ICMA AT THE COURTAULD LECTURE

Since 1999, the International Center of Medieval Art, New York and The Courtauld Institute of Art, London have teamed up to present an annual lecture at The Courtauld. Delivered by a North American-based scholar, this lecture series aims to strengthen transatlantic contacts among medievalists from the university and museum worlds.

https://courtauld.ac.uk/research/sections/medieval-byzantine/projects/imca-courtauld

The ICMA at the Courtauld Lecture series is sponsored by William M. Voelkle.

PAST ICMA AT THE COURTAULD LECTURES

2024
Nina Rowe (Professor of Medieval Art History, Fordham University), tannczen, helsen, kussen, vnd rawmen: Of Dancing and Dalliance in the Late Middle Ages
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2022
Stephen G. Perkinson (Professor of Art History and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Bowdoin College), Memento mori Imagery and the Limits of the Self in Late Medieval Europe
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2019/20
Kathryn A. Smith (Professor, New York University), Scripture Transformed in Late Medieval England: The Religious, Artistic, and Social Worlds of the Welles-Ros Bible (Paris, BNF Fr. 1).
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2018/19
Elizabeth Morrison (Senior Curator of Manuscripts, J. Paul Getty Museum), A Beast of a Project: Curating an Exhibition on Bestiaries at the Getty.
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2017/18
Nancy Patterson Ševčenko (Visiting Scholar, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC), All in the Family: The Byzantine Imperial Family of the Comnenians as Patrons in the First Half of the 12th Century.
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2016/2017
Adam S. Cohen (Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art, University of Toronto), Local and Global: Medieval Art in an Age of New Nationalisms.
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2015/2016
Lawrence Nees (Professor of Medieval Art & Department Chair, Department of Art History, University of Delaware), Reading and Seeing: The Beginnings of Book Illumination and the Modern Discourse on Ethnicity.
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2014/2015
Holger A Klein (Professor of Art History and Archaeology & Department Chair, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University), Art, Faith, and Politics in Late Medieval Venice. 
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2013/2014
Robert Nelson (Robert Lehman Professor, Department of the History of Art, Yale University), Patriarchal Lectionaries of Constantinople.
 
2012/2013
Helen C. Evans (Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Art, The Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art), “Sailing to Byzantium”: Understanding a Lost Empire.
 
2011/2012
Henry Maguire (Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University), Meadows of Delight: Metaphor and Denial in Byzantine and Western Mediaeval Art.

2010/2011
Lucy Freeman Sandler (Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History Emerita, New York University.), The Bohuns and their Books: Illuminated Manuscripts for Aristocrats in Fourteenth-Century England.

2009/2010
Barbara Drake Boehm (Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), The Count of Clermont and the Case of Conques: Unravelling Some Mysteries of Medieval Enamelling.

2008/2009
Madeline Caviness (Mary Richardson Professor Emeritus, Tufts University), The Sachsenspiegel Law Books: Working To Put Women and Jews “In Their Place.”

2007/2008
Ilene H. Forsyth (Professor Emerita, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Moissac: The Sacred and the Secular in the Sculpture of the South Portal.

2006/2007
Anne D. Hedeman (Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Visual Translation in Fifteenth-century France: Laurent de Premierfait and Boccaccio.

2005/2006
Annemarie Weyl Carr (Professor, Southern Methodist University), Cyprus and Jerusalem’s Long Shadow: Building Holy Sepulchres in the Holy Isle.

2004/2005,
Dorothy Glass (Richard Krautheimer Guest Professor, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome), Fabrication and Self-Representation: The Benedictine Abbey at Nonantola in ca. 1100.

2003/2004
Elizabeth Sears (Professor, University of Michigan), ‘False Work’: Craft Ethics and the Critical Eye in Medieval Paris.

2001/2002
Paula Gerson (Professor, Florida State University), Reconsidering Abbot Suger’s Great Cross.

2000/2001
Dale Kinney (Professor, Bryn Mawr), The Horse and the Cuckoo: Narrating Marcus Aurelius.

1999/2000
Dr. Charles Little (Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art), Kingship and Justice: Reflections on some rediscovered sculptures from the circle of Frederick II Hohenstaufen.