NEW VIDEO: MINING THE COLLECTION, CRUSADES AND CANIVET: CURIOUS TREASURES FROM THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM

NEW MINING THE COLLECTION VIDEO

CRUSADES AND CANIVET: CURIOUS TREASURES FROM THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM

LYNLEY ANNE HERBERT, CURATOR OF RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS & CURATORIAL CHAIR, CHRISTINE SCIACCA, CURATOR OF EUROPEAN ART, 300–1400 CE

INTRODUCED AND MODERATED BY EVAN FREEMAN, FORMER ICMA COORDINATOR FOR DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT

The De Bar Hours (W.93) and Male Figure, so call Crusader (54.558)

Nearly a century after its founding, the Walters Art Museum continues to be a place of remarkable discovery, with tantalizingly strange objects haunting the storage shelves. Dr. Lynley Anne Herbert, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts & Curatorial Chair, and Dr. Christine Sciacca, Curator of European Art, 300-1400 CE, explore two mysterious medieval oddities: a bronze figure of unknown origin possibly representing a crusader, and a lace-cut manuscript with no known precedent.

The video can be watched on the Mining the Collection page.

Call for Papers: ‘Rituals of Gender Staging and Performance in the Middle Ages’ NetMAR International Conference, University of Bamberg, 03-04 May 2023

Call for Papers

‘Rituals of Gender Staging and Performance in the Middle Ages’

NetMAR International Conference

University of Bamberg, 03-04 May 2023

Application Deadline: 15 January 2023

The Network for Medieval Arts & Rituals (NetMAR), an international, interdisciplinary network investigating the intersections between medieval arts and rituals, invites proposals for 20-minute papers that address the role of rituals in the staging and performance of medieval gender roles. The conference, which will include scholars of different career stages, will be held at the premises of the University of Bamberg between the 3rd and 4th of May 2023.

The Middle Ages are generally regarded as an era in which symbolic communication played an important and extensive role in almost all areas of life. Medieval rituals are, as Gerhard Althoff has defined them, “longer sequences of actions whose processes are committed to patterns and create a performative impact; they cause what they show” (Rules and Rituals in Medieval Power Games, 2020: 9). Rituals serve the medieval need for producing religious, legal, power-consolidating, and magical acts in symbolic ways. They can be understood, according to Hannah Vollrath, as forms of multi-sensory communication that addresses the senses and feelings of participants. In short, rituals become perceptible through the senses that render them meaningful and powerful.

Medieval ritual research has so far focused on the role of rituals in the contexts of religion and power relations. It is obvious, however, that in the patriarchally organised and male dominated societies of the Middle Ages, rituals also played a significant role in the staging and performance of gender roles. Sharon T. Strocchia comes to the same conclusion when she observes “that ritual and gender offer valuable new ways to study power and systems of social relations,” while at the same time noting that the interactions of gender and ritual have so far remained “largely unexplored” (Funerals and the Politics of Gender, 1991: 155). Taking this into account, a closer examination of ritual as a possible form of solidification and confirmation of gender roles seems worthwhile.

Speakers of all medievalist disciplines are invited to use various textual and/or visual sources to explore the complicated intersections of sex, body and gender through the lens of medieval ritual. Of interest are topics such as the following:

  • gender-specific initiation rituals

  • ritualistic consolidations of male and female family roles

  • rituals of male- and female-dominated professions

  • male and female power relations

  • gender-specific burial practices

  • the role of women in religious and magical rituals

  • female agency and ritual art

  • ritual and gender transgression in iconography and beyond

  • rituals and pregnancy.

The language of the conference is English. Please send an abstract (max. 300 words) and a brief biographical note to michaela.poelzl@uni-bamberg.de by no later than 15 January 2023. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by February 2023.

Click for the Call for Papers PDF.

NetMAR is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 951875. Learn more about the network at https://netmar.cy.

Realism in Hagiography, Hybrid Workshop, University of Cologne, 12-13 January 2023

Hybrid Workshop

Realism in Hagiography

University of Cologne

12-13 January 2023

Saints lives, martyrdoms, and miracle stories comprise a large and challenging body of primary source material for historians of the First Millennium and Middle Ages. Elements of these texts resemble historiography, but these are blended with subjective experience, mystical truth, and theology. Modern scholars interested in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- and particularly scholars who do not come from cultural backgrounds where the veneration of saints is part of their personal lived experience -- are faced with difficult questions. Can one confidently differentiate "fact" from "fiction" among the mundane and miraculous details in hagiography? Is it possible to read and interpret these texts as coherent works according to the shared understanding of their pious ancient or medieval writers and readers? The workshop will bring together a group of pre-circulated papers which focus on the setting of hagiography (broadly defined), viewing its diverse literary components as part of a realistic structure and narrative.  By focusing on the thread of realism within hagiographical texts, the papers given in this workshop will provide a collection of perspectives about how to read and interpret such narratives. These contributions will form a collection of conceptual tools which will be helpful for students and historians alike in analyzing hagiography-like sources.

The workshop will have a hybrid online option. For digital participation, please contact abteilungbzkoelngmail.com.

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Claudia Sode; Dr. Douglas Whalin

With contributions from

Stephanos Efthymiadis (Keynote)

Niels De Ridder – Giulia Gollo – Sven Günther – Christian Høgel – Mihail Mitrea – Leif Inge Ree Petersen – Daria Resh – Julie Van Pelt – Marijana Vukovic – Julia Weitbrecht – Douglas Whalin

Place & Time: International House, Kringsweg 6, 50931 Köln & virtual | 12./13.01.2023

Program

Thursday

Session 1

09.15 AM CET/03.15 AM ET - Sven Günther  – Framing taxes in Theodoret of Cyrrhus’ Religious History

10.00 AM CET/04.00 AM ET - Douglas Whalin  – Realistic miraculous landscapes from Late Antique Syria

Session 2

11.15 AM CET/05.15 AM ET - Leif Inge Ree Petersen  – Warfare and society in hagiography

12.00 PM CET/06.00 AM ET - Julie Van Pelt  – Magic and fiction in Greek hagiography: real and unreal wonders

Session 3

14.30 PM CET/ 08.30 AM ET - Christian Høgel  – The saint as a young person: pre-conversion portraits in Greek/Byzantine hagiography

15.15 PM CET/9.15 AM ET - Niels De Ridder  – Stereotypes or individuals? Jewish characters in middle Byzantine hagiography

16.00 PM CET/10.00 AM ET - Julia Weitbrecht  – Paradisiacal evidence: materiality and temporality in the legend of the True Cross

Keynote Lecture

17.00 PM CET/11.00 PM ET - Stephanos Efthymiadis – Realism in middle and late Byzantine hagiography


Friday

Session 4

09.15 AM CET/03.15 AM ET - Daria Resh  – What is in the bath? Space and ritual in the Byzantine legends of St Barbara 

10.00 AM CET/04.00 AM ET - Giulia Gollo  – Writers as painters, texts as (colourful) icons: the life of St Blasios of Amorion (BHG 278)

Session 5

11.15 AM CET/5.15 AM ET - Mihail Mitrea  – 'Glorified from above': the miraculous as legitimizing device in late Byzantine hagiography

12.00 PM CET/6.00 AM ET - Marijana Vukovic  – The Principle of minimal departure and the 'realistic' in hagiography: weather in Byzantine and Old Slavonic saints’ stories

For the program, click here.

Call for Papers: The Material Culture of War and Emergency in the Early Modern World (19-20 April 2023, UCL and Oxford University), Deadline: 15 January 2023 5PM GMT/12PM ET

Call for Papers

The Material Culture of War and Emergency in the Early Modern World


Conference and Graduate Student Workshop

April 19-20 2023, UCL and Oxford University

Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2023

5:00 PM GMT/12:00 PM ET

Battle of Vienna, 1683, Frans Geffels, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

War was a pervasive part of early modern life. People experienced war as agents of conflict, impotent witnesses of its destructive forces, and as victims of its economic, social, and material consequences. Such events of conflict and emergency have been approached primarily through text, which has tended to focus historical narratives on the physical destruction wrought on the early modern world. But what if we were to see states of war and emergency also as periods of creation, in which new object types, new collections, new modes of commemorating, visualizing, and material thinking were produced? While material culture studies has been recognised elsewhere as an important window into the everyday, emotional and interior lives of historical actors, the absence of object-based studies of early modern war is a notable omission.

This two-part event seeks to bring together scholars from all fields whose research can re-evaluate the way we view the relationships between conflict and the object world in the early modern period and help explore how processes of destruction could establish new spaces in which material production and consumption might take root. As well as thinking about creation, the conference will consider how war reconfigured the trajectories of existing objects as their biographies became entangled with unfolding events. We are particularly interested in research that moves beyond the more traditional objects of crisis and warfare, such as arms and plunder, and expands the notion of what an object of war might be, looking particularly at the everyday artifacts whose meaning came to be shaped by events of conflict. The overall purpose of discussion is to focus on how the material approach might bring new insight to the experience of early modern warfare: How were individuals’ experiences of conflict shaped by their material interactions? How did they navigate the extremes of warfare, both during and after conflict, through objects? In what ways did objects’ proximity to and intimacy with conflict determine the value placed upon them by contemporaries? How did encounters with destruction shape the afterlife of objects of war? In addition to this focus on martial conflict, consideration of states of emergency more generally—events of destruction by fire, flood, or other natural disaster, or confessional, political, and social upheaval—can also shed light on the broader discussion and we thus encourage their inclusion.

Papers might consider, but do not have to be limited to:

  • Soldiers as artists and artisans

  • The loss and migration of objects due to warfare and emergency

  • The afterlives of objects associated with early modern war and other destructive events

  • Ruins and rebuilding

  • The material commemoration of conflict and catastrophe

  • Preserving, collecting, and displaying objects of war and emergency

The event begins on 19 April with a Graduate Student Workshop at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies. It will be followed by a public lecture by Sigrun Haude (University of Cincinnati), author of Coping with Life during the Thirty Years' War (2021). The workshop is designed for early-stage doctoral students across disciplines to share research and discuss methodologies relevant to material and visual culture, particularly within contexts of war and emergency. Very welcome are those students who wish to gain greater experience incorporating visual and material culture into their research. Participants will each give very brief (max. 7-minute) presentations, which will be followed by an extended period for feedback and discussion with established historians and art historians.

The full-day conference at Oxford will be held on 20 April. We invite proposals for twenty-minute research talks that respond to the stated prompts. Contributions from scholars coming from History, Art History, Archaeology, Literature, and related disciplines welcome.

Participation at both events is encouraged but not expected.

Proposals for papers should be sent to Róisín Watson (roisin.watson@history.ox.ac.uk) & Allison Stielau (a.stielau@ucl.ac.uk) by 5 pm on 15 January 2023. Applicants to the conference should include paper title and abstract (no more than 250 words). Applicants to the workshop should indicate their interest in the topic and how participating would aid their doctoral research and briefly summarize the presentation they would give (no more than 150 words). Accepted speakers will be informed by 1 February.

A small number of bursaries for graduate students and early career scholars will be available. Please indicate your need in your application.

Organized with the generous support of: UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL History of Art Past Imperfect Seminar, University of Oxford Faculty of History, The John Fell Fund at the University of Oxford, The Centre for early modern studies at the University of Oxford

Call for Proposals: 12th Annual IAS/Kress Lecture Series in Italy (30 June, 2023 in the Sala Barbantini, Fondazione Cini, Venice), Deadline 1 February 2023

Call for Proposals

12th Annual IAS/Kress Lecture Series in Italy

30 June, 2023 in the Sala Barbantini, Fondazione Cini, Venice

Application Deadline: 1 February, 2023

 This series seeks to promote intellectual exchanges among art historians of North America and the international community of scholars living or working in Italy. This Lecture is supported by the IAS, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the Fondazione Cini.
 
Eligibility:

  • Senior or established scholars based in North America (esteemed publication record and PhD required).

  • Proposed lectures may address any period in Italian art from antiquity to the early 19th century (1800–1830) but must be related to the host city of Venice or its environs.

  • Lectures may be given in English or Italian.

  • Length: 45–50 minutes.

  • Lectures must not have been previously published or presented.

  • Applicants must be members of IAS at time of application and presentation.

  • Speaker must be available to present their lecture on the event date.

  • Current IAS officers are not eligible to apply.

  • Speakers must be vaccinated against COVID-19 to ensure ability to travel to Italy.

 
The presenter will receive an honorarium of $800 and a $1250 supplementary lecture allowance that may be used for travel, lodging, or translation expenses.

Submit here: https://www.italianartsociety.org/conferences-lectures/kress/.
Applicants should include: a cover letter, a 250–500-word abstract of proposed lecture, and a current CV.
 
Questions should be directed to IAS President Sarah Wilkins (president@italianartsociety.org).
 
The Italian Art Society (IAS) is a professional organization dedicated to the study of Italian art and architecture from prehistory to the present. Visit www.italianartsociety.org for more information and membership details.

For the a PDF of the Call for Papers: Click here.

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR: THE EDUCATION OF A CHRISTIAN WOMAN (1523) IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IMAGE OF FEMALE POWER OF QUEEN MARY I OF ENGLAND (1553-1558), 24-25 JANUARY 2023 (HYBRID)

 INSTITUTO CERVANTES / UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR

THE EDUCATION OF A CHRISTIAN WOMAN (1523) IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IMAGE OF FEMALE POWER OF QUEEN MARY I OF ENGLAND (1553-1558)

HYBRID (IN PERSON/ ZOOM) | 24-25 JANUARY 2023

Organisation: Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón. 2022 BritishSpanish Society Scholar.

Coordination: Laura Martínez Cayado. PhD student at the University of Murcia.

In-person locations: Instituto Cervantes. 15-19 Devereux Ct, Temple, London & Common Ground, South Wing, University College London.

Format: Hybrid (In person/Zoom).

Registration: Please send an email to artepoderygenero@um.es

(Free/Required)

This international seminar celebrates the 500-year anniversary of the first pub- lication of The Education of a Christian Woman. It will focus on its patron, author, and dedicatee as well as address its impact on the construction of the image of female power in Tudor England. In 1523, De institutione feminae Christianae, the book’s first title, was published. The author was Spanish Humanist Juan Luis Vives (1493-1540) who at the time was also a Lecturer at Corpus Christi Col- lege in Oxford. The book was commissioned by his ‘only patron’, the Queen of England, Catherine of Spain, commonly known as Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536). It was written in Latin, the language of the New Learning move- ment it belongs to, and it focused on the three stages in which Vives divided a woman’s life: as a maiden, as a married woman and a matron, and as a widow. It was dedicated to Princess Mary Tudor future Queen Mary I (1516-1558). It was part of a wider curriculum that Queen Catherine designed for her daugh- ter’s formal training as first ‘heiress apparent’ to receive a formal Renaissance education in England. The book was an instant success throughout Europe with many reprints, and it became the most influential work of its kind in the Mod- ern Age. The Education of a Christian Woman had an impact in the way that Mary I constructed her image of power as the first Queen Regnant in English history. Despite this, Queen Catherine’s role as intellectual and financial patron is often overlooked and the connections between the manual and Mary I’s trailblazing propaganda as the first woman to be educated to rule have yet to be explored.

This international seminar will focus both on visual arts and documen- tary evidence that deal with this important void in queenship historiography. Leading specialists in several fields will address topics like the Christian edu- cation of the daughters of Queen Isabella of Castile and the ties between the Spanish alliance and the construction of the image of female power in Tudor portraiture. Other important subjects will speak to Queen Mary I’s use of fe- male recourses present in Vives’ work in the representations of the monarch as Queen Regnant, as ‘Mother of England’, and as married woman and queen consort of King Philip of Habsburg (1527-1598). Other experts will talk about Mary I’s role as first woman to exercise power and how this was translated after her reign. Another crucial topic that will be discussed is the growing his- toriographical trend that is brining into the light Queen Mary I’s outstanding contributions in female rulership in Renaissance Europe.

PROGRAMME

24 January - Location: Instituto Cervantes. 15-19 Devereux Ct, Temple, London.

5.00 pm - 5.45 pm (GMT) / 12.00 pm - 12:35 pm (ET)

Las mujeres cristianas en los intercambios de retratos entre la Monarquía Hispánica y la dinastía Tudor. Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón. BritishSpanish Society Scholar.

(Presentada por Noelia García Pérez).

5.45 pm - 6.30 pm (GMT) / 12.45 pm - 1.30 pm (ET)

Mary I & the Art of Queenship. Peter Stiffell. Doctoral Candidate at the University of Kent.

(Presented by Alexander Samson).

6.30 pm - 7.30 pm (GMT) / 1.30 pm - 2.30 pm (ET) ROUNDTABLE.

Educating the Eye: Gender, Power, and Representation in the Visual Arts in the Reign of Mary I.

The Pregnant Female Body in Early Modern English Royal and Elite Portraiture. Karen Hearn. Honorary Professor at Department of English Language and Literature in the University College London / Previously Curator of 16th & 17th Century British Art at the Tate Galleries.

Happily (N)Ever After: The Posthumous Role of Mary I and Philip II’s Marriage in Visual Remembrances of Mary’s Reign. Johanna Strong. University of Winchester / Royal Studies Network.

Like Mother, Like Daughter? Continuity and Innovation in the Crafting of Image of Mary I. Aoife Stables. Master of Arts in Art History. Courtauld Institute of Art.

Participants

Patricia Manzano Rodríguez. Doctoral Candidate at the University of Durham / The Maius Workshop.

Irini Picolou. Doctoral Candidate at the University of Durham / Zurbaran Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art.

25 January - Location: Common Ground, South Wing, University College London.

9.30 am - 10.15 am (GMT) / 4.30 am - 5.15 am (ET)

Before Vives. The Christian Education of the Daughters of Queen Isabella of Castile. Melania Soler Moratón. Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Valladolid / University of Murcia / Arte, Poder y Género Research Group /

MEFER Project.

10.15 am - 11.00 am (GMT) / 5.15 am - 6.00 am (ET)

Juan Luis Vives’ ‘Patronae Unicae’: Queen Catherine of Aragon and the Construction of the Image of Female Power in Tudor England. Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón. BritishSpanish Society Scholar / Arte, Poder y Género Research Group / MEFER Project.

11.00 am - 11.45 am (GMT) / 6.00 am - 6.45 am (ET)

Early Modern Women and the Archive. Alexander Samson. Professor of Early Modern Studies at the University College London.

11.45 pm - 1.45 pm (GMT) / 6.45 am - 8.45 am (ET) LUNCH

1.45 pm - 2.30 pm (GMT) / 8.45 am - 9.30 am (ET)

The Continued Instruction of Christian Women: Reprints of Vives. Valerie Schutte. Independent scholar.

2.30 pm - 3.15 pm (GMT) / 9.30 am - 10.15 am (ET)

The Power of Networks and The Networks of Power: The Development and Cultivation of Female Friendship by Mary I, for both Personal Solace, and Political Capital. Melita Thomas. Doctoral Candidate at the University College London.

3.15 pm - 3.30 pm (GMT) / 10.15 am - 10.30 am (ET) COFFEE BREAK

3.30 pm - 4.30 pm (GMT)/ 10.30 am - 11.30 am (ET) ROUNDTABLE

‘The Education of a Christian Woman’ in the Context of Queenly Education. Elena (Ellie) Woodacre. Reader in Renaissance History at the University of Winchester / Royal Studies Network.

For a PDF of the Programe, click here.

JOB OPPORTUNITY: LECTURER IN ART HISTORY (BEGINNING AUGUST 2023), ERNEST G. WELCH SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN, GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DEADLINE 9 JANUARY 2023

JOB OPPORTUNITY

LECTURER IN ART HISTORY (BEGINNING AUGUST 2023)

ERNEST G. WELCH SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN, GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY

DEADLINE 9 JANUARY 2023

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Welch School of Art & Design seeks a full-time, benefits-eligible, non-tenure-track Lecturer in the art of the ancient and/or medieval world. This position entails teaching surveys of Western art and upper-level courses that incorporate at least two of the following: ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and the European Middle Ages. The successful candidate must value working with diverse student populations and cultural perspectives.

The successful candidate will join an established Art History area within the Welch School of Art & Design’s growing faculty. They will play a significant role in the College of the Arts’ contribution to Georgia State University’s strategic goals of highlighting the arts and media as vital to the quality of all major cities, demonstrating that students from all backgrounds can achieve academic and career success at high rates.

An enterprising R-1 university in Atlanta, Georgia State University is a national leader in using innovation to drive student success and research growth. The university provides its world-class faculty and more than 50,000 students unsurpassed research, teaching, and learning opportunities in one of the 21st century’s great global cities. In 2023, U.S. News & World Report ranked Georgia State as #2 in Most Innovative Schools, #7 in Best

Undergraduate Teaching, #9 in Learning Communities, #6 in First-Year Experiences, and #21 in Top Performers on Social Mobility among national universities. Opportunities for growth and support in this position include university-level teaching fellowships and grants through the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Online Education, leadership in instructional innovation through our active learning classroom program, and successive promotion to the ranks of Senior Lecturer and Principal Senior Lecturer.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

  • teaching four courses per semester;

  • service to the area, school, college, university, community and/or profession;

  • serving on MA/MFA thesis committees;

  • advising undergraduate Art History majors.

    NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS:

    Competitive applicants should have:

  • Ph.D. in Art History by the time of appointment;

  • strong teaching skills;

  • excellent oral and written communication skills;

  • command of computer-mediated technologies relevant to the discipline.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Preference will be given to applicants who have:

  • one or more years of university-level teaching;

  • evidence of creative pedagogy;

  • experience with hybrid and/or online course delivery;

  • the ability to teach a range of ancient and/or medieval undergraduate-level

    courses.
    Salary Range: $45,000-50,000 To Apply

  • A cover letter including past and/or potential contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion through teaching and service

  • Curriculum Vitae

  • statement of teaching interest

  • Names, email addresses, telephone numbers, and titles of at least three professional references

    Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. To ensure consideration, submit all materials by January 9, 2023. Questions about the position can be directed to the search committee chair at wsadrecruiting@gsu.edu. Should you be recommended for a position, an offer of employment will be conditional on background verification.

    Georgia State University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class. As a campus with a diverse student body, we encourage applications from women, minorities, and individuals with a history of mentoring under-represented minorities.

For a PDF with details of the position: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ret741sqijo4ce8/WSADLecturer_ArtHistory_JobDescriptionDRAFT.pdf?dl=0

For more information about the Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design, Georgia State University: https://artdesign.gsu.edu/

Call for Papers: The Medieval Church: From Margins to Centre (26-27 June 2023), University of York, Deadline 5 February 2023 5 PM GMT (12 PM ET)

Call for Papers

The Medieval Church: From Margins to Centre

University of York, 26-27 June 2023

Deadline: 7 February 2023 5:00 PM GMT (12:00 ET)

Simon Benning, “Villagers on Their Way to Church” (c.1550), Getty Ms. 50, recto.

Fifteen years ago, the Social Church workshops initiated by Ian Forrest and Sethina Watson worked to introduce the study of the Church as an active agent in medieval society: in other words, putting people at the heart of the institutional church. Two decades later, we hope to bring a similarly fresh perspective to the study of medieval religion with The Medieval Church: From Margins to Centre, a two-day conference to be held on 26–27 June 2023 at the Humanities Research Centre, University of York.

This conference aims to consider the relationship between the Church and the marginalised in medieval society – minority genders and sexualities, racial minorities, disabled people, non-Christians, and the poor. How did the Church respond to, oppress, or offer opportunities to those on the margins, and how did marginalised individuals and groups exercise agency through their interactions with the institutions and mechanisms of the Church? We are interested in both the ‘positive’ – for example, how the church supported the poor, holy models of disability and transgender experience – and the ‘negative’, such as the Church’s role in the creation and maintenance of social prejudices. We welcome papers from researchers working across the medieval period (from c.400-1500) as well as different geographic regions (including papers on other denominations of Christianity, as well as the Church outside of Europe), and with disciplinary focuses including but not limited to History, Literary Studies, Art History and Archaeology.

The conference is prompted by current trends in medieval race studies, trans studies and disability studies, and aims to provide a particular platform for postgraduate and early career researchers who work in these areas. To support this aim, we plan to offer a bursary of £30 per person for up to 10 postgraduates and ECRs. If you are interested in being considered for a bursary, please indicate this when you send in your proposal. We aim to host this conference in a hybrid format, so please also indicate whether you would be interested in presenting in-person in York or online.

Please send abstracts of up to 250 words to Tim Wingard (tim.wingard@york.ac.uk) by no later than 5pm on Sunday 5 February 2023. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. 

Sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies and Department of History at the University of York (UK)

For more information: https://medreligion.wordpress.com/cfp-the-medieval-church-from-margins-to-centre-26-27-june-2023/

“NOUVELLES TRADUCTIONS ET RÉCEPTIONS INDIRECTES DE LA GRÈCE ANCIENNE (TEXTES ET IMAGES, 1300-1560)”, AGRELITA CONFERENCE, 19-20 JANUARY 2023, SCIENCES PO LILLE

CONFERENCE/JOURNÉES D’ÉTUDE

AGRELITA PROJECT ERC ADVANCED GRANT

“NOUVELLES TRADUCTIONS ET RÉCEPTIONS INDIRECTES DE LA GRÈCE ANCIENNE (TEXTES ET IMAGES, 1300-1560)”

ORGANISED BY/ORGANISÉES PAR CATHERINE GAULLIER-BOUGASSAS

19-20 JANUARY 2023/19-20 JANVIER 2023

9 RYE AUGUSTE ANGELLIER, SCIENCES PO LILLE, 59000 LILLE, FRANCE

AMPHITHÉÂTRE LA BOÉTIE, NIVEAU 0

Illustrations: Jean de Vignay, Miroir historial, traduction du Speculum historiale de Vincent de Beauvais, Baris, BnF, fr. 216, fol. 1 r. Sebastian Münster, “Nouvelle table de la Grece, declairee selon qu’elle se comporte en divers lieux, les principales parties de laquelle sont Macedonie, Epire, Achaie, & la Morée”, La cosmographie universelle, Universitätsbibliothek Basel, EU 1 84, 1552, p. 68. Réalisation: Communication Université de Lille - Juillet 2022

PROGRAM/PROGRAMME

Thursday January 18/Jeudi 19 janvier

 -10h - Accueil

-10h15 - Introduction, Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas (Université de Lille, ERC AGRELITA)

Session 1 : Historical and Geographical Compilations/Compilations historiques et géographiques

-10h30-10h55 - Nolwenn Kerbastard (Université Paris Nanterre), « L’image de la Grèce antique dans Les hystoires et les croniques de Vincent abregiees (après 1328) »

-10h55-11h20 - Valeria Russo (Université de Lille, ERC AGRELITA), « La première traduction française de la Genealogia deorum gentilium de Boccace : la réinvention du panthéon dans l’atelier d’Antoine Vérard »

-11h20-11h55 - Silvère Menegaldo (Université de Tours), « La première traduction française de Diodore de Sicile dans la Chronique de Jacques de Brézé »

11h55-12h10 - Discussion

Session 2 : Humanisme et traduction

-14h30-14h55 - Jane Gilbert (University College London), « La musique de l’ars nova : “traduction” de la culture “grecque” ou grécisante en France au xive siècle ? »

-14h55-15h20 - Susanna Gambino Longo (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3), « Vulgariser les œuvres grecques pour le prince : les traductions du grec en vernaculaire de la bibliothèque des ducs d’Este »

-15h20-15h35 - Discussion

-15h35-15h50 - Break/Pause

-15h50-16h15 - Laurence Boulègue (Université de Picardie Jules Verne), « De Ficin à Simon Silvius, le première translatio du Banquet grec en langue française »

-16h15-16h40 - Alexia Dedieu (Université Grenoble Alpes), « Mémoire d’Euripide, mémoire de la Grèce : les premières traductions d’Euripide »

-16h40-17h - Discussion

-17h15 - Visit to the/Visite à la Bibliothèque Municipale de Lille.

Opening by/Ouverture par Jean-Jacques Vandewalle, Conservator and Head of Heritage Department/Conservateur et Responsable du service Patrimoine, et Nathalie Pfister, Head of Cultural Action and Musical Fund of the Heritage Department/Chargée de l’action culturelle et du fonds musical au service Patrimoine.

Presentation by the ERC AGRELITA team./Présentation par l’équipe ERC AGRELITA.

 

Friday January 20/Vendredi 20 janvier

Session 3 : Humanism and translation/Humanisme et traduction

-9h-9h25 - Daisy Delogu (University of Chicago), « La traduction du livre d’Économiques dit d’Aristote, vers une biopolitique médiévale »

 -9h25-9h50 - Olivier Delsaux (Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles), « Vulgariser la clergie grecque au seuil du xve siècle : Laurent de Premierfait, traducteur d’Aristote, Cicéron et Boccace »

-9h50-10h05 - Discussion

-10h05-10h20 - Break/Pause 

Session 4 : Text-Image/Texte-image

-10h20-10h45 - Claudia Daniotti (University of Warwick), « Murdering the King : Clytemnestra and the Death of Agamemnon in the Illuminated Manuscript Tradition of Laurent de Premierfait »

-10h45-11h10 - Ilaria Molteni (Université de Lille, ERC AGRELITA), « Guido delle Colonne en France : Les traductions de l’Historia destructionis Troiae »

-11h10-11h35 - Clarisse Evrard (Université de Lille, ERC AGRELITA), « D’Octovien de Saint-Gelais à Jean Pichore : stratégies de traductions visuelles des Épîtres d’Ovide »

-11h35-11h50 - Discussion                           

Session 5 : Circulation and reception/Circulation et réception

 -14h-14h25 - Cléo Rager (Université de Lille, ERC AGRELITA), « Les traductions du grec dans la culture des élites municipales du royaume de France du XIVe au XVIe siècle »

-14h25-14h50 - Hugo Bizzarri (Université de Fribourg), « Les destins de la fable ésopique “Les loups et les moutons” (ch. 217) dans l’Espagne du xve siècle »

-14h50-15h05 - Discussion

-15h05-15h20 - Break/Pause

-15h20-15h45 - Adele Di Lorenzo (EPHE), « Entre littérature, mythologie et histoire. La description de la Grèce dans les Annales omnium temporum de Pietro Ranzano, humaniste dominicain (1426-1492) »

-15h45-16h10 - Alice Lamy (Université de Picardie Jules Verne), « La représentation de la nature dans la Grèce Ancienne de Platon chez Loys le Roy, traducteur du Timée (1551) : une culture riche des apports philosophiques et philologiques antiques, médiévaux et renaissants »

-16h10-16h30 - Discussion and closing/Discussion et clôture


Contact : caroline.crepiat@univ-lille.fr

For more information: https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/category/evenements/journees-detudes

AGRELITA Project ERC Advanced Grant

The Reception of Ancient Greece in Premodern French Literature and Illustrations of Manuscripts and Printed Books (1320-1550) : how invented memories shaped the identity of European communities.

The AGRELITA project was launched on October 1st, 2021. It is a 5-year project (2021-2026), which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 101018777).

Mentions légales du carnet Hypothèses AGRELITA project ERC Advanced Grant: ISSN 2827-7031.

K-12 Career Webinar for PhDs and Graduate Students, American Council of Learned Societies, 23 January 2023 4:00 PM EST

American Council of Learned Societies

K-12 Career Webinar

Presented as part of the ACLS Humanistic Knowledge in the 21st Century series

Monday, January 23, 2023 | 4:00 PM EST

ACLS will offer a virtual presentation for PhDs and graduate students to learn about teaching roles in K-12 schools during a Q&A with people representing K-12 independent and public schools. The webinar will feature a conversation moderated by Joy Connolly with faculty members (who hold PhDs) teaching Classics, Music and English in New York City independent and public schools.

We hope this will prepare anyone interested in applying to K-12 independent and public schools for Fall 2023 teaching roles, which are advertised primarily in winter.

To register: https://acls-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ARzw6e_CTW-IdvKKHMh3-g

For more information: https://www.acls.org/acls-events/k-12-career-webinar/

Call for Papers: “In Sickness and in Health: Medieval Healing and the Community”, 10th Annual Medieval Studied Colloquium (21 April 2023 In-Person), Deadline 10 January 2023

Call for Papers

10th Annual Medieval Studied Colloquium

“In Sickness and in Health: Medieval Healing and the Community”

Deadline: 10 January 2023

The Medieval Studies Colloquium is an annual event which takes place on UW–Madison’s campus each spring. The Colloquium offers an opportunity for graduate students in multiple disciplines to present their research in the various fields of medieval studies, share and receive feedback, and participate in discussion on topics of interest with peers from a wider, interdisciplinary community of Medieval Studies scholars, without the restrictions of membership or registration fees.

Please join us for the Tenth Annual Medieval Studies Colloquium “In Sickness and in Health: Medieval Healing and the Community.” The colloquium will take place Friday, April 21st, 2023, in-person at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a keynote address by Dr. Erin Sweany (English, Western Michigan University).

The Tenth Annual GAMS Colloquium is sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies, Department of Art History, Department of History, Department of English, Department of French & Italian, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic +. For accessibility accommodations, please contact: gams@rso.wisc.edu.

The Graduate Association of Medieval Studies at UW–Madison invites abstracts from graduate and undergraduate students on topics relating to sickness, health, and community (broadly defined). Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to gams@rso.wisc.edu by January 10th, 2023.

Colloquium Call for Papers Poster

Organizer Website: https://www.facebook.com/gamsmadison/ and https://arthistory.wisc.edu/organizer/graduate-association-of-medieval-studies/

Colloquium Website: https://gamsmadison.wordpress.com/medieval-studies-colloquium/

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: ART HISTORICAL IMAGE IN THE DIGITAL AGE, KUNSTHISTORISCHES INSTITUTIN FLORENZ – MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT, Deadline 2 January 2023

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

ART HISTORICAL IMAGE IN THE DIGITAL AGE

KUNSTHISTORISCHES INSTITUT
IN FLORENZ – MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT

DEADLINE 2 JANUARY 2023

The Art Historical Image in the Digital Age is a two-week summer seminar that will explore ways that digital materials have transformed research practices in the field in both conceptual and practical ways. What constitutes image data? What are the principles, conventions, and structures by which archives, museums, libraries, conservation labs, and scholars classify, organize, and use this data as it moves from single reproductions to digital repositories to our own personal research workspaces and eventually to publications? What are some of the continuities and discontinuities between analogue and digital formats? What are some of the new relationships between image-based and object-based research facilitated by digital materials and computational methods? What kinds of opportunities might this interrogation present to think strategically about the development of a more global, inclusive art history? Participants in this seminar will engage with these questions by considering the art historical image and its complex material and digital ecosystems.

The seminar will be hosted by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut (KHI), home to one of the most important art historical photo archives in Europe. The seminar will familiarize participants with key concepts related to photography and imaging in art historical research, image data and its integral role in the digital humanities, and equip them with the basic skills necessary to organize and manage digital images for their research. Organized visits to the photo archives of the KHI, Villa I Tatti, and other institutions (including a group excursion to Rome) will introduce participants first-hand to current methods and practices of image data management used by institutions and repositories. These visits will familiarize participants with analogue institutional holdings, and provide opportunities for discussion with photo archivists and the technical teams working on digitization and image data. The seminar will also include discussion of readings and current digital projects across a variety of periods and fields as a way to connect participants' own work to the expanding constellation of historiographical and methodological issues around digital art history.

The course is ideal for graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars seeking an introduction to digital practices and methods to enrich and advance their scholarship and/or for integration into their teaching and curricula in a discussion-based context. Participants should be working on projects in European art from antiquity to the early nineteenth century and/or global traditions represented in European image and photographic archives. Participants will be selected on the basis of their ability to formulate compelling research questions around the conjunction of art history and digital imaging technologies.

The seminar will be led by Emily Pugh, Principal Research Specialist for Digital Art History, Getty Research Institute, and David Ogawa, Associate Professor of Art History, Union College.

This seminar has been funded by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. This funding enables us to offer participants lodging in Florence for the duration of the seminar, transportation for site visits, and transportation and lodging for the excursion to Rome. Participants will be responsible for their own airfare/transportation to Florence, meals, and daily expenses; there will be no cost to participate.

To apply, please send a current c.v. (max 3 pages) and a 500-750 word statement on your research area and how your work might benefit from the seminar to David Ogawa (ogawad@union.edu). The application deadline will be 2 January 2023, and we will notify participants of acceptance by 23 January 2023.

For further information please visit: https://sites.google.com/union.edu/ahida2023/home


KUNSTHISTORISCHES INSTITUT
IN FLORENZ – MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT

Via Giuseppe Giusti 44
50121 Firenze / Italy
Phone: +39 055 24911-1
Fax: +39 055 24911-55
E-Mail: info@khi.fi.it

"The Lonely Mountain: The Emergence of a ‘Hagiorite’ Identity on Medieval Mount Athos," Zachary Chitwood, Mary Jaharais Center for Byzantine Art & Culture, 24 January 2023 12:OO PM ET (Online)

Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art & Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross Presents:

The Lonely Mountain: The Emergence of a ‘Hagiorite’ Identity on Medieval Mount Athos

Zachary Chitwood (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz)

24 January 2023 12:00 PM ET (ONLINE)

General view of Mount Athos (detail), Romanian Skete of St. John the Baptist (1859). Image: Athanasios Karakatsanis, ed., Treasures of Mount Athos (Thessaloniki, 1997): p. 197, no. 2.134.

The Mary Jaharis Center is pleased to announce its first lecture of 2023. This lecture contextualizes the emergence of a unique “Athonite” or “Hagiorite” identity on Mount Athos over the course of the Middle Ages. In Late Antiquity most Byzantine authors identified sacred mountains through the lens of biblical history, especially the mountains associated with the life of Jesus (Mount of Olives, Mount Tabor) or the Prophet Moses (Mount Nebo, Mount Sinai). By the time of the emergence of communal monasticism on Mount Athos in the middle of the tenth century, Athos could be counted as one of several “Holy Mountains” that housed monastic confederations within the Byzantine Empire, most of which were in western Asia Minor. Yet by the end of the medieval period, the term “Holy Mountain” had strong associations with Athos.

The rich documentation of medieval Mount Athos allows the mapping the development of a “Hagiorite” identity in a variety of different contexts. In this lecture, three strands of Athonite identity will be explored: 1) in a legal sense, with Mount Athos as a circumscribed monastic space with specific rights and privileges; 2) as a literary construct, as a place of longing and desire; 3) as a landmark within the sacred geography of the Orthodox world. 

This lecture will take place live on Zoom, followed by a question and answer period. Please register here to receive the Zoom link.


Zachary Chitwood is a Lecturer in Byzantine Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant MAMEMS “Mount Athos in Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Society: Contextualizing the History of a Monastic Republic, ca. 850-1550”. He has published on various aspects of Byzantine culture, including law, monasticism and interactions with the wider medieval world.

THE ART MUSEUM IN THE DIGITAL AGE – 2023 INTERNATIONAL ONLINE CONFERENCE, 16-20 JANUARY 2023

THE ART MUSEUM IN THE DIGITAL AGE – 2023

INTERNATIONAL ONLINE CONFERENCE

DAS KUNSTMUSEUM IM DIGITALEN ZEITALTER - 2023

INTERNATIONALE ONLINE-KONFERENZ

16-20 JANUARY 2023

The Belvedere Research Center is continuing its conference series on the digital transformation of art museums with its fifth event on the topic. While the 2022 conference challenged binary concepts such as analog/ digital, this year’s event critically examines the imagined cultural metaverse. In four online thematic sessions and an on-site workshop, the lectures deal with the immersive experiences of virtuality and reality, cultural heritage data, value discourse surrounding the metaverse and NFTs, and self-perception and the social role of museums.

Das Belvedere Research Center setzt seine Tagungsreihe zur digitalen Transformation der Kunstmuseen mit der fünften Veranstaltung zum Thema fort. Während die Konferenz im Jahr 2022 binäre Konzepte wie analog/digital infrage stellte, setzt sich die Veranstaltung diesmal kritisch mit einem imaginierten Metaverse im kulturellen Feld auseinander. In vier Online-Themenblöcken und einem Workshop vor Ort thematisieren die jeweiligen Beiträge immersive Erfahrungen zwischen Virtualität und Realität, die Verlinkung von KulturerbeDaten, den Wertediskurs rund um das Metaverse und NFTs sowie die Selbstwahrnehmung und die soziale Rolle von Museen.

Language: English, German Simultaneous Interpretation

To Register for the Zoom Conference: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9enbg4dtSKyCRMmWybf5Rg

Workshops and Panels (On Site and in German)

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Monday, 16 January 2023

17:00 PM CET (11:00 AM ET)

Begrüßung & Einführung | Welcome & Introduction

Stella Rollig; Christian Huemer; Anna-Marie Kroupova (Belvedere, Wien | Vienna)

PANEL 1: NFTS & BLOCKCHAIN

17:20 PM CET (11:20 AM ET)

Moderation: Johanna Aufreiter (Belvedere, Wien | Vienna)

Grischka Petri (FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur | Leibnitz Institute for Information Infrastructure; Universität | University of Tübingen), Remonopolisation or Protection of Cultural Heritage? The Moral Capital of the „Institution in the Service of Society” Between Open Access, Protection of Cultural Heritage, and NFTs

17:45 PM CET (11:45 AM ET)

Amalyah Keshet (Naomi Korn Associates, London), What Museums May Have Learned from NFTs

18:10 PM CET (12:10 PM ET)

Frances Liddell (University of Manchester), NFTs as a Social Practice. Exploring Tokenisation at National Museums Liverpool

19:00 PM CET (1:00 PM ET)

KEYNOTE LECTURE

Moderation: Christian Huemer (Belvedere, Wien | Vienna)

Johanna Drucker (University of California, Los Angeles), The Virtual Muse(um): Authenticity, Immersion, and New Forms of Delusion

Tuesday, 17 January 2023

PANEL 2: META-SPACES

Moderation: Sonja Gasser (Stiftung für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Winterthur)

17:00 PM CET (11:00 AM ET)

Natalia Grincheva (LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapur | Singapore; University of Melbourne), Designing Art Metaverse Portal. Converging, Creating, Experimenting with, and Minting Crypto Arts

17:25 PM CET (11:25 AM ET)

Johannes von Hülsen (METRUM, München | Munich); Annabell Vacano (Cultatio, München | Munich), Die Dichotomie des Metaverse. Dezentrale oder zentrale Gateways: Was braucht das Metaverse in Kunst und Kultur?

17:50 PM CET (11:50 AM ET)

Markus Reindl (OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH, Linz), DFC Francisco Carolinum. Ein Museum im Metaverse

18:15 PM CET (12:15 PM ET)

Andrea Geipel (Deutsches Museum, München | Munich), Vier Jahre VRlab am Deutschen Museum. Implikationen für die Einbindung virtueller Technologien in Museen

18:40 PM CET (12:40 PM ET)

Jacob Franke (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden | Dresden State Art Collections), Framing Future. Das Dresdner Damaskuszimmer in VR und in Zukunft

Wednesday, 18 January 2023

PANEL 3: LINKED OPEN DATA

Moderation: Harald Klinke (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

17:00 PM CET (11:00 AM ET)

Béatrice Gauvain (Universität | University of Basel), Digital Strategies for Cultural Heritage Institutions. Generating Visibility and Engagement

17:25 PM CET (11:25 ET)

Thibault Usel; Nicola Carboni; Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (Universität Genf | University of Geneva), Linked Open Data for Horizontal Integration of Exhibition Information

17:50 PM CET (11:00 AM ET)

Paul Clough (TPXimpact, United Kingdom | Vereinigtes Königreich; University of Sheffield), Ingest, Enrich and Index. Building a Cross-Collection Search Service for Durham’s New Cultural Heritage Site

18:15 PM CET (12:15 ET)

Mingshi Cui (University of Leicester), The Potential of Metaverse in Liberating the Narrations of the Displaced Objects

18:40 PM CET (12:40 ET)

Synatra Smith (Philadelphia Museum of Art), Sacred Geographic Superimpositions. Reimagining African American Public Art as Enshrined Spaces through Augmented Reality

Thursday, 19 January 2023

PANEL 4: PARTICIPATION & GAMIFICATION

Moderation: Anna-Marie Kroupova (Belvedere, Wien | Vienna)

17:00 PM CET (11:00 AM ET)

Han Jiang (University of Leicester); Xiaozhou Li (University of Sussex), From Metamuseum to Metaverse. Exploring Institutional and Individual Art Curation Practice in Digital Gaming Experience

17:25 PM CET (11:25 AM ET)

Melanie Wilmink (Yonsei University, Seoul), The Museum as a Video Game. The Phenomenology of the Virtual Audience

17:50 PM CET (11:50 AM ET)

Abhinav Mishra (Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne), Experience Design Insights for Mixed Reality Museum Exhibits. Learnings from Professional Curators, Designers, Artists, and Researchers

18:15 PM CET (12:15 AM ET)

Silke Hockmann; Christiane Lindner (Badisches Landesmuseum | Baden State Museum, Karlsruhe), Creative Exhibitions. Partizipativ Ausstellungserlebnisse in Augmented Reality gestalten

18:40 PM CET (12:40 PM ET)

Chantal Eschenfelder (Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main), The Playable Museum. Gamification und Kunstvermittlung im digitalen Raum

Friday 20 January 2023

14:00 PM CET (8:00 AM ET)

WORKSHOPS (ROUND TABLES)*

Die Workshops werden in deutscher Sprache abgehalten und finden vor Ort im Belvedere 21, Wien, statt. Anmeldung zur Veranstaltung ist erforderlich.

The workshops are held in German and take place on site at Belvedere 21, Vienna. Registration for the event is required.

Begrüßung | Welcome: Christian Huemer (Belvedere, Wien | Vienna), Florian Wiencek (Musealisten, Wien | Vienna), Martina Fröschl; Michael Bachhofer, (Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien | University of Applied Arts Vienna), Fabian Müller-Nittel (Museen | Museums of Miltenberg), Doris Fuschlberger (Digitalisierungsoffensive der Salzburger Landesmuseen | Digitization Campaign of the Salzburg State Museums) u. a. | et al.

17:00 PM CET (11:00 AM ET)

PODIUMSDISKUSSION | PANEL DISCUSSION*

Die Podiumsdiskussion findet vor Ort im Blicke Kino, Belvedere 21, Wien, und in deutscher Sprache statt. Aus Platzgründen wird um Anmeldung gebeten. Die Veranstaltung inklusive Simultanübersetzung wird auch über Zoom gestreamt.

The panel discussion takes place on site in the Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21, Vienna, and is held in German. Registration is requested due to space limitations.

The event, which includes simultaneous translation into English, is also streamed on Zoom.

Moderation: Christian Huemer (Belvedere, Wien | Vienna) Claus Pias (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg | University Lüneburg) Johanna Pirker (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; Technische Universität Graz | Graz University of Technology) Christa Sommerer (Kunstuniversität | University of Arts Linz)

 

For more information: https://www.belvedere.at/en/digitalmuseum2023

Organisers: Johanna Aufreiter (Belvedere, Wien / Vienna), Christian Huemer (Belvedere, Wien / Vienna), Anna-Marie Kroupová (Belvedere, Wien / Vienna), Johanna Drucker (University of California, Los Angeles), Sonja Gasser (Stiftung für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Winterthur), Harald Klinke (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München / Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

Hashtag: #digitalmuseum #belvederemuseum

Call for Papers: 2023 Annual Conference of the Renaissance Architecture and Theory Scholars (RATS), University of Edinburgh (24 March 2023), Deadline 13 January 2023 12:00 AM GMT (7:00 AM ET) (Hybrid)

Call for Papers

2023 Annual Conference of the Renaissance Architecture and Theory Scholars (RATS)

University of Edinburgh

March 24, 2023 (Hybrid)

Deadline 13 January 2023 12:00 PM GMT (7:00 AM ET)


We are pleased to announce the 2023 Annual Conference of the Renaissance Architecture and Theory Scholars (RATS), hosted by the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art, at the University of Edinburgh. The conference will take place on a hybrid basis, i.e., both in person and virtually, and is open to all interested in Renaissance architecture and architectural theory.

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on topics in the history of Renaissance architecture and theory, broadly defined. We welcome research on all chronologies of Renaissance architectural culture, including its reception in other periods, as well as all geographies implicated in Renaissance architectural culture. We are open to both emerging research and work that is nearing publication. Finally, we especially urge any postgraduate student or early career researcher who would like to present original research to submit a paper proposal. Because the conference is hybrid, anyone with an internet connection can present research or participate as an audience member from anywhere in the world. A key goal of the upcoming meeting is to expand accessibility to RATS and widen participation among scholars who may not have previously enjoyed the benefits of our community. To that end, the upcoming meeting will also include time for a group discussion on future plans for RATS.

If you would like to present a paper in the upcoming meeting, please send a title and an abstract of c. 250 words or less, as well as a brief, c. 150-word bio or CV of no more than 2 pages to RenArchandTheoryScholars@gmail.com by Friday, 13 January 2023 at 12 noon UK time.

CALL FOR PAPERS: ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES, SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY, MISSOURI (JUNE 12-14, 2023), DEADLINE 31 DECEMBER 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS

ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES

JUNE 12-14, 2023

SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY, MISSOURI

DEADLINE: 31 DECEMBER 2022

(LATE SUBMISSION CONSIDERED IF ROOM IS AVAILABLE)

The Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies provides a convenient summer venue in North America for scholars in all disciplines to present papers, organize sessions, participate in roundtables, and engage in interdisciplinary discussion. The goal of the symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation on all topics and in all disciplines of the medieval and early modern world.

The plenary speakers for 2023 will be Uta-Renate Blumenthal, of Catholic University of America, and Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library.

Important dates:

  • The Tenth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place June 12-14, 2023.

  • The submission deadline for papers, sessions, and roundtables is December 31, 2022.  Late submissions will be considered if space is available.

  • The regular registration deadline is June 1, 2023, after which there will be a $50 late fee.

A PDF of this year's call for papers can be accessed and downloaded here: SMRS Call for Papers
A PDF of a call for papers for specific themes can be accessed and downloaded here: Specific Topics CFP

This year, specific themes include: (1) The Inheritance Given by Early Christianity to the Middle Ages, (2) Remaking the Middle Ages: How We Portray the Past, (3) The Prologue Prior to Cervantes, and (4) Medieval and/or Early Modern Iberian Studies.

To Submit: https://www.smrs-slu.org/submit.html

The Symposium is held on the beautiful midtown campus of Saint Louis University, hosted by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. On and off-campus housing options include affordable, air-conditioned dormitory rooms and a luxurious boutique hotel.

For more information: https://www.smrs-slu.org/

Call for Applications: Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize & ARTES CEEH Scholarships, ARTES: Iberian & Latin American Visual Culture Group, Due 31st January 2022

ARTES

Iberian & Latin American Visual Culture Group

Call for Applications

Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize & ARTES CEEH Scholarships

Due 31st January 2022 (GMT)

ARTES accepts applications for a number of awards each year, including:

The Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize

To encourage emerging scholars that are based in the UK, ARTES, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain, awards an annual essay medal to the author of the best art-historical essay or study on a Spanish theme, which must be submitted in competition and judged by a reading Sub-Committee. The medal is named after Juan Facundo Riaño (1829-1901), the distinguished art historian who was partly responsible for a growing interest in Spanish culture in late nineteenth-century Britain. The winner is also awarded a cash prize of £400, and the runner-up is awarded a certificate and prize of £100 – both prizes are generously sponsored by the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Embassy of Spain. Prize-winners also receive a year’s free membership to ARTES, and the winning essays are considered for publication in the annual visual arts issue of Hispanic Research Journal. See the information about eligibility and rules of competition. The deadline is 31st January each year. 

ARTES CEEH Scholarships

Thanks to the generous support of CEEH (Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica), ARTES, awards a number of scholarships each year to students working on any aspect of Spanish visual culture before 1900. The deadline for all applications is 31st January each year and the Scholarship Committee usually informs successful applicants by 1st March. Scholarship winners are normally invited to an awards ceremony at the ARTES AGM in June.

For more information: https://artes-uk.org/awards/

RENAISSANCE LIVES: 'PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA AND THE INVENTION OF THE ARTIST', 19TH JANUARY 2023, 5:30PM - 7:00PM CET (11:00 AM - 1:00 PM ET) (ONLINE)

RENAISSANCE LIVES

'PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA AND THE INVENTION OF THE ARTIST'

MACHTELT BRÜGGEN ISRAËLS IN CONVERSATION WITH  PAUL TAYLOR (WARBURG INSTITUTE) AND FRANÇOIS QUIVIGER (WARBURG INSTITUTE)

19TH JANUARY 2023, 5:30PM - 7:00PM CET (11:00 AM - 1:00 PM ET) (ONLINE)

As one of the most innovative and enlightened painters of the early Italian Renaissance, Piero della Francesca brought space, luminosity and unparalleled subtlety to painting. In addition, Piero invented the role of the modern artist by becoming a traveller, a courtier, a geometrician, a patron and much else besides.

In this nuanced account of his life and art, Machtelt Brüggen Israëls reconstructs how Piero came of age. Successfully demystifying the persistent notion of Piero’s art as enigmatic, she reveals the simple and stunning intentions behind his work.


Renaissance Lives is a series of biographies published by Reaktion Books(Opens in new window) as well as a series of conversations discussing the ways in which individuals transmitted or changed the lives of traditions, ideas and images. 

FREE VIA ZOOM. PLEASE BOOK IN ADVANCE.

Call for Papers: Perspective, actualité en histoire de l’art Autonomy, no. 2024 - 1, Due 16th January 2023

Call for Papers/Appel à contributions

Perspective

actualité en histoire de l’art Autonomy

no. 2024 – 1

Issue coordinated with/Numéro coordonné avec Maxime Boidy (université Gustave-Eiffel)

Due/Dû 16th January 2023

The journal Perspective : actualité en histoire de l'art will explore, in its 2024 – 1 issue, the question of autonomy in art.

The notion of autonomy has been key to understanding the work of art, at least since the development of aesthetic philosophy in the eighteenth century. If it is disputed, it is because of the different meanings it evokes in the various branches of the human and social sciences. It can relate to art or aesthetics (with respect to the political, social, moral, or even religious fields), the artworks themselves (their referentiality and, more broadly, their own life—in this sense, it also concerns their reception), the artist (whose history should be considered within the context of the advent of the individual or, for example, from its later Romantic definition), and finally, art history (as an autonomous discipline) all periods and geographical areas combined.

In addition to contributions focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which seem to be the periods most concerned, the journal in this issue coordinated with Maxime Boidy (Université Gustave Eiffel) would like specialists in the history of modern art, the Renaissance, Middle Ages, and Antiquity, to explore the prehistory of this notion, anywhere the political order, religious structures, and cultural and social dynamics have shaped or anticipated its contemporary definitions.

Please submit your proposal (2,000-3,000-character / 350 to 500-word summary, with a provisional title, a short bibliography on the topic, and a 2-3 line biography) to the editorial contact (revue-perspective@inha.fr) by January 16th, 2023 at the latest.
Authors of selected proposals will be informed of the committee’s decision by the end of February 2023. Full texts of accepted contributions will need to be sent by May 1st, 2023. These will be definitively accepted after the journal’s anonymous peer-review process.

For more information, click HERE, visit the journal’s page on the INHA website, and browse Perspective online.

La revue Perspective : actualité en histoire de l’art consacrera son n° 2024 – 1 à la question de l'autonomie.

La notion d’autonomie est centrale pour appréhender l’œuvre d’art au moins depuis l’essor de la philosophie esthétique au xviiie siècle. Si elle est disputée, c’est qu’elle renvoie à des significations multiples dans les différents domaines des sciences humaines et sociales. Elle peut concerner l’art ou l’esthétique (par rapport aux champs politique, social, moral ou encore religieux), les œuvres d’art elles-mêmes (leur référentialité et, plus largement, leur vie propre – en ce sens elle renverrait aussi à leur réception), l’artiste (dont il conviendrait de lire l’histoire à l’aune de celle de l’avènement de l’individu ou encore, par exemple, à partir de sa définition romantique, plus tardive) et enfin l’histoire de l’art (comme discipline autonome), toutes périodes et aires géographiques confondues.

 En parallèle de contributions sur les xixe et xxe siècles qui semblent au premier chef concernés, la revue, dans ce numéro coordonné par Maxime Boidy (université Gustave-Eiffel), souhaite donc proposer aux spécialistes de l’histoire de l’art moderne, de la Renaissance, du Moyen Âge et de l’Antiquité de sonder la préhistoire de cette notion partout où l’ordre politique, les structures religieuses et les dynamiques culturelles et sociales ont façonné ou présagé ses définitions contemporaines.

Prière de faire parvenir vos propositions (un résumé de 2 000 à 3 000 signes, un titre provisoire, une courte bibliographie sur le sujet et une biographie de quelques lignes) à l’adresse de la rédaction (revue-perspective@inha.fr) le 16 janvier 2023 au plus tard. Les auteurs des propositions retenues seront informés de la décision du comité de rédaction en février 2023, tandis que les articles seront à remettre pour le 1er mai 2023. Les articles soumis seront définitivement acceptés à l’issue d’un processus anonyme d’évaluation par les pairs.

Pour en savoir plus, cliquez ICI, consultez la page de la revue sur le site de l'INHA, et parcourez Perspective en ligne ici.