New Exhibition: UKRAINE: Connected Histories and Vibrant Cultures, Tufts University, Opening and Reception 6 March 2023 5:00 PM

UKRAINE: Connected Histories and Vibrant Cultures

Opening and Reception on 6 March 2023 5:00 PM ET

Tisch Library Main Lobby, Tufts University

The territory of modern Ukraine was once part of the largest kingdom of medieval Europe, known as Kyivan Rus. The heart of that early medieval kingdom - the city of Kyiv - is today the capital of Ukraine. It features impressive monuments, as well as remarkable collections and archives that are endangered by Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine. This exhibition highlights aspects of the early history and cultural heritage of Kyivan Rus, demonstrating how expansive, well-connected, and diverse this region of Eastern Europe was during the medieval and early modern periods.

Moreover, the exhibition addresses later transformations and manipulations of the historical and material record in order to advance certain narratives, especially during the Soviet era, and current efforts to document, study, and preserve the history and heritage of Ukraine.

For more details and to register visit: go.tufts.edu/ukraine_exhibit

For the event flyer, click here.

Co-organizers: Alice Isabella Sullivan (History of Art and Architecture), Anna Kijas (Lilly Music Library), Francesca Bisi (MA 2023), Rileigh K. Clarke (MA 2023), Emmi Farrell (MA 2023), Jillian Lepek (MA 2023), Artem Dinh (2023), Charlie Kong (2024), Defne Ulusoy (2024), Kate Shymkiv (2026), W. Miles Donovan (Tisch Library)

Co-sponsors: Office of the Deans, Tisch Library, Lilly Music Library, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Department of English, Department of History, Department of Political Science, International Relation Program, Global Tufts Month

Church Monuments Society Online Lecture Series: The Abbatial Effigies from Quedlinburg in the Medieval and Early Modern Era, Dr Karen Blough, 4 March 2023 , 17:00-18:15 GMT (13:00-14:15 ET)

Church Monuments Society Online Lecture Series

The Abbatial Effigies from Quedlinburg in the Medieval and Early Modern Era

Dr Karen Blough, Professor Emerita of Art History, SUNY Plattsborough, USA

4 March 2023 17:00-18:15 GMT (13:00-14:15 ET)

Image Credit: Dr Karen Blough

An event forming part of the Church Monuments Society's series of online lectures for Spring 2023. Everybody welcome!

To Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-abbatial-effigies-from-quedlinburg-in-the-medieval-and-early-modern-era-tickets-535767463907

The Abbatial Effigies from Quedlinburg in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era: In this lecture, Dr Blough discuss the three early 12th-century abbatial effigies that first visualized the identity of the convent at Quedlinburg (north Germany) and three of the subsequent abbatial images that responded to that template in times of conventual crisis. She also considers the marginalization of the effigies after the community's conversion to Protestantism, and their reevaluation in the 19th and early 20th century.

Dr Karen Blough is Professor Emerita of Art History at SUNY Plattsborough. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1995 with a doctoral thesis entitled 'Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Codex Barberini latinus 711: A Late Tenth-Century Illustrated Gospel Lectionary from Reichenau'. She regularly presents her work on early medieval manuscript illumination and female abbatial patronage in the Middle Ages at conferences, including among others the Medieval Academy, the St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, the International Medieval Congress at Leeds (UK), and the Annual International Conference on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo (Michigan). Her book with Brill, A Companion to the Abbey of Quedlinburg in the Middle Ages, was published in November 2022.

Event Information

This online talk is FREE to all and will take place on Zoom. Places must be booked via Eventbrite. This is one of a series of online talks delivered by the Church Monuments Society for Spring 2023.

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Before the event:

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• Enjoy the talk!

Register today for ICMA's Digital Approaches to Medieval Art History featuring Maeve Doyle and Alex Brey! Thursday 2 March 2023 at 12pm ET (Online)

Digital Approaches to Medieval Art History 
featuring Maeve Doyle and Alex Brey

Thursday 2 March 2023 at 12pm ET

Online via Zoom

Register HERE

Please join the Digital Resources Committee for this exciting event with invited speakers, Maeve Doyle (ECSU) and Alex Brey (Wellesley College). Following their presentation, committee members, Paula Mae Carns (UIUC) and Nicholas Herman (SIMS), will lead a dialogue about digital approaches to medieval manuscript studies, with a few minutes reserved at the end for a broader discussion with the virtual audience.

Top: A folio from NEP-27, UPenn Museum. Bottom: Women readers in the margins of a thirteenth-century book of hours (Cambrai, Médiathèque municipale MS 87, fol. 113r)

Call for Papers: "Skin And Bone, Wood And Stone," NLHF Medieval Animals Heritage Conference, Canterbury (29 June-1 July 2023), Abstracts Due 25 March 2023

Call for Papers for Academic Conference

Skin And Bone, Wood And Stone

Thursday 29 June – Saturday 1 July 2023

Old Sessions House, Canterbury Christ Church University

Abstracts Due 25 March 2023

The NLHF Medieval Animals Heritage Conference invites abstracts for 20-minute academic papers that explore aspects of research on the theme of medieval and early modern animal studies, green heritage, sustainability, and wellbeing engagement. Medieval animals traditionally are linked to St Francis, but this conference also discusses how books of beasts were used by St Anselm and his kinsman Honorius to connect spirituality to people’s emotions in what became an important local and international heritage.

Anselm told parables about the soaring Eagle, the shy Little Owl, the frightened Hare, and the beautiful Pearl of the oyster while Honorius drew on the early bestiary to create stories to be carved and painted in churches – such as the Lion breathing life into his stillborn cubs as a figure for hope. The NLHF Medieval Animals Heritage Project has used these ideas to promote SEND and community engagement in green heritage.

Proposals for papers may include, but are not limited to:

• Medieval and early modern animality and animal studies

• Medieval and early modern animal fables, macers, bestiaries, and De Avibus

• Scholarship on medieval treatises, sermons and parables concerning animals

• Folklore, magic, and ritual involving medieval and/or early modern animals

• Modern medievalism, postcolonialism, and antiracist scholarship linked to animals

• Medieval and early modern animal art and material culture, e.g., parchment and illuminations, bone carvings, and curated collections

• Non-European medieval animal studies

• Engagement with medieval animal heritage themes, digital animalities, activism, restoration, and craft

• Learning and teaching (including SEND activities) involving medieval animal themes

• Medieval and early modern environmental issues, green heritage, and biodiversity

As well as a call for papers, the Skin and Bone, Wood and Stone Conference is looking for creative contributions.

There will be a gallery exhibition space as part of the conference, and we are keen to exhibit creative responses to the theme of Medieval Animals Heritage. Please get in touch with any questions.

This free and exciting conference will include a tour of Rochester Cathedral and its Textus 900 Exhibition, a wine reception, thanks to the generosity of University of Wales Press Medieval Animals series, and will finish with the Medieval Animal Heritage themed Canterbury Medieval Pageant and Family Trail. Please send a title, a suitable image for the programme, and a 150-word abstract, plus your contact details and a brief CV to: Dr Diane Heath at diane.heath@canterbury.ac.uk by 25th March 2023, thank you.

For a PDF of the call for papers, click here.

Call for Participation: SENSORY EXPERIENCE ACROSS MEDIEVAL COMMUNITIES, Hosted by The Consortium Medievalists, New York City (6 May 2023 In-Person and Zoom), Abstracts Due 15 March 2023

Call for Participation

SENSORY EXPERIENCE ACROSS MEDIEVAL COMMUNITIES

Graduate Lightning Talks

Hosted by The Consortium Medievalists

May 6th, 2023 | New York City | A hybrid in-person and Zoom event

Abstracts Due March 15th, 2023

The Consortium Medievalists invite participation from graduate students in all disciplines for a series of lightning talks, which will take place during our forthcoming second annual symposium, “Sensory Experience Across Medieval Communities.” This symposium aims to explore fresh approaches to the “sensory turn” in studies of the Global Middle Ages. How does sensory experience connect cultures and communities across space and time? In what ways were specific cultures and communities sensorily engaged? This broad exploration of the senses supports a variety of methodologies and perspectives. We are honored to announce that Professor Avinoam Shalem (Art History, Columbia) will be the keynote speaker.

Topics may include but are not limited to: 

• theories of sense perception in various cultures during the Global Middle Ages

• corporeal vs. spiritual senses

• multisensory experience in religious practices and ritual 

• uses of sensory imagery in literature and art

• the relationship between the senses and constructs of gender, class, race, and ethnicity

• medical, theological, and philosophical understandings of the senses

• the role of the senses in inter-cultural encounters

• affect theory, new-materialism, and environmental humanities

We invite submissions for five- to eight-minute short talks. These presentations may be informal discussions of research-in-progress or more formal analyses. Although there is no requirement, slides and other sensory media may be included. Submissions are welcome from but not limited to the following fields: African Studies, Architecture, Art History, Book History, Disability Studies, East Asian Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, History, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Judaic and Hebrew Studies, Languages and Literatures, Law, Manuscript Studies, Musicology, Performance Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Sociology. Talks focused on non-European regions and cultures in the Global Middle Ages are particularly encouraged. 

The Consortium Medievalists are a collection of 120+ Ph.D. and M.A. scholars from the New York City-area inter-doctoral consortium (NYU, Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, CUNY Graduate Center, The New School, and Stony Brook) as well as Yale and Hunter College. This year’s symposium will take place in person at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan and via Zoom. The keynote speaker will be Avinoam Shalem (Art History, Columbia).

To apply to participate, either in person or virtually, send a short abstract (150-200 words) through this form by March 15th, 2023. For further information or questions, please contact The Consortium Medievalists at consortium.medievalists@gmail.com. Visit www.consortiummedievalists.com for updates.

Click here for the form to apply to give a lightning talk.

Call for Papers: The Society for Church Archaeology Annual Conference 2023, The Church in North West Britain and its Connections (15-17 September 2023), Liverpool, Abstracts Due 1 May 2023

Call for Papers

The Society for Church Archaeology Annual Conference 2023

The Church in North West Britain and its Connections

Hosted at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

15th-17th September 2023

Abstracts Due 1 May 2023

Hosted in partnership with the University of Liverpool, UK and sponsored by the Liverpool Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (LCMRS).

The church in North West Britain will be the theme of the Society for Church Archaeology's annual conference for the first time in the society's history. Covering the north-western seaboard of England, Scotland, and Wales, this region has a long and complex history of church and ecclesiastical sites which do not always or easily mirror the changes and continuities noted in other, arguably more well-researched and well-excavated areas, of Britain and Ireland. Reflecting centuries of cultural exchange around the Irish Sea, not least with western Ireland, the North West has its own rich heritage, combining influences from the south-west of Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia.

However, site-specific connections beyond the region are also well-attested, such as Chester and York, Liverpool and Dublin, St Asaph cathedral and Westminster Abbey, and more broadly, Cumbria and the Isle of Man, although by no means exhaustive of regional connections within and beyond the North West. From its earliest medieval origins to its most recent church heritage, this conference aims to include the widest range of periods and places, connections or isolations, from this complex and vibrant region.

The Society for Church Archaeology is also very pleased to confirm that the University of Liverpool will be our first annual conference partner and co-ordinated by members of the Liverpool Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (LCMRS). The conference itself will be held at the iconic Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. The Friday evening keynote and reception, sponsored by LCMRS, will be held in the university's prestigious School of the Arts Library. A fieldtrip to Norton Priory, the most excavated monastic site in Europe, is scheduled for Sunday with full access to its extensive museum of finds and its walled garden.

The Society for Church Archaeology would be delighted to consider papers on the theme of the Church in North West Britain and its Connections for presenting in-person at the society's annual conference 15th-17th September 2023. Topics covered might include but are not limited to:

• Individual church/ecclesiastical sites

• Groups or networks of church/ecclesiastical sites

• Assemblages of material culture from or connected to church/ecclesiastical sites

• Heritage interpretations of church ecclesiastical sites

• Reconstructing historic practices within or for church buildings (e.g. music, song, reading, scents etc.)

• Church furniture

• Church monuments (Singular or plural)

• Churchyards and burial practice

Abstracts should be 200 words max. and emailed to scaconference2023@outlook.com by 1 May 2023. For further enquiries, please contact scaconference2023@outlook.com

General Programme (Full schedule to follow inc. times)

Friday 15th September 2023

Evening Keynote and Reception

Venue: School of the Arts Library, 19 Abercromby Square, University of Liverpool campus.

Saturday 16th September 2023

Society for Church Archaeology Conference Papers

Venue: Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.

Sunday 17th September 2022

Fieldtrip to Norton Priory, Runcorn inc. museum and walled garden. www.nortonpriory.org

Dialogue in Homilies and Hymns on the Annunciation: The Dynamics of a Divine Encounter, Mary Cunningham, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, 1 March 2023 12:00-1:30 PM ET (Zoom)

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture Lecture Series

Dialogue in Homilies and Hymns on the Annunciation: The Dynamics of a Divine Encounter

Mary B. Cunningham, University of Nottingham

1 March 2023, 12:00-1:30 PM ET (Zoom)

Mosaic Icon of the Annunciation, ca. 1320, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (7231-1860). Image: Victoria and Albert Museum (https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O93208/the-annunciation-mosaic-unknown/).

The story of the Annunciation of the archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary is first recounted in the Gospel of Luke 1: 26-38. The event was formally adopted as a major feast in the Eastern Church, celebrated on 25 March (nine months before Christmas) in 560, during the reign of the Emperor Justinian. Homilies and hymns on the Annunciation were composed long before this date, however, not always in association with the feast. These texts build on Luke’s narrative, describing Mary as the ‘Second Eve’ who overturned the disobedience of her first ancestor by consenting to God’s will and conceiving Christ, the Son of God. They celebrate the event as the inauguration of the new dispensation, which will bring salvation to humanity and the rest of creation. Further elaboration, which appears especially in homilies – but later also in hymns – on the Annunciation, can be seen in the invention of dialogues between Gabriel and Mary or Mary and Joseph. These serve not only to convey the doctrine of the incarnation to audiences, but also to illustrate the Virgin’s human condition. She expresses shock and doubt at her first encounter with the archangel, but gradually accepts his message of salvation. This lecture will examine variations in liturgical writers’ handling of the issues of free will, gender, and Marian devotion in Byzantine homilies and hymns on the Annunciation. It will be illustrated by images of the scene, including in icons, manuscript illustrations, and monumental art.

Dr Mary Cunningham is Honorary Associate Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham. She has published books and articles on the Virgin Mary in Byzantium, homiletics, and hymnography. Dr Cunningham’s latest monograph is The Virgin Mary in Byzantium, c. 400-1000. Hymns, Homilies, and Hagiography (Cambridge University Press, 2021). She is currently working on a translation and commentary of two ninth-century Lives, one of which concerns the Virgin Mary. 

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

For the poster, click here.

Beyond Europe: Medieval Art & the World, Risham Majeed, The Eda G. Diskant Memorial Lecture, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 27 March 2023 12-1 PM (Online)

The Eda G. Diskant Memorial Lecture

Beyond Europe: Medieval Art & the World

Risham Majeed, Ithaca College

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Monday, March 27, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Online)

Head of a King, 1125–35, attributed to Gislebertus (French, active around 1120–40). On loan from Glencairn Museum, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania

In this virtual talk, scholar Risham Majeed discusses works from the exhibition Medieval Treasures from the Glencairn Museum in relation to works in the museum’s collection, tracing their material origins outside of Europe. Learn how they came into the possession of American collectors and institutions. Introduced by curator Jack Hinton.

Risham Majeed’s research specializes in the connections between the European Middle Ages and historical African art. Majeed has curated several exhibitions and published extensively on exhibitions and current issues in museology. Currently she is completing a book length study of the museums of the Trocadéro palace in Paris.

Jack Hinton is the Henry P. McIlhenny Curator of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture.

Things to Know

• A link will be sent to registrants prior to the program from no-reply@zoom.us.

• The program will be recorded; a link to the recording will be sent to registrants after the program.

• The program is closed captioned.

This program is funded by the Robert and Eda G. Diskant Endowment Fund.

For more information: https://philamuseum.org/calendar/event/beyond-europe-medieval-art-the-world?d=2023-03-27&s=12:00

To register: https://philamuseum.org/calendar/event/beyond-europe-medieval-art-the-world?packageID=6405

Call for Articles: Fenestella, Issue 4/2023 - Deadline 30 June 2023

Call for Articles

Fenestella

Issue 4/2023 – Deadline: 30 June 2023

Fenestella is a scholarly and peer-reviewed open access journal. It is published by Milano University Press on OJS. Fenestella publishes scholarly papers on medieval art and architecture, between Late Antiquity and c. 1400, covering the Latin West, the Byzantine East and medieval Islam. The journal aims to consider medieval artefacts from within, as if seen through a fenestella confessionis, to throw light on iconography, function and liturgical practice and space. Fenestella supports basic research. Papers on wide-ranging themes, critical reviews and studies of micro-topics are all welcome, as long as they contribute to the international debate. Fenestella accepts submissions in Italian, English, French, German and Spanish.

No specific topic. Register to make a submission https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/fenestella

redazione.fenestella@unimi.it

For a PDF of the CFP, click here.

Call for Contributions: Medieval Borders and the Environment, ed. Dr. Elisa Ramazzina, Abstracts Due 15 March 2023

Call for Contributions

Medieval Borders and the Environment

ed. Dr. Elisa Ramazzina

Abstracts Due 15 March 2023

Proposals for essays in English (c. 8000-12000 words) are warmly welcomed on the topic "borders, the elements, and the environment'

This volume, provisionally titled Medieval Borders and the Environment, will be submitted to Brill to be included in the new series "Elements, Nature, Environment: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from the Ancient to the Early Modern World" edited by Dr. Marilina Cesario and Dr. Andreas Lammer. The volume's goal is to provide a venue for interdisciplinary research on the time period between about 500 and 1500 or slightly later. It intends to promote study on underrepresented parts of the medieval world, broadly construed, as well as articles that examine interconnections across regions and cultures.

The volume aims at covering topics from the following regions, broadly intended: Europe, including Northern and Eastern Europe Central Asia, South Asia, India, Japan, China, North and South Africa, East and West Africa, Oceans and Seas, the Americas, Australia, and Oceania.

The book aims to respond to the following questions:

• What fundamental characteristics did borders have during the Middle Ages?

• What did the word "boundary" mean in general?

• Were boundaries separating one thing from another real or imaginary?

• How did borders affect the environment? What effects did boundaries have on the local environment, as well as the cultures and people that inhabited it? And how have borders changed or been defined in relation to the environment?

• Have toponymy and borders been influenced by elemental theory, or vice versa?

• What impact had the environment on the spread of epidemics? Did it promote its expansion or serve as a barrier? Ans how did disease affect borders?

• What effects have the environment and borders had on culture, the dissemination of knowledge (including that pertaining to science, engineering, and currents in the arts and architecture), dietary customs, clothing, trade, and movement in general?

All other contributions have been confirmed, and they include real and imaginary borders in medieval Rus', the transmission of the Old Norse materia medica between Scandinavia and the continent, material mobilities within commercial markets as political and cultural boundary crossings between medieval Korea and Mongolia, and the spread of iconographic motifs with artistic, magical, and political purposes in the Baltic Sea region, among others. Final contributions will be due in May 2024.

Proposals might include but are not limited:

• Border Studies;

• Old and Middle German Studies;

• Lombard language, history and culture;

• Gothic language, history and culture;

• Celtic Studies;

• Medieval Romance Studies (including French);

• Medieval Islamic Studies;

• Pre-Columbian cultures;

• Geography and Cartography, including Human Geography;

• Toponymy (especially in connection with environmental features and elemental theory);

• History of Science;

• Landscape Epidemiology;

• History of Medicine;

• Environmental History;

• Sociology;

• Anthropology;

• Etc.

Please send 200-300 word abstract of your proposed essay, and a brief introduction of yourself, to the editor: Dr. Elisa Ramazzina (elisa.ramazzina@unipv.it), Queen’s University Belfast. The deadline for the submission of proposals is March 15, 2023.

For a copy of the CFP, click here.

Call for Papers: Discourse of Diversity in the Medieval World, edited by Eric Bryan and Jill Fitzgerald, Abstracts Due 28 April 2023

Call for Papers

Discourse of Diversity in the Medieval World

edited by Eric Bryan and Jill Fitzgerald

Abstracts Due 28 April 2023

Raimundus Lullus, Thomas le Myésier: Electorium parvum seu breviculum (nach 1321) - Manuscript in the Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe, Germany - Cod. St. Peter perg 92, Blatt fol. 12r

The editors of this volume welcome essays on discourse in sources from cultures coeval with texts produced in medieval Europe—for example, from the Islamic world, Central and East Asia, Africa, and beyond. Of equal importance are examinations of discourse and diversity in European sources along the axes of culture, language, socio-economics, gender and other identities, nationality, and religion.

Discourse may here be fundamentally understood as how we talk to one another but may be represented in medieval texts as direct discourse, missives, sermons, or visual communication.

The editors of this collection invite 300-word abstracts (essays of 7,000-8,000 words following abstract acceptance) that approach this subject from a range of perspectives.

Please submit a 300-word abstract jointly to co-editors Dr. Eric Bryan (bryane@mst.edu) and Dr. Jill Fitzgerald (jfitzger@usna.edu) on or before 28 April 2023. Questions may likewise be submitted to the editors via email.

For more information, please see the call for papers.

The library of the Marquis of Santillana (d. 1458) and the cultural networks of the European Renaissance, Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto, 20 February 2023 6:00-7:30PM GMT/1:00-2:30 PM ET (Online)

Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art

The library of the Marquis of Santillana (d. 1458) and the cultural networks of the European Renaissance

Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto

20 February 2023 6:00-7:30 PM GMT/ 1:00-2:30 PM ET (Online)

First page of a copy of Cicero’s De officiis made for the 1st Marquis of Santillana (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Res. 236, fol. 1)

This talk will focus on an analysis of the books collected by Íñigo López de Mendoza, Marquis of Santillana, one of the most prominent figures of early Castilian Humanism. Although the relevance of his library was already acknowledged in a pioneering study by Mario Schiff in 1905, art historians have tended to pay more attention to the manuscripts produced for Santillana in Castile. And yet, the books he acquired or commissioned in France and, most notably, Italy, allow us to reconstruct the dense network of political, family and cultural connections behind his eclectic patronage, and to understand how his leading role in the introduction of new visual languages in Castile granted him a towering position among the other Castilian magnates. 

Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto is Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the University of Santiago de Compostela and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Southern Denmark. She has extensively worked on late medieval book illumination, on medieval Iberian courtly art and on the Classical tradition in the Middle Ages. Her latest publication is "La biblioteca del Marqués de Santillana", for the catalogue of the exhibition El Marqués de Santillana: Imágenes y letras at the Museo Nacional del Prado and the Biblioteca Nacional de España, from 4 and 5 Oct 2022 to 8 January 2023.

The event is part of the Research Seminar series organised by the Zurbarán Centre with the ARTES Iberian and Latin American Visual Culture Group. The series provides an open forum for engaging with innovative research and exhibition projects relating to the visual arts in the Hispanic world.

The sessions usually take place online (Zoom). Click here to register.

For more information, https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/zurbaran/news-and-events/events/research-seminar-series-spring-2023/20-february-2023/

Curating Global Medieval Art: Questioning Paradigms and Perspectives (Roundtable), National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 24 February 2023 2:00-4:15 PM ET

roundtable

Curating Global Medieval Art: Questioning Paradigms and Perspectives

West Building Lecture HalL, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

24 February 2023 2:00-4:15 PM ET

This program, hosted by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (the Center) at the National Gallery of Art, is in conjunction with the 98th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America.

This roundtable on curating global medieval art will bring together curators representing Washington, DC-area medieval collections. Panelists will be asked to address what “medieval,” “internationalisms,” and “global” mean to them. Panelists may also speak to the structural and institutional barriers that exist towards accomplishing an “international” or “global” approach in their curatorial, scholarly, and public-facing work and consider possible solutions. How can institutions foster collaboration between curatorial departments and empower curators to collaborate with other institutions to present a more “global” view of the medieval period? By engaging curators in dialogue with one another, we seek to develop a more coherent view of curation, research, and teaching in global medieval art and material culture. 

Panelists:

• Elizabeth Dospěl Williams
  Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC

• Emma Natalya Stein
  National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC

• Frank Feltens
  National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC

• Kevin Tervala
  Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

• Ellen Hoobler
  The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

Moderator:

• Steven Nelson
  Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

To reserve your spot, click here.

Questions? Contact Matthew Westerby at m-westerby@nga.gov, or call 202.789.4944.

Mary Jaharis Center Lecture Series:Dialogue in Homilies and Hymns on the Annunciation: The Dynamics of a Divine Encounter, Mary Cunningham, 1 March 2023, 12-1:30 PM (Online)

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the next lecture in its 2022–2023 lecture series.

Dialogue in Homilies and Hymns on the Annunciation: The Dynamics of a Divine Encounter

Mary Cunningham, University of Nottingham

Wednesday, March 1, 2023 | 12:00-1:30 PM EST | Zoom

Mosaic Icon of the Annunciation, ca. 1320, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (7231-1860). Image: Victoria and Albert Museum (https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O93208/the-annunciation-mosaic-unknown/).

The story of the Annunciation of the archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary is first recounted in the Gospel of Luke 1: 26-38. The event was formally adopted as a major feast in the Eastern Church, celebrated on 25 March (nine months before Christmas) in 560, during the reign of the Emperor Justinian. Homilies and hymns on the Annunciation were composed long before this date, however, not always in association with the feast. These texts build on Luke’s narrative, describing Mary as the ‘Second Eve’ who overturned the disobedience of her first ancestor by consenting to God’s will and conceiving Christ, the Son of God. They celebrate the event as the inauguration of the new dispensation, which will bring salvation to humanity and the rest of creation. Further elaboration, which appears especially in homilies – but later also in hymns – on the Annunciation, can be seen in the invention of dialogues between Gabriel and Mary or Mary and Joseph. These serve not only to convey the doctrine of the incarnation to audiences, but also to illustrate the Virgin’s human condition. She expresses shock and doubt at her first encounter with the archangel, but gradually accepts his message of salvation. This lecture will examine variations in liturgical writers’ handling of the issues of free will, gender, and Marian devotion in Byzantine homilies and hymns on the Annunciation. It will be illustrated by images of the scene, including in icons, manuscript illustrations, and monumental art.

Mary B. Cunningham is Honorary Associate Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham. Her latest monograph is The Virgin Mary in Byzantium, c.400-1000. Hymns, Homilies, and Hagiography (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Advance registration required at https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/dialogue-in-homilies-and-hymns-on-the-annunciation

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

Call for Papers: MEDIEVAL IDENTITIES: (RE-)CONSTRUCTING THE SELF AND THE OTHER, WORKSHOP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG (23 MAY 2023), Deadline 26 February 2023

Call for Papers

MEDIEVAL IDENTITIES: (RE-)CONSTRUCTING THE SELF AND THE OTHER

WORKSHOP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG 23 MAY 2023

Abstracts Due: 26 February 2023

The rise in popularity of studies on medieval subjectivity, emotions, affect, alterity, and individuality, betrays our continued fascination with the medieval self. The affective turn in the Humanities sparked new discussions and a renewed concern with the study of the individual, which prompted the development of different theories and approaches, ranging from historical and sociological to cognitive. Medievalists, too, have contributed to these emerging discourses on selfhood and since then engaged with the ongoing debates around the self and the other—be it human or animal.

The aim of this workshop is to explore how selfhood and otherness are expressed in cultural artifacts of the medieval period and onwards. It is targeted at researchers in the area of Medieval Studies from a variety of disciplines and fields, such as literary and cultural studies, philosophy, history, linguistics, gender studies, book and manuscript studies, and medieval art. We seek proposals for 20-minute presentations in English which explore new theoretical avenues and encourage interdisciplinary approaches. Contributions can consist of more developed research projects or work in progress. To maximize the opportunity for feedback and the exchange of ideas, each talk will be followed by a group discussion. The workshop will conclude with a public talk by Prof. Carolyne Larrington (St John’s College, University of Oxford).

Potential questions and topics we hope to address throughout the workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Which forms do the expressions of selfhood take in medieval literature or visual culture? How do they differ from modern representations?

• In what ways are otherness and the non-human articulated in medieval cultural productions?

• How are emotions used to represent the self?

• What continuities and discontinuities exist between the representation of the modern and the medieval self?

• How are medieval identities represented in medievalism(s) and popular culture?

• How can we incorporate newer theoretical approaches, such as gender studies, queer studies, or critical race theory, into ongoing academic discussions?

Please submit an abstract of up to 200 words and a short biography of up to 100 words by February 26th, 2023 to the organizers Dunja Haufe and Sonia García de Alba Lobeira at medieval.identities@gmail.com.

Call for Applications: Visiting Senior Fellowships 2023-2024, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Application Due 21 March 2023

Call for Applications

Visiting Senior Fellowships 2023-2024

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Application Deadline: 21 March 2023

Miklós Boskovits (1935–2011), “Puccio di Simone, Allegretto Nuzi/Saint Venantius [right panel]/1354,” Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/8 (accessed February 14, 2023).

The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts announces its program for visiting senior fellowships. All of the fellowships are for full-time research, and scholars are expected to reside in Washington and to participate in the activities of the Center throughout the fellowship period. Lectures, colloquia, and informal discussions complement the fellowship program. Each visiting senior fellow is provided with a study. In addition, fellows who relocate to Washington are provided with housing in apartments near the National Gallery, subject to availability. Fellows have access to the notable resources represented by the art collections, the library, and the image collections of the National Gallery of Art, as well as to the Library of Congress and other specialized research libraries and collections in the Washington area.

Up to two Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellowships and up to five Paul Mellon and Beinecke Visiting Senior Fellowships will be awarded for the period September 1, 2023–February 28, 2024. Qualified applicants are considered for all visiting senior fellowships.

Fields of Study

Leonard A. Lauder, Paul Mellon, and Beinecke Visiting Senior Fellowships are intended to support research in the history, theory, and criticism of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, prints and drawings, film, photography, decorative arts, industrial design, and other arts) of any geographical area and of any period. For the Lauder Visiting Senior Fellowship, the Center encourages applications in historically marginalized fields. Visiting senior fellowship applications are also solicited from scholars in other disciplines whose work examines artifacts or has implications for the analysis and criticism of visual form.

Qualifications and Selection

Visiting senior fellowships are intended for those who have held the PhD for five years or more at the time of application, or who possess an equivalent record of professional accomplishment. Holders of visiting senior fellowships may reapply three years after the completion of the fellowship. Individuals currently affiliated with the National Gallery of Art are not eligible for the visiting senior fellowship program. Visiting senior fellowships are awarded without regard to the age or nationality of applicants. Applications are reviewed by an external selection committee composed of scholars in the history of art and related disciplines. Outside readers may assist in the evaluation of proposals.

Stipends

Recipients of Leonard A. Lauder Fellowships are eligible for an augmented stipend of $12,500 for a two-month residency, which includes a supplement of $2,500 to support future research and publication expenses. 

Recipients of Paul Mellon and Beinecke Fellowships will receive a basic stipend of $7,000 or $8,000, depending upon relocation requirements. In addition, fellows receive housing, as available.

Applications

Candidates for visiting senior fellowships must submit, on or before the deadline, an online application that includes a proposal and a copy of one article or chapter of a book. Two letters of recommendation in support of the application are required.

Visiting senior fellows may receive awards in three consecutive years but thereafter must wait three years before reapplying to the Center. Individuals may not apply for other Center fellowships while an application is pending or once a fellowship has been awarded. Visiting senior fellowships may not be postponed or renewed.

Award period: September 1, 2023–February 28, 2024

Application Deadline: March 21, 2023

To apply, click here.

Contact: 1.202.842.6480 TheCenter@nga.gov

Mailing Address: 2000 South Club Drive, Landover, MD 20785

For more information, https://www.nga.gov/research/casva/fellowships/visiting-senior-fellowships.html.

Call for Applications: PhD ON the Project, Portraying Medieval Women: The Materiality of Female Images and Art Patronage in the Latin East (12th–15th centuries)

Call for Applications

PhD Candidates for the SNSF PRIMA Project

Portraying Medieval Women: The Materiality of Female Images and Art Patronage in the Latin East (12th–15th centuries)

University of Fribourg

Due 20 February 2023

Taux d'activité/Activity Rate: 80-100%

Lieu / District/Location: Fribourg, CH, Sarine, CH

Délai de postulation/Application Date:  20.02.2023

Date d'entrée en fonction/Date of Entering the Position:  01.03.2023 or to be agreed

Type de contrat/Contract Type: CDD

Who Are We?

The SNSF PRIMA Project Portraying Medieval Women: The Materiality of Female Images and Art Patronage in the Latin East (12th–15th centuries) (https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/208477), hosted at the Chair of Medieval Art History at the University of Fribourg, offers a four-year doctoral position focused on female representations and patronage in Southern Italy under Latin rule (12th–15th century). Her/his dissertation will be dedicated in the compilation of a comprehensive catalogue of the extant material in the assigned territories.

Why Join Us?

The state-employer encourages the balance of work life and private life and offers an environment and working conditions attractive to its employees. To know more, follow this link.

Your Mission

The most important task of the PhD researcher will be the carrying out of original research and the completion of her/his dissertation. Moreover, she/he is expected to actively participate in all the project’s research activities and scientific events, such as workshops, conferences and research trips.

Ideal Profile

• MA in Art History with specialization in Medieval or Byzantine Art

• Proficiency in Italian

• Very good language skills in English

• Good command of French and/or German

For more information, contact the project’s PI (Asst. Prof. Rafca Nasr, rafca.nasr@unifr.ch), or visit https://jobs.fr.ch/job/Fribourg%2C-CH-PhD-Position-Sari/763894202/. or https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/208477.

Call for Papers: The Fourth Middle Ages in Modern Games Twitter Conference (6-9 June 2023, Online), Due 9 April 2021

Call for Papers

The Fourth Middle Ages in Modern Games Twitter Conference

(@MidAgesModGames, #MAMG23)

6 to 9 June 2023 (ONline)

Applications Due 9 April 2021

The Public Medievalist and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research at the University of Winchester present The Fourth Middle Ages in Modern Games Twitter Conference. The central themes of this year’s event are ‘Fantasy’ and ‘Apocalypse’. Fantasy and Apocalypse are closely tied to medievalist games. Pseudo-medieval worlds are by far the most common setting for fantasy games from Dungeons and Dragons to World of Warcraft. Meanwhile, many games with apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic settings such as Fallout and Torment: Tides of Numenera make use of medieval tropes to build their worlds. These settings are clearly removed from the Middle Ages, but are nevertheless fundamentally medieval and can strongly influence modern perceptions of the period.

This conference considers the Medieval and Medievalism in Modern Games. We invite ‘papers’ (comprising a thread of 12 Tweets) and sessions of 3 to 5 papers which address any aspects of the medieval period or medievalism in any and all forms of modern games. We particularly welcome papers addressing the central conference themes of ‘Fantasy’ and ‘Apocalypse’. The conference will be conducted remotely and there will be no registration fee. To promote accessibility and inclusivity, the event runs asynchronously across time zones.

Topics may include (but are not restricted to):

• The End of the World in Medievalist Games

• Fantasy Games beyond Western Europe

• Post-Apocalyptic Feudalism

• Medieval and Fantasy Mechanics in Sci-Fi Worlds

• Magic and Technology

• Gender and Sexuality in Fantasy and Apocalyptic Worlds

• ‘Historical Accuracy’ in Fantasy Games

• Boundaries between Fantasy and Medievalism

• Constructing and Portraying Nuanced Fantasy Races

• Building Pseudo-Medieval Worlds

• Literary and Audio-Visual Influences

• Teaching through Fantasy and Apocalyptic Games

• Heterogeneity and Diversity in Fantasy Games

• Chronological and Genre limits of Medievalism

We encourage submissions from medievalists, and games scholars and developers at any point in their career— especially those from Postgraduate Students, Early Career Researchers and members of any groups under-represented within the academy and industry. We welcome pieces addressing any region globally, and within a broad definition of ‘medieval’ and ‘medievalism’.

Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words, brief biographies, and indications of time zone and availability as attachments in Word to Robert.Houghton@Winchester.ac.uk by Friday 9 April.

For a PDF of the call for papers, click here.

Call for Applications: The Servane de Layre-Mathéus Grant Fund of the American Friends of Chartres, Deadline 31 March 2023

Call for Applications

GRANT OPPORTUNITY FOR
Ph.D. CANDIDATES AND EMERGING SCHOLARS

The Servane de Layre-Mathéus Grant Fund of the
American Friends of Chartres

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: March 31, 2023

The American Friends of Chartres is accepting proposals from current graduate students and emerging scholars for its annual research grant for the study of Chartres. The American Friends of Chartres will provide a stipend of $2,000.00 and will facilitate lodging, as well as access to the cathedral, the Centre International du Vitrail, the municipal library, archival collections and related resources.

The grant will help to support a research project requiring on-site research in Chartres that promises to advance knowledge and understanding of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Chartres or its historical contexts in the medieval to early modern period. Topics in the fields of art history, history, or related disciplines might include architecture, stained glass, sculpture, urban development, economy, religious practices, manuscripts, or the cathedral treasury, among others.

Applicants should currently be pursuing a Ph.D. or have received the degree within the last six years. Following the research project, the grantee is asked to provide a synopsis of the research and conclusions, which will be publicized through the cultural activities and website of the American Friends of Chartres. Questions about the grant may be addressed to ChartresResearchGrant@gmail.com.

Applicants should supply:

A description of up to 500 words of the proposed project, including:
• questions to be researched and their importance to scholarship on the art, culture, or history of Chartres;
• requirements for access to monuments, works of art, and archival resources;
• projected length of time and tentative dates to be spent in Chartres;
• expectations for publication of conclusions, whether alone or as part of a larger project, including a Ph.D. dissertation, article, or book.
A current Curriculum Vitae
Names and contact information of two references

Please send application materials as e-mail attachments in Word or PDF format to ChartresResearchGrant@gmail.com

The Servane de Layre-Mathéus Fund for Research on Chartres Cathedral

The American Friends of Chartres has established a special fund honoring the memory of Servane de Layre-Mathéus (1939-2020), co-founder of Chartres--Sanctuaire du Monde, of the Centre International du Vitrail, and of American Friends of Chartres. Servane dedicated much of her life to the preservation of Notre-Dame de Chartres Cathedral, and to the pursuit and transmission of knowledge of medieval art, culture, and spirituality. In recognition of her contributions, she was made chevalier of the Légion d’honneur, officier des Arts et des Lettres, and officier de l’ordre national du Mérite. The fund is intended to support research that furthers her work.

Call for Applications: Studienpreis des Landesdenkmalamtes Berlin, Deadline 17 February 2023

Call for Applications

Studienpreis des Landesdenkmalamtes Berlin

Bewerbungsfrist für den Studienpreis 2023: 17. Februar 2023.

Bild: Landesdenkmalamt Berlin

Die Berliner Denkmallandschaft ist so vielfältig wie die Stadt: Moderne Siedlungen und alte Dorfkerne, intime Hausgärten und weitläufige Volksparks, durchmischte Gründerzeitquartiere und wohlhabende Villenvororte, technische Infrastrukturen und global operierende Industrien, weltbekannte Ikonen der Moderne und Aufsehen erregende archäologische Funde.

So vielfältig wie die Denkmallandschaft sind die Formen der Beschäftigung mit ihr: Bau- und stadthistorische Forschungen, denkmalgerechte Sanierungen und Umnutzungen, Partizipationsangebote und Vermittlungsaufgaben sind wichtige Grundlagen der Berliner Denkmalpflege.

Seit 2021 vergibt das Landesdenkmalamt Berlin einen Studienpreis. Der Studienpreis des Landesdenkmalamtes Berlin würdigt und fördert die Beschäftigung an Universitäten und Hochschulen mit der Berliner Denkmallandschaft. Er wird jährlich für herausragende Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten verliehen, die sich auf die Berliner Denkmallandschaft beziehen und für die Berliner Denkmalpflege relevante Themen behandeln.

Es handelt sich um den ersten Studienpreis der Amtsdenkmalpflege in Deutschland.

Teilnahmeberechtigt sind Studierende an allen Universitäten und Fachhochschulen im In- und Ausland. Eine Eingrenzung auf bestimmte Disziplinen oder Fachgebiete wie Kunstgeschichte, Denkmalpflege, Architektur, Gartenarchitektur, Restaurierung oder Archäologie besteht nicht. Ausschlaggebend ist allein die thematische Ausrichtung der Abschlussarbeit.

Der Studienpreis des Landesdenkmalamtes Berlin wird jährlich an bis zu drei Bachelor- oder Masterarbeiten verliehen. Jeder Preis ist mit 1.000 Euro dotiert. Über die Verleihung der Preise entscheidet das Landesdenkmalamt Berlin.

Aktuelle Ausschreibung

Einsendeschluss ist der 17.02.2023.

Teilnahmeberechtigt sind Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten, die im Zeitraum von bis zu zwei Jahren vor der Auslobung des Studienpreises an einer Universität oder Fachhochschule abgeschlossen und bewertet wurden. Für den Studienpreis 2023 entspricht das dem Zeitraum vom 01.01.2021 bis zum 17.02.2023.

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