THE MEDIEVAL MULTIPLE: SATURDAY 27 JANUARY 2024, AN ICMA CO-SPONSORED CONFERENCE. REGISTER TODAY!

THE MEDIEVAL MULTIPLE

ICMA CO-SPONSORED CONFERENCE
HOSTED BY THE INDEX OF MEDIEVAL ART, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

IN PERSON AND LIVESTREAM
SATURDAY 27 JANUARY 2024

Register HERE

Organized by Sonja Drimmer and Ryan Eisenman.

Recent efforts to conceptualize the "pre-modern multiple" only occasionally reckon with the Middle Ages. Medieval multiples are frequently positioned against their modern counterparts—especially print—and subsequently presented as isolated, unrealized forms of mass (re)production. Yet the multiple was not an anomaly but rather the product of a common mode of artistic creation in the Middle Ages, found in a wide variety of materials and object types. Recognizing its ubiquity in visual and material culture, this conference brings together scholars to consider the multiple in the interconnected cultures of Afro-Eurasia between ca. 500 and 1500: its ontological status, the ways in which it could be produced, and how its makers and viewers recognized (or failed to recognize) replication.

Register HERE

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ICMA AT COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2025, DUE 15 JANUARY 2024

ICMA AT COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE   

New York, February 2025 
Call for ICMA Sponsored Session Proposals
due Monday 15 January 2024

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2025 at the annual meeting of the College Art Association. Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members.  
 
The actual conference dates have not yet been confirmed, but the ICMA would like to plan ahead and so the CFP comes earlier this cycle.   
 
Proposals must include the following in one single Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title:   

1. Session abstract   

2. CV of the organizer(s)   

3. Session organizers may also include a list of potential speakers   

Please upload all session proposals as a single DOC or PDF by 15 January 2024 here.
 
For inquiries, contact the Chair of the ICMA Programs & Lectures Committee: Alice Isabella Sullivan, Tufts University, USA, alice.sullivan@tufts.edu.  

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A NOTE ABOUT KRESS TRAVEL GRANTS 

 
Thanks to a generous grant from the Kress Foundation, funds may be available to defray travel costs of speakers in ICMA sponsored sessions up to a maximum of $600 for domestic travel and of $1200 for overseas travel. If a conference meets in person, the Kress funds are allocated for travel and hotel only. If a presenter is attending a conference virtually, Kress funding will cover virtual conference registration fees.
 
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Call for Papers: The Fifth Quadrennial Symposium on Crusade Studies (Madrid, 3-5 October 2024), Due 31 March 2024

Call for Papers

The Fifth Quadrennial Symposium on Crusade Studies, October 3 – 5, 2024

Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, Spain

Due 31 March 2024

The Symposium on Crusade Studies a quadrennial conference sponsored by the Crusade Studies Forum of Saint Louis University. The Symposium invites proposals for scholarly papers, complete sessions, and roundtables on all topics related to the crusading movement. Papers are normally twenty minutes each and sessions are schedule for ninety minutes.

Abstracts of 250 words and session proposals should be submitted online at http://www.crusadestudies.org/symposium-on-crusade-studies.html The deadline for submission is March 31, 2024. Late submissions will be considered if space is available. Decisions will be made by the end of April and the program will be published in June.

Plenary Speakers:
Thomas Asbridge, Queen Mary University of London
Helen Nicholson, Cardiff Univeristy

For more information, or to submit your proposal, go to
http://www.crusadestudies.org/symposium-on-crusade-studies.html

International Conference: New Perspectives on Personifications in Roman, Late Antique and Early Byzantine Art (200-800 AD), LMU Munich & Online, 26-27 January 2024

International Conference

New Perspectives on Personifications in Roman, Late Antique and Early Byzantine Art (200-800 AD)

LMU Munich & Online

January 26-27 2024

An international conference on New Perspectives on Personifications in Roman, Late Antique and Early Byzantine Art (200-800 AD) takes place at LMU Munich on January 26th and 27th, 2024. We are pleased to be able to support the initiative of Prolet Decheva and Charles Wastiau.

The conference takes place in Katharina-von-Bora-Str. 10 in the large lecture hall (R. 242). The lectures can also be followed via live stream. All times are according to CET.

Registration

To register online for each day, click the link for the day that you want to attend.

Day 1

Day 2

PROGRAM

A copy of the program can be downloaded.

Friday,  26 January 2024 (All Times CET)

13:15 – 13:30 Introduction

13:30 – 14:00 Anna-Laura Honikel, Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.

Personifications on Mosaics of the Province Lusitania

14:00 – 14:30 Sarah Hollaender, University of Graz

Visualizing ‘Manliness’: The Goddess Virtus and Her Transformations in Late Antiquity

14:30 – 15:00 Giovanna Ferri, University of Sassari

Seasons Personifications in the Decorative Programs of Roman Catacombs and Privately-Owned Hypogea in Late Antiquity: Felicitas Temporum and Heavenly Aeternitas

15:00 – 15:30 Break

15:30 – 16:00 Caroline Bridel, University of Bern

The Use of Personifications in Late Antique Jewish Spaces: Establishing a Cultural Frame?

16:00 – 16:30 Amélie Belleli, INRAP/University of Limoges

Late Roman Empresses as Allegorical Figures

16:30 – 17:00 Prolet Decheva, University College Dublin

Personifications of Abstract Ideas and Proper Names

17:00 – 18:00 Break

18:00 – 19:00 Keynote lecture: Emma Stafford, University of Leeds

Nemesis: A Greek Personification in the Later Roman World

Saturday, 27 January 2024 (All Times CET)

09:00 – 09:30 Annegret Klünker, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Coining Embodied Conditions: The Severan Era as Synopsis for the Visual Emergence of Personifications in Rome

09:30 – 10:00 Charles Wastiau, University of Liège/University of Bonn

The End of the „Divine Qualities“ on Late Roman Coins

10:00 – 10:30 Pavla Gkantzios Drápelová, Czech Academy of Sciences

The Last Echoes of Tyche Poleos on Byzantine Coins: Several Cases from the 6th Century

10:30 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 11:30 Amel Bouder, Freie Universität Berlin/Deutsches Archäologisches Institut

The Multiple Personifications of Saturnus the African God and his Assessors: an Allegory between the River God and the Master of the Universe

11:30 – 12:00 Julian Hollaender, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg

Greetings from the Jordan River: The Anthropomorphic River in Early Christian Baptismal Representations

12:00 – 12:30 Natalia Turabelidze, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

Classical Prototypes in Medieval Georgian Mural Painting: The Evidence of Ateni Sioni Murals

12:30 Conclusions

For more information, https://sabkmuenchen.com/2023/12/07/workshop-2/

Online Event: Studiolo Digital Humanities Lab, Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (12-15 Feb. 2024), Early Bird Deadline 12 Dec. 2023; Regular Deadline 31 Jan. 2024

Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance

Winter School Series - Humantities for the Future

Studiolo, Digital Humanities Lab

12-15 February 2024

Online Event

Early Bird Deadline 12 December 2023

Regular Deadline 31 January 2024 

Organised by Fabrizio Bigotti and Manuel Huth

Keynote Speakers: Arsen Bobokhyan, Alexander Hubert, Florian Langhanki, Francesco Cicala, Sabine Schlegelmilch, Ulrich Schlegelmilch, and Viktorya Vasilyan

The advent of the digital era means that also traces of our past are now available through this medium.

Libraries, archives, and museums around the world are providing access to their documents online; from the inner parts of living systems, including human anatomy, to artifacts and buildings, people can experience the world from a distance.

As the field of Digital Humanities (DH) gains a firm foothold in academia, scholars and researchers at all stages of their careers are invited to make themselves familiar with it and acquire the skills needed to keep up with the new media and tools to undertake their own digital projects and analysis. Studiolo Digital Humanities Lab is a new Winter School format that offers comprehensive programme of training to participants wishing to gain knowledge in the field of Digital Humanities or to polish an emerging skillset. It caters to individuals working in the fields of history, philosophy, art and archaeology and interested in acquiring skills in 3D modelling, Basic Coding, OCR, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Neural Networks. No prior knowledge of coding or others skills is required just a good laptop, good will and good English command.

Event held as part of the project Measuring the World by Degrees. Intensity in Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy 1400-1650 (461231785) sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Info and registration at https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/studiolo-digital-lab-2024/

For a flyer for the event, click here.

Call for Submissions: Digital Humanities Showcase, Medieval Academy of America Graduate Student Committee (Zoom, 30 January 2024), Due By 15 December 2023

Call for Submissions

Digital Humanities Showcase

Medieval Academy of America Graduate Student Committee

Due By 15 December 2023

The GSC is seeking presenters for the second edition of its Digital Humanities Showcase, scheduled to take place over Zoom on 30th January, 2024.

We invite scholars in any field or discipline of global medieval studies who use innovative technologies in their study or teaching of the Middle Ages to share their work with a broad audience of medievalists. This virtual gathering will serve as a forum for scholars, both emerging and established, to gather and learn about, as well as celebrate, their achievements and work in the digital humanities, broadly conceived. Above all, the GSC's Digital Humanities Showcase is meant to be fun and exciting, giving participants and presenters alike the chance to share ideas and connect.

Presentations should be no more than ten minutes in length and explain the impact of the applied technologies on medieval studies. The content of the presentations should be accessible to scholars from all disciplines while also maintaining a high quality of research. If possible, we encourage presenters to include a demonstration of their technology, methodology, or approach.

Possible topics could include, but are not limited to:

• Digital modelling of religious and secular spaces

• Virtual reconstructions of manuscripts

• New innovations in mapping

• Immersive technologies such as mixed- or virtual-reality headsets

• Sensory recreations–spaces, sounds, textures, tastes, etc.

• Classroom or research applications for technology

• X-ray, imaging, and other scientific analyses to research palimpsests, artworks, and manuscripts

• Examinations of medieval technologies through modern reconstructions and analyses.

Applications should include a 2-page CV as well as a brief abstract of no more than 200 words. Submissions should be sent to William Beattie at wbeattie@nd.edu and gs@themedievalacademy.org by Friday, 15 December. Selected speakers will be notified by the end of December.

For a copy of the Call for Papers, click here.

Call for Papers: Comitatus Vol. 55 (2024), Graduate Student Journal, Due 4 March 2024

Call for Papers

Comitatus

A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES

Vol. 55 (2024)

CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Due 4 MArch 2024

The graduate student journal for the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies is accepting submissions for Vol. 55 (2024) of the Comitatus graduate student journal.  

We invite the submission of articles by graduate students and recent PhDs in any field of late antique, medieval, Renaissance, or early modern studies. We particularly welcome articles that integrate or synthesize disciplines.

 The deadline for submissions is March 4, 2024. The editorial board will make its decisions by May 2024. 

Please send submissions as email attachments to Dr. Allison McCann, Managing Editor, Comitatus (allisonmccann@humnet.ucla.edu). Submission guidelines can be found here. 

UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies 302 Royce Hall, Box 951485
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1485

For more information about the journal, http://cmrs.ucla.edu/publications/journals/comitatus/

For a copy of the call for papers, click here.

New Video! Medieval Matters: Digital Technologies for Access and Discoverability, Tory Schendel-Vyvoda and Juilee Decker, 20 October 2023

New Video

Medieval Matters: Digital Technologies for Access and Discoverability

20 October 2023 12:00pm ET

Featuring Tory Schendel-Vyvoda (Harlaxton College), Juilee Decker, Izzy Moyer, and Gabriella Smith (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Sponsored By ICMA, the Museum Studies Program at the Rochester Institute Of Technology, and the Chester F. Carlson Center For Imaging Science at the Rochester Institute Of Technology

In conjunction with the exhibition, Illuminating the Medieval and the Modern through Cultural Heritage Imaging: A Brief History of Innovation and Collaboration, at Rochester Institute of Technology, this event offers examples and use cases of low barrier-to-entry technology to facilitate access and discoverability for research, exhibition development, and visitor engagement. Join facilitator Tory Schendel-Vyvoda, Visiting Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at Harlaxton College, and Juilee Decker, Professor of Museum Studies, as they discuss innovative practices developed at RIT, working in collaboration with humanities scholars and museum practitioners, that can foster new knowledge about cultural heritage collections, including medieval manuscripts. Particular attention will be drawn to the involvement of undergraduate students in the museum studies program at RIT who have been working on the development of a low-cost, multispectral imaging system. After a brief demo of the system, attendees will learn how they can access this technology for use on their own collections. In the second part of the session, attention will turn to the use of technology for digital access such as 3D capture to develop interactive, digital exhibitions using freely-available tools. Attention will turn, in the final third of the session, to the audience for a conversation and brainstorming about what digital methods ICMA members are using to advance access to collections and to provide opportunities for greater discoverability. These use cases will illuminate how digital technologies can enhance our understanding of cultural heritage collections and help make the case that medieval matters.

Juilee Decker, Ph.D. is professor of history at Rochester Institute of Technology where she directs the Museum Studies/Public History program. She earned her Ph.D. from the joint program in art history and museum studies at Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Museum of Art. She serves as editor of the peer-reviewed journal, Collections (SAGE).

Tory Schendel-Vyvoda is a Visiting Professor of Art and History and Museum Studies at Harlaxton College as well as the curator of the Evansville African American Museum and director of the Lamasco Microgallery. She is pursuing her PhD at the Institute of Doctoral Studies in Visual Art.

Illuminating the Medieval and the Modern through Cultural Heritage Imaging: A Brief History of Innovation and Collaboration is the recipient of the 2022 ICMA-Kress Exhibition Development Grant.

To watch the video, visit the Special Online Lectures page.

Call for Papers: Metamorphosis, Transformation, and Transmutation, Ceræ Volume 11, Due 31 March 2024

Call for Papers

Ceræ, An Australisan Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Volume 11

Metamorphosis, Transformation, and Transmutation

Due 31 March 2024

Image credit: Rosarium Philosophorum, GB 247 MS Ferguson 210.

Shifting - or transforming - between states of being is a feature of human and animal societies as well as of the wider living world and the cosmos. This act of shifting is experienced through both natural and unnatural processes and can be seen in all areas of life, from the reproductive cycles of organisms, to epochal changes undergone by entire societies, and everything in between. But transformations can also refer to distortions of reality, both deliberate and accidental, magical or real, as much as they can reflect genuine changes to an individual, an institution, a landscape, or even a society. Understanding how one thing becomes another was arguably a feature of much of medieval and carly moder intellectual history - from Isidore to Aquinas, Albertus Magnus to Descartes and Newtown - and whole schools of thought could be founded and even wars fought over the differences.

Topies may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Agricultural/environmental transformations;

• Political and economic transformation/metamorphosis;

• Alchemy/medicine/science;

• Shifting between states such as life stages, death or rites of passage:

• Literary and historiographical transformation;

• Magical, mystical, and shapeshifting transformations;

• Spiritual transformations:

• Metamorphosis in relation to animals and plants;

• The body as a site of transformation.

There is no geographic or disciplinary limitation for submissions, which can consider any aspect of the medieval or early modern world or its reception.

We invite submissions of both full-length essays (5000-8000 words) and varia (up to 3000 words) that address, challenge, and develop these ideas. Cera particularly encourages submissions from postgraduate and early career researchers, and there is a $200 AUD annual prize for the best postgraduate/ECR essay. Please visit our website (www.ceraejournal.com) for further details on the submissions process.

The deadline for themed submissions is 31 March 2024.

For a copy of the Call for Papers, click here.

Call for Papers: Women in Medievalism, University of York (26 February 2024), Due By 30 December 2023

Call for Papers

Women in Medievalism

Conference at the University of York, 24 February 2024

Due By 30 December 2023

Being the study, interpretation, or application of the Middle Ages after the medieval period, the sub-discipline of medievalism exists at the intersection of multiple fields, including literature, history, religious studies, art history, linguistics, and others. It spans a period of over five hundred years, and includes a wealth of genres, materials, and approaches: the art of gothic cathedrals, the cautious linguistic scholarship of New Philology, and the exuberant creativity of novels and plays set during the Middle Ages all fall under the remit of medievalism.

This conference aims to focus on the intersection of women and the field of medievalism; both in how medievalist women have shaped and impacted the field, and how medievalism as a discipline has imagined and treated its depictions and interpretations of medieval women. Prominent figures within the discipline have recognised the importance of medievalism to various social, religious, and political movements (Chandler 1971, Simmons 1990, Matthews 2015). While masculinity and the depictions of male medieval figures are common areas of interest to scholars of medievalism, less attention has been given to women. Recent scholarship into women's contributions to and interest in medievalism and the Middle Ages (Kennedy, Margolis, and Fitzgerald 2019; Collette 2021; LaVerre 2023; Boyle 2023) have highlighted the vast potential for further research.

This conference aims to celebrate the interdisciplinary, varied approaches to medievalism and post-medieval receptions of the Middle Ages, and in particular the role of women in these fields. We look forward to engaging in meaningful discussions, fostering interdisciplinary connections, and gaining new insights into the rich tapestry of women's experiences in the medieval world. Join us in uncovering and celebrating the diverse stories that contribute to our understanding of women and medievalism.

This conference is organised through a collaboration between the University of York and the University of Copenhagen. This one-day conference will be hosted on 24 February at the King's Manor at the University of York, which is uniquely suited as a living medievalist environment; an excellent example of the medieval as it co-exists with the present. We are pleased to host a keynote address by the distinguished scholar Clare A. Lees (Institute of English Studies, University of London).

As we seek to foster new interdisciplinary conversations surrounding women, gender, and medievalism, we invite proposals for twenty-minute papers from scholars at all levels, particularly postgraduate and early career researchers. We especially welcome paper proposals from scholars whose work focuses on the global Middle Ages and from scholars of underrepresented backgrounds. This conference is expected to take place in-person in York on 24 February 2024 and is generously supported by an HRC Collaborative Project Grant.

Topics may include (but are not limited to)

• The contributions of women medievalist scholars

• Feminine artistic interpretations of the medieval past by post-medieval artists

• The use of medieval women in promoting nationalist, religious, social, or cultural ideologies

• Women artists or architects of the Gothic Revival, Pre-Raphaelite, or Romantic movements

• The gendering of medieval saints and sanctity after the middle ages

• Intersectional feminist approaches to medievalism

• The depiction and interpretation of medieval women by the heritage and museum sectors

• Queer, Ecocritical, or Crip-Theory readings of women in medievalism

• Contemporary medievalist attempts to "reclaim" medieval women

To apply, please send an abstract with title (max. 300 words) and a short biography by 30 December 2023 to all of the organisers: Ellen Gallimore (ellen.gallimore@york.ac.uk), Kirsten gilby (kirsten.ogilby@hum.ku.dk), and Marisa Michaud (marisa.michaud@york.ac.uk).

For a copy of the Call for Papers, click here.

Call For Papers: 23rd Annual Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, Northwestern University (21-23 March 2024), Extended Deadline - By 10 December 2023

Call For Papers

23rd Annual Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, March 21-23, 2024

Extended Deadline: Due By 10 December 2023

The 23rd Annual Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies invites abstracts from current graduate students and recently graduated MA students for papers on any topic relating to the long Middle Ages and its study.

We welcome submissions for 20-minute conference papers alongside performances and presentations which uilize other media, and submissions which focus on performance or the Global Middle Ages.

Submissions should consist of a paper title, an abstract, and a 1-page CV including the applicant's name and pronouns. Please submit abstracts of 300 words as a PDF to vagantesboard@gmail.com by Sunday, December 10.

For a copy of the call for papers, click here.

Call for Papers: Bodies and Boundaries, Postgraduate Conference 2024, University of Bristol (11-12 April 2024), Due 22 January 2024

Call for Papers

Bodies and Boundaries

Postgraduate Conference 2024

Centre for Medieval Studies, university of bristol, 11-12 April 2024

Due 22 January 2024

Following the success of the 2023 'Identities, Communities and 'Imagine Communities' Conference, we are delighted to invite you to the next installment of the longest-standing postgraduate conference in medieval studies: the 2024 'Bodies and Boundaries' PGR Conference.

This conference marks a significant milestone as we celebrate the 650th anniversary of Bristol's royal charter which makes the subject of embodiment in medieval contexts a highly topical theme. Imagining how past people moved within Bristol, analysing the spatial and sensory dimensions of medieval Bristol and considering how those people may have understood their bodies and environments provides a fascinating lens through which we can comprehend the medieval experience.

We welcome papers that consider bodies and boundaries across the Middle Ages, exploring theories and ideologies that underpin medieval embodiment. How did medieval individuals and communities comprehend the intricacies of their individual and collective bodies, and how did they draw the boundaries between them? How did people in the past view the complex boundary between the corporeal and the spiritual, material and immaterial? These are just some of the questions participants may consider for this conference.

We encourage abstracts from postgraduates and early-career researchers, exploring aspects and approaches to bodies and boundaries in all relevant disciplines pertaining to the medieval period, broadly construed c.500-c.1500. Abstracts are 300 words for 20-minute papers. This year's conference will be a hybrid event, taking place both online and on the campus of the University of Bristol. Please indicate in your abstract whether you intend to participate in-person or online.

Abstracts and enquiries : cms-conference-enquiries@bristol.ac.uk

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Disability, race, and gendered bodies

• Senses and spaces

• Emotions, the soul and mind

• Borders and Boundaries

• Scribal culture

• Music, rituals and performances

• Landscapes and topography

• National Identities

• The visual body

• Monstrosity

• Migration and xenophobia

• Law and Custom

• The allegorical body

• Medicine and mortality

• The sacred, the clerical and the lay

• Legal and jurisdictional boundaries

• Material culture

• Human and non-human bodies

• Performative bodies

• The body politic

• Memory and objects of memory

For a copy of the Call for Papers, click here.

New Videos! Mining the Collection I: The Walters Art Museum & Mining the Collection II: the Art Institute of Chicago, ICMS 2023

New Mining the Collection Videos

International Congress on Medieval Studies, 2023

The Walters Art Museum & The ARt Institute of Chicago

Online, 11 and 12 May 2023, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT

Mining the Collection I: The Walters Art Museum (A Virtual Visit)

Monday 11 May 2023 12:00pm EDT

A behind-the-scenes visit to the Walters Art Museum (Baltimore) with Christine Sciacca, Ellen Hoobler, Abigail Quant, and Lynley Herbert.

Sponsors: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA); Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.

Organiser and Presider: Shirin Fozi, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mining the Collection II: The Art Institute of Chicago (A Virtual Visit)

Monday 12 May 2023 12:00pm EDT

A behind-the-scenes visit to the Art Institute of Chicago with Jonathan Tavares.

Sponsors: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA); Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.

Organiser and Presider: Shirin Fozi, Metropolitan Museum of Art

The video is available to watch on the Mining the Collection page.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Research Fellowship 2024, Mapping Eastern Europe | North of Byzantium, Due By 10 January 2024

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Research Fellowship 2024

Mapping Eastern Europe | North of Byzantium

Due By January 10, 2024

We invite applications for a three-month remote fellowship for Mapping Eastern Europe (https://mappingeasterneurope.princeton.edu), which is an open-access digital platform that focuses on the history, art, and culture of Eastern Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries.

The fellow will assist with research and writing about the medieval and early modern visual culture of the northern Danube regions OR the Ottoman presence in Eastern Europe. The successful candidate will research and write 3 case studies on key monuments and objects, and 2 historical and/or thematic overviews that will then be published on the Mapping Eastern Europe website (either in longform or video format).

With this opportunity, we aim to raise awareness about the historical and artistic complexities of the region. We are equally interested in both topics (the regions to the north of the Danube River and the Ottoman presence in Eastern Europe) as they are areas that we would like to see better explored and represented on Mapping Eastern Europe.

The successful applicant should hold a PhD and be an art historian with a specialty in the medieval and/or early modern visual culture of Eastern Europe. Applicants may be of any nationality. The fellow would need to have a solid knowledge of English.

The timeline for this work is somewhat flexible but a start date at the beginning of March 2024 would be ideal. There is an honorarium of $2,000–$3,000 for this position, which is tied to the North of Byzantium initiative (www.northofbyzantium.org) and will be confirmed upon acceptance of the fellowship.

To apply, please send in a single .pdf a letter of interest with details about your research and its significance, your skills, and proposed contributions (no more than 2 pages); a CV; and the names of two referees who may be contacted to provide support letters, if needed, to northofbyzantium@gmail.com by January 10, 2024. Please include in the email subject line “Application: 2024 Mapping Research Fellowship”.

For a PDF of the Call for Applications, click here.

Call for Applications: Mary Jaharis Center Grants 2024–2025, Due 1 February 2024

Call for Applications

Mary Jaharis Center Grants 2024–2025

Due 1 February 2024

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce its 2024–2025 grant competition.

Mary Jaharis Center Co-Funding Grants promote Byzantine studies in North America. These grants provide co-funding to organize scholarly gatherings (e.g., workshops, seminars, small conferences) in North America that advance scholarship in Byzantine studies broadly conceived. We are particularly interested in supporting convenings that build diverse professional networks that cross the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines, propose creative approaches to fundamental topics in Byzantine studies, or explore new areas of research or methodologies.

Mary Jaharis Center Dissertation Grants are awarded to advanced graduate students working on Ph.D. dissertations in the field of Byzantine studies broadly conceived. These grants are meant to help defray the costs of research-related expenses, e.g., travel, photography/digital images, microfilm.

Mary Jaharis Center Publication Grants support book-length publications or major articles in the field of Byzantine studies broadly conceived. Grants are aimed at early career academics. Preference will be given to postdocs and assistant professors, though applications from non-tenure track faculty and associate and full professors will be considered. We encourage the submission of first-book projects.

Mary Jaharis Center Project Grants support discrete and highly focused professional projects aimed at the conservation, preservation, and documentation of Byzantine archaeological sites and monuments dated from 300 CE to 1500 CE primarily in Greece and Turkey. Projects may be small stand-alone projects or discrete components of larger projects. Eligible projects might include archeological investigation, excavation, or survey; documentation, recovery, and analysis of at risk materials (e.g., architecture, mosaics, paintings in situ); and preservation (i.e., preventive measures, e.g., shelters, fences, walkways, water management) or conservation (i.e., physical hands-on treatments) of sites, buildings, or objects.

The application deadline for all grants is February 1, 2024. For further information, please visit the Mary Jaharis Center website: https://maryjahariscenter.org/grants.

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

Call for Papers: 8. Zürcher Werkstatt Historische Bildungsforschung, Universität Zürich (4-5 April 2024), Due By 31 December 2023

Call for PApers

8. Zürcher Werkstatt Historische Bildungsforschung

Universität Zürich, Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft, 8032 Zürich (4.-5.4.2024)

Bis spätestens 31.12.2023

Dieser Eintrag ist auf Italienisch verfügbar.

Die 8. Zürcher Werkstatt Historische Bildungsforschung(4.-5.4.2024) richtet sich an Doktorierende, die grundlegende Fragen der bildungshistorischen Forschungstätigkeit anhand konkreter Dissertationsprojekte präsentieren und diskutieren möchten. Die Werkstatt ist als Austauschplattform für Doktorierende konzipiert, wobei eine methodisch-methodologische und theoretische Reflexion und keine inhaltliche Diskussion angestrebt wird.

Im Vordergrund der 8. Zürcher Werkstatt Historische Bildungsforschung stehen die Präsentation und Diskussion des aktuellen Arbeitsstandes von Dissertationen, wobei eine methodisch-methodologische und theoretische Reflexion und keine inhaltliche Auseinandersetzung angestrebt wird. Die Tagung wird durch Prof. Dr. Meike Sophia Baader (Allgemeine Erziehungswissenschaft, Universität Hildesheim) und Prof. Dr. Caspar Hirschi (School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Universität St. Gallen) begleitet, welche Rückmeldungen zu den Referaten geben, sich an der Diskussion beteiligen und von ihrer Forschungserfahrung berichten werden.

Die Beiträge sollen einerseits darauf fokussieren, wie im konkreten Fall Fragestellung, theoretische und methodisch-methodologische Prämissen sowie Quellen und Forschungsliteratur aufeinander bezogen werden. Andererseits soll aufgezeigt werden, welches Erkenntnisinteresse verfolgt wird und in welchem Forschungskontext die erwarteten Ergebnisse verortet werden. Die Werkstatt greift die Diversität aktueller Forschungszugänge auf und hat zum Ziel, das Potential interdisziplinärer methodologischer Überlegungen für die bildungshistorische Forschung auszuloten. Entsprechend können folgende Leitfragen im Zentrum der Referate und der anschließenden Diskussionen stehen:

• Wie passen die ausgewählten Quellen zur Forschungsfrage und zum Gegenstand, der beschrieben und verstanden werden möchte? Wie lässt sich die Auswahl der Quellen begründen?

• Welche Quellengattung erfordert das theoretische Setting? Mit welchen theoretischen Annahmen wird das Material geordnet, strukturiert und ausgewertet? Welche Begrifflichkeiten werden eingeführt?

• Wie wird die Darstellung der Ergebnisse strukturiert? Welche Phänomene oder Überlegungen sollen mit den Ergebnissen untermauert oder widerlegt werden? In welche Forschungsgebiete sollen die Ergebnisse eingeordnet werden?

• Diskurs, Wissen, Praktiken – und darüber hinaus? Welche methodologischen Überlegungen werden vorgenommen? Welches historiographische Potential resultiert aus der eingenommenen Perspektive? Was gerät in den Blick und was bleibt dabei ungesehen?

Der Call for Papers richtet sich ausschließlich an Doktorierende, die an einem für die bildungshistorische Forschung relevanten Thema arbeiten. Es ist hingegen nicht von Belang, in welcher Disziplin die Promotion verfasst wird. Da Wert auf den Werkstattcharakter der Tagung gelegt wird, ist keine Publikation der Vorträge vorgesehen. Bewerbungen sind per E-Mail bis spätestens 31. Dezember 2023 an werkstatt2024@ife.uzh.ch zu richten.

Die Bewerbung beinhaltet den Vortragstitel, ein Exposé von maximal einer A4-Seite, das sich explizit an den oben aufgeführten Fragestellungen orientiert, und ein kurzes Curriculum Vitae. Die Sprechzeit für die Vorträge beträgt maximal 20 Minuten. Die Vortragenden erhalten einen Zuschuss zu den durch die Werkstatt entstehenden Kosten. Um eine qualitativ hochstehende Diskussion zu ermöglichen, ist die Zahl der Referierenden begrenzt. Bei einer großen Zahl von Bewerbungen wird, neben der Qualität der Exposés, die Vielfalt der Beiträge (methodisch-methodologisch, theoretisch, thematisch) berücksichtigt. 

Es besteht außerdem die Möglichkeit, als Diskutant:in an der Werkstatt teilzunehmen. Bedingung für eine Teilnahme ist aber auch in diesem Fall ein laufendes Promotionsprojekt zu einem bildungshistorischen Thema. Aus diesem Grund werden auch Diskutant:innen gebeten, den Titel ihrer Arbeit und ein kurzes Curriculum Vitae an werkstatt2024@ife.uzh.ch zu schicken.

Organisiert von : Kirstin Jorns, Ina Hasenöhrl, Nathalie Pfiffner (alle Universität Zürich, Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft)

Veranstaltungsort : Universität Zürich, Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft, 8032 Zürich

Kontakt :  werkstatt2024@ife.uzh.ch 

Sprachen der Veranstaltung : Deutsch

http://www.hist-edu.ch/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CfP_Werkstatt_2024-1.pdf

CALL FOR PAPERS: Medieval Germany Workshop, German Historical Institute London (12 April 2024) Deadline for Submissions 20 December 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

Medieval Germany Workshop

German Historical Institute London, 12 April 2024

Deadline for Submissions: 20 December 2023

This one-day workshop on the history of medieval Germany (broadly defined) will provide an opportunity for researchers in the field from the UK, continental Europe, and the USA to meet in a relaxed and friendly setting and to learn more about each other’s work. Proposals for short papers of 10–15 minutes are invited from researchers at all career stages with an interest in any aspect of the history of medieval Germany. Participants are encouraged to concentrate on presenting work in progress, highlighting research questions and approaches, and pointing to yet unresolved challenges of their projects. Presentations will be followed by a discussion.

Attendance is free, which includes lunch, but costs for travel and accommodation cannot be reimbursed. Doctoral students from North America (USA and Canada) who wish to present at the workshop, however, can apply for two travel grants provided by the German Historical Institute Washington. Please express your interest in this grant in your application. Support for postgraduate and early career researchers from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland is available on a competitive basis, subject to eligibility requirements: postgraduate members of the German History Society currently registered for a higher degree at a university in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland, and those who have completed a PhD within two years of the deadline for application but who have no other institutional sources of funding may apply for up to £150 for travel and accommodation. Please see the GHS website for further information and application deadlines.

Please send your proposal, which must include a title, an abstract of c.200 words, and a biographical note of no more than c.100 words, to Marcus Meer: m.meer@ghil.ac.uk. Questions about all aspects of the workshop can also be sent to Len Scales: l.e.scales@durham.ac.uk

Students and researchers interested in medieval German history are also very welcome to attend and listen to the presentations. There is no charge for attendance, but pre-booking is essential. If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Julian Triandafyllou:  j.triandafyllou@ghil.ac.uk

The deadline for proposal submissions is 20 December 2023.

Call for Papers (PDF file)

Organizers: German Historical Institute London, German Historical Institute Washington and German History Society

For more information, https://www.ghil.ac.uk/events/conferences-and-workshops/call-for-papers

Bamberg State Library Lecture Series: Die mittelalterlichen Viten des heiligen Otto, Dr. Karl Südekum (Würzburg), 6 February 2024 19:00 CEST (13:00 ET)

Bamberg State Library

Bamberger Buch-Geschichten – Vortragsreihe 2023/24

Die mittelalterlichen Viten des heiligen Otto

Dr. Karl Südekum (Würzburg)

6 FebRuary 2024, 19:00 CEST (13:00 ET)

Bamberger Buch-Geschichten. Virtuelle Einblicke in die historischen Sammlungen der Staatsbibliothek Bamberg | SBB

Anknüpfend an die gleichnamigen virtuellen Vortragsreihen der beiden vergangenen Winter bieten wir Ihnen von November 2023 bis Februar 2024 weitere Buch-Geschichten: Expertinnen und Experten berichten von Büchern und anderen in der Staatsbibliothek Bamberg verborgenen Schätzen. An insgesamt elf Terminen immer dienstags um 19:00 Uhr können Sie sich kostenfrei über die hier veröffentlichten Zugangsdaten einwählen.

Wählen Sie sich in das Zoom-Meeting kostenfrei über Ihren PC, Ihr Tablet oder Smartphone über den Browser oder mit der entsprechenden App ein. Der Zoom-Client muss dabei der aktuellsten Version entsprechen. Mit der Teilnahme erklären Sie sich mit den Datenschutzrichtlinien einverstanden. Die meisten Vorträge werden aufgezeichnet und anschließend auf dem YouTube-Kanal der Bamberger Buch-Geschichten zugänglich gemacht.

For more information, other events, and Zoom information, https://www.staatsbibliothek-bamberg.de/en/article/bamberger-buch-geschichten/

Exhibition Closing: THE TREASURY OF NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL: From Its Origins to Viollet-le-Duc, Louvre Museum, Paris, Until 29 January 2024

Exhibition Closing

THE TREASURY OF NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL: From Its Origins to Viollet-le-Duc

Louvre Museum, Paris

18 October 2023 – 29 January 2024

As restoration work on the cathedral enters its final stage, the Musée du Louvre dedicates an unprecedented exhibition to the treasury of Notre-Dame de Paris. This treasury, uniting sacerdotal objects and vestments necessary for worship, relics and reliquaries, manuscript books as well as other precious artefacts given as acts of piety, will then return to the cathedral’s neo-Gothic sacristy, built to house it by Jean Baptiste Lassus and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc from 1845 to 1850 and renovated for the cathedral’s 2024 reopening.

This exhibition provides a condensed history of the treasury through more than 120 works, restoring them to the context of its age-old history: from its origins to the Middle Ages up to its resurrection in the 19th century and full flowering with Viollet-le-Duc during the Second Empire.

By returning to the treasury’s origins, the exhibition reveals its diversity and richness, particularly through surviving manuscripts. Although during the French Revolution reliquaries and liturgical objects in precious metal were entirely destroyed, the paintings, drawings and engravings exhibited provide a glimpse of their splendour. For the coronation of Napoleon I at Notre-Dame, the treasury was reconstituted and enriched with prestigious relics, notably those of the Crown of Thorns and the Wood of the Cross (not shown at the Musée du Louvre), transferred from the former treasury of Sainte-Chapelle and for which new reliquaries were commissioned. Between 1845 and 1865, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was given responsibility for the restoration of the cathedral and reconstruction of the sacristy, the treasury’s home. He then offered to create new liturgical furnishings and reliquaries to harmonise with Notre-Dame’s Gothic architecture.

In order to ensure the most enjoyable experience for everyone, group visits are not permitted in the exhibition, 'The Treasury of Notre-Dame Cathedral: from its Origins to Viollet-le-Duc'.

We strongly advise those who wish to visit the exhibition 'The Treasury of Notre-Dame Cathedral: from its Origins to Viollet-le-Duc' to reserve a free time slot in addition to purchasing a museum admission ticket.

For more information and to book tickets, https://www.louvre.fr/en/what-s-on/exhibitions/the-treasury-of-notre-dame-cathedral

Organised by Department of Decorative Arts, Musée du Louvre: Jannic Durand, honorary curator; Anne Dion-Tenenbaum, curator and deputy director; Florian Meunier, curator; Michèle Bimbenet-Privat, honorary curator.

Call for Papers: 6th ARDIT International Congress (Barcelona, 15-17 May 2023), Abstracts Due By 31 January 2024

Call for PApers

6th ARDIT International Congress

15th-17th May 2024, Barcelona University, Barcelona

Abstracts Due By 31 January 2024

With its many ways of expression, knowledge has led, since the dawn of humanity, to the transformation of society. Discovering, understanding and trying to reconstruct, from a broad and diverse perspective, the way in which individual and collective learning situations occurred in the Middle Ages is the purpose of this meeting. In this sense, it aims to become an opportunity to find answers and to learn new points of view on fundamental questions such as who were the transmitters of knowledge, how and where this transmission took place, or who were the receptors.

Starting from these wide conceptions of knowledge and learning, on this occasion, we consider the presentation of proposals related to the following thematic clusters:

• Studies about the institutions involved in the dissemination of knowledge in the Middle Ages

• Research regarding the organization of regulated and/or secular learning

• Education in the Muslim world and in Hebrew communities

• Tools and methodologies for measuring knowledge

• Literacy and illiteracy in society

• Issuers and receivers of knowledge

• Materials and ways of knowledge

• Educational training of women

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We welcome all researchers interested in the various ways of manifesting knowledge and learning during the Middle Ages to take part in the 6th edition of the ARDIT International Congress. Those who wish to participate need to indicate their target thematic cluster, send a 250-word-limited summary of their proposal, and a short curriculum vitae not exceeding 100 words before January 31st, 2024. All proposals for papers should be sent to the following email address: arditcongress2024@gmail.com.

Contributions will be sent in Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese will be accepted. Feedback on abstracts will be communicated by the Organizing Committee to all participants before the 29th February 2024.

For more information, http://www.ub.edu/ardit/.