CALL FOR PAPERS

Andrew Ladis Memorial Trecento Conference (January 7–9, 2021)
Frist Art Museum and Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Deadline: April 6, 2020

The Andrew Ladis Memorial Trecento Conference is held biennially in honor of the art historian Andrew Ladis (1949–2007), an authority on Taddeo Gaddi and Giotto and an inspiring teacher. The conference—the only gathering of its kind—emphasizes trecento Italian art as a fruitful area of research and offers participants the opportunity to exchange ideas formally and informally in a collegial environment. The next conference will be held January 7–9, 2021, at the Frist Art Museum and Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Dr. Susan L’Engle, professor emerita and former assistant director of the Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University, will be the keynote speaker. Approximately twenty-four other scholars will be selected to present papers, which will be published by Brepols. There will be an opening reception on January 7, 2021, and meals for all attendees on January 8 and 9. Guided visits will be offered of the exhibition Medieval Bologna: Art for a University at the Frist and of the Samuel H. Kress Study Collection at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery.

Scholars of all career stages are invited to submit proposals for twenty-minute papers on any aspect of Italian art of the “long fourteenth century” (from about 1250 to 1450). MA students must provide a letter of support from a professor with whom they have taken a graduate-level course.

Please submit an abstract (maximum 500 words) and curriculum vitae by April 6, 2020. Combine the documents in that order into a single Word file or PDF with Lastname_Firstname as the filename and send it to LadisTrecentoConference@gmail.com. The planning committee will review all proposals and respond by June 1, 2020.

Conference registration will open on June 15, 2020. There will be no conference fees, but participants must secure their own transportation and lodging. Discounted rates will be available at nearby hotels.

A $1,000 scholarship will be offered to one participating Italian scholar traveling from Italy.

http://FristArtMuseum.org/LadisTrecentoConference

Royal Nunneries at the Center of Medieval Europe: Art, Architecture and Aesthetics (11th–14th centuries) due 29 February 2020

This conference is dedicated to the art, architecture and material culture of female monasteries patronized by the ruling dynasties in medieval Europe between the 11th and the 14th centuries. This subset has been studied mostly within national academic schools resulting in separate parallel narratives of phenomena which in most cases were, in fact, related on a trans-regional scale thanks to dynastic and diplomatic connections, and also to female networks based on ties of faith and blood. The ambition of the meeting is to gather scholars interested in both testing and transcending these historiographic borders and in challenging the interpretative scheme of a top-down oriented feudal structure in favour of a network perspective. The final aim is to detect and discuss artistic, architectural, and aesthetic discourses acting on a synchronic and diachronic scale across late medieval Europe.

The conference will take place in Prague’s Na Františku double convent founded by the Přemyslid princess St. Agnes with her brother, king Wenceslas I—the location itself an exemplary case study for on-site analysis and discussion. The intention is to start from the Bohemian and Moravian nunneries connected to the Přemyslid royal family and to extend out from Central Europe to a series of other European case studies.

We welcome papers from art and architectural historians, as well as from scholars in adjacent fields, focusing on a case study, a region, or royal/courtly entourage, and posing theoretical and methodological questions which could offer a bridge for comparative discussions. Case studies that do not directly deal but can be fruitfully compared with royal female monasteries are also encouraged.

Key topics might include, but are not limited to:
• issues of gender related to patronage and life in the royal nunnery;
• the political and dynastic values of female foundations and their reflections in art;
• the design, decoration, and furnishing of spaces, between clausura and public areas;
• the construction of models of female memoria and feminine holiness;
• visual material and spiritual visualization in the royal nunnery between aesthetics, theology, and politics;
• royal nunneries as stage of self-representation, inside and outside the royal entourage;
• genealogies and memory within the nunnery;
• religious orders and royal foundations: special rules, transgressions, reforms;
• beyond clausura: patterns and networks of people, objects, relics, iconographies;
• national historiographies: trends, conflating and converging views

Submissions for 20-minute presentations in English, including an abstract of max. 300 words and a short CV (max. 1 page), can be sent to scirocco@biblhertz.it and benesovska@udu.cas.cz by 29 February 2020.

The organizing institutions will provide accommodation for speakers and offer a contribution for travel expenses.

http://www.biblhertz.it/en/career/jobboard/cfp-royal-nunneries?c=2376430

Call for Applications: Mary Jaharis Center Grants 2020–2021
due February 1, 2020

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce its 2020–2021 grant competition, including a new grant for archaeological projects. Our grants reflect the Mary Jaharis Center’s commitment to fostering the field of Byzantine studies through the support of graduate students and early career researchers and faculty.

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, 2020. For further information, please see https://maryjahariscenter.org/grants.

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

http://maryjahariscenter.org/grants

CFP: Graduate Association of Medieval Studies at UW-Madison's 7th Annual Medieval Studies Colloquium

due January 31, 2020

The Graduate Association of Medieval Studies is pleased to announce that our Seventh Annual Medieval Studies Colloquium will be held in Spring 2020. The two days of the Colloquium will include structured panels of presentations as well as two public lectures and two lunch workshops hosted by our keynote speakers: Dr. Nicole Guenther Discenza (English, University of South Florida) and Dr. Karlyn Griffith (Art History, Cal Poly Pomona).

7th Annual Medieval Studies Colloquium
Transcending Boundaries: Changes in Medieval Time and Space
April 3–4, 2020 | University of Wisconsin-Madison

A reception will conclude the Colloquium on Saturday afternoon, where attendees will be encouraged to ask follow-up questions and continue conversations with the presenters and keynote speakers that are more in-depth than time allows for during Q&A.

The UW-Madison GAMS Colloquium offers an opportunity for graduate students in multiple disciplines to present their research in the various fields of medieval studies, share and receive feedback, and participate in discussions on topics of interest with peers from a wider, interdisciplinary community of medieval studies scholars. This is the third year that GAMS invites abstracts from graduate students from other schools and the first year to invite undergraduate papers on topics relating to the Middle Ages, including topics related to Late Antiquity and the early Renaissance. Graduate papers will be 20 minutes, undergraduates 10–15 minutes, and all papers should be delivered in English. Each panel will be followed by 30 minutes for discussion.

This year’s theme is Transcending Boundaries: Changes in Medieval Time and Space and we invite papers that examine ideas of boundaries (broadly defined). This can include papers dealing with time and space, physical and imaginary boundaries, creating and performing borders, and/or a lack of borders. All abstracts on any topic of medieval interest will be seriously considered.

Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to gams@rso.wisc.edu by January 31, 2020 for consideration.

https://www.facebook.com/events/547183752520817/

Oxford Summer School in Greek Palaeography, applications due 15 January 2020

Fourteenth International Conference of Iconographic Studies, CFP due 15 January 2020

CFP: Eighth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Call for Papers da Revista Medievalista do Instituto de Estudos Medievais da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da NOVA

Call for applications

The Age of Van Eyck in Context

21 June - 1 July 2020

Deadline for applications:

15 December 2019, 5 p.m. (CET)

www.summercourse.eu

Annually, the Summer Course for the Study of the Arts in Flanders brings a select group of 18 highly qualified young researchers to Flanders. They are offered an intensive 11-day programme of lectures, discussions and visits related to a specific art historical period of Flemish art.

The Summer Course provides the participants with a clear insight into the Flemish art collections from the period at hand, as well as into the current state of research on the topic. The sixth edition of the Summer Course will focus on ‘The Age of Van Eyck in Context’. Excursions will be made to Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels, Leuven, Kallo, Hoogstraten, Lille, Mons and Tournai. The language of the Summer Course is English.

Click here for schedule.

Call For Proposals, due 17 Nov 2019: Gateways to Medieval Naples; Field Seminar, 8-10 June 2020, Naples, Italy

Registration Open: Art, Power, and Resistance in the Middle Ages at Index of Medieval Art, Princeton

Travel Awards for art historical papers at the 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo)

Fellowship Announcement: ASCSA Fellowships for Study at the Gennadius Library

Due 21 Oct 2019: CFP, Thomas Becket: Life, Death, & Legacy; An international conference at Canterbury Cathedral; 11–14 November 2020

CFP Art and Absence, Northwestern Department of Art History Myers Graduate Symposium Due October 15th, 2019