New Videos: MINING THE COLLECTION SESSIONS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES 2022

NOW AVAILABLE ON THE ICMA WEBSITE:

MINING THE COLLECTIONS I-V

INTERATIONAL CONGRESS OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES, KALAMAZOO

9-13 MAY 2022

The Mining the Collection sessions from the International Congress of Medieval Studies 2022 are now available to watch online: https://www.medievalart.org/mining-the-collection. Organised by Dr. Shirin Fozi and curators of the Aga Khan Museum (Toronto), the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Dumbarton Oaks Museum (Washington, D.C.), and the Cleveland Art Museum (Cleveland), pieces of the collections are explored in-depth by numerous scholars.

MONDAY 9 MAY 2022

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

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

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

THURSDAY 12 MAY 2022

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

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.

Call for Papers: Digital Medievalisms at AAH Annual Conference 2023, due 11 November 2022

Call for Papers
Digital Medievalisms
Association for Art History Annual Conference 2023
12-14 April 2023, University College London

due 11 November 2022, 11:59pm ET


Claudia Haines, Tufts University, Claudia.Haines@tufts.edu
Atineh Movsesian, University of California, Berkeley, amovsesian@berkeley.edu

This session will discuss the benefits and advantages (or disadvantages) modern technology can bring to the field of medieval studies. Digital technologies have created new methodologies for the humanities. With the help of three-dimensional scanning, for example, researchers can “visit” and study medieval monuments in virtual and augmented reality. Similarly, the increasing digitization of medieval manuscripts make these fragile and often inaccessible objects available to a wider public. With the current social and political climate—the ongoing pandemic creating restrictions for research, and wars threatening medieval monuments and objects— how can technology benefit the study of the Middle Ages? Alternatively, could the application of technology to the field of medieval studies have any disadvantages?

The field of digital humanities is rapidly growing and advancing. In addition to conservation and archival projects, new technologies bring forth new methodologies. How can these methodologies improve the understanding of the global medieval world? Can virtual and augmented realities help researchers visualize the political and social aspects of the global Middle Ages? Will new technologies expand access to monuments and objects currently hindered by political, social, or public health constraints? And finally, how can the digital humanities be applied in classrooms and museum education? This session will address these questions and more through an interrogation of the role of technology in medieval art research.

To offer a paper:

  • Please email your paper proposals directly to the session convenor(s).

  • You need to provide a title and abstract (250 words maximum) for a 20-minute paper (unless otherwise specified), your name and institutional affiliation (if any).

  • Please make sure the title is concise and reflects the contents of the paper because the title is what appears online, in social media and in the digital programme.

  • You should receive an acknowledgement of receipt of your submission within two weeks.

  • Deadline for submissions: 11 November 2022, 11:59pm ET

Medieval Coming Attractions, 15 November 2022 at 12pm ET - REGISTER NOW!

MEDIEVAL COMING ATTRACTIONS
AN ONLINE EVENT PRESENTED BY FRIENDS OF THE ICMA

NOVEMBER 15, 2022 AT 12PM ET
REGISTER HERE

LEFT: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin. Ceramic floor tile from Chertsey Abbey, 1250s. The British Museum 1885,1113.9065-9070. CENTER: Saint Jerome and the Lion, by Tilman Riemenschneider, Würzburg, ca. 1495. Alabaster, from the former Church of St. Peter in Erfurt. Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1946.82. Cleveland Museum of Art. RIGHT: Processional Cross. Bronze, Ethiopia, 15th century. Museum Purchase with Funds Provided by the W. Alton Jones Foundation. Acquisition Fund, 1996. The Walters Art Museum.

Please join the Friends of the ICMA for the latest in a series of special online events on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 12:00pm ET (9:00am PT; 5:00pm GMT; and 6:00pm CET). The hour-long program will preview three medieval exhibitions scheduled to open in 2023, each introduced by its curator in charge.

  • Amanda Luyster is Assistant Professor of Art History at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She will speak about her exhibition Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece. The exhibition will be on view at the Cantor Art Gallery at the College, January 26-April 6, 2023, where the Chertsey tiles will be displayed in dialogue with materials from the Byzantine and Islamic worlds.

  • Gerhard Lutz is the Robert P. Bergman Curator of Medieval Art, Cleveland Museum of Art. He will introduce his upcoming exhibition, Tilman Riemenschneider’s Jerome and Late Medieval Alabaster Sculpture which will be on view from March 26-July 23, 2023. The exhibition examines this understudied material by presenting some of the most extraordinary surviving examples of alabaster work made in continental Europe, including the Cleveland’s own Saint Jerome and the Lion, the only alabaster work in a US collection by Riemenschneider.

  • Christine Sciacca is Curator of European Art, 300-1400 at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. Her exhibition, entitled, Ethiopia at the Crossroads will be on view December 3, 2023-March 3, 2024. It is the first major art exhibition in America to examine Ethiopian art in a global context. Sciacca will discuss some of the more than 250 objects drawn from the Walters’ world-renowned collection of Ethiopian art, as well as domestic and international loans. The exhibition has received the inaugural Exhibition Development grant from the ICMA and the Kress Foundation.

The panel will be introduced and moderated by Naomi Speakman, Curator of Late Medieval Europe at the British Museum where she has responsibility for the Western European collection, ca. 1050-1500. Most recently, she co-curated the 2021 exhibition Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint and co-authored the accompanying exhibition publication.

Please feel free to notify colleagues and friends who may not be ICMA members, about this event. The event will be recorded and accessible via the ICMA website (www.medievalart.org)

Register HERE

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



LAST CHANCE TO JOIN OR RENEW YOUR ICMA MEMBERSHIP FOR 2022!

Become part of the ICMA community before 28 October 2022 to get the latest alerts on news, events, opportunities, and resources.

Membership in the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) is open to all those interested in the appreciation, study, and preservation of visual and material cultures from every corner of the medieval world. We are an inclusive organization with members around the globe, and we invite anyone with an interest in the art and architecture of the Middle Ages to join, including but not limited to students, teachers of any rank at any institution (elementary, secondary, college, university), independent scholars, curators, librarians, art dealers, and collectors.

All members receive the 2022 spring and fall issues of GESTA, plus all past issues online! Your membership directly supports ICMA programs. To learn about our many programs, check out our website at www.medievalart.org

To join or to renew your membership, click here: https://www.medievalart.org/join.

2022 MEMBERSHIP FEES (all prices in USD):
Student ($20)
Emerging/Adjunct/Independent Scholars ($40)
Retiree ($55)
Individual ($65)
Individual + subsidy ($85)
Joint ($80)
Contributor ($150)
Patron ($300)
Sustainer ($600)
Benefactor ($1,200)

The 2022 membership year ends 31 December 2022. 2023 memberships become available in November 2022 and run 1 January 2023-31 December 2023.

ICMA Resources for the New Academic Year →

Don’t Forget about ICMA Resources as you Look Ahead to the New Academic Year!

Hello to the ICMA Community,
 
As you finalize syllabi or sketch research plans for the coming academic year, we wanted to remind you of the wealth of material available on the ICMA website.
 
Among other things …
 
Under LECTURES, you will find videos of:

  • Julia Perratore, on Representing Medieval Spain at The Met Cloisters

  • Bissera Pentcheva, on Image, Chant, and Imagination at Ste. Foy in Conques

  • Stephen Perkinson, on Memento mori Imagery and the Limits of the Self in Late Medieval Europe

  • Nicola Camerlenghi, on Digital Approaches to Medieval Art History

  • A panel on Medieval Make Believe: The Middle Ages in Popular Culture

  • A panel on Collecting the Medieval Past: What, Why, How?

  • A panel on Queer Medieval Art: Past, Present, and Future

  • The summer 2021 suite of talks connected to the British Museum’s exhibition on Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint

  • A wealth of sessions in our Mining the Collection series with museum curators

  • And much more!


Under PUBLICATIONS, you can get access to:

  • Gesta

  • ICMA News


Under RESOURCES, you can explore:

 
Finally, if you're curious about the history of our organization and the field in general, be sure to listen to episodes in the ICMA Oral History Project. Recent podcasts include interviews with Joan Holladay and Herbert Kessler. And soon to appear will be a conversation with Jane Rosenthal.
 
We hope that the past few months have been restful and restorative for you. We look forward to good things on the horizon.
 
Best wishes,
Nina Rowe, ICMA President
Ryan Frisinger, ICMA Executive Director  

Read ICMA News, Summer 2022 online!

ICMA News               

Summer 2022
Melanie Hanan, Editor

Click here to read.

INSIDE
Special Features
Field Report: Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage under the Hundred Days Onslaught, by Nazar Kozak

Project Report: The VR Cathedral App, by Jennifer M. Feltman

Exhibition Reports 
Painted Prophecy: The Hebrew Bible through Christian Eyes, by Kelin Michael

Fragmented Illuminations: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Cuttings at the V&A, by Gigi Leung 


Events and Opportunities

 


The deadline for the next issue of ICMA News is 15 October 2022. Please send information to newsletter@medievalart.org 

If you would like your upcoming conference, CFP, or exhibition included in the newsletter please email the information to EventsExhibitions@medievalart.org.

ICMA-SPONSORED SESSION AT VI FORUM KUNST DES MITTELALTERS, 28 SEPT - 1 OCT 2022, FRANKFURT GERMANY (30 SEPTEMBER 2022, 16.45–18.15 UHR)

30 SEPTEMBER 2022

16.45–18.15 UHR (10:45AM-12:15PM ET)

Duft und Sinne: Geruchssinn und Erinnerung in der materiellen Kultur des Mittelalters

Scent and Sense: Olfaction and Memory in Medieval Material Culture

Leitung: Elina Gertsman, Cleveland

Organisation: International Center of Medieval Art – ICMA, New York

Campus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum, HZ 3

  • Elisabeth Sobieczky, Wien

“And my breath was refreshed by the pleasant fragrance of the Lord“ (OdSal 11, 13/15). Image, Word, and Scent in the Freudenstadt Lectern

  • Hila Manor, Jerusalem

 “Beds of Spices and Towers of Sweet Herbs“: Sensing and Commemorating in Medieval Jewish Spaces”

  • Robert Vogt, Baltimore

Spheres/Worlds: The Scent of Creation

  • Reed O’Mara, Cleveland

Sensation and Olfaction: Experiencing Images of Jacob and Esau in Fourteenth-Century Sepharad

For more information: https://www.dvfk-berlin.de/en/forum-2-2/

ICMA in Toronto: Exhibition tour of FAITH AND FORTUNE: ART ACROSS THE GLOBAL SPANISH EMPIRE; 23 September 2022

ICMA in Toronto
Exhibition tour
FAITH AND FORTUNE: ART ACROSS THE GLOBAL SPANISH EMPIRE
From the collection of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library

Art Gallery of Ontario

Friday 23 September 2022
3pm, in-person


Register HERE

Attributed to Manuel Chili, called Capiscara (Ecuador, ca. 1723 – Quito, Ecuador, 1796), The Four Fates of Man: Death, Hell, Purgatory, Heaven. New York, The Hispanic Society of America.

Join Adam Levine for an in-person tour of FAITH AND FORTUNE: ART ACROSS THE GLOBAL SPANISH EMPIRE at the Art Gallery of Ontario! The exhibition examines the visual culture of the global Spanish Empire through more than 200 works of art from Latin America, the Philippines and Spain - all from the collection of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library. An informal drinks reception will take place nearby following the event.

Register HERE
 

Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario   
M5T 1G4
 

Call for Proposals: IMC Leeds 2023, ICMA sponsored session, due 23 September 2022

Call for Proposals 
International Medieval Congress (IMC 2023)
3-6 July 2023, University of Leeds
due 23 September 2022

Upload HERE

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2023 at the International Medieval Congress (IMC) at Leeds, England.  

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 2023 the theme is “Networks and Entanglements.”  For more information on the Leeds 2023 congress and theme, see:  https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2023/ 

Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members at the time of the conference. Proposals must include a session abstract, and a list of speakers, as one single Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title, and a CV, again as a Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title. Please upload here by 23 September 2022.

Please direct inquiries to the Chair of the ICMA Programs and Lectures Committee: Bryan C. Keene, bryan.keene@rcc.edu 

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