For PhD candidates: Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships, due 23 Oct 2019

ACLS invites applications for Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships, which support a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing. The program encourages timely completion of the PhD. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2021. A grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports this program.

ACLS will award 65 fellowships in this competition for a one-year term beginning between June and September 2020 for the 2020-21 academic year. The fellowship may be carried out in residence at the fellow's home institution, abroad, or at another appropriate site for the research. These fellowships may not be held concurrently with any other fellowship or grant.

The total award of up to $43,000 includes a stipend plus additional funds for university fees and research support. In addition to the monetary support that the fellowship offers, Dissertation Completion Fellows may apply to participate in a seminar on preparing for the academic job market. The seminar takes place over three days in the fall of the fellowship year.

Completed applications must be submitted through the ACLS online fellowship administration system (ofa.acls.org) no later than 9 pm Eastern Daylight Time, October 23, 2019.

https://www.acls.org/Competitions-and-Deadlines/Mellon-ACLS-Dissertation-Completion-Fellowships

CFP for ICMS 2020: Astrology in Practice, due 15 Sept 2019

Call for Papers
International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo (May 7-10, 2020)


Session Title:
Astrology in Practice: Perspectives from the history of visual and material culture.

Organizers:
Jordan Famularo, PhD candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Anna Majeski, PhD candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Session Abstract:
Recent scholarship has proven the widespread prevalence and import of astrology in the medieval world. A dynamic area of research accentuates astrology not simply as a theoretical science or cosmology, but as a practice with a wide range of applications—from medicine to politics. A focus on astrological practice allows us to understand how abstract scientific theorems shaped lives, bodies, and lived experiences. This session invites papers to examine historical arenas in which theory was enacted, enhanced, and modified by medieval bodies, in concert with artifacts and monuments.

Material objects and monuments offered critical intermediaries in the performance of astrological practice by human subjects. This session aims to advance interdisciplinary research on the practice of astrology, with emphasis on intersections between histories of science and visual/material culture. The session is open to topics addressing the medieval period up to 1550 CE. The maximum length for each paper is 20 minutes.

Potential topics include:
-the agency and import of the material astrological artifact.
-political, medical, and magical uses for material objects in astrological practice.
-talismans.
-monumental astrological cycles and their relations to functions performed in specific architectural spaces.
-astrological instruments: their construction, use, and depiction in art.
-depictions of practicing astrologers.
-manuscripts or other materials used by working astrologers.
-manuscripts that incorporate astrological instruments (such as volvelles).
-the role of human bodies, imagination, and cognition in symbiosis with artifacts and monuments in astrological frameworks.

To apply please submit the following files in PDF or MS Word format to Anna Majeski (atm285@nyu.edu) and Jordan Famularo (jjf376@nyu.edu) by September 15, 2019. (1) Abstract of 250 words or fewer. (2) CV. (3) Participant Information Form (downloadable at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/submissions).

CFP for ICMS 2020: Materiality of Knowledge , due 15 Sept 2019

CFP: The Materiality of Knowledge

International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo (May 7-10, 2020)

Organizers:

Anna Majeski, PhD candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Austin Powell, PhD candidate, The Catholic University of America

As vehicles for authoritative texts, as images in miniature or monumental settings, as objects imbricated in practice, or as architectural containers, material artifacts stood at the intersection between abstract intellectual concepts, and the body of the active viewer/reader. But material objects not only served as means to embody knowledge, they transformed, extended, and disseminated knowledge in spaces of lived experience. This panel will bring together medievalists across many disciplines increasingly grappling with how material artifacts and their contexts shaped the perception, reception and performance of knowledge. Our interdisciplinary approach will facilitate scholars’ engagement with new questions, methodologies, and approaches.

This session applies a cross-disciplinary approach to the materiality of knowledge in context by bringing together historians whose ‘objects’ are more traditionally textual together with historians of material and visual culture. Scholars in these fields often consider different kinds of artifacts, and ask different questions about them.

Areas we hope to address include: the materiality of texts and manuscripts, their transmission, and revision; how historical practices reframed and animated objects of knowledge; scientific instruments; the embodied and spatial dimensions of diagrammatic or encyclopedic imagery; spatial contexts for the production or communication of knowledge; material objects and images in legal contexts.

Deadline and requirements:

Please send an abstract (250 words) and CV by September 15, 2019 to Anna Majeski (atm285@nyu.edu) and Austin Powell (36powell@cua.edu)

CFP ICMS Kalamazoo 2020, due 15 Sept 2019: Location, Location, Location: In-Situ Iconography within the Medieval Built Environment

Call for Papers: The Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University
May 7-10, 2020
55th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Location, Location, Location: In-Situ Iconography within the Medieval Built Environment

Almost all architectural components in the Middle Ages had the potential to bear images. Walls, arches, portals, domes, capitals, and other structural supports proffered surfaces for the deployment of narratives, portraits, drolleries, and ornament. Iconography in such locations not only figured prominently in relation to ephemeral occurrences, such as the performance of the liturgy, processions, and other civic rituals; it also underscored more permanent demarcations within urban cityscapes and rural landscapes by recalling specific events or established cultural or environmental conditions, both historical and legendary. This session invites proposals that explore the integration of in-situ iconography within the medieval built environment. We welcome papers that consider the relationship between the location of imagery within a monument and related external factors such as ritual, topography, patronage, institutional or civic memory, and regional identit(ies). Papers may consider specific case studies or address more theoretical concerns.

Please send brief abstracts (no more than 250 words) and a completed Participant Information Form (https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/submissions) to Catherine Fernandez (caf3@princeton.edu) by September 15, 2019.


Further information about the Congress can be found here: https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress

Information on awards granted to defray the travel costs of speakers can be found here: https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/awards

https://ima.princeton.edu/2019/07/09/call-for-papers-the-index-at-kalamazoo-2020/

33rd Annual Brass Rubbing and Medieval History Docent talks at the Medieval Art Center | Long Beach, CA

33rd Annual Brass Rubbing and Medieval History Docent talks at the Medieval Art Center | Long Beach, CA

October 15, 2019 - November 9, 2019

A fascinating program that conjures up knights in armor, grand ladies, dragons…and more, the Center is an outreach to schools and the community with lessons in historical art.
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Each year, mid-October to mid-November, the Brass Rubbing Medieval Arts Center resides in the Great Hall of Cassidy Castle at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Long Beach. The Center provides an atmosphere of medieval times where learning and making art flourish. The program describes the historic background and importance of monumental brasses as well as the people they commemorate. We provide an interesting combination of history, folklore, and art, using one of the largest collections of monumental brass facsimiles in North America.

During a visit, you may choose from more than 100 reproduction-engraved plates of brass to do a rubbing. A trained instructor will provide rag paper, metallic waxes, and instructions for you to create your rubbing masterpiece. Hangers are provided for the finished artwork. Picture frame matting is also available at a minimal cost.

For Groups:
Hands-on workshops are offered for groups of 10 or more, Tuesday-Saturday, 9:00-3:00. The workshop includes a docent talk, instruction for brass rubbing, and all materials. The cost is $8 for each participant. Reservations are required for groups.

Tea in our Tea Room is available to groups at $16 per child, $26 per adult. Tea price includes docent talk, instruction and all materials. Reservations are required for Tea.

General Public:
All materials provided. Price is $8-$15 depending on size of rubbing.
Saturdays - 11:00 to 3:00 – no reservations needed
Weekdays – by appointment, due to group scheduling – 562-439-9496

Tea Time:
Three Tea dates are available to the public with no group minimum. Cost is $16 per child, $26 per adult. This includes a docent talk about medieval women, brass rubbing instruction and all materials. Reservations are required for Tea
Saturday, October 20, Saturday October 27 at 11:30am, and Sunday, November 4 at 1:00

Address:
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
525 E. 7th St. (at Atlantic Ave.)
Long Beach, CA 90813

Parking:
Parking is available in our lot just north of the church on Atlantic Ave.

Contact Us:
Email: brass.rubbing.lb@gmail.com – reservations or questions
Phone: Gail Mutke – 562-439-9496 – reservations or questions / Church – 562-436-4047

CFP: due 15 Sept 2019: Cave Architecture and Art in the Middle Ages at ICMS, Kalamazoo

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Cave Architecture and Art in the Middle Ages
55° International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, May 7-10 2020

Cave churches, monasteries and dwellings can be admired throughout the Mediterranean, where they often appear next to and even intertwined with the built environment. And yet, with the exception of southern Italy and Cappadocia, they are rarely included in studies of the art and architecture in the Mediterranean (broadly understood). This session seeks to explore the role of cave architecture and art in the urban topography of Eurasia and Africa.

With the exception of Ethiopia and Cappadocia, caves structures are often dismissed because of their small size and simplicity. However, caves and other underground spaces played essential roles in medieval cultures, as demonstrated by their mural decorations and how they appear in hagiographies, pilgrimage accounts and other genres of literature. We are looking for multi-disciplinary papers that argue for the integration of cave architectures within our understanding of the broader Mediterranean during the medieval period. Papers from all disciplines are encouraged.

Please send paper proposals of 300 words to the session organsier, Maria Harvey (mariajlharvey@gmail.com), by 15 September 2019, together with a short C.V. and a completed Participant Information form.

Please include your name, title, and affiliation on the abstract.

All abstracts not accepted for the session will be forwarded to Congress administrators for consideration in general sessions, as per Congress regulations.

Due 23 Oct 2019: Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art

Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art

The online fellowship and grant administration (OFA) system is now open for applications.

Click here for ACLS’s website

FELLOWSHIP DETAILS

  • Amount: $60,000 plus $5,000 for research and travel expenses

  • Tenure: the 2020-21 academic year

  • Applications are welcome from scholars worldwide without restriction as to citizenship or country of residency

  • Completed applications must be submitted through the ACLS online fellowship and grant administration system (ofa.acls.org) no later than 9 pm Eastern Daylight Time, October 23, 2019.

  • Notifications will be sent via email by late March 2020.

  • For information on how to request reviewer feedback, see FAQ.

ACLS invites applications for Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art, made possible by the generous support of the Getty Foundation. These fellowships are intended to support an academic year of research and/or writing by early career scholars from around the world for a project that will make a substantial and original contribution to the understanding of art and its history. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects.

ACLS will award 10 fellowships, each with a salary-replacement stipend of $60,000, plus $5,000 for research and travel during the award period. The fellowships are portable and are tenable at the fellow's home institution, abroad, or at another appropriate site for the work proposed. Awards also will include a one-week residence at the Getty Research Institute following the fellowship period.

Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships may not be held concurrently with other fellowships and grants, though they may be combined with sabbatical. Tenure of the award must encompass the entirety of the 2020-21 academic year, during which fellows must devote themselves to full-time research and writing.

Please read carefully through the eligibility, application requirements, and evaluation criteria detailed here as well as accompanying FAQ.

Eligibility

  • Applicants must have a PhD that was conferred between September 1, 2014 and December 31, 2018.

  • Applicants who earned their PhDs in and/or are currently employed in any humanistic field may apply, so long as they demonstrate that their research draws substantially on the materials, methods, and/or findings of art history, and contributes to the field. Scholars may propose new approaches to art historical scholarship and/or explore connections between art history and other humanistic disciplines.

  • This program welcomes proposals from applicants without restriction as to citizenship, country of residency, location of work proposed, or employment.

  • An application must be completed in English by the applicant.

Application Requirements
Applications must be submitted online and must include:

  • Completed application form

  • Proposal (no more than five pages, double spaced, in Times New Roman 11-point font)

  • Up to three additional pages of images or other supporting non-text materials (optional)

  • Project bibliography (no more than two pages)

  • Publications list (no more than two pages)

  • Two reference letters

Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewers in this program are asked to evaluate all eligible proposals on the following four criteria:

  1. The potential of the project to advance the field of art history and make an original and significant contribution to knowledge of art and its history.

  2. The quality of the proposal with regard to its methodology, scope, theoretical framework, and grounding in the relevant scholarly literature.

  3. The feasibility of the project and the likelihood that the applicant will execute the work within the proposed time frame.

  4. The applicant’s scholarly record and potential for scholarly achievement.


due 15 Sept 2019: CFP New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies

2020 Call for Papers
The twenty-second biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place 12–14 March 2020 in Sarasota, Florida. The program committee invites 250-word abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, music and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. Interdisciplinary work is particularly appropriate to the conference’s broad historical and disciplinary scope. Planned sessions are also welcome. The deadline for all abstracts is 15 September 2019; please see the submission guidelines on the conference website.

Junior scholars whose abstracts are accepted are encouraged to submit their papers for consideration for the Snyder Prize (named in honor of conference founder Lee Snyder), which carries an honorarium of $400. Please see the "Snyder Prize" section of the conference website for further information.

More information will be posted on the conference website as it becomes available, including information about plenary speakers, conference events, and area attractions. Please send any inquiries to info@newcollegeconference.org.

PLEASE SHARE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WITH INTERESTED COLLEAGUES.

http://www.newcollegeconference.org/cfp

Call for Sessions: Mary Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel at Leeds 2020

Call for Sessions: Mary Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel at Leeds 2020
due September 3, 2019

To encourage the integration of Byzantine studies within the scholarly community and medieval studies in particular, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 27th International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 6–9, 2020. We invite session proposals on any topic relevant to Byzantine studies.

The thematic strand for the 2029 IMC is “Borders.” See the IMC Call for Papers (https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc2020/) for additional information about the theme and suggested areas of discussion.

Session proposals must be submitted through the Mary Jaharis Center website. The deadline for submission is September 3, 2019.

If the proposed session is approved, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse a maximum of 4 session participants (presenters and moderator) up to $600 maximum for European residents and up to $1200 maximum for those coming from outside Europe. Funding is through reimbursement only; advance funding cannot be provided. Eligible expenses include conference registration, transportation, and food and lodging. Receipts are required for reimbursement.

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

Due 10 October 2019: National Humanities Center Fellowship

The National Humanities Center invites applications for academic-year or one-semester residential fellowships. Mid-career, senior, and emerging scholars with a strong record of peer-reviewed work from all areas of the humanities are encouraged to apply.

Scholars from all parts of the globe are eligible; stipends and travel expenses are provided. Fellowship applicants must have a PhD or equivalent scholarly credentials. Fellowships are supported by the Center’s own endowment, private foundation grants, contributions from alumni and friends, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Located in the vibrant Research Triangle region of North Carolina, the Center affords access to the rich cultural and intellectual communities supported by the area’s research institutes, universities, and dynamic arts scene. Fellows enjoy private studies, in-house dining, and superb library services that deliver all research materials.

Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. ET, October 10, 2019. For more information and to apply, please visit the link below.

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/become-a-fellow/

Craftsmen and Metalworking in Medieval Cities: 35 Years Later; 12-14 September 2019, Paris

The symposium Craftsmen and Metalworking in Medieval Cities: 35 Years Later addresses the metallurgies of iron, copper, tin, lead and precious metals, which produced a wide variety of objects necessary for urban life at the end of the Middle Ages. The nature, volume and possible standardization of production may be studied, as well as the needs of the city, the practices and techniques of craftsmen, their knowledge and know-how. The relationships between the crafts and between the craftsmen themselves might be examined, including dependency links, pluriactivity, networks of sociability or local relationships in urban areas. The identity and regulation of these crafts, their integration into urban society, their relationship with the surrounding rural areas and with other cities may also be revisited. The symposium will be interdisciplinary in nature, promoting dialogue between historians, archaeologists and archaeometry, without excluding anthropological approaches to learning and knowledge.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday, September 12, 13 and 14.

Centre Malher
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
9 Rue Malher
75004 Paris

Registration is open until September 5, 2019 at colloquehtm2019@gmail.com (attention, limited number of places). See page 50 of the program for registration fees and details.

Program click HERE

CFP: Architectural Representation and Medieval Art, College Art Association, 13 February 2020; proposals due 23 July 2019

CFP: Architectural Representation and Medieval Art
College Art Association, 13 February 2020

proposals due 23 July 2019


Architectural Representation and Medieval Art

Jenny H. Shaffer, New York University School of Professional Studies
Email Address(s):
jshaffer@nyc.rr.com

Images of architecture are ubiquitous in the art of the Middle Ages, and the consistent centrality of such imagery throughout this thousand-year time span raises a wide variety of questions. Medieval architectural representations may be emblematic, represent only an architectural fragment, be fanciful in form, or show structures from multiple viewpoints; they are often in disparate scale with relation to other figures. As isolated images, they are discussed in terms of formal types and stylistic categories and mined for information about actual structures, yet these representations are most remarkable for the ways in which they participate in and contribute to the systems of signification of which they are a part. They invite – and even insist on – open-ended and overlapping interpretations and associations, communicating purposely diffuse meanings in an age that well understood the value of evocative visual worlds. This session welcomes papers on any aspect of or approach to architectural representation in medieval art – whether, for example, questions of production, dissemination, use, and reception or issues of composition, style, and subject matter – in order to explore the myriad ways in which buildings are implicated in the broader field of the production of meaning for this millennium characterized by movement and change played out in a space stretching from Scandinavia into the Middle East.

For forms and directions, see the College Art Association website: https://caa.confex.com/caa/2020/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html

https://caa.confex.com/caa/2020/webprogrampreliminary/Session4582.html

National Endowment of Humanities - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grants: due 16 July 2019

The Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for grants in its Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program, with a deadline of July 16, 2019. These grants support projects to preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as rare books, journals, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of material culture. Awards also support the creation of reference works, online resources, and research tools of major importance to the humanities. Eligible activities are wide-ranging; many involve the use of digital methods. Further details, including links to the application guidelines and other resources, are available at: www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/humanities-collections-and-reference-resources.

CFP: Women and Gender in Italian Trecento Art and Architecture, Italian Art Society sponsored session at RSA; due 8 July 2019

Call for Papers for Italian Art Society (IAS) sponsored session at RSA, 2-4 April 2020, Philadelphia:

Session Title: Women and Gender in Italian Trecento Art and Architecture

Session Chair: Judith Steinhoff, University of Houston

This session examines both the patronage and the representation of women in 13th- and 14th-century Italian art, topics that remain under-explored despite the large body of scholarship on women and gender in other cultures and periods. Proposals are especially welcome that go beyond the stereotypical gender identities and roles promoted by the Church and theological writings, to seek a complex understanding of the models for and the lives of Trecento women.

Please send proposals to the organizer, Judith Steinhoff (jsteinho@Central.UH.EDU OR jsteinhoff@uh.edu), by Monday, July 8, 2019.

Paper proposals must include:
• abstract (150 words max)
• paper title (25 words max)
• your full name, current affiliation, email address, and Ph.D. completion date (past or expected)
• a brief c.v. (300 words max, and must be in list not narrative form)
• a list of key words (8 max)

**Please note: Speakers must become RSA members by November 1st to speak at the conference. As this is a sponsored panel, all speakers must also be (or become) members of the Italian Art Society.

International symposium 'The Saint Enshrined: European Tabernacle-altarpiece (c.1150-1400)' (Valladolid, 7-8 June 2019): REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

International symposium 'The Saint Enshrined: European Tabernacle-altarpiece (c.1150-1400)' (Valladolid, 7-8 June 2019): REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

Deadline 31 May 2019

Registration is now open for those wishing to attend the International Symposium 'The Saint Enshrined: European Tabernacle-Altarpieces c.1150-1400', to be held in Valladolid the 7-8 June 2019. Registration is free, but mandatory, as places are strictly limited to 38. Those willing to register should email Prof. Irune Fiz at irunefiz@fyl.uva.es. The full programme of the symposium, which includes a field trip to the diocese of Vitoria, is to be found in the link below (information in Spanish, including a link to the diptych, which is in English, the main language of the event).

http://historiadelarte.uva.es/2019/04/inscripcion-simposio-internacional-the-saint-enshrined/

East of Byzantium Lecture and Workshop, 11-12 April 2019; registration closes 9 April 2019

East of Byzantium Lecture and Workshop
April 11 & 12, 2019

The Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art at Tufts University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, are pleased to announce the final East of Byzantium events for 2018–2019.

Thursday, April 11, 2019, 6:15–7:45 pm
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Armenian Merchant Patronage of Early Modern Iran
 A lecture by Amy Landau, Freer|Sackler, Smithsonian Institution, discussing the patronage of New Julfa’s Armenian merchant community.

Friday, April 12, 2019, 10:00 am–12:00 pm
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Image-making and Anxiety among New Julfa’s Armenian Artists, Theologians & Merchants
A workshop for students exploring how Armenian artists, theologians, merchants, among others, thought about images and image-making in early modern Iran. Led by Amy Landau, Freer|Sackler, Smithsonian Institution.

Advance registration required. Registration closes April 9. Additional information and registration at https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/image-making-and-anxiety/

East of Byzantium is a partnership between the Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art at Tufts University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, that explores the cultures of the eastern frontier of the Byzantine empire in the late antique and medieval periods.

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

http://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/

CFP, 31 March 2019: Medievalist Toolkit Meeting: a workshop for public scholarship countering far-right misinformation

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

Medievalist Toolkit Meeting: a workshop for public scholarship countering far-right misinformation

May 4, 2019 at Columbia University

Submission deadline: March 31, 2019

Send abstracts and questions to: medievalisttoolkit@gmail.com

The Medievalist Toolkit is an initiative run by graduate students that addresses far-right misappropriations of the Middle Ages. To do so, we research extremist narratives, develop short responses to combat them, and solicit input from journalists and nonprofit professionals so that our research will be easily accessible for their work against the far-right. These responses will eventually be shared online with support from Columbia's Medieval & Renaissance Studies Program and History in Action , funded by the American Historical Association and Mellon Foundation.

The toolkit has two goals: to be a resource for professionals working in journalism and nonprofit organizations who encounter far-right talking points related to the Middle Ages, and to teach graduate students how to produce public scholarship in consultation with these professionals.

We invite graduate students to join us by (1) identifying a far-right talking point involving a medieval topic, and (2) writing a short response to address and dismantle it (approximately 1,000-1,500 words).

Participants will be invited to present their findings in a workshop at Columbia on May 4, in conversation with experts such as Sammy Rangel , the Executive Director of Life After Hate, and journalist Vegas Tenold , author of Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America .

If you are interested in participating, please send the topic of your choice to medievalisttoolkit@gmail.com along with a brief abstract outlining your response.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
– the myth and presumed superiority of a white/Christian Middle Ages
- the history of anti-Semitism
– the Crusades
– women’s agency and rights in the Middle Ages
– the misappropriation of popular symbols: the Knights Templar, Holy Roman Empire, etc.
– modern regimes and their fascinations with the medieval
– caliphal claims among modern extremist groups
– profiling a far-right spokesperson and dismantling their talking points

Register today for "Eclecticism at the Edges: Medieval Art and Architecture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek and Slavic Cultural Spheres"

The ICMA is co-sponsoring the Symposium “Eclecticism at the Edges: Medieval Art and Architecture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek and Slavic Cultural Spheres.” The Symposium will be held on April 5-6, 2019 at Princeton University.

This event is free, but registration is required to guarantee seating. Please register here.

For any queries, please contact the organizers at eclecticism.symposium@gmail.com.

SYMPOSIUM

Eclecticism at the Edges: Medieval Art and Architecture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Cultural Spheres (c.1300-c.1550)

 

April 5-6, 2019
Princeton University

 

Organizers:

M. Alessia Rossi, The Index of Medieval Art

Alice Isabella Sullivan, University of Michigan

eclecticism.symposium@gmail.com

 

This event is generously co-sponsored by the following:

The International Center of Medieval Art
The Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture
The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture
The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
The Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University
The Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University
The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund

 

 

Friday, April 5, 2019 

5:00       M. Alessia Rossi, The Index of Medieval Art

              Alice Isabella Sullivan, University of Michigan

              Welcome

 

5:15      Keynote Lecture

             Jelena Erdeljan, University of Belgrade

             Cross-Cultural Entanglement and Visual Culture in Eastern Europe                 c. 1300-1550

 

6:30      Film Screening and Exhibition

             Introduction by Julia Gearhart, Princeton University

            "No Woman’s Land”: A 1929 Expedition to Mount Athos and Meteora

 

7:30      Reception, McCormick Hall

 

 

Saturday, April 6, 2019

9:00      Session 1 - New Constructs of Identity

 Chair: Charlie Barber, Princeton University

 

 Elena Boeck, DePaul University

 A Timeless Ideal: Constantinople in the Slavonic Imagination of the                14th-16th Centuries

Gianvito Campobasso, University of Fribourg

Eclecticism Among Multiple Identities: The Visual Culture of Albania               in the Late Middle Ages

 Ida Sinkević, Lafayette College

 Serbian Royal Mausolea: A Reflection of Cultural Identity?

           

10:40    Coffee / Tea Break

 

11:00    Session 2 - Shifting Iconographies

             Chair: Pamela Patton, The Index of Medieval Art

 

 Vlad Bedros, National University of Arts, Bucharest

   A Hybrid Iconography: The Lamb of God in Moldavian Wall-       Paintings

 Krisztina Ilko, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 The Dormition of the Virgin: Artistic Exchange and Innovation in   Medieval Wall Paintings from Slovakia

 Ovidiu Olar, Austrian Academy of Sciences

  A Murderer among the Seraphim: Prince Lăpușneanu’s     Transfiguration Embroideries for Slatina Monastery

 

12:40     Lunch Break

 

2:00        Session 3 - Patronage and Agents of Exchange

   Chair: Cristina Stancioiu, College of William and Mary

 

   Dragoş Gh. Năstăsoiu, Centre for Medieval Studies, National                     Research University “Higher School of Economics,” Moscow

   Appropriation, Adaptation, and Transformation: Painters of                             Byzantine Tradition Working for Catholic Patrons in 14th- and 

   15th- century Transylvania

   Christos Stavrakos, University of Ioannina/Greece

   Donors, Patrons, and Benefactors in Mediaeval Epirus between the 

   Great Empires: A Society in Change or a Continuity?

   Nazar Kozak, National Academy of Sciences of UkrainePost-    

   Byzantine Art as a Network: Mobility Trajectories of the Akathistos     Cycle in the Balkans, the Carpathians, and Beyond

 

3:40       Coffee / Tea Break

 

4:00       Keynote Lecture

              Michalis Olympios, University of Cyprus

             “Eclecticism,” “Hybridity,” and “Transculturality” in Late 

               Medieval Art: A View from the Eastern Mediterranean

 

5:15        Roundtable Discussion, Questions, and Closing

               Moderator and Respondent: Ivan Stevović, University of Belgrade

 

6:00        Final Reception, Chancellor Green Rotunda