If you are interested in giving a paper addressing these issues, or if you would like to be a moderator or respondent, please send an email by 24 August toJ.E.Raaijmakers@uu.nl (Janneke Raaijmakers). Please include the following information if you would like to present a paper: 1) paper title; 2) an abstract indicating the topic of your paper (max. 250 words); 3) your contact details and affiliation; 4) Equipment needed? (Laptop, Beamer, etc.) 
 

Medieval worlds is a biannually, peer-reviewed open-access journal published by the Institute for Medieval Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Medieval Worlds fosters interdisciplinary and transcultural studies of the Middle Ages. Specifically it encourages and links comparative research between different regions and fields and promotes methodological innovation in transdisciplinary studies. There is no publication charge.

Proposals for presentations of no more than 20 minutes should be sent to Fiona Griffiths (fgriffit@stanford.edu) or Kathryn Starkey (starkey@stanford.edu) no later than Sept. 15. 
 

Submit your papers for the ICMA Student Committee sessions at Kalamazoo and Leeds.

Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words (for a paper planned to be 15-20 minutes), along with the conference Participant Information Form, to Elizabeth Morrison at *emorrison@getty.edu * by September 18, 2015. Any proposals not accepted for this session will be sent on to for consideration in one of the general sessions at Kalamazoo.

The individual holding the position has overall responsibility for administering the study program, including: coordinating the three annual meetings with the Board of Senior Fellows that advises the Director on fellowship selection and programmatic activities; supervising the Program Coordinator; ensuring the smooth running of activities in Byzantine Studies (such as research reports by Fellows, one-month research awards, the summer school, summer internships, one-month Visiting Scholars, etc.); and managing budget development, forecasting, and tracking of expenses (including project grants to archaeologists). 

invite papers that explore new interpretive approaches or historiographical analyses as a means to stimulate a lively conversation on the ICA’s mission as an iconographical archive in the twenty-first century. In mirroring the Index’s wide geographical and chronological spectrum, we welcome proposals that explore any artistic media produced during the Middle Ages in the Byzantine East and the Latin West. Papers may consider specific case studies or address more theoretical concerns.

This session invites papers that critically engage with Kantorowicz’s paradigm of the king’s two bodies in order to reassess its benefits and/or limitations as a means of interpreting medieval texts and images. The organizers conceive of this panel as an opportunity to interrogate Kantorowicz’s methods and conclusions, to examine the utility of the “two bodies” as a hermeneutic paradigm, and to consider the implications of this provocative book for twenty-first-century scholarship.

Medieval Graduate Student Symposium at The University of North Texas, March 3-4, 2016
Conference Theme: 
“The Technical Details of Everyday Life”
Keynote Address:
Nicola Coldstream
“Behind the Scenes at a Medieval Entertainment”

Congratulations to the following three ICMA members on their recent American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship awards:

Pamela Patton, ICMA Board Member, will take up the position of Director of the Index of Christian Art at Princeton. 

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship at the annual meeting of the College Art Association in New York City in 2017. Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members. Proposals must include a session abstract, a CV of the organizer(s), and a list of speakers, all in one single Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title.

The Apocalypse Prize is a free entry art competition awarding $15,000 in first, second, and third prizes. It is hosted on a website that has a wealth of educational material concerning the use of Analogy in Medieval Art and the essence of the Medieval Style. Competitors must use themes from the Apocalypse of St. John. This website offers a free booklet of Pictorial Devices used in Medieval Art to aid their competitors. Deadline is December 31, 2015.

You are invited to send your 250-300-word abstract to Dr. Darci Hill, Conference Director, on any topic dealing with Medieval and/or Renaissance thought. If you would like to propose a special session, you are welcome to do that as well. We welcome papers and performances on any aspect of this time period. Papers dealing with language and linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, history, art, music, and theatre are all equally welcome.

51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 12-15, 2016 

Sponsored Session: Dommuseum Hildesheim & The J. Paul Getty Museum

Saints’ cults and canonizations had the potential to stimulate dynamic cultural and artistic turning points for their institutions. While such cults have been studied as separate phenomena for individual sites, shrines, and saints, or approached with more comprehensive questions of contemporary piety and religion, this session will address moments of artistic and material responses to the development of local saints. 

The Bilderfahrzeuge Research Group, funded by the German ministry of
higher education and science, realised in cooperation with the Max
Weber-Stiftung, and situated at the Warburg Institute in London,
invites applications for a full-time research post (in principle
post-doctoral) based at the Warburg Institute in London for two years
in the first instance from October 2015 or as soon as possible
thereafter.