The 36th annual Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians will be hosted by l’Université Laval (Québec, QC) on 1-2 April 2016. The organization welcomes those interested in medieval art and architecture from around the country (and beyond).
Read MoreCALL FOR ICMA SPONSORED SESSION PROPOSALS
Thanks to a generous grant from the Kress Foundation, funds may be available to defray travel costs of sponsored session speakers.
Read MoreMellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies is offering post-doctoral Fellowships to be used for research at the Institute in the medieval field of the holder's choice. The Mellon Fellowships are intended for young medievalists of exceptional promise who have completed their doctoral work within the previous five years, including those who are starting their professional academic careers.
Read MoreBinchois Consort at the Cloisters
Including the “Agincourt carol,” music written for the coronations of the Lancaster House, and music written by Henry V himself for John of Bridlington (the last Englishman to be canonized before the Reformation), the program portrays a nuanced picture of Henry V and 15c England politically, dynastically, and religiously.
Read More2016 ICMA MEMBERSHIPS ARE NOW AVAILABLE!
2016 ICMA Memberships are now available! Join or renew at http://www.medievalart.org/become-a-member/
Read MoreTenure-Track Position: Medieval Art History
Qualifications include a Ph.D. in Art History with an emphasis in European medieval art at the time of appointment, and a strong record of excellence in research and teaching in the discipline. A secondary specialization in Islamic art of the Mediterranean world (8th-12th c.) is highly desired. Additional museum, archaeology, cultural preservation or architectural history experience is preferred, but not required.
Read MoreTenure track Medieval Art Position at University of Hong Kong
The Department of Fine Arts at the University of Hong Kong is looking for an art historian specialising in Medieval or Renaissance art.
Read MoreThe British Museum presents Seals and Status 800–1700
Keynote speakers will include Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, David Crouch, Sandy Heslop and Adrian Ailes. Themed sessions will include images and cultural history, politics, power and people, and ownership, authority and function. Speakers will include Simon Keynes, Nicholas Vincent, John Cherry, Martin Henig, Jessica Berenbeim, Ambre Vilain and Annabel Gallop.
Read MoreLincoln College Summer School of Greek Paleography
The sixth Lincoln College International Summer School in Greek Palaeography will be held on 1-6 August 2016. The school offers a five-day introduction to the study of Greek manuscripts through ten reading classes, four library visits and five thematic lectures.
Read MorePostdoctoral research fellowships, 2016-17
Almost one hundred (100) early-career scholars have been supported by our postdoctoral fellowships since the inception of this program in academic year 1992-93. The overwhelming majority of our postdoctoral fellows have gone on to successful academic careers around the world.
Read MoreCALL FOR PAPERS: 43rd Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies (14-15 October 2016)
Proposals should address the material aspects of late antique, medieval, or Renaissance manuscripts. Papers are twenty minutes in length and a full session normally consists of three papers. Submissions of papers may address an original topic or one of the session themes already proposed. Submissions of original session themes are welcome from those who wish to be organizers.
Read More8th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 8th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year's theme, "Picking up the Pieces," considers the notions and consequences of fragmentation and reconstitution.
Read MoreCFP: Exploring the Premodern World” (Due November 15)
The Indiana Medieval Graduate Consortium (IMGC) welcomes submissions for its annual symposium to be held at Purdue University March 4-5, 2016. The goal of the symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation of the classical, medieval, and early modern worlds. We encourage proposals approaching the premodern world from a diverse set of methodologies and disciplines; presentations might engage literature, history, philosophy, religious studies, linguistics, manuscript studies, art history, music studies, and so on.
Read MoreCALL FOR ICMA SPONSORED SESSION PROPOSALS
The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2016 at the St. Louis Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies to be held 20-22 June 2016 in St. Louis. The symposium promotes serious scholarly investigation on all topics and in all disciplines of the medieval and early modern worlds.
Read MorePomona College 1 year Medievalist Position
Full-time position for 2016-17. 5 course load. Ph.D. in hand or expected by September 2016. Teaching experience required. Teach first half of 2-semester introductory survey, plus courses in an intercultural, comparative curriculum of introductory and advanced undergraduate discussion courses on the art and architecture of the Mediterranean basin ca. 300-1300 that relate late antique pagan, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic art as part of a Late Antique and Medieval Studies (LAMS) Program at the Claremont Colleges.
Read MoreCall for Papers and Sessions, “The Local and the Global in the Middle Ages”
We are delighted to announce that the 37th Medieval and Renaissance Forum will take place on April 15 and 16, 2016 at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire. This year’s keynote speaker is Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.
Read MoreROMANESQUE: SAINTS, SHRINES AND PILGRIMAGE Monday 4th April - Wednesday 6th April 2016
The British Archaeological Association will hold the fourth in its biennial International Romanesque conference series in Oxford on 4-6 April, 2016. The theme is Romanesque: Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage, and the aim is to examine the material culture of sanctity over the period c.1000-c.1250.
Read MoreFELLOWSHIPS FOR RESEARCH AND STUDY AT THE GENNADIUS LIBRARY
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the academic programs and fellowships for the 2016-2017 academic year at the Gennadius Library.
Read MoreBSANA Forward from Scott Johnson, Oklahoma State University
Approximately ten places will be available to doctoral students and recent PhDs, including early-career faculty members, who can demonstrate the value of Syriac for their teaching and research. All costs apart from travel to and from Saint John’s University (nearest airport: Minneapolis-St Paul) will be covered by Dumbarton Oaks, including the weekend in Washington, DC.
Read MoreUNT 2016 Medieval Graduate Symposium
The annual graduate symposium on Medieval Studies at the University of North Texas provides a platform for graduate students of any discipline to present their work on any aspect of the Middle Ages.
This year's theme is "The Technical Details of Everyday Life." Submissions for papers on any topic from the Late Antique to the Early Renaissance will be considered. Preference will be given to those that address the conference theme.
The symposium will be held March 3rd and 4th, 2016 at the University of North Texas, Denton, TX.
The keynote speaker for 2016 is Nicola Coldstream, "Behind the Scenes at the Medieval Entertainment."
300-word abstracts are due December 1, 2015 via email to Mickey.Abel@unt.edu
There will also be a $200 prize sponsored by AVISTA for an outstanding paper.