February 2025

Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture

2025–2026 Grant Competition

Due 1 Feburary 2025

Mary Jaharis Center Co-Funding Grants promote Byzantine studies in North America. These grants provide co-funding to organize scholarly gatherings (e.g., workshops, seminars, small conferences) in North America that advance scholarship in Byzantine studies broadly conceived. We are particularly interested in supporting convenings that build diverse professional networks that cross the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines, propose creative approaches to fundamental topics in Byzantine studies, or explore new areas of research or methodologies.

Mary Jaharis Center Dissertation Grants are awarded to advanced graduate students working on Ph.D. dissertations in the field of Byzantine studies broadly conceived. These grants are meant to help defray the costs of research-related expenses, e.g., travel, photography/digital images, microfilm.

Mary Jaharis Center Publication Grants support book-length publications or major articles in the field of Byzantine studies broadly conceived. Grants are aimed at early career academics. Preference will be given to postdocs and assistant professors, though applications from non-tenure track faculty and associate and full professors will be considered. We encourage the submission of first-book projects.

Mary Jaharis Center Project Grants support discrete and highly focused professional projects aimed at the conservation, preservation, and documentation of Byzantine archaeological sites and monuments dated from 300 CE to 1500 CE primarily in Greece and Turkey. Projects may be small stand-alone projects or discrete components of larger projects. Eligible projects might include archeological investigation, excavation, or survey; documentation, recovery, and analysis of at risk materials (e.g., architecture, mosaics, paintings in situ); and preservation (i.e., preventive measures, e.g., shelters, fences, walkways, water management) or conservation (i.e., physical hands-on treatments) of sites, buildings, or objects.

The application deadline for all grants is February 1, 2025. For further information, please visit the Mary Jaharis Center website: https://maryjahariscenter.org/grants.

Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center, with any questions.

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Feb
3
to Feb 5

Conference: Les arts de l’autel médiéval De la genèse des objets aux stratégies muséographiques, Paris, 3-5 February 2025

Conference

Les arts de l’autel médiéval De la genèse des objets aux stratégies muséographiques

CRH-EHESS/CNRS / Musée du Louvre

3-5 février 2025 / 3-5 February 2025

Paris, France

In recent years, the TEMPLA inter-university research team has undertaken a project that examines the memory of enduring and evolving cultic practices performed by both religious and lay communities in medieval churches. Drawing upon documentary sources and visual artifacts preserved either in situ or within museum collections, the project adopts a holistic approach to the study of sanctuaries associated with a selection of cathedral sites dating from the 9th to the 15th centuries. This research integrates an analysis of the material contexts of these sanctuaries with a detailed exploration of the artistic elements designed to embellish the altars and their medieval environments. These elements served to venerate and magnify the titular saints and the divine, while also identifying the patrons and creators of the works through heraldic and textual markers.

The study combines investigations into the materiality of architectural structures and visual artifacts with a phenomenological interpretation of the artworks, alongside a liturgical understanding of the specific rites and devotions practiced. Methodologically, the project considers the visual decor of these sacred spaces in relation to the social expectations tied to ritual celebrations. This colloquium has been organized to further develop this conceptual framework, positioning the high altar as the ritual, spiritual, material, and emotional nucleus of every church.

More information, including the schedule, are available at this link.

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Feb
6
12:30 PM12:30

IHR European History 1150-1550 Hybrid Seminar: William of Auvergne and the Things We Can’t See, Lesley Smith, 12:30-2:00PM EST/ 5:30-7:00PM BST

Hybrid Seminar

IHR European History 1150-1550 Seminar Series

William of Auvergne and the Things We Can’t See

Lesley Smith (Oxford)

Hybrid | Online via Zoom & IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

6 February 2025, 12:30-2:00PM EST/ 5:30-7:00PM BST

Master of the Dresden Prayer Book (Flemish, active about 1480 - 1515) The Temperate and the Intemperate, about 1475–1480, Tempera colors and ink on parchment. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 43, recto.

All welcome- this seminar is free to attend but booking in advance is required. To book, click here.
Contact: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk (Email only)

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Feb
6
6:30 PM18:30

ICMA Annual IDEA Lecture: Staging medieval art: Photography, archaeology, and living objects in Afghanistan

ICMA Annual IDEA Lecture
Staging medieval art: Photography, archaeology, and living objects in Afghanistan


Martina Rugiadi
, speaker

Since centuries, the town of Ghazni has been the site of devotion, visited by those seeking to be blessed and healed at the tombs of its saints. Yet our scholarly gaze has primarily focused on the city’s short-lived royal past of the 11th-12th centuries, the remains of which were meticulously documented with stunning photographs in the 1950s and 60s. Uncovering these images, this talk aims to reveal broader, more inclusive histories that transcend disciplinary boundaries.

Martina Rugiadi is Associate Curator in the Islamic Art Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where she is preparing an exhibition on medieval Afghan marbles. As an archaeologist, she has worked mostly in Iran, Afghanistan, and Syria, and now co-directs the Towns of the Karakum project in Turkmenistan. Her recent research explores medieval drinking, Islamic-period spolia, agency and visual languages, and the juncture of art history, cultural heritage, and the museum. 

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Feb
6
7:30 PM19:30

Lecture: A Life Among Medieval Book of Hours, Christopher de Hamel, Bruges Public Library, 6 December 2024 7.30-9.00pm

Lecture

A Life Among Medieval Book of Hours

Christopher de Hamel

6 December 2024 - 7.30-9.00pm

Bruges Public Library (Reading Room), Belgium

On 6 December we will welcome Christopher de Hamel in Bruges for an evening lecture followed by a drinks reception.

With his extensive experience as the librarian of the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and as an auction expert at Sotheby’s, Christopher de Hamel is a leading authority on medieval manuscripts. He became widely known to the public through his award-winning book Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts, in which he revisits famous manuscripts from multiple perspectives, uncovering surprising new insights. This makes him the perfect advocate for the multidisciplinary vision of Mmmonk School!

Christopher de Hamel will tell a little of his life among medieval manuscripts, especially encounters with manuscripts illuminated in Flanders, often for export, and why these are important in English and European history. He will follow the migrations of two Bruges Books of Hours of the Use of Sarum now in New Zealand, and will touch on discoveries made while at Sotheby’s, including finding the Spinola Hours in 1975, and on work on Simon Bening for several chapters of his book on The Manuscripts Club.

Lecture in English.

5 Euros/ Free for Friends of the Bruges Library / 1 Euro Opportunity Rate Uitpas Brugge

Registration link for Christopher de Hamel on 6 December at Bruges Public Library.

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Feb
7
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Applications: British Archaeological Association Study Day in Coventry (21 Mar. 2025), Due By 7 Feb. 2025

Call for Applications

British Archaeological Association

Coventry Study Day

21 March 2025

St Mary’s Guildhall, Holy Trinity Church, St Michael’s Cathedral

Applications Due By 7 February 2025

Join the BAA on Friday 21 March 2025 for a unique study day in Coventry. This study day offers unparalleled access to remarkable heritage sites, including St Mary’s Guildhall, Holy Trinity Church, and St Michael’s Cathedral.

Cost: £25 for members, free for students (with travel grants available). Spaces are limited to 20 attendees, so apply by 7 February 2025 for your chance to attend.

For more details and to apply, email studydays@thebaa.org.

For more information, click here.

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Feb
10
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Papers/l'Appel à Contributions: Perspective (Issue - Learning of Art / l'Apprentissage de l'Art) - Due/Dû 10 Feb./Févr. 2025

Call for Papers/l'appel à contributions

Perspective

2026 – 1 issue - Learning of Art / l'apprentissage de l'art

Due 10 February 2025 / Dû 10 février 2025

Perspective  will explore, in its 2026 – 1 issue, co-edited by Thomas Golsenne (INHA), Déborah Laks (CNRS) et Guy Lambert (École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-Belleville) to the question Learning/Teaching.

Does one learn to become an artist? This question, which traverses the history of contemporary art, has never been resolved. It reflects – and confronts – aesthetic, philosophical, cultural and perhaps even religious concepts. From the standpoint of art history, however, the answer can only be positive, given that artistic production is largely a matter of artist-to-artist legacies and transmissions, whether on a daily basis in the studio and the closed circuit of the school or through the study of works and artists over a wide spectrum of time and space. This issue of Perspective is intended to examine recent research on the ways of learning to be an artist from antiquity to the present day, and especially over a wide variety of geographical areas and cultures. Such an approach necessarily draws on a vast multidisciplinary effort, involving contributions from the education sciences, visual arts, history and sociology, ethnology and digital humanities. 

This issue Learning/Teaching seeks to be transhistorical and international in its scope and methodological approaches alike. To this end, we would like to explore the diverse modes of learning and their evolution in terms of four main themes:

1. Theories and practices of transmission

2. Participants in the learning/teaching process

3. Material conditions, places and time frames of training

4. Art history for artists

Taking care to ground reflections in a historiographic, methodological, or epistemological perspective, please send your proposals (an abstract of 2,000 to 3,000 characters/350 to 500 words, a working title, a short bibliography on the subject, and a biography limited to a few lines) to the editorial email address (revue-perspective@inha.frno later than February 10, 2025.

Perspective handles translations; projects will be considered by the committee regardless of language. Authors whose proposals are accepted will be informed of the decision by the editorial committee by the end of February 2025, while articles will be due on June 1st, 2025.

Submitted texts (between 25,000 and 45,000 characters/ 4,500 or 7,500 words, depending on the intended project) will be formally accepted following an anonymous peer review process.

For a PDF of the call for papers, click here.

For additional information, visit the journal’s page on the INHA website and browse Perspective online.


Pour son numéro 2026 – 1, conjointement dirigé par Thomas Golsenne (INHA), Déborah Laks (CNRS) et Guy Lambert (École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-Belleville), la revue Perspective pose la question de l'apprentissage de l'art.

Apprend-on à devenir artiste ? Cette question, jamais résolue, traverse l’histoire de l’art contemporain. En elle, des conceptions esthétiques, philosophiques, culturelles, peut-être même religieuses, se cristallisent et s’opposent. Du point de vue de la discipline de l’histoire de l’art cependant, la réponse ne peut être que positive, tant la production artistique est affaire d’héritages, de transmissions d’artiste à artiste, tantôt dans le quotidien de l’atelier ou le cénacle de l’école, tantôt dans l’ouverture diachronique de l’étude d’œuvres et d’artistes de tous horizons. Ce numéro entend examiner le renouvellement des études sur les manières de se former à l’art, de l’Antiquité à nos jours, en privilégiant une diversité d’aires géographiques et de cultures. Il s’inscrit dans une vaste actualité scientifique pluridisciplinaire, à laquelle contribuent notamment les sciences de l’éducation, les arts plastiques, l’histoire et la sociologie, l’ethnologie ou les humanités numériques. 

Le numéro Apprendre se veut transhistorique et international dans ses terrains comme dans ses approches méthodologiques. Nous souhaitons y faire état des manières d’appréhender la diversité des modalités d’apprentissage et leur évolution, selon quatre axes : 

1. théorie et pratiques de la transmission

2. acteurs et actrices de l'apprentissage

3. matérialités, lieux et temporalités de la formation

4. l'histoire de l'art pour les artistes

En prenant soin d’ancrer la réflexion dans une perspective historiographique, méthodologique ou épistémologique, prière de faire parvenir vos propositions (un résumé de 2 000 à 3 000 signes, un titre provisoire, une courte bibliographie sur le sujet et une biographie de quelques lignes) à l’adresse de la rédaction (revue-perspective@inha.frau plus tard le 10 février 2025.

Perspective prenant en charge les traductions, les projets seront examinés par le comité de rédaction quelle que soit la langue. Les auteurs ou autrices des propositions retenues seront informées de la décision du comité de rédaction d'ici la fin du mois de février 2025, tandis que les articles seront à remettre pour le 1er juin 2025. Les textes soumis (25 000 à 45 000 signes selon le projet envisagé) seront définitivement acceptés à l’issue d’un processus anonyme d’évaluation par les pairs.

Vous trouverez le texte complet de l’appel en pièce jointe ainsi que des précisions sur les deux formats possibles d'articles publiés dans la revue.

Pour un PDF de l'appel à contributions, cliquez ici.

Pour plus d'informations, visitez la page de la revue sur le site internet de l'INHA et parcourez Perspective en ligne.

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Feb
12
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Applications: American Academy in Rome, Italian Fellowship for Medieval Studies , Due 12 February 2025

Call for Applications

American Academy in Rome

Italian Fellowship for Medieval Studies 

Due 12 February 2025

The American Academy in Rome is offering an Italian Fellowship for scholars working in medieval studies—which includes archaeology, history, history of art and architecture, literature, religious studies, and musicology—for the 2025–26 academic year.

All academic approaches to the field or combinations of approaches will be considered, as well as historical approaches overlapping with the social sciences. Candidates should indicate how they plan to use resources such as libraries, archives, and museums in Rome and at the Academy.

This postdoctoral fellowship will be awarded for a two-month period, between September 2025 to June 2026. The application deadline is February 12, 2025.

Candidates must be Italian citizens (dual citizenship is acceptable), have completed their PhD between 2018 and September 1, 2025, and demonstrate excellent written and spoken English, which will be assessed in an interview if applicable

For more information, click here.

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Feb
14
7:00 PM19:00

ICMA Reception in NYC

ICMA members are welcome to a casual reception, coinciding with the College Art Association's Annual Conference on Friday 14 February 2025 from 7-9pm. Drinks provided. 

RSVP HERE

Grace's 
252 West 14th Street
New York, NY 10011

Convenient off the A/C/E train at 14th Street and 8th Avenue.

https://www.gracesnyc.com/

Should you require step-free entry, please email icma@medievalart.org for instructions. 

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Feb
15
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Applications: Visiting Researchers, ERC AGRELITA (2025), The reception of ancient Greece in pre-modern French literature and illustrations, Due By 15 February 2025

Call for Applications

ERC AGRELITA (2025)

Visiting Researchers

Project: The reception of ancient Greece in pre-modern French literature and illustrations of manuscripts and printed books (1320-1550): how invented memories shaped the identity of European communities

Due by 15 February 2025

Until now the reception history of ancient Greece in pre-modern Western Europe has focused almost exclusively on the transmission of Greek texts. Yet well before the revival of Greek teaching, numerous vernacular works, often illustrated, contained elaborate representations of ancient Greece. AGRELITA studies a large corpus of French language literary works (historical, fictional, poetic, didactic ones) produced from 1320 to the 1550s in France and Europe, before the first direct translations from Greek to French, as well as the images of their manuscripts and printed books. The AGRELITA project, “The reception of ancient Greece in pre-modern French literature and illustrations of manuscripts and printed books (1320-1550) : how invented memories shaped the identity of European communities”, directed by Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, opens guest researchers residencies in 2025 in the University of Caen Normandy (France). Stays at the University of Caen Normandie may be 4 to 6 weeks length, and during the year 2025 may take place in May/June/early July.

This call for applications is open to anyone, of French or foreign nationality, who holds a PhD in literature, art history, or history, whose work focuses on the history of books, cultural and political history, visual studies, or memory studies, wherein the competence and project are deemed to be complementary to the ones of the AGRELITA team. These residencies indeed aim to open the reflections carried out by the team, to enhance its scientific activity through interactions with other scholars and other universities. The guest researchers will have the exceptional opportunity to contribute to a major project, to work with a dynamic team that conducts a wide range of activities at the University of Caen Normandie and within the research laboratory CRAHAM where many Antiquity, Medieval and Renaissance times specialists work, as well as to publish in a prestigious setting.

In 2025, the AGRELITA project will focus on these lines of research:
- “The new lives of Greek divinities (14th-16th centuries)”, “Images of Nature and beings in the reception of Greek myths (14th-16th centuries)”, “The political exploitations of Greek Antiquity (14th-16th centuries)”;

- A broader line of research: “Uses and exploitations of Antiquity memories, from the beginning of our era until the 21th century”.

For more information, please see: https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/5997

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Feb
15
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Applications: Advanced Fellowships (for Returning Members) for Graduate Students, Academic Year-Long, Due 15 February 2025

Call for Applications

American School for Classical Studies at Athens

ADVANCED FELLOWSHIPS (for returning Members) for Graduate Students

Academic Year-Long

Due 15 February 2025

Several fellowships for the full academic year at the School are available to students to pursue independent research in Greece, usually for their Ph.D. dissertation. Applications for Advanced Fellowships are adjudicated based on the need to be in Greece and the feasibility of the proposed project. Current and past Regular and Student Associate Members who plan to pursue research in Greece are encouraged to apply for the following fellowships:

  • The Samuel H. Kress Fellowship in art and architecture of antiquity (stipend $15,000)

  • The Gorham Phillips Stevens Fellowship in the history of architecture (stipend $11,500)

  • The Ione Mylonas Shear Fellowship in Mycenaean archaeology or Athenian architecture and/or archaeology (stipend $11,500)

  • The Homer A. and Dorothy B. Thompson Fellowship in the study of pottery (stipend $11,500)

  • The Edward Capps Fellowship, the Doreen Canaday Spitzer Fellowship, and the Eugene Vanderpool Fellowship (unrestricted in area of research) (stipend for each is $11,500)

For more Information about a Fellowship or Application, Visit https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/fellowships-and-grants/graduate-and-postdoctoral or contact: application@ascsa.org

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Feb
15
11:00 AM11:00

Inaugural ICMA Associates Lecture 2025: Royal Cemeteries in Medieval Iberia (Gerardo Boto Varela, speaker); 17:00 CET / 11AM ET (in-person and online)

Inaugural ICMA Associates Lecture 2025
Royal Cemeteries in Medieval Iberia: Geopolitical System and Sites of Dynastic Memory
Speaker: Gerardo Boto Varela, Universitat de Girona

Saturday 15 February 2025, 17:00 CET / 11am ET
Centro di Cultura e Storia Amalfitana
Supportico S. Andrea, 3
Arnalfi, Italy

In person and online
Presented in English

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León, Catedral de Santa María de Regla, sepolcro del re Ordoño II, XIII secolo

About the lecture
We have constructed a hyper-aulic medieval art history, both thematically and artistically. We continue to be fascinated by kings and queens and their post-mortem survival and remembrance. Medieval monarchs often chose burial sites with the intention that their legacy would be remembered and venerated within a center of significant symbolic or religious importance, such as a cathedral or a prominent monastery. In this way, they not only ensured their survival in a place in history, but also the spiritual intercession exercised on their behalf before the Divinity by a praying community. Thus, a king or queen decided to be buried in a particular church, either in front of its doors or inside them. However, this vital decision was not always straightforward or final. As expressed in the chronicles and testaments, which exist at least in medieval Spain since the 11th century, monarchs could change their minds and request a new burial place that better suited their personal, political or spiritual priorities, or the changing tensions in the political and religious landscape of their time. 

Since the historiography that began this analysis, already in the 19th century, was French and Germanic, the cases of royal burial in those areas became paradigmatic. However, is it still acceptable today to consider that there is an artistic or political model of reference against which everything else is an anomaly? Should we continue to colonise the European Middle Ages from the propositions of the geographically central domains? Does it make sense to consider the multiplicity of Iberian burial sites, throughout historical phases, as a divergence from the presumed model of concentration and stability of French and English royal burials?

In the context of the Iberian Peninsula, the multiplication, distribution and ecclesiastical variety of royal burials is particularly unique compared to other European regions. This can be understood through the concept of ‘mnemotopia’, analysed by scholars such as Maurice Halbwachs and Jan Assmann. Mnemotopia refers to the idea of a place imbued with a high symbolic significance for the collective memory. The physical location of a burial place carried an important meaning – a place that preserved and evoked historical memory for the kingdom and its community.

Until now, historiography has explained the multiplicity of Iberian royal cemeteries (not only in Castile) as the expression of unquestioned power, which made it unnecessary to rely on a single, reiterative cemetery. This hypothesis is not accurate. Moreover, the political principles in Aragon and Navarre were no different from those of the western kingdoms of medieval Spain, and yet they did establish from the 14th century onwards a single coronation place and a single dynastic cemetery. That is why the central argument of this discussion must be approached from the perspective of geopolitics: 1.- How was the monumental memory of the kingdom articulated to dominate all the lands of the kingdom? 2.- Is it true that by gaining new frontiers with the territorial ‘Reconquest’ a city was designated as the most politically and ecclesiastically relevant, in order to compensate for the burdens of a presumably fragile and questionable legitimacy?

About the speaker
Senior lecturer in the history of medieval art. Principal researcher in the TEMPLA international research team (https://templamedieval.eu/s/templa/page/inicio). Associate Professor (2010) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, at the invitation of the Groupe d'Anthropologie historique de l'Occident médiéval. Member of the Scientific Council of Campus Condorcet. Campus de Recherche en Humanités de la région de Paris’. Chief scientific editor of the Codex Aquilarensis (https://www.romanicodigital.com/otros-contenidos/revista-codex-aquilarensis). Has organised 49 international seminars and scientific meetings. Author specialising in the analysis of pre-Romanesque and Romanesque architecture and visual devices (in particular sculpture) deployed on the exterior and interior. He studies the morphogenesis of spaces of worship and institutional representation, the construction of sites and images, based on the importance of bringing together the perception and experience of immaterial factors and goods. Recent books: G. Boto (ed.), La catedral de Tarragona. Arquitectura, discursos visuales y liturgia (1150-1350), Aguilar de Campoo, 2022. ISBN: 978-84-17158-34-7; G. Boto, Marc Sureda (eds.), La catedral romànica de Barcelona. Protagonistes, context urbà i edificacions monumentals, Girona, 2021. ISBN-13 : ‎ 978-8499845906; G. Boto (ed.), (In)sights regarding Medieval Art / Una mirada perspicaz al Arte Medieval. Tributo a Herbert Kessler (Special issue of Codex Aquilarensis. Revista de Arte Medieval, 37, 2021 (ISSN.0214-896X), 595 p.; G. Boto, M. Serrano, J. McNeill (eds.), Emerging Naturalism: Contexts and Narratives in European Sculpture 1140-1220, Turnhout: Brepols, 2020, 440 p. ISBN:  978-2-503-57448-6; Vinni Lucherini, Gerardo Boto (eds.), La cattedrale nella città medievale: i rituali, Roma: Viella, 2020, 394 p. ISBN: 9788833131269. (https://girona.academia.edu/GerardoBoto)

Organized by Francesca Dell’Acqua (Università di Salerno), Chair of the ICMA New Initiatives Working Group 

Co-sponsored by the Dipartimento di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale of the Università di Salerno, Centro di Cultura e Storia Amalfitana, and the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA).

The ICMA Associates Lecture inaugurates the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the Centro di Cultura e Storia Amalfitana.

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Feb
15
2:30 PM14:30

ICMA Sponsored Session at the College Art Association Annual Conference 2025: "Moving Pictures, Living Objects" Saturday 15 February 2025, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

ICMA at the College Art Association Annual Conference 2025

ICMA Sponsored Session
Moving Pictures, Living Objects 

Saturday 15 February 2025, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
New York Hilton Midtown - 2nd Floor - Beekman

The Cloisters Collection, 1955

Organized by
Heather Pulliam, University of Edinburgh
Kathryn M. Rudy, University of St. Andrews
 

Notre-Dame Through the Eyes of Jean de Jandun
Lindsay S. Cook, Penn State University Department of Art History & School of Visual Arts 

Shifting Shadows: Using Virtual Reality to revive Dynamic Lighting Conditions for Gilded Panel Paintings
Sanne Frequin, Universiteit Utrecht

Wie man Skulpturen aufnehmen soll: A Continuing Question in the Study of Gothic Sculpture
Jacqueline E. Jung, Yale University

Reanimating the Inert: Digitising Haptics and Mourning in Japanese Buddhist Handscrolls
Dr. Halle O'Neal, University of Edinburgh

Spycraft – Medieval Books and the Magic Lantern: The Unfolding Revelation of Scripture in the Évangéliaire de la Sainte-Chapelle
Thomas Rainer, Art Historical Institute, University of Zurich

Late Gothic Micro-Architectural Designs: 3D-Modeling the Basel Goldschmiederisse
Martin Schwarz, University of Chicago

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Feb
17
8:00 AM08:00

Second Call for PhD Applications: StoryPharm: Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond. Training the New Generation of Researchers in Health Humanities, 8:00 ET/14:00 CET

New Deadline!

Second Call for PhD Applications

StoryPharm: Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond. Training the New Generation of Researchers in Health Humanities

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Due 17 February 2025 at 14:00 CET (8:00 ET)

Project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action – Doctoral Networks – Grant Agreement 101169114, https://www.ucy.ac.cy/storypharm/

We are pleased to announce 2 three-year Special Scientist PhD Positions in Medieval Art History within the framework of the StoryPharm project:

“Images of Christ’s Miraculous Healings between Medical Awareness and Social Inclusion (9th–11th c. CE)” (University of Salerno, Italy)

“The Healthy Place: Architecture and Images for Healing Devotional Experiences in Southern Italy in a Mediterranean Context” (University of Salerno, Italy)

StoryPharm project focuses on premodern narratives and images involving medicine, health, and healing. These will be studied from a transdisciplinary and comparative perspective, across linguistic and cultural borders.

For more information on the position, view this PDF.

For detailed and updated information on all vacant PhD positions and on the application procedure, please consult: https://www.ucy.ac.cy/storypharm/vacancies/

Applications will be accepted until 17/02/2024 at 14:00 CET (8:00 ET).

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Feb
20
12:30 PM12:30

IHR European History 1150-1550 Hybrid Seminar: Citizens and Peacekeeping in Late-Medieval Italy, Lorenzo Caravaggi, 12:30-2:00PM EST/ 5:30-7:00PM BST

Hybrid Seminar

IHR European History 1150-1550 Seminar Series

Citizens and Peacekeeping in Late-Medieval Italy

Lorenzo Caravaggi (Lancaster)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

20 February 2025, 12:30-2:00PM EST/ 5:30-7:00PM BST

Master of the Dresden Prayer Book (Flemish, active about 1480 - 1515) The Temperate and the Intemperate, about 1475–1480, Tempera colors and ink on parchment. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 43, recto.

All welcome- this seminar is free to attend but booking in advance is required. To book, click here.

Contact: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk (Email only)

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Feb
21
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Papers: Shifting Fortunes in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (24-25 April 2025, University of Edinburgh), Due 21 February 2025

Call for Papers

Shifting Fortunes in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

24-25 April 2025, University of Edinburgh

Due 21 February 2025

Edinburgh’s Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies (CLAIBS) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 6th International Graduate Conference in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies.

Keynote Speaker: Dr Krystina Kubina (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

The fortunes of individuals, communities and states in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages were far from fixed certainties, and whilst any number of sudden crises and exigencies could bring fortunes crashing down, there was also ample opportunity for them to be built up, transformed, and consolidated. Therefore, securing one’s fortunes, be they political, economic or spiritual, was of paramount importance to all members of late antique and medieval societies. Whether in the imperial cities of Constantinople and Rome, the caliphal courts of Baghdad, Cordoba and Cairo, or in the courts of Paris and Léon, decisions were made, edicts and chrysobulls were issued, taxes were raised, theologies were disputed, and wars were waged, all in the name of securing the good fortune of ruling interests. Beyond the actions of caliphs, emperors and kings, one is greeted by an assortment of ways in which individuals and communities sought to enhance their own fortunes, be it through pious dedications, participation in religious ritual, production or patronage of literature, economic activities or acts of rebellion. On the other hand, a drop in fortunes could be heralded by environmental factors, such as plague, famine, drought, or through instances of external and internal conflict like invasion, civil war and fitnah.

This conference will focus on this theme of shifting fortunes and examine both the factors underpinning change, as well as the various processes and dynamics through which the creation, consolidation, and collapse of fortunes came to pass. For instance, how were fortunes negotiated and renegotiated across the period, and how far did this differ across the boundaries of social class, gender, religious identity and geography? Given the broad range of possible applications of ‘shifting fortunes’ as an avenue of historical inquiry, we encourage the submission of papers which broach a wide array of topics and adopt innovative methodological approaches in their case studies. Moreover, the scope of this conference shall go beyond Centre’s focus on Late Antiquity, Islamic and Byzantine Studies. As such, we shall also incorporate contributions from a global medieval perspective.

The deadline for abstracts is the 21 February 2025 and notification of acceptance will be confirmed by 7 March 2025

Please submit your abstract of no more than 300 words, and a 100-word professional biography to edibyzpg@ed.ac.uk. We kindly welcome submissions from individuals or groups. Lunch will be provided on both days, and there will be a small registration fee of £20 for attendees. For speakers, we hope to waive this registration fee, but further information will be provided at a later date.

Suggest topics for papers can be found in the document below (PDF), however, papers which approach the theme of ‘shifting fortunes’ from other angles will also be considered.

Call for papers for Shifting Fortunes in Late Antiquity and the Middle Agesers for Shifting Fortunes in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (1.42 MB / PDF)

For more information, visit: https://hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-events/events/cfp-shifting-fortunes-in-late-antiquity-and-the-middle-ages.

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Mar
1
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Applications: American School for Classical Studies at Athens, Short-Term Fellowships for Graduate Students, Due 1 March 2025

Call for Applications

American School for Classical Studies at Athens

PAUL REHAK MEMORIAL TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP

for Graduate Students

Due 1 March 2025

To allow students in attendance at the School during the 2024-2025 academic year to travel in Greece or nearby lands to conduct a research project during the academic year from September 1, 2024 to July 1, 2025.

For more Information about a Fellowship or Application, Visit https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/fellowships-and-grants/graduate-and-postdoctoral or contact: application@ascsa.org

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Mar
2
11:00 AM11:00

Exhibition Closing: Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, British Library, London, 2 March 2025

New Exhibition

Medieval Women: In Their Own Words

British Library, London

Until 2 March 2025

Our latest exhibition introduces the women of medieval Europe through their own words, visions and experiences. Discover the rich and complex lives of women in the Middle Ages, with over 140 extraordinary items that reveal their artistry, resourcefulness, courage and struggles.

Medieval women’s voices evoke a world in which they lived active and varied lives. Their testimonies speak of diverse experiences, revealing female impact and influence across private, public and spiritual realms, and bringing alive experiences that still resonate today.

This exhibition focuses on Europe from roughly 1100 to 1500, a period in which there was strong cultural interconnection across the continent. While most medieval sources from the period were written by and about men, women’s surviving testimonies offer remarkable insight into their contributions to medieval social and economic life, culture and politics, their skilful management of households and convents, and the vibrancy of female religious culture.

Must-see highlights include:

  • The Book of the Queen by Christine de Pizan: The first professional woman author in Europe

  • Sibylle of Flanders' 12th-century ivory cross: Owned by Sibylle, countess of Flanders, who went on Crusade to the Holy Land

  • A silk textile made in al-Andalus (Islamic Spain), where Muslim women labourers were fundamental to the silk industry

  • Julian of Norwich’s The Revelations of Divine Love: the first work in English definitely authored by a woman

  • A 15th-century birthing girdle: a manuscript inscribed with prayers and charms that was used for protection during childbirth

  • Battel Hall retable a rare surviving painting from a medieval English nunnery

  • On Women's Cosmetics: a recipe book likely to have been composed in Southern Italy in the 12th century with recipes for hair dye remover, face creams and breath freshener

  • A lion skull that possibly came from a pet lion of Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England.

Break free from traditional narratives and encounter personalities both famous and forgotten who tell the story of medieval womanhood. And discover stories familiar to women today, from the gender pay gap and harmful stereotypes, to access to healthcare and education, as well as challenges faced by female leaders.

This is the story of medieval women, told in their own words.

Medieval Women: In Their Own Words is supported by Joanna and Graham Barker and Unwin Charitable Trust.

For more information, visit https://www.bl.uk/whats-on/medieval-women/.

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Mar
6
12:30 PM12:30

IHR European History 1150-1550 Hybrid Seminars: Innocent IV and Fieschi Family Interest in North Africa & Dominicans in the Holy Land, Alessandro Scallone & Cheryl Midson

Hybrid Seminar

IHR European History 1150-1550 Seminar Series

PhD Student Session: Innocent IV and Fieschi Family Interest in North Africa & Dominicans in the Holy Land

Alessandro Scallone (RHUL), Cheryl Midson (Reading)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & Room 105, 24 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AW

6 March 2025, 12:30-2:00 PM EST/ 5:30-7:00PM BST

Master of the Dresden Prayer Book (Flemish, active about 1480 - 1515) The Temperate and the Intemperate, about 1475–1480, Tempera colors and ink on parchment. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 43, recto.

All welcome- this seminar is free to attend but booking in advance is required. To book, click here.

Contact: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk (Email only)

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Mar
15
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Applications: American School for Classical Studies at Athens, Short-Term Fellowships for Graduate Students, Due 15 March 2025

Call for Applications

American School for Classical Studies at Athens

Short-Term Fellowships for Graduate Students

Due 15 March 2025

HARRY BIKAKIS FELLOWSHIP (15 March 2025)

This fellowship was established by the late Lloyd E. Cotsen, former Chair of the Overseers of the Gennadius Library, to honor Harry Bikakis, attorney of the American School, who exhibited much devotion and loyalty to the School during his term from 1979 to 1995. Stipend of $1,875. School fees are waived either for the duration of the field project or for the academic year during which the fellow is carrying out research at the ASCSA.

JOAN AND EUGENE VANDERPOOL FELLOWSHIP AT THE ATHENIAN AGORA (15 March 2025)

The Joan and Eugene Vanderpool Fellowship at the Athenian Agora supports research on any aspect of the Athenian Agora, including history, archaeology, literature, epigraphy, architecture, art history, and biodiversity. The fellowship was established by family and friends of Joan and Eugene Vanderpool to honor their lifelong commitment to Greece and the Agora Excavations in particular. To learn more about the history of the fellowship, click here.

W.D.E. COULSON & TONI M. CROSS AEGEAN EXCHANGE PROGRAM (15 March 2025)

W.D.E. Coulson and Toni M. Cross Aegean Exchange Program is offered for Greek Ph.D. students and scholars in any field of the humanities and social sciences, from prehistoric to modern times, to conduct research in Turkey, under the auspices of the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) in Ankara and/or Istanbul during the academic year.

For more Information about a Fellowship or Application, Visit https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/fellowships-and-grants/graduate-and-postdoctoral or contact: application@ascsa.org

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Mar
20
12:30 PM12:30

IHR European History 1150-1550 Hybrid Seminar: Child Brides: Byzantium and Bulgaria in the Fourteenth Century, Cecily Hennessy, 12:30-2:00PM EST/ 5:30-7:00PM BST

Hybrid Seminar

IHR European History 1150-1550 Seminar Series

Child Brides: Byzantium and Bulgaria in the Fourteenth Century

Cecily Hennessy (Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

20 March 2025, 12:30-2:00PM EST/ 5:30-7:00PM BST

Master of the Dresden Prayer Book (Flemish, active about 1480 - 1515) The Temperate and the Intemperate, about 1475–1480, Tempera colors and ink on parchment. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 43, recto.

All welcome- this seminar is free to attend but booking in advance is required. To book, click here.

Contact: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk (Email only)

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Jan
23
12:30 PM12:30

IHR European History 1150-1550 Hybrid Seminar: Judicial Violence in Late Medieval Europe: Corporal Punishments in Tuscany, 1260–1360, Lidia L. Zanetti Domingues, 12:30-2:00PM EST/ 5:30-7:00PM BST

Hybrid Seminar

IHR European History 1150-1550 Seminar Series

Judicial Violence in Late Medieval Europe: Corporal Punishments in Tuscany, 1260–1360

Lidia L. Zanetti Domingues (Sheffield)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

23 January 2025, 12:30-2:00PM EST/ 5:30-7:00PM BST

Master of the Dresden Prayer Book (Flemish, active about 1480 - 1515) The Temperate and the Intemperate, about 1475–1480, Tempera colors and ink on parchment. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 43, recto.

All welcome- this seminar is free to attend but booking in advance is required. To book, click here.

Contact: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk (Email only)

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Jan
23
9:00 AM09:00

ICMA in London: SILK ROADS at The British Museum, ICMA member early morning viewing hour

ICMA in London
Early morning viewing of Silk Roads
Thursday 23 January 2025, 9am
The British Museum
In-person

Register HERE

ICMA members are invited to an early morning viewing of Silk Roads at The British Museum on Thursday 23 January 2025 at 9am. Members will be able to view the exhibition prior to the museum’s public opening hours with a brief introduction by one of the exhibition’s curators. Afterwards, members are invited to an offsite location for coffee.

Capacity is limited to 20 people. Please register by Monday 13 January 2025. Attendees must be ICMA members; guests will be added to a waitlist and receive confirmation the week of the event, should spaces be available.

Working with 29 national and international partners to present objects from many regions and cultures alongside those from the British Museum collection, the exhibition offers a unique chance to see objects from the length and breadth of the Silk Roads. From Tang Chinese ceramics destined for ports in the Middle East to Indian garnets found in Suffolk, they reveal the astonishing reach of these networks. 

More information about the exhibition: click HERE

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Jan
21
12:00 PM12:00

Online & In-Person Lecture: Charles of Luxembourg as a visitor at the papal court in Avignon, Alexandra Gajewski, Birbeck, London, 21 Jan. 2025, 12:00-13:30 ET/17:00-18:30 GMT

Lecture

Murray Seminar

Charles of Luxembourg as a visitor at the papal court in Avignon

Alexandra Gajewski

In-Person & Online

Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square, London

21 January 2025, 12:00-13:30 ET/17:00-18:30 GMT

Online: Book your place

In-Person: Book your place

When on 23rd May 1365 Emperor Charles IV arrived in Avignon accompanied by five hundred knights, he encountered a city that had changed substantially compared to the Avignon he saw on his visits in c.1340, 1344 and 1346, when he was still Margrave of Moravia. The Porte Saint-Lazare, through which the imperial procession probably entered, had not existed in the 1340s, new city walls had been built from 1357/58. The city’s churches had been rebuilt. The Papal Palace had been enlarged with a new entrance, a new staircase and new chapel in the 1340s; dazzling new wall-paintings adorned the walls, a new kitchen been built and polyphonic music had been introduced. Charles slept in Petit Palais whereas in 1340 he had stayed in the Livrée of Pierre de Rosiers. Although, there are only snippets of evidence for the earlier visits, Charles’s adventus in 1365 is reported in a number of sources, in particular in the chronicles by John of Reading and Jan Neplach, who probably based their reports on eyewitness accounts. By crossing the sources relating to Charles’s visits with the topographical and architectural evidence, this paper hopes to show that the documents throw light on the unfolding of the emperor’s visit, in a way that has not been previously understood, and, more broadly, that the walls, the religious topography and the enlarged Papal Palace were active parts in making Avignon a fitting stage for the greatest moment in the city’s history, the entry of the emperor.

Contact name: Allison Deutsch

For more information, visit https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/?tag=309

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Jan
20
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Papers: Medieval Art on the Move, The Courtauld Postgraduate Medieval Colloquium 2025 (28 March 2025), London, Due by 20 January 2025

Call for Papers

Medieval Art on the Move

The Courtauld Postgraduate Medieval Colloquium 2025

Friday 28 March 2025, London, UK 

Due By 20 January 2025

Portable Altar from Avignon, enamel, silver, gold and granite, British Museum (inv. No. 1896,0716.1). © The Trustees of the British Museum.

Now entombed in airless glass vitrines, medieval objects in museums appear static and immovable. But in the Middle Ages, artworks were active and mobile:  they were manipulated in the hand, processed through towns, and traded or gifted across very large geographic areas. Viewers were also on the move: they carried artworks on their body or processed alongside them in religious ceremonies. Merchants, soldiers, and pilgrims travelled to new places and brought artworks home with them. This colloquium will explore medieval artworks as sites of sophisticated meaning-making through the theme of movement, on small and large scales. Medieval works of art were often moved during ritual, and many artworks also integrated moving parts, such as wings or other hinged elements. In a broader context, artworks could travel huge distances, acquiring new significances as they transgressed political, cultural and religious borders. The Silk Roads exhibition currently open at the British Museum speaks to such journeys, presenting the people and objects travelling along overlapping and expansive networks of trade, and asking how these movements shaped meanings and cultures both along the way and at their destinations. To that end, the colloquium looks to open new dialogues regarding the movement of medieval artworks, initiating discussions on how it affected an object’s reception.

We invite submissions for 20-minute papers that investigate the impact of movement on objects and their audiences. Respondents might consider themes including but by no means limited to:

  • The vehicles or mechanisms by which medieval objects moved across geographic and cultural boundaries, such as gifting, trade, theft, or war

  • Processions and ritual, versus more informal movements

  • Distance and proximity

  • Motion and stillness

  • Intercultural exchanges and movement of ideas

We invite PhD candidates to submit an up to 250-word paper proposal and title, a short CV, together with their complete contact details (full name, email, and institutional affiliation) by 20th January 2025. Please send these to both Sophia Adams (sophia.adams@courtauld.ac.uk) and Natalia Muñoz-Rojas (natalia.munoz-rojas@courtauld.ac.uk).

There may be some limited funding to support travel and accommodation costs for those without institutional support. If you would require funding support, please include a brief budget alongside your abstract.

For a PDF of the Call for Papers and more information, click here.

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Jan
17
2:00 PM14:00

ICMA in St. Louis: Study event featuring "Global Connections, 500-1500" + "Narrative Wisdom and African Arts"

ICMA in St. Louis
Friday 17 January 2025, 2pm CT
Saint Louis Art Museum
In-person

Register HERE

ICMA members are invited to attend a study event at the Saint Louis Art Museum with curators Maggie Crosland (Birmingham Museum of Art), Judith Mann, and Hannah Segrave. Maggie Crosland will walk attendees through Global Connections, 500-1500, the reinstallation of medieval artworks at the Saint Louis Art Museum. After the Global Connections discussion, Judith Mann and Hannah Segrave will lead a 30 minute tour of the European Art Galleries.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to explore the exhibition Narrative Wisdom and African Arts, which places historical works made by artists across sub-Saharan Africa during the 13th to 20th centuries in conversation with contemporary works by African artists working around the globe.

Click HERE for more information on Global Connections, 500-1500.
Click HERE for Narrative Wisdom and African Arts exhibition information.

Drinks to follow at 6pm at an offsite location. The Saint Louis Art Museum is free and open to the public 10 am–9 pm on Fridays, so arrive early if you want to explore the collection at your own pace. 

Register HERE




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Jan
17
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Applications: Chartres Grants Deadline, American Friends of Chartres, Due January 17, 2025

Call for Applications

American Friends of Chartres
Chartres Grants Deadline

Due January 17, 2025

The American Friends of Chartres is accepting proposals from current graduate students and emerging scholars for its annual research grant for the study of Chartres. The American Friends of Chartres will provide a grant of $2,500.00 and will facilitate lodging, as well as access to the cathedral, the Centre International du Vitrail, the municipal library, archival collections and related resources.
The grant will help to support a research project requiring on-site research in Chartres that promises to advance knowledge and understanding of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Chartres or its historical contexts in the medieval to early modern period. Topics in the fields of art history, history, or related disciplines might include architecture, stained glass, sculpture, urban development, economy, religious practices, manuscripts, or the cathedral treasury, among others.
Applicants should currently be pursuing a Ph.D. or have received the degree within the last six years. Following the research project, the grantee is asked to provide a synopsis of the research and conclusions, which will be publicized through the cultural activities and website of the American Friends of Chartres.
Applications may be submitted online at https://friendsofchartres.org/learning/grants/new-grant-application/

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Jan
16
12:30 PM12:30

IHR European History 1150-1550 Hybrid Seminar: “He Kissed Me With The Kiss of His Mouth”: Art, Devotion and Society in Fourteenth-Century Burgos, Tom Nickson, 12:30-2:00PM EST/5:30PM-7:00PM BST

Hybrid Seminar

IHR European History 1150-1550 Seminar Series

“He Kissed Me With The Kiss of His Mouth”: Art, Devotion and Society in Fourteenth-Century Burgos

Tom Nickson (The Courtauld Institute of Art)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & Room 101, 20 Gordon Square, UCL

16 January 2025, 12:30-2:00pm EST/5:30PM - 7:00PM BST

Master of the Dresden Prayer Book (Flemish, active about 1480 - 1515) The Temperate and the Intemperate, about 1475–1480, Tempera colors and ink on parchment. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 43, recto.

All welcome- this seminar is free to attend but booking in advance is required. To book, click here.

Contact: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk (Email only)



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Jan
15
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Applications: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Academic Year Program, Due 15 January 2025

Call for Applications

American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Academic Year Program

Due January 15, 2025

The Regular Member program runs the full academic year, from early September to late May. Graduate students and graduating seniors interested in an intensive survey of the art, archaeology, history, and topography of Greece, from antiquity to the present, are encouraged to apply. There are no grades and no university credit offered, but participation in the Regular Member Program is a widely recognized part of graduate training in Classics and related fields. Regular Members reside in Athens, using Loring Hall as their home base, throughout the nine-month academic year (September through May). Students receive comprehensive training through visits to the principal archaeological sites and museums of Greece as well as in seminars led by resident and visiting scholars. They also have the option to take part in the training program at the Corinth excavations. The Regular Member program is directed by the Mellon Professor, Denver Graninger, who oversees and mentors the student members. 

The School typically accepts 15 to 20 students each year into the program. 

For more information, click here.

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Jan
15
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Excavation Supervisors: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Ancient Corinth Excavation (2025 Season), Due 15 January 2025

Call for Excavation Supervisors

American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Ancient Corinth Excavation, 2025 Season

Due 15 January 2025

he Corinth Excavations of the American School are looking for advanced graduate students to serve as supervisors during the spring 2025 field season. The season is divided into three four-week sessions, each comprising three weeks of excavation and one week of analysis, synthesis, and clean-up. Session I will run from April 6 to May 2; Session II from May 4 to May 30; and Session III from June 1 to June 27. Applicants may request to stay for one or more sessions.

At Corinth, experienced local workers are entrusted with most of the actual digging, while supervisors are expected to maintain a synchronous record of the fieldwork with the aid of the iDig app. Supervisors are also expected to work with the Director and Associate Director in processing the context pottery and other small finds from their area and in producing a synthetic report on their area at the end of each session. 

Additional information regarding the responsibilities of the supervisors and the daily work schedule can be found at https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/excavations/ancient-corinth/about-the-excavations-1/information-for-excavators-and-volunteers.

Excavation in 2025 will continue in the area northeast of the theater, where work was initiated in 2018. For information on the most recent season, click here. Reports on previous seasons appear in Hesperia 89 (2020) pp. 125-190; Hesperia 90 (2021) pp. 773-818; Hesperia 92 (2023) pp. 355-404.

Accommodations are provided in the two guest houses of the excavation compound and meals are provided 5 days a week. 

Review of applications will begin January 15, 2025, and will continue until the positions are filled.

A complete online application should consist of the following parts:

  • A completed online application form, with the materials requested below. 

  • Letter of Interest.

  • CV.

  • Names and email addresses for two referees. Referees might be contacted for references after the application deadline, if necessary. 

  • Acknowledgement of health considerations. Check the box on the application form to acknowledge that you have read and understood the “Health Considerations.”

Further inquiries should be directed to: The Programs Office (application@ascsa.org) or the Director (Dr. Pfaff, cpfaff@ascsa.edu.gr)

Applicants can expect to receive notification after February 15, 2025.

For more information, click here.

To apply, click here.

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Jan
15
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Applications: Master's Program, Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History, University of Texas, Dallas, Due January 15, 2025

Call for Applications

The Master's Program

the Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas

Due January 15, 2025

The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas is a center for innovative research and graduate education in the history of art.

Our Master’s degree program immerses students in a global history of art across geography, chronology, and medium, and brings to life a range of methodological approaches. We have developed a particular strength in the Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Mediterranean.

Through rigorous coursework, paid museum and research assistantships, and funded research travel, students build a strong foundation in art history, historiography, and professional practice.

The O’Donnell Institute invites applications for the Fall 2025 entering class of our Master’s Program in Art History.

A limited number of scholarship opportunities are available to candidates who demonstrate exceptional academic merit and potential.

The application deadline is January 15, 2025. To learn more, visit https://arthistory.utdallas.edu/graduate.

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Jan
15
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Applications: American School for Classical Studies at Athens, Short-Term and Long-Term Fellowships for Graduate Students, Due January 15, 2025

Call for Applications

American School for Classical Studies at Athens

Short-Term and Academic Year Fellowships for Graduate Students

Due 15 January 2025

Short-Term Fellowships

COTSEN TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP (15 January 2025)

The Gennadius Library offers the Cotsen Traveling Fellowship, a short-term grant awarded each year to Ph.D. holders or graduate students pursuing research topics that require the use of the collections of the Gennadius Library.

The grant was established by the Overseers of the Gennadius Library to honor Lloyd E. Cotsen, former Chair of the Overseers and benefactor of the Library.

M. H. WIENER ANNUAL FELLOWSHIP FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE (15 January 2025)

To conduct short-term, focused research at the Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens as part of a program of research that addresses substantive problems pertaining to the ancient Greek world, or adjacent areas, through the application of interdisciplinary methods in the archaeological sciences.

THE WILLIAM SANDERS SCARBOROUGH FELLOWSHIPS (15 January 2025)

This fellowship is intended to honor and remember Professor William Sanders Scarborough and to help foster diversity in the fields of Classical and Hellenic Studies and the Humanities more broadly by supporting students and teachers from underrepresented groups in their study and research at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.


long-Term Fellowships

JACOB HIRSCH FELLOWSHIP (15 January 2025)

Field of Study:  Archaeology

U.S. or Israeli citizens who are either Ph.D. candidates writing their dissertations in archaeology, or early-career scholars (Ph.D. earned within the last five years) completing a project that requires a lengthy residence in Greece. Applicants can propose to use any of the School’s research facilities, as long as their research topic has an archaeological component. Stipend of $11,500 plus room and board in Loring Hall, and waiver of School fees.

KATHRYN AND PETER YATRAKIS FELLOWSHIP (15 January 2025)

The Yatrakis Fellowship supports research on topics that require use of the Gennadius Library. Opened in 1926 with the 26,000-volume collection of diplomat and bibliophile Joannes Gennadius, the Gennadius Library houses today 145,000 titles of rare books and bindings, research materials, manuscripts, archives, and works of art that illuminate Hellenism, Greece, and neighboring civilizations from antiquity to modern times. Rare maps of the Mediterranean, early editions of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and a laurel wreath belonging to Lord Byron are just some of the unique items. Holdings of 90,000 research titles in open stacks complement the rare books and other collections to create a comprehensive resource for the history of Greece through the ages.

M. ALISON FRANTZ FELLOWSHIP IN POST-CLASSICAL STUDIES AT THE GENNADIUS LIBRARY (15 January 2025)

The Gennadius Library offers the M. Alison Frantz Fellowship in Post-Classical Studies, in honor of archaeologist, Byzantinist, and photographer M. Alison Frantz (1903–1995), a scholar of the post-classical Athenian Agora whose photographs of antiquities appear widely in books on Greek culture.

REGULAR MEMBER APPLICANT FELLOWSHIPS (15 January 2025)

Up to twelve fellowships are available for the School’s Regular Members. All awards are made on the recommendation of the Committee on Admissions and Fellowships and are based on the results of the anonymous qualifying examinations and materials submitted with the application. Fellowships provide a stipend of $11,500 plus room and board at Loring Hall on the School grounds and waiver of School fees. Regular Member fellowships are awarded for the entire nine-month program. For more about School fees, visit the School Fees and Expenses page

Wiener Laboratory Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2025-2027 (15 January 2025)

To conduct research at the Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens that addresses substantive problems pertaining to the ancient Greek world and adjacent areas through the application of interdisciplinary methods in the archaeological sciences.  Laboratory facilities are especially well equipped to support the study of human skeletal biology, archaeobiological remains (faunal and botanical), environmental studies, geoarchaeology (particularly studies in human-landscape interactions and the study of site formation processes), and ancient materials studies.

For more Information about a Fellowship or Application, Visit https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/fellowships-and-grants/graduate-and-postdoctoral or contact: application@ascsa.org

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Jan
15
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Applications: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Gennadius Library Medieval Greek Program, Due 15 January 2025

Call for Applications

American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Gennadius Library Medieval Greek Program

Due 15 January 2025

The Gennadius Library offers a Medieval Greek Summer Session focused on the teaching of Medieval Greek. The Medieval Greek Summer Session, which was inaugurated in 2005, is offered every other year.

The Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens announces the summer session focused on the teaching of Medieval Greek. Founded in 1881, the American School is the most significant resource in Greece for American scholars in the fields of ancient and post-classical studies. One of the two major research libraries of the School, the Gennadius Library, which houses over 146,000 volumes and archives, is devoted to post-classical Hellenic civilization. The Library invites applications for a month-long Summer Session for Medieval Greek at the Intermediate to Advanced Level. The objective is to familiarize students who have a sound foundation in Classical Greek with Medieval Greek language and philology by exposing them to primary sources, different kinds of literary genres, paleography and epigraphy, drawing on the resources of the Gennadius Library. The two Professors leading the session are Professor Alexander Alexakis, University of Ioannina, and Professor Stratis Papaioannou, University of Crete.

For more information, click here.

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Jan
6
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Applications: American School of Classical Studies at Athens Summer Session Travel-Study Programs, Due 6 January 2025

Call for Applications

American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Summer Session Travel-Study Programs

Due 6 January 2025

Six-Week Summer Session, June 16 to July 30, 2025

The Summer Session program of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens is a six-week session designed for those who wish to become acquainted with Greece and its major monuments, and to improve their understanding of the country’s landscape, history, material culture, and literature from antiquity to the present. Led by exceptional scholars of Classics and related fields, participants visit many of the major archaeological sites, monuments, and museums throughout Greece. The program has a strong academic component and participants are expected to research and then present topics on-site. Since 1925, the Summer Session has offered participants the unique opportunity to learn from eminent archaeologists and art historians on-site.

The ASCSA Summer Session offers an unparalleled opportunity to experience the ancient sites, monuments, and culture of Greece first-hand, under the guidance of expert professors deeply familiar with the country and up-to-date with the latest research.

For the summer of 2024, the ASCSA presents an intensive Summer Session that lasts six weeks and is limited to twenty participants.  The Summer Session is based at the ASCSA campus in central Athens.  From there the group travels throughout Greece, from the Peloponnesus in the south to Thessaloniki in the north, and even the island of Crete. The itinerary includes not only well-known archaeological sites and museums but also amazing places off the beaten track.

Summer Session participants receive exclusive access to archaeological sites and storerooms inaccessible to others and enjoy presentations on ongoing excavations by preeminent scholars. Presentations and tours by the world's leading specialists offer Summer Session participants insightful, comprehensive overviews of Greek art and archaeology, and illuminate the full range of Greece's rich history– from the Bronze Age to the Classical Greek and Roman eras, through the Byzantine period, and into the twenty-first century.

Participants work together in cooperative learning projects, sharing their knowledge in on-site oral presentations and seminar-style discussions.  Summer Session participants also deepen their understanding of contemporary Greece as they travel through it, converse with its inhabitants, and reflect on the relationship of past and present in this fascinating country.

Graduate students and faculty in Classics or Ancient History whose main focus is not archaeology will find the Summer Session provides them invaluable new perspectives on ancient Greece that they can incorporate in their teaching and research. For graduate students focusing on Greek archaeology, the Summer Session offers an intensive introduction to the major issues and sources of the field. Advanced undergraduates who are considering graduate training in classical studies will find the Summer Session superb preparation for the rigors of graduate school. Teachers will discover new stories and engaging new material to share with their students back home.

For information, visit here.


Summer Seminars

The Summer Seminars of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens are 18-day programs that focus on specific cultural themes, historical periods, or geographical regions. The Seminars are led by exceptional scholars of Classics and related fields. Under their direction, participants study texts, visit archaeological sites and museums, and engage with expert guest speakers in order to deepen their understanding of Greece’s landscape, history, literature, and material culture.

Seminar I: People and Places of Ancient Philosophy (June 9 to June 27, 2025)

The origins and development of ancient philosophy are intertwined with the history, topography, and material culture of democratic Athens in the classical and Hellenistic periods. This seminar will resituate the “ancient philosophers” and their intellectual traditions in the physical world from which they hail: democratic Athens of the classical and Hellenistic periods. Socrates and Plato, Aristotle and Theophrastus, Epicurus and Zeno, Antisthenes and Diogenes (among others) are best considered on site and in context. This seminar will explore these philosophers and their legacy in light of the various settings which shaped their thinking and appear in their works. 

The program will spend approximately half the seminar in Athens. While in Athens, many of its canonical sites will be visited, including the Acropolis and Agora, the Theater of Dionyos and the Kerameikos Cemetery, and the port of Piraeus. Participants will also explore its world-famous archaeological collections, including those of the Acropolis and Agora, the National Archaeological Museum and the Epigraphical Museum. The other half of the time, participants will (like good philosophers!) be in motion, traveling in a counterclockwise circle around the Corinthian Gulf and Peloponnese before ending up back in Athens and the School. Highlights of the road trip include: Elefsina; the Thebes Museum; Delphi (site and museum); ancient Olympia (site and museum); Palace of Nestor; Mystra and Sparti/Sparta; Mycenae; Nafplio; ancient Corinth (site and museum). In time-honored American School tradition, the journey will be punctuated with the occasional swim stop. This course will be taught by Professor Geoff Bakewell (Rhodes College).

Seminar II: Settlers and Traders: Corinth and Its Apoikiai in W. Greece and  S. Albania (July 3 to July 21, 2025)

This 2025 ASCSA Summer Seminar will explore and interrogate the history and topography of the city of Corinth and its “colonies” (apoikiai) in western Greece, including the islands of Leucas and Corcyra, and Apollonia and Epidamnus in Albania. Activities will encourage participants to develop skills of observation and analysis, of both the landscape and our sources. Each participant will present an oral site report on a topic related to the seminar after consultation with the leaders. Participants will be encouraged to investigate and question the traditional narrative of ancient Greek expansion in the Archaic period by considering its presence in the landscape. 

The program will spend part of the initial time in Athens introducing the topic of Greek “colonization,” its historiography, and debate over use of the term. During the seminar, there will be opportunities on site and at museums to discuss these topics as they connect with the specific sites of the day. The seminar is organized in two phases. The first part of the seminar exposes participants to the site and extensive history of Corinth and the Corinthia, with particular focus on the archaeologically recovered remains and material culture. The second and longer phase of the seminar will be an exploration of the accessible Corinthian colonies on the Greek mainland (e.g., Alyzia, Sollion, Anactorion, Actium, Nicopolis, and the islands of Leucas and Corcyra) before the group crosses the border to Albania to visit Apollonia and Epidamnus, among others, in order not just to connect these sites but to also consider why these settlement sites were chosen and their association with their founding city. The program will return to Greece to visit other colonies and important adjacent regional sites including Dodona, Ambracia, Amphilochia, and Delphi before concluding in Athens. The seminar will draw upon a wide array of guest speakers to ensure participants are exposed not only to the sites but to the many people who excavate and study them. It will be taught by Professors Georgia Tsouvala (Illinois State University) and Lee L. Brice (Illinois Wesleyan University).

For more information on both summer programs, visit here.

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Jan
5
9:00 AM09:00

Exhibition Closing: Rising Signs: The Medieval Science of Astrology, Getty Center, Los Angeles, Until 5 January 2025

Exhibition Closing

Rising Signs: The Medieval Science of Astrology

Until 5 January 2025

Museum North Pavillion, Plaza Level, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Details from Miscellany: Descriptions of Planets, Zodiacs, and Comets, shortly after 1464, German. Watercolor and ink on paper. Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig XII 8 (83.MO.137)

Exhibition in the PST ART: Art & Science Collide series.

Medieval Europeans believed that the movements of the sun, moon, stars, and planets directly affected their lives on earth. The position of these celestial bodies had the power to not only influence individual personalities, but also created the seasonal conditions ideal for a variety of tasks from planting crops to bloodletting. Exploring the 12 signs of the zodiac still familiar to us today, this exhibition reveals the mysteries of medieval astrology as it intersected with medicine, divination, and daily life in the Middle Ages.

This exhibition is presented in English and Spanish. Esta exhibición se presenta en inglés y en español.

For more information, click here.

All exhibitions are included in your free, timed-entry reservation to Getty. Reservations are available six weeks in advance. Please note, there is a fee for parking.

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Dec
15
10:00 AM10:00

Exhibition Closing: Healing the Body, Healing the Soul: Methods of Therapy in Medieval Europe, The Walters Art Museum, Until 15 December 2024

Exhibition CLosing

Healing the Body, Healing the Soul: Methods of Therapy in Medieval EuropE

June 20, 2024–December 15, 2024

Centre Street Building, Level 3, Medieval Gallery, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

Saints Cosmas and Damian, Patron Saints of Doctors (detail), Almugavar Hours, Spain, ca. 1500. Bequest of Henry Walters, 1931.

Health, wellness, and healing are universal issues that have preoccupied people since the beginning of human memory. Medieval Europeans held the belief that the body and soul were connected and impossible to separate. Maintaining bodily and spiritual health was considered a constant but necessary challenge, and people of this time period dedicated significant effort and time to finding remedies for bodily and spiritual ailments. Many of these practices are reflected in the art and books of the time.

On view June 20, Healing the Body, Healing the Soul: Methods of Therapy in Medieval Europe explores the intimate link between body and soul as envisioned during the medieval period and demonstrates how works of art contributed to medieval European understandings of wellness and even aided in therapeutic practices.

Divided into three sections which address physical healing, spiritual healing, and the interlinked nature of physical and spiritual health, works in the exhibition examine medical theories, medicine in practice, saints and health, pilgrimage, and spiritual exercise. Featuring 23 works, visitors will see rare books and manuscripts from the Walters library along with medieval objects. To provide a contemporary perspective, the exhibition also includes a photograph by blind artist Pete Eckert from his Bone Light series. According to the artist, who creates light photography of his skeleton, the loss of his sight produced a phantom sense of light coming from his bones which he captures in illuminated portraits. The work speaks to the current lived experiences of people with disabilities and creates a link to understand how disability was understood during the medieval period in the context of body and spirit.

Curators: Orsolya Mednyánszky, Former Zanvyl Krieger Doctoral Fellow; Lynley Anne Herbert, Robert and Nancy Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts; Lauren Maceross, Zanvyl Krieger Doctoral Fellow

This installation is generously funded by Supporters of the Walters Art Museum. To make a contribution toward this exhibition, please consider making a gift today.

For more information, click here.

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Dec
15
12:00 AM00:00

Call for PhD Applications: MSCA Doctoral Network StoryPharm, Due 14:00 CET/ 8:00 ET

Call for PhD Applications

MSCA Doctoral Network StoryPharm: Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond. Training the New Generation of Researchers in Health Humanities

Various Locations

Due 15 December 2024 at 14:00 CET (8:00 ET)

MSCA Doctoral Network StoryPharm: Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond. Training the New Generation of Researchers in Health Humanities. Call for PhD Positions Medieval Art History

We are pleased to announce four three-year Special Scientist PhD Positions in Medieval Art History within the framework of the MSCA doctoral network StoryPharm: Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond. Training the New Generation of Researchers in Health Humanities (European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action – Doctoral Networks – Grant Agreement 101169114, https://www.ucy.ac.cy/storypharm/):

“Images of Christ’s Miraculous Healings between Medical Awareness and Social Inclusion (9th–11th c. CE)” (University of Salerno, Italy)

“The Pictorial Narratives of Herbal Medicine in Dioskorides’ De materia medica” (University of Lund, Sweden)

“Ecologies of Healing: Visual Storytelling in Medieval Medical Manuscripts and Herbals” (University of Bamberg, Germany)

“The Healthy Place: Architecture and Images for Healing Devotional Experiences in Southern Italy in a Mediterranean Context” (University of Salerno, Italy)

StoryPharm focuses on premodern narratives and images involving medicine, health, and healing. These will be studied from a transdisciplinary and comparative perspective, across linguistic and cultural borders.

For detailed information on each PhD position and on the application procedure please consult: https://www.ucy.ac.cy/storypharm/vacancies/

Applications will be accepted from 15/10/2024 until 15/12/2024 at 14:00 CET (8:00 ET).

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Dec
15
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Papers: Readers, Makers, and Medieval Consumer Culture, 19th International Conference of the Early Book Society (NYU, 23–27 June 2025), Due by 15 Dec. 2024

Call for Papers

Readers, Makers, and Medieval Consumer Culture: Manuscripts and Books from 1350–1550

19th International Conference of the Early Book Society, New York University, June 23–27, 2025

Due By 15 December 2024

“Readers, Makers, and Medieval Consumer Culture: Manuscripts and Books from 1350–1550," 19th International Conference of the Early Book Society, New York University, June 23–27, 2025. What were medieval bestsellers? What constituted the book market in the Middle Ages? Papers might consider manuscripts and books as luxury items, the importation of manuscripts and/or books from the Continent, Continental influence on English books, women’s (or men’s) reading circles, multiple copies of manuscripts and books (often an indication of popularity), owners and patrons, or the development and growth of private, monastic, or university libraries. Another subject of interest is representations of manuscripts or books as status symbols in miniatures or paintings. Conference abstracts will be published on the conference website. Some sessions will be Zoomed.

Please send an abstract of 150 words to ebs2025@earlybooksociety.org by December 15, 2024, for consideration. Be sure to include your name, affiliation, and email address on your abstract, along with a brief bio. For more information, contact: ebs2025@earlybooksociety.org See also earlybooksociety.org for updates and announcements.

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Dec
14
12:00 PM12:00

Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group Lecture: Casual trip to see the ‘Medieval Women in Their Own Words’ exhibition at the British Library together, 14 December 2024, 12:00PM

Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group Lecture

Casual trip to see the ‘Medieval Women in Their Own Words’ exhibition at the British Library together

14 December 2024, 12:00PM

Saint Augustine teaching. Paris, Bibl. Mazarine, MS 616, fol. 1r.

The Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group (OMMG) is a collective of eight postgraduate students and early-career researchers who bonded in Oxford over their passion for medieval manuscripts. We host a seminar series through which we hope to gather a community of emerging scholars, from the University of Oxford and beyond, around the study of medieval books and the art of illumination.

Starting in Hilary Term 2024, OMMG seminars will take place twice monthly on Friday afternoons. We will discuss the most exciting recent research; share our own projects and ideas in a supportive environment; learn from lectures and tutorials given by experienced colleagues; and examine medieval manuscripts together during library visits.

By promoting exchange between scholars with diverse specialisms and different levels of experience, OMMG aims to turn the study of medieval books and illuminations into a more collaborative pursuit. We know that working with manuscripts is often a solitary business, where knowledge is acquired over silent and cautious one-on-one meetings with a delicate object. We want to share the wonder we experience before the material, visual and textual complexity of illuminated codices, as well as the interrogations or frustrations we have as we encounter obstacles in our research. The OMMG seminar series will provide manuscript enthusiasts with a stimulating platform for learning practical and analytical skills from peers as well as experts. We would love you to join us!

To subscribe to our mailing list, participate in library visits, propose a presentation of your research for work-in-progress meetings, or submit any queries, please write to: Elena Lichmanova.

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Dec
13
9:45 AM09:45

ICMA in Dallas: Visit to the Bridwell Library and exhibition tour of "Unearthing the Legacy of Islamic Spain"

Visit to the Bridwell Library and exhibition tour of Unearthing the Legacy of Islamic Spain
Friday 13 December 2024, in person
9:45am–3pm CT
Bridwell Library and Meadows Museum

Register HERE

Schedule of events
9:45 AM: Arrival at Bridwell Library  
10:00–11:30 AM: Guided visit led by Arvid Nelsen, Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts and Librarian for Special Collections  
11:45 AM: 5-minute walk to the Meadows Museum  
12:00 PM: Brown bag lunch at the Custard Institute, followed by free time to explore the permanent collection  
2:00 PM: Tour of Unearthing the Legacy of Islamic Spain, led by Cristina Aldrich  
3:00 PM: Explore the museum’s medieval holdings with Cristina Aldrich and/or Amanda Dotseth

Morning Visit: Bridwell Library Begin the day with a guided tour of Bridwell Library’s extraordinary collection of medieval manuscripts and devotional books. The tour will be led by Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Arvid Nelsen. Located on the SMU campus, Bridwell Library is renowned for its resources supporting the study of theology, religion, and history.

Lunch will be provided by the ICMA.

Afternoon Tour: Meadows Museum  The afternoon features a tour of the Meadows Museum’s exhibition Unearthing the Legacy of Islamic Spain, led by Center for Spain in America (CSA) Curatorial Fellow Cristina Aldrich. This exhibition focuses on the 19th- and 20th-century reception of Spain’s Islamic heritage, with paintings, photographs, drawings, and printed materials reflecting diverse perspectives on the country’s long history of Muslim rule—from the arrival of the Umayyads in the eighth century to the expulsion of the last Nasrid sultan in 1492. Anchoring the exhibition is one of the Meadows Museum’s medieval treasures: a 10th-century marble capital from the palace-city of Madinat al-Zahraʾ, near Córdoba. This exquisite architectural fragment serves as a tangible connection to the medieval past, embodying the material that inspired the 19th-century artists and intellectuals whose works are on display. Together, the medieval and modern objects reveal the complex tension between Spain’s medieval history and its modern reinterpretations.

Closing the Day The day concludes with a tour of the museum’s medieval holdings, showcasing the depth and diversity of Spain’s artistic heritage. Highlights include a recently acquired c. 1500 panel painting of St. Bartholomew by Domingo Ram, a 14th-century Catalan liturgical cabinet, two 12th-century frescoes from San Baudelio de Berlanga on long-term loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, late medieval alabasters by Gil de Siloe, and retablos by Martín de Soria. 

Drinks to follow.

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Dec
8
10:00 AM10:00

Exhibition Closing: Lumen: The Art and Science of Light,The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Until 8 December 2024

Exhibition Closing

Lumen: The Art and Science of Light

Until December 8, 2024

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Astronomers on Mount Athos (detail), in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, about 1400–1425, Master of the Mandeville Travels. Tinted ink on parchment. The British Library Collection, Add. 24189, fol. 15. Image © The British Library Board

Featured Exhibition in the PST ART: Art & Science Collide series.

To be human is to crave light. We rise and sleep according to the rhythms of the sun, and have long associated light with divinity. Focusing on the arts of western Europe, Lumen explores the ways in which the science of light was studied by Christian, Jewish, and Muslim philosophers, theologians, and artists during the “long Middle Ages” (800-1600 CE). During this period science (or the study of the physical universe) served as the connective thread for diverse cultures across Europe and the Mediterranean, uniting scholars who inherited, translated, and improved upon a common foundation of ancient Greek scholarship. Several contemporary artworks, including special installations by Helen Pashgian and Charles Ross will extend the exhibition’s reach throughout the Museum.

Supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

This exhibition is presented in English and Spanish. Esta exhibición se presenta en inglés y en español.

All exhibitions are included in your free, timed-entry reservation to Getty. Reservations are available six weeks in advance. Please note, there is a fee for parking.

For more information, please visit the link here.

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Dec
6
1:30 PM13:30

ICMA IN DC: EXHIBITION TOUR OF "AN EPIC OF KINGS: THE GREAT MONGOL SHAHNAMA" - REGISTER TODAY!

ICMA IN WASHINGTON DC
EXHIBITION TOUR OF AN EPIC OF KINGS: THE GREAT MONGOL SHAHNAMA

FRIDAY 6 DECEMBER 2024, IN PERSON
1:30–3PM ET
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART, WASHINGTON, DC

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Iskandar and the talking tree (detail), folio from the Great Mongol Shahnama (Book of kings), Iran, probably Tabriz, Ilkhanid dynasty, ca. 1330, ink, color, and gold on paper, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Collection, Purchase—Charles Lang Freer Endowment, F1935.23

The Great Mongol Shahnama is the most celebrated of all medieval Persian manuscripts. Considered Iran’s national epic, the Shahnama (Book of Kings) was completed by the poet Firdawsi in 1010. The copy known as the Great Mongol Shahnama was produced three hundred years later, commissioned by a ruler of the Ilkhanid dynasty, a branch of the Mongol Empire. Between the manuscript’s covers, art, power, and history intertwined. An Epic of Kings presents twenty-five folios from this now dismantled manuscript alongside contemporaneous works from China, the Mediterranean, and the Latin West, highlighting the cosmopolitan nature of the Ilkhanid empire.

For more information on the exhibition, click HERE.

You are invited to join other ICMA Members and area medievalists for a tour led by exhibition curator Simon Rettig (Associate Curator for the Arts of the Islamic World, National Museum of Asian Art) on Friday 6 December 2024 at 1:30pm. Drinks to follow courtesy of the ICMA.
 
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
1050 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC
Meet on Floor B1 at the bottom of the stairs, in front of the entrance to the exhibition in Galleries 23 and 24.

This gathering is informal:

  • Attendees are responsible for their own travel bookings. Admission to the exhibition site is free.

  • The purpose of this event is to introduce ICMA members and medievalists from the area to one another, to strengthen the social and professional ties in our community, and to celebrate our mutual interest in medieval art, while exploring the exhibition together.

 
Organized by Michelle C. Wang, Georgetown University, and Matthew Westerby, National Gallery of Art.

For questions, please email icma@medievalart.org

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Dec
5
5:00 PM17:00

Medieval Visual Culture Seminar: What Art Does When It’s Doing Nothing: Stillness, Perdurance, and Agency in Medieval Art, Ben Tilghman, At University of Oxford, 5 December 2024, 5:00-6:30PM

Lecture Series

Medieval Visual Culture Seminar, University of Oxford, Michaelmas Term 2024

What Art Does When It’s Doing Nothing: Stillness, Perdurance, and Agency in Medieval Art

Ben Tilghman

5 December 2024, 5:00-6:30PM GMT

Arumugam Building 1.2, St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ

Smithfield Decretals, Toulouse (?), c. 1300; London, c. 1340. London, British Library, Royal 10 E IV, fol. 4v. Image courtesy of Alixe Bovey, https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/2024/09/25/medieval-visual-culture-seminar/

Ben Tilghman is an Associate Professor of Art History, Washington College & Visiting Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh.

Questions? Contact Nancy Thebaut, Associate Professor, History of Art & Fellow, St Catherine’s College

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Dec
4
5:00 PM17:00

Research Seminar: Hands That Heal, Looks That Kill: Towards a Fabulous History of Marian Architecture, Paul Mellon Centre and Online, 4 December 2024 5-7PM

Research Seminar

Hands That Heal, Looks That Kill: Towards a Fabulous History of Marian Architecture

Matthew Reeve

4 December 2024, 5:00 – 7:00 pm

Paul Mellon Centre and Online

Yale University, New Haven, CT

Image caption: The Lady Chapel, Ely Cathedral, Cambridge. Image courtesy of Wikimedia

For tickets, book here.

The Virgin Mary might be said to reign over the arts of later medieval Britain. It is well established that Britain was a fertile centre for Marian devotion during the Middle Ages, with key pilgrimage sites at Glastonbury and Walsingham, and lesser centres across the British Isles. Marian devotion in Britain created new iconographies to celebrate the Virgin such as the Coronation of the Virgin, new categories of manuscript (the Book of Hours) and new architectural typologies in the Lady Chapel.

Focusing on the settings of Marian devotion and their imagery, Matthew describes them as fabulous in two senses: first, they are inspired by fabula or stories, namely the many Marian miracles that frequently informed the making and perception of Marian art and architecture; second, they are fabulous in being – technically speaking – superlatively crafted works of art. The reason for this, Matthew proposes, is found in the very character of the Virgin herself. In her miracles, the Virgin emerges not only as a miraculous fabricator of flawless art and architecture but also as a paradigm of exquisite aesthetic judgment in the later Middle Ages.

Imagined as settings to house the Virgin’s heavenly court, Marian buildings were designed as extensions of the Virgin’s own highly charismatic and overtly glamorous character as the Queen of Heaven.

Professor Matthew M. Reeve FSA FRHistS is a professor of art history at Queen’s University, Canada. He specialises in later medieval art in Northern Europe with a particular focus on Britain, although he also has long-standing interests in the history of architecture in general and the history of sexuality. Working on art in all media, he has published extended accounts of Salisbury and Wells cathedrals, art and architecture in the secular world, the historiography of medieval art and the arts of Marian devotion. He has also explored the afterlife of medieval art and ideas (medievalism) in the oeuvre of Horace Walpole and the Grand Tours of Walpole and his companions, and the heritage of medievalist art and politics in Canadian art and architecture. 

Event format and access

The event starts with a presentation lasting around 40mins, followed by Q&A and a free drinks reception. The event is hosted in our Lecture Room, which is up two flights of stairs (there is no lift). The talk will also be streamed online and recording published on our website.

For more informations, visit here.

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Dec
4
5:00 PM17:00

Murray Seminar: The Market for Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts c. 1890-1929 and its Consequences, Laura Cleaver, At Birbeck, University of London, 4 Dec. 2024, 17:00-18:30

Murray Seminar

The Market for Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts c. 1890-1929 and its Consequences

Laura Cleaver

4 December 2024, 17:00-18:30

Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square, Birbeck, University of London

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In 1904 Charles Dyson Perrins, whose fortune derived from the Lea & Perrins business that made Worcestershire sauce, bought an illuminated medieval psalter for £5,250. This was an enormous sum at the time (roughly equivalent to £500,000 today) and one of the highest prices paid for a manuscript to that date. The price was justified by the aesthetic qualities of the manuscript and the circumstances of the sale: the book was new to the market, having been in a family collection since the sixteenth century. Another factor may have been the book's English origin. Sydney Cockerell persuaded Perrins both to buy the book and to employ him to write about it. In 1908 Cockerell included the manuscript in his landmark exhibition of illuminated manuscripts held at the Burlington Fine Arts Club. The exhibition was not limited to English manuscripts, but made a 'special effort' to showcase English art. This paper will explore how rising prices for some manuscripts in the early twentieth century were intertwined with ideas about books as objects of national heritage, and the impact of this on the development of both scholarship and collections in Britain, Europe and America.

Contact name: Allison Deutsch

Speaker: Laura Cleaver is Professor of Manuscript Studies at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. From 2019-2024 she was Principal Investigator of the Cultivate MSS project, funded by the European Research Council, which examined the trade in medieval manuscripts in the first half of the twentieth century. She is currently completing a monograph on the manuscript trade in Britain in the early twentieth century and its impact on the development of collections and scholarship.

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Dec
1
12:00 AM00:00

Call for Applications: Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies, Mount Holyoke College, Due By 1 December 2024

Call for Applications

Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies

Late Antique and Medieval Mediterranean World

Department of Art History and Architectural Studies

Mount Holyoke College

Due By 1 December 2024  

The Mount Holyoke College Department of Art History and Architectural Studies invites applications for an art or architectural historian of the late antique and medieval Mediterranean world for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin July 1, 2025. We are especially interested in candidates whose research and teaching are concerned with aspects of globalism and cultural connections. The teaching load is four courses per year, comprising a general survey, upper-level courses, and advanced seminars in the candidate's area of expertise.

In addition to an active and exciting research program, applicants should have a record of strong teaching at the undergraduate level and experience mentoring students who are broadly diverse. Our department is deeply committed to diversifying our curriculum as well as our faculty. Ph.D. or ABD in art or architectural history is required. Please submit a cover letter, CV, and three statements concerning 1) teaching philosophy, (2) research interests, and (3) mentoring. Please also include a writing sample and upload this additional document in the Please upload other documents in support of your application section of the application. Reference letters will be requested at a later date in the process.

Applicants are requested to apply online by December 1, 2024 at the following site:

https://mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/details/Assistant-Professor-of-Art-History-and-Architectural-Studies_R-0000001388

 For more information, please contact Anthony Lee.

For a copy of this advertizement, click here.

Mount Holyoke is an undergraduate liberal arts college with 2,200 students and 220 faculty. Over half the faculty are women; one-fourth are persons of color. Mount Holyoke College is located about 90 miles west of Boston in the Connecticut River valley, and is a member of the Five College Consortium consisting of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts.

Background Checks:

Mount Holyoke College is committed to providing a safe and secure environment, supported by qualified employees that will allow all of its students, faculty, staff and those associated with them to successfully carry out the mission of the college. As a condition of employment, the College will conduct appropriate background checks for all new hires. Mount Holyoke has designated the Office of Human Resources as the office responsible for ensuring that background checks (CORI, SORI, Credit History, & Driver Credential) are completed and utilized in the hiring process and Five College Office of Compliance and Risk Management as the office responsible for facilitating background checks as articulated in this policy.

 

Special Instructions for Applicants: 

Apply online; application materials must include:

  • A cover letter summarizing interests and qualifications

  • A complete resume or curriculum vitae

  • For faculty positions, statements on mentoring, teaching, and research will also be required.

Mount Holyoke College is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)

Mount Holyoke College, the leading gender-diverse women’s college, is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities for all individuals regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other legally protected status. We are a diverse community of staff, faculty, and students, united in our mission to offer an intellectually adventurous education in the liberal arts through academic programs that are renowned internationally for their cross-disciplinary excellence, experiential approach, and commitment to diversity.

Mount Holyoke College is a welcoming and inclusive environment that values and respects individuals of all backgrounds. As an EOE, we encourage members of historically underrepresented groups or nontraditional backgrounds to apply for open positions at our institution. The College has a long-standing tradition of providing women and other historically underrepresented groups with access to an innovative educational experience that prepares students for purposeful leadership by integrating hands-on opportunities into the curriculum. We firmly believe that diversity enriches our community and enhances our ability to prepare students for success in an increasingly globalized world. 

We are dedicated to providing equal opportunities for all qualified applicants and to building an exemplary workforce that reflects the diversity of our student body and the communities we serve. Our ultimate goal is to produce graduates who are capable of engaging thoughtfully, effectively, and boldly with the world.

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Dec
1
12:00 AM00:00

Call For Papers: Medieval Communities, 18th Annual Conference, IMS-PARIS (3-5 July 2025), Abstracts Due 1 Dec. 2024

Call For Papers

INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL SOCIETY (IMS-Paris) - 18th Annual Conference

Medieval Communities

July 3-5, 2025

Deadline for Abstracts: December 1, 2024

Keynote Addresses :

Sharon Farmer, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Cécile Voyer, Centre d’Etudes supérieures de civilisation médiévale, l’Université de Poitiers

BnF, MS Français 12559, f. 167r

How did people in the Middle Ages define, create, and maintain a sense of community? The International Medieval Society, Paris (IMS-Paris) invites abstracts and session proposals for our 2025 symposium on the theme of Communities in Medieval France.

The word “community” may be defined as a group of people with shared characteristics, emotional values, or interests who perceive themselves as distinct from others. From communes, monasteries and confraternities to soldiers, lepers, and the blind, medieval people formed close emotional ties and created rituals and other practices that constituted community. This symposium invites new lines of investigation that will deepen our knowledge of the medieval sense of community, broadly defined.

Proposals should focus on France during the Middle Ages, but do not need to be exclusively limited to this period and geographical area. We encourage proposals and papers from all fields of medieval studies, such as anthropology, archeology, history, economic and social history, art history, gender studies, literary studies, musicology, philosophy, etc. Proposals of 300 words (in English or French) for a 20-minute paper should be e-mailed to imsparissymposium@gmail.com no later than December 1, 2024. Abstracts should be accompanied by full contact information and a short bio.

For more information, please click here.

The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (French/English) organization that fosters exchanges between French and foreign scholars. For more than a decade, the IMS has served as a center for medievalists who travel to France to conduct research, work, or study.


APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS

Société internationale des médiévistes de Paris - 18e colloque annuel

Communautés médiévales

July 3-5, 2025

Conférences plénières:

"Jehanne la Fouaciere: Parisian widow, linen merchant -- and Beguine?“ Sharon Farmer, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

"Les chanoines de Saint-Hilaire de Poitiers et leur saint patron au XIe siècle: une mise en images dans l'espace ecclésial de la communauté autour du fondateur de l'Église locale, Cécile Voyer, Centre d’Etudes supérieures de civilisation médiévale, l’Université de Poitiers

Comment les gens au Moyen Âge définissaient-ils, créaient-ils et maintenaient- ils les communautés dont ils faisaient partie ? La Société Internationale des Médiévistes, Paris (IMS-Paris) appelle à recevoir des propositions de communication ou de session dans le cadre de son colloque de 2025 sur le thème des communautés dans la France médiévale.

Le terme de « communauté » peut être compris au sens large : tout groupement de personnes partageant des caractéristiques, des valeurs affectives ou des intérêts particuliers, et se percevant comme distinct des autres. Qu’il s'agisse de communes, de monastères, de confréries, ou de rassemblements de guerriers, de lépreux ou d’aveugles, les femmes et hommes du Moyen Âge ont su tisser des liens affectifs étroits et créer de multiples rituels et autres pratiques communautaires. Nous espérons avec cette conférence mettre en valeur de nouvelles pistes de recherche pour mieux comprendre la conception médiévale de la communauté au Moyen Age.

Les propositions doivent porter sur la France pendant le Moyen Age, mais peuvent ne pas se limiter exclusivement à cette période ni à cette zone géographique. Nous encourageons les propositions de communication dans tous les domaines des études médiévales, y compris en anthropologie, archéologie, histoire, histoire économique et sociale, histoire de l’art, études de genre, études littéraires, musicologie et philosophie.

Les propositions de 300 mots (en anglais ou en français) pour une communication de 20 minutes doivent être envoyées par courriel (email) à imsparissymposium@gmail.com au plus tard le 1er décembre 2024. Chaque proposition doit être accompagnée des coordonnées complètes des personnes qui présenteront, leur CV et leur liste du matériel audiovisuel nécessaire.

For more information, please click here.

IMS-Paris est un organisme interdisciplinaire et bilingue (français/anglais) dont l’objectif est de favoriser les échanges entre médiévistes français et étrangers. Pour déjà plus d’une décennie, l’IMS aide les médiévistes venant en France pour le travail, les études ou la recherche.

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Nov
29
5:00 PM17:00

Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group Lecture: Medieval Women in Their Own Words: Curating the British Library Exhibition, Eleanor Jackson, At University of Oxford, 29 November 2024, 5:00PM

Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group Lecture

Medieval Women in Their Own Words: Curating the British Library Exhibition

Eleanor Jackson | British Library 

29 November 2024, 5pm

Mure Room, Merton College, University of Oxford

Saint Augustine teaching. Paris, Bibl. Mazarine, MS 616, fol. 1r.

The Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group (OMMG) is a collective of eight postgraduate students and early-career researchers who bonded in Oxford over their passion for medieval manuscripts. We host a seminar series through which we hope to gather a community of emerging scholars, from the University of Oxford and beyond, around the study of medieval books and the art of illumination.

Starting in Hilary Term 2024, OMMG seminars will take place twice monthly on Friday afternoons. We will discuss the most exciting recent research; share our own projects and ideas in a supportive environment; learn from lectures and tutorials given by experienced colleagues; and examine medieval manuscripts together during library visits.

By promoting exchange between scholars with diverse specialisms and different levels of experience, OMMG aims to turn the study of medieval books and illuminations into a more collaborative pursuit. We know that working with manuscripts is often a solitary business, where knowledge is acquired over silent and cautious one-on-one meetings with a delicate object. We want to share the wonder we experience before the material, visual and textual complexity of illuminated codices, as well as the interrogations or frustrations we have as we encounter obstacles in our research. The OMMG seminar series will provide manuscript enthusiasts with a stimulating platform for learning practical and analytical skills from peers as well as experts. We would love you to join us!

To subscribe to our mailing list, participate in library visits, propose a presentation of your research for work-in-progress meetings, or submit any queries, please write to: Elena Lichmanova.

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Nov
23
5:30 PM17:30

THE COURTAULD MEDIEVAL WORK-IN-PROGRESS SEMINARS: “MATERIAL ILLUSIONISM”: ON THE OEUVRE OF HANS PLOCK,  COURT EMBROIDER TO CARDINAL ALBRECHT OF BRANDENBURG, EVELIN WETTER, 5:30-7:00PM

The Courtauld Medieval Work-in-Progress Seminars

Autumn Semester 2024

“Material Illusionism”: On the oeuvre of Hans Plock,  court embroider to Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg

Evelin Wetter (Abegg-Stiftung)

ourtauld’s Vernon Square Campus, London

20 November 2024, 5:30-7:00PM

Seminars are free and open to all. They are held in the Research Forum of The Courtauld Institute of Art’s Vernon Square campus,  starting at 5.30pm on Wednesdays.

Spring talks will be advertised in the Autumn. Booking opens at the end of September, and more information will be provided here: https://courtauld.ac.uk/research/whats on-research-forum-events/ 

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Nov
15
12:00 PM12:00

East of Byzantium Online Lecture: Re-Imagining Jerusalem: The Ritual Recreation of Pilgrimage between Syria and Georgia, Emma Loosley Leeming, 15 November 2024, 12:00PM EST

East of Byzantium Online Lecture

Re-Imagining Jerusalem: The Ritual Recreation of Pilgrimage between Syria and Georgia

Emma Loosley Leeming, University of Exeter

Friday, November 15, 2024 | 12:00 PM (EST, UTC -5) | Zoom

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University are pleased to announce the next lecture in the 2024–2025 East of Byzantium lecture series.

Pilgrimages to the Holy Land are a well-documented phenomenon of Late Antique Christian belief and we are accustomed to reading about the experience of walking in the footsteps of Christ through the testimony of early witnesses such as Egeria. After the Islamic conquests and the loss of Jerusalem to the Arabs, there were periods when it became more difficult to undertake such travels and by the Middle Ages the concept of pilgrimage was re-framed so that it could also mean an interior journey undertaken by a meditative process such as the navigation of the labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral.

However, across the Middle East and Caucasus, liturgical texts and rare poorly-understood survivals of early liturgical furniture suggest a range of processes for re-imagining Jerusalem both within churches or by imprinting the loca sancta upon a wider regional landscape. This lecture will introduce some of the ways that believers recreated the rituals of Jerusalem pilgrimage without leaving their hometowns and villages. It will introduce examples from Syria and Georgia in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and encourage future research in this widely under-studied area of ritual practice.

Emma Loosley Leeming studied at the University of York, the Courtauld Institute of Art and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, where she specialised in the art, architecture and liturgy of Late Antique Syria. She then spent several years living and working at the Monastery of St. Moses the Abyssinian (Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi) in Nebek, Syria, during which time she founded and directed the Dayr Mar Elian Archaeological Project in nearby Qaryatayn. From 2004–2013 she was lecturer in Middle Eastern Art and Architecture at the University of Manchester, before moving to the University of Exeter (2013–) where since 2019 she has been Professor of Middle Eastern and Caucasian Christianities. From 2012–2017 she held a European Research Council grant that enabled her to explore the relationship between Syria and Georgia in Late Antiquity and is currently working on a book with a Georgian colleague examining the origins and development of Georgian ‘three-church’ basilicas.

Advance registration required. Register: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/

Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.

An East of Byzantium lecture. EAST OF BYZANTIUM is a partnership between the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University and the Mary Jaharis Center that explores the cultures of the eastern frontier of the Byzantine empire in the late antique and medieval periods.

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