Call for Conference Papers: Women of the Viking World, University of Liverpool (27-28 August 2024), Due 2 March 2024

Call for Conference Papers

Women of the Viking World

University of Liverpool, 27-28 August 2024

Closing Date: 2 March 2024

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Uppsala University

Research on women of the Viking world has gained momentum in recent years, with new perspectives and possibilities being introduced. Traditional views are still prominent however, with women often diminished to spectators within a patriarchal society.

However, there is growing evidence to suggest women enjoyed more active and varied societal roles which are far more significant than have previously been considered. Thus, this conference aims to bring together scholars from all disciplines of the field to deliver this new broader perspective on women of the Viking world. 

Academics, graduate students & recent graduates are invited to submit proposals for 20-minute papers. Please note, we are planning for the conference to be in-person. However, we are happy to discuss online options. If you would like to discuss the possibility of presenting online, please let us know in your submission email.

Topics can include, but are not limited to -

  • Texts & Literature,

  • Archaeology, Iconography, and Material Culture,

  • Power, Politics, and Economy,

  • Religion And Seidr,

  • Norse Diaspora and the Wider World

Email all abstracts of no more than 250 words, a brief bio, and information on affiliation to info@vikingagewomen.com

For more information, visit http://www.vikingagewomen.com/

Call for Applications: MAA Summer Research Program, Student Participants Application Due By 22 Jan. 2024, Workshop Leaders Applications Due By 2 Feb. 2024

Call for Applications

MAA Summer Research Program

Student Participants Application: Due By January 22, 2024

Workshop Leaders Applications: Due By Februuary 2, 2024

The Medieval Academy of America’s Mentoring Program Committee is excited to announce the 2024 Summer Research and Professional Development Workshop for PhD-track students. This program is designed to foster the growth of essential skills and mentorship relationships, and improve the educational experiences for graduate students in fields intersecting with Medieval Studies. Our primary goals are to facilitate the development of successful dissertation projects, foster networking and community-building, and improve competitiveness for grants and academic positions.

In Zoom sessions over the summer, and then at the in-person event, workshop leaders will help student participants learn about the range of available grants, develop successful strategies for securing these funding opportunities, and begin to work with them to produce their own grant proposals (with specific attention on identifying the broader contributions of their research, developing budgets, and proposing viable schedules). In the latter sessions, participants will break into two cohorts, and leaders will help them each develop a targeted written work relating to their dissertation project: a dissertation prospectus, a grant proposal, or an introduction to an article addressing and contextualizing the broader goals of the project. Ideally, workshop leaders will provide guidance or tips on library and archival research, writing strategies and techniques, networking, community-building, and other vital professional skills, as well.

The in-person event for US, Canadian, and Mexican participants will take place at the University of California at Berkeley on August 1-4 (participants from other regions will join via Zoom). During this long weekend, participants will continue their collaborations, meet and learn from mentors and other invited experts, and finalize and ultimately present the work they have been developing and sharing virtually in their workshops.

Call for Student Participants:

Eligibility: We seek twelve graduate students who are currently enrolled in U.S., Canadian, or Mexican PhD programs, and five graduate students from other countries, who will have finished their second year but not yet completed or defended their dissertations. There are no disciplinary or geographical limitations. The only restriction is that the applicant’s research project intersects somehow with Medieval Studies. The MAA seeks to incorporate and enable access to resources for people from underrepresented groups. We especially encourage applicants from communities and backgrounds that have been traditionally underrepresented or marginalized within Medieval Studies. Preference will also be given to applicants who do not already have access to the resources this program provides.

Funding: Participants from the US, Canada and Mexico will receive a stipend of $1000, reimbursement for round-trip travel costs up to $500, and three nights lodging at the Women's Faculty Club on the UC Berkeley campus during the hybrid event. Those from other countries attending only via Zoom will also receive a stipend of $1000. All participants will receive a one-year free membership to the MAA.

Application: Applications are due by January 22, 2024. Use this link to apply. Applicants will be notified of decisions via email by April 1, 2024.

Call for Workshop Leaders:

We are seeking two workshop leaders to guide students via Zoom over the course of six weeks in June, July, and August, and then take part in a culminating hybrid event on August 1-4 at UC Berkeley.

Funding: Each leader will receive a $1,000 stipend, a $500 travel grant, and three nights lodging at the Women's Faculty Club on the UC Berkeley campus during the hybrid event.

Applications: Applications are due by February 2, 2024. Click here to apply.

Medieval Lecture & Seminar Series: Entanglement in Shared Cultural Spaces, Katrin Kogman-Appel, At Vernon Square Campus, The Courtauld, 17 Jan. 2024 17:30-19:00 GMT

The Courtauld Medieval Lecture and Seminar Series

Entanglement in Shared Cultural Spaces: Hebrew Book Art in Iberia, c. 1300

Katrin Kogman-Appel

Wednesday 17 January 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 GMT

Vernon Square Campus, Lecture Theatre 2

BnF, hébr. 21, Hebrew Bible, Tudela, early 14th c.

Free, Booking Essential

Several Hebrew Bibles were produced almost simultaneously around the year 1300 in Tudela and Perpignan. By and large all these manuscripts display similar schemes of non-figural, mostly ornamental decoration. And yet, similar as they seem to be, these works diverge in style and the nature of the decoration displays features typical of Islamicate art alongside those that are associated with the Gothic style and techniques, testimony to different cultural encounters that took place in the vicinities of their makers and readers. This paper offers a synchronic look at these dynamics of entanglement and examines how the urban spatial constellations in Tudela and Perpignan determined them and shaped these decoration schemes.

Katrin Kogman-Appel, University of Münster, has published work on Hebrew manuscript painting, Jewish book culture, and the relationship of Jewish visual cultures to Christian and Islamicate arts. Among her books are A Mahzor from Worms. Art and Religion in a Medieval Jewish Community, (Harvard University Press 2012) and Catalan Maps and Jewish Books (Brepols 2020).

Organised by Dr Tom Nickson (The Courtauld) as part of the Medieval Lecture and Seminar Series.

For more information, https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/entanglement-in-shared-cultural-spaces-hebrew-book-art-in-iberia-c-1300/

Oxford Medieval Visual Culture Seminar, St Catherine’s College, Arumugam Building, Thursdays (26 January - 9 March 2024), 5.15 pm GMT

Oxford Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

St Catherine’s College, Arumugam Building
Thursdays, 5.15 pm GMt

26 January, 9 February, 23 February, and 9 March

The Oxford Medieval Visual Culture Seminar series is exploring visual aspects of medieval knowledge: from anatomy to alchemy, from geometry to the concepts of time and space. We hope that the programme may appeal to audiences beyond those studying the medieval period and art history, so please do share it with anyone who might be interested. 

Convenors: Elena Lichmanova (elena.lichmanova@merton.ox.ac.uk) and Gervase Rosser

Week 2, 26 January

Sarah Griffin, Lambeth Palace Library, London
From Hours to Ages: Time in the Large-scale Diagrams of Opicinus de Canistris (1296- c.1352)
Anya Burgon, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
In a Punctum: Miniature Worlds in Late Medieval Art and Literature

Week 4, 9 February

Lauren Rozenberg, University College London
In the Flat Round: Brain Diagrams in Late Medieval Manuscripts
Sergei Zotov, University of Warwick
Christian Motifs in Fifteenth-Century Alchemical Iconography

Week 6, 23 February

Jack Hartnell, University of East Anglia
Visualising Wombs and Obstetrical Fantasies in Late Medieval Germany

Week 8, 9 March

Mary Carruthers, New York University, All Souls College, Oxford
Envisioning Thinking: Geometry and Meditation in the Twelfth Century

Cambridge Medieval Art Seminars: Opening the Space of the Parchment Roll: Imaging Interiority in Two English Copies of the Septenarium pictum, KATHRYN A. SMITH, 12 FEB 2024 12:00-14:00 EST (ONLINE)

Cambridge Medieval Art Seminars

Opening the Space of the Parchment Roll: Imaging Interiority in Two English Copies of the Septenarium pictum

Kathryn A. Smith, New York University

Mon, 12 Feb 2024 12:00 - 14:00 EST

Held over Zoom at 5pm U.K time, Professor Kathryn A. Smith (Department of Art History, New York University) will speak on: 'Opening the Space of the Parchment Roll: Imaging Interiority in Two English Copies of the Septenarium pictum'.

Registration via Eventbrite. Further details at: https://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/seminars/medievalartseminars

Cambridge Medieval Art Seminars: Giotto and the Physicists, Frank Fehrenbach, 29 Jan 2024 12:00 - 14:00 EST (Online)

Cambridge Medieval Art SEminars

Giotto and the Physicists

Frank Fehrenbach, University of Hamburg

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:00 - 14:00 EST (Online)

In our first seminar of 2024, Frank Fehrenbach reassesses Giotto's Stigmatization of St Francis in light of contemporary writings on physics


Held over Zoom at 5pm UK time. Registration via Eventbrite. Further details at: https://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/seminars/medievalartseminars

ICMA STAHL LECTURE 2024: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS, DUE 15 FEBRUARY 2024

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
ICMA STAHL LECTURE
DUE MONDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2024


INVITE A STAR TO YOUR CAMPUS (In-person or Virtual)!

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for in-person or virtual programs under the Stahl Lecture Series to be held under the sponsorship of the organization in 2024-2025. Stahl Lectures are to be sponsored by colleges or universities in what might be termed the greater southwest, at institutions located west of the Mississippi River. Although we have the opportunity to make the program available virtually to all ICMA members, we are interested in proposals that include in-person engagement between students and speakers if conditions and logistics allow. A list of previous Stahl speakers can be found here.

 
Please suggest the name(s) of appropriate speakers and indicate your willingness to host the event at your institution. Please indicate the format of the event and, if applicable, whether your college or university has the infrastructure for a Zoom (or other) webinar and the tech support to launch and troubleshoot a virtual event. Joint proposals—of two or more institutions—are welcome, as traditionally, lecturers are expected to speak at more than one venue. The hosts assume the responsibility for organizing the event, ideally working in conjunction with colleagues at other institutions; for publishing the details in advance on the ICMA website and ICMA News (the newsletter); and for reporting on the event after it is over. International exchange of scholarship is encouraged, though not required.
 
The ICMA will contribute to an honorarium and/or travel costs, depending on the particulars of the speaker and the event itinerary and modality. 

For the Stahl Lecture, please submit your CV and the CV of the proposed speaker, as well as a brief proposal/preliminary itinerary by clicking HERE.

Please direct any inquiries to the members of the “Stahl Subcommittee” of the ICMA Programs & Lectures Committee: Alice Isabella Sullivan (alice.sullivan@tufts.edu); Alison Locke Perchuk (alison.perchuk@csuci.edu); Betsy Williams (elizabethw@doaks.org).

The deadline for the nominations is 15 February 2024 for lectures to be planned for the fall of 2024 or spring of 2025.

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.  



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.
 
Click HERE for more information. 



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.