"Illustrating the Vitae patrum: The Rise of the Eremitic Idealin Fourteenth-Century Italy", Denva Gallant, 1 March 2023 3:00PM CET/9:00 AM ET (In Florence & Online)

KUNSTHISTORISCHES INSTITUT IN FLORENZ/MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT

LECTURE

Illustrating the Vitae patrum: The Rise of the Eremitic Ideal
in Fourteenth-Century Italy

Denva Gallant

01 March 2023, 3:00pm CET/9:00am ET

In Florence & Online

Monk Tempted by Demon, folio from Vitae patrum, between 1330-1340, Naples. Pierpont Morgan Library, ms M.626, fol. 58v.

In the late third and fourth centuries, a number of men and women from Egypt, Palestine, and Syria chose to make a daring break with society, renouncing their familial claims and wealth so that they could lead a life of perfection in the desert. By withdrawing from society to the desert to undergo the ultimate test of faith, these men and women, known to later generations as the Desert Fathers and Mothers, committed themselves to sacrifice, to an exclusive reliance on God, and to the letting-go of ego. Their lives became legends that resonated across the centuries to come. In particular, beginning in the fourteenth century, mendicant orders in Italy saturated the Christian devotional landscape with stories of the hermit saints, extolling the ascetics as exemplars of an ideal piety that was worthy of emulation. Coinciding with this resurgence in interest in the Desert Fathers and Desert Mothers was the sudden and unprecedented emergence of images of the desert saints. 

Illustrated in the kingdom of Naples around the year 1336, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, manuscript M.626 represents a singular witness to the rise of the eremitic ideal and its impact on the visual culture of late medieval Italy. It is distinguished from other illuminated manuscripts both by the quantity of the illustrations—272 images illustrate the lives of over thirty Desert Fathers and Mothers—and by the characteristics of its visual narratives. The illuminators of the Morgan manuscript provide the viewer with an expansive visual narrative that depicts (and often recommends) the process by which the saint achieved his or her sanctity or closeness with God. This lecture introduces a variety of manuscripts of the Vitae patrum—from the less extensively illuminated manuscripts to the most fulsomely illustrated dated to the fourteenth-century. It focuses, however, more narrowly on Morgan manuscript M.626 and considers just how its illuminations emphasize and in turn offer the contemplative life as exemplar.

 

Denva Gallant is a specialist in European medieval art and architecture, with an emphasis on manuscript illumination and the figural arts of the Trecento. Her scholarly work explores themes of narrative, the rise of the eremitic ideal as exemplum virtutis, and issues of patronage in the Middle Ages. She has received a number of research fellowships including awards from Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. She is currently the recipient of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Rome Prize in Medieval Studies for the 2022-2023 academic year.  Her current book project, Illustrating the Vitae patrum: The Rise of the Eremitic Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy, is the first work to examine comprehensively the Morgan Library’s richly illustrated manuscript of the VP (MS. M. 626), whose extraordinary illustrations comprise a singular witness to the rise of the eremitic ideal and its impact on the visual culture of late medieval Italy. 

For more events: https://www.khi.fi.it/en/aktuelles/veranstaltungen.php

"Instrumental Bodies: On Makers, Servants, and Machines in the Medieval Mediterranean", Lamia Balafrej, 24 January 2023 3:00 PM CET/9:00 AM ET (In Florence & Online)


Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz/Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Lecture


Instrumental Bodies: On Makers, Servants, and Machines in the Medieval Mediterranean

Lamia Balafrej

24 January 2023, 3:00pm CET/9:00AM ET

In Florence & Online

Wine-serving automaton, folio from a copy of al-Jami‘ bayn al-‘ilm wa al-‘amal al-nafi‘ fi sina‘at al-hiyal (A Compendium on the theory and practice of the mechanical arts) of Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari, d. 602/1206, Anatolia. Istanbul, TSMK, Ahmet III 3473

Evocations of automated servants can be found across a wide range of ancient and medieval sources, promoting the mechanical reproducibility of servitude, while objectifying subaltern labor as machine-like. However, the thesis of substitution technology—the idea that technical media can replace servants—might betray a number of modern assumptions, including the master-slave dialectic, and a belief in technology’s efficiency, in its ability to minimize imprecision—as well as workers’ visibility and resistance. This talk will delve into visual, material, philosophical, technical, and literary sources, in order to understand the work of technology in medieval imaginaries. On the one hand, the desire for automation invites a political, critical reading of the machine as a tool of domination. On the other hand, the linkage between servitude and technology might also have had a different, if not opposite, effect: bringing subaltern labor to the fore. 

Lamia Balafrej is Associate Professor of Art History at UCLA, specializing in the Arts of the Islamic World. Her new research project explores the intersected histories of technology and labor in the medieval Mediterranean. She is currently a 2023 Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome and will be a Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in Spring 2023. In her first book, The Making of the Artist in Late Timurid Painting (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), she examined the work of visual intricacy in Persian painting in relation to Persianate notions of authorship, medium, and representation. 

For more information: https://www.khi.fi.it/en/aktuelles/veranstaltungen.php

Call for Applications: 3-Month Research Fellowship on the Cultural Heritage of Ukraine, Mapping Eastern Europe project, Deadline 20 January 2023

Call for Applications

Research Fellowship on the Cultural Heritage of Ukraine

Mapping Eastern Europe / North of Byzantium

Deadline: January 20, 2023

We invite applications for a three-month remote fellowship to assist with research and writing about the medieval and early modern history and heritage of the regions of modern Ukraine for the Mapping Eastern Europe website (https://mappingeasterneurope.princeton.edu). Mapping Eastern Europe is an open-access interactive digital platform that focuses on the history, art, and culture of Eastern Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries.

The fellow would research and write 3 case studies on key monuments and objects from the regions of modern Ukraine, as well as 2 historical or thematic overviews that will then be published on the Mapping Eastern Europe website (either in long-form or videos). Contributions may cover topics, or touch upon monuments and their afterlives, such as the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, St. Michael of the Golden Domes, the icon collections in Kyiv's national museums of art, as well as works of art that have been removed from Ukraine in the modern era. The fellow will also participate in the final stages of the development of a small panel exhibition about Ukraine that is scheduled to open at Tufts University in February 2023

With this project, we aim to raise awareness about the historical and cultural complexity of the regions of modern Ukraine, whose histories and heritage have been entangled in political distortions, a key example being the diverse claims laid to the material culture of Kievan/Kyivan Rus'

The successful applicant should hold a PhD and be an art historian with a specialty in the medieval and/or early modern visual culture of Eastern Europe. Applicants may be of any nationality, but preference will be given to a scholar whose work has been disrupted by the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. The fellow would need to have a solid knowledge of English and preferably have a reading knowledge of Ukrainian and Russian.

The timeline for this work is somewhat flexible but a start date at the beginning of February 2023 would be ideal. There is a $3,000 honorarium for this position, which is tied to the North of Byzantium initiative (www.northofbyzantium.org).

To apply, please send in a single .pdf a letter of interest with details about your research, your skills, and suggest 5 possible contributions to the Mapping Eastern Europe website (no more than 2 pages); a CV; and the names of 2 referees who may be contacted to provide support letters, if needed, to northofbyzantium@gmail.com by January 20, 2023. Please include in the email subject line "Application: 2023 Research Fellowship”.

For the Call for Papers flyer: Click here

New Exhibition: A Passion for Collecting Manuscripts, Getty Center, Los Angeles, 31 January 2023 - 23 April 2023

New Exhibition

A Passion for Collecting Manuscripts

January 31, 2023–April 23, 2023

Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA

Cutting from an antiphonal (detail), early 16th century, Master B.F. Tempera and gold leaf. Getty Museum

The Getty Museum is one of the few museums in the United States that maintains and displays a collection of medieval illuminated manuscripts. Portable and sumptuous, these hand-crafted treasures have garnered the interest of collectors throughout the centuries. Each has a unique story, and clues in the books themselves often provide tantalizing evidence that help reconstruct their meanderings through time. This exhibition shares intriguing stories about our manuscripts and the remarkable journeys that brought them to Los Angeles.

For information about spotlight tours from February to April: https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_3741.html

For more information about the museum: https://www.getty.edu/

Call for Applications: Herzog August Bibliothek, Research grants (Long and Short-Term Fellowships), Deadline 31 January 2023

Call for Applications

Herzog August Bibliothek

Research grants

(Long and Short-Term Fellowships)

Deadline 31 January 2023

The HAB offers different fellowships for post-docs and experienced researchers (senior level) and the state of Lower Saxony funds two different formats in the area of research fellowships. In addition, there are further fellowship opportunities with cooperation partners.

Research grants funded by the State of Lower Saxony 2024

Next application deadline: January 31, 2023, start: January 1, 2024

Post-doc Fellowships

Early career scholars who are within 6 years of receiving their PhD, may apply for a long-term fellowship of between 6 and 10 months. The library will award from 4 to 6 such fellowships annually. The monthly fellowship is € 2.200. The fellowship holder will receive a one-time reimbursement for the cost of travel to and from Wolfenbüttel (max. € 2.000). Fellows who bring their families to Wolfenbüttel may apply for a monthly child supplement (one child: € 300; two children € 400; three or more € 500).
*for applications submitted in January 2023 the PhD must have been awarded in 2017 or later.

Short-term Fellowships

The fellowships are addressed to a broad range of scholars of all career stages (from post-doc to emeriti) wishing to make a short visit in order to gather source material. Applications can be made for stays of between one and three months. The monthly fellowship is € 1.800. A travel subsidy will also be paid (between € 150 and max. € 650, depending on country of origin).

Application for a fellowship at the Herzog August Bibliothek

For your application please request the application forms for the respective fellowship program at ed.bah@gnuhcsrof, stating your research focus and the keyword "Post-doc" or "Short-term". Reviewers will be appointed to evaluate the applications, and the Scientific Advisory Board will select the fellows. You can find the guidelines for the awarding of scholarships in the download area on the right.

For more information and contact details: https://www.hab.de/en/forschungsstipendien/

For a PDF of the Call for Applications, click here.

Call for Applications: Fellowships at the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, Deadline 1 February 2023

call for Applications

Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame

Mellon Fellowship

and

Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship

Deadline 1 February 2023

The Institute offers several competitively awarded grants and fellowships:

A. W. Mellon Junior Faculty Fellowship in Medieval Studies

The Medieval Institute offers a fellowship for a junior faculty scholar in Medieval Studies, made possible through the generous response of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to a challenge grant awarded to Notre Dame by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This Fellowship is designed for junior faculty who currently hold a position in a United States university as an assistant professor. It is open to qualified applicants in all fields of Medieval Studies. The fellowship holder will pursue research in residence at Notre Dame's famed Medieval Institute during the academic year (this is a nine-month position that begins mid-August).

The intent of this Fellowship is to enable its holders to complete research and writing on a book manuscript in advance of tenure. The Fellowship carries no teaching responsibilities, but holders are expected to participate in the multidisciplinary intellectual life of the Institute and to reside in South Bend. The Fellow will be provided with a private carrel in the Medieval Institute, enjoy full library and computer privileges, and have access to all the Institute’s research tools.

In addition, towards the conclusion of their residency the Fellow’s work will be at the center of a half-day conference. Three senior scholars, chosen in cooperation with the Medieval Institute, will be invited to campus for a half-day public seminar treating the subject matter of the Fellow’s research. The senior scholars will also read and discuss a draft version of the Fellow’s work in an extended private session, a one-to-one conversation following a close reading of the draft, with a view to improving the manuscript before its submission to a press.

Eligibility: Mellon scholars must hold a tenure-track appointment at a U.S. institution, obviously with a completed Ph.D., and should not be more than six years beyond receiving their Ph.D. at the time of the application.

Stipend: $50,000 (paid directly to the Fellow’s home institution)

Application deadline: February 1, for the upcoming academic year. Applications are accepted, and the button below active, from November 1 through February 1.

Application procedure: Upload a letter of application, a project proposal of no more than 2500 words, a current c.v., and three letters of recommendation. If you encounter issues with Interfolio, please contact their customer support.

Address questions to the Director of the Medieval Institute, Prof. Tom Burman, at tburman@nd.edu. See the list of our past fellows

Apply Here

Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in public humanities, supported by a previous endowment grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the Institute. The fellow will devote the majority of the fellowship time to working closely with the Institute’s staff, especially its director of undergraduate studies and engagement, in the Institute’s outreach and engagement efforts directed at local schools as well as potential donors, alumni, and undergraduate majors and minors. The fellow will also work with the Assistant Director to prepare public humanities marketing and communications materials. The remainder of the fellow’s time may be devoted to research and/or teaching.

The fellow will be provided with a workspace in the Medieval Institute, enjoy full library and computer privileges, and have access to all the Institute's research tools.

Eligibility: Applicants must hold a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in some area of the humanistic study of the Middle Ages, or have it in hand by the beginning of the fellowship term. Applicants must have relevant experience in public engagement in the humanities, highly effective people skills, and multimedia digital literacy. Experience with digital humanities is highly desirable.

Salary: $49,440 per year, plus benefits

Application deadline: Every other February 1 for the upcoming academic year, starting in 2021. Applications are accepted, and the button below active, from November 1 through February 1 of those alternate years.

Application procedure: Upload a letter of application that includes reflection on how this postdoctoral position would fit into your broader career goals, a current c.v., and three confidential letters of recommendation. You may also upload a digital portfolio and similar supporting materials. If you encounter issues with Interfolio, please contact their customer support.

Address questions to the Director of the Medieval Institute, Prof. Tom Burman, at tburman@nd.edu.

Apply Here

For more information about the Medieval Institute: https://medieval.nd.edu/.

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.