The British Archaeological Association Post-Graduate Conference, Saturday 27th November 2021
The BAA invites proposals by postgraduates and early career researchers in the field of medieval history of art, architecture, and archaeology.
Papers can be on any aspect of the medieval period, from antiquity to the later Middle Ages, across all geographical regions.
The BAA postgraduate conference offers an opportunity for postgraduate students and early career researchers at all levels from universities across the UK and abroad to present and discuss their research, and exchange ideas.
Proposals of around 250 words for a 20-minute paper, along with a CV, should be sent by 31st July 2021 to postgradconf@thebaa.org
Job announcement: Ilene H. Forsyth Assistant or Associate Professor of Western Medieval Art, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, due 4 October 2021
Ilene H. Forsyth Assistant or Associate Professor of Western Medieval Art
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor: College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: History of Art
Location
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor: College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: History of Art
Open Date: Jul 1, 2021
Deadline: Oct 4, 2021 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
https://apply.interfolio.com/89270
Description
The Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan invites applications for a full-time position in western medieval art to begin September 2022. This is a university-year appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor with tenure. The position may be filled by persons working in any field of western medieval art pursuing any methodological approach/es. The successful applicant will be asked to develop and teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, supervise doctoral students, undertake service appropriate to the rank, and participate actively in the events of the department. Applicants should include a personal statement and diversity commitment that includes your demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through scholarship/research, and/or teaching/mentoring, and/or service/engagement. There may be some overlap with your research proposal and teaching statements (1-3 pages). The appointee will be welcomed into a large university community that encourages interdisciplinary dialogue and is committed to the core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Further information about the Department of the History of Art can be found on our website at lsa.umich.edu/histart.
Qualifications
The position may be filled by persons working in any field of western medieval art pursuing any methodological approach/es.
Application Instructions
Application materials also should highlight the candidate’s engagement with issues of equity. Applicants should provide the following materials via Interfolio:
Cover letter
CV
Statement of current and future research plans
Statement of teaching philosophy and experience
Evidence of teaching excellence.
Possibilities include (but are not limited to):
Summary student evaluation reports; Sample syllabi (no more than two) from courses taught by the candidate and related materials; Report(s) from classroom visitation and evaluation of syllabi, if available; A summary of the candidate’s teaching record, including teaching awards, during the last five years.
A writing sample (35-40 pages maximum)
Three letters of reference for candidates at the assistant professor level or a list of names of potential reviewers for candidates at the associate professor level
Personal statement and diversity commitment that includes your demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through scholarship/research, and/or teaching/mentoring, and/or service/engagement.
There may be some overlap with your research proposal and teaching statements (1-3 pages). For questions regarding the position, please contact Audra Wilson (Executive Secretary, U-M Department of the History of Art) at histart-execsec@umich.edu. For technical support, please contact the Interfolio help desk at help@interfolio.com or (877) 997-8807.
Application Process
This institution is using Interfolio's Faculty Search to conduct this search. Applicants to this position receive a free Dossier account and can send all application materials, including confidential letters of recommendation, free of charge. The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
ICMA at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds 2021
ICMA AT THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL CONGRESS, LEEDS 2021
Session 1301
MATERIALS, MANUFACTURE, MOVEMENT: TRACING CONNECTIONS THROUGH OBJECT ITINERARIES
WEDNESDAY 7 JULY 2021, 16.30-18.00 BST
Therese Martin, “Glimpses of Gold: Material Evidence of Cross-Cultural Connections in Rock Crystal Chess Pieces and a Countess’s Seal (10th-11th c.),” Archivo Español de Arte (in press, 2021).
Organized by 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, Roma
Treasuries as Windows to the Medieval World: San Isidoro de León and St Blaise at Braunschweig, Jitske Jasperse, Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt-Universität 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
Mod Gothic? Medieval Architecture in the Modern Ages, 1 Jul - 2 Jul 2021, online via Zoom
MOD GOTHIC? MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE MODERN AGES
More information and to register, click HERE
1-2 July 2021, all times BST
Scholars have long recognised the close connections between Gothic revival, restoration and architectural history in the nineteenth century. But how did personal, institutional and political circumstances shape understanding of medieval architecture in the twentieth century? In tribute to the extraordinary scholarship and teaching of Peter Kidson (1925-2019) and Paul Crossley (1945-2019), speakers at this online conference consider the personalities, technologies and geographies that determined how medieval architecture was studied and taught after 1945. ‘Each age builds its own Gothic cathedral’, wrote Paul Crossley: what did the Modern Ages make of the Middle Ages?
PROGRAMME
Day One: Thursday 1st July
2.00pm: Deborah Swallow: Welcome
2.15pm: Elizabeth Sears, ‘Panofsky on the Gothic Style: New Texts’.
2.45pm: Paul Binski, ‘Christine de Pizan, Pevsner and Panofsky’.
3.15pm: Discussion
3.45pm: Break
4.00pm: Alexandra Gajewski, ‘Two Sugers: Kidson, Crossley and Saint-Denis’.
4.30pm: Peter Kurmann and Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz, ‘Royal images in Strasbourg Cathedral’s Gothic nave: their conceptual transformations and place in historiography’.
5.00pm: Discussion
5.20pm: Break
5.30pm: Eric Fernie, ‘The Study of Medieval Architectural Proportions in the Twentieth Century’.
6.00pm: Sarah Pearson, ‘Peter Kidson’s Book, From Greek Temples to Gothic Cathedrals: Studies of Architectural Design in Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages’.
6.15pm: Discussion
Day Two, Friday 2nd July
2.00pm: Zoë Opačić and Klára Benešovská, ‘Bohemian Gothic ‘ (TBC)
2.30pm: Tomasz Węcławowicz, ‘Paul Crossley’s fascinations: Gothic in Lesser Poland’.
3.00pm: Discussion
3.30pm: Break
3.45pm: Lindy Grant, ‘Photography and the Architectural Historian: a perspective from the Conway Library’.
4.15pm: Jeffrey Hamburger, ‘Paul on the Road’.
4.45pm: Discussion
5.15pm: Break
5.30pm: Stephen Murray, ‘Historiographical reflections’
6.00pm: Tom Nickson, Concluding remarks
Paper abstracts can be downloaded here
ICMA-Pop-Ups in Kalamazoo: Coptic-Stitch Binding Workshop (with studio tour), 26 June - sign up today!
ICMA-Pop-Ups in Kalamazoo
Coptic-Stitch Binding Workshop (with studio tour)
Kalamazoo Book Arts Center
Saturday, June 26, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. (box lunches provided)
Please join us for the inaugural ICMA-Pop-Ups event, organized by Elizabeth Teviotdale. ICMA-Pop-Ups is a new program through which we help ICMA members organize small regional gatherings, bringing people together after our period of social distancing.
About the event:
The coptic-bound book dates back almost 2,000 years, originating in Egypt and used by the Copts. This style of binding uses a chain link-stitch along an exposed spine, creating a book that is ideal for journaling or sketching as the pages lie completely flat when opened. For your cover, choose from KBAC’s selection of decorative paper, or bring along your own to further personalize your book. This workshop is led by Katie Platte, printmaker and KBAC's Studio Manager.
Space is limited to 12 participants. Sign up to grab a spot now!
Each ICMA member may register up to one guest.
All MDHHS guidelines concerning physical distancing and masking will be observed.
RSVP here
Save the date! The Guelph Treasure, Historic Significance and Legal Implications, 28 June 2021 at 12pm ET
Save the date!
The Guelph Treasure, Historic Significance and Legal Implications
A special online event presented by Friends of the ICMA
June 28, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. ET
Arm reliquaries of St. Caesarius, St. Innocentius and St. Theodore from the Guelph Treasure. © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum / Fabian Fröhlich
Please join the Friends of the ICMA for the second in a series of special online events on Monday, June 28 at 12:00 p.m. ET (9:00 a.m. PT; 5:00 p.m. BST; and 6:00 p.m. WET) with speakers Holger A. Klein, Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Medieval Art History, Columbia University, and Leila A. Amineddoleh, Founder, Amineddoleh & Associates LLC. Professor Klein will discuss the historic importance of the Guelph Treasure, a collection of liturgical objects now housed in Germany, Sweden, and U.S. museums. Ms. Amineddoleh will outline the legal cases related to the collection that have been argued in Europe and the U.S., including the U.S. Supreme Court. George Spera, retired counsel at Shearman & Sterling, who served for many years as the legal advisor to the ICMA, will serve as moderator for the event.
Please feel free to notify colleagues and friends who may not be ICMA members about this event.
Invitation with link for registration to come.
For questions, please contact Doralynn Pines, Chair of the Friends of the ICMA, doralynn.pines@gmail.com.
Call for Proposals, International Congress on Medieval Studies 2022; due 23 May 2021
ICMA at International Congress on Medieval Studies
Online, 9-14 May 2022
Call for ICMA Sponsored Session Proposals
due 23 May 2021
The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2022 at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) at Kalamazoo. Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members. Proposals must include a session abstract and a CV of the organizer(s), all in one single Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title.
A list of speakers is not required at this time. Organizers will have the opportunity to send out a call for papers after the session selected by ICMA has been approved by the Congress Committee in July.
Please direct all session proposals and inquiries by 23 May 2021 to the Chair of the Programs Committee: Bryan C. Keene, Riverside City College.
Upload session proposals HERE.
For inquiries, Bryan.Keene@rcc.edu
ICMA AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES, KALAMAZOO 2021
ICMA AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES, KALAMAZOO 2021
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
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.
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
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.
Visit www.medievalart.org/considering-race for pre-workshop readings and images.
Password: sheba (all lowercase)
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
ICMA Annual Book Prize due 31 May 2021
ICMA Annual Book Prize
Authors: notify your publisher to submit your book
due 31 May 2021
Single or dual-authored books on any topic in medieval art printed in 2020 are eligible. No special issues of journals or anthologies or exhibition catalogues can be considered. The competition is international and open to all ICMA members. Languages of publication: English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish.
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Prize: US $1,000 to a single author, or US $500 each to two co-authors. Recipients will be notified in early 2022.
For more information and to submit, visit https://www.medievalart.org/book-prize.
Send questions to icma@medievalart.org.
A special note about expanded eligibility
Titles not previously submitted for the 2020 prize (printed in 2019), that were delayed due to publishing or shipment delays related to the ongoing pandemic, are eligible for submission.
Cylindrical box, Egypt or Spain, middle of the 14th century. Ivory carved with an openwork design and the inscription inlaid with bitumen. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 4139-1856.
Mining the Collection: Two openwork ivory caskets from the Islamic Mediterranean with Curator Mariam Rosser-Owen
Dr Mariam Rosser-Owen, Curator responsible for the art of the Arab World at the Victoria and Albert Museum, will offer an in-depth look at two fourteenth-century ivory objects in the museum’s Islamic art collection. Both cylindrical caskets, carved in openwork with cursive Arabic inscriptions, form part of a group that has been attributed to both Mamluk Egypt and Nasrid Spain. Part handling session, part presentation, Mariam will show us the ivories and outline the debate around their attribution.
We invite you to join us for a brief presentation followed by an informal discussion on Thursday, May 6, at 11:00 am Eastern. Please RSVP here.
TEXTILES IN MANUSCRIPTS WORKSHOP, 4-5 May 2021
Textiles in Manuscripts: Cross-cultural Trade, Craft Production, and Influence in the Art of the Premodern Book (May 4-5, 2021) is an interdisciplinary workshop bringing together a range of book historians, textile scholars, conservators, art historians, and codicologists to examine the wide use of textiles in manuscript books. The virtual workshop is part of The Book and the Silk Roads project, which seeks to map connections between parts of the premodern world by describing the technology of the book.
For more information see: Textiles in Manuscripts Workshop
Bard Graduate Center: The Global Middle Ages Seminar, Valerie Hansen & Morris Rossabi - 5 May 2021
Valerie Hansen and Morris Rossabi will present at the Global Middle Ages Seminar. They will each give a short paper followed by a moderated conversation and Q&A session.
“The World’s Most Active Sea Route Before 1492: From the Chinese ports of Quanzhou and Guangzhou to Basra (in Modern Iraq) and Sofala (in Modern Mozambique)” (Valerie Hansen)
Starting around the year 1000, Chinese ships began to voyage to the Persian Gulf and sometimes even farther to the East African coast, a journey three times as long as Columbus’s voyage to the Americas. The Chinese imported huge quantities of what they called aromatics (the blanket term xiang covered fragrant woods, incense, spices, and tree resins such as frankincense and myrrh) from Southeast, South, and West Asia, and they exported textiles, metal goods, and ceramics to these regions as well as East Africa. These contacts had multiple effects, some of which we can study on the basis of archeological finds, particularly of ceramics. Hansen will explore why this route isn’t better known. Although traditional treatments of the medieval period do not cover this topic, it certainly falls within the purview of the Global Middle Ages.
“The Golden Horde: Recent Discoveries in Russia” (Morris Rossabi)
Until the late twentieth century, many Russians and foreigners portrayed Mongol rule in Russia as totally disastrous and despotic and leading to autocracy in the country’s later history. In the 1980s, specialists on the period of the Golden Horde, while not ignoring the death and destruction caused by the Mongols, asserted that the Mongols contributed to Russia’s first unification, fostered trade and religion, built new cities, and patronized and supported the arts. Historians and archeologists have recently confirmed some positive aspects of Golden Horde rule. This slide-illustrated lecture provides the historical background and shows samples of the latest archeological and artistic discoveries in ceramics, textiles, and metal work.
Valerie Hansen teaches Chinese and world history at Yale, where she is the Stanley B. Woodward Professor of History. Her current book is The World in the Year 1000: When Globalization Began. Earlier monographs include The Silk Road: A New History with Documents (2012) and The Open Empire: A History of China to 1800 (2015). Hansen is a frequent visitor to Asia teaching at Yale’s undergraduate program at Peking University, Yale-NUS College in Singapore, and as an invited scholar at Xiamen University in Fujian province, China.
Morris Rossabi (PhD Columbia University) was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and teaches Chinese and Mongolian history at the City University of New York and Columbia. Author and editor of numerous books, including Khubilai Khan, Modern Mongolia, Voyager from Xanadu, From Yuan to Modern China and Mongolia: The Writings of Morris Rossabi, and A History of China, as well as dozens of articles, he has collaborated on catalogues for art exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has traveled extensively and lectured in the Middle East, China, Japan, Korea, Central Asia, and Mongolia and speaks several European, Middle Eastern, and East Asian languages. The National Mongolian University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2009.
This event will be held via Zoom. A link will be circulated to registrants by 10 am on the day of the event. This event will be live with automatic captions.
Click here for full details.
Earlier Event: May 5
Textiles in Manuscripts Workshop
Later Event: May 6
Mining the Collection: details to follow
Gesta Spring 2021 (Volume 60, Number 1) now available!
The latest issue of Gesta Spring 2021 (Volume 60, Number 1) is now available online!
The King in the Manuscript: The Presentation Inscription of the Vienna Latin Bible moralisée
Katherine H. Tachau
Holy, Holy, Holy: Hearing the Voices of Angels
Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Chris Kyriakakis, Spyridon Antonopoulos, Konstantinos T. Raptis, and James Donahue
(Re)Birth of a Seal: Power and Pretense at San Nicola, Bari, ca. 1300
Jill Caskey
Space, Image, Light: Toward an Understanding of Moldavian Architecture in the Fifteenth Century
Alice Isabella Sullivan, Gabriel-Dinu Herea, and Vladimir Ivanovici
Into the Desert: Demons, Spiritual Focus, and the Eremitic Ideal in Morgan MS M.626
Denva Gallant
Remember, ICMA membership provides exclusive online access to the complete run of Gesta in full text, PDF, and e-Book editions – at no additional charge.
To access your members-only journal subscription, log in to the ICMA site here with your username and password. If you have any questions, please email icma@medievalart.org.
For ICMA members receiving a print copy along with the online version, there may be a delay in shipping the journal to you. Thank you for your patience.
ICMA News, Spring 2021 now available online
ICMA NEWS
SPRING 2021
MELANIE HANAN, EDITOR
Click here to read.
Also available on www.medievalart.org
INSIDE
ICMA Book Prize
Commemorations
William Wixom, 1929 – 2020
Matthias Exner, 1957 – 2020
David Raizman, 1951 – 2021
Special Features
Project Report: Crossroads of Empires Project, by Francesca Dell’Acqua and Daniel Reynolds
Resources: The ICMA Oral History Project, by Dustin Aaron
Unlocking Research during a Global Pandemic, by Roisin Astell
Events and Opportunities
The deadline for the next issue of ICMA News is 15 June 2021. Please send information to newsletter@medievalart.org
If you would like your upcoming conference, CFP, or exhibition included in the newsletter please email the information to EventsExhibitions@medievalart.org.
Delaware Valley Medieval Association Spring Meeting, Darkness and Light; 24 April 2021; 1-5pm
Darkness and Light, DVMA Spring Meeting, April 24, 2021
The History/Social Sciences and Arts departments at Bryn Athyn College in partnership with Glencairn Museum are proud to host the Spring Meeting of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association for 2021.
The theme is “Darkness and Light.” This is a hybrid event, meaning a limited number of participants may attend in-person with others participating virtually via Microsoft Teams (a Zoom-like application). For safety reasons, the DVMA meeting will follow all applicable COVID protocols. The program features three speakers followed by a visit to Glencairn Museum, located across from the Bryn Athyn College campus.
Bryn Athyn College, Doering Center Room 119; 2915 Campus Drive, Bryn Athyn, PA 19009
For more program information and to register, click here.
Getty Talk: Dangerous Rhetoric: Blood Libel in the Middle Ages and Today, 22 April 2021
Dangerous Rhetoric: Blood Libel in the Middle Ages and Today
Thursday, April 22, 2021, at 5 pm
ONLINE ONLY
Free | Advance sign-up required
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A manuscript in the collection of the Getty Museum contains the only image of Little Robert of Bury to survive from the Middle Ages. Promoted as a Christian martyr murdered by Jews, the story of Little Robert was likely invented by an abbot looking to garner support in an election year. Blood libel is the false and incendiary claim that Jews kill Christian children for use in rituals that mock the crucifixion. In this conversation, a panel of experts discusses the medieval origins of blood libel mythology and its pervasive reverberations in today’s visual and political landscape.
PANELISTS
Ben Katchor is a cartoonist and illustrator whose picture-stories have been collected in a number of books including Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. He is associate professor at Parsons, The New School, in New York City.
Sara Lipton is professor of history at Stony Brook University, New York, and a scholar of medieval Europe, with a focus on Jewish-Christian relations. She is the author of Dark Mirror: The Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography.
Magda Teter is professor of history and the Shvidler Chair of Judaic Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Anti-Semitic Myth.
MODERATOR
Blake Gopnik is the author of Andy Warhol: A Life as Art. He has been the staff art critic at the Washington Post and Newsweek and is now a regular contributor to the New York Times and NPR's Marketplace.
https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_3291.html
VAP position in pre- or early-modern art history at Oklahoma State, due 15 May 2021
Hello all,
I would like to share that the Department of Art, Graphic Design and Art History at Oklahoma State University seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor in Art History for the 2021-2022 academic year as a sabbatical replacement. The preferred area of specialization is in the art of the pre-modern and/or early-modern Mediterranean world (classical, medieval, and/or early modern). Due date for applications is May 15.
https://apply.interfolio.com/86086
Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions, and please share widely!
I also welcome names of candidates, and I will reach out to them directly.
Thank you!
Jennifer
Jennifer Borland
Professor, Art History
Associate Department Head Department of Art, Graphic Design, and Art History
Director, Digital Humanities Initiative
Oklahoma State University
jennifer.borland@okstate.edu
she/her/hers
Co-Editor, Different Visions: New Perspectives on Medieval Art
https://differentvisions.org/
Art and Environment in the Third Reich: 23 April 2021, 12-4pm ET
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We invite you to attend an upcoming afternoon conference around the topic of art and environment in the Third Reich. Hosted by Yale University’s Department of Art History, the conference brings together art and architectural historians working in medieval and modern fields to investigate the relationships between artistic practice, environmental science and eugenic politics under Nazism.
The event will focus in particular on the role played by the aestheticization of race and landscape in the visual arts. By examining the "Nazification of Nature" in art and its reception, we additionally hope to draw critical lessons for reckoning with right-wing adaptations of ecological thought in the age of the Anthropocene.
Following the six academic papers, we will broadcast a short discussion with Bo Zheng, the current artist in-residence at Martin-Gropius Bau, on how plants and politics intersect in his work and, in particular, his upcoming exhibition in Berlin. The event details are as follows:
Fri., Apr. 23rd, 12–4p EST
Register for Zoom link here
We look forward to seeing you and discussing these topics with you later this month!
~Greg Bryda, Kenny Cupers, James van Dyke, Freyja Hartzell, Jacqueline Jung, Hannah Shaw, Matthew Vollgraff, and Bo Zheng
ICMA at the Association for Art History Annual Conference 2021
THE VIRGIN AS AUCTORITAS: THE AUTHORITY OF THE VIRGIN MARY AND FEMALE MORAL–DOCTRINAL AUTHORITY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
THURSDAY 15 APRIL 2021
MORNING SESSION: 09.30 GMT - 12.50 GMT
AFTERNOON SESSION: 14.30 GMT - 17.25 GMT
ORGANIZED BY Francesca Dell’Acqua, Università degli studi di Salerno
This session aims at exploring a fundamental issue: female authority through the lens of visual/material culture. It involves prominently the Virgin Mary – as well as figures of female authority in the medieval world – because in the late decades of the 20th century, feminist thinkers pointed at the ‘negative model’ offered by the Virgin Mary since for centuries she had been branded by the Catholic Church as a role model for modesty, submission and virginity. However, between late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the Virgin Mary emerged as Queen of Heaven through preaching and liturgical texts, visual arts and public assemblies – that is, the ‘mass media’ of that time. Mary was pictured as a very strong, authoritative figure, rather than weak and compliant.
Already during late Antiquity, Mary was commonly perceived as the mighty protector and spiritual stronghold of capital cities in the Mediterranean. Between the 8th and the 11th centuries, the role of royal women came to the fore, especially in Byzantium and in Ottonian Germany. Very striking is also the case of a number of major Italian city-states between the 12th and the 15th centuries where the Virgin Mary came to be identified with political and economic supremacy.
In sum, these sessions can help understand what bearing the figure of the humble Virgin Mary eventually had on female leadership, and also how female leadership evolved or not.
MORNING PROGRAMME
Chair: Francesca Dell’Acqua
09.30 - 09.45 GMT
Welcome
10.00 - 11.15 GMT
Introduction and Papers 1 and 2
Photios and the Image of the Mother of God in Hagia Sophia, Constantinople Mary B. Cunningham (University of Nottingham)
The Theotokos and the Widow of Zarepta: women’s authority as widows and prophets Barbara Crostini (University College Stockholm)
11.15 - 11.45 GMT
Refreshment Break
11.45 - 12.50 GMT
Papers 3 and 4
Elevation of Mary’s Authority in Late Antiquity: Her Depiction on the Jewelled Throne and the Footstool Ernesto Mainoldi (FiTMU – Università degli Studi di Salerno) and Natalia Teteriatnikov (Independent Scholar)
The Coronation of the Virgin as the Queen of City-States Kayoko Ichikawa (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science / University of Fribourg)
AFTERNOON PROGRAMME
Chair: Mary B. Cunningham
14.30 - 15.35 GMT
Papers 5 and 6
Icons of Authority: new light on the competition between images and relics in Trecento Rome; Name of speaker(s): Claudia Bolgia (Università di Udine)
“All glory is in the King’s Daughter”: depictions of the Virgin as Empress in the late Byzantine world; Name of speaker(s): Andrei Dumitrescu (National University of Arts, Bucharest)
15.40 - 16.10 GMT
Refreshment Break
16.10 - 17.25 GMT
Papers 7 and 8 and closing comments
Sainte Foy and the Medieval Imaginary of Female Sacred Power Bissera V. Pentcheva (Stanford University)
Female Authority, Ecclesiology, and Micro-Architecture in Scandinavian Medieval Art Kristin B. Aavitsland (MF Centre for the Advanced Study of Religion (MF CASR), MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Oslo, Norway)
CFP for SECAC: "Intertwining Race Relations Studies and Art History," due 4 May 2021
Session Chairs/Contacts:
Tálisson Melo de Souza (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - talissonmelo@yahoo.com.br
Carolina Cerqueira Correa (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil) - carolinaccerqueira@gmail.com
Mesmo Sol Outro (art project) - mesmosoloutro@gmail.com
"How Things Unfold in Many Conversations: Intertwining Race Relations Studies and Art History," 77th annual meeting of SECAC in Lexington, KY, from November 10–13, 2021.
The session is about the need for historical alternatives. It is a path that unfolds conversations with people who can contribute to shedding light on different aspects of the art history, pulling its threads to unwind them in many other things. Therefore, instead of asking where artists of color are, we want to analyze the circumstances that prevent their access to power within the area of knowledge of art. The proposal lies in self-analysis of the discipline. It depends on the conceptualization of its object, tools, and methods, to formulate a diversified model of analysis, associated with the need to change paradigms because the dominant mode of research does not fit the object/phenomenon of study. We are looking to discuss different perspectives, different understandings of artworks, and research methods. Keeping in mind that a race relations discussion in art history we long to have includes the racialization of all bodies, where all races are questioning dynamics of power and silences incorporated in the discipline. We are looking for composing rich and diverse panels, with researchers from different US's states and countries all around the world that are connected to the main perspective of our proposal: bringing art history and race relation studies in dialogue to the center of methodological, theoretical, and analytical approaches on the arts and culture. We are sending you this message to start spreading the open call for papers in good time.
Terms of the event & links
Dates for applying: March 9 to May 4, 2021.
Dates of conference: November 10–13, 2021.
Venue: Hilton Lexington Downtown, Lexington - Kentucky, United States of America.
Application form, general information & fees: https://secacart.org/page/Lexington