48th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference at UCLA; 3-6 November 2022

48th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference at UCLA

Hosted by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies

November 3-6, 2022 | Los Angeles, California

We welcome the Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA) and participants to the 48th Annual Byzantine Studies conference at UCLA!

Click the registration button below to register to attend. In-person and By-Zoom-Only rates apply. Register before September 15 to take advantage of the early registration rates.

Most conference activities will take place at the Luskin Conference Center and Hotel on the UCLA campus. Hotel rooms are available for conference attendees at the Luskin and at the UCLA Guest House, which is also located on campus about a 15-minute walk from the Luskin. To receive the conference rate, be sure to use the hotel links from this website when reserving your room. Book your rooms early as space is limited. There are other hotels near the UCLA campus to choose from. Click on the Hotel Information button for complete information about finding accommodations.

Conference Registration

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Local Arrangements Committee

  • Co-Chair: Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Professor of Byzantine Art & Archaeology, and Director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture, UCLA

  • Co-Chair: Zrinka Stahuljak, Professor of Comparative Literature and French, and Director of the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, UCLA

Program Committee

  • Galina Tirnanic, Chair, Associate Professor, Oakland University (Art History)

  • Nicole Paxton Sullo, M. Seeger O’Boyle Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University (Art History)

  • Luis Sales, Assistant Professor, Scripps College (Religion)

  • Shaun Tougher, Professor, Cardiff University (History)

  • Vessela Valiavitcharska, Associate Professor, University of Maryland, College Park (Literature)

ICMA IN TORONTO: EXHIBITION TOUR OF FAITH AND FORTUNE: ART ACROSS THE GLOBAL SPANISH EMPIRE; 23 September 2022 3 PM In-Person

ICMA IN TORONTO
EXHIBITION TOUR
FAITH AND FORTUNE: ART ACROSS THE GLOBAL SPANISH EMPIRE
FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE HISPANIC SOCIETY MUSEUM & LIBRARY

ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO

FRIDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2022
3PM, IN-PERSON


REGISTER HERE

Attributed to Manuel Chili, called Capiscara (Ecuador, ca. 1723 – Quito, Ecuador, 1796), The Four Fates of Man: Death, Hell, Purgatory, Heaven. New York, The Hispanic Society of America.

Join Adam Levine for an in-person tour of FAITH AND FORTUNE: ART ACROSS THE GLOBAL SPANISH EMPIRE at the Art Gallery of Ontario! The exhibition examines the visual culture of the global Spanish Empire through more than 200 works of art from Latin America, the Philippines and Spain - all from the collection of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library. An informal drinks reception will take place nearby following the event.

Register HERE
 

Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario   
M5T 1G4

Notre-Dame de Paris: Rebuilding a Legacy - 26 September 2022 6:00-7:30 PM

What does it take to rebuild one of the most visited, recognizable, and semantically loaded works of architecture in the world? Presented at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., in partnership with the Catholic University of America, Philippe Villeneuve, Chief Architect of Historic Monuments in charge of Notre-Dame de Paris, and Rémi Fromont, Chief Architect of Historic Monuments, will deliver their first public lecture in the United States since taking on the extraordinary task to stabilize and restore the cathedral of Paris in the aftermath of the catastrophic 2019 fire. Lindsay Cook, Assistant Teaching Professor of Architectural History at the Pennsylvania State University and translator of the book Notre Dame Cathedral: Nine Centuries of History, will translate the lecture from French into English and moderate the discussion following the talk.


http://go.nbm.org/site/Calendar/2074725395?view=Detail&id=129570

CFP: IMC 2023 Leeds, ICMA sponsored session, due 23 September 2022

Call for Proposals 
International Medieval Congress (IMC 2023)
3-6 July 2023, University of Leeds
due 23 September 2022

Upload HERE

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2023 at the International Medieval Congress (IMC) at Leeds, England.  

While session proposals on any topic related to the art of the Middle Ages are welcome, the IMC also chooses a theme for each conference. In 2023 the theme is “Networks and Entanglements.”  For more information on the Leeds 2023 congress and theme, see:  https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2023/ 

Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members at the time of the conference. Proposals must include a session abstract, and a list of speakers, as one single Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title, and a CV, again as a Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title. Please upload here by 23 September 2022.

Please direct inquiries to the Chair of the ICMA Programs and Lectures Committee: Bryan C. Keene, bryan.keene@rcc.edu 

MEDIEVAL TIMES DINNER AND TOURNAMENT IN DC/BALTIMORE - FRIDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2022, 7PM - REGISTER TODAY!

Medieval Times, A Quarter of a Century Later

Let’s rekindle the enthusiasm that Michael Camille (1958-2002) had for Medieval Times: Dinner & Tournament with a trip to our local castle! In 1996, Camille visited the Chicago venue with Ira Glass of This American Life to record a lively episode about the joys and foibles of medievalisms. To complement the exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Fantasy of the Middle Ages, Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene will take a valiant crew to the Buena Park location of Medieval Times. The visit includes pre-show festivities, such as the Hall of Arms and the Museum of Torture, as well as the famed dinner plus a lively joust set to an epic musical score. We’ll cheer for our knight of the realm in the presence of Queen Doña Maria Isabella!

DATE: FRIDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2022
TIME: 7pm

Register HERE. We are organizing carpooling options based on responses.

PLEASE REGISTER BY FRIDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2022.

Note we are collecting responses to see if we're able to get a further discount. ICMA will buy the tickets and will subsidize part of the ticket price. It will be up to attendees to pay the ICMA. More information will follow as we sort out the details - but first we need to know the number of attendees. The current price for a ticket is $71.65 (ADULT - tax included) and $44.65 (CHILD - tax included) - but it will be less!

Book launch: Destroyed-Disappeared-Lost-Never Were, edited by Beate Fricke and Aden Kumler, August 31, 3-4pm ET

Destroyed-Disappeared-Lost-Never Were book launch

edited by Beate Fricke and Aden Kumler

August 31, 3-4pm ET

with
Beate Fricke
Aden Kumler
Roland Betancourt
Eleanor Goodman
Elizabeth Sears
Sonja Drimmer
Michelle McCoy

Register HERE

To write about works that cannot be sensually perceived involves considerable strain. Absent the object, art historians must stretch their methods to, or even past, the breaking point. This concise volume addresses the problems inherent in studying medieval works of art, artifacts, and monuments that have disappeared, have been destroyed, or perhaps never existed in the first place.

The contributors to this volume are confronted with the full expanse of what they cannot see, handle, or know. Connecting object histories, the anthropology of images, and historiography, they seek to understand how people have made sense of the past by examining objects, images, and architectural and urban spaces. Intersecting these approaches is a deep current of reflection upon the theorization of historical analysis and the ways in which the past is inscribed into layers of evidence that are only ever revealed in the historian’s present tense.

Highly original and theoretically sophisticated, this volume will stimulate debate among art historians about the critical practices used to confront the formative presence of destruction, loss, obscurity, and existential uncertainty within the history of art and the study of historical material and visual cultures.

In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Michele Bacci, Claudia Brittenham, Sonja Drimmer, Jaś Elsner, Peter Geimer, Danielle B. Joyner, Kristopher W. Kersey, Lena Liepe, Meekyung MacMurdie, and Michelle McCoy.

This event will be closed captioned

Register HERE

ICMA-POP-UPS IN UTAH: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH MARRIOTT LIBRARY’S RARE BOOKS COLLECTION, 16 SEPTEMBER 2022 - REGISTER TODAY!

You are invited to a gathering of medieval and early-modern scholars with a global focus, hosted by the University of Utah Marriott Library’s Rare Books Collection and organized by art history professors Dr. Meekyung MacMurdie (U of U) and Dr. Alexa Sand (Utah State University). We will begin with visit to the Rare Books Department, with highlights of the global medieval and early modern collections there, led by curator Lyuba Basin. The visit will be followed by a reception with refreshments and an opportunity for medievalists – both faculty and students – to network. Our hope is to reinvigorate the Utah Medievalist and Early Modernist association that has been somewhat inactive of late due to retirements, the pandemic, and the vast geographical size of our region coupled with the sparse distribution of medievalists and early modernists.

 

When: September 16, 2022 – 3:30-5 visit to Rare Books, 5-6:30 reception

Where: Rare Books Department, Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

Who: medieval scholars (faculty and students) at regional institutions including (but not limited to) U of U, Utah State University, Weber State University, Westminster College, Salt Lake Community College, Utah Valley University,  Utah Tech, Southern Utah University, Brigham Young University (about 25 people anticipated)

Organizers: Alexa Sand, Utah State University, alexa.sand@usu.edu; Meekyung MacMurdie, meekyung.macmurdie@utah.edu Both of us are manuscripts specialists, Meekyung with a focus on early-modern Islamic manuscripts, Alexa with a focus on late-medieval manuscripts from francophone Europe.

RSVP strongly encouraged: https://forms.gle/Zs65n86V5HJJ53Sr6

MEDIEVAL TIMES DINNER AND TOURNAMENT IN LA - SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2022, 5PM - REGISTER TODAY!

Medieval Times, A Quarter of a Century Later

Let’s rekindle the enthusiasm that Michael Camille (1958-2002) had for Medieval Times: Dinner & Tournament with a trip to our local castle! In 1996, Camille visited the Chicago venue with Ira Glass of This American Life to record a lively episode about the joys and foibles of medievalisms. To complement the exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Fantasy of the Middle Ages, Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene will take a valiant crew to the Buena Park location of Medieval Times. The visit includes pre-show festivities, such as the Hall of Arms and the Museum of Torture, as well as the famed dinner plus a lively joust set to an epic musical score. We’ll cheer for our knight of the realm in the presence of Queen Doña Maria Isabella!

DATE: SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2022
TIME: 5pm

Register HERE. We are organizing carpooling options based on responses.

PLEASE REGISTER BY TUESDAY 6 SEPTEMBER 2022.

Note we are collecting responses to see if we're able to get a further discount. ICMA will buy the tickets and will subsidize part of the ticket price. It will be up to attendees to pay the ICMA. More information will follow as we sort out the details - but first we need to know the number of attendees. The current price for a ticket is $71.65 (ADULT - tax included) and $44.65 (CHILD - tax included) - but it will be less!

Migrant Greeks: Comparing Feofan Grek and Domenico Greco, Charles Barber; April 14; Register now!

Migrant Greeks: Comparing Feofan Grek and Domenico Greco
Charles Barber, Princeton University

Respondent: Maria Vassilaki, University of Thessaly
April 14

Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture

Lecture series organized by Robert S. Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor in the History of Art, and Vasileios Marinis, Professor of Christian Art and Architecture at the ISM and YDS.

Presented in collaboration with Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art.

Zoom lectures begin at 12 noon Eastern Time; registration is required.

Registration

You can register at any time to join a lecture. Your registration is valid for the whole series; attend as many as you like.  You will automatically receive reminders for the lectures. 
Register here

Solidus of Emperor Herakleios, Constantinople, 7th century, Yale University Art Gallery

The Historical Frieze on the Arch of Constantine, Sarah Bassett; March 10; Register now!

The Historical Frieze on the Arch of Constantine
Sarah Bassett, Indiana University Bloomington

Respondent: Noel Lenski, Yale University
March 10

Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture

Lecture series organized by Robert S. Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor in the History of Art, and Vasileios Marinis, Professor of Christian Art and Architecture at the ISM and YDS.

Presented in collaboration with Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art.

Zoom lectures begin at 12 noon Eastern Time; registration is required.

Registration

You can register at any time to join a lecture. Your registration is valid for the whole series; attend as many as you like.  You will automatically receive reminders for the lectures. 
Register here

Solidus of Emperor Herakleios, Constantinople, 7th century, Yale University Art Gallery

The Donor and His House. Inscriptions in the Late Roman Domestic Context, Elisabeth Rathmayr and Veronika Scheibelreiter-Gail; February 10; Register now!

The Donor and His House. Inscriptions in the Late Roman Domestic Context
Elisabeth Rathmayr and Veronika Scheibelreiter-Gail, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Respondent: Anna Sitz, University of Heidelberg
February 10

Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture

Lecture series organized by Robert S. Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor in the History of Art, and Vasileios Marinis, Professor of Christian Art and Architecture at the ISM and YDS.

Presented in collaboration with Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art.

Zoom lectures begin at 12 noon Eastern Time; registration is required.

Registration

You can register at any time to join a lecture. Your registration is valid for the whole series; attend as many as you like.  You will automatically receive reminders for the lectures. 
Register here

Solidus of Emperor Herakleios, Constantinople, 7th century, Yale University Art Gallery

The Golden Threads of Orthodoxy: Revisiting the Materiality and Function of Early Palaiologan Epitaphioi, Anastasia Drandaki; January 13; Register now!

The Golden Threads of Orthodoxy: Revisiting the Materiality and Function
of Early Palaiologan Epitaphioi

Anastasia Drandaki, University of Athens
Respondent: Warren Woodfin, Queens College, CUNY
January 13

Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture

Lecture series organized by Robert S. Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor in the History of Art, and Vasileios Marinis, Professor of Christian Art and Architecture at the ISM and YDS.

Presented in collaboration with Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art.

Zoom lectures begin at 12 noon Eastern Time; registration is required.

Registration

You can register at any time to join a lecture. Your registration is valid for the whole series; attend as many as you like.  You will automatically receive reminders for the lectures. 
Register here

Solidus of Emperor Herakleios, Constantinople, 7th century, Yale University Art Gallery

Discovering the Byzantine Object in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Diplomacy, Archaeology, and Collecting, Brigitte Pitarakis; December 9; Regester today!

Discovering the Byzantine Object in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Diplomacy, Archaeology, and Collecting
Brigitte Pitarakis, CNRS, Paris

Respondent: Selin Unluonen, Oberlin College
December 9

Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture

Lecture series organized by Robert S. Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor in the History of Art, and Vasileios Marinis, Professor of Christian Art and Architecture at the ISM and YDS.

Presented in collaboration with Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art.

Zoom lectures begin at 12 noon Eastern Time; registration is required.

Registration

You can register at any time to join a lecture. Your registration is valid for the whole series; attend as many as you like.  You will automatically receive reminders for the lectures. 
Register here

Solidus of Emperor Herakleios, Constantinople, 7th century, Yale University Art Gallery

Fear and Artistic Authority in the Middle Byzantine Period, Ravinder Binning; November 11; Register now!

Fear and Artistic Authority in the Middle Byzantine Period
Ravinder Binning, The Ohio State University
Respondent: Foteini Spingou, University of Edinburgh
November 11

Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture

Lecture series organized by Robert S. Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor in the History of Art, and Vasileios Marinis, Professor of Christian Art and Architecture at the ISM and YDS.

Presented in collaboration with Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art.

Zoom lectures begin at 12 noon Eastern Time; registration is required.

Registration

You can register at any time to join a lecture. Your registration is valid for the whole series; attend as many as you like.  You will automatically receive reminders for the lectures. 
Register here

Solidus of Emperor Herakleios, Constantinople, 7th century, Yale University Art Gallery

From Crete to Singapore via Rome and St. Louis. An Orthodox Icon Becomes Catholic, Robert S. Nelson; October 14; Register now!

From Crete to Singapore via Rome and St. Louis. An Orthodox Icon Becomes Catholic
Robert S. Nelson, Yale University
Respondent: Annemarie Weyl Carr, Southern Methodist University
October 14

Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture

Lecture series organized by Robert S. Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor in the History of Art, and Vasileios Marinis, Professor of Christian Art and Architecture at the ISM and YDS.

Presented in collaboration with Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art.

Zoom lectures begin at 12 noon Eastern Time; registration is required.

Registration

You can register at any time to join a lecture. Your registration is valid for the whole series; attend as many as you like.  You will automatically receive reminders for the lectures. 
Register here

Solidus of Emperor Herakleios, Constantinople, 7th century, Yale University Art Gallery

Windows onto Sanctity: Monks’s Cells and Hagioscopes in Byzantine Churches, Robert Ousterhout; September 9; Register now!

Windows onto Sanctity: Monks’s Cells and Hagioscopes in Byzantine Churches
Robert Ousterhout, University of Pennsylvania

Respondent: Vasileios Marinis, Yale University
September 9

Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture

Lecture series organized by Robert S. Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor in the History of Art, and Vasileios Marinis, Professor of Christian Art and Architecture at the ISM and YDS.

Presented in collaboration with Yale Department of Classics and Yale Department of the History of Art.

Zoom lectures begin at 12 noon Eastern Time; registration is required.

Registration

You can register at any time to join a lecture. Your registration is valid for the whole series; attend as many as you like.  You will automatically receive reminders for the lectures. 
Register here

Solidus of Emperor Herakleios, Constantinople, 7th century, Yale University Art Gallery

Jans von Wien, Geschichte als leichte Muse: Handschriften, Bilder und Unterhaltung im Mittelalter; 7–9 September; 7–9 September

Jans von Wien

Geschichte als leichte Muse

Handschriften, Bilder und Unterhaltung im Mittelalter

Program: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/Veranstaltungen/Jans-von-Wien-Programm.pdf

Jans von Wien ('Enikel') lebte und wirkte im ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert als Reimchronist in Wien. Erhalten sind zwei Werke: eine zwischen historischer Verbürgtheit und unterhaltender Fiktion changierende Weltchronik von der Erschaffung der Welt bis zum Tod Kaiser Friedrichs II. im Jahr 1250 sowie das Fürstenbuch von der Stadtgründung Wiens bis zu den letzten Babenbergern. Beide Werke haben die Forschung seit jeher irritiert und sollen aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive neu gewürdigt werden.

Die Tagung beginnt mit einem Abendvortrag am Mittwoch 7. September 2022, und endet am 9. September abends.

Ort: Schreyvogelsaal in der Hofburg

Programm:

Mittwoch, 7. September 2022, Öffentlicher Abendvortrag.

18.15   Fritz Peter Knapp, Die Werke des Jans von Wien im Rahmen der europäischen Geschichtsschreibung
            und Geschichtsepik des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts

 

Donnerstag, 8. September 2022

9.00     Gesine Mierke, Das Unerhörte bei Jans von Wien. Zum Erzählen in der ‚Weltchronik‘

9.45     Eveline Brugger, Si habent ouch wunderlîchen sit. Jüdisch-christliche Kontakte im Umfeld Jans’ von Wien

11.00   Ralf Plate, Jans’ ‚Weltchronik‘ und die Wiederbelebung der erzählenden Weltchronistik in der zweiten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts. Überlieferungsgeschichtlicher Befund und literaturgeschichtliches Problem

11.45   Andreas Zajic, Die ‚Weltchronik‘-Handschriften Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty-Museum, Ms. 33, und Pommersfelden, Schlossbibliothek, Cod. 303

14.00   Elisabeth Lienert, ‚Weltchronik‘ und Antikenroman

14.45   Martin Roland, Die Enikelwerkstatt – Konstrukt oder Wahrheit?

16.00   Ronny F. Schulz, Moses – Alexander – Karl: Lizenzen alternativen Erzählens in Jans’ von Wien ‚Weltchronik‘

19.15   Öffentlicher Abendvortrag

Nina Rowe, A Midnight Rendezvous on Noah's Ark: Pictures of Love and Trickery in Illuminated Weltchronik Manuscripts

 

Freitag, 9. September 2022

9.00     Katharina Hranitzky, Cod. 2921 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien
aus kunsthistorischer Perspektive

9.45     Peter Wiesinger, Die Sprache zur Lebenszeit des Autors und in den Handschriften

11.00   Edith Kapeller, Friedrich II. und die schón Praunhilt. Jans von Wien als Quelle für Ladislaus Sunthayms Babenberger-Genealogie

11.45   Pia Rudolph, Grenzgänger. Bild- und Texträume in der Heidelberger ‚Weltchronik‘-Handschrift Cod. Pal. germ. 336

14.00   Jürgen Wolf, Jans’ ‚Weltchronik‘ zwischen Tradition und Innovation

14.45   Kurt Gärtner, Jans’ ‚Weltchronik‘ als Quelle für die Neue Ee Heinrichs von München

16.00   Elke Krotz, Rezeptionsspuren im 16. Jahrhundert beim Wiener Publizisten Johann Rasch

16.45   Stephan Müller, Der fromme Heide Saladin. Die Tradition der Ringparabel bei Jans von Wien

19.00   Abendessen auf Einladung des Bürgermeisters der Stadt Wien im ‚Wiener Rathauskeller‘ (Rathausplatz 1)

Druckversion

Organisation:

Dr. Elke Krotz (Universität Wien), Dr. Ralf Plate (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz / Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch, Arbeitsstelle an der Universität Trier), Dr. Martin Roland (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Institut für Mittelalterforschung (IMaFo), Abteilung Schrift- und Buchwesen).

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung durch die Stadt Wien, das Institut für Germanistik der Universität Wien, die Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz und die Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg

Contact:
T: +43-1-4277-421 30
elke.krotz@univie.ac.at

ICMA-Pop-Ups in London: GOLD at The British Library - Saturday 3 September 2022 at 15:30 - REGISTER TODAY!

ICMA-Pop-Ups in London
GOLD at The British Library
Saturday 3 September 2022
Exhibition visit 15:30 / drinks 17:15

Register HERE

Join fellow UK-based ICMA members for a visit to The British Library’s “Gold” exhibition featuring several medieval manuscripts – including the Queen Mary and Melisende Psalters!

 

This informal gathering will meet just inside the main entrance to The British Library at 15:30 to view works together. Drinks and discussion will follow at Mabel’s Tavern at 17:15. To reserve exhibition tickets, please visit https://www.bl.uk/events/gold.

 

For more about the “Gold” exhibition see https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/gold-exhibition/

 

LOCATION DETAILS

“Gold” Exhibition
PACCAR 2
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB

Book tickets at: https://www.bl.uk/events/gold
*Meet just inside the main entrance

 

Drinks & Discussion
Mabel’s Tavern
9 Mabledon Place,
London
WC1H 9AZ


Register HERE
This ICMA-Pop-Up is organised by Sommer Hallquist, slh201@cam.ac.uk

READ ICMA NEWS, SUMMER 2022 ONLINE!

ICMA NEWS               

SUMMER 2022
MELANIE HANAN, EDITOR

CLICK HERE TO READ.

INSIDE
Special Features
Field Report: Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage under the Hundred Days Onslaught, by Nazar Kozak

Project Report: The VR Cathedral App, by Jennifer M. Feltman

Exhibition Reports 
Painted Prophecy: The Hebrew Bible through Christian Eyes, by Kelin Michael

Fragmented Illuminations: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Cuttings at the V&A, by Gigi Leung 


Events and Opportunities
 



The deadline for the next issue of ICMA News is 15 October 2022. 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.

Call for Papers: ICMA at the CAA Annual Conference 2023, due 31 Aug 2022

Call for Papers
ICMA at the College Art Association Annual Conference 2023
Virtual and in-person (New York City), 15-18 February 2023

due Wednesday, 31 August 2022

 

 

Visualizing Peace in the Global Middle Ages, 500-1500
College Art Association's 111th Annual Conference, 15-18 February 2023
Session sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art

This is a VIRTUAL session. 


Organized by:
Diane Wolfthal, Rice University (dianewolfthal@yahoo.com) and Jitske Jasperse (jitske.jasperse@hu-berlin.de / jitskeja@hotmail.com)


Many today see peace as the absence of war, but to the medieval world peace was far from a pale, negative concept – a lack of violence. Rather it was celebrated as a rich, vibrant ideal. Yet premodern war and violence have attracted much more attention than peace and cooperation, both in the public media and among scholars. One major area of interest, however, has been the intellectual history of peace. Publications have focused on Confucian ideas about peace (and their impact on the modern world) and on such European movements as the Truce of God and Peace of God. Other studies have explored the role of women in forging peace through gift-giving.

This session fosters broad thinking about the premodern and global cultural heritage of peace, which is too often neglected. One reason for this neglect is ideological: those who gained from warfare sought to glorify it. Another factor is that medieval peace may manifest itself in ways that are not immediately recognizable to us today. We welcome papers that discuss visual representations of peace, as well as the ways in which the material culture and the built environment contributed to the cessation of war or the safeguarding of peace. We encourage papers that explore the relationship between justice and peace or examine how images of premodern peace either still affect our discussions today or open the door to a new way of thinking. We welcome papers that analyze the regional diversity or global connectivity of images of peace.

Please submit abstracts directly to the organizers by 31 August 2022. More specific submission instructions can be found the CAA Annual Conference website here.