CALL FOR PROPOSALS, due 10 Sept : ICMA AT THE 25th ANNIVERSARY OF LEEDS INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL CONGRESS, 2018

ICMA AT THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL CONGRESS AT LEEDS, 2-5 July 2018
due 10 September 2017

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2018 at the International Medieval Congress (IMC) at Leeds, England.  

2018 will mark the 25th Anniversary of the Leeds congress and the congress organizers are very keen to host an ICMA sponsored session at this special event. While session proposals on any topic related to the art of the Middle Ages are welcome, the IMC also chooses a theme for each conference. In 2018 – the year of the 25th IMC – the theme is ‘Memory’.  For more information on the Leeds 2018 congress and theme, see: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2018_call.html
 
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, all in one single Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title.  

Please direct all session proposals and inquiries by 10 September 2017 to the Chair of the ICMA Programs and Lectures Committee: Janis Elliott, Texas Tech University. Email: janis.elliott@ttu.edu
 

CFP: ICMA at Kalamazoo, due 15 Sept: Art and Aftermath

ICMA AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES
Kalamazoo, 10-13 May 2018                                
due 15 September 2017 

Art and Aftermath

organized by Patricia Blessing (Pomona College, CA) and Beatrice Kitzinger (Princeton University). 

Deadline:  15 September 2017  

This session seeks papers that provide culturally and chronologically diverse perspectives on the relationship between particular artworks and external events. The session considers how art-making constitutes response to urgent concerns of the people who made buildings, objects, and images; examining how artworks were designed to shape their historical contexts in the aftermath of decisive events. The impact of such events may be observed in the immediate aftermath, such as rebuilding after an earthquake or fire, or in the long term, such as slow changes caused by demographic shifts, conversion movements, and migrations. Catalyzing circumstances that demonstrably affect the form or content of artworks might include shifts of political power, the unusual provision or lack of materials, the impact of a new theological or philosophical idea, the forced or voluntary movement of people, or the direct reaction to other works of art. We seek papers that characterize medieval productions as art of their contemporary moments, and that ask us to consider the question of art's role in societal intervention or documentation.
 
Please submit abstracts of max. 300 words to Patricia Blessing by 15 September 2017. (patricia.blessing@pomona.edu) and Beatrice Kitzinger (bkitzinger@princeton.edu)

CFP: ICMA at Kalamazoo, due 10 Sept: Moving People, Shifting Frontiers: Re-contextualising the Thirteenth Century in the Wider Mediterranean

ICMA AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES
Kalamazoo, 10-13 May 2018
due 10 September 2017

Moving People, Shifting Frontiers: Re-contextualising the Thirteenth Century in the Wider Mediterranean

organized by Maria Alessia Rossi (Courtauld Institute of Art) and Katerina Ragkou (University of Cologne).  

Deadline: 10 September 2017

 
 
Every day we witness people moving, with them objects and skills, knowledge and experience; either forcibly or willingly; for work or for pleasure. The communities living along the shores of the Mediterranean and the hinterlands of the Balkans during the thirteenth century share many of the characteristics of our contemporary world: military campaigns and religious wars; the intensification of pilgrimage and the relocation of refugees; the shifting of frontiers and the transformation of socio-political orders.

The transformations of the thirteenth century span from east to west, from northern Europe to the Byzantine Empire and from the Balkans to the Levant. The geographic breadth is paralleled by crucial events including the fourth crusade, the fall of Acre, the empowerment of the Serbian Kingdom and the Republic of Venice, the loss and following restoration of the Byzantine Empire, and the creation of new political entities, such as the Kingdom of Naples and that of Cyprus, the Empire of Trebizond, and the Principality of Achaia. Eclectic scholarly tradition has either focused geographically or thematically, losing sight of the pan-Mediterranean perspective. These societies had multifaceted interactions, and comprised a variety of scales, from the small world of regional and inter-regional communities to the broader Mediterranean dynamics.

This session aims to address questions such as which are the various processes through which military campaigns and religious wars affected the urban landscape of these regions and their material production? Is there a difference in economic and artistic trends between “town” and “countryside” in the thirteenth-century wider Mediterranean? What observations can we make in regards to trade, diplomatic missions, artistic interaction and exchange of the regional, interregional and international contacts? How did these shape and transform cultural identities? How did different social, political and religious groups interact with each other?

This session welcomes papers focused on, but not limited to: the role played by economic activity and political power in thirteenth-century artistic production and the shaping of local and interregional identities; the production and consumption of artefacts and their meaning; the transformation of urban and rural landscapes; religious and domestic architecture and the relationship between the private and public use of space.

Proposals for 20 min papers should include an abstract (max.250 words) and brief CV. Proposals should be submitted by 10 September 2017 to the session organizers: Katerina Ragkou (katerina.ragkou@gmail.com) and Maria Alessia Rossi (m.alessiarossi@icloud.com). 
 

CFP: Regionalism in Medieval Art and Architecture (ICMA Student Committee), Kalamazoo 2018; due 10 Sept 2017

Call for Papers

Regionalism in Medieval Art and Architecture
Sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Student Committee

Organized by Mark H. Summers (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Andrew Sears (University of California, Berkeley/University of Bern)

International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 10-13, 2018
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

In 2001, Eva Hoffman introduced the concept of portability, suggesting a style that transcended traditional geographic, cultural, and religious boundaries. Since then, studies of traveling objects, trade networks, and pluralistic communities have created a veritable new field of the “Global Middle Ages,” which has helped us to better understand the interconnected medieval past as well as its role in shaping our sense of place today.

Our panel seeks to consider how local identity was shaped by such global networks. Potential questions include: Are artistic or architectural styles connected to specific places for specific reasons? Were medieval artists conscious about their own regional styles and the social, political, and religious impact they had? How was art positioned to both create communities and delineate boundaries? What about the rise of the “International Gothic” towards the end of the Middle Ages? Our concerns are also temporal, such as how the use of historicizing motifs and spolia helped medieval artists to communicate something about the here and now.

We welcome submissions for 20-minute papers from graduate student ICMA members. To propose a paper, please send a title, abstract of 300 words, CV, and completed Congress Information form to Mark H. Summers (mhsummers@wisc.edu) and Andrew Sears (asears@berkeley.edu) by 10 September 2017.

The Student Committee of the International Center for Medieval Art involves and advocates for all members of the ICMA with student status and facilitates communication and mentorship between student and non-student members.

CFP: ICMA at CAA 2018, due 14 Aug 2017

Calls for Papers

ICMA sponsored session at CAA, Los Angeles, 21-24 Feb 18    

“Medieval Echo Chambers: Ideas in Space and Time”, organized by Jack Hartnell (University of East Anglia, Norwich) and Jessica Barker (University of East Anglia, Norwich).   Deadline:  14 August 2017

In recent decades, historians of medieval art and architecture have begun to think about the ways in which the interaction of objects, images, and performances were focused by particular medieval spaces. Whether directed towards a powerful cumulative spirituality, a slowly-accruing political self-fashioning,

or more everyday performances of social coherence, it is clear that medieval space had the power to bind together sometimes quite disparate objects, forming their multiple parts into coherent messages for different types of viewers.

Thus far, however, such discussions have largely chosen to focus on individual moments of such medieval consonance, thinking through these Gestamtkunstwerken in only one particular iteration. This session proposes to expand this type of thinking beyond the snapshot by considering how medieval spaces could not only encourage resonance between objects in the moment but also echo these ideas over time. How did certain medieval spaces act as ideological echo chambers? How did certain spaces encourage particular recurring patterns of patronage, reception, or material reflection? How did people in the Middle Ages respond to the history of the spaces they inhabited, and how did they imagine these spaces’ future?

In an attempt to attract papers on different aspects of this diverse theme, as well as hear from speakers coming from a broad range of backgrounds and at different stages of their career, we have not preselected a group of speakers but rather envisage putting out a call for around four or five short papers, to be framed in the session by an introduction from the organisers. We encourage speakers to put forward proposals on material from any part of the Middle Ages, broadly defined both chronologically and geographically.

Topics could include, but are by no means limited to:

·         longue durée narratives of interaction between objects and architecture, particularly in ideologically-charged public or private spaces such as churches, palaces, or shrines;

·         tracking the resonance of quotidian spaces, such as marketplaces, bridges, squares, over time and across evolving audiences;

·         relationships between objects from the classical world brought forward into medieval settings;

·         medieval stagings of objects that project forward into the early modern period and beyond;

·         evolving relationships between particular types of artist and particular types of space;

·         documents and performances through which the histories of particular spaces and objects were

remembered, reiterated, repeated;

·         the role of the immaterial—sound, light, smell, touch—in drawing together spaces and objects,

and their changing nature over time;

·         ‘future spaces’, which point to times and places beyond themselves, whether an imminent reality or a more fantastical future.

250-word proposals should be sent with a short academic CV to Jack Hartnell (j.hartnell@uea.ac.uk) and Jessica Barker (j.barker@uea.ac.uk) by 14th August 2017. 

ICMA at Byzantine Studies Conference, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, 5-8 Oct 2017

ICMA at Byzantine Studies Conference, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, 5-8 Oct 2017

ICMA co-sponsored Keynote Lecture:

The ICMA, in conjunction with the University of Minnesota Center for Medieval Studies, will co-sponsor the annual Carl Sheppard Lecture in Medieval Art History to be delivered at the BSC on Friday 6 October in 120 Elmer Andersen Library.  Elizabeth S. Bolman (Temple University) will talk on “The White Monastery Federation (Upper Egypt) and the Early Byzantine World: Rethinking Sites of Cultural Production”. 

ICMA at IV Forum Kunst des Mittelalters/IV Forum Art History, Berlin, 20-23 Sep 2017

ICMA at IV Forum Kunst des Mittelalters/IV Forum Art History, Berlin, 20-23 Sep 2017

ICMA sponsored session: “The Treasury of San Isidoro de León and its Global Connections”, organized by Jitske Jasperse (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid).

Program:  

Amanda W. Dotseth (Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and CSIC, Madrid), “The Treasures of a Medieval Church in a Modern State: San Isidoro de León and the Making of Spain’s National Collections”;

·Silvia Armando (American Academy in Rome), “‘Siculo-Arabic’ ivories in the Treasury: perception and practises within a Christian context”;

Janet Kempf (Kloster und Kaiserpfalz Memleben), “How Ottonian Artists illuminated Spanish Art”;

Jitske Jasperse (CSIC, Madrid), “Holy Exoticism: New Perspectives on a Princess’s Portable Altar”.

ICMA Call for Proposals - CAA 2018 - due Thursday 20 April 2017

ICMA AT COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION, 2018       
due 20 April 2017

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2018 at the annual meeting of the College Art Association. 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, all in one single Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title.

Please direct all session proposals and inquiries by 20 April 2017 to the Chair of the ICMA Programs and Lectures Committee:  Janis Elliott, Texas Tech University. Email: janis.elliott@ttu.edu .

ICMA AT CANADIAN CONFERENCE OF MEDIEVAL ART HISTORIANS 2017

ICMA AT
CANADIAN CONFERENCE OF MEDIEVAL ART HISTORIANS 2017


The ICMA is proud to present the keynote lecture by David H. Caldwell (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland), “Unsealing a Forgotten Resource - Scottish Glyptic Art ,” on 17 March (5-6pm) at the 38th Annual Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians.

The conference is hosted by Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, 17 & 18 March 2017.

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due 1 December 2016: CFP 38th ANNUAL CANADIAN CONFERENCE OF MEDIEVAL ART HISTORIANS

CALL FOR PAPERS / APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS


38th ANNUAL CANADIAN CONFERENCE OF MEDIEVAL ART HISTORIANS

Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, 17 & 18 March 2017

The 38thannual Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians will be hosted by The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Brock University (St. Catharines, ON), 17-18 March 2017. The organization welcomes those interested in medieval art and architecture. This year, the keynote lecture will be delivered by David Caldwell (President, Society of Antiquarians of Scotland). 

We invite those interested in delivering a paper in English or French on any topic relating to the art, architecture and visual/material culture of the Middle Ages (or its post-medieval revivals), to submit a short abstract (250 words) by 1 December 2016. Scholars at every stage of their careers are encouraged to submit proposals.

Please send your abstract and 50–word C.V. by email to: cbogdanski@brocku.ca
Candice Bogdanski, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Brock University


38e COLLOQUE CANADIEN DES HISTORIENS DE L’ART DU MOYEN ÂGE

Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, 17-18 mars 2017

Le Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Brock University accueillera le 38e Colloque annuel des historiens de l’art médiéval du Canada en mars 2017. L’organisation accueille tous ceux et celles qui s’intéressent à l’art et à l’architecture du Moyen Âge. Cette année, la conférence plénière sera donnée par David Caldwell (President, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland). 

Les personnes souhaitant présenter une communication sur l’art, l’architecture ou la culture visuelle/matérielle du Moyen Âge (de même que les manifestations postmédiévales) sont invitées à soumettre un résumé de 250 mots avant le 1er décembre 2016. Les interventions peuvent être en français ou en anglais. Tous les chercheurs et chercheuses qui en sont à différentes étapes de leur carrière sont encouragés à participer.

Veuillez envoyer votre résumé et un c.v. abrégé par courriel à: cbogdanski@brocku.ca
Candice Bogdanski, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Brock University.