DUE TUESDAY! GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS
due 1 March 2016
DUE TUESDAY! GRADUATE STUDENT ESSAY AWARDS
due 1 March 2016
SPRING NEWSLETTER
CALL FOR INFORMATION
due 16 March 2016
FORSYTH AND STAHL LECTURES
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Forysth Lecture - US Greater Midwest Region
Stahl Lecture - US Greater Southwest Region
due 25 March 2016
ASSOCIATION OF ART HISTORIANS ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 2017
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Loughborough, United Kingdom; 6-8 April 2017
due 2 April 2016
NEW! INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES 2017
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Kalamazoo, MI; 11-14 May 2017
due 24 April 2016
NEW! FORUM KUNST DES MITTELALTERS / FORUM MEDIEVAL ART 2017
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Berlin, Germany; 20-23 September 2017
due 1 May 2016
A NOTE ABOUT KRESS TRAVEL AWARDS FOR CONFERENCE TRAVEL
GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS
The ICMA has initiated a new form of grant for graduate students in the early stages of their dissertation research. Three grants will be awarded this year, at $3,000 each, to enable a student to travel to Europe (including the Eastern Mediterranean) to visit the monuments or museum objects or manuscripts on which the dissertation will be based. The grant is designed to cover one month of travel. The ICMA will contact institutions and/or individuals in the area to be visited; these will help the student gain access to the relevant material and aid in other practical matters.
The grant is designed primarily for the student who has finished the preliminary exams, and is in the process of formulating a dissertation topic. Students who have already submitted a proposal, but are still very early on in the process of their research, may also apply.
All applicants must be ICMA members. (click here to join/renew)
Applicants must submit:
1. Outline of the thesis proposal in 800 words or less.
2. Detailed outline of exactly what the student would like to see on his/her travels, and how this relates to the proposed thesis topic.
3. Proposed budget (airfare, lodging, other travel, per diem).
4. Letter from the thesis advisor, clarifying where the student stands in his/her graduate career, and explaining the relevance of the trip to the thesis.
Upon return, the student will be required to submit a letter and financial report to the ICMA and a narrative to the student section of the newsletter.
Applications are due by 1 March 2016. The ICMA will announce the winners of the three grants by 13 May 2016.
Please submit materials as PDF attachments to Ryan Frisinger at awards@medievalart.org with "Student Travel Grant" in the subject line.
GRADUATE STUDENT ESSAY AWARDS
The International Center of Medieval Art wishes to announce its annual Graduate Student Essay Award for the best essay by a student member of the ICMA. The theme or subject of the essay may be any aspect of medieval art, and can be drawn from current research. The work must be original and should not have been published elsewhere. The winner will receive a prize of $400.
Thanks to the generosity of one of our members, we are now be able to offer a second prize as well, of $200. The donor of this prize has suggested that “special consideration be given to those papers that incorporate some discussion of the interconnections among medieval science, technology, and art.” Although the prize will by no means be restricted to papers that address this theme, papers that do so will be given special attention by the selection committee.
The deadline for submission is 1 March 2016. The winners will be announced at the ICMA meeting in Kalamazoo in May.
Applicants must submit:
1. An article-length paper (maximum 30 pages, not including footnotes) following the editorial guidelines of our journal Gesta.
2. Each submission must also include a 250-word abstract written in English regardless of the language of the rest of the paper.
3. A curriculum vitae
Students must be current members of the ICMA for their essays to be considered.
All submissions are to be sent as PDF attachments to Ryan Frisinger at awards@medievalart.org with "Student Essay Award" in the subject line..
The winning essay will be chosen by members of the ICMA Grants and Awards Committee, which is chaired by our Vice-President.
SPRING 2016 NEWSLETTER
CALL FOR INFORMATION
Please send information to newsletter@medievalart.org.
Have you recently published a book? Have you received a national or international award? Do you have any other news about our colleagues in the medieval art world? We want to hear about it!
Please send us a notice to the email above. We can only accept notices not previously announced in our newsletter and books or awards published/awarded within the last year.
Only members can submit information.
2016 FORSYTH AND STAHL LECTURES
Invite a star to your campus!
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for Stahl and Forsyth Lectures to be held under the sponsorship of the organization in 2016-2017. As a reminder, Stahl Lectures are to be held in what might be termed the greater southwest, while Forsyth lectures, as a rule, take place in the institutions located east of the Mississippi River, especially in what might be termed the greater Midwest.
Please suggest the name(s) of appropriate speakers and indicate your willingness to host the event at your institution. Joint proposals are welcome, as lecturers are expected to speak at more than one institution. The hosts assume the responsibility for organizing and advertising the event, ideally working in conjunction with colleagues at other institutions: for reserving a suitable venue; for organizing a reception if desired; for publishing the details in advance on the ICMA website and Newsletter; and for reporting on the event after it is over.
Travel costs and the honorarium will be covered by the ICMA. Travel plans for the speaker will be handled by Ryan Frisinger, the ICMA Operations Administrator.
Please direct all nominations and inquiries, accompanied by your CV and the CV of the proposed speaker, to the Chair of the Programs Committee: Janis Elliott, School of Art, Texas Tech University; email: janis.elliott@ttu.edu. The deadline for the nominations is March 25 for lectures to be planned for the late fall of 2016 or the spring of 2017.
ICMA AT ASSOCIATION OF ART HISTORIANS ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 2017
Loughborough, 6-8 April 2017
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2017 at the Association of Art Historians annual meeting to be held 6-8 April 2017 at Loughborough University near Nottingham, England. Proposals to the ICMA must include a session abstract and a CV of the organizer(s).
Please note the following:
- The AAH does not require a slate of speakers; the AAH will generate a CFP once sessions have been selected. Therefore the ICMA will not request a slate of speakers.
- The ICMA requires the CVs of the session organizers, but the AAH does not.
- Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members but are not required to become AAH members. However, AAH members receive a preferential conference rate.
- Sessions at the AAH conference are built of 70-minute blocks, with a minimum of two blocks per session, up to four blocks in a day. Each block consists of two papers of 25 minutes plus 10 minutes of questions for each paper. The ICMA seeks to sponsor one session of two 70-minute blocks (four papers).
Please direct all session proposals and inquiries by 2 April 2016 to the Chair of the Programs Committee: Janis Elliott, School of Art, Texas Tech University. Email:janis.elliott@ttu.edu
The ICMA Programs and Lectures committee will select a session to sponsor and will notify the successful organizer(s) by 12 April 2016. The organizer(s) will then submit the ICMA-sponsored proposal to the AAH, which will make the final decision. Submit session proposals to the AAH by 18 April 2016 at AAH2017@lboro.ac.uk following the guidelines posted on the AAH website: http://www.aah.org.uk/annual-conference/2017-conference
ICMA AT INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES 2017
Kalamazoo, 11-14 May 2017
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2017 at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) at Kalamazoo. Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members. Proposals must include a session abstract and a CV of the organizer(s), all in one single Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title.
No list of speakers need be attached at this time. Organizers will have the opportunity to send out a call for papers after the session selected by ICMA has been approved by the Congress Committee in July.
Please direct all session proposals and inquiries by 24 April 2016 to the Chair of the Programs Committee: Janis Elliott, Texas Tech University. Email:janis.elliott@ttu.edu .
ICMA AT FORUM KUNST DES MITTELALTERS / FORUM MEDIEVAL ART 2017
Berlin, 20-23 September 2017
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2017 at the 4th Forum Medieval Art, which will take place in Berlin. Intended as an open colloquium occurring biannually at rotating sites and organized by the Deutsche Verein für Kunstwissenschaft e.V, the Forum seeks to bring together research and researchers on different fields, regions and periods and to serve—as its name suggests—as a forum for ideas pertaining to the study of medieval art.
Proposals for ICMA sponsorship should consist of a title, an abstract, a CV of the organizer, as well as the names of 3 or 4 speakers. Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members.
Please direct all session proposals and inquiries by 1 May 2016 to the Chair of the Programs Committee: Janis Elliott, School of Art, Texas Tech University. Email:janis.elliott@ttu.edu
The 4th Forum Medieval Art 2017, entitled 360° – Places, Boundaries, Global Perspectives will focus on research at the geographical and methodological boundaries of classical medieval studies. The various venues in Berlin and Brandenburg are the starting point, where, on the one hand, local medieval topics will be discussed, and on the other hand, the rich collections of Byzantine and Middle Eastern art are available. Accordingly, the conference will highlight the interaction of Central European medieval art and artistic production with other regions ranging from Eastern Europe, Byzantium, the Middle East, the Caucasus and the Mediterranean to the British Isles and the Baltic region. Thus research areas such as Byzantine Studies or Islamic Art History will be brought into the focus and consciousness of medieval studies, particularly in the context of the severely threatened artistic and architectural monuments of the Middle East. Especially welcome are topics discussing phenomena such as migration, media transformation and cultural paradigms. By asking for culturally formative regions at the borders of "Europe" and transcultural contact zones, definitions of the Middle Ages can be put up for debate. As a counterpart to this panorama, research about the region of Brandenburg and Berlin will also be presented. This includes subjects of museum studies and the history of art in and of Berlin, where the development of areas of cultural exchange has a long tradition.
All session proposals must be submitted to the Forum by 1 June 2016 atmail@mittelalterkongress.de
Further information will soon be available at www.mittelalterkongress.de
A NOTE ABOUT KRESS TRAVEL AWARDS
Thanks to a generous grant from the Kress Foundation, funds may be available to defray travel costs of speakers in ICMA-sponsored sessions up to a maximum of $600 ($1200 for transatlantic travel). If available, the Kress funds are allocated for travel and hotel only. Speakers in ICMA sponsored sessions will be refunded only after the conference, against travel receipts. In addition to speakers, session organizers delivering papers as an integral part of the session (i.e. with a specific title listed in the program) are now also eligible to receive travel funding.
Go to: http://www.medievalart.org/kress-travel-grant/ .