ICMA at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds 2023: Sponsored sessions on 5 and 6 July 2023

ICMA at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds 2023

The Concertina-Fold Book Across Pre-Modern Cultures
Session 1347, Parkinson Building - Room B.11
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 16.30-18.00


Social Agency of Secular Goldsmiths' Work in the Late Middle Ages I: Production
Session 1545,  Esther Simpson Building - Room 2.09
Thursday 6 July 2023, 9.00-10.30

Social Agency of Secular Goldsmiths' Work in the Late Middle Ages II: Use
Session 1645, Esther Simpson Building - Room 2.09
Thursday 6 July 2023, 11.15-12.45

THE CONCERTINA-FOLD BOOK ACROSS PRE-MODERN CULTURES

Wednesday 5 July 2023, 16.30 - 18.00
Session 1347
Parkinson Building - Room B.11

Organiser: Megan McNamee, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
Moderator: Sarah Griffin, Lambeth Palace Library

A Folded Genealogy of Edward IV
Sonja Drimmer, Department of the History of Art & Architecture, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Going Up, Coming Down: Landscape, Verticality, and Time in the Mixtec Screen-Fold Manuscripts of Pre-Hispanic Mexico 
Jamie Forde, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh

Tibetan Buddhist Concertina-Fold Books in Qing-Era Beijing
Ben Nourse, Department of Religious Studies, University of Denver

Sponsored jointly by the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) and the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, Rare Book School.  

Virtual attendance of this event is free and open to the public; advance registration required: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-concertina-fold-book-across-premodern-cultures-tickets-608348575967

SOCIAL AGENCY OF SECULAR GOLDSMITHS’ WORK IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES, I: PRODUCTION

Thursday 6 July 2023, 9.00-10.30
Session 1545
Esther Simpson Building - Room 2.09

Organiser: Masha Goldin, eikones - Zentrum für die Theorie und Geschichte des Bildes, Universität Basel and Hila Manor, Department of Art History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Moderator: Hila Manor

A Late Medieval Goldsmith’s Workshop  Jack Ogden, Independent Scholar, London

‘Made with the gold that the Londoners gave to the King’ 
Alison Wright, Department of History of Art, University College London 

Secular and Sacral Entanglements: The Shrine of St Simeon in Zadar as a Mirror of Late Medieval Society 
Mandy Telle, Sonderforschungsbereich 933 ‘Materiale Textkulturen’, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 

SOCIAL AGENCY OF SECULAR GOLDSMITHS’ WORK IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES, II: USE

Thursday 6 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
Session 1645
Esther Simpson Building - Room 2.09

Organiser: Masha Goldin, eikones - Zentrum für die Theorie und Geschichte des Bildes, Universität Basel and Hila Manor, Department of Art History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Moderator: Masha Goldin

Richard II and the Coronation Regalia: A Case of Duplicated ‘Object-Conversion’ 
Rowanne Dean, Department of Art History, University of Chicago, Illinois

14th-Century Nested Beakers from a Jewish Context: Profane Drinking Vessels or Ritual Objects?
Maria Stürzebecher, Museum Alte Synagoge, Erfurt

Respondent: John Cherry, Independent Scholar, Ludlow 

ICMA RECEPTION 
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 18.30-20.30

Join us for complimentary drinks following the ICMA sponsored session on Wednesday at The Dry Dock, about a 10 minute walk from the Parkinson Building. Look for the ICMA sign! 

All are welcome! Please invite colleagues!

The Dry Dock
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds LS2 3AX

https://www.crafted-social.co.uk/dry-dock-leeds

 

New Video! ICMA ANNUAL IDEA LECTURE: “JOHN OF MARIGNOLLI, THE TRIBUTE HORSE, AND EAST-WEST ENCOUNTERS IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY," NANCY WU

New Video

ICMA ANNUAL IDEA LECTURE

“JOHN OF MARIGNOLLI, THE TRIBUTE HORSE, AND EAST-WEST ENCOUNTERS IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY”

NANCY WU, EDUCATOR EMERITA, THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

17 April 2023, 5:30 PM, Columbia University

In 1342, the Franciscan John of Marignolli, as papal nuncio, presented a horse to the Mongol Emperor of China. When scrutinized, the seemingly cordial exchange reveals a multitude of encounters across temporal and geographic boundaries—over 1,300 years and from Avignon to Xanadu. This paper will discuss and consider the event’s historical and cultural implications against the backdrop of the so-called Mongol Mission in medieval China.

Nancy Wu is Educator Emerita of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she was responsible for education at The Cloisters for over twenty years. For decades she has worked extensively on various aspects of Gothic architecture and the Cloisters collection. Since 2020, she has been devoted to the history of the Franciscan mission in fourteenth-century China.

Convened by the IDEA Committee, the ICMA Annual IDEA Lecture showcases research by ICMA members that engages, in content, method, or disciplinary practice, issues of inclusivity, diversity, equity, and accessibility.

The video is available to watch on the Special Online Lectures page.

ICMA WINE RECEPTION & OTHER EVENTS AT THE TENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES, ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 12-14 JUNE 2023

TENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES

ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY

SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI

12-14 JUNE 2023

The Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies provides a convenient summer venue in North America for scholars in all disciplines to present papers, organize sessions, participate in roundtables, and engage in interdisciplinary discussion. The goal of the symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation on all topics and in all disciplines of the medieval and early modern world.

The plenary speakers for 2023 will be Uta-Renate Blumenthal, of Catholic University of America, and Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library.

This year, alongside general sessions, three mini-conferences going on within the bounds of the symposium: the long-running St. Louis Conference of Manuscript Studies, now in its 48th year; the International Arthurian Studies conference; a conference on Late Medieval Philosophy. An exhibit,“The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550,” is also at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, which is within walking distance. A curator’s talk is scheduled there Tuesday late afternoon.

OF PARTICULAR INTEREST FOR ICMA MEMBERS IS:

Thursday, June 13, 2023 - Wine Reception: Co-Sponsored by International Center of Medieval Art, New York, 6:00-7:30 p.m. Center for Global Citizenship

More information is available from the event program and the symposium website.

PANELS INVOLVING MEDIEVAL ART INCLUDE:

Monday, 12 June 2023 - M5: Roles of the Manuscript - 48th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies - Père Marquette Gallery

“North Africa and its Peoples in the Book of Games by Alfonso X: Reimagining Thirteenth-Century Court Culture in the Western” - Alexandra Peters, Bowdoin College

“Tasting the Fruit of the Orchard: Interpretive Agency, Authorial Will, and Organizational Failure in Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.162” - Elissa Johnston, Fordham University

“Queering the Manuscript: a Study of Morgan Library MS G.47” - Vivian Brown, Trinity College Dublin

Monday, 12 June 2023 - M8: Art in the Renaissance - Morrissey 0600 - Chair: Allen Loomis, Binghamton University

“Extravagant Violations and Visual Tropes: Lucas Cranach the Elder's Semiotic use of Dress in the Budapest Martyrdom of Saint Catherine” - Sophia Feist, Cambridge University

“Claude Dodieu's Portrait Medal (1532)” - Jan Pendergrass, University of Georgia

“‘A Face of Muche Nobillitye Lie in a Little Roome’, Re-Imaging the Tudor Dynasty: Renaissance Repetition and the Portraiture of Henry VIII's Family” - Jean Marie Christensen, Southern Methodist University

Monday, 12 June 2023 - M14: Roundtable: Digital Humanities and Opportunities for Studying Texts and Glosses – Successful NEH Grants and Possibilities Ahead - Morrissey 0600 - Chair: Margaret K. Smith, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Panelists: Atria Larson, Theological Studies, Saint Louis University; Lia Markey, Newberry Library; John McEwan, Walter J. Ong Center for Digital Humanities, Saint Louis University; Patrick Cuba, Research Computing Group, Saint Louis University; Geoff Brewer, English, Saint Louis University; Ahlam Jaber, English, Saint Louis University; Ryan Prewitt, English, Saint Louis University

Monday, 12 June 2023 - M16: Plenary Session in Manuscript Studies - 48th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies - Père Marquette Gallery

“Compiling Spheres of Knowledge: Medieval Creativity in the Astronomical Arts” - Eric Ramirez-Weaver, University of Virginia

Tuesday, 13 June 2023 - T5: Revelations of Codicology - 48th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies - Père Marquette Gallery

“The 19th Century Medieval: The Inserted Illuminations of the Fisher Antiphonarium” - Risa de Rege, University of Toronto

“Wars in the Workshop: Digitising Manuscript Rolls” - Natasha Hodgson, Nottingham Trent University

“Fragmented Hours: The Biography of a Printed Devotional Book” - Stephanie Haas, University of South Florida

Tuesday, 13 June 2023 - T11: The Infinite Ingenuity of Authors and Artisans - 48th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies - Père Marquette Gallery

“Examining the Scientific Illustration Method in Various Ajayeb Nameh Manuscripts” - Fahimeh Zarezadeh, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

“Visions of Silver: 17th-18th Century Armenian Silver Bindings from Kayseri, Ottoman Empire” - Sylvie Merian, The Morgan Library & Museum

“Playful Experimentation in Medieval Chemistry: The case of ‘The 88 Natural Experiments of Rasis’” - Vanessa Baptista, University College London

Tuesday, 13 June 2023 - T14: Academic Polymaths: Roundtable on Leveraging Medieval Adjacent Skills in Career Advancement - Morrissey 0200 - Chair: Edward Holt, Grambling State University

Panelists: Amy Boland, Briar Cliff University; Edward Holt, Grambling State University; Kyle Lincoln, Southeastern Oklahoma State University; Margaret K. Smith, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Tuesday, 13 June 2023 - T16: The Nature of Things: Art, Culture, and Environment in the Medieval East and West - Morrissey 0600 - Chair: Heather Alexis Smith, Pulitzer Arts Foundation

“Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Rethinking Spolia and the Luxury Marble Trade in the Early Middle Ages” - Nathan S. Dennis, University of San Francisco

“Assemblage and Symbiosis: Matter as Maker in Medieval Art” - Anne F. Harris, Grinnell College

“Medieval Art and Ecology: Ecocriticism and the Museum Exhibition” - Heather Alexis Smith, Pulitzer Arts Foundation

Tuesday, 13 June 2023 - T18: Demons and Death in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts - 48th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies - Père Marquette Gallery

“Demons at Court: An Exploration of 14th-century Iconography” - Lyle Dechant, DePauw University

“Punished Demons: Illuminations of Divine Retribution in Late Medieval Manuscripts” - Layla Seale, University of North Texas

“‘As We Are Now, So Shall You Be’: Depictions of Liminality in Manuscript Images of the Three Living and Three Dead” - Delaney Finau, Winston-Salem State University

Tuesday, 13 June 2023 - Optional Excursion and Curator's Talk: Pulitzer Arts Foundation Exhibition: “The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100- 1550”

3716 Washington Ave. St. Louis MO 63108

Doors open 3:45 p.m.

Tour and curator’s talk by Heather Alexis Smith at 4:30 p.m.

Admission is free; pre-registration is not required.

Wednesday, 14 June 2023 - W7: Power and Pageantry: Political Philosophy and Displays of Power I Morrissey 0400 Chair: Jean Marie Christensen, Southern Methodist University

“The King's Two Bodies, Twice” - Sophia Feingold, Independent Scholar

“Looking for Forgiveness in the Tudor Myth” - Andrew Shifflett, University of South Carolina

“Transparent Glass and the Spectacle of Sovereignty: Kenilworth Castle Entertainment of 1575” - Allen Loomis, Binghamton University

Wednesday, 14 June 2023 - W8: Scotland: Concrete Evidence and Presentation - Morrissey 0600 - Chair: Nicholas Babich, University of Notre Dame

“The Picts in Perspective: How Heritage Professionals Can Revitalize Modern Connections with this Early Medieval Civilization” - Claire Reinert, McKendree University

“The Early Christian Cross-Marked Stones that were Erected on the West Coast of Scotland: A New Methodological Approach” - Alla Kurzenkova, University of Glasgow

Call for ICMA Sponsored Session Proposals: International Medieval Congress, Leeds 2024; due Friday 9 June 2023

Call for Proposals 
International Medieval Congress (IMC 2024)
Leeds, 1-4 July 2024
due Friday 9 June 2023

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2024 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 2024 the theme is “Crisis.”  For more information on the Leeds 2024 congress and theme, see:  https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2024/

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.

Upload your proposals HERE by 9 June 2023.

Please direct all inquiries to the Chair of the Programs Committee: Alice I. Sullivan, Tufts University, USA, alice.sullivan@tufts.edu 

The ICMA Programs and Lectures committee will select a session to sponsor and will notify the successful organizer(s) by 19 June 2023. The organizer(s) will then submit the ICMA-sponsored proposal to the IMC. Submit session proposals to IMC from June 2023 here: https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/proposals/proposal-forms/ Read about Proposal Criteria here: https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/proposals/criteria/

Call for ICMA Sponsored Session Proposals: Association for Art History Annual Conference 2024, due Friday 9 June 2023

Call for Proposals
Association for Art History Annual Conference
Bristol, 3-5 April 2024 
due Friday 9 June 2023

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 3-5 April 2024 at the University of Bristol.  
 
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 9 June 2023. 

Please direct all inquiries to the Chair of the Programs Committee: Alice I. Sullivan, Tufts University, USA, alice.sullivan@tufts.edu 

 
The ICMA Programs and Lectures committee will select a session to sponsor and will notify the successful organizer(s) by 19 June 2023. 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 30 June 2023 at conference2024@forarthistory.org.uk following the guidelines posted on the AAH website: https://forarthistory.org.uk/events/cfs-association-for-art-history-2024-annual-conference/

Call for ICMA Sponsored Session Proposals: VIIth Forum Medieval Art, due Friday 9 June 2023

Call for Proposals
ICMA at the VIIth Forum Medieval Art
Jena, 25-28 September 2024
due Friday 9 June 2023

Light: Art, Metaphysics and Science in the Middle Ages

(Juliane von Fircks, Svea Janzen, Department of Art History and Film Studies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena)

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship at the VIIth Forum Medieval Art (Jena, 25-28 September 2024) for which the theme will be “Light: Art, Metaphysics and Science in the Middle Ages.” 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 the time of application. Sessions will be selected in July 2023, and the call for papers for all sessions will be published in August. There will be one session chair and a maximum of three speakers per section.

 

Upload your proposals HERE by 9 June 2023. 

Please direct all inquiries to the Chair of the Programs Committee: Alice I. Sullivan, Tufts University, USA, alice.sullivan@tufts.edu 
 

The ICMA Programs and Lectures committee will select a session to sponsor and will notify the successful organizer(s) by 13 June 2023. The organizer(s) will then submit the ICMA-sponsored proposal to kontakt@dvfk-berlin.de by 15 June 2023.

ICMA Pop Up in Rouen: Exhibition tour of Normands: Migrants, Conquérants, Innovateurs; Wednesday 7 June 2023, 10am - REGISTER TODAY!

ICMA Pop Up in Rouen
Exhibition tour of Normands: Migrants, Conquérants, Innovateurs
Wednesday 7 June 2023, 10am
Musée des Antiquités and Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen
Register HERE

The exhibition Normands: Migrants, Conquérants, Innovateurs at Rouen’s Musée des Antiquités and Musée des Beaux-Arts highlights the complexity and richness of the links forged between Normandy and the rest of the world during the medieval period of the 9th-12th centuries. More than 250 works are presented in the great epic of the Normans who took up residence in different countries, from England to Sicily.


You are invited to join other ICMA Members for a tour (in English) lead by exhibition curator Nicolas Hatot on Wednesday 7 June 2023 at 10am. We will meet at the Musée des Antiquités first, then visit the second part of the exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts. Drinks to follow courtesy of the ICMA.


Musée des Antiquités
198, rue Beauvoisine ou rue Louis Ricard
76000 Rouen

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
Esplanade Marcel Duchamp
76000 Rouen


This gathering is informal:

  • Attendees are responsible for their own travel bookings. Admission to the exhibition sites will be free for ICMA members.

  • The purpose of this event is to introduce ICMA members from the area to one another, to strengthen the social and professional ties in our community, and to celebrate our mutual interest in medieval art, while exploring the exhibition together.

Organized by the ICMA Executive Director, Ryan Frisinger, who will be attending the event. For questions, please email icma@medievalart.org

Register HERE

Just announced! ICMA Pop Up in Berlin: Exhibition tour of Hugo van der Goes: Between Pain and Bliss; Saturday 27 May 2023, 3pm / 15:00 - REGISTER TODAY!

Just announced! 
ICMA Pop Up in Berlin
Exhibition tour of Hugo van der Goes: Between Pain and Bliss
Saturday 27 May 2023, 3pm / 15:00
Gemäldegalerie Berlin
Register HERE

The exhibition Hugo van der Goes: Between Pain and Bliss at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie is the first monographic exhibition dedicated to his work.  The exhibition celebrates a premiere: for the first time, almost all of the artist’s surviving paintings and drawings will be presented in one exhibition.

You are invited to join other ICMA Members for a tour lead by exhibition curator Stephan Kemperdick on Saturday 27 May 2023 from 3pm / 15:00. We will meet outside the exhibition entrance at the Gemäldegalerie Berlin, Matthäikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin. Drinks to follow courtesy of the ICMA.

This gathering is informal:

  • Attendees are responsible for their own travel bookings, museum reservations & admission fees, and compliance with local pandemic restrictions.

  • The purpose of this event is to introduce ICMA members from the area to one another, to strengthen the social and professional ties in our community, and to celebrate our mutual interest in medieval art, while exploring the exhibition together.

Organized by the ICMA Executive Director, Ryan Frisinger, who will be attending the event. For questions, please email icma@medievalart.org

Register HERE

CFP, due 15 May 2023 - ICMA sponsored sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies 2024

Call for Proposals
ICMA at the International Congress on Medieval Studies   
Kalamazoo and Hybrid Format, 9-11 May 2024
due Monday 15 May 2023

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 the time of application. Organizers will have the opportunity to send out a call for papers after the session is selected by the ICMA and has been approved by the Congress Committee in July.
 
Upload your proposals HERE by 15 May 2023. 
 
Please direct all inquiries to the Chair of the Programs & Lectures Committee: Alice I. Sullivan, Tufts University, USA, alice.sullivan@tufts.edu 
 
The ICMA Programs & Lectures committee will select a session to sponsor and will notify the successful organizer(s) by 26 May 2023. The organizer(s) will then submit the ICMA-sponsored proposal to the ICMS by 1 June 2023.  

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 at the International Congress on Medieval Studies 2023

ICMA at the International Congress on Medieval Studies 2023


For a full listing of the sessions, consult the ICMS program, available here:
https://wmich.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/u385/2023/2023CongressProgram.pdf

Mining the Collection: Kalamazoo Edition

Thursday, May 11, 12:00 p.m.
A behind-the-scenes visit to the Walters Art Museum (Baltimore) with Christine Sciacca and Lynley Herbert.

Friday, May 12, 12:00 p.m.
A behind-the-scenes visit to the Art Institute of Chicago with Jonathan Tavares.


The Medieval Institute and the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) are
teaming up to offer a series of virtual museum visits during the International Congress on Medieval Studies. These visits will be broadcast live on the meeting site, and recordings be made available to all registrants Monday, May 15 through Wednesday, May 31.

Organized by Shirin Fozi (Metropolitan Museum of Art) in collaboration with curators at the participating museums, the events highlight carefully selected medieval objects from the permanent collections, with commentary by museum professionals and other experts. Ample time is allowed for questions from and discussion with attendees.
 

Blurring the Sacred and the Secular in Late Medieval Visual Culture I: Material Mediations

An International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Student Committee Sponsored Session

Friday 12 May 2023
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EDT

Session 212
Fetzer Center 2030

Presider: Nina Gonzalbez, Florida State Univ.
Organizer: Shannah Rose, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ.
Gabriela Chitwood, Univ. of Oregon

St. Agnes’ Roundel: A Site for Sienese Material Translations and Transformations
Brooke Hannah Wrubel, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro
Matan Aviel, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem

The Artist-Saint Joins the Painted Saint? Religious and Art Historical Pietas as
Factors in the Care of a Fra Angelico Altarpiece, ca. 1500
Annika Svendsen Finne, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ.

Blurring the Sacred and the Secular in Late Medieval Visual Culture II: Spatial Mediations

An International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Student Committee Sponsored Session

Friday 12 May 2023
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EDT

Session 261
Fetzer Center 2030

Presider: Nina Gonzalbez, Florida State Univ.
Organizer: Shannah Rose, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ.
Gabriela Chitwood, Univ. of Oregon

The Nest of the Silver-Winged Dove: The Transmutation of Sacred Space at San
Damiano in Assisi and the Early Eucharistic Culture of the Poor Clares
Michael Shane Harless, Rice Univ.

Fitting Concepts: “Secular” and “Sacred” Elements at the Papal Court of Avignon
Tanja Hinterholz, Univ. Wien

Poised for Devotion: The Nave Stone Relief Icons of St. Mark’s Basilica
Sarah F. Cohen, Columbia Univ.

New Critical Terms for “Medieval” Art History (A Roundtable)

Friday 12 May 2023
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EDT

Session 289
Schneider Hall 2345 (hybrid)

Presider: Elizabeth Dospel Williams, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and
Collection
Organizer: Heather A. Badamo, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara

A roundtable discussion
“Visuality,” Diliana Angelova, University of California, Berkeley (VIRTUAL)
“Sensory,” Patricia Blessing, Princeton University (VIRTUAL)
“Sexuality,” Bryan Keene, Riverside Community College
“Labo(u)r,” Christina Normore, Northwestern University (VIRTUAL)
“Eclecticism,” Alice Sullivan, Tufts University (+ Alessia Rossi, VIRTUAL)
“Object-based art histories,” Nancy Wicker, University of Mississippi
 


ICMA Student Reception
Friday 12 May 2023
6:00–7:00 p.m. 

Fetzer Center 1040/1050
Drink tickets provided



ICMA Reception
Friday 12 May 2023
7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. 

Fetzer Center 1040/1050
Cash bar

The Visual and Literary Legacy of Hrabanus Maurus: Interdisciplinary Examinations

Saturday 13 May 2023
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. EDT

Session 324
Bernhard Center 212

Presider: Jennifer Awes Freeman, United Theological Seminary of the Twin
Cities
Organizer: Kelin Michael, Emory Univ.

The Pseudo-Hrabanus Tractatus on Acts and the Glossa ordinaria
Bill Schipper, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland

Copying from the “Original”: Emperor Rudolf II, Hrabanus’s Carmina figurata,
and the Power of Legacy
Kelin Michael
 

Medieval California: A Case Study of the Middle Ages in America (A Roundtable)

Saturday 13 May 2023
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EDT

Session 443
Schneider Hall 1340 (hybrid)

Presider: Bryan C. Keene, Riverside City College
Organizer: Bryan C. Keene; Roland Betancourt, Univ. of California–Irvine; Larisa Grollemond, J. Paul Getty Museum; Alison Locke Perchuk, California State Univ.–Channel Islands

A roundtable discussion with Wallace Thomas Cleaves II, Univ. of California–Riverside; Larisa Grollemond; Alison Locke Perchuk; Abby Ang, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington; and Roland Betancourt

ICMA BOOK SALON: WRITING THE MIDDLE AGES & THE RENAISSANCE FOR THE PUBLIC: A CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHORS, 23 MAY 2023 - Register Today!

ICMA BOOK SALON 

WRITING THE MIDDLE AGES & THE RENAISSANCE FOR THE PUBLIC: A CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHORS 

TUESDAY 23 May 2023, 5PM ET // 2PM pT

Online via Zoom

REGISTER HERE

Join us in conversation with authors Vanessa Wilkie and Elizabeth (Beth) Morrison, who will discuss the joys and challenges of working with the medieval and Renaissance periods in writing trade books rather than academic works or even those intended for the museum-going public. They will share their journeys to developing an authorial voice for the mass market and take questions from anyone who may be interested in this field outside of traditional career paths for pre-modern scholars.

Free but registration required. Register HERE.

Vanessa Wilkie is William A. Moffett Senior Curator of Medieval Manuscripts & British History and Head of Library Curatorial at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens and author of the popular non-fiction book, A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England.

https://www.amazon.com/Woman-Influence-Spectacular-Spencer-England/dp/1982154284

Elizabeth (Beth) Morrison is Senior Curator of Manuscripts at the Getty Museum and author of the medieval adventure novel The Lawless Land.

https://www.amazon.com/Lawless-Land-Sword-Honour/dp/1801108633

ICMA ADVOCACY SEED GRANT, due 18 May 2023

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
ICMA ADVOCACY SEED GRANT
due 18 May 2023

ICMA ADVOCACY SEED GRANT


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 Thursday 18 May 2023. 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.

ICMA in LA: Behind the Scenes at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Glendale, 29 April 2023

ICMA in LA

Behind the Scenes at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Glendale


Study Day

Saturday, 29 April 2023
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Did you know that Los Angeles’s most famous cemetery (home to Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor, among others) is also one of California’s greatest monuments to medieval art and architecture? Founded in 1917, Forest Lawn Memorial-Park includes recreations and reinterpretations of medieval British and Italian architecture, replicas of numerous works of Italian Renaissance art, and — as memorialized in Madeline Caviness’s 1994 Speculum article, “Learning from Forest Lawn” — one of North America’s most extensive collections of medieval stained glass. Come discover this legacy through a behind-the-scenes tour of Forest Lawn’s buildings and art collection with curator James Fishburne and art historian Alison Perchuk and hands-on study of medieval and modern stained glass with Indre McCraw, master glass painter at Judson Studios.
 
When: 29 April 2023, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
 
Register HERE
 
Due to space limitations, this event is capped at 25 people.

Organizers: Dr. James E. Fishburne, Curator, Forest Lawn Museum, and Dr. Alison Locke Perchuk, Professor of Art History, California State University Channel Islands

EXTENDED! CFP: ICMA SPONSORED SESSION AT CAA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2024 (CHICAGO), DUE 19 APRIL 2023

Call for Proposals
College Art Association Annual Conference 2024
due 19 April 2023

Submit proposals HERE 


ICMA at College Art Association Annual Conference  

Chicago, 14-17 February 2024 
Call for ICMA Sponsored Session Proposals
due 19 April 2023

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2024 at the annual meeting of the College Art Association. Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members.  
 
Proposals must include the following in one single Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title:  

  • Session abstract  

  • CV of the organizer(s)  

  • Session organizers may also include a list of potential speakers  

 
Please upload all session proposals as a single DOC or PDF by 14 April 2023 HERE.

The organizer(s) will have until 25 April 2023 to upload their approved proposals on the CAA website HERE.

For inquiries, contact the ICMA Programs and Lectures Committee Chair: Alice Isabella Sullivan, Tufts University, Alice.Sullivan@tufts.edu 
  

A note about Kress Travel Grants 

Thanks to a generous grant from the Kress Foundation, funds may be available to defray travel costs of speakers in ICMA sponsored sessions up to a maximum of $600 for domestic travel and of $1200 for overseas travel. If a conference meets in person, the Kress funds are allocated for travel and hotel only. If a conference must be held online, Kress funding will cover virtual conference registration fees.
 
Click HERE for more information. 

NEW EPISODE OF THE ICMA ORAL HISTORY PROJECT!

ICMA Oral History Project

We are delighted to announce the latest epsiode in the ICMA Oral History Project, available at: https://www.medievalart.org/oral-history-project. The new episode features Jane Rosenthal being interviewed by Luke Fidler.

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. Ludwig XV 1, fol. 7v. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program

About the ICMA Oral History Project:
With the goal of preserving the unique stories and experiences of our longest-serving members and supporters, the ICMA Student Committee has launched the Oral History Project. Students interview members who have made significant contributions to the study of medieval art and the ICMA. In the interviews, these members reflect on their initiation into the field, their lifelong experiences as researchers, professionals, and peers, as well as their involvement in the organization. The recordings available here have been edited for clarity and length. Full recordings and transcripts are archived with the ICMA.

Interviews began in late 2020, conducted online due to restrictions on travel and face-to-face interaction. They continue to be recorded on a regular basis.

Interested in being an interviewer? Click here to sign up.

ICMA Annual IDEA Lecture: Nancy Wu, “John of Marignolli, The Tribute Horse, and East-West Encounters in the Fourteenth Century" (17 April 2023) - in person and online - REGISTER TODAY!

ICMA Annual IDEA Lecture


John of Marignolli, The Tribute Horse, and East-West Encounters in the Fourteenth Century

Nancy Wu, Educator Emerita, The Metropolitan Museum of Art


Monday, 17 April 2023
5.30pm ET
Reception to follow

In person and online via Zoom
612 Schermerhorn
Columbia University
New York City

Register HERE

Zhou Lang, "Tribute Horse" (original of 1342 now lost, Ming-dynasty copy). Beijing, The Palace Museum. From Yu Hui, Yuan Dynasty Paintings (Shanghai: Shanghai Science and Technology Press, 2005), 230-231.

In 1342, the Franciscan John of Marignolli, as papal nuncio, presented a horse to the Mongol Emperor of China. When scrutinized, the seemingly cordial exchange reveals a multitude of encounters across temporal and geographic boundaries—over 1,300 years and from Avignon to Xanadu. This paper will discuss and consider the event’s historical and cultural implications against the backdrop of the so-called Mongol Mission in medieval China. 
 
Nancy Wu is Educator Emerita of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she was responsible for education at The Cloisters for over twenty years. For decades she has worked extensively on various aspects of Gothic architecture and the Cloisters collection. Since 2020, she has been devoted to the history of the Franciscan mission in fourteenth-century China. 

Register HERE


About the ICMA Annual IDEA Lecture
Convened by the IDEA Committee, the ICMA Annual IDEA Lecture showcases research by ICMA members that engages, in content, method, or disciplinary practice, issues of inclusivity, diversity, equity, and accessibility.

ICMA in London and Edinburgh: Andrea Myers Achi, "The Byzantine Tradition in Africa" - 29 March 2023 (London) and 31 March 2023 (Edinburgh) - REGISTER TODAY!

ICMA in London and Edinburgh

The Byzantine Tradition in Africa


Andrea Myers Achi

Assistant Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
29 and 31 March 2023
 

LONDON
Wednesday 29 March 2023 at 6pm BST
ICMA at The Courtauld Lecture 
In person and online via Zoom

Free, booking essential
Register HERE for the annual ICMA at the Courtauld Lecture

EDINBURGH
Friday 31 March 2023 at 5:15pm BST
University of Edinburgh
In person only
Free, booking not required

Lady of Carthage. 4th - 5th century, Marble and green glass, 43 5/16 x 41 3/4 in. Carthage Museum.

About the talk:
In the Fall of 2023, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a groundbreaking exhibition that builds upon its long legacy of award-winning Byzantine exhibitions. This lecture will provide an overview of the exhibition, Africa & Byzantium, which explores translations of Byzantine art and culture by local and foreign artists working in northern and eastern Africa from the fourth through fifteenth centuries and beyond. Faith, politics, and commerce across land and sea linked African communities to Byzantium, resulting in a lively interchange of arts and beliefs. The exhibition will broaden public understanding of the Byzantine world, its reach, and its transcultural authority and examine the important role of early African Christian civilizations in this creative sphere. After a summary of the exhibition’s key themes and major artworks, this lecture will conclude with a consideration of what might be gained or lost by expanding the definitions of Byzantine Art and African Art in the context of this significant project.
 

Dr. Andrea Myers Achi is trained as a Byzantinist, and her curatorial practice focuses on late antique and Byzantine art of the Mediterranean Basin and Northeast Africa. She holds a BA from Barnard College and a Ph.D. from New York University. She specializes in the art and archaeology of Late Antiquity with a particular interest in illuminated manuscripts and ceramics. She has brought this expertise to bear on exhibitions like Art and Peoples of the Kharga Oasis (2017), Crossroads: Power and Piety (2020), and The Good Life (2021) at The Met and in numerous presentations and publications. Dr. Achi, also, is an archaeological ceramicist and has participated in numerous excavations in Egypt and Italy.
 

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

Wednesday 29 March 2023
6:00pm BST, lecture
Drinks reception to follow.

In person and online via Zoom
The Courtauld Institute of Art 
Lecture Theatre 1
Vernon Square Campus, Penton Rise
London WC1X 9EW United Kingdom


Register HERE

To allow those unable to attend in person to join this event, it will also be made available live through Zoom.

For those wishing to attend remotely, please select the ‘Online – Zoom’ ticket option. Details on how to join the event will be sent out 48 hours in advance and again on the day of the event. If you do not receive the details please contact researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk

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

ICMA IN EDINBURGH LECTURE

Friday 31 March 2023
5:15pm BST, lecture
Drinks reception to follow.
Doors open at 5pm BST

In person
University of Edinburgh
Lecture Theatre E22
Edinburgh College of Art Main Building
74 Lauriston Place
Booking not required.

Note: please see map below, as the Edinburgh College of Art Main Building
is not readily visible from the street.

Organised by
Dr. Heather Pulliam, University of Edinburgh

ICMA Study Day for "Bringing the Holy Land Home," on Sunday 26 March 2023 - REGISTER TODAY!

ICMA Study Day
Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross

Sunday 26 March 2023
10am-12pm

In person
College of the Holy Cross
1 College Street
Worcester, MA  01610
 

Register HERE

Amanda Luyster and Meredith Fluke invite ICMA members to a Study Day on Sunday, March 26, 2023 in conjunction with the NEH-sponsored exhibition Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. 

The gallery will be open only to ICMA Study Day participants from 10am-12pm, followed by an opportunity to purchase lunch and eat together on campus.  The Study Day is held on Sunday March 26 in case members are also interested to travel to Worcester for the exhibition symposium, held in conjunction with the NEMC and taking place on campus Saturday, March 25, 2023.

Exhibition website https://chertseytiles.holycross.edu

Register HERE

ICMA in Aachen: Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum's Newly Reinstalled Medieval Art Galleries - Special late opening, tour, and reception on Sunday 12 March 2023, 20.00 - 22.00

ICMA in Aachen
Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum's Newly Reinstalled Medieval Art Galleries
Special late opening, tour, and reception
Sunday 12 March 2023
20.00 - 22.00

Register HERE
 

A shuttle bus will be provided from Maastricht/TEFAF to Aachen at 19.00 and returning at 23.00.

The ICMA and the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen present a special evening at the museum with a tour of the newly reinstalled medieval art galleries and a reception to follow. 

This event is in conjunction with TEFAF. A shuttle bus will be provided from the TEFAF venue in Maastricht, leaving at 19.00 and returning at 23.00. Please indicate if you'll utilize the shuttle bus when registering.

All are welcome, but please register HERE. There is no cost for this event to attendees.

More information about the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum can be found here: https://suermondt-ludwig-museum.de/
For any questions, please email: icma@medievalart.org.

This event is organized by Till-Holger Borchert, Director of the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum.  

1100-1500 LEBEN, HANDEL, SEELENHEIL

Engel, himmlische und irdische Musik, die Gottesmutter im Wandel der Zeit, die Verehrung des Christkindes, Bildwerk und Reliquie sowie das sogenannte handelnde Bildwerk, das durch Einbeziehung in bestimmte Rituale besonders lebendig wirkte, sind Themen, die das Leben und Denken der Menschen im Mittelalter veranschaulichen. Auch ein Kirchenraum als einem wichtigen Zentrum im mittelalterlichen Stadtleben wird rekonstruiert. Darüber hinaus werden wirtschaftshistorische Aspekte angesprochen. Wo kommt das Holz für die niederländische Skulptur und Tafelmalerei her und inwieweit fungierte das Altarretabel als Wirtschaftsfaktor? Ein spannender Rundgang führt in die mittelalterliche Bildwelt in ihrer großen Vielseitigkeit ein.


KURATIERT VON
Dagmar Preising 
Michael Rief

ICMA in Budapest: "The Island - Saint Margaret and the Dominicans," Exhibition tour and ICMA event on Saturday 11 March 2023, 10.00 - 16.00

ICMA in Budapest

The Island - Saint Margaret and the Dominicans
Exhibition tour and ICMA event
Saturday 11 March 2023
10.00 - 16.00


Register HERE

This ICMA event is taking place in conjunction with the exhibition of the Budapest History Museum dedicated to St Margaret and the Dominican monastery on Margaret Island. The story and fate of Saint Margaret, the thirteenth-century saintly princess, has always captured the imagination of people interested in history. The occasion for the exhibition is the 750th anniversary of Margaret's death in 2020. The exhibition offers visitors a selection of artifacts never exhibited before and presents the result of the last two decades of archaeological research. In addition to visiting the exhibition, the event will also include a visit to the former male Dominican monastery of Buda, as well as to the site of the female Dominican convent on Margaret Island.
 
10.00 
Meeting point 1: Castle Museum main entrance, Budapest History Museum
 
10.00 – 11:30: Visit to the exhibition The Island – Saint Margaret and the Dominicans
Introduction by Zsombor Jékely (Károli Gáspár University)
Introduction to the cult of Saint Margaret, by Gábor Klaniczay (Central European University)
Guided tour in the exhibition by Ágoston Takács, curator of the exhibition (Budapest History Museum)
Coffee break
12.30 – Walking tour in Buda castle, visit to the former Dominican monastery (Hilton Hotel)
 
14:00
Meeting point 2: Margaret Island, ruins of the Dominican Nunnery
Introduction to recent archaeological campaigns at the site by Alex Leonas (Károli Gáspár University)
Visit of the ruins of the Dominican Nunnery, led by Ágoston Takács
15:00 – Discussion and refreshments
 
Museum website: http://www.btm.hu/en/ and https://www.varmuzeum.hu/a-sziget-szent-margit-es-a-domonkosok.html
Brief overview: https://jekely.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-island-saint-margaret-and.html
 
This event is open to current ICMA members as well as to students.
This gathering is informal. Attendees are responsible for their own travel bookings and accommodation, if needed.

The purpose of this event is to introduce ICMA members from the area to one another, to strengthen the social and professional ties in our community, and to celebrate our mutual interest in medieval art, while exploring the exhibition and the sites together.
 
Organized by Zsombor Jékely (Budapest)    

Register HERE

Seal of the Dominican Convent on Margaret Island from 1282 (Hungarian National Archives).