Call for Proposals - St. Louis Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies

CALL FOR ICMA SPONSORED SESSION PROPOSALS
ICMA @ St. Louis Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 19-21 June 2017

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2017 at the St. Louis Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies to be held 19-21 June 2017 in St. Louis.

Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members. Proposals must include a session abstract, a CV of the organizer(s), and a list of speakers for a 90-minute session, all in one single Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title.

Please direct all session proposals and inquiries by 10 December 2016 to the Chair of the ICMA Programs & Lectures Committee: Janis Elliott, School of Art, Texas Tech University.  Email: janis.elliott@ttu.edu

The ICMA Programs and Lectures committee will select a session to sponsor and will notify the organizer(s) by 20 December 2015. The successful organizer(s) will then submit the ICMA-sponsored proposal by 31 December 2016 directly to the St Louis Symposium Committee which will make the final decision:   http://smrs.slu.edu/cfp.html

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 international travel. If available, the Kress funds are allocated for travel and hotel only. Speakers in ICMA sponsored sessions will be refunded only after the conference, against travel receipts.  In addition to speakers, session organizers delivering papers as an integral part of the session (i.e. with a specific title listed in the program) are now also eligible to receive travel funding.  

Go to:  http://www.medievalart.org/kress-travel-grant/

Call for Proposals - International Medieval Congress at Leeds, 3-6 July 2017

CALL FOR ICMA SPONSORED SESSION PROPOSALS
ICMA @ International Medieval Congress at Leeds, 3-6 July 2017

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2017 at the International Medieval Congress (IMC) at Leeds, England.  

Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members. Proposals must include a session abstract, a CV of the organizer(s), and a list of speakers for a 90-minute session, all in one single Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title. The IMC recommends three speakers and a moderator.

Please direct all session proposals and inquiries by 10 September 2016 to the Chair of the ICMA Programs and Lectures Committee: Janis Elliott, Texas Tech University. Email: janis.elliott@ttu.edu

The ICMA Programs and Lectures committee will select a session to sponsor and will notify the organizer(s) by 21 September 2016. The successful organizer(s) will then submit the ICMA-sponsored proposal by 30 September 2016 directly to the Leeds IMC Committee which will make the final decision:  http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2017_call.html

For IMC 2017 submission guidelines go to: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/submission_guidelines.html

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 international travel. If available, the Kress funds are allocated for travel and hotel only. Speakers in ICMA sponsored sessions will be refunded only after the conference, against travel receipts.  In addition to speakers, session organizers delivering papers as an integral part of the session (i.e. with a specific title listed in the program) are now also eligible to receive travel funding.  

Go to:  http://www.medievalart.org/kress-travel-grant/

ICMA/Kress Research and Publication Grants: due 31 August 2016

The Kress Foundation is again generously supporting five research and publication grants, of $3000 each.  Applicants must be members of the ICMA.  The deadline for the 2016 grants is August 31, 2016.

Members may apply for:

Grants for Research on a first book - restricted to ICMA members who have been awarded a Ph.D. by a U.S. or a non-U.S.  institution within the last ten years. Those with a non-U.S. degree must currently hold a continuing position in a U.S. college, university or museum. The grants must be used for travel, and for research costs such as photographs, image permissions, etc.

Grants for Publication of a first book - restricted to ICMA members with book contracts in hand who obtained their PhD at any time from a U.S. or a non-U.S. institution. Those with a non-U.S. degree must currently hold a continuing position in a U.S. college, university or museum.  The grant must be used for publication costs, including photographs, image permissions, copyediting, architectural drawings/plans, etc.  

Applications for either grant must submit:

1) a statement identifying the Kress grant being applied for, and the applicant’s eligibility for the grant

2) a cover letter (no more than three pages) giving a detailed outline of the proposed project

3) a full cv

4) a full budget.

5) a copy of the publication contract if one is in place

6) If a publication grant is being requested, a chapter of the text must be submitted.  If the book is already completed, the entire text should be submitted.

The application should be submitted electronically to awards@medievalart.org.

For large files, please upload to Google Drive and give permission to awards@medievalart.org. 

Further information: http://www.medievalart.org/kress-research-grant/

ICMA publishes "Gothic Sculpture in America III. The Museums of New York and Pennsylvania"

Gothic Sculpture in America III. The Museums of New York and Pennsylvania
by Joan A. Holladay and Susan L. Ward

NOW AVAILABLE

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE AND FOR MORE INFORMATION! 

668 pages (589 b/w photos)
Publication of The International Center of Medieval Art
Language: English
Hardback (April 2016)

ISBN-13 9780991043002
ISBN-10 0991043006

$100
$75 for ICMA Members (Sign-in at Member Sign-In for discount information)

With 446 entries examining some 550 works of figural, architectural, and decorative sculpture in 27 museums and public institutions, this volume continues Census of Gothic Sculpture in America started by Dorothy Gillerman in 1989. In addition to such large and well-known collections as the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Glencairn Museum, smaller collections and those not known for their medieval works, like the Barnes Foundation and the Explorers Club, are also inventoried. Generously supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Getty Foundation, this book includes entries by 35 authors writing on works in their areas of specialization.

Joan A. Holladay is professor of the history of art at the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in Gothic sculpture and manuscripts, particularly in France and Germany, and her work has appeared in Art History, Gesta, and Studies in Iconography, as well as in numerous other journals and volumes of essays, and in the monograph series of the College Art Association.

Susan L. Ward is professor of the History of Art and Visual Culture at the Rhode Island School of Design. She specializes in the medieval sculpture of France and England and has also published articles on manuscripts and textiles. Her work has appeared inGesta and Speculum, as well as numerous collections of essays.

Join ICMA in Kalamazoo for our sessions and receptions! 12 & 13 May 2016

Thursday 1:30 pm
Session 66 Schneider 1140
Picturing the Present: Structuring the Medieval Beholder’s Relation toward Time
Organizer: Armin Bergmeier, Univ. Leipzig; Andrew Griebeler, Univ. of California–Berkeley
Presider: Andrew Griebeler
                                                                                                                  
The Present, the Future, and the Modern Preoccupation with the End of Time
Armin Bergmeier
The Fluent Boundaries of Built and Painted Space at the Papal Court of Avignon
Tanja Hinterholz, Univ. Salzburg                                       
Time-Based Media and Medieval Figuration
Beatrice Kitzinger, Princeton Univ.
Oracular Images and the Political Present in Twelfth-Century Constantinople
Benjamin Anderson, Cornell Univ.
 

Thursday 3:30pm
Session 120 Schneider 1225
Crossing the Hanseatic Threshold and Beyond: Making Connections in Medieval Art, ca. 1200–1500
Organizer: Lehti Mairike Keelmann, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor; Laura Tillery, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Presider: Lehti Mairike Keelmann

Artists Abroad: The Dawn of Rhennish Gothic Ivory Carving
Dustin Aaron, Courtauld Institute of Art/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Value of Reliquaries in the Hanseatic League
Andrew R. Sears, Univ. of California–Berkeley
From Distant Places to Mercantile Spaces: Late Medieval Altarpieces in Hanseatic Lübeck Laura Tillery
 

Thursday 7:30pm
Session 152, Fetzer 1005
Beatus: The Spanish Apocalypse (A Film Screening and Discussion)
Organizer: David Raizman, Drexel Univ.
Presider: David Raizman
A screening of the documentary film Beatus: The Spanish Apocalypse followed by a discussion with Murray Grigor, BBP Films, and Hamid Shams, MUSE Films and Television.

The documentary film "Beatus: The Spanish Apocalypse," directed and produced by Scottish documenatry filmmaker Murray Grigor and cinematographer Hamid Shams (BBP Films and MUSE Films and Television), is based upon the richly painted medieval manuscript tradition of the Apocalypse Commentary, written by the monk Beatus of Liébena in the late 8th century and surviving in more than 25 illuminated copies from the 10th through the early 13th centuries. The film includes extensive travel to numerous medieval sites in Spain, with dialogue, commentary, and reflection on the Beatus tradition and related aspects of the art of medieval Spain by scholar John Williams (University Professor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh), who passed away in early June 2015. It was John’s hope that this stunning film might be screened at the International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo where medievalists from all over the world might be able to see and enjoy it. In addition to the screening, the ICMA is sponsoring a session featuring papers by established and younger scholars devoted to the Beatus tradition and wider questions relating to the role of manuscripts in contexts both monastic and courtly.
 

Friday 10:00am                                                
Session 181 Fetzer 1010
Models and Copies, Masters and Pupils: New Work on Spanish Illuminated Manuscripts in Memory of John Williams
Organizer: David Raizman, Drexel Univ.
Presider: Therese Martin, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
                                                                       
Copies, Originals, and the Impoverishment of Images
Robert A. Maxwell, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ.
Further Perspectives on “A Castilian Tradition of Bible Illustration”: Re-examining the Connection between the Bibles of San Isidoro de Leon (960 and 1162)
Ana Hernandez, Univ. Complutense de Madrid
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Seder: What the “HispanoMoresque” Haggadah Can Tell Us about Medieval Creativity
Julie A. Harris, Spertus Institute
 

RECEPTIONS - FRIDAY 13 MAY

7:30 p.m.
International Center of Medieval Art Student Committee
Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

9:00 p.m.
International Center of Medieval Art
Reception with cash bar
Bernhard Brown & Gold Roo