Vernacular texts of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in England often fall in the gap between the two major fields of literary study, Old English and Middle English. While these texts have begun to receive the scholarly attention they deserve, religious and devotional texts are too often marginalized as not “literary.”

This session seeks to broaden these conversations by taking a multidisciplinary approach to the question "Too Christian?" Rather than contemporary works, however, the session interrogates contemporary presentations of art produced by or for Christians during the medieval period. 

The Fourth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (June 20-22, 2016) is a convenient summer venue in North America for scholars to present papers, organize sessions, participate in roundtables, and engage in interdisciplinary discussion. The goal of the Symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation into all topics and in all disciplines of medieval and early modern studies.
 

The Manar al-Athar open-access photo-archive http://www.manar-al-athar.ox.ac.uk (based at the University of Oxford) aims to provide high resolution, searchable images, freely-downloadable for teaching, research, heritage projects, and publication. 

ACLS has a new set of fellowships designated specifically for liberal arts college faculty that is available through the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars. Thanks to a grant from the Mellon Foundation, the Burkhardt program now offers recently tenured liberal arts college faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences the opportunity to pursue ambitious research projects for an academic year while in residence at the university department or university-based humanities center of their choice. 

By involving scholars from various disciplines, these two sessions will explore: 1) the ability of late antique and medieval authors to create images throughout their written words, blurring the borders between visual and literary arts; 2) investigate how the written and oral dissemination of textual imagery interacted with the conception, production, and perception of visual arts in the same period. 

This session aims to challenge traditional assumptions about interactions between the East and the West, and explore possible points of contact between the Byzantine and the Latin traditions. Indeed, while the disastrous political and religious outcome of the Union of Lyon in 1274 seemed to presage a definitive break between the two Christian Worlds, their cultural and socio-political histories remained deeply intertwined.

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The International Conference Medieval Europe in Motion 3 continues the series of scientific meetings launched in 2013 by the Institute of Medieval Studies (IMS) of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University of Lisbon (FCSH/UNL) – devoted to the topic of social, cultural, and artistic mobility in Medieval Europe.

The symposium, focused on the history of the book in the early modern period, will feature 11 papers by art historians, historians, and literary scholars. Each will address the central question of the event: how did the medium shape the understanding of other cultures in the early modern period? More about the theme here: https://agentsofcontact.wordpress.com/

The Post-Doctoral Fellow will develop and implement research and curatorial projects related to ICFA’s collections in Byzantine Art and Architecture. The Fellow will work closely with Library staff and with the Dumbarton Oaks research community, to provide greater access to ICFA’s collections by establishing intellectual control over ICFA’s multi-media holdings and by devising and implementing research projects that make the collections available to both scholarly audiences and the general public. Projects may take the form of digital humanities projects, publications, and curated exhibitions (onsite and online). The Fellow will also assist with setting priorities for the cataloging, processing, and digitization of collections, based on their scholarly significance and potential use by scholars and researchers.

February 18-20, 2016 at Rice University Vagantes, North America’s largest graduate student conference for medieval studies, is seeking submissions for its 15th annual meeting at Rice University, February 18-20, 2016. www.vagantesconference.org

AVISTA will sponsor sessions that focus on the long lives of three types of objects: buildings, manuscripts, and small-scale sculpture and metalwork. These sessions are organized in conjunction with two sessions dedicated to the long life of medieval art and architecture to be held at the 23rd International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 4-7 July 2016. We encourage papers that complement the interdisciplinary mission of AVISTA, bringing together studies of technology, science, and art. 

The Kress Foundation is again generously supporting five research and publication grants, of $3000 each. Applicants must be members of the ICMA. The deadline for the 2015 grants is August 31, 2015.

This is the first major exhibition to examine the full history of Celtic art and identity, and is organised in partnership with National Museums Scotland. The story unfolds over 2,500 years, from the first recorded mention of ‘Celts’ to contemporary Celtic influences, exploring, how 'Celtic' identity has been revived and reinvented, across Britain, Europe and beyond

For this session we are interested in presentations that investigate the process of making medieval art and architecture and what these processes tell us about medieval artistic production.

On October 24, 2015, the Lamar Dodd School of Art of the University of Georgia will host six scholars of medieval architecture for a conference in memory of Professor Thomas E. Polk II. The theme of the conference addresses architecture “outside the lines” and, thereby, presents evidence for the wide intellectual, geographical, and chronological span of medievalism. 

Corbels, stone brackets that support the edge of a roof were quite developped on Romanesque churches in France. Created for these obscure locations, the subjects carved on corbels seem to have been outside traditionnal religious themes. Despicted are animals, grotesques, male heads and geometric shapes. Nobody really knows their use and the meanings. So an local association, Ad'Vienne took them in large 3D photographies, a wonderful effect appreciated by the visitors. One of the contributors was Janetta Rebold Benton, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor, Art History Pace University NY

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The National Humanities Center invites applications for academic-year or one-semester residencies. Fellowship applicants must have a PhD or equivalent scholarly credentials. Mid-career as well as senior scholars from all areas of the humanities are welcome; emerging scholars with a strong record of peer-reviewed work are also encouraged to apply. Located in the progressive Triangle region of North Carolina, the Center affords access to the rich cultural and intellectual communities supported by the area’s research institutes and universities. Fellows have private studies; the library service delivers all research materials. Scholars from all parts of the globe are eligible; travel expenses in addition to a stipend are provided. The deadline for applications is October 15, 2015.