Call for Applications: SAHGB MA Scholarship: The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) Scholarship 2023/24, Due 5 July 2023

Call for Applications

SAHGB MA Scholarship

The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) Scholarship 2023/24

Due 5 July 2023

The Master's Bursary scheme, supported by the generous bequest of the Arnold Hayward Stevenson Educational Trust Fund, is now open for applications.

There are significant, often structural, barriers to postgraduate study, in particular in disciplines like architectural history. We are working to diversify our discipline and those who practise it. As part of the Society’s commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we very strongly encourage underrepresented communities to imagine their futures in architectural history and to apply for this bursary. Recognising that partial support often excludes those from non-traditional backgrounds for postgraduate study in the humanities, we are offering a £20,000 bursary to one candidate. 

Our intention is that this bursary will be transformational for the successful candidate, opening up the possibility of further study and career development in architectural history in higher education, heritage practice and/or museums and collections.

Further Particulars:

• The bursary is for a sum of £20,000, to include fees and maintenance (1 year full-time or 2 years’ part-time study)

• Candidates, who have already been accepted to a post-graduate taught or 1 year post-graduate research Master's in Architectural History or related disciplines which will commence in Autumn 2023 are eligible to apply.

• Candidates should be intending to study a course at a U.K. university.

• The Society will not support candidates on MArch courses

• Funds will be issued to the candidate directly, not via their university

• Funds will be paid in two instalments over the academic year, subject to successful progress through the course

• The recipient of the award will work closely with our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and Early Career Research networks, and take part in organising the SAHGB’s PhD / ECR Symposium.

• All applications are welcome, though priority will be given to applicants who have SAHGB membership, as well as demonstrating eligibility through their responses to the areas we ask about.

• The recipient will receive a year’s free membership of the SAHGB

• Eligible candidates may self-nominate for this Scholarship by filling in the fields at the base of this page. Please complete all fields at the same time - we recommend that you plan your application offline and paste into the text boxes before making a submission.

• Please send evidence of your place offer as directed, to arrive by the deadline below.

We are grateful to the trustees of the Arnold Stevenson estate for the generous bequest which has made this award possible.

The deadline for applications, including receipt of a copy of the offer letter to complete an entry, will be 5th July 2023. Please note the word count guidelines on each section of the online form.

For more information and to apply, https://www.sahgb.org.uk/funding/sahgb-ma-scholarship.

JOURNÉE D’ÉTUDE/Study Day: “L’INVENTION D’ORIGINES GRECQUES DANS LES CULTURES TEXTUELLES ET VISUELLES DE L’EUROPE PRÉ-MODERNE (1100-1600)”/TROISIÈME JOURNÉE, UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE, 30 JUIN/JUNE 2023

JOURNÉE D’ÉTUDE/ Study Day

“L’INVENTION D’ORIGINES GRECQUES DANS LES CULTURES TEXTUELLES ET VISUELLES DE L’EUROPE PRÉ-MODERNE (1100-1600)”/TROISIÈME JOURNÉE

Vendredi, 30 juin 2023

Université de Lille, Campus Pont-de-Bois : Maison de la Recherche

Organisée par/Organised By Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas

PROGRAMME

-10h30 Accueil/Welcome

-10h40 Introduction, Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas (Université de Lille, ERC AGRELITA)

-10h50-11h15 Elena Koroleva (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale), « Les héros grecs à l’origine de l’humanité : Prométhée et Deucalion (re)peuplant la terre »

-11h15-11h40 Iolanda Ventura (Université de Bologne), « L’‛histoire de la pharmacologie et ses origines gréco-arabes dans les préfaces des imprimés du XVIe siècle »

-11h40-12h05 Discussion

Conférence plénière:

-13h45-14h25  Lorena Lopes da Costa (Université Fédérale de Rio de Janeiro, chercheuse invitée en résidence ERC AGRELITA), « Chanter un Ulysse portugais : l’héroïsme maritime pour présenter le nouveau monde »

-14h25-14h40 Discussion
-14h40-14h55 Pause

-14h55-15h20 Soizic Escurignan (Université de Poitiers), « Les origines grecques de l’Espagne dans la Estoria de España, un étrange paradoxe »

-15h20-15h45 Clarisse Evrard (Université de Lille, ERC AGRELITA), « La Grèce aux origines de la figure de l’artiste »

-15h45-16h15 Discussion et clôture/closure

A PDF of the program is available, and more information is available here.

Analysis of Pigments on Painted Byzantine and Japanese Manuscripts, Kate Fulcher, Weston Library, Oxford, 26 June 2023

Lecture

Analysis of Pigments on Painted Byzantine and Japanese Manuscripts

Kate Fulcher, Heritage Scientist at the Bodleian Libraries

Monday 26 June 2023, 1-2 PM

Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG

MS Laud Gr. 30a: The prophet Jonah and hand of God

Free event, booking required.

This lecture is an introduction to the analysis of painted Byzantine and Japanese manuscripts by the Bodleian Libraries' new Heritage Scientist.

The post of Heritage Scientist at the Bodleian Libraries was re-instated at the beginning of 2023, enabling the analysis of manuscripts in the library’s collection. The focus so far has been on Byzantine manuscripts from the 10th to 13th centuries, and Japanese scrolls from the 17th century which contain painted pictures.

Contact: kate.fulcher@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

For mor information, https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun23/analysis-of-pigments-on-painted-manuscripts

Call for Applications: 2023-24 ACLS Fellowship, Grant, and Book Competitions, Various Deadlines from 1 September 2023 to May 2024

Call for Applications

2023-24 ACLS Fellowship, Grant, and Book Competitions

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the 2023-24 ACLS fellowship and grant competitions are now open for select programs. ACLS offers programs that promote research across the full spectrum of humanities and interpretive social science fields. 

Our application, peer review, and award processes aim to advance inclusive excellence, and we welcome applicants from groups that are underrepresented in the academic humanities and from across the diverse landscape of higher education.

More information is available here.

For all questions, please contact fellowships@acls.org.

Application deadlines vary by program. ACLS is now accepting applications for fellowship and grant programs with September and October deadlines.

July, 5, 2023 - September 1, 2023

• In addition to the wide range of fellowship and grant competitions, ACLS is pleased to hold the competition for the inaugural ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award by Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. Publishers may submit nominations from July 5-September 1, 2023.

September 28, 2023, 9:00 PM EDT

• ACLS Fellowships (for untenured scholars who earned the PhD within eight years of the application deadline)

October 25, 2023, 9:00 PM EDT

• Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art

• Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships

November 2, 2023, 9:00 PM EDT

• ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellowships and Grants

• Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe (SISECSE)

November 16, 2023, 9:00 PM EST

• Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies

• Luce/ACLS Travel Grants in China Studies

November 30, 2023, 9:00 PM EST

• The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowships in Buddhist Studies

• The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Early Career Research Fellowships in Buddhist Studies

• The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Translation Grants in Buddhist Studies

December 15, 2023, 9:00 PM EST

• ACLS Digital Justice Grants

January 18, 2024, 9:00 PM EST

• The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation New Professorships in Buddhist Studies

• The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Buddhism Public Scholars 

March 2024 TBD

• ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships (for recent PhDs)

May 2024 TBD

• Luce/ACLS China Studies Collaborative Grants

Call for Papers: British Archaeological Association Post-Graduate Conference (29-30 November 2023), Due By 31 July 2023

Call for Papers

British Archaeological Association Post-Graduate Conference

Due By 31 July 2023

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS. Bodl. 264, f. 21v

The BAA invites proposals by postgraduates and early career researchers in the field of medieval history of art, architecture, and archaeology. Papers can be on any aspect of the medieval period, from antiquity to the Later Middle Ages, across all geographical regions.

Proposals of around 250 words for a 20-minute paper, along with a CV, should be sent by 31st July 2023 to postgradconf@thebaa.org

The conference will take place online 29-30th November 2023.

Festivals of War and Peace: The Evolution of Jousts and Tournaments, Tobias Capwell, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 25 June 2023 11 AM PDT/2 PM EST (Zoom)

The J. Paul Getty Museum

Festivals of War and Peace: The Evolution of Jousts and Tournaments

Tobias Capwell

Sunday, June 25, 2023, at 11 am PDT (2 PM EST)

Free | Advance sign-up required | Zoom with Live Stream At Lecture Hall

A Tournament Contest (detail), about 1560–1570, Unknown maker. Tempera colors and gold and silver paint. Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig XV 14 (83.MR.184), fol. 35v

The Age of Chivalry in Europe (c. 1100–1600) was a time of almost constant warfare, but also of fabulous celebrations and courtly festivals. In tournaments, the grandest of all spectacles, the most powerful noblemen of the time displayed their personal fighting and riding skills whilst clad in the richest armor ever created. Exploring the Getty manuscript known as the "Augsburg Tournament Armor Album," historian Tobias Capwell discusses its text and images as a gateway into the extraordinary history of these fascinating events.

Following the program, on-site attendees can experience the demonstration Artist-at-Work: Medieval Sword Play at the Getty Center from 11:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Tobias Capwell, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA), is a historian, author and curator. He is a leading expert on medieval and Renaissance arms and armor and also a founding member of the modern competitive jousting community. He is the author of numerous books including, most recently, Arms and Armor of the Renaissance Joust (2021) and the three-volume Armour of the English Knight (2015, 2021, 2022).

This event is held via Zoom, but will also be live-streamed in the Getty Center's Museum Lecture Hall for those who will be on-site that day. Seating is first come, first served.

For more information on the Play and Pastimes in the Middle Ages exhibition and the lecture, https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/play/index.html

Exhibition Closing: Play and Pastimes in the Middle Ages, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Until 6 August 2023

Exhibition Closing

Play and Pastimes in the Middle Ages

May 16–August 6, 2023

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Initial C: Gillion’s Sons Kneeling before the King of Cyprus (detail), from Romance of Gillion de Trazegnies, 1464, Lieven van Lathem. Tempera colors, gold, and ink, on parchment. Getty Museum, Ms. 111 (2013.46), fol. 105

Discover the lighter side of life in the Middle Ages through the surprising and engaging world of medieval games and leisure. The exhibition features dynamic images of play and explores the role of entertainment in the Middle Ages. Manuscript images capture the complex contests and pastimes that medieval people enjoyed, ranging from a light-hearted game of chess to the dangerous sport of jousting. Then as now, play was thoroughly woven into the fabric of society at every level.

Family-friendly activities in the gallery abound in this exhibition.

For more information, https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/play/index.html

Exhibition Closing: The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550, The Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO, Until 6 August 2023

Exhibition Closing

The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550

The Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO

Mar 10–Aug 6, 2023

Installation view of The Nature of Things: Medieval Arts and Ecology, 1100-1550 at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, March 10-August 6, 2023. Photography by Alise O’Brien Photography, © Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Alise O’Brien Photography

What does it take to make a work of art? What are its environmental impacts? How does the natural world shape artistic practices? And what did this mean in the Middle Ages?

With nearly fifty sculptures, textiles, and books made between 1100 and 1550 CE, The Nature of Things highlights the links between artmaking and the environment in the later medieval era. Featuring a range of materials including wood, stone, cloth, and metal, this exhibition considers the vast array of natural resources needed to produce the artworks that decorated churches and households across Europe during the Middle Ages. The Nature of Things prompts us to recognize how the industries that artists relied on—forestry, quarrying, mining, and farming—temporarily and permanently affected landscapes throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Decorative and functional, sacred and secular, these artworks also shed light on medieval people’s nuanced engagements with the natural world. Some represent responses to moments of scarcity, abundance, or ecological change. Others demonstrate the rich inspiration that artists and patrons drew from plants and animals. Still others reveal attitudes of care and reverence. The Nature of Things is the first museum exhibition to examine medieval objects through this lens, offering new ways of thinking about the relationships between people, art, and environments.

For more information, https://pulitzerarts.org/art/medieval-art-and-ecology/

The Conway Library: historiography, colour, and bibliography, Anthony Hamber, The Courtauld, 6 July 2023 17:30-18:30 BST

The Conway Library: historiography, colour, and bibliography

Anthony Hamber

Thursday 6th July, 17:30 - 18:30 BST

Vernon Square Campus, The Courtauld, London

The Conway Library contains contains almost one million photographs of world architecture, architectural drawings, sculpture, decorative arts and manuscripts.  It has been constructed over a period of almost a century, though some of the photographs held are considerably older. This paper provides a focused evaluation of the historiography of the library’s origins, and how and why it was built upon Conway’s original donation.  A wide spectrum of issues and considerations are examined ; the scale and scope of the market for, and availability of, architectural photographs from the time of Conway’s undergraduate career; Conway’s philosophy and approach; channels of distribution and acquisition; the physical constraints of the solander boxes and the range of photographic formats available; of colour photography; of image classification systems; and photographic print processes. There are also cultural and anti-semitic dimensions linked to the Warburg Institute and the role of pre-WW2 German emigrees to London. Cross-references between photographers and their photographs represented in the Conway help link this matrix together and provide further insights into the library’s significance and influence.

Anthony Hamber is an independent photographic historian, specialising in the 19th century.  He was the photographer and head of visual resources at the History of Art Department, Birkbeck College.  His PhD was published as A Higher Branch of the Art / Photographing the Fine Arts in England 1839-1880 (1996) and most his recent book is Photography and the 1851 Great Exhibition (2018). He has published and lectured widely. His current research projects include an annotated bibliography of photographically illustrated publications 1839-1880. Anthony researches the historiography of art and architecture photographic collections, photographic print processes, and colour reprographics process.

Organised by Dr Tom Nickson (The Courtauld) 

To book tickets, https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/the-conway-library-historiography-colour-and-bibliography/

This is an in-person, free event at our Vernon Square campus. Booking is essential and will close 30 minutes before the event begins.

Society of Church Archaeology Conference 2023: The Church in North West Britain and its Connections, Liverpool, 16-17 September 2023

Society of Church Archaeology Conference 2023

The Church in North West Britain and its Connections

16-17 September 2023

Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool, UK

Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

The Society for Church Archaeology is pleased to announce its annual conference for 2023, on the theme of 'The Church in North West Britain and its Connections’. Covering the north-western seaboard of England, Scotland, and Wales, this region has a long and complex history of church and ecclesiastical sites which do not always or easily mirror the changes and continuities noted in other, arguably more well-researched and well-excavated areas, of Britain and Ireland. Reflecting centuries of cultural exchange around the Irish Sea, not least with western Ireland, the North West has its own rich heritage, combining influences from the south-west of Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia. From its earliest medieval origins to its most recent church heritage, this conference aims to include the widest range of periods and places, connections or isolations, from this complex and vibrant region.

Our keynote will be presented by Professor Harold Mytum (University of Liverpool) with a wine reception sponsored by LCMRS on Saturday 16th September at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (please note the date and venue change).

Our fieldtrip will be a coach trip to Norton Priory on Sunday 17th September. Price includes entry fee, a seat on the coach, and catered lunch.

Professor Mytum, who has led excavations at the priory for several seasons, will also give a private guided tour of the site and Professor Jill Rudd (English, University of Liverpool) will host an optional special interactive reading and discussion on the Old English poem The Ruin in the priory grounds.

For enquiries about the conference and bookings: scaconference2023@outlook.com

To register for the conference, click here and see the conference website (link below).

For more information, www.churcharchaeology.org/current-conference

Programme

Saturday 16th September 2023: SCA Annual Conference and AGM

The Gibberd Room, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (UK)

9:30-10:00 AM - Registration

10:00-10:15 AM - Welcome

10:15-10:30 AM - Ken Murphy (Dyfed Archaeology), “St Patrick's Chapel at St David’s, Wales”

10:30-10:45 AM - Glenn Cahilly-Bretzin (University of Liverpool) and Tom Livingstone (Chester Cathedral), “The Repurposing of Werburgh's Remains and Shrine, Chester Cathedral”

10:45-11:00 AM - Kevin Cootes (Liverpool John Moores University), “The Archaeology of Grief. Deviations in Burial Practice in a Later Medieval Graveyard in Poulton, Cheshire.”

11:00-11:15 AM - 15 min Q&A with Speakers

11:15 AM-12:00 PM - Refreshments Break

12:00-12:15 PM - Stephen Henders (Independent Researcher), “Hagioscopes and their significance for medieval worship, with reference to examples in NW England”

12:15-12:30 PM - Joanne Machin (UHI Archaeology Institute, Orkney), “Medieval maritime pilgrimage - myth or maxim? Building the evidence”

12:30-12:45 PM - Ian Faulds (University of Huddersfield), “Ancient parish church in the Isle of Man (Kirk Maughold): A forgotten pilgrimage centre”

12:45-1:00 PM - 15 min Q&A with the speakers

1:00-2:00 PM - LUNCH

2:00-2:45 PM - AGM

2:45-3:00 PM - Rachel Newman (Oxford Archaeology), “The Monastic site of Dacre”

3:00-3:15 PM - Emily Bowyer-Kazadi (University of Liverpool), “Deconstructed Landscape Photography: A Framework for Engaging with Church Archaeology in NW Britain”

3:15-4:00 PM - Morn Capper (University of Chester) and Rachel Abbiss (Churches Conservation Trust), “St Mary’s, Shrewsbury: Preserving an Historic Assemblage in the 21st Century”

4:00-4:30 PM - 15 min Q&A with the speakers (plus closing remarks)

4:30 PM - Conference ends

5:30-6:45 PM - Wine Reception and Keynote: Professor Harold Mytum (The Gibberd Room)

7:00 PM - Conference Dinner

Sunday 17th September 2023: Norton Priory Fieldtrip

9:45 AM - Meet at coach pick-up point for 10:00am departure

11:00 AM-4:00 PM - Tour of the Priory Grounds and excavations by Prof. Harold Mytum (University of Liverpool); the Old English elegy ‘The Ruin’ by Prof. Jill Rudd (University of Liverpool); free time at Priory and Museum.

4:00 PM - Depart Norton Priory, ETA in Liverpool 4:45pm.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Graduate Student Museum Study Day: Egyptian Textiles and Medieval Indian Ocean Trade, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC (31 October 2023), Applications Due 17 July 2023

Call For APplications

Graduate Student Museum Study Day

Egyptian Textiles and Medieval Indian Ocean Trade

October 13, 2023, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC

Applications due: July 17, 2023

In conjunction with the ongoing interdepartmental project “Passage Between Worlds: Exchanges Along the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean in the Middle Ages,” the 2023 Dumbarton Oaks Museum Graduate Study Day Egyptian Textiles and Medieval Indian Ocean Trade will consider Indian cotton textiles found in Egypt, India, and Indonesia and emblematic of a vibrant maritime trade network found east of the Mediterranean Sea in the late antique and medieval periods.

The workshop will be co-taught by Elizabeth Dospel Williams (Dumbarton Oaks), Anna Kelley (University of St. Andrews), Sumru Belger Krody (The George Washington Museum and The Textile Museum), and Arielle Winnik (Yale University), who will discuss the trade, manufacture, and use of textiles across the Indian Ocean in the premodern periods.

In the morning, these scholars will present their current research, with a particular focus on recent exhibitions featuring Indian textiles. After lunch, participants will spend the afternoon studying textiles from the Dumbarton Oaks Collection in object storage and the Cotsen Textiles Collection at the Textile Museum.

Funding 

Dumbarton Oaks will reserve participants’ accommodation in its on-site Guest House for one night (October 12) and will arrange for Friday lunch in the Refectory. Participants should book their own travel to Washington, to be reimbursed up to $600 upon submission of receipts. 

Applications 

Currently enrolled graduate students in good standing are eligible to apply. Dumbarton Oaks does not sponsor J1 visas for Study Day attendees. We encourage applicants from graduate programs in art history, archaeology, history, classics, religious studies, and other fields who might benefit from close engagement with our collections and from training in material culture approaches.

To apply, please submit a CV and cover letter with a brief summary of the candidate’s research interests, plans for future research, and an explanation of why attendance is important to the candidate’s intellectual and professional development. All materials should be submitted as one pdf to museum@doaks.org. Applications are due July 17, 2023.

For more information, https://www.doaks.org/events/other-events/museum-study-day

Call for Papers: Visualising Crisis in Late Middle Ages, Panel Session at Leeds IMC 2024 “Crisis”, Abstracts Due 31 August 2023

Call for Papers

Visualising Crisis in Late Middle Ages

Panel Session at Leeds IMC 2024 “Crisis”

Abstracts Due 31 August 2023

Slowly but surely, the last centuries of Medieval Europe on the verge to turn to Modernity, bang to build up a lot of dilemmas and moral interrogations: numbers of heresies and peculiar religious questions indicate how intricate cultural identities were during the Middle Ages. One of the many ways to document and explore those discrepancies and the modalities of maybe mending them, is the study of visual images, mental ones and pictures.

The session invites papers dealing with multiple societal / moral / religious / economic crisis in late medieval Europe resulting in the new approaches in visual media - such as new or idiosyncratic iconography (crisis of images), emotional aspects of visual objects, naturalism etc. Papers should address not only the ways the visual media reflected, responded to and represented the period crisis, but also the rituals and rites that helped to pacify it and battle the period anxiety. Papers using the variety of methodologies are welcome, in particular those addressing the period relation between the society and images via the optics of media studies, visual anthropology, visual semiology and information and communication sciences, theories of reception, or addressing the particular aspects of the late medieval visuality.

The possible topic may (but not have to) include:

• moral and religious crisis and its visual perceptions

• visualizing late medieval heresy and witchery and how to "deal with it" with images or pictures

• crisis of images - new images in mind

• moral theology and art (seven deadly sins, works of mercy, Sunday Christ etc.)

• visualizing the pastoral didactics

• visual objects and prayers against the illness / heresy

• magical visual obiects

• visual media and sin / death / devil

• new ways: visual information and communication (dogmatic images, pastoral education)

Studying relationships and collective dynamics within mediation processes with visual objects and artefacts give us a better understanding of cultural representations of the idea of "crisis" during this particular time. We can analyse social and individual identities, but also how images are used to perform and mediate meaning and sym-bol, that can also change through use. This panel will therefore look at the agency and the multimodality of new sets of thinking the crisis through, with, and in reflection to Late Medieval images.

Paper proposals should be sent to Marianne Cailloux (marianne.cailloux@univ-lille.fr) and Daniela Rywiková (daniela.rywikova@osu.cz).

Paper proposals (20 minutes) should include paper title, max 150 word abstract, speakers' affiliation and contact information.

The deadline for paper proposals is 31 August 2023.

36th Irish Conference of Medievalists, 22nd-23rd June 2023, Dublin, Hosted by Trinity College Dublin and Dublin City University

36th Irish Conference of Medievalists

22nd-23rd June 2023

3/4 Foster Place, College Green, Dublin 2

Hosted by Trinity College Dublin and Dublin City University

The Irish Conference of Medievalists (ICM) was established in 1987 and has met yearly ever since. It is one of the longest running conferences of its type. Since the beginning, the ICM has had the purpose of showcasing the latest research in both Irish and international medieval studies. The ICM welcomes speakers from Ireland and abroad on all aspects of the Middle Ages.

The ICM has a well-established tradition of moving venue every few years. To date, it has been convened in Maynooth, Kilkenny, Limerick, Galway, Cork and Dublin.

To register for the conference, click here.

For more information, http://www.irishmedievalists.com/.

Conference Organizers: Sparky Booker, Peter Crooks, Seán Duffy, Immo Warntjes

Programme

Thursday, 22 June 2023

10.15 Registration

11.15–12.45 Session 1 (Parallel Strands, Rooms 1.14/2.14)

12.45–14.00 Break (lunch not provided)

14.00–15.30 Session 2 (Parallel Strands, Rooms 1.14/2.14)

15.30–16.00 Tea and Coffee (Banking Hall)

16.00–17.30 Session 3 (Single Session, Room 1.14)

Friday, 23 June 2023

9.15–10.45 Session 4 (Parallel Strands, Rooms 1.14/2.14)

10.45–11.15 Tea and Coffee (Banking Hall)

11.15–12.45 Session 5 (Parallel Strands, Rooms 1.14/2.14)

12.45–14.00 Break (lunch not provided)

14.00–15.30 Session 6 (Parallel Strands, Rooms 1.14/2.14)

15.30–16.00 Tea and Coffee (Banking Hall)

16.00–17.30 Session 7 (Single Session, Room 1.14)

Call for Papers: 42nd International Conference of the Haskins Society, University of Richmond (3-5 November 2023), Proposals Due 30 July 2023

Call for Papers

42nd International Conference of the Haskins Society

3-5 November 2023

University of Richmond (Richmond, VA)

Deadline for All Proposals: 30 July 2023

The Haskins Society is delighted to announce our ongoing return to in-person, annual conferences for our second year at the University of Richmond, Virginia on 3-5 November, 2023. We invite proposals for presentations on any topic related to the history and cultures of peoples in northwest Europe in the early and central middle ages, and their encounters with societies in the Mediterranean, the Baltic and the larger medieval world. The Society has a longstanding tradition of encouraging interdisciplinary exchange, and so papers from all disciplines are encouraged.

In order to make our conference as accessible as possible, we will again offer options for virtual attendance and presentation of papers this year (at appropriately reduced registration fees).

The featured speakers in 2023 will be:

•          Courtney Luckhardt (University of Southern Mississippi)

•          Sharon Farmer (UC- Santa Barbara)

•          Louise Wilkinson (University of Lincoln)

For individual paper submissions, please send a 250-word abstract and c.v. tohaskinsconference@gmail.com.

For full panels (usually 3 papers), provide a one-page rationale for the panel in addition to the information for each paper. Panel organizers are encouraged to contact the conference organizers in advance of their submission.

Papers presented at the Haskins Conference by graduate students, untenured faculty, and independent scholars are eligible for the Denis Bethell Prize competition when submitted as full essays.

The conference does accept submissions for remote online presentations. If you wish your paper to be considered for remote presentation, please state this clearly in the abstract.

We also invite submissions for two alternative forms of presentation and participation:

The New Research Forum

On Friday morning, the conference will host an online New Research Forum to highlight and discuss new research or work in progress. Modeled on “flash sessions,” presenters will have five minutes to explain their projects as a prelude to in-depth small group discussions. Presenters will be listed in the program and should send a one paragraph abstract and c.v. to haskinsconference@gmail.com and include the word “Forum” in the address line.

Bursaries for Graduate Students

The Society and the University of Richmond are making available a number of bursaries to graduate students to facilitate participation in the conference. Four bursaries worth approximately $550 each will be available to graduate students.

In order to apply, please so indicate when submitting your proposal to give a paper or to take part in the New Research Forum. Please also include a statement, 300-400 words in length, that situates your proposal within your wider research trajectory and explains how participation in the Haskins Society conference will aid both your academic and career-development goals.

Support for Graduate Students

In order to encourage and support rising scholars, graduate student members of the Society are eligible to receive support from the Thomas Keefe memorial fund to cover the costs of registration.

For more information, click here.

Free Access to the Index of Medieval Art Begins July 1, 2023!

Free Access to the Index of Medieval Art Begins July 1, 2023

The Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University is delighted to remind researchers that as of July 1, 2023, access to our online database will become free to all users. This change has been made possible by a generous bridge grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the ongoing support of Princeton’s Department of Art & Archaeology.

The database can be consulted at https://theindex.princeton.edu/. We look forward to sharing our resources with students and scholars at all levels and with public learners seeking reliable information about medieval art and culture.

In the coming months we will offer several online training sessions to introduce the database to those who may be unfamiliar with it, the schedule and signups for which will be publicized on our blog (https://ima.princeton.edu/) and through the Index social media accounts. The first session will be held on August 3, 2023 from 10 to 11am Eastern time; further information and registration can be found here: https://ima.princeton.edu/index_online_workshop_august_2023/. Index staff also remain available for researcher questions via our online form at https://ima.princeton.edu/research-inquiries/.

Exhibition Closing: Riemenschneider and Late Medieval Alabaster, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Closing 23 July 2023

Exhibition Closing

Riemenschneider and Late Medieval Alabaster

Sun, 26 March 2023 to Sun, 23 July 2023

Julia and Larry Pollock Focus Gallery | Gallery 010, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Saint Jerome and the Lion (detail), c. 1495. Tilman Riemenschneider (German, c. 1460–1531, active Würzburg). Alabaster; 37.8 x 28.1 x 15.9 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1946.82

Alabaster was prized for its luster and capacity for fine details from the 14th to the 16th century particularly in Germany, the Netherlands, France, and Spain. The gleaming stone was used for altarpieces and small sculptures, as well as for the tombs of wealthy princes. Despite the rich corpus of surviving works, medieval alabaster sculpture from continental Europe has not yet been highlighted by museums in Europe and North America. The exhibition seeks to shed light on this important yet understudied topic by gathering some of the most extraordinary surviving examples of alabaster works from mainland Europe.

The core of the show is the Cleveland Museum of Art’s masterpiece by Tilman Riemenschneider, Saint Jerome and the Lion, produced for the Benedictine abbey church of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Germany, depicting a legend in which Jerome kindly removes a thorn from a lion’s paw. Our exhibition reunites Saint Jerome with another Riemenschneider work from the same church in Erfurt, the alabaster statuette The Virgin Mary of the Annunciation in the collection of the Louvre. These works are exceptionally rare, as they are two of only a few extant alabaster sculptures produced by Riemenschneider, with Saint Jerome being the only example in an American collection. One of the most prolific late Gothic sculptors, Riemenschneider is renowned for his technical virtuosity and ability to convincingly portray human emotion in his elegant sculptures of religious figures. Saint Jerome and the Louvre’s Virgin Mary are exemplary of Riemenschneider’s artistic ability, as well as the refinement that can be achieved with alabaster by virtue of the medium’s softness. 

The majority of the objects in the exhibition come from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art and allow insight into the production of alabaster sculptures in this period. It is striking that these works are of such a particularly exquisite quality and that the material was used especially for high-ranking commissions, such as the tomb of Duke Philip the Bold of Burgundy in Champmol near Dijon. A few loans from North American museums complement the exhibition.

For more information, https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/riemenschneider-and-late-medieval-alabaster

Exhibition Closing: The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Closes 30 July 2023

Exhibition Closing

The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours

Fri, 26 august 2022 to Sun, 30 July 2023

Gallery 115, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf Leaf from a Book of Hours: Calendar Page for May (recto) and Calendar Page for June (verso) a Book of Hours: Calendar Page for May (recto) and Calendar Page for June (verso), c. 1510. France, Rouen. Ink, tempera, and liquid gold on vellum; leaf: 18.1 x 12.9 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection, 2011.65.a–b

Books of hours were immensely popular devotional books in the later Middle Ages. Meant for laypeople or those not in the clergy, books of hours were at-home companions containing daily prayers as well as prayers for specific occasions, such as death, plague, warfare, travel, or bad weather. Ranging from lavishly decorated by hand with gold leaf to printed on paper with no images, books of hours were customizable and could be highly personalized to an individual’s tastes, budget, and interests. Mostly used by women, these books are estimated to have been owned by every fourth household at the height of their popularity. Such popularity lasted until around the 1550s, when German priest Martin Luther, in his attempts to reform the Catholic Church which led to the Protestant Reformation, declared them full of “un-Christian tomfoolery,” and they fell out of favor. These precious volumes are windows into the medieval world and the lives of their original owners. 

For more information, https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/medieval-top-seller-book-hours

NEW VIDEO! ICMA ANNUAL IDEA LECTURE: “JOHN OF MARIGNOLLI, THE TRIBUTE HORSE, AND EAST-WEST ENCOUNTERS IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY," NANCY WU

NEW VIDEO

ICMA ANNUAL IDEA LECTURE

“JOHN OF MARIGNOLLI, THE TRIBUTE HORSE, AND EAST-WEST ENCOUNTERS IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY”

NANCY WU, EDUCATOR EMERITA, THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

17 APRIL 2023, 5:30 PM, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

In 1342, the Franciscan John of Marignolli, as papal nuncio, presented a horse to the Mongol Emperor of China. When scrutinized, the seemingly cordial exchange reveals a multitude of encounters across temporal and geographic boundaries—over 1,300 years and from Avignon to Xanadu. This paper will discuss and consider the event’s historical and cultural implications against the backdrop of the so-called Mongol Mission in medieval China.

Nancy Wu is Educator Emerita of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she was responsible for education at The Cloisters for over twenty years. For decades she has worked extensively on various aspects of Gothic architecture and the Cloisters collection. Since 2020, she has been devoted to the history of the Franciscan mission in fourteenth-century China.

Convened by the IDEA Committee, the ICMA Annual IDEA Lecture showcases research by ICMA members that engages, in content, method, or disciplinary practice, issues of inclusivity, diversity, equity, and accessibility.

The video is available to watch on the Special Online Lectures page.

ICMA Wine Reception & Other Events at the Tenth Annual Symposium on Medieval & Renaissance Studies, St. Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, 12-14 June 2023

Tenth Annual Symposium on Medieval & Renaissance Studies

St. Louis University

Saint Louis, Missouri

12-14 June 2023

The Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies provides a convenient summer venue in North America for scholars in all disciplines to present papers, organize sessions, participate in roundtables, and engage in interdisciplinary discussion. The goal of the symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation on all topics and in all disciplines of the medieval and early modern world.​

​The plenary speakers for 2023 will be Uta-Renate Blumenthal, of Catholic University of America, and Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library.

This year, alongside general sessions, three mini-conferences going on within the bounds of the symposium: the long-running St. Louis Conference of Manuscript Studies, now in its 48th year; the International Arthurian Studies conference; a conference on Late Medieval Philosophy. An exhibit,“The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550,” is also at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, which is within walking distance. A curator’s talk is scheduled there Tuesday late afternoon.

Of particular interest for ICMA members is:

Thursday, June 13, 2023 - Wine Reception: Co-Sponsored by International Center of Medieval Art, New York, 6:00-7:30 p.m. Center for Global Citizenship

More information is available from the event program and the symposium website.

Panels involving medieval art include:

Monday, 12 June 2023 - M5: Roles of the Manuscript - 48th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies - Père Marquette Gallery

“North Africa and its Peoples in the Book of Games by Alfonso X: Reimagining Thirteenth-Century Court Culture in the Western” - Alexandra Peters, Bowdoin College

“Tasting the Fruit of the Orchard: Interpretive Agency, Authorial Will, and Organizational Failure in Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.162” - Elissa Johnston, Fordham University

“Queering the Manuscript: a Study of Morgan Library MS G.47” - Vivian Brown, Trinity College Dublin

Monday, 12 June 2023 - M8: Art in the Renaissance - Morrissey 0600 - Chair: Allen Loomis, Binghamton University

“Extravagant Violations and Visual Tropes: Lucas Cranach the Elder's Semiotic use of Dress in the Budapest Martyrdom of Saint Catherine” - Sophia Feist, Cambridge University

“Claude Dodieu's Portrait Medal (1532)” - Jan Pendergrass, University of Georgia

“‘A Face of Muche Nobillitye Lie in a Little Roome’, Re-Imaging the Tudor Dynasty: Renaissance Repetition and the Portraiture of Henry VIII's Family” - Jean Marie Christensen, Southern Methodist University

Monday, 12 June 2023 - M14: Roundtable: Digital Humanities and Opportunities for Studying Texts and Glosses – Successful NEH Grants and Possibilities Ahead - Morrissey 0600 - Chair: Margaret K. Smith, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Panelists: Atria Larson, Theological Studies, Saint Louis University; Lia Markey, Newberry Library; John McEwan, Walter J. Ong Center for Digital Humanities, Saint Louis University; Patrick Cuba, Research Computing Group, Saint Louis University; Geoff Brewer, English, Saint Louis University; Ahlam Jaber, English, Saint Louis University; Ryan Prewitt, English, Saint Louis University

Monday, 12 June 2023 - M16: Plenary Session in Manuscript Studies - 48th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies - Père Marquette Gallery

“Compiling Spheres of Knowledge: Medieval Creativity in the Astronomical Arts” - Eric Ramirez-Weaver, University of Virginia

Tuesday, 13 June 2023 - T5: Revelations of Codicology - 48th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies - Père Marquette Gallery

“The 19th Century Medieval: The Inserted Illuminations of the Fisher Antiphonarium” - Risa de Rege, University of Toronto

“Wars in the Workshop: Digitising Manuscript Rolls” - Natasha Hodgson, Nottingham Trent University

“Fragmented Hours: The Biography of a Printed Devotional Book” - Stephanie Haas, University of South Florida

Tuesday, 13 June 2023 - T11: The Infinite Ingenuity of Authors and Artisans - 48th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies - Père Marquette Gallery

“Examining the Scientific Illustration Method in Various Ajayeb Nameh Manuscripts” - Fahimeh Zarezadeh, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

“Visions of Silver: 17th-18th Century Armenian Silver Bindings from Kayseri, Ottoman Empire” - Sylvie Merian, The Morgan Library & Museum

“Playful Experimentation in Medieval Chemistry: The case of ‘The 88 Natural Experiments of Rasis’” - Vanessa Baptista, University College London

Tuesday, 13 June 2023 - T14: Academic Polymaths: Roundtable on Leveraging Medieval Adjacent Skills in Career Advancement - Morrissey 0200 - Chair: Edward Holt, Grambling State University

Panelists: Amy Boland, Briar Cliff University; Edward Holt, Grambling State University; Kyle Lincoln, Southeastern Oklahoma State University; Margaret K. Smith, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Tuesday, 13 June 2023 - T16: The Nature of Things: Art, Culture, and Environment in the Medieval East and West - Morrissey 0600 - Chair: Heather Alexis Smith, Pulitzer Arts Foundation

“Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Rethinking Spolia and the Luxury Marble Trade in the Early Middle Ages” - Nathan S. Dennis, University of San Francisco

“Assemblage and Symbiosis: Matter as Maker in Medieval Art” - Anne F. Harris, Grinnell College

“Medieval Art and Ecology: Ecocriticism and the Museum Exhibition” - Heather Alexis Smith, Pulitzer Arts Foundation

Tuesday, 13 June 2023 - T18: Demons and Death in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts - 48th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies - Père Marquette Gallery

“Demons at Court: An Exploration of 14th-century Iconography” - Lyle Dechant, DePauw University

“Punished Demons: Illuminations of Divine Retribution in Late Medieval Manuscripts” - Layla Seale, University of North Texas

“‘As We Are Now, So Shall You Be’: Depictions of Liminality in Manuscript Images of the Three Living and Three Dead” - Delaney Finau, Winston-Salem State University

Tuesday, 13 June 2023 - Optional Excursion and Curator's Talk: Pulitzer Arts Foundation Exhibition: “The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100- 1550”

3716 Washington Ave. St. Louis MO 63108

Doors open 3:45 p.m.

Tour and curator’s talk by Heather Alexis Smith at 4:30 p.m.

Admission is free; pre-registration is not required.

Wednesday, 14 June 2023 - W7: Power and Pageantry: Political Philosophy and Displays of Power I Morrissey 0400 Chair: Jean Marie Christensen, Southern Methodist University

“The King's Two Bodies, Twice” - Sophia Feingold, Independent Scholar

“Looking for Forgiveness in the Tudor Myth” - Andrew Shifflett, University of South Carolina

“Transparent Glass and the Spectacle of Sovereignty: Kenilworth Castle Entertainment of 1575” - Allen Loomis, Binghamton University

Wednesday, 14 June 2023 - W8: Scotland: Concrete Evidence and Presentation - Morrissey 0600 - Chair: Nicholas Babich, University of Notre Dame

“The Picts in Perspective: How Heritage Professionals Can Revitalize Modern Connections with this Early Medieval Civilization” - Claire Reinert, McKendree University

“The Early Christian Cross-Marked Stones that were Erected on the West Coast of Scotland: A New Methodological Approach” - Alla Kurzenkova, University of Glasgow

Exhibition: The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 10 March - 6 August, 2024

Exhibition

The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550

Mar 10–Aug 6, 2023

Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 3716 Washington Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63108

Installation view of The Nature of Things: Medieval Arts and Ecology, 1100–1550 at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, March 10–August 6, 2023. Photography by Alise O'Brien Photography, © Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Alise O'Brien Photography

What does it take to make a work of art? What are its environmental impacts? How does the natural world shape artistic practices? And what did this mean in the Middle Ages?

With nearly fifty sculptures, textiles, and books made between 1100 and 1550 CE, The Nature of Things highlights the links between artmaking and the environment in the later medieval era. Featuring a range of materials including wood, stone, cloth, and metal, this exhibition considers the vast array of natural resources needed to produce the artworks that decorated churches and households across Europe during the Middle Ages. The Nature of Things prompts us to recognize how the industries that artists relied on—forestry, quarrying, mining, and farming—temporarily and permanently affected landscapes throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Decorative and functional, sacred and secular, these artworks also shed light on medieval people’s nuanced engagements with the natural world. Some represent responses to moments of scarcity, abundance, or ecological change. Others demonstrate the rich inspiration that artists and patrons drew from plants and animals. Still others reveal attitudes of care and reverence. The Nature of Things is the first museum exhibition to examine medieval objects through this lens, offering new ways of thinking about the relationships between people, art, and environments.

Resources:

• Press Release

• Exhibition Guide

• Digital Guide

The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550 is organized by Heather Alexis Smith, Assistant Curator at the Pulitzer.

For more information, https://pulitzerarts.org/art/medieval-art-and-ecology/