Lecture: Place History and Architectural Origin Stories in Early Byzantium, April 12, 2018

Lecture: Place History and Architectural Origin Stories in Early Byzantium
April 12, 2018

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, is pleased to announce the final lecture in its 2017–2018 lecture series:

Thursday, April 12, 2017, 6:15–7:45 pm
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Place History and Architectural Origin Stories in Early Byzantium: Vestiges and Sense Memory
Ann Marie Yasin, University of Southern California

Ann Marie Yasin discusses architectural restoration in the early Byzantine world as a tool for accessing contemporary understandings of the past.

Details at https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/place-history-and-architectural-origin-stories.

Mary Jaharis Center lectures are co-sponsored by Harvard University Standing Committee on Medieval Studies.

For questions, contact Brandie Ratliff, Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture (mjcbac@hchc.edu).

https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/place-history-and-architectural-origin-stories

CFP: The 4th Annual Conference of the Late Antique & Medieval Postgraduate Society at the University of Edinburgh

CFP: The 4th Annual Conference of the Late Antique & Medieval Postgraduate Society at the University of Edinburgh.


The Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society (LAMPS) at the University of Edinburgh is hosting a one-day conference on the theme of Transformation in written media, visual art, and material culture from the Late Antique to the start of the Early Modern period. This conference seeks to further our understanding of the ‘Long Middle Ages’ as a time of continuous change. It invites us to explore how this spirit of transformation is reflected in the content and creation of literature, art, culture, social structures, and physical spaces. It also aims to strengthen interdisciplinary connections within and outside of the University of Edinburgh, including but not limited to the fields of Archaeology, History, Classics, History of Art, Literature, Language Studies, Islamic Studies, and Theology.

Submissions for abstracts may include, but are certainly not limited to:

• Depictions of metamorphosis and physical or emotional transformations (e.g. illness and healing)
• Evolving narratives or adaptation of themes over time, across cultures, and/or media
• Changing styles in material culture
•  Changes in social, religious, political, and economic structures
• Shifting attitudes and worldviews (e.g. conversion)
• Developments in methodology and the academic study of the Late Antique and Medieval periods
• Reappropriation of art and objects (e.g. spolia)
• Translation, transcription, and transmission
• Palimpsests
• Repurposing architectural spaces 

Early career scholars and postgraduate students are invited to submit abstracts of up to 200 words, as well as a short biography of up to 100 words to lampsedinburgh@gmail.com  by Monday, 26 March, 2018 .

CAA 2018 Conference: Mobilizing the Collection, AAMC session Sat 24 Feb 4-5:30

Mobilizing the Collection

With the decentering of the discipline of art history, museums in this century are working to transcend the values that shaped their collections. A panel discussion among curators and directors will explore how western-centric collections can engage contemporary audiences in a multicultural society. Panelists will also give short presentations outlining projects that have attempted to address this issue through loans, exhibitions, and programming.

Questions to be addressed include: How are we to mobilize our collections, using our works of art as a starting point for conversations that promote inclusiveness and connection to our audiences? What are the potential challenges that face museum professionals who move outside their areas of specialty in order to speak reach new audiences? How can museums can work across boundaries established by institutions, established canons, and audiences? The panel will address the inherent challenges of decentering the history of art while working with objects and collections that affirm the Western European canon. We will also explore the negative tropes associated with race, gender, and class that are reflected in museum collections and will discuss how museums can approach these difficult and ugly aspects of our shared history.

Mobilizing the Collection is an affiliated society session for AAMC (the Association of Art Museum Curators) and is taking place on Saturday 2/24 4-5:30 pm.

GESTA ARTICLE AWARDED MEDIEVAL ACADEMY'S 2018 VAN COURTLANDT ELLIOT PRIZE

The 2018 Elliott Prize has been awarded to Alison Locke Perchuk (California State University Channel Islands) for her article, "Schismatic (Re)Visions: Sant'Elia near Nepi and Sta. Maria in Trastevere in Rome, 1120-1143," Gesta 55 (2016), 179-212. 

The Medieval Academy of America's Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize is awarded for a first article in the field of medieval studies judged by the selection committee to be of outstanding quality. Van Courtlandt Elliott was Executive Secretary of the Academy and Editor of Speculum from 1965 to 1970. The prize that bears his name consists of a certificate and a monetary award of $500.

CFP: Andrew Ladis Trecento Conference; Houston, 8-10 November 2018

A Call for Papers
Andrew Ladis Trecento Conference
Houston, TX
Museum of Fine Arts Houston & The University of Houston

November 8-10, 2018

In the spirit of the tradition forged by the late Andrew Ladis and his colleagues at the University of Georgia, an international congress of Trecento specialists will congregate at the Museum of Fine Arts & the University of Houston to share their research formally and informally in Houston, TX 

This call for papers invites scholars of all ages and stages to submit proposals for 20-minute discussions of specific art historical problems, issues, and ideas that focus on the arts of Italy during “the long fourteenth century” (late Dugento through early Quattrocento). MA students must provide a letter of support from a professor with whom they have taken a graduate level course.

The papers delivered at the Conference will be published by Brepols, in a new series series called the Trecento Forum

Please submit paper proposal (500-word limit), and a CV by February 16 to: LadisTrecentoConference@gmail.com. The planning committee will review all proposals and respond no later than April 15.

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The keynote speaker at the Houston conference will be Dr. Caroline Campbell, The Jacob Rothschild Head of the Curatorial Department and Curator of Italian Paintings before 1500 at the National Gallery of Art, London, whose lecture will be sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art.

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A special rate has been arranged for conference participants in a Hilton Hotel near the MFAH. Further details as well as other lodging options, will be posted soon on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/LadisTrecentoConference/)

Conference registration will be on Eventbrite beginning May 1: (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/andrew-ladis-trecento-conference-tickets-20459979349)

This will be the second Andrew Ladis Memorial Trecento Conference and we are very excited! The plan is for the conference to be held every other year, with a new venue and host institution each time. The 3rd conference will be hosted in 2020 by The Frist Art Center, Nashville, TN.

ICMA Statement: Opposition to the US proposal to tax tuition waivers

The ICMA is a co-signer on a statement opposing the US proposal to tax tuition waivers.  To read the full statement, click here: http://www.apaonline.org/tuitionwaiverstatement

New volume of Espacio, Tiempo y Forma available

New volume of Espacio, Tiempo y Forma (guest Editor Avinoam Shalem) now available

This magazine focuses on Medieval art and is published by the faculty of geography and history of the Universidad Nacional de Education a Distance in Madrid.

The subject of this volume: Treasures of the Sea: Art before Craft?See: http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ETFVII/issue/view/961

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Dossier by Avinoam Shalem: Treasures of the Sea: Art before Craft? · Tesoros del mar: El Arte antes de la destreza por Avinoam Shalem

Avinoam Shalem(guest editor), Treasures of the Sea: Art before Craft. An Introduction · Introducción 

Barbara Baert, Marble and the Sea or Echo Emerging (A Ricercar) · El mármol y el mar o el surgimiento del eco (una búsqueda) 

Karen Pinto, In God’s Eyes: The Sacrality of the Seas in the Islamic Cartographic Vision · A través de los ojos de Dios: la sacralidad de los mares en la visión cartográfica islámica 

Matthew Elliott Gillman, A Tale of Two Ivories: Elephant and Walrus · Una historia de dos marfiles: el elefante y la morsa 

Persis Berblekamp, Reflections on a Bridge and its Waters: Fleeting Access at Jazirat b. ʿUmar / Cizre / ʿAin Diwar / (Im)mobile displacements · Reflejos sobre un puente y sus aguas: un acceso rápido a Jacirat b. ʿUmar / Cizre / ʿAin Diwar 

Hannah Baader,  Livorno, Lapis Lazuli, Geology and the Treasures of the Sea in 1604 · Livorno, lapislázuli, geología y los tesoros del mar en 1604 

ICMA Statement: United States withdrawal from UNESCO

The ICMA is alarmed and saddened by the announcement on 12 October 2017 that the United States will withdraw from UNESCO in 2018. The United States was one of the founding members of UNESCO in 1945, and it was the first state to ratify the World Heritage Convention in 1972. The withdrawal of the United States is an abandonment of core principles, many times asserted in the United States, of the protection of common heritage, both natural and cultural, and it is a serious abdication of responsibility when heritage in that country and abroad has come increasingly under threat. We call upon the proper authorities to reverse this decision and to embrace even more fully a commitment to heritage worldwide.

Call for Proposals: ICMA session at St. Louis Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, due 10 Dec

CALL FOR ICMA SPONSORED SESSION PROPOSALS
ICMA @ St. Louis Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 18-20 June 2018

 The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2018 at the St. Louis Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies to be held 18-20 June 2018 in St. Louis.  Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members.

Proposals must include a session abstract, a CV of the organizer(s), and, as requested by the St Louis Symposium organizers, a list of speakers and titles for a 90-minute session, all in one single Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title. The conference organizers will post the CFS now on their website to assist with recruiting paper proposals.

Please direct all session proposals and inquiries by 10 December 2017 to the Chair of the ICMA Programs & Lectures Committee: Janis Elliott, School of Art, Texas Tech University.  Email: janis.elliott@ttu.edu

The ICMA Programs and Lectures committee will select a session to sponsor and will notify the organizer(s) by 20 December 2017. The successful organizer(s) will then submit the ICMA-sponsored proposal by 31 December 2017 directly to the St Louis Symposium Committee which will make the final decision:   http://smrs.slu.edu/cfp.html

ICMA Board of Directors adopts Anti-Harassment Policy

On 15 October 2017, the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Board of Directors adopted an Anti-Harassment Policy. The text is below and can be found in the About Us section of www.medievalart.org.

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) is an international and inclusive society that values the diversity of its membership. We do not condone the ideological misappropriation of medieval sources or scholarship in Medieval Studies. We will not tolerate bullying, threatening, belittling, or harassing behavior towards others, especially untenured colleagues, contingent faculty, independent scholars, and students, who are the most professionally vulnerable members of our community. We advocate for ethical standards of civil exchange, tolerance, and respect that affirm every scholar’s right to practice in an intellectual environment that encourages pluralism and a global approach. We denounce racism, religious bias, gender bias, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms or personal discrimination. We welcome a variety of scholarly ideas and opinions expressed according to high standards of mutual respect and professional conduct.