Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament in Baltimore - Friday 30 September 2022, 7pm - REGISTER TODAY!

Medieval Times, A Quarter of a Century Later

Let’s rekindle the enthusiasm that Michael Camille (1958-2002) had for Medieval Times: Dinner & Tournament with a trip to our local castle! In 1996, Camille visited the Chicago venue with Ira Glass of This American Life to record a lively episode about the joys and foibles of medievalisms. To complement the recent exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Fantasy of the Middle Ages, Matthew Westerby will take a valiant crew to the Baltimore location of Medieval Times. The visit includes pre-show festivities, such as the Hall of Arms and the Museum of Torture, as well as the famed dinner plus a lively joust set to an epic musical score. We’ll cheer for our knight of the realm in the presence of Queen Doña Maria Isabella!

DATE: FRIDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2022
TIME: 7pm

Register HERE. We are organizing carpooling options based on responses.

PLEASE REGISTER BY SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2022.

Note we are collecting responses to see if we're able to get a further discount. ICMA will buy the tickets and will subsidize part of the ticket price. It will be up to attendees to pay the ICMA. More information will follow as we sort out the details - but first we need to know the number of attendees. The current price for a ticket is $71.65 (ADULT - tax included) and $44.65 (CHILD - tax included) - but it will be less!

ICMA-Pop-Ups in Utah: University of Utah Marriott Library’s Rare Books Collection, 16 September 2022 - register today!

You are invited to a gathering of medieval and early-modern scholars with a global focus, hosted by the University of Utah Marriott Library’s Rare Books Collection and organized by art history professors Dr. Meekyung MacMurdie (U of U) and Dr. Alexa Sand (Utah State University). We will begin with visit to the Rare Books Department, with highlights of the global medieval and early modern collections there, led by curator Lyuba Basin. The visit will be followed by a reception with refreshments and an opportunity for medievalists – both faculty and students – to network. Our hope is to reinvigorate the Utah Medievalist and Early Modernist association that has been somewhat inactive of late due to retirements, the pandemic, and the vast geographical size of our region coupled with the sparse distribution of medievalists and early modernists.

When: September 16, 2022 – 3:30-5 visit to Rare Books, 5-6:30 reception

Where: Rare Books Department, Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

Who: medieval scholars (faculty and students) at regional institutions including (but not limited to) U of U, Utah State University, Weber State University, Westminster College, Salt Lake Community College, Utah Valley University,  Utah Tech, Southern Utah University, Brigham Young University (about 25 people anticipated)

Organizers: Alexa Sand, Utah State University, alexa.sand@usu.edu; Meekyung MacMurdie, meekyung.macmurdie@utah.edu Both of us are manuscripts specialists, Meekyung with a focus on early-modern Islamic manuscripts, Alexa with a focus on late-medieval manuscripts from francophone Europe.

RSVP strongly encouraged: https://forms.gle/Zs65n86V5HJJ53Sr6

ICMA-Pop-Ups in London: GOLD at The British Library - Saturday 3 September 2022 at 15:30 - REGISTER TODAY! (IN PERSON)

ICMA-Pop-Ups in London
GOLD at The British Library
Saturday 3 September 2022
Exhibition visit 15:30 / drinks 17:15

Register HERE

Join fellow UK-based ICMA members for a visit to The British Library’s “Gold” exhibition featuring several medieval manuscripts – including the Queen Mary and Melisende Psalters!

This informal gathering will meet just inside the main entrance to The British Library at 15:30 to view works together. Drinks and discussion will follow at Mabel’s Tavern at 17:15. To reserve exhibition tickets, please visit https://www.bl.uk/events/gold.

For more about the “Gold” exhibition see https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/gold-exhibition/. 

LOCATION DETAILS

“Gold” Exhibition
PACCAR 2
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB

Book tickets at: https://www.bl.uk/events/gold
*Meet just inside the main entrance

Drinks & Discussion
Mabel’s Tavern
9 Mabledon Place,
London
WC1H 9AZ

Register HERE
This ICMA-Pop-Up is organised by Sommer Hallquist, slh201@cam.ac.uk

ICMA in Boston: Register today for an ICMA Study Event for CLOSE UP: BOURDICHON’S PAINTED PRAYERS on 6 September 2022 (in person)

ICMA Study Event
CLOSE UP: BOURDICHON’S PAINTED PRAYERS
with 
Nicholas Herman (Penn) and Nathaniel Silver (ISGM)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Tuesday 6 September 2022
3:00pm-4:30pm

Register HERE

Join Nicholas Herman, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Curator at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, and Nathaniel Silver, William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, for an intimate viewing of one of one of the hidden gems of French Renaissance manuscript illumination. Nearly every miniature from Jean Bourdichon’s radiant “Boston Hours,” which is temporarily unbound for conservation reasons, is on view in this exhibition. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to get up close with this jewel of a book! The exhibition is accompanied by a short publication co-authored by Nicholas Herman and Anne-Marie Eze.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
25 Evans Way
Boston, MA 02115
(meet outside public entrance; museum will be closed to the public)

This event is limited to 15 participants.

Register HERE

Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament in LA - Saturday 10 September 2022, 5pm - REGISTER TODAY!

Medieval Times, A Quarter of a Century Later

Let’s rekindle the enthusiasm that Michael Camille (1958-2002) had for Medieval Times: Dinner & Tournament with a trip to our local castle! In 1996, Camille visited the Chicago venue with Ira Glass of This American Life to record a lively episode about the joys and foibles of medievalisms. To complement the exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Fantasy of the Middle Ages, Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene will take a valiant crew to the Buena Park location of Medieval Times. The visit includes pre-show festivities, such as the Hall of Arms and the Museum of Torture, as well as the famed dinner plus a lively joust set to an epic musical score. We’ll cheer for our knight of the realm in the presence of Queen Doña Maria Isabella!

DATE: SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2022
TIME: 5pm

Register HERE. We are organizing carpooling options based on responses.

PLEASE REGISTER BY TUESDAY 6 SEPTEMBER 2022.

Note we are collecting responses to see if we're able to get a further discount. ICMA will buy the tickets and will subsidize part of the ticket price. It will be up to attendees to pay the ICMA. More information will follow as we sort out the details - but first we need to know the number of attendees. The current price for a ticket is $71.65 (ADULT - tax included) and $44.65 (CHILD - tax included) - but it will be less!

CALL FOR PAPERS: ICMA AT THE CAA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2023, DUE 31 AUG 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS
ICMA AT THE COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2023
VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON (NEW YORK CITY), 15-18 FEBRUARY 2023

DUE WEDNESDAY, 31 AUGUST 2022

 

 

Visualizing Peace in the Global Middle Ages, 500-1500
College Art Association's 111th Annual Conference, 15-18 February 2023
Session sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art

This is a VIRTUAL session. 

Organized by:
Diane Wolfthal, Rice University (dianewolfthal@yahoo.com) and Jitske Jasperse (jitske.jasperse@hu-berlin.de / jitskeja@hotmail.com)


Many today see peace as the absence of war, but to the medieval world peace was far from a pale, negative concept – a lack of violence. Rather it was celebrated as a rich, vibrant ideal. Yet premodern war and violence have attracted much more attention than peace and cooperation, both in the public media and among scholars. One major area of interest, however, has been the intellectual history of peace. Publications have focused on Confucian ideas about peace (and their impact on the modern world) and on such European movements as the Truce of God and Peace of God. Other studies have explored the role of women in forging peace through gift-giving.

This session fosters broad thinking about the premodern and global cultural heritage of peace, which is too often neglected. One reason for this neglect is ideological: those who gained from warfare sought to glorify it. Another factor is that medieval peace may manifest itself in ways that are not immediately recognizable to us today. We welcome papers that discuss visual representations of peace, as well as the ways in which the material culture and the built environment contributed to the cessation of war or the safeguarding of peace. We encourage papers that explore the relationship between justice and peace or examine how images of premodern peace either still affect our discussions today or open the door to a new way of thinking. We welcome papers that analyze the regional diversity or global connectivity of images of peace.

Please submit abstracts directly to the organizers by 31 August 2022. More specific submission instructions can be found the CAA Annual Conference website here.

Book launch: Destroyed-Disappeared-Lost-Never Were, edited by Beate Fricke and Aden Kumler, August 31, 3-4pm ET

Destroyed-Disappeared-Lost-Never Were book launch

edited by Beate Fricke and Aden Kumler

August 31, 3-4pm ET

with
Beate Fricke
Aden Kumler
Roland Betancourt
Eleanor Goodman
Elizabeth Sears
Sonja Drimmer
Michelle McCoy

Register HERE

To write about works that cannot be sensually perceived involves considerable strain. Absent the object, art historians must stretch their methods to, or even past, the breaking point. This concise volume addresses the problems inherent in studying medieval works of art, artifacts, and monuments that have disappeared, have been destroyed, or perhaps never existed in the first place.

The contributors to this volume are confronted with the full expanse of what they cannot see, handle, or know. Connecting object histories, the anthropology of images, and historiography, they seek to understand how people have made sense of the past by examining objects, images, and architectural and urban spaces. Intersecting these approaches is a deep current of reflection upon the theorization of historical analysis and the ways in which the past is inscribed into layers of evidence that are only ever revealed in the historian’s present tense.

Highly original and theoretically sophisticated, this volume will stimulate debate among art historians about the critical practices used to confront the formative presence of destruction, loss, obscurity, and existential uncertainty within the history of art and the study of historical material and visual cultures.

In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Michele Bacci, Claudia Brittenham, Sonja Drimmer, Jaś Elsner, Peter Geimer, Danielle B. Joyner, Kristopher W. Kersey, Lena Liepe, Meekyung MacMurdie, and Michelle McCoy.

This event will be closed captioned

Register HERE

NEXT WEEK IN LA - IN PERSON! Exhibition Tour of Fantasy of the Middle Ages, Friday 29 July 2022

Exhibition Tour of Fantasy of the Middle Ages
J. Paul Getty Museum
Friday, July 29, 2022 at 4pm

Register HERE

Master of Guillebert de Mets, Saint George and the Dragon in a book of hours, Ghent, about 1450-55. Getty Museum, Ms. 2 (84.ML.67), fol. 18v); Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris for the Kelmscott Press, Frontispiece for The Order of Chivalry, London, 1892. The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles

Join Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene for a tour of The Fantasy of the Middle Ages at the Getty Center! The exhibition explores the ways in which the Middle Ages have been mythologized, dramatized, and re-envisioned time and again, proving an irresistible period for creative reinterpretations ranging from the Brothers Grimm to Game of Thrones. An informal drinks reception will take place nearby following the event.

Register HERE

The ICMA Mourns the Loss of Ilene Forsyth

The ICMA Mourns the Loss of Ilene Forsyth

It is with great sadness that the International Center of Medieval Art announces the death of Ilene Forsyth, a long-time member and supporter of the ICMA. Ilene endowed the ICMA’s Forsyth Lecture in memory of her husband, George H. Forsyth, Jr., and his cousin William H. Forsyth. She was a member of the ICMA from its foundation and served on the Board of Directors at various points, most recently from 2005 to 2008. A preeminent scholar of twelfth-century European sculpture and author of the landmark book The Throne of Wisdom: Wood Sculptures of the Madonna in Romanesque France (Princeton UP, 1972), Ilene was an inspiration and mentor for generations of medieval art historians. She was a member of the art history faculty at University of Michigan for thirty-five years (1962-97), where she generously endowed a professorship in western medieval art, graduate student fellowships, and other programs aimed at ensuring the future of the field.
 
A tribute to Ilene will appear in a forthcoming issue of ICMA News.

Call for Proposals: ICMA at the AAH Annual Conference 2023, due 1 July 2022

ICMA at Association for Art History Annual Conference 

London, 12-14 April 2023 
Call for ICMA Sponsored Session Proposals
due 1 July 2022

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship at the Association for Art History Annual Conference to be held 6-8 April 2022 at Goldsmiths, University of London.  
 
Proposals to the ICMA must include a session abstract and a CV of the organizer(s).

Please note the following:  

• The AAH does not require a slate of speakers; the AAH will generate a CFP once sessions have been selected. Therefore the ICMA will not request a slate of speakers. 

• The ICMA requires the CVs of the session organizers, but the AAH does not. 

• Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members but are not required to become AAH members. However, AAH members receive a preferential conference rate. 

• Sessions at the AAH conference are built of 70-minute blocks, with a minimum of two blocks per session, up to four blocks in a day. Each block consists of two papers of 25 minutes plus 10 minutes of questions for each paper. The ICMA seeks to sponsor one session of two 70-minute blocks (four papers). 

Upload your proposals here by 1 July 2022. 

Please direct all inquiries to the Chair of the Programs Committee: Bryan C. Keene, Riverside City College, USA, bryan.keene@rcc.edu 
 
The ICMA Programs and Lectures committee will select a session to sponsor and will notify the successful organizer(s) by 7 July 2022. The organizer(s) will then submit the ICMA-sponsored proposal to the AAH, which will make the final decision. Submit session proposals to the AAH by 11 July 2022 at conference2023@forarthistory.org.uk following the guidelines posted on the AAH website: CFS | Association for Art History 2023 Annual Conference – For Art History

note: deadline for submissions extended by special arrangement between AAH and ICMA only

Coordinator for Digital Engagement; applications due 5 July 2022

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

COORDINATOR FOR DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT
DUE TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2022, 11:59PM ET

The International Center of Medieval Art (the “ICMA”) invites applications for a Coordinator for Digital Engagement. Established in 1956, the ICMA continues to go strong, thanks, in part, to our aim to serve the needs and interests of our members. Through our digital presence, we strive to reach an ever-developing community of scholars, curators, and enthusiasts committed to exploring the art and architecture of the medieval realm, broadly defined.

The Coordinator for Digital Engagement will work remotely, approximately 10 hours per month on a flexible schedule, and may reside anywhere. Reliable internet and computer access are required. All are welcome to apply; preference given to those pursuing a career in medieval art history.

The Coordinator will collaborate with the ICMA President, Vice President, Committee Chairs, and Executive Director on projects relating to online programming that serve the needs of scholars, instructors, museum professionals, and other enthusiasts and specialists in medieval art history. These projects and tasks include: handling technical aspects of online workshops and lectures, such as the interactive Mining the Collection series and multi-speaker panels coordinated by the Friends of the ICMA; managing large group meetings, such as a Town Hall; working with the Student Committee to edit and manage the back end of our podcast series The Oral History Project; editing video and audio recordings for posting to the ICMA website; and collaborating with the Digital Resources Committee to maintain and innovate upon our existing website resources.

Essential skills: facility with Zoom (meetings and webinars); experience with voice and video editing and with podcast software; familiarity with website platforms such as Squarespace; competency with basic HTML and basic photo editing software; comfort interacting with a broad membership during live events and fielding questions; eagerness to work with the leadership and members of the ICMA; and overall aptitude for public-facing work.

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) is dedicated to the support of the study, understanding, and preservation of visual and material cultures produced primarily between ca. 300 CE and ca. 1500 CE in every corner of the medieval world. The organization embraces diversity in all forms, serving a membership of scholars with a variety of racial, ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, religious beliefs, and gender identities, among other factors. We encourage applications from candidates committed to forging and sustaining the ICMA’s multifaceted diversity and to being part of a community in which all are warmly welcomed and encouraged to succeed.

Please upload a CV and letter of interest (no more than two pages, single spaced) describing: (1) your research expertise; (2) the history of your engagement, if any, with the ICMA; (3) your knowledge of relevant digital platforms. Also, please arrange for one brief letter of reference, specifying your digital proficiencies and capacity for teamwork, to be sent to icma@medievalart.org. Finalist candidates will be invited for an online presentation and interview in early August 2022.

Upload application HERE

Deadline for Applications: Tuesday, July 5, 2022, 11:59pm ET
Term: September 1, 2022 – August 31, 2023
Compensation: $20/hr for approximately 10 hours per month; no fringe benefits

Email icma@medievalart.org with any questions.

2022 ICMA at the Courtauld Lecture: Memento mori Imagery and the Limits of the Self in Late Medieval Europe with Stephen G. Perkinson, Thursday 26 May 2022 - Register today!

The International Center of Medieval Art and The Research Forum at The Courtauld present:

Memento mori Imagery and the Limits of the Self in Late Medieval Europe

Stephen G. Perkinson
Professor of Art History and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Bowdoin College

Thursday 26 May 2022 at 5:30pm BST

In person at The Courtauld, Lecture Theatre 1, Vernon Square, London and online via Livestream
See below for more information and schedule
Free, booking essential
 

Register HERE

Memento mori, hand-colored engraving with manuscript inscription, Netherlands, c. 1500-1530 (Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2012.3)

About the talk:
Objects bearing memento mori themes were abundant in Europe in the decades immediately around the year 1500. The material properties of these objects – the matter from which they were formed, the apparent care or negligence with which they were fashioned, and the ways their physical condition betrays signs of heavy use or careful conservation – can point us toward a better understanding of the diversity of interests that inspired their creation and use. These motivations range from pious apprehensions about the fate of one’s soul to arguably less anxious ruminations on the nature of image-making and the role of an emerging sense of aesthetic engagement. Taken together, they encapsulate one of the central fascinations and anxieties of their age: in an era committed to the notion that deep truths could be conveyed through surface appearances and that individual identity could be captured, communicated, and preserved through static imagery, memento mori objects resisted the notion of a stable self, reminding their viewers of the anonymity that awaits us all in the grave. 

Stephen Perkinson’s scholarship focuses on Medieval and Renaissance art of Northern Europe. He has published on topics ranging from the 13th to the 16th centuries. His 2009 study of the origins of portraiture (The Likeness of the King, Univ. of Chicago Press) was the recipient of the 2009 Morris D. Forkosch Prize for Best Book in Intellectual History. He has also collaborated extensively with art museums. Most recently, he was curator of The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe (Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2017; catalogue distributed by Yale University Press), a major loan exhibition that shed new light on memento mori imagery and ivory carving in Northern Europe around the year 1500. Prior to that project, he produced work in conjunction with exhibitions of material from London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (Object of Devotion, 2010) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Set in Stone, 2006). He is also the author of essays that have appeared in The Art Bulletin, Speculum, Gesta, and elsewhere. At Bowdoin, he teaches courses that cover material ranging from the late antique world of the Mediterranean to the Renaissance in Northern Europe, and addressing the artistic traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. 

Organised by
Dr Jessica Barker, The Courtauld
Dr Tom Nickson, The Courtauld

This event is kindly supported by the ICMA. 

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ICMA AT THE COURTAULD LECTURE
Series made possible through the generosity of William M. Voelkle

Thursday 26 May 2022
5:30pm BST, drinks reception
6:00pm BST, lecture
 

Register HERE

In person at The Courtauld, Lecture Theatre 1, Vernon Square, London and online via Livestream

Please note, this lecture will be live streamed to allow those outside London access to the event. All those who wish to access the event via this online method should book a ‘Livestream’ ticket rather than ‘Lecture Theatre’ ticket.

Booking closes 30 minutes before the event start time. 

Register today for "Medieval Make Believe: The Middle Ages in Popular Culture" on 1 June 2022

Medieval Make Believe: The Middle Ages in Popular Culture
1 June 2022 at 12:00pm ET

Register HERE

LEFT: Saint George and the Dragon, Book of Hours, c. 1450. Master of Guillebert de Mets, (Flemish, active about 1410-1450). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 2 (84.ML.67), fol. 18v. RIGHT: “Sleeping Beauty gallery” from “Inspiring Walt Disney, The Animation of French Decorative Arts” exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 10, 2021--March 6, 2022.

Please join the Friends of the ICMA for the fourth in a series of special online events on Wednesday, June 1st at 12:00 p.m. ET (9:00 a.m. PT; 5:00 p.m. BST; and 6:00 p.m. CET) with the following panelists, in alphabetical order:

Wolf Burchard, Associate Curator, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and curator/author of the recent exhibition and catalogue, “Inspiring Walt Disney, The Animation of French Decorative Arts” (December 10, 2021—March 6, 2022). The exhibition is now on view at the Wallace Collection, London until October 16th.

Larisa Grollemond, Assistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and co-curator/co-author, with Bryan C. Keene of the upcoming exhibition and catalogue, “The Fantasy of the Middle Ages; An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds.” (J. Paul Getty Museum) (June 21—September 11, 2022).

Bryan C. Keene, Assistant Professor of Riverside City College, co-curator and co-author  with Larisa Grollemond, of “The Fantasy of the Middle Ages.” (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2022)

The panel will be introduced and moderated by Matthew M. Reeve, Associate Professor of Art History at Queen’s University, Kingston, ON and author of Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole (Penn State, 2020)

Please feel free to notify colleagues and friends who may not be ICMA members, about this event.

Register HERE

For questions, please contact Doralynn Pines, Chair of the Friends of the ICMA, doralynn.pines@gmail.com. 

ICMA ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE, SUBMISSIONS DUE 31 MAY 2022

ICMA ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE 

AUTHORS: NOTIFY YOUR PUBLISHER TO SUBMIT YOUR BOOK 
DUE 31 MAY 2022
Submit HERE

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Single or dual-authored books on any topic in medieval art printed in 2021 are eligible. No special issues of journals or anthologies or exhibition catalogues can be considered. The competition is international and open to all ICMA members. Languages of publication: English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish.

Not a member yet? Click here to create your account and join!

Prize: US $1,000 to a single author, or US $500 each to two co-authors. Recipients will be notified in early 2023.

For more information and to submit, visit https://www.medievalart.org/book-prize.

Send questions to icma@medievalart.org.

Digital Approaches to Medieval Art History featuring Nicola Camerlenghi; 24 May; 12:00pm ET

Digital Approaches to Medieval Art History

featuring Nicola Camerlenghi

May 24, 2022

12:00pm ET

This event is the first installment in a series of online gatherings which will provide opportunities for critical conversations about digital medieval art history. Nicola Camerlenghi (Dartmouth College) will open with a short presentation at the top of the hour, and thereafter the session will take the form of a dialogue among the speaker and two members of the ICMA Digital Resources committee, with time for open discussion with attendees at the end. 

Register HERE

ICMA at the International Congress on Medieval Studies 2022

ICMA at the International Congress on Medieval Studies 2022

For a full listing of the sessions, consult the ICMS program, available here:
https://wmich.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/u385/2022/medieval-schedule-2022.pdf

Monday 9 May 2022

Session 8
9:00 a.m. EDT
From Prophet of Israel to Miracle-Working Saint: The Transformations of Elijah’s Story in Jewish and Christian Iconographic Traditions (ca. Third–Fifteenth Centuries)

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizer: Barbara Crostini, Uppsala Univ.
Presider: Barbara Crostini

Witness and Redeemer: Elijah the Prophet as Envisioned by Jews in Medieval Europe Chana Shacham-Rosby, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard Univ.

Narrative Strategies and Sacramental Meanings: Picturing Elijah’s Story in the Thirteenth-Century Frescoes at Morača Monastery Andrei Dumitrescu, Central European Univ./New Europe College

Witnessing Elijah and Elisha: The Sons of the Prophets as Monastic Exemplars Erika Loic, Florida State Univ.

The Prophet Elijah and the Theme of Spiritual Filiation in Moldavian Iconography, ca. 1480–1530 Vlad Bedros, New Europe College



Session 43
1:00-2:30pm EDT
Mining the Collection I: Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA); Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.
Organizer: Shirin Fozi, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Michael Chagnon, Aga Khan Museum
Presider: Michael Chagnon

Oliphant
Mariam Rosser-Owen, Victoria & Albert Museum
Albarello
Marcus Milwright, Univ. of Victoria
Base of an Incense Burner
Ruba Kana'an, Univ. of Toronto–Mississauga

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Tuesday 10 May 2022

Session 107
10:00-11:30 am PDT
Mining the Collection II: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA); Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.
Organizer: Shirin Fozi, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Elizabeth Morrison, J. Paul Getty Museum
Presider: Elizabeth Morrison

Wenceslaus Psalter
Meredith Cohen, Univ. of California–Los Angeles
Ovid, Excerpts from Heroines
Cynthia Brown, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara
Bifolium from the Pink Qur'an
Linda Komaroff, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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Wednesday 11 May 2022

Session 171
1:00-2:30pm EDT
Mining the Collection III: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA); Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.
Organizer: Shirin Fozi, Univ. of Pittsburgh; C. Griffith Mann, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Presider: C. Griffith Mann

Magdeburg Ivory
Jacqueline Lombard, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ivory Mirror Backs
Scott Miller, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ivory Panels with Peter and Paul and Ivory Mortar
Nicole Pulichene, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Thursday 12 May 2022

Session 219
9:00 a.m. EDT
Naples and Beyond: World-Wide Cultural Networks I: Within Naples

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizer: Denva Gallant, Univ. of Delaware
Presider: Janis Elliott, Texas Tech Univ.

Confraternal Art and Architecture in Angevin Naples: The Hospital of Saint Eligio and the Compagnia della Croce at Saint Agostino Stefano D’Ovidio, Univ. degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Ribbed Domes in Naples and South Italy Caroline A. Bruzelius, Duke Univ.

Naples outside Naples: Medieval Funerary Sculpture at the Abbey of Montevergine Paola Vitolo, Univ. degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

De statua: Visualizing Fame in Early Renaissance Naples Nicolas Bock, Univ. de Lausanne



Session 229
1:00-2:30pm EDT
Mining the Collection IV: Dumbarton Oaks Museum, Washington, D.C.

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA); Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.
Organizer: Shirin Fozi, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Jonathan Shea, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Presider: Jonathan Shea

Seal of Constantine, Imperial Protospatharios
Nikos Kontogiannis, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Seal of John, Metropolitan of Mytilene
Eric McGeer, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Seal of John, Candlemaker
Alex Magnolia, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities



Session 242
3:00 p.m. EDT
Naples and Beyond: World-Wide Cultural Networks II: Beyond Naples I

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizer: Janis Elliott, Texas Tech Univ.
Presider: Denva Gallant, Univ. of Delaware

Xmaltatis per totum: The “Church Reliquary” at San Nicola, Bari, in Context Jill Caskey, Univ. of Toronto–Mississauga

Kings in Heaven and Workers in Hell: A Civic Last Judgment Fresco in Sant’Agata de’ Goti Claire Jensen, Univ. of Toronto

Court Art beyond Naples: The Frescoes of Santa Caterina, Galatina Maria Harvey, James Madison Univ.



Session 262
5:00 p.m. EDT
Naples and Beyond: World-Wide Cultural Networks III: Beyond Naples II
Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizer: Janis Elliott, Texas Tech Univ. Denva Gallant, Univ. of Delaware Gilbert Jones, International Center of Medieval Art
Presider: Cathleen A. Fleck, St. Louis Univ.

A Manuscript on the Move: The Kitāb al-Hāwī between Tunisia and Naples Nora S. Lambert, Univ. of Chicago

The Dynastic in the Monastic: Considering the Image of Robert of Anjou in Morgan MS M.626 Denva Gallant

The Hungarian Angevin Legendary: A Picture-Book of Saints Lives and Its Connection to Angevin Naples Janis Elliott



Session 280
7:00 p.m. EDT
New Approaches to the Art and Architecture of Angevin and Aragonese Naples (1265–1458)
Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Student Committee
Organizer: Gilbert Jones, International Center of Medieval Art
Presider: Emma Langham Dove, Univ. of Virginia; Gilbert Jones

A Christological Cycle Fit for a Queen in the Bible of Naples (BnF, MS fr. 9561) Eilis Livia Coughlin, Rice Univ.

Joanna I of Naples: A Queen’s Visual Heritage Paula van der Zande

Francisco Laurens, Ymagier du roi: Sculpting the King of Sicily in Provence during the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century Françoise Keating, Univ. of Victoria

The Battle for Otranto: Adriatic Cultural Competition in the Wake of Ottoman Aggression Jacob Eisensmith, Univ. of Pittsburgh

Respondent: Denva Gallant, Univ. of Delaware; Janis Elliott, Texas Tech Univ.

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Friday 13 May 2022

Session 307
1:00-2:30pm EDT
Mining the Collection V: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA); Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.
Organizer: Shirin Fozi, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Gerhard Lutz, Cleveland Museum of Art
Presider: Gerhard Lutz

Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā-sūtra Manuscript
Reed O'Mara, Case Western Reserve Univ.
Fragment of an Icon of the Crucifixion
Elizabeth S. Bolman, Case Western Reserve Univ.
Death of the Virgin
Elina Gertsman, Case Western Reserve Univ.

Reminder: ICMA STAHL AND FORSYTH LECTURES: Call for nominations due 15 May 2022

ICMA STAHL AND FORSYTH LECTURES
Call for nominations
due 15 May 2022

INVITE A STAR TO YOUR CAMPUS (Virtually or in Person)!
 
The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for virtual or face-to-face programs under the Stahl and Forsyth Lecture Series to be held under the sponsorship of the organization in 2022-2023. Stahl Lectures are to be sponsored by colleges or universities in what might be termed the greater southwest, while Forsyth lectures, as a rule, take place in institutions located east of the Mississippi River, especially in what might be termed the greater Midwest. At this time, we have the opportunity to make the program available virtually to all ICMA members, though we are also interested in proposals that include some in-person engagement between students and speakers if conditions and logistics allow.
 
Please suggest the name(s) of appropriate speakers and indicate your willingness to host the event at your institution. Please indicate the format (face-to-face or virtual) 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 Stahl Lecture, please submit your CV and the CV of the proposed speaker, as well as a brief proposal/preliminary itinerary by clicking HERE.
 
For Forsyth Lecture, please submit your CV and CV of the proposed speaker, as well as a brief proposal/preliminary itinerary by clicking HERE.
 
Please direct any inquiries to the Chair of the ICMA Programs & Lectures Committee: Bryan C. Keene, Riverside City College; email: bryan.keene@rcc.edu. The deadline for the nominations is 15 May 2022 for lectures to be planned for the fall of 2022 or the spring of 2023.

Reminder: ICMA ADVOCACY SEED GRANT, due 29 April 2022

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
ICMA ADVOCACY SEED GRANT
due 29 April 2022

The ICMA Advocacy Seed Grant is an annual grant for local initiatives in public scholarly engagement and outreach, student mentoring (from grade school to graduate), and projects that advance the ICMA's commitment to inclusion in the field. These grants could be used to support initiatives including, but not limited to: group visits to special collections/museum exhibitions, curricular development, workshops and student training, community/artist conversations, website design, equipment, and outreach to local classrooms.

We especially encourage applications that will support the initiation or continuation of longer-term projects, but all projects will be considered. Proposals should describe the project’s aims and audience (including short and long-term goals), and the ways in which it will engage the intended audience in a meaningful understanding of medieval art, broadly conceived.

Grants are available for up to US $1,500. Depending on the number of proposals received, the committee may decide to divide the total available funds (US $1,500) into multiple smaller awards or to give the full grant to a single recipient.

All applicants must be ICMA members.

Applications are due by Friday 29 April 2022. To submit, upload your CV, 1 page proposal (single-spaced), itemized budget, and list of potential collaborators and target engagement audience here.

For questions, please contact awards@medievalart.org.

CFP, due 15 May 2022 - ICMA sponsored sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies 2023

ICMA at the International Congress on Medieval Studies  

Kalamazoo and Hybrid Format, 11-13 May 2023
Call for ICMA Sponsored Session Proposals
due 15 May 2022

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) at Kalamazoo. Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members.

Proposals to the ICMA must include a session abstract and a CV of the organizer(s). A list of speakers is not required at this time. Organizers will have the opportunity to send out a call for papers after the session is selected by ICMA has been approved by the Congress Committee in July.

Upload your proposals HERE by 15 May 2022.

Please direct all inquiries to the Chair of the Programs Committee: Bryan C. Keene, Riverside City College, USA, bryan.keene@rcc.edu

The ICMA Programs and Lectures committee will select a session to sponsor and will notify the successful organizer(s) by 27 May 2022. The organizer(s) will then submit the ICMA-sponsored proposal to the ICMS by 1 June 2022.

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ICMA Student Committee at the International Congress on Medieval Studies  

Kalamazoo and Hybrid Format, 11-13 May 2023
Call for ICMA Student Committee Sponsored Session Proposals
due 15 May 2022

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for one dedicated session for graduate students to be held under the organization’s sponsorship at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) at Kalamazoo. Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members.

Proposals to the ICMA must include a session abstract and a CV of the organizer(s). A list of speakers is not required at this time. Organizers will have the opportunity to send out a call for papers after the session is selected by ICMA Student Committee has been approved by the Congress Committee in July.

Please submit all student sessions to the ICMA Student Committee via email:student@medievalart.orgno later than 15 May 2022.

Please direct all inquiries to the Co-Chairs of the Student Committee: Emma Dove, elb7cn@virginia.edu and Gilbert Jones,gilbert.jones@gmail.com.

The ICMA Student Committee will select a session to sponsor and will notify the successful organizer(s) by 27 May 2022. The organizer(s) will then submit the ICMA-sponsored proposal to the ICMS by 1 June 2022.

 

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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 conference must be held online, Kress funding will cover virtual conference registration fees.

Click HERE for more information.

ICMA Town Hall - Evaluating 2021: Race, Diversity, and Medieval Art History in the Classroom and the Museum, Wednesday 4 May 2022. Register today!

Evaluating 2021: Race, Diversity, and Medieval Art History in the Classroom and the Museum
An ICMA Town Hall

 
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
12-1:30pm ET / 18:00-19:30 CET 
Online
 
Please register HERE.

Lusterware Tile. Spanish, 1450–75. Glazed earthenware. The Cloisters Collection, 2006. 2006.256. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

This Town Hall is envisioned as a continuation of the conversations begun at the November 2020 ICMA Town Hall on Diversity, Medieval Art History, and 2020. This first Town Hall, which over one hundred ICMA members attended, served as a productive forum for listening, brainstorming, and discussing issues of diversity and inclusivity and how they pertain to our practices and our work as medieval art historians. Following this event, the IDEA Committee collaborated with other ICMA committees to plan, develop, and implement many of the suggestions and requests voiced at the 2020 Town Hall. (Please see the updates on those initiatives and developments on our website)

At the 2022 Town Hall, scholars, teachers, and curators will have the opportunity to assess the diversity initiatives of the past few years, share triumphs and cautionary tales, and develop guidelines for best practices. What has worked, in the classroom, in the museum, in other spaces? What has proven to be challenging? What are things that we as a field still have to think through? Simply put: as we adjust to altered circumstances of research and teaching, how is it going?

The 2022 Town Hall will feature a panel of ICMA members who will share some of their own experiences engaging with diversity initiatives. We will then split into themed breakout rooms (e.g., Curating and the Museum, The Classroom, etc.) to continue the conversation in smaller groups. This Town Hall will serve as a space for sharing, listening, collaborating, and looking to new solutions as we move toward the future of medieval art history.

Please register HERE.