ICMA at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds 2021

ICMA at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds 2021

Materials, Manufacture, Movement: Tracing Connections through Object Itineraries
Session 1301

Wednesday 7 July 2021
16:30-18:00 GMT

Organiser and Moderator:
Therese Martin, Instituto de Historia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid

Two pairs of interrelated papers feature the rich work-in-progress by members of the project 'The Medieval Iberian Treasury in Context: Collections, Connections, and Representations on the Peninsula and Beyond' (PI Therese Martin). Our research interrogates how and why medieval artifacts moved across borders, whether religious, political, or geographical; such objects and textiles materialize connections that are too often missing from official written histories. Likewise, team members analyze the presence of artifacts and materials preserved far from their places of manufacture to understand the works' socio-historical itineraries. These papers depend on the material evidence of artifacts - textiles, ebony and ivory caskets, metalworks, and manuscripts - to understand the interconnections among diverse climates, cultures, and technologies. Our object-oriented approaches shed light on networks of trade, plunder, marriage, and diplomacy, through which prized possessions arrived at destinations including Egypt, Iberia, Germanic lands, and the easterly reaches of Europe.

Linen, Wool, and Silk: Climate Conditions and Textile Production from Egypt to Iberia Ana Cabrera-Lafuente, Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España, Madrid

Exquisite yet Handy: On Ivory / Ebony Caskets and the Egypt / Iberia Debate Silvia Armando, Department of Art History & Studio Art, John Cabot University, Rome

Treasuries as Windows to the Medieval World: San Isidoro de León and St Blaise at Braunschweig Jitske Jasperse, Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, HumboldtUniversität zu Berlin

Women’s Influence, Modern Perceptions, and the Transmission of ‘Culture’ in Medieval Central and Eastern Europe Christian Raffensperger, Department of History, Wittenberg University, Ohio

Assistant Professor of Art History, renewable, due 30 April 2021

Assistant Professor of Art History

The Department of Art and Art History at the University of Mississippi announces an opening for an Assistant Professor of Art History with the ability to teach African and African American art. The position is a 9-month, full-time, benefits-eligible renewable position. The successful candidate will join the department’s ongoing commitment to shifting the discourse of art history and to its endeavor to be responsive to a diverse student body and global society. The University of Mississippi is located in Oxford, which is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s top college towns. The University has an R-1 Carnegie Classification and is recognized as one of the best colleges in the nation to work for by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Responsibilities
The candidate will teach a global survey of prehistoric through medieval art, a course on writing and research, and upper-level classes in African or African American art, and global pre-Modern art. The teaching load is three classes per semester. The successful candidate is expected to be engaged actively in research and to be an involved member of the department and university community, including the African American Studies program.

Qualifications
Ph.D. in Art History or a closely related field completed by the time of appointment and teaching experience are required.

Application
As part of their application, candidates should submit a cover letter that outlines their 1) teaching experience; 2) philosophy on teaching; 3) active engagement with research; and 4) contributions/commitment to advancing diversity. Applicants also should upload a current CV and the names and contact information for four references familiar with the applicant’s work. Finalists will be asked later to submit two writing samples, two sample syllabi, and unofficial transcripts (official transcripts will be required upon hiring). Review of applications will begin immediately. The position will remain open until filled or until an adequate applicant pool is established. All materials should be submitted online at University of Mississippi Careers (careers.olemiss.edu). Please direct inquiries about this position to Dr. Nancy L. Wicker (nwicker@olemiss.edu), Chair of the Department of Art and Art History and Chair of the Search Committee.

Additional Information
Funds are available for continued professional development, and the University offers an extremely competitive retirement plan. The initial appointment begins August 15, 2021 and may be renewed for up to two additional years by mutual agreement. Extension beyond three years will be dependent on available budget funding. We recognize the importance of a diverse faculty and a supportive educational and professional environment that affirms the value of cultural diversity. We strongly encourage applications from candidates who are traditionally underrepresented in academia and from all candidates who are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive academic community.

The University of Mississippi is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA employer.

http://careers.olemiss.edu

CFP: ICMA Sponsored Session Proposals, AAH Annual Conference 2022, due 20 April 2021

ICMA at Association for Art History Annual Conference 

London, 6-8 April 2022
Call for ICMA Sponsored Session Proposals
due 20 April 2021

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship at the Association for Art History Annual Conference to be held 6-8 April 2022 at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Proposals to the ICMA must include a session abstract and a CV of the organizer(s).

Please note the following:

• The AAH does not require a slate of speakers; the AAH will generate a CFP once sessions have been selected. Therefore the ICMA will not request a slate of speakers.

• The ICMA requires the CVs of the session organizers, but the AAH does not.

• Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members but are not required to become AAH members. However, AAH members receive a preferential conference rate.

• Sessions at the AAH conference are built of 70-minute blocks, with a minimum of two blocks per session, up to four blocks in a day. Each block consists of two papers of 25 minutes plus 10 minutes of questions for each paper. The ICMA seeks to sponsor one session of two 70-minute blocks (four papers).

Upload your proposals here by 20 April 2021. 

Please direct all inquiries to the Chair of the Programs Committee: Bryan C. Keene, Riverside City College, USA, bryan.keene@rcc.edu 
 
The ICMA Programs and Lectures committee will select a session to sponsor and will notify the successful organizer(s) by 1 May 2021. The organizer(s) will then submit the ICMA-sponsored proposal to the AAH, which will make the final decision. Submit session proposals to the AAH by 7 May 2021 at Conference2022@forarthistory.org.uk following the guidelines posted on the AAH website: https://forarthistory.org.uk/our-work/conference/2022-annual-conference/ 

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A note about Kress Travel Grants

Thanks to a generous grant from the Kress Foundation, funds may be available to defray travel costs of speakers in ICMA sponsored sessions up to a maximum of $600 for domestic travel and of $1200 for overseas travel. If available, the Kress funds are allocated for travel and hotel only. Speakers in ICMA sponsored sessions will be refunded only after the conference, against travel receipts. In addition to speakers, session organizers delivering papers as an integral part of the session (i.e. with a specific title listed in the program) are now also eligible to receive travel funding.

Click here for more information.

CFP: ICMA Sponsored Session Proposals, CAA Annual Conference 2022; due 15 April 2021

ICMA at College Art Association Annual Conference 

Chicago, 16-19 February 2022
Call for ICMA Sponsored Session Proposals
due 15 April 2021

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2020 at the annual meeting of the College Art Association. Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members.  
 
Proposals must include the following in one single Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title: 

• Session abstract

• CV of the organizer(s)

• Session organizers may also include a list of potential speakers

Please upload all session proposals as a single DOC or PDF by 15 April 2021 here.

The organizer(s) will have until 30 April 2021 to upload their approved proposals on the CAA website here.

For inquiries, contact the Chair of the ICMA Programs and Lectures Committee: Bryan C. Keene, Riverside City College, USA, bryan.keene@rcc.edu

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A note about Kress Travel Grants

Thanks to a generous grant from the Kress Foundation, funds may be available to defray travel costs of speakers in ICMA sponsored sessions up to a maximum of $600 for domestic travel and of $1200 for overseas travel. If available, the Kress funds are allocated for travel and hotel only. Speakers in ICMA sponsored sessions will be refunded only after the conference, against travel receipts. In addition to speakers, session organizers delivering papers as an integral part of the session (i.e. with a specific title listed in the program) are now also eligible to receive travel funding.

Click here for more information.

Call for submissions: Suffering for Salvation, due 1 June 2021

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I have been working on an edited collection called Suffering for Salvation and I would like to invite you to consider submitting one or more chapters. Several authors have expressed interest, but because of a tight deadline, were unable to contribute a chapter. The deadline has therefore been extended to 1 June 2021 in order to ensure quality submissions. The premise of this publication is broad and concerns how users of medieval manuscripts considered images, symbols, or texts having to do with physical or spiritual suffering, internalizing what they viewed/read as a means for salvation.

My name is Dr. Joni Hand and I earned my Ph.D. in art history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. I am 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), and several articles about female patronage and medieval and early modern manuscripts. I am currently 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: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/pages/guest-edited-collections and click on Philosophy. There you can download and complete a submission form.

WHITING FOUNDATION 2022–23 PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT GRANTS, SUBMIT TO ICMA BY 30 APRIL 2021

WHITING FOUNDATION 2022–23 PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT GRANTS   

Do you have a research project that is public facing? Are you an early-career scholar?

Please consider submitting an application for Whiting Foundation Public Engagement funding. The ICMA is a nominating institution and can select nominees for a Fellowship and/or a Seed Grant.

The ICMA deadline for summary proposals is 30 April 2021. Submit here.

As a nominating body for the Whiting Foundation's Public Engagement Programs in the humanities, the ICMA calls for proposals in public-facing scholarship to submit for the 2021–22 competition cycle (for funding in 2022–23). The foundation describes these funding opportunities as "designed to celebrate and empower humanities faculty who embrace public engagement" at an early-career stage, "to infuse the depth, historical richness, and nuance of the humanities into public life."

We may nominate one or two proposals by full- or part-time faculty at accredited US institutions of higher learning. To be eligible for the grants, faculty must be full- or part-time faculty in both the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years. Faculty need not be on a tenure track to be eligible. Nominees must also be early-career: they should have received their doctorate between 2008 and 2020.

The Foundation welcomes proposals including collaborations between faculty and graduate students. Nominees may apply to either of the Whiting's funding programs, depending on the stage of development of their project: 

• A Fellowship of $50,000 for projects far enough into development or execution to present specific, compelling evidence that they will successfully engage the intended public.

• A Seed Grant of up to $10,000 for projects at a somewhat earlier stage of development, where more modest resources are needed to test or pilot a project or to collaborate with partners to finalize the planning for a larger project and begin work.

Detailed guidelines and recommendations for the full proposals required by the Foundation are available online HERE, including the link to the application portal for nominees (see esp. Appendix 2 for proposal components).

The full application for nominees is due on 14 June 2021.

For consideration as an ICMA nominee, please submit a CV, a 2-page summary proposal of your project, and a working budget, to Ryan Frisinger by 1 May 2021. Applicants will be notified by the end of May. Comments will include recommendations for preparing the full grant proposal. Click here to submit.
 

For questions, contact ICMA Advocacy Committee Chair Jennifer Feltman (jmfeltman@ua.edu) or ICMA Grants and Awards Committee Chair Stephen Perkinson (sperkins@bowdoin.edu).

NEW! ICMA ADVOCACY SEED GRANT - due 30 April 2021

NEW!

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
ICMA ADVOCACY SEED GRANT
due 30 April 2021

The ICMA seeks grant proposals for local initiatives in public scholarly engagement and outreach, student mentoring (from grade school to graduate), and projects that advance the ICMA's commitment to inclusion in the field. These grants could be used to support initiatives including, but not limited to: group visits to special collections/museum exhibitions, curricular development, workshops and student training, community/artist conversations, website design, equipment, and outreach to local classrooms. We especially encourage applications that will support the initiation or continuation of longer-term projects, but all projects will be considered. Proposals should describe the project’s aims and audience (including short and long-term goals), and the ways in which it will engage the intended audience in a meaningful understanding of medieval art, broadly conceived.

Grants are available for up to US$ 1,500. Depending on the number of proposals received, the committee may decide to divide the total available funds (US $1,500) into multiple smaller awards or to give the full grant to a single recipient. Only ICMA members are eligible.The deadline is 30 April 2021.

To submit, upload your CV, 1 page proposal (single-spaced), itemized budget, and list of potential collaborators and target engagement audience here.

For questions, please contact awards@medievalart.org.

CFP: Exalted Spirits: The Veneration of the Dead in Egypt through the Ages - Abstract Submission, due 19 April 2021

The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), The American University in Cairo (AUC), and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (MoTA) are organizing a joint conference on the veneration of the dead, entitled Exalted Spirits: The Veneration of the Dead in Egypt through the Ages. This three-day conference will cover the veneration of deceased figures in Egypt from the Pharaonic period up to current times, using the diverse evidence available in terms of texts, images, and lived traditions. We invite people to submit papers relating to the following topics: the definition of ancestor veneration; the different types of individuals who were the focus of cults of the dead [ranging from kings, deceased family members, prominent individuals with saintly powers in society—such as Imhotep in ancient Egypt, Saint Anthony in Coptic Egypt and the Ahl al-Bayt (family of the Prophet) in Islamic Egypt—or more informally in local society, such as Heqaib or local saints whose cults are currently celebrated in villages and towns throughout Egypt]; and the rituals, ceremonies and festivals that are associated with venerated deceased figures.

Venue: Ewart Hall, American University in Cairo, Egypt (hybrid under consideration)

https://forms.gle/q8cvyq6dgw19FkQj9

MINING THE COLLECTION: IN THE STOREROOM AT DUMBARTON OAKS WITH ELIZABETH DOSPEL WILLIAMS - MONDAY, MARCH 29 AT 1:00 PM ET

MINING THE COLLECTION: IN THE STOREROOM AT DUMBARTON OAKS WITH ELIZABETH DOSPEL WILLIAMS

MONDAY, MARCH 29 AT 1:00 PM ET, RSVP HERE.

Please join us Monday, March 29th, at 1:00 pm ET for an investigation of these and other jewelry and textiles at Dumbarton Oaks presented by Elizabeth Dospel Williams, Associate Curator of the Byzantine Collection. The brief presentation will be followed by an informal discussion in the mode of an object study session; please bring your questions and ideas. 
 
Sign up here.
 
Additional events in this series to follow!
 

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT...

You can watch a selection of previous Mining the Collection events here: https://www.medievalart.org/mining-the-collection

Ps-Ptolemy’s Ὁ Καρπός and Byzantine Astrological Practice, 1 April 2021

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, is pleased to announce its final lecture for 2020–2021: "Ps-Ptolemy’s Ὁ Καρπός and Byzantine Astrological Practice." Dr. Darin Hayton, Haverford College, will explore ps-Ptolemy’s Ὁ Καρπός to elucidate the culture of astrology in the later Byzantine empire.

April 1, 2021 | Zoom | 4:00–5:00 pm (Eastern time)

This lecture will take place live on Zoom, followed by a question and answer period. Please register to receive the Zoom link. An email with the relevant Zoom information will be sent 1–2 hours ahead of the lecture. Registration closes at 11:00 AM on April 1, 2021.

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

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

THE ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION (AGBU) HELEN C. EVANS SCHOLARSHIP, DUE 30 APRIL 2021

The AGBU Helen C. Evans Scholarship is intended to honor Helen C. Evans, the Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator of Byzantine Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was established to recognize exceptional students from around the world pursuing studies in the areas of Armenian art, art history, architecture, and/or early Christianity. Helen C. Evans Scholars are to demonstrate a strong interest in pursuing world-leading research, teaching, dissemination of future work that will help develop the areas of Armenian art, art history, architecture, and/or early Christianity, and related fields. Applicants must be enrolled in full-time graduate degree programs and this scholarship is available for a maximum of three (3) years toward college/university education expenses. This scholarship is open to students of both Armenian and non-Armenian descent.

The Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) is the world’s largest non-profit organization devoted to upholding the Armenian heritage through educational, cultural and humanitarian programs. Each year, AGBU is committed to making a difference in the lives of 500,000 people across Armenia, Artsakh and the Armenian diaspora. Since 1906, AGBU has remained true to one overarching goal: to create a foundation for the prosperity of all Armenians.

Applicants must complete and submit the following pre-screening form before being invited to apply.

Pre-Screening Form 2021-2022

For more information, go to: https://www.agbu-scholarship.org/dates

https://agbu.org/news-item/encouraging-a-new-generation-of-scholars-ani-and-mark-gabrellian-launch-the-agbu-helen-c-evans-scholarship/

MINING THE COLLECTION: THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART WITH GERHARD LUTZ AND ELINA GERTSMAN; Thursday, March 4 at 11:00 am Eastern

MINING THE COLLECTION: THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART WITH GERHARD LUTZ AND ELINA GERTSMAN

Thursday, March 4 at 11:00 am Eastern, RSVP here.

We are delighted to invite you to another installment of Mining the Collection. Gerhard Lutz, Robert P. Bergman Curator of Medieval Art at The Cleveland Museum of Art, and Elina Gertsman, Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University, will present two fascinating sculptures from the museum’s collection.

Please join us Thursday, March 4th at 11:00 am ET for a brief presentation of these works followed by an informal discussion. Sign up here!

Additional events in this series to follow.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT...
You can watch Mining the Collection: The J. Paul Getty Museum with Elizabeth Morrison and Bryan C. Keene here.

ICMA at ICMS, Kalamazoo 2021: Online 10-15 May 2021

Join the ICMA’s events during the International Congress on Medieval Studies 2021. All events are online 10-15 May. Below is a listing of the ICMA sponsored sessions. More information at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress.

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Session 13
Art Historical Approaches to Medieval Environments
Monday, May 10, 9:00 a.m. EDT (live recorded)

Sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art Student Committee

Organized by
Dustin Aaron, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ.

Presider: Dustin Aaron

A Saint, the Sun, and a Cloud: Sacred Meteorology in Santa Maria Novella Giosuè Fabiano, Courtauld Institute of Art
Out of the Woods: The Ecologies and Natural Materials of the Historiated Doors of Auvergne Katherine Werwie, Yale Univ.
The Trees of the Cross Gregory C. Bryda, Barnard College

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Session 163
The Global North: Medieval Scandinavia on the Borders of Europe
Wednesday, May 12, 9:00 a.m. EDT

Organized by
Laura Tillery, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology
Ingrid Lunnan Nødseth, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology

Presider: Laura Tillery and Ingrid Lunnan Nødseth

Countering Misrepresentations by Showcasing the Multicultural Vikings Nancy L. Wicker, Univ. of Mississippi
Romanesque Crossroads: Ornamental Diversity in the Golden Altar from Lisbjerg, Denmark Kristin B. Aavitsland, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society
The Moor and the Arab in the Merchant’s Chapel, Malmoe Lena Liepe, Linnaeus Univ.

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Session 184
Medieval Exhibitions in the Era of Global Art History I
Wednesday, May 12, 11:00 a.m. EDT

Organized by
Gerhard Lutz, Cleveland Museum of Art
Lloyd de Beer, British Museum

Presider: Gerhard Lutz

Is Exhibiting a Cross-Cultural Charlemagne Possible? Ex oriente (Aachen, 2003) William J. Diebold, Reed College
The exhibition “The Constance Council 1414–1418. World Event of the Middle Ages” in 2014: Presenting Medieval Culture as a Challenge in a Secular World Karin Ehlers, Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten Baden-Württemberg
Lessons from the Caravan: Representing “Medieval” Africa Sarah M. Guérin, Univ. of Pennsylvania
The Art of Africa in Medieval Exhibitions: Confronting Issues of Terms, Associations, and US-Based Discourses of Race Andrea Myers Achi, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Session 233
Considering Race in the Classroom: Complicating the Narratives of Medieval Art History (A Workshop)
Wednesday, May 12, 7:00 p.m. EDT

Sponsored by International Center of Medieval Art and Material Collective

Organized by
Risham Majeed, Ithaca College

Presider: Bryan C. Keene, Riverside City College

A workshop led by Risham Majeed.

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Session 263
Medieval Exhibitions in the Era of Global Art History II
Thursday, May 13, 11:00 a.m. EDT

Organized by
Gerhard Lutz, Cleveland Museum of Art
Lloyd de Beer, British Museum

Presider: Lloyd de Beer

Interreligious Dialogue: The New Permanent Medieval Galleries: Principal Aspects of “Christianity” as One of the Major World Religions at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany Christine Kitzlinger, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
The World beyond the Pages of Books: New Pathways for Exhibitions toward a Global Middle Ages in Los Angeles Bryan C. Keene, Riverside City College
Curating Monsters: Grappling with Medieval and Modern Otherness in the Gallery Asa Simon Mittman, California State Univ.–Chico; Sherry C. M. Lindquist, Western Illinois Univ.
Make It New: Student Curators Reframing the Medieval and Early Modern Alexa K. Sand, Utah State Univ

23RD INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY

23rd International Graduate Conference of the Oxford University Byzantine Society

26-28 February 2021, Online Conference (Zoom)

Please follow this link for the full programme, which contains interactive links to the Eventbrite registration

To register, visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/self-representation-in-late-antiquity-and-byzantium-tickets-138975612799?aff=ebdssbeac

For an accessible format of the programme download the following Word document: https://oxfordbyzantinesociety.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/word-version-oubs-conference.docx

Or contact the OUBS committee at: byzantine.society@gmail.com

Self-Representation in Late Antiquity and Byzantium

Self-representation is a process by which historical actors – individuals, communities and institutions – fashioned and presented a complex image of themselves through various media.

Referring to Byzantine portraits, Spatharakis claimed that this “form of representation cannot be divorced from its purpose and the requirements of the society in which the given visual language gains currency”. Equally, self-representation provides an original way to interpret the past, because this artificial and reflected image cannot be divorced from the cultural, social, economic, religious and political context of its time. As a methodological tool, it has received increasing attention in the field of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, following the interest it has created in neighbouring fields such as Western Medieval or Early Modern studies.

The present call for papers aims to explore the cultural outputs of the Late Antique and Byzantine world – e.g. architecture, material culture, literary works – which conventionally or unconventionally can be understood as acts of self-representation. The Late Antique and Byzantine world was filled with voices and images trying to present and represent an idea of self. Some of the most famous examples of this are the lavish mosaics sponsored by imperial and aristocratic patrons, whose splendour still dazzles their observers and gives an idea of the kind of self-fashioning that they embody. Urban elites, such as churchmen, bureaucrats and intellectuals, constructed idealised personae through their literary works and the careful compilation of letter collections, while those of the provinces displayed their power through images on seals and inscriptions. In monastic typika, the founders presented themselves as pious benefactors, while donor epigraphy in rural churches secured the local influence of wealthier peasants. However, self-representation is not only a matter of introspection but also of dialogue with the “other”: such is the case of spolia, used to reincorporate a supposed classical past in one’s self-portrayal, or to create an image of continuity by conquerors. It is the conscious use of Byzantine motifs in Islamicate architecture, the fiction of Digenes Akritas, or the religious polemics of late Byzantium, pitting Muslim, Jews and Christians against one other. Through depicting what they were not, historical actors were (consciously or unconsciously) shaping their own identity.

This conference seeks to join the ongoing dialogue on self-representation in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies by providing a forum for postgraduate and early-career scholars to reflect on this theme in a variety of cultural media. In doing so, we hope to facilitate the interaction and engagement of historians, philologists, archaeologists, art historians, theologians and specialists in material culture.

14th Annual Imago Conference: “In Sickness and in Health: Pestilence, Disease, and Healing in Medieval and Early Modern Art," 12-13 Jan 2021

We are thrilled to publish the program of the 14th Annual Imago conference: 

“In Sickness and in Health: Pestilence, Disease, and Healing in Medieval and Early Modern Art”. 

 Program, click here

The two-day international conference will be held online, January 12-13, 2021. 

We invite you to join us for a rich event that will explore a diverse variety of fascinating subjects, such as “Healing, Humor and Pleasure”, “The Sick and Disabled Body”, and “Gendering Disease”. 

Participation is free and there are no registration fees.  To attend, please fill out the online registration form: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5-EIeBObP-Euybk2GRk-Mghs_NWKt4vjorPzZ2p6JObzdiQ/viewform 

Imago – The Israeli Association of Visual Culture in the Middle Ages, and the Department of Art History, University of Haifa 

Why Make an Image Database? Digital Tools and New Perspectives in Art History", 11 Dec 2020

Why Make an Image Database? Digital Tools and New Perspectives in Art History"

11 DECEMBER 2020
10am US Central / 11am US Eastern / 5pm Italy

CAROLINE BRUZELIUS (Duke University) and PAOLA VITOLO (University "Federico II" in Naples)


Wars, natural disasters, urban expansion, and changes in taste have transformed the medieval monuments of South Italy, their interior decoration, and their relationship to the landscape.  The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database was created to enhance our knowledge and understanding of the appearance and meaning of buildings and their decoration over time, prior to transformation or destruction. The database collects and makes accessible historic images in order to enable scholars and the public to engage with the multiple lives of a building or a city, and to generate deeper knowledge about the historic patrimony of South Italy.  The images in the database are culled from libraries, archives, museums, and publications and are made available on the Web and as an App with large and small-scale maps.  

Caroline Bruzelius (Ph.D., Yale University) is Professor Emerita of medieval architecture, urbanism and sculpture in France and Italy. She is a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Medieval Academy of America, and the Society of Antiquaries, London. From 1994 to 1998 she was Director of the American Academy in Rome. She has received numerous grants and awards, including the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. In 2014 she published Preaching, Building and Burying: Friars in the Medieval City (Yale University Press). Her book, The Stones of Naples: Church Building in the Angevin Kingdom, was published in 2004 (Italian ed., 2005).  She has founded several important Digital Humanities initiatives: The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database, The Wired! Group at Duke University, and Visualizing Venice.

Paola Vitolo is Historian of Medieval Art at the University of "Federico II" in Naples (Italy). She received her Ph.D. in 2007 with a dissertation on the Incoronata in Naples and the patronage of Queen Joanna I of Anjou. She has been awarded fellowships and travel grants from various international institutions, including the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, The Warburg Institute in London, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) at the Universität der Künste, Berlin. Her research, focused on medieval art and patronage in the Angevin and Aragonese Kingdom of Sicily, on the reuse and reinterpretation of medieval works of art, has been published in specialized journals, books and has been presented at conferences and seminars in Italy and abroad. She collaborates with The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database project since its beginning in 2011.

The lecture will be held on Zoom. After downloading Zoom from www.zoom.us, join us through the direct link (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88623624874?pwd=MzNyTk1jZkpKSEphRitaWU1yQ2dQQT09) or by entering the Meeting ID: 886 2362 4874 and the Passcode: bosco

This presentation will last around 30 minutes, and will be followed by questions and discussion.

Submissions invited for Charles Julian Bishko Prize, due 31 Dec 2020

The Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies solicits submissions for the annual Charles Julian Bishko Memorial Prize for the best article or book chapter published in 2020 in the field of medieval Iberian history by a North American scholar. This year’s prize, which carries an honorarium of $250, will be announced at the 2021 annual meeting of ASPHS, which will be held virtually April 23-25, 2021.

Initiated in 2003, the Bishko Prize honors Professor Charles Julian Bishko, the distinguished historian of medieval Iberia who taught for 39 years at the University of Virginia.

Articles or book chapters may be written in Castilian, English, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese or French. Authors must be current members of the ASPHS.

Authors should submit one copy of the article or book chapter and a short (two-page) CV in PDF form to committee chair Andrew Devereux, using the following email address: BishkoPrize@asphs.net The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2020.

The 2020 winner was Pamela Patton, for her article “Demons and Diversity in León,” Medieval Encounters 25, no. 1-2 (2019): 150-179.

https://asphs.net/prizes-subventions/#bishko-memorial-prize

Call for Applications: Mary Jaharis Center Grants 2021–2022 due 1 February 2021

Call for Applications: Mary Jaharis Center Grants 2021–2022
due 1 February 2021

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce its 2021–2022 grant competition. 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, 2021. For further information, please see https://maryjahariscenter.org/grants.

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

Prescriptions and Proscriptions for Grieving in Trecento Representations of the Lamentation, 16 Dec 2020

Wednesday 16 December, 11:50am-1:30pm (4:50-6:30pm London UK time)

"Prescriptions and Proscriptions for Grieving in Trecento Representations of the Lamentation"
Murray Seminar talk by Judith Steinhoff

Two fourteenth-century Italian representations of the Lamentation over Christ, a large panel by Giottino and a component of a large altarpiece made by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, serve as case studies to argue for a more widespread gendering of grief in Trecento Tuscany. Examining the paintings in relation to several other cultural instruments, including the devotional text, Meditations on the Life of Christ, and the Sienese statutes governing funerals, the paper will argue that, although created primarily for purposes of prayer and spiritual edification, images of grieving over Christ also participated in an intertextual process that encoded and promoted acceptable grieving behaviors in the face of personal loss.

Free registration- link below

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/judith-steinhoff-grieving-in-trecento-representations-of-the-lamentation-tickets-126053281759

CFP: Power, Patronage and Production: Book Arts from Central Europe (ca. 800–1500) in American Collections, due 1 Feb 2021

Power, Patronage and Production: Book Arts from Central Europe (ca. 800–1500) in American Collections
Call for Papers, due 1 February 2021

In January 2022, the Index of Medieval Art (Princeton University), the Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum (New York), and the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University will host a conference to accompany the exhibition, “Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800–1500" (the Morgan Library, October 15, 2021–January 23, 2022). The conference will include two days of papers as well as a study day at the Morgan Library. In addition to a viewing of the exhibition, the study day will include an opportunity to view other, unexhibited materials in the Morgan’s collections.

Despite its scope, the exhibition cannot comprehend all the relevant material in American collections. Nor can the accompanying book treat all the exhibited items in depth. With this in mind, we solicit proposals for papers. Talks will be 30 minutes; pending the usual peer-review process, the contributions will be published.

Paper proposals, no more than one page in length, should fall into one of the following categories or address one of the following topics:

– in-depth monographic discussion of a single manuscript in an American collection, whether or not it is included in the exhibition. Please contact Joshua O'Driscoll (jodriscoll@themorgan.org) for a list of objects that will be discussed in the book accompanying the exhibition (many but not all of which will be exhibited) and a list of all relevant materials in the Morgan Library’s collections. More information on many of these manuscripts, also those in other American collections, can be found at Digital Scriptorium: https://digital-scriptorium.org/.

– thematic treatment of one of a number of broader issues relevant to the exhibition’s concerns; these include but are by no means limited to the following:

Art & the politics of empire
Art & reform/Reformation
Borders of empire
Cosmopolitan contacts and exchanges
Geographic foci (e.g., Helmarshausen, Prague, Salzburg, Weingarten)
Humanism in Central Europe
Imperial patronage
Monastic networks
Manuscript illumination and the other arts
Paper, parchment & pen-drawing/production techniques
Patrician patronage in imperial cities
Panel painting
Psalters
Reception/collecting of German medieval art in the United States
Urbanism & the art of the book
Visualization & the vernacular

Proposals should be submitted to Prof. Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Harvard University (jhamburg@fas.harvard.edu) by February 1, 2021. A response indicating whether or not any given proposal has been accepted will be forthcoming by April 1, 2021. Finalized abstracts, which will be circulated to all participants, would then be due by August 1, 2021. The organizers will do their best to accommodate all relevant proposals within the confines of the program, the scope and format of which will be determined by the funding available and the current public health situation. In the event that an in-person meeting is feasible, speakers' costs for travel and accommodation in Princeton and New York will be covered. Colleagues submitting proposals are asked to indicate their interest in presenting a paper by video call, should travel not be possible.