Call for Session Papers and Round Table Participants: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages, 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Due By 15 September 2023

Call for Session Papers and Round Table Participants

Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages

59th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

Due By 15 September 2023

Session: “Intersections of Medieval Dis/Ability and Race/Making”
This panel examines what it means to think about premodern race and premodern dis/ability together.


Session: “Making Sense of Medieval Sensory Disabilities ”
This panel explores medieval representations of sensory disabilities such as visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, and proprioceptive impairments and their profound implications for social, cultural, historical, philosophical, and religious paradigms. Direct questions to Margaret McCurry at margaret.mccurry@nyu.edu.


Roundtable: “Accessible Practices in Academia” (Hybrid)
This roundtable seeks to bring together diverse voices to discuss issues related to accessibility in the work of academia, including, but not limited to, scholarship, research, teaching, service, conferences (presentation and travel), etc.

To submit a proposal by September 15, 2023: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2024/cfp.cgi
For questions: email Kisha Tracy at ktracy3@fitchburgstate.edu

For an image of the call for papers, click here.

Call for Papers: Monastic libraries and book collections in times of crisis, c. 1000- c. 1600, Session at International Medieval Congress, Leeds (1-4 July 2024) Due By 12 September 2023

Call for Papers

Monastic libraries and book collections in times of crisis, c. 1000- c. 1600

Session at International Medieval Congress, Leeds 1-4 July 2024

Due By 12 September 2023

Schedel, Hartmann. Liber chronicarum (Nuremberg:Anton Koberger, VII, 1493), f. 92v © BSB/ Rar. 287.

The proposed session(s) focuses on religious communities’ responses to crisis in relation to convent libraries and book collections. We aim to investigate what happened to medieval convent libraries and book collections in times of peril during the Middle Ages, but also the early modern period and up until our time. At certain times, these changes were detrimental and meant the original context of collections was lost. On other occasions, crises' effects were incremental in book collections of various religious institutions.

Written documents and book collections were used to address the economic, social, political, and cultural crises that affected religious communities. We aim to discuss how manuscripts and book collections were used to mitigate or reject the impact of external or internal crises, to create a narrative about these upheavals and to foster renewal.

We aim to establish a broader comparative and geographical approach opening new perspectives, provoking new questions, and reformulating questions widely debated in the historiography.

Suggested topics on book collections in times of crisis from any geographic area and encompassing a wide chronological framework may include, but are not limited to:

  • Dismembering and dispersion of manuscripts in times of peril. How could these collections be interpreted anew? What happened to the identity of these collections in their new surroundings? How were these ‘orphan’ collections used by their, potentially, new owners? Was there re-assembly?

  • The post-medieval life and Nachleben of book collections. Dispersion and loss as a result of wars, turmoil, and ecclesiastical suppression during the modern times.

  • Assembling of manuscripts as a result of crisis. Medieval and early modern recycling history of manuscripts, and how these processes inform not only medieval book culture but also religious communities’ identities and religious and cultural networks more broadly.

  • Assembling versus dismembering manuscripts as a result of crisis. Analysis of the factors that led to one or the other option. Did these occur at the same time in the same community?

  • Crisis, continuities, and disruptions in production of manuscripts, re-use, and function of books within religious communities.

  • Interplay between manuscript production and the making of other ornamenta sacra in times of crisis.

  • The role of manuscripts and book collections in the creation of crisis narratives among religious communities. Who is to blame during crisis? Entangled scales and agents involved at micro and macro levels.

  • Explicitly gendered approaches to crises in religious communities. In what way religious women, including nuns and mulieres religiosae, used manuscripts and book collections.

We welcome papers from a variety of disciplines including but not limited to history, art history, material culture, codicology, cultural history, musicology, history of liturgy, anthropology, literature, gender studies with a focus on religious communities from different orders/religions, different territories, and geographical regions exploring what happened to medieval book collections (c. 1000-c. 1600) during and beyond the Middle Ages. We invite speakers to explore the impact of crisis in book collections from religious communities and these communities’ management of their libraries in times of peril.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a short bio to Julie Beckers (julie.beckers@kuleuven.be) and Mercedes Pérez Vidal (mercedes.pvidal@uam.es) by September 12. All proposals should include your name, email address and academic affiliation (if applicable), and whether you would prefer to present your paper or session in-person or virtually.

Organisers:

Dr Mercedes Pérez Vidal (Autonomous University of Madrid) mercedes.pvidal@uam.es

Dr Julie Beckers (KU Leuven) julie.beckers@kuleuven.be

A PDF of the call for papers is available.

Call for Papers: STUDYING EAST OF BYZANTIUM X: COMMUNITIES, East of Byzantium Workshop, Due 18 September 2023

Call for Papers

STUDYING EAST OF BYZANTIUM X: COMMUNITIES

EAST OF BYZANTIUM WORKSHOP

MICHAEL PIFER, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
SALAM RASSI, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

Due 18 September 2023

Studying East of Byzantium X: Communities is a three-part workshop that intends to bring together doctoral students and recent PhDs studying the Christian East to reflect on the usefulness of the concept of “Community” in studying the Christian East, to share methodologies, and to discuss their research with one another and senior specialists in the field. The workshop continues the efforts of East of Byzantium, the partnership between the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross and the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University (from 2022–), to foster an interdisciplinary community of early career scholars engaged in the study of the diverse traditions of the medieval Christian East, including Syria, the South Caucasus, Mesopotamia, and Egypt.

What is the meaning of the term “Community” in the context of the medieval Christian East? What kinds of communities existed, and how were they formed? Recent research has used the concept of community to explore a range of social experiences, including textual, religious, and visual communities, genealogical communities, and monastic and urban communities, among others. How useful is this concept, and what are its limits within and across the vast and diverse spaces of the Christian East?

This year we invite all graduate students and recent PhDs working in the Christian East whose work considers, or hopes to consider, the theme of communities in their own research to apply.

Eligibility
Doctoral students or recent PhDs studying the Christian East. All disciplines are welcome. Early career researchers should have received their PhD in 2023. Priority will be given to graduate students.

Abstracts
Interested students should submit a C.V. and a 200-word abstract no later than September 18, 2023. Papers should be based on the dissertation project. The final output may be in the form of a conference paper, a dissertation chapter or excerpt, or an article.

Complete Papers
Papers should not exceed 5,000 words in length including footnotes. Complete papers must be submitted to all workshop participants no later than May 5, 2024.

SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT

For more information, https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/studying-east-of-byzantium-x-communities/

Call for Papers: Virgin Mary’s relics – Prestige, Rivalry, Forgery and Reproducibility, Special Online Session at the 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Due By 15 September 2023

Call for Papers

Virgin Mary’s relics – Prestige, Rivalry, Forgery and Reproducibility

Special Online Session at the 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (Hybrid Event - 9-11 May 2024)

Due By 15 September 2023

This special online session wishes to analyze the power of the Virgin Mary’s relics as triggers not only to processions and pilgrimages but also to Marian cults competition. The scientific importance of the session lies in understanding how these devotional objects could be perceived as activators of civic prestige. The possession of these relics encouraged a deep local cohesion outside the church. Therefore, how did the custody of a Marian relic interact and enhance rivalry between cities? And finally, how did the forgery and reproducibility of these relics contribute to developing the Marian cult by enhancing the creation of sacred topographies?

The session will encourage an interdisciplinary approach. Civic, political, and religious powers were deeply interconnected to control devotion to Marian relics. For this reason, these aspects will be examined in relation to the instauration of civic identity and religious authority to understand the adaptation of the Virgin’s cult to the local needs. This approach provides the groundwork for new perspectives on Medieval relics’ devotion in general. Moreover, the analysis of case studies will not only aim to highlight specific aspects and general phenomena in Late Medieval Europe but also to define identities and devotees’ experiences about relics.

Scholars are invited to submit a 300-word abstract, excluding references. Proposals should also include name, affiliation, email address, the title of the presentation, 6 keywords, a selective bibliography, and a short CV. Please send the documents to maryandthecity.imc2022@gmail.com by 15 September 2023.

Schweizerische Burgenverein / Konferenz der Schweizer Kantonsarchäologen und Kantonsarchäologinnen (KSKA) u.a.: Burgen und Ruinen – Baudenkmal, Attraktion, Habitat; Bern, 31 August - 01 September 2023

Schweizerische Burgenverein / Konferenz der Schweizer Kantonsarchäologen und Kantonsarchäologinnen (KSKA) u.a.

Burgen und Ruinen – Baudenkmal, Attraktion, Habitat

31 August - 01 September 2023

Hochschulzentrum vonRoll (Bern)

Zwischen 2003 und 2005 thematisierten die Vortragsreihe «Die Burg: Umgang mit dem Baudenkmal. Konservieren, konstruieren oder konsumieren?» (Institut für Denkmalpflege der ETHZ/ Vereinigung Schweizer Denkmalpfleger / ICOMOS Suisse), das Kolloquium «Finanzierung von Erhaltungsmassnahmen an Ruinen» (EKD) und die Publikation «Gesicherte Ruine oder ruinierte Burg? Erhalten – Instandstellen – Nutzen» (Schweizerischer Burgenverein) den Stand von Forschung und Erhaltungspraxis. Die neue Tagung bietet eine Aktualisierung, denn einerseits gibt es neue Erkenntnisse zur Erhaltung von Ruinen und Burgen und andererseits schafft die ökologische Debatte zusätzliche Randbedingungen. Es geht um die Pflege wichtiger Bestandteile unserer
Kulturlandschaften, die mit populären Geschichtsbildern und Nutzungsansprüchen ebenso wie mit Flora und Fauna eng verzahnt sind. Als Referent*innen bieten erfahrene Fachleute aus den Bereichen Denkmalpflege und Archäologie, Restaurierung und Konservierung, Landschaftsschutz und Ökologie die Möglichkeit zum Austausch zu Ansprüchen und Zielen, Best Practices und Erfahrungen bei der Erhaltung von Burgen und Ruinen in der Schweiz.

Programm und weitere Informationen: Tagungsprogramm

Tickets verfügbar

For more information: https://burgenverein.ch/tagung_burgen_und_ruinen/

Upcoming Exhibition: Graphic Design in the Middle Ages, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, 29 August 2023 - 28 January 2024

Upcoming Exhibition

Graphic Design in the Middle Ages

29 August 2023–28 January 2024

The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California

Medieval scribes and artists were some of the world’s first graphic designers, planning individual pages and whole books in creative ways. Exploring the idea of designing a medieval book, from the layout of the page to text as graphic organizing tool, and the role of ornament in the structure of the finished product, this exhibition reveals the ways that design influenced the reading and interpretation of medieval books.

Upcoming Exhibition: Glänzende Begegungen. Die Domschätze von Münster und Paderborn, 02 September 2023 - 07 January 2023

Upcoming Exhibition

Glänzende Begegungen. Die Domschätze von Münster und Paderborn

02 September 2023 - 07 January 2023

Diazösanmuseum Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

Reliquienkreuz mit abbasidischem Bergkristallfuß des 9./10. Jahrhunderts

Der Bestand des Kathedralschatzes des St. Paulus-Doms zu Münster zählt mit seinen einzigartigen Werken der Goldschmiede- und der Textilkunst zu einer der bedeutendsten Schatzkammer-Sammlungen Europas. Von kostbaren Reliquiaren des 11. Jahrhunderts über wertvolle liturgische Geräte und Paramente des Mittelalters, der Renaissance und des Barock spannt sich der Bogen bis ins 20. Jahrhundert.

Momentan ist der Schatz nicht zu sehen, sondern wegen des geplanten Neubaus der Domschatzkammer Münster eingelagert. Hochrangigen Museen – z. B. dem Catherijneconvent Utrecht oder dem Cleveland Museum of Art – wurde exklusiv die Gelegenheit geboten, Teile des Bestandes in ihren Häusern zu präsentieren.

Ab September wird er nun erstmals seit Schließung der Münsteraner Domkammer beinahe in Gänze für vier Monate wieder öffentlich zu sehen sein und ausgewählten Stücken des Paderborner Domschatzes begegnen: zwei kostbare Kathedralschätze erstmals in einer gemeinsamen Ausstellung.

For more information, https://dioezesanmuseum-paderborn.de/der-schatz-von-muenster/

Exhibition Closing: Feared and Revered: Feminine Power Through the Ages, National Museum Australia, Canberra, Until 27 August 2023

Exhibition Closing

Feared and Revered: Feminine Power Through the Ages

National Museum Australia, Canberra

UNTIL 27 August 2023

Feared and Revered: Feminine Power through the Ages celebrates the power and diversity of female spiritual beings in cultural traditions and beliefs across the globe.

Through universal themes of creation, passion, war, justice and mercy, Feared and Revered highlights the many faces of feminine power – ferocious, beautiful, creative or hell-bent – and its profound influence through the ages.

Feared and Revered showcases more than 160 objects from the British Museum’s exceptional collection, spanning six continents and 5,000 years, from 2800 BCE to the present day.

The exhibition presents a fascinating range of monumental sculpture, sacred artefacts and contemporary artworks, alongside Australian Indigenous representations of female ancestral figures and popular culture embodiments of the divine.

For more information, https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/feared-and-revered

Call for Papers in German and English: Netzwerk ‚Das Komische als Kulturwissenschaft‘, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, Due By 15 August 2023

Call for PApers in German and ENglish

Netzwerk ‚Das Komische als Kulturwissenschaft‘

Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, Essen

Due By 15 August 2023

Für ein geplantes DFG-Netzwerk, das Komik als eigenständige kulturelle Praxis begreift, sich unter Berücksichtigung des historischen und medialen Wandels mit ihren Formen, Konfigurationen und Verfahren, ihren Wirkungen und Funktionen, ihren Extremen, Grenzen und blinden Flecken auseinandersetzt, werden Projekte aus den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften gesucht.

Von Spottgedichten und scherzhaften Drucken über Lustspiele und Vaudevilles bis zu Stand-Up-Comedy, witziger Werbung und Memes: Um bei Rezipient*innen zu wirken, muss das Komische auf kulturelles Wissen referieren und konventionalisierte Erwartungen aufrufen, um Letztere enttäuschen oder konterkarieren zu können, bisweilen in spektakulärer Art. Einerseits werden damit soziale Konstruktionen und Konflikte sichtbar, bspw. die Ein-/Ausschlüsse entlang von Differenzkategorien wie race, class, gender oder disability. Indem Komik etwa unerwartet abweichende Kultur- und Körpertechniken durchspielt, schickt sie sich andererseits aber auch an, alternative Modelle des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenlebens zu imaginieren und zu gestalten. Lustige Alltagssituationen und populärkomische Genres eröffnen daher wirkmächtige Verhandlungsorte kulturellen Wissens. Darin stehen sie den sog. hochkulturellen Produktionen in nichts nach.

Wir möchten einen transdisziplinären Rahmen etablieren für Wissenschaftler:innen mit kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschungsvorhaben, die weniger auf komiktheoretische Universalismen abzielen, sondern die die historisch-kulturellen Spezifika komischer Ereignisse in den Blick nehmen. Vielfältige Untersuchungsgegenstände, ästhetische wie epochale Schwerpunkte von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart sowie methodische und theoretische Anliegen sind willkommen. Grundlegendes Ziel des Netzwerks ist es:

  • das in vielen Fachdisziplinen vernachlässigte Komische als einen strukturell komplexen, ästhetisch reichhaltigen und gesellschaftlich hochrelevanten Forschungsgegenstand zu verankern,

  • das besondere kulturanalytische Potenzial des Komischen in seinen verschiedensten Präsentationsformen und -verfahren sowie im Hinblick auf diverse Wissenskontexte zu beleuchten,

  • etablierte Ansätze und aktuelle Forschungsrichtungen im gemeinsamen transdisziplinären Austausch kritisch zu reflektieren, zu nuancieren und zu erweitern, um neue Impulse für eine dezidiert kulturwissenschaftliche Komikforschung zu generieren.

Das Netzwerk kann bis zu 20 Mitglieder umfassen (darunter Forschende außerhalb Deutschlands) und nimmt seine Arbeit nach erfolgreicher Einwerbung für bis zu drei Jahre auf. Als Arbeitssprachen sind Deutsch und Englisch vorgesehen.

Interessierte bitten wir um eine kurze Projektskizze von etwa 1500 Zeichen und um eine biografische Notiz, die ggf. Vorarbeiten benennt. Beides kann, am besten zu einer PDF gebündelt, bis zum 15. August 2023 bei Roxanne Phillips (roxanne.phillips@kwi-nrw.de) eingereicht werden.

For more information, https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/cfp-netzwerk-das-komische-als-kulturwissenschaft/#

Call for Papers: Revue de l’Association des jeunes chereurs d’e l’Ouest - Varia, Due By 28 July 2023

Call for Papers

Revue de l’Association des jeunes chereurs d’e l’Ouest - Varia

Due By 28 July 2023

Présentation

L’Association des Jeunes Chercheurs de l’Ouest (AJCO), créée en 2020 par d’anciens masterants en histoire de l’université d’Angers, aide les jeunes chercheurs traitant de questions d’histoire à valoriser leurs premiers travaux de recherche. L’AJCO a ainsi lancé plusieurs projets dont le principal est la publication d’articles de jeunes chercheurs en histoire, toutes thématiques et périodes confondues. Un à deux articles sont ainsi publiés chaque mois sur son site Internet.

Ce projet s’inscrit dans une démarche pédagogique et permet une première approche de l’exercice particulier de la rédaction d’un article scientifique. Conscients des difficultés de valorisation des mémoires de recherche, nous avons construit une plateforme contributive numérique alimentée par des articles écrits par de jeunes chercheurs. Pendant un master ou éventuellement un doctorat, l’écriture des premiers articles scientifiques et académiques peut sembler difficile. L’AJCO accompagne et conseille ainsi de jeunes chercheurs dans leur rédaction d’un article et le publie ensuite.

La revue de l’AJCO participe également à la vie de la recherche. Les mémoires de master sont souvent mal connus et peu diffusés, alors que les résultats obtenus sont souvent solides et pourraient contribuer à la recherche en histoire. Par la publication en ligne, la communauté scientifique et le public de façon générale peuvent accéder à ce que la recherche propose de plus actuel.

Modalités de contribution

L’AJCO donne la possibilité aux masterants, doctorants et jeunes diplômés en histoire de publier un article d’environ 30 000 signes, accompagné d’une bibliographie indicative d’une page. L’article doit s’inscrire dans la continuité des travaux universitaires ou reprendre les idées et thématiques développées dans les mémoires de recherche.

Les jeunes chercheurs souhaitant contribuer doivent envoyer une proposition d’article d’une page maximum, en mettant l’accent sur les questionnements autour desquels s’articulera la réflexion.

Date limite d’envoi des contributions : 28 juillet 2023

Les propositions doivent être envoyés à l’adresse suivante : contact@ajco49.fr

Merci d’indiquer dans votre email votre nom et prénom ainsi votre parcours universitaire (niveau d’étude et université de formation).

Le comité de lecture de l’AJCO est composé d’anciens masterants pour chaque période historique. Votre proposition sera étudiée et si vous êtes sélectionné pour rédiger un article, ces membres seront à votre disposition pour vous accompagner dans son écriture et répondre à vos questions éventuelles. Nous vous invitons également à faire appel à vos directeurs de recherche dans la mesure du possible, ces derniers étant les plus aptes à vous conseiller sur les questions de fond de votre réflexion.

Calendrier

  • 28 juillet 2023 : fin de l’appel à contributions

  • 28 juillet – 31 juillet 2023 : discussion collégiale autour des auteurs retenus

  • 31 juillet : envoi des réponses aux auteurs

  • 1er décembre 2023 : dernier délai pour récupérer le premier jet

  • 1er décembre 2023 – 1er mars : navette de relecture

  • 1er mars – 15 mars 2024 : processus d’édition

  • 15 mars 2024 : début des publications numériques

Des appels à contributions sont publiés plusieurs fois par an.

Comité de lecture

  • Matteo ANTONIAZZI, docteur en Histoire Ancienne, enseignant contractuel à l’Université d’Angers

  • Veronika BRANDL-MOUTON, maîtrise de recherche en Histoire Contemporaine

  • Béranger CHAUVIN, master de recherche en Histoire Ancienne

  • Matthieu CICHON, doctorant en Histoire Contemporaine

  • Philippe DUCHESNE, master de recherche en Histoire Ancienne

  • Laurène GARREAU, master de recherche en Histoire Moderne

  • Malo JEZEQUEL, master de recherche en Histoire Contemporaine

  • Alexis KOWALCZYK, master de recherche en Histoire du Moyen Âge

  • Lucie LAMPÉRIÈRE, maîtrise de recherche en Histoire Contemporaine

  • Roxanne LOUOT, master de recherche en Histoire Moderne

  • Justine MORENO, docteure en Histoire du Moyen Âge

  • Élise PIEDFORT, master de recherche en Histoire Moderne

CONTACT(S)

A PDF of the call for papers is available, and for more information, visit https://ajco49.fr/

Call for Papers: Luxury details in Medieval and Renaissance banquets, Karlštejn Castle, Prague (24 January 2024), Due By 30 July 2023

Call for Papers

Luxury details in Medieval and Renaissance banquets

Karlštejn Castle, Prague, Czech Republic, Jan 24, 2024

Due By 30 July 2023

Luxury in banquets is a topic that have been fascinating scholars in the last decades, with the result of bringing to the attention of the public the importance of specific objects, materials, ritual and diplomatic procedures or ingredients within these feasts. The sources employed were many and heterogenous, ranging from documents - including inventories, payment receipts, letters, personal journals, festival books, manuals and treatises – miniatures and paintings or archaeological evidences. This workshop intends to draw attention specifically to the material culture of banquets, exploring further the reasons for the choices made choosing the decorations, the table setting, the food offer and the costumes that would have been used for such occasions, from the 14th to the 17th century. The charm of Karlštejn Castle (https://www.hrad-karlstejn.cz/en) will be the perfect frame to welcome a one-day workshop dedicated to the discussion of new insights on table culture, tableware, precious fabrics, rich garments designed for specific banquet-related purposes, exotic ingredients and any other subject that can be connected with luxury aspects and attitudes in Medieval and Renaissance banquets.
The organizers of this workshop (Maddalena Bellavitis and Milan Svoboda) invite papers addressing issues that can shed new light and provide new interdisciplinary research trajectories on any topic that can be connected with the introduction of luxury items (including, but not only, tableware, clothes, furniture, decorations…), materials, ingredients and attitudes that could be used and found in Medieval and Renaissance banquets.

To be considered for participation, please provide a single pdf document including a one-page proposal in English for a 20-minute presentation of an unpublished research and a short bio. Applications may be sent to maddalena.bellavitis@gmail.com by July 30, 2023, specifying in the object the title of the workshop you are applying for (participants will be notified in September).

Call for Papers: Fragments and the Big Picture: Using Manuscript Fragments as Historical Sources, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Due By 15 September 2023

Call for Papers

Fragments and the Big Picture: Using Manuscript Fragments as Historical Sources

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 9-11 May 2024

Due By 15 September 2023

Helsinki National Library, F.m.I.83, fol. 5r

Over the last decades, manuscript fragments have received increased scholarly attention and international collaboration. Much of this work has concentrated on reconstructing now fragmented codices, highlighting rare survivals, or cataloguing.

While such efforts are crucially important, there is great research potential in the capacity of collections of fragments to expand our vision of medieval history more broadly. This session welcomes papers exploring how large or small fragment corpora (manuscript or incunabula) - and the meta-data about their provenance and early-modern recycling history - can be used as historical sources informing medieval book culture and other historical phenomena more broadly.

The organisers welcome papers using digital, big data/quantitative, as well as more traditional methodologies. We also encourage the exploration of methodological questions, such as:

  • How to approach fragments as corpora?

  • What can such corpora be thought to be representative of?

  • How have they been shaped by the recycling processes that ensured their survival?

  • What is the role of studying these processes in the wider context of fragment studies?

The session will be in-person only.

Paper proposals (c. 300-word abstract, affiliation, contact details, paper title, and 3-5 keywords), to be submitted on the ICMS Confex portal (see wmich.edu/medievalconaress/call) or to Emilia Henderson-Roche on emilia.henderson@helsinkif.fi, from 15 July, and by the latest 15 September 2023.

For an image of the call for papers, click here.

Call for Papers: Saints in Crisis: Emotional Responses to Sanctity in the Middle Ages, International Medieval Congress (IMC 2024), University of Leeds, DUE BY 12 September 2023

Call for Papers

Saints in Crisis: Emotional Responses to Sanctity in the Middle Ages

International Medieval Congress (IMC 2024), University of Leeds

DUE BY 12 September 2023

They were frightened and they hit in great pain their heads and hearts– How do people react when they encounter the sanctity of saints? How do they feel? Are they in crisis – crisis for whom? Does crisis change individuals?

The proposed session focuses on the emotional responses of individuals/communities in relation to sanctity. Suggested topics on the emotional reactions of individuals/communities, from any geographic area or time period (between 300-1500), may include, but are not limited to:

  • Visual representations of emotions (behavior of the body, gestures, looks); 

  • Textual sources on emotional reactions (hagiographies, miracle stories, narratives in relation to crisis and sanctity);

  • Medical (psychological, neurological, physical, and mental) responses;

  • Liturgy and music culture;

  • Regions/areas of communities (rural, urban, monastic, ecclesiastic), emotions, and sanctity;

  • Living saints, discoveries of saints, relics – reliquaries, icons, and viewership reactions;

  • Performance, sanctity, and emotions;

  • External crisis/internal crisis, positive/negative emotional reactions, and sanctity;

  • Conversion stories/lack of conversion/otherness and emotional reactions;

Submissions from a variety of disciplines are accepted including but not limited to: history, art history, visual culture, social history, cultural history, hagiography, religious studies, cultural studies, textual studies in a transdisciplinary perspective. 

Please submit a 250- 400 word proposal (in English) for a 15-20 minute paper. Proposals should have an abstract format and be accompanied by a short CV, of no more than 800 words, including e-mail, institution, and profession. The session is planned to be in-presence. Please submit all relevant documents by 12 September 2023 to the e-mail address: znorovszkyandrea@usal.es

Contact information: Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain (znorovszkyandrea@usal.es)

For a an image of the call for papers, click here.

Call for Papers: Marking the Body: Medieval Adornment and Tattooing, Session for International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Due By 1 September 2023

Call For Papers

Session for International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

Marking the Body: Medieval Adornment and Tattooing

Due By September 1, 2023

https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_cong_archive/index.2.html

Popular forms of body modifications have been shared by many postindustrial cultures. Tattoos and other body modification have been practiced as method of expressing pilgrimage, rite of passage, folk medicine, ancestral connections, and marks of difference. This session will center on the practice of marking the Christian body with the goal to uncover impetuses behind body marking, the meaning of the corporeal body, as well as myth and bias associated with the practice. This session would encompass discourse surrounding the Christian tradition from antiquity to the height of peregrination. All societal, performative ethnic, and regional practices will be given consideration.

**Please Note: The symposium will be planned as an in-person session.

Please submit a 250-300 word abstract and CV for consideration to katharine.d.scherff@ttu.edu. Be sure to list “Kalamazoo CFP, Body Marking” as your subject line. The paper proposal deadline is September 1, 2023.

Please direct all paper submissions and questions to:
Session Chair: Katharine D Scherff, Texas Tech University | Medieval and Renaissance Studies Center, School of Art, Katharine.d.Scherff@ttu.edu

ICMA-KRESS RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION GRANTS, DUE 31 AUGUST 2023

The Kress Foundation is again generously supporting five research and publication grants to be administered by the ICMA. This year, grants are $3,500 each and ICMA members at any stage past the PhD are eligible to apply.

The deadline for the 2023 grant cycle is 31 August 2023.
Upload materials HERE.

ELIGIBILITY
The ICMA-Kress Research and Publication grants ($3,500) are now available to scholars who are ICMA members at any stage past the PhD.

With the field of medieval art history expanding in exciting ways, it is crucial that the ICMA continue to encourage innovative research that will bring new investigations to broad audiences. These grants are open to scholars at all phases of their careers. Priority will be given to proposals with a clear path toward publication.

If travel is a facet of your application, please include an itinerary and be specific about costs for all anticipated expenses (travel, lodging, per diem, and other details). If you aim to inspect extremely rare materials or sites with restricted access, please be as clear as possible about prior experience or contacts already made with custodians.

If your application is for funds that will support the production of a book, please include a copy of the contract from your publisher, the publisher’s request for a subvention, and/or specifics on costs for images and permissions.

Preference will be given to applicants who have not received an ICMA-Kress grant in the past.

Please submit these documents for your application:

1) A detailed overview of the project (no more than three pages, single spaced). Please also confirm that your ICMA membership is active and specify whether or not you have been awarded an ICMA-Kress grant previously.

2) A full cv.

3) A full budget.

4) Supporting materials – an itinerary (for applications involving travel), a contract and schedule of costs (if a press requires a subvention), or table of anticipated fees for image permissions (if applicable).

Please note: If you are applying for funds to support the production of a book, please do not upload the entire typescript or portions of the text.

The application should be submitted electronically HERE. Recipients will be announced in October 2023.

Questions can be addressed to Ryan Frisinger, Executive Director, at awards@medievalart.org.

Failure to include all required materials adversely affects the review process.

CALL FOR Papers: International Society for the Study of Medievalism: The Medieval in Cyberspace (26-28 October 2023 Online), Due 15 August 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Society for the Study of Medievalism

Theme: The Medieval in Cyberspace

October 26-28, 2023 - Online

Submission Deadline: August 15, 2023

The 2023 conference will be 100% online and hosted by The UNICORN Castle! Most scholarly presentations will be conducted via Zoom technology; some of the entertainment and scholarly presentations (by request) will be conducted in an online gaming style environment; some of the presentations and responses will be conducted asynchronously in a Moodle (learning platform) environment.

From Beowulf on Steorarume to contemporary novels (in e-text form), films, and video games: the medieval has been represented in digital form on the World Wide Web since the late 1990s. This conference invites proposals for papers, paper sessions, round tables, panels, and workshops that celebrate, rebuke, categorize, visualize, analyze, and/or prophesize all items that contain elements of the medieval to be found on the Internet. However, we invite papers and presentations on all topics of medievalism, not limited to this year’s conference theme. We particularly welcome proposals from presenters in (or addressing topics related to) regions outside North America, Western Europe, and the Anglophone world.

Topic Suggestions:

  • Artificial Intelligence and Medievalism

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • Medieval Studies Online

  • Medieval Scholars and Scholarship in Social Media

  • Medieval Scholarship Online

  • Medieval Pedagogy Online

  • Medievalism and Online Politics

  • Medievalism and Propaganda

  • Medievalism and Religion Online

  • Digital Facsimiles of the Medieval

  • The Business Philosophy of Medievalism

  • The Video Game Industry and Medievalism

  • The Film Industry and Medievalism

  • Fan Fiction and Medievalism

  • Art and Medievalism

  • Global Medievalism Online

  • Cyberpunk Medievalism

  • Medievalism and Racism Online

  • Medievalism and Misogyny Online

  • Medievalism and Ablism Online

  • Medievalism and Homophobia/Transphobia Online

  • Lost Provinces, or Lost and Found Medievalisms Online

Send proposals (abstracts of 250-300 words each) by August 15, 2023 to Carol L. Robinson at clrobins@kent.edu.

For more information, click here.

Exhibition Closing: Dürer for Berlin, Looking for Traces of the Master in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Until 27 August 2023

Exhibition Closing

Dürer for Berlin
Looking for Traces of the Master in the Kupferstichkabinett

Kultureforum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / PREUßisher ulturbesitz

Until 27 August 2023

Albrecht Dürer, Die Drahtziehmühle, 1489 - 1494, detail, Watercolour © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett / Jörg P. Anders

The Kupferstichkabinett is home to one of the most important collections of drawings and printed works by Albrecht Dürer anywhere in the world. The masterpieces gathered together here give a striking demonstration of the breadth of his artistic production. With this exhibition, the Kupferstichkabinett is opening one of its greatest treasure chests.

Alongside Dürer’s Meisterstich engravings and woodcut series (such as Apocalypse and Life of the Virgin), key drawings will be on display, such as Dürer’s Mother, TheWire-Drawing Mill, along with numerous sheets from the famous Sketchbook of His Journey to the Netherlands. With its 120 exhibits, the show will also publicly explore the multifaceted nature of the collection itself for the first time. It leads from the beginnings of the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett in 1831 and the founding of the German Empire in 1871 through the Gründerzeit and the Nazi years to the division of the collections after the war and their subsequent reunification at the Kulturforum in 1994.

In this sense, the exhibition does not just explore art-historical aspects, but also aspects relating to the history of collecting as well as broader cultural-historical themes. It touches on the formation of Germany’s national identity, on the transfer of artworks during the Napoleonic era and its effect on the European art market, and on one of the first ever controversies of attribution in German art history.

For more information, https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/duerer-for-berlin/

Call for Applications: Manuscripts in the Curriculum III at Les Enluminures, Due By 15 October 2023

Call for Applications

Manuscripts in the Curriculum III at Les Enluminures

Due By 15 October 2023

“Manuscripts in the Curriculum” is Les Enluminures’s innovative and highly successful program that enables colleges, universities, and other educational institutions in the United States and Canada to borrow a select group of original manuscripts for teaching and exhibitions for a segment of the academic year (semester, quarter, or summer session). The integration of real manuscripts into the curriculum in courses where students can work closely with original material under the guidance of a professor is a central tenet of the program. The program also serves as a springboard, enabling participating institutions to discover and implement ways that manuscripts can continue to be used creatively in their curricula.


We are now accepting applications for participation in “Manuscripts in the Curriculum III” to begin in January 2024. A group of nine manuscripts will be available for loan. We will choose seven manuscripts to serve as a diverse sample of manuscripts from across Europe in Latin and the vernacular from various dates; it is possible to customize the program with the addition of two “wild card” manuscripts especially suited to the needs of the participating institution. Descriptions of a sample group of manuscripts will be available upon request.


There is a nominal cost ($5,500) for North American institutions to contribute towards the out-of-pocket expenses of the program (with an additional fee for participating Canadian institutions for international shipping and customs). The fee covers administration, insurance, shipping, and condition reports. The program also includes a zoom-meeting with the supervising curator and faculty to discuss the loan, and one class session on the manuscripts presented via zoom by Sandra Hindman and Laura Light (at a time mutually agreed upon by Les Enluminures and the participating institution).
To read more about the program, including news from past participants, please see our website, http://www.textmanuscripts.com/curatorial-services/manuscripts

The application (no more than 3 pages in length) should include: a letter of intent outlining the course(s) planned, and other internal and public events (lectures, receptions, colloquia), as well as any special requests for “wild card” manuscripts; a plan for integrating the use of manuscripts in the curriculum after the conclusion of the program; the names of faculty and library staff responsible for overseeing and funding the program; and the preferred semester with a second choice listed (from January 2024 through January 2027). Applications are due October 15, 2023. Decisions will be announced November 15, 2023.


Please send your application to: lauralight@lesenluminures.com

Call For Papers For International Workshop: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON PERSONIFICATIONS IN ROMAN, LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY BYZANTINE ART (200 – 800 AD) , Munich (25-27 January 2024), Due By 15 September 2023

Call For PApers: International Workshop

INSTITUT FÜR BYZANTINISTIK, BYZANTINISCHE KUNSTGESCHICHTE UND NEOGRÄZISTIK, Ludiwg-Maximilians Universität München

SPÄTANTIKE UND BYZANTINISCHE KUNSTGESCHICHTE e.V.

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON PERSONIFICATIONS IN ROMAN, LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY BYZANTINE ART (200 – 800 AD)

Munich, 26-27 January 2024

Due By 15 September 2023

Keynote Speaker: Emma Stafford, University of Leeds, School of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Personifications are some of the most geographically and chronologically widespread phenomena in Art History. From monumental sculpture or floor mosaics to textiles, coins or everyday objects, personifications were represented in all visual media to express and communicate a variety of different ideas, such as natural phenomena, months, seasons or geographical regions, personal qualities or intangible abstractions. While some are easily identifiable via specific attributes, others can only be recognized through name labels; some occur as isolated figures, others as active participants in complex scenes; some exist in countless examples, others survive in a singular image. They may have counterparts in contemporary written sources, or may be purely visual inventions. In addition, a single personification can carry multivalent meanings, which may allow for several layers of interpretation. Over time their ontological status, functions and meanings have undergone various changes. A significant period of transformation is the transition from the ancient to the mediaeval world. While personifications were seen as numinous figures in ancient Mediterranean societies, they may have been rather symbolic or allegorical in mediaeval visual cultures.

The aim of this workshop is to explore the formal patterns, roles and meanings, continuities and innovations in the depictions of personifications of this period to better understand their functions, their relationship to one another and to other iconographic tools, as well as the changes that occur between the second and ninth centuries in the Mediterranean world.

We invite proposals for individual papers from the fields of classics, archaeology, art history, visual studies, numismatics, sigillography and related fields addressing especially, but not exclusively, the following topics:

  • New research on individual personifications in all Roman, Late Antique and Byzantine visual media (sculpture, painting, mosaic, coins, seals, textiles, book illumination, jewellery, everyday and/or luxury objects, etc.)

  • Methodological and theoretical approaches towards personifications (ontology, polysemy, etc.)

  • Reflections on the relationship between text and image in the analysis of personifications

  • Functional comparisons between different formats (stand-alone personifications, personifications in groups and/or narrative scenes)

  • Chronological and geographical comparisons and iconographical developments in the depictions of personifications

  • Relationship between the pictorial representation of personifications and their spatial and/or cultural context

  • Relationship between personifications and the patrons, recipients and viewers of objects and works of art that include them

Please submit an abstract of 300 words and a bio of 100 words by 15 September 2023. All proposals should include your name, email address and academic affiliation (if applicable). Please also include a main subject field plus secondary subject field in the application. The participants are expected to deliver a 20-minute talk, followed by a Q&A session. The workshop will take place in-person at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke in Munich on Friday and Saturday, 26-27 January 2024 and will be held in English. For the planned publication German, French and Italian will also be accepted.

The workshop is organized by Institut für Byzantinistik, Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte und Neogräzistik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München with the kind support of Spätantike Archäologie und Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte e.V.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions you may have and send your abstracts and bios to both:

Charles Wastiau, Cwastiau@uliege.be, Université de Liège, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Prolet Decheva, prolet.decheva@ucdconnect.ie, University College Dublin, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

For a PDF of the Call for Papers: https://www.academia.edu/103941544/CFP_New_Perspectives_on_Personifications_in_Roman_Late_Antique_and_Early_Byzantine_Art_200_800_AD_

Pultizer Arts Foundation Virtual Conversation: Exhibitions, Museum Collections, and Environment, 27 July 2023 12-1PM CT/1-2PM ET

Pultizer Arts Foundation

Virtual Conversation

Exhibitions, Museum Collections, and Environment

Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 12–1 pm CDT/1-2 PM ET

Join Heather Alexis Smith, Assistant Curator at the Pulitzer, and Dr. Julia Perratore, Assistant Curator at The Met Cloisters for a conversation about ecology-centered museum practices. Smith will describe the process of organizing the Pulitzer’s spring show, The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550 and will discuss how exhibitions can help us think differently about environments—both past and present. Perratore will detail efforts underway at the Met Cloisters—one of the most comprehensive collections of medieval art in the world—to build more climate-friendly installations and exhibitions.

This program will be hosted on Zoom; Registration is required.

Questions? Contact programs@pulitzerarts.org.

For more information, https://pulitzerarts.org/events/virtual-conversation-exhibitions-museum-collections-and-environment/