The Kress Foundation Department of Art History at the University of Kansas seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor specializing in the history of early modern visual arts in Italy with strengths between 1300 and 1700.

The ICMA is proud to present the keynote lecture by Achim Timmerman (University of Michigan), “Fleeting Glimpses of Eschaton: Scalar Travels in the History of Medieval Microarchitecture,” on April 1st at the 36th annual Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians. 

Papers of approximately 20 minutes in any of the fields related to Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies are welcome. Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words no later than Thursday, 31st of March to Anna Kelley at ack442@bham.ac.uk. Applicants will be notified of selection within two weeks of this date.

49th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Inscribing Texts in Byzantium: Continuities And Transformations, 18-20 March 2016, Exeter College, Oxford. Early rates apply untill 1 March.

Lambeth Palace Greek MSS Descriptive Catalogue, compiled by Dr Christopher Wright and Ms Maria Argyrou with the technical advice and support of Mr Philip Taylor at RHUL Hellenic Institute, History Department, in close collaboration with Lambeth Palace Library, is now freely accessible online in the public domain

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 8 APRIL 2016. We are happy to announce the upcoming interdisciplinary conference on medieval legal history and invite colleagues whose research touches upon aspects of law and ritual in the Middle Ages to submit proposals for papers of 20 minutes’ duration. 

Deadline for application: March 31st, 2016. This ambitious international project collaborates with the main European and American libraries. Its aim is to lay the foundations for a scientific approach of medieval manuscript fragments by using the most advanced technologies.

Deadlines for our grants, essay awards and lectures.

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2017 at the 4th Forum Medieval Art, which will take place in Berlin. Intended as an open colloquium occurring biannually at rotating sites and organized by the Deutsche Verein für Kunstwissenschaft e.V, the Forum seeks to bring together research and researchers on different fields, regions and periods and to serve—as its name suggests—as a forum for ideas pertaining to the study of medieval art.

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for Stahl and Forsyth Lectures to be held under the sponsorship of the organization in 2016-2017. As a reminder, Stahl Lectures are to be held in what might be termed the greater southwest, while Forsyth lectures, as a rule, take place in the institutions located east of the Mississippi River, especially in what might be termed the greater Midwest.

Wednesday 24 February 2016
17.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2017 at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) at Kalamazoo. Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members. Proposals must include a session abstract and a CV of the organizer(s), all in one single Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title. 

As part of its ongoing commitment to Byzantine studies, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 42nd Annual Byzantine Studies Conference to be held held at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 6–9, 2016. 

The ICMA has initiated a new form of grant for graduate students in the early stages of their dissertation research.  Three grants will be awarded this year, at $3,000 each, to enable a student to travel to Europe (including the Eastern Mediterranean) to visit the monuments or museum objects or manuscripts on which the dissertation will be based.

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce its new semi-annual journal Manuscript Studies. This journal aims to bring together scholarship from around the world and across disciplines related to the study of pre-modern manuscript books and documents.

The conference seeks to explore and discuss recent development in the dialogue between theology, art history, philosophy and cultural theory concerning the iconography of Mary in Eastern and Western art. We welcome academic papers that will approach this subject in an interdisciplinary and methodologically diverse way. 

Admission is free. Space is limited and registration is requested. To register, please visit our website https://ica.princeton.edu/conferences/ and click on the registration button before 15 April 2016.

This lecture is presented by The Courtauld Institute of Art in association with the International Center of Medieval Art, New York, and with the support of The Courtauld Institute of Art's Research Forum.

The CAA recently announced changes to its annual conference. The Call for Sessions for CAA 2017 will open 1 March 2016 and close 18 April 2016. The conference will be held in New York City 15-18 February 2017. Beginning with CAA 2017, all sessions will be 90 minutes in length, with the possibility of double sessions.

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2017 at the Association of Art Historians annual meeting to be held 6-8 April 2017 at Loughborough University near Nottingham, England. Proposals to the ICMA must include a session abstract and a CV of the organizer(s).