ICMA-Kress Exhibition Development Grant, due 18 September 2020

ICMA-KRESS EXHIBITION DEVELOPMENT GRANT
Deadline for applications: 18 September 2020

Submit materials here.

Thanks to the generosity of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, ICMA members are eligible to apply for an ICMA-Kress Exhibition Development Grant of $5,000 to support research and/or interpretive programming for a major exhibition at an institution that otherwise could not provide such financial support. Members from all geographic areas are welcome to apply.

As an organization, the ICMA encourages scholars to think expansively, exploring art and society in “every corner of the medieval world,” as characterized in our newly-updated mission statement. With this grant, we hope to encourage colleagues to develop innovative exhibition themes or bring little-known objects before new audiences. We also aim to enhance the impact of exhibitions by supporting related lectures or symposia.

ICMA-Kress Exhibition Development Grant can be used to fund travel in the research and preparation stages of an exhibition and/or to underwrite public programming once a show is installed. This grant is designed to assist with an exhibition already in the pipeline and scheduled by the host museum.

We ask applicants to upload to the ICMA submission site: Click here to upload items.

• Applicant’s cv

• Description of the exhibition and its goals, including an overview of the structure of the exhibition – themes and estimated number of objects in each section of the show – and dates of the exhibition

• Statement of other sources of funding both secured and provisional, with specifics on the amounts already awarded and expenses to be covered by secured and provisional funding

• Sample wall panel for a subsection of the exhibition and sample labels for 3-4 examples of works in the show

• If the applicant seeks funds to travel to see objects for inclusion in the exhibition, a list of institutions to be visited, names of contacts at each, and key objects (with accession numbers) to be inspected

• If the applicant seeks funds for exhibition programming, specific information on gallery talks, public lectures, or symposium, with anticipated names of speakers and estimated dates

• Letter of support from the Museum Director or Curator with whom the applicant is working, confirming that the exhibition will be mounted

• If funds will be used toward a lecture or symposium connected to an exhibition, letter of support from institutional administrator/s (Dean, Provost, or Museum/Gallery Director) confirming that space at the organizer’s institution will be made available for the event/s

NOTE: The ICMA and the Kress Foundation are monitoring current travel restrictions. We will communicate on deferment until travel is permitted. If applying for travel funding, proceed with the application and budget as if travel is permitted. 

Applications will be reviewed by the ICMA Grants & Awards Committee and approved by the ICMA Executive Committee. The recipient will be announced in October 2020. An update report will be due from the recipient by 31 May 2021.

Questions can be addressed to Ryan Frisinger, Executive Director, at awards@medievalart.org

ICMA-Kress Research and Publication Grants, due 18 September 2020

The Kress Foundation is again generously supporting five research and publication grants to be administered by the ICMA. This year, grants are $3,500 each (an increase over prior years) and we have expanded the eligibility for applicants to include scholars who are ICMA members at any stage past the PhD. 

The deadline for the 2020 grant cycle is September 18, 2020.

ELIGIBILITY

The ICMA-Kress Research and Publication grants ($3,500) are now available to scholars who are ICMA members at any stage past the PhD.

With the field of medieval art history expanding in exciting ways, it is crucial that the ICMA continue to encourage innovative research that will bring new investigations to broad audiences. These grants are open to scholars at all phases of their careers and priority will be given to proposals with a clear path toward publication.

If travel is a facet of your application, please include an itinerary and be specific about costs for all anticipated expenses (travel, lodging, per diem, and other details). If you aim to inspect extremely rare materials or sites with restricted access, please be as clear as possible about prior experience or contacts already made with custodians.

If your application is for funds that will support the production of a book, please include a copy of the contract from your publisher, the publisher’s request for a subvention, and/or specifics on costs for images and permissions.

Priority will be given to applicants who have not received an ICMA-Kress grant in the past.

Please submit these documents for your application:

1) A detailed overview of the project (no more than three pages, single spaced). Please also confirm that your ICMA membership is active and specify whether or not you have been awarded an ICMA-Kress grant previously.

2) A full cv.

3) A full budget.

4) Supporting materials – an itinerary (for applications involving travel), a contract and schedule of costs (if a press requires a subvention), or table of anticipated fees for image permissions (if applicable).

Please note: If you are applying for funds to support the production of a book, please do not upload the entire typescript or portions of the text.

The ICMA and the Kress Foundation are monitoring current travel restrictions. We will communicate on deferment until travel is permitted. If applying for travel funding, proceed with the application and budget as if travel is permitted. 

The application should be submitted electronically here. Recipients will be announced in October 2020.

Questions can be addressed to Ryan Frisinger, Executive Director, at awards@medievalart.org.

Failure to include all required materials adversely affects the review process.

Call for Papers, Andrew Ladis Memorial Trecento Conference: due 15 January 2021

CALL FOR PAPERS
Andrew Ladis Memorial Trecento Conference (November 11–13, 2021)
Frist Art Museum and Vanderbilt University, Nashville

Deadline: January 15, 2021

The Andrew Ladis Memorial Trecento Conference is held biennially in honor of the art historian Andrew Ladis (1949–2007), an authority on Taddeo Gaddi and Giotto and an inspiring teacher. The conference—the only gathering of its kind—emphasizes trecento Italian art as a fruitful area of research and offers participants the opportunity to exchange ideas formally and informally in a collegial environment. The next conference will be held NOVEMBER 11–13, 2021 at the Frist Art Museum and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Susan L’Engle, professor emerita and former assistant director of the Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University, will be the keynote speaker. Approximately twenty-four other scholars will be selected to present papers, which will be published by Brepols. There will be an opening reception on November 11, 2021, and meals will be provided for all attendees on November 12 and 13. Guided visits will be offered Medieval Bologna: Art for a University at the Frist and The Artist’s Workshop in Medieval and Renaissance Europe at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery.

If the event cannot be held in person because of COVID-19, the conference will take place virtually on the same dates.

Abstracts & C.V.
Scholars of all career stages are invited to submit proposals for twenty-minute papers on any aspect of Italian art of the “long fourteenth century” (from about 1250 to 1450). MA students must provide a letter of support from a professor with whom they have taken a graduate-level course.

Please submit an abstract (maximum 500 words) and curriculum vitae by January 15, 2021. Combine the documents in that order into a single Word file or PDF with Lastname_Firstname as the filename and send it to LadisTrecentoConference@gmail.com. The planning committee will review all proposals and respond by March 1, 2021.

Registration and Costs
Conference registration will open in early summer 2021. There will be no conference fees, but participants must secure their own transportation and lodging. Discounted rates will be available at nearby hotels. A $1,000 scholarship will be offered to one participating Italian scholar traveling from Italy; limited additional travel funds may be available for other scholars.

Conference Webpage
FristArtMuseum.org/LadisTrecentoConference (see also facebook.com/LadisTrecentoConference)

Organizing Committee
Anne Derbes (emerita, Hood College), Max Grossman (The University of Texas at El Paso), Bryan C. Keene (J. Paul Getty Museum), Trinita Kennedy (Frist Art Museum), Areli Marina (University of Kansas), Judith Steinhoff (University of Houston), Kristen Streahle (University of Puget Sound), and Sarah Wilkins (Pratt Institute)

New editorial team and board changes, Studies in Iconography

New editorial team and board changes, Studies in Iconography

We would like to share an announcement about changes at the journal Studies in Iconography, the most recent volume of which (no. 41, 2020) appeared this past spring. This was the last volume to be co-edited by Rick Emmerson and Kathryn Smith, who stepped down from the editorial team on July 1 after five years of dedicated service. Together with Pamela Patton, who will continue editing the journal, they oversaw several key developments, including a newly efficient editorial process, higher quality paper and color illustrations for the print journal, the inauguration of simultaneous online publication in 2021, and the publication of exemplary scholarship that showcases the breadth, adventurousness, and impact for which Studies in Iconography aims. Their wisdom, expertise, and creative energies proved vital to these accomplishments, and all involved with the journal thank them heartily.

We likewise thank the members who rotated off the editorial board in July 2020, Charlie Barber, William Diebold, Mitch Merback, Éric Palazzo, and Beth Williamson, and welcome new members María Judith (Luly) Feliciano, Thelma Thomas, and Beatrice Kitzinger. The entire list of board members can be found on the journal’s homepage: https://ima.princeton.edu/studies-in-iconography/.

Finally, we are happy to announce that as of July 1, 2020, Diliana Angelova has joined Patton as co-editor of Studies in Iconography. Angelova is Associate Professor of History of Art and History at the University of California at Berkeley and a specialist in Late Antique and Byzantine art. In addition to numerous articles and essays, she is the author of the monograph Sacred Founders: Women, Men, and Gods in the Discourse of Imperial Founding, Rome through early Byzantium (2015). Her scholarship focuses on gender, power, and the history of ideas, and the ways they inflected the visual, material, and textual cultures of the eastern Mediterranean.

As noted, beginning with volume 42, Studies in Iconography will be published in both print and digital form. In keeping with this, we soon expect to transition to an online submission system and will share news of this change on the website above. We invite ICMA members to review the contents of the latest volume there and hope you will consider submitting your scholarship for future volumes.

https://ima.princeton.edu/studies-in-iconography/

MIDDLE AGES FOR EDUCATORS: ONLINE RESOURCES AND STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING THE PRE-MODERN: WEBINAR 23 JULY 2020 AT 1PM ET - SIGN UP TODAY!

JULY 23, 2020 AT 1:00PM ET

MIDDLE AGES FOR EDUCATORS: ONLINE RESOURCES AND STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING THE PRE-MODERN 

WITH MERLE EISENBERG, POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW, NATIONAL SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL SYNTHESIS CENTER (SESYNC) UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, 

SARA MCDOUGALL, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK,

LAURA MORREALE, INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR, WASHINGTON, DC

Middle Ages for Educators, or MAFE (middleagesforeducators.com) was launched in early April 2020 in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic that shut down face-to-face classroom instruction across the globe. It builds upon the wealth of medieval studies materials already online but often hidden away in obscure places. In addition to introducing these resources to its users, MAFE offers new videos and digital tools with accompanying lesson plans that instructors can use to build upon or to supplement class assignments. 

The website has made an immediate impact in the medieval studies community and has been quickly adopted for classroom use, even as the site continues to grow. It is a resource not just for medievalists, but for anyone teaching the period between 200 and 1500 CE. With the uncertainties of the 2020-2021 academic year looming, MAFE is ready to offer ever more content, tools, and pedagogical strategies that can be built into pre-modern course material from the start. 

The webinar has three aims:

·        First, to inform participants of the site's contents, which include customized videos on medieval topics developed in response to instructor requests, primary source documents translated into English, and links to related online resources and classroom-ready digital content on Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

·        Second, to challenge participants to recognize the varying pedagogical strategies and tools the site presents to engage instructors and students in computer-enabled learning about the pre-modern world. 

·        Finally, to invite participants to interact with site creators so the site can respond to what participants need to effectively teach pre-modern materials in future digital or hybrid contexts.

To encourage discussion, this interactive webinar is limited to 30 participants. You can register for the webinar here.

Call for articles, Suffering for Salvation, due 13 August 2020

Call for articles, Suffering for Salvation
due 13 August 2020

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I am pulling together an Edited Collection called Suffering for Salvation and I would like to invite you to consider submitting one or more chapters

The abstract/call for the Collection is here:
The interactive nature of imagery in medieval texts allowed users to approach their devotions in a variety of ways. Images of holy figures were particularly potent and charged with symbolic meaning. This publication will explore how users of medieval manuscripts regarded images of suffering, internalizing what they viewed as a means for salvation.

Dr. Joni Hand earned her Ph.D. in art history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Women, Manuscripts, and Identity in Northern Europe, 1350-1550 (Ashgate, 2013), and Bound for the Midwest (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2017). Dr. Hand is Associate Professor of Art History at Southeast Missouri State University.

A Chapter should normally be no longer than 6000 words, and should be original and previously unpublished. If the work has already been published (as a journal article, or in conference proceedings, for example), the Publisher will require evidence that permission to be re-published has been granted.

To see the Call on the Publisher’s website, please click here: http://cambridgescholars.com/edited_collections/suffering-for-salvation-chapter-submission.docx, where you can download and complete a submission form.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY: LECTURER IN PRE-MODERN ART, THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

LECTURER IN PRE-MODERN ART

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH - HISTORY OF ART
COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Location: Edinburgh
Salary: £41,526 to £49,553 per annum (Grade 8)
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent

Closes: 23rd July 2020
Job Ref: 052438

History of Art is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in pre-modern art with research and teaching expertise in art from any geographic area, c.500 CE to 1500 CE. The successful candidate will play a leading role in the delivery and development of our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and will engage in the supervision of doctoral students. They will have an excellent research profile in the field, with the ability to produce exceptional research, further develop our collaboration with world-leading galleries and collections, and attract external funding. The appointee will also contribute to the administration of the subject area and the development of teaching and research across Edinburgh College of Art. We welcome candidates who will contribute to ECA's strong commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.

History of Art at the University of Edinburgh is the second largest art history department in the UK and offers a rich curriculum spanning a diverse range of cultures including India, China, Japan, Islamic Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, the US, and the UK. The department provides teaching and research excellence that probes issues of power, gender, labour, race, class, religion, and art history’s institutional and disciplinary role in shaping the past and its responsibility to help improve the future. We especially encourage the applications of women and scholars of colour.

The University of Edinburgh is ranked in the top 20 of global institutions and located in the UNESCO capital city of Scotland, home to a vibrant arts scene rich in world-class museums, galleries, festivals, and striking architecture and surrounded by the stunning natural beauty of the Scottish landscape.

This is a full-time, open-ended post at 35 hours per week.

Closing date: 23rd July 2020 at 5pm (GMT).

Full listing: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CAM281/lecturer-in-pre-modern-art

REGISTER FOR THE VIRTUAL ICMA MENTORING EVENT BY MONDAY 6 JULY 2020

UPCOMING ICMA MENTORING EVENT

A few of our committees have come together to organize a virtual mentoring session for Thursday, July 9th from 1-3 ET in lieu of the mentoring lunch that was originally scheduled to take place during the International Medieval Congress (IMC) at Leeds. The IMC is now virtual, but you do not need to be registered for the virtual conference to attend our event.

This session is the first of a series of virtual mentoring events that we'll be holding. Later in the summer and fall we will have virtual gatherings focused on topics pertinent to rising scholars. But for this inaugural session we will keep the discussion open-ended and more casual. You don't have to come for the whole time. There will be ICMA members in attendance whenever you are able to drop in, for however long you have.

If you want to participate, please answer this Google poll by Monday, July 6th, 5pm ET with your

• research interests and 

• professional areas you would like to discuss (job market, promotion, getting published, gender/LGBTQI+/race inequalities, work/life balance etc.),

• or we can just shoot the breeze about the crazy world we are living in (no, we should try to make it a little medieval and a bit focused on mentoring)

And while this is intended as a mentoring event for students and junior faculty we welcome any ICMA member who wishes to come along.

We'd love to see all your virtual faces!

Call For Papers, Cambridge Scholars

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I am pulling together an Edited Collection called Suffering for Salvation and I would like to invite you to consider submitting one or more chapters

The abstract/call for the Collection is here:
The interactive nature of imagery in medieval texts allowed users to approach their devotions in a variety of ways. Images of holy figures were particularly potent and charged with symbolic meaning. This publication will explore how users of medieval manuscripts regarded images of suffering, internalizing what they viewed as a means for salvation.

Dr. Joni Hand earned her Ph.D. in art history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Women, Manuscripts, and Identity in Northern Europe, 1350-1550 (Ashgate, 2013), and Bound for the Midwest (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2017). Dr. Hand is Associate Professor of Art History at Southeast Missouri State University.

A Chapter should normally be no longer than 6000 words, and should be original and previously unpublished. If the work has already been published (as a journal article, or in conference proceedings, for example), the Publisher will require evidence that permission to be re-published has been granted.

To see the Call on the Publisher’s website, please click here: http://cambridgescholars.com/edited_collections/suffering-for-salvation-chapter-submission.docx, where you can download and complete a submission form.

due 29 February 2020: CFP Royal Nunneries at the Center of Medieval Europe, Prague, July 2–4, 2020

CFP
Royal Nunneries at the Center of Medieval Europe: Art, Architecture and Aesthetics (11th–14th centuries) due 29 February 2020

This conference is dedicated to the art, architecture and material culture of female monasteries patronized by the ruling dynasties in medieval Europe between the 11th and the 14th centuries. This subset has been studied mostly within national academic schools resulting in separate parallel narratives of phenomena which in most cases were, in fact, related on a trans-regional scale thanks to dynastic and diplomatic connections, and also to female networks based on ties of faith and blood. The ambition of the meeting is to gather scholars interested in both testing and transcending these historiographic borders and in challenging the interpretative scheme of a top-down oriented feudal structure in favour of a network perspective. The final aim is to detect and discuss artistic, architectural, and aesthetic discourses acting on a synchronic and diachronic scale across late medieval Europe.

The conference will take place in Prague’s Na Františku double convent founded by the Přemyslid princess St. Agnes with her brother, king Wenceslas I—the location itself an exemplary case study for on-site analysis and discussion. The intention is to start from the Bohemian and Moravian nunneries connected to the Přemyslid royal family and to extend out from Central Europe to a series of other European case studies.

We welcome papers from art and architectural historians, as well as from scholars in adjacent fields, focusing on a case study, a region, or royal/courtly entourage, and posing theoretical and methodological questions which could offer a bridge for comparative discussions. Case studies that do not directly deal but can be fruitfully compared with royal female monasteries are also encouraged.

Key topics might include, but are not limited to:
• issues of gender related to patronage and life in the royal nunnery;
• the political and dynastic values of female foundations and their reflections in art;
• the design, decoration, and furnishing of spaces, between clausura and public areas;
• the construction of models of female memoria and feminine holiness;
• visual material and spiritual visualization in the royal nunnery between aesthetics, theology, and politics;
• royal nunneries as stage of self-representation, inside and outside the royal entourage;
• genealogies and memory within the nunnery;
• religious orders and royal foundations: special rules, transgressions, reforms;
• beyond clausura: patterns and networks of people, objects, relics, iconographies;
• national historiographies: trends, conflating and converging views

Submissions for 20-minute presentations in English, including an abstract of max. 300 words and a short CV (max. 1 page), can be sent to scirocco@biblhertz.it and benesovska@udu.cas.cz by 29 February 2020.

The organizing institutions will provide accommodation for speakers and offer a contribution for travel expenses.

http://www.biblhertz.it/en/career/jobboard/cfp-royal-nunneries?c=2376430

IFA Conference: Imagining Pilgrimage to Santiago: Itineraries, Narratives, Myths 24-25 April 2020

Imagining Pilgrimage to Santiago: Itineraries, Narratives, Myths
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 24-25 April 2020

In collaboration with the government of Galicia, the Institute of Fine Arts is helping to inaugurate yearlong activities for “Xacobeo 2021,” the Jacobean holy year, with a symposium on 24-25 April 2020.  Papers for “Imagining Pilgrimage to Santiago: Itineraries, Narratives, Myths” will address the confrontation of real and imagined pilgrimage, exploring phenomenological and sensorial aspects, the visionary and eschatological implications of spiritual travel, spatial and material agency, and landscape and cartographic geographies of pilgrimage, among others.  Speakers include:  Kathryn Brush, Thomas Deswarte, James D’Emilio, Elvira Fidalgo, Elina Gertsman, Melanie Hanan, Patrick Henriet, Dominique Iogna-Prat, F. López Alsina, Wendy Pullan, Rocio Sánchez Ameijeiras, Alison Stones, Stefan Trinks, Michele Vescovi, Rose Walker. More information may be found at the Institute’s Events webpage in early 2020 (https://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/events/index.htm) or by contacting the organizers R. Maxwell (Institute of Fine Arts: robert.maxwell@nyu.edu) and M. Castiñeiras (Univ. Autònoma Barcelona: Manuel.Castineiras@uab.cat)

Job Posting: Art Historian, pre c. 1500 art, tenure-track, University of North Texas

Art Historian, pre c. 1500 art, tenure-track

The College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Art History, with a specialization in pre- c.1500 art. The successful candidate will teach graduate and undergraduate art history courses to majors and non-majors. Art History faculty may receive support for their research through a variety of institutional research grants and travel funding. The standard annual teaching load is a 2|2 at the rank of assistant professor. Additional responsibilities include advising students, both undergraduate and graduate, service to the college and university, professional development, and continued enhancement of the art history program, which is housed in a Carnegie Tier One Research University. The ideal candidate will complement the faculty’s strengths in global art, architecture, and design history. Applications will be reviewed beginning January 27, 2020.

For additional information and to apply, please see http://jobs.untsystem.edu/postings/33035

Details here.

CFP: Andrew Ladis Memorial Trecento Conference, due 6 April 2020

CALL FOR PAPERS
Andrew Ladis Memorial Trecento Conference (January 7–9, 2021)
Frist Art Museum and Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Deadline: April 6, 2020

The Andrew Ladis Memorial Trecento Conference is held biennially in honor of the art historian Andrew Ladis (1949–2007), an authority on Taddeo Gaddi and Giotto and an inspiring teacher. The conference—the only gathering of its kind—emphasizes trecento Italian art as a fruitful area of research and offers participants the opportunity to exchange ideas formally and informally in a collegial environment. The next conference will be held January 7–9, 2021, at the Frist Art Museum and Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Dr. Susan L’Engle, professor emerita and former assistant director of the Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University, will be the keynote speaker. Approximately twenty-four other scholars will be selected to present papers, which will be published by Brepols. There will be an opening reception on January 7, 2021, and meals for all attendees on January 8 and 9. Guided visits will be offered of the exhibition Medieval Bologna: Art for a University at the Frist and of the Samuel H. Kress Study Collection at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery.

Scholars of all career stages are invited to submit proposals for twenty-minute papers on any aspect of Italian art of the “long fourteenth century” (from about 1250 to 1450). MA students must provide a letter of support from a professor with whom they have taken a graduate-level course.

Please submit an abstract (maximum 500 words) and curriculum vitae by April 6, 2020. Combine the documents in that order into a single Word file or PDF with Lastname_Firstname as the filename and send it to LadisTrecentoConference@gmail.com. The planning committee will review all proposals and respond by June 1, 2020.

Conference registration will open on June 15, 2020. There will be no conference fees, but participants must secure their own transportation and lodging. Discounted rates will be available at nearby hotels.

A $1,000 scholarship will be offered to one participating Italian scholar traveling from Italy.

http://FristArtMuseum.org/LadisTrecentoConference

Call for Applications: Mary Jaharis Center Grants 2020–2021, due 1 February 2020

Call for Applications: Mary Jaharis Center Grants 2020–2021
dueFebruary 1, 2020

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce its 2020–2021 grant competition, including a new grant for archaeological projects. Our grants reflect the Mary Jaharis Center’s commitment to fostering the field of Byzantine studies through the support of graduate students and early career researchers and faculty.

Mary Jaharis Center Dissertation Grants are awarded to advanced graduate students working on Ph.D. dissertations in the field of Byzantine studies broadly conceived. These grants are meant to help defray the costs of research-related expenses, e.g., travel, photography/digital images, microfilm.

Mary Jaharis Center Publication Grants support book-length publications or major articles in the field of Byzantine studies broadly conceived. Grants are aimed at early career academics. Preference will be given to postdocs and assistant professors, though applications from non-tenure track faculty and associate and full professors will be considered. We encourage the submission of first-book projects.

Mary Jaharis Center Project Grants support discrete and highly focused professional projects aimed at the conservation, preservation, and documentation of Byzantine archaeological sites and monuments dated from 300 CE to 1500 CE primarily in Greece and Turkey. Projects may be small stand-alone projects or discrete components of larger projects. Eligible projects might include archeological investigation, excavation, or survey; documentation, recovery, and analysis of at risk materials (e.g., architecture, mosaics, paintings in situ); and preservation (i.e., preventive measures, e.g., shelters, fences, walkways, water management) or conservation (i.e., physical hands-on treatments) of sites, buildings, or objects.

The application deadline for all grants is February 1, 2020. For further information, please see https://maryjahariscenter.org/grants.

Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center, with any questions.

http://maryjahariscenter.org/grants

CFP: Graduate Association of Medieval Studies at UW-Madison's 7th Annual Medieval Studies Colloquium , due 31 January 2020

CFP: Graduate Association of Medieval Studies at UW-Madison's 7th Annual Medieval Studies Colloquium due January 31, 2020

The Graduate Association of Medieval Studies is pleased to announce that our Seventh Annual Medieval Studies Colloquium will be held in Spring 2020. The two days of the Colloquium will include structured panels of presentations as well as two public lectures and two lunch workshops hosted by our keynote speakers: Dr. Nicole Guenther Discenza (English, University of South Florida) and Dr. Karlyn Griffith (Art History, Cal Poly Pomona).

7th Annual Medieval Studies Colloquium
Transcending Boundaries: Changes in Medieval Time and Space
April 3–4, 2020 | University of Wisconsin-Madison

A reception will conclude the Colloquium on Saturday afternoon, where attendees will be encouraged to ask follow-up questions and continue conversations with the presenters and keynote speakers that are more in-depth than time allows for during Q&A.

The UW-Madison GAMS Colloquium offers an opportunity for graduate students in multiple disciplines to present their research in the various fields of medieval studies, share and receive feedback, and participate in discussions on topics of interest with peers from a wider, interdisciplinary community of medieval studies scholars. This is the third year that GAMS invites abstracts from graduate students from other schools and the first year to invite undergraduate papers on topics relating to the Middle Ages, including topics related to Late Antiquity and the early Renaissance. Graduate papers will be 20 minutes, undergraduates 10–15 minutes, and all papers should be delivered in English. Each panel will be followed by 30 minutes for discussion.

This year’s theme is Transcending Boundaries: Changes in Medieval Time and Space and we invite papers that examine ideas of boundaries (broadly defined). This can include papers dealing with time and space, physical and imaginary boundaries, creating and performing borders, and/or a lack of borders. All abstracts on any topic of medieval interest will be seriously considered.

Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to gams@rso.wisc.edu by January 31, 2020 for consideration.

https://www.facebook.com/events/547183752520817/

M. ALISON FRANTZ FELLOWSHIP IN POST-CLASSICAL STUDIES AT THE GENNADIUS LIBRARY, due 15 January 2020

M. ALISON FRANTZ FELLOWSHIP IN POST-CLASSICAL STUDIES AT THE GENNADIUS LIBRARY
due 15 January 2020 

The M. Alison Frantz Fellowship, formerly known as the Gennadeion Fellowship in Post-Classical Studies, was named in honor of archaeologist, Byzantinist, and photographer M. Alison Frantz (1903–1995), a scholar of the post-classical Athenian Agora whose photographs of antiquities are widely used in books on Greek culture.

Fields of study:
Late Antique through Modern Greek Studies, including but not limited to the Byzantine, Frankish, Post-Byzantine, and Ottoman periods.

Eligibility:
Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D.s (up to five years) from a U.S. or Canadian institution. Candidates should demonstrate their need to work in the Gennadius Library.

Terms:
A stipend of $11,500 plus room, board, and waiver of School fees. Fellows are expected to be in residence at the School for the full academic year from early September to late May. A final report is due at the end of the award period, and the ASCSA expects that copies of all publications that result from research conducted as a Fellow of the ASCSA be contributed to the Gennadius Library.

Application:
Submit an online application form for the “M. Alison Frantz Fellowship in Post-Classical studies at the Gennadius Library.” An application consists of a curriculum vitae, description of the proposed project (up to 750 words), and three letters of reference to be submitted online. Student applicants must submit transcripts. Scans of official transcripts are acceptable.

Direct link to the online application:
https://ascsa.submittable.com/submit/116910/m-alison-frantz-fellowship-in-post-classical-studies-at-the-gennadius-library

The award will be announced by March 15.

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, sex, sexual orientation, color, religion, ethnic origin, or disability when considering admission to any form of membership or application for employment.

American School of Classical Studies at Athens
6-8 Charlton Street
Princeton, NJ 08540-5232
Telephone: +1 609-683-0800
Email: application@ascsa.org
Website: https://www.ascsa.edu.gr

The Age of Van Eyck in Context, 21 June - 1 July 2020; applications due 15 December 2019

Call for applications

The Age of Van Eyck in Context

21 June - 1 July 2020

Deadline for applications:

15 December 2019, 5 p.m. (CET)

www.summercourse.eu

Annually, the Summer Course for the Study of the Arts in Flanders brings a select group of 18 highly qualified young researchers to Flanders. They are offered an intensive 11-day programme of lectures, discussions and visits related to a specific art historical period of Flemish art.

The Summer Course provides the participants with a clear insight into the Flemish art collections from the period at hand, as well as into the current state of research on the topic. The sixth edition of the Summer Course will focus on ‘The Age of Van Eyck in Context’. Excursions will be made to Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels, Leuven, Kallo, Hoogstraten, Lille, Mons and Tournai. The language of the Summer Course is English.

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CFP: BETWEEN FIGURE AND GROUND: SEEING IN PREMODERNITY (JUNE 4TH-6TH 2020; BASEL, SWITZERLAND); due 22 December 2019

BETWEEN FIGURE AND GROUND: SEEING IN PREMODERNITY (JUNE 4TH-6TH 2020)
BASEL, SWITZERLAND

International Conference “Between Figure and Ground: Seeing in Premodernity”, organised by Saskia C. Quené and Matteo Burioni

The terms “figure” and “ground” became fundamental to art critique and art historical scholarship over the course of the twentieth century. However, to what extent these dichotomies can describe premodern art and artifacts remains largely unquestioned. The international conference “Between Figure and Ground: Seeing in Premodernity” aims to critique and expand vocabularies used to describe, analyze, and interpret medieval and early modern pictures. The conference brings together art history, image theory (Bildwissenschaft), historiography, and methodological reflections. It offers the opportunity to productively revise anachronistic attachments to modernist paradigms. What can be seen and described between picture planes and pictorial spaces and thus between figure and ground?

Please send your proposal (a short description of your paper, max 2 pages as a PDF) by December 22 to Saskia C. Quené. Travel expenses (international or intercontinental flights), lodging, and meals will be covered. The conference will take place at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image in Basel, Switzerland and is made possible by the generous support of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the University of Basel, the Ellen J. Beer-Foundation, the University of Bern and the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Internationale Tagung: “Zwischen Figur und Grund: Sehen in der Vormoderne”

Die Begriffe „Figur“ und „Grund“ sind zentrale Begriffe der Kunstwissenschaft. Sie entstammen jedoch einer Kunstgeschichte der Moderne. Inwiefern diese dichotomen Begriffe des Sehens geeignete Leitbegriffe einer Kunstgeschichte der Vormoderne sein können, ist jedoch weitgehend unhinterfragt geblieben. Die internationale Tagung „Zwischen Figur und Grund: Sehen in der Vormoderne“ setzt sich zum Ziel, diese Leitbegriffe hinsichtlich den Bildkulturen des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit kritisch zu reflektieren und zu erweitern. Bildtheoretische, kunsthistorische, historiographische und methodologische Ansätze stehen dabei gleichermaßen zur Debatte. Thema und Tagung bieten die Chance, das Sehen in der Vormoderne produktiv von ihren modernistischen Begriffsparadigmen zu lösen und der Frage auf den Grund zu gehen, was sich im Zwischenraum von Bildfläche und Bildraum – zwischen Figur und Grund – zeigen und beschreiben lässt.

Bitte senden Sie Ihre Projektskizze bis zum 22. Dezember 2019 (kurze Beschreibung des Vorhabens auf max. 2 Seiten als PDF) an Saskia C. Quené. Kosten für Reise, Unterkunft und Verpflegung werden übernommen. Veranstaltet wird die Tagung von Saskia C. Quené (Bern/Basel) und Matteo Burioni (München). Die Tagung findet statt bei eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image in Basel und wird ermöglicht durch die grosszügige Unterstützung des Schweizerischen Nationalfonds (SNF), der Universität Basel, der Ellen J. Beer-Stiftung, der Universität Bern und der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

https://global-horizons.ch/workshops-conferences/between-figure-and-ground-seeing-in-premodernity-june-4th-6th-2020/?fbclid=IwAR0tf5HpP0jchJ3J7jzEFBZMAqMEYXVUEVuntwHBm_9wTvqjLI2dvo_t58E

Call for applications Summer Course for the Study of the Arts in Flanders The Age of Van Eyck in Context

Call for applications
Summer Course for the Study of the Arts in Flanders The Age of Van Eyck in Context
due 15 December 2019, 5 p.m. (Central European Time)

Annually, the Summer Course for the Study of the Arts in Flanders brings a select group of 18 highly qualified young researchers to Flanders (Belgium). They are offered an intensive 11-day programme of lectures, discussions, and visits related to a specific art historical period of Flemish art. The Summer Course provides the participants with a clear insight into the Flemish art collections from the period at hand, as well as into the current state of research on the topic.

The sixth edition of the Summer Course will focus on ‘The Age of Van Eyck in Context’. It will be held from June 21 until July 1, 2020. Excursions will be made to Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, Leuven, Brussels, Hoogstraten, Lille, Mons and Tournai. The language of the Summer Course is English.

http://vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/en/call_for_applications_summer_course_1.aspx

Belle da Costa Greene Curatorial Fellowships, The Morgan Library and Museum; due 31 December 2019

The Morgan Library & Museum announces the creation of two new two-year curatorial fellowships, the Belle da Costa Greene Curatorial Fellowships, to be awarded to promising scholars from communities historically underrepresented in the curatorial and special collections fields. Named for the Morgan’s first director, one of the most prominent American librarians and cultural leaders of the first half of the twentieth century and a woman of color, this full-time program will equip Fellows with a strong working knowledge of museum and special collections library operations and will provide Fellows with resources and mentorship to support them in their professional careers.

The Morgan seeks candidates who are interested in working on specific projects as outlined below. The program will provide Fellows with experience in a variety of core curatorial activities, such as exhibition and publications planning, research on the collection and on potential acquisitions, the creation of public programs, and donor relations. Fellows will also have the opportunity to propose and curate their own installation in the museum. Fellows will join all departmental meetings as well as the Morgan’s Curatorial Forum, a monthly gathering of all curators and conservators. Regular interaction with colleagues in other departments, including the Thaw Conservation Center, will give each Fellow a good grounding in the key functional areas of a museum and special collections library. Travel funds will support Fellows’ professional development.

Eligibility
Graduate degree in relevant field or equivalent professional experience required (see more details below). General qualifications include experience conducting archival research using primary sources, deep intellectual curiosity and versatility, and a demonstrated ability to work independently, collaboratively, and efficiently. Candidates should have excellent writing and public speaking skills.

Compensation and Benefits
$42,000 annually for two years (from September 2020 to August 2022); excellent benefits. Fellows will also have a travel budget of $1500 per year for research and for activities supporting their professional development, such as attendance at a conference

Among a variety of potential projects, the Department of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts is seeking a full-time curatorial fellow to study the Morgan's collection of over 600 single leaves. The project includes the opportunity to curate an exhibition based on the collection. The fellow will also participate in curatorial meetings and contribute to the general administration of the department. The fellowship is expected to run from September 2020 through August 2022. 

Applicants should use the following link to apply:

https://www.themorgan.org/opportunities/fellowships/greene-fellowship

The deadline is December 31, 2019. Successful candidates will be notified in March 2020.