Call for Papers: Echoes of Antiquity, International Interdisciplinary Conference, Warsaw (15 June 2023), Abstracts Due 16 April 2023

Call for Papers

ECHOES OF ANTIQUITY

International Interdisciplinary Conference

15-16 June 2023, Warsaw, Poland

Abstracts due 16 April 2023

We kindly invite specialists and young researchers from various disciplines to take part in the second edition of the interdisciplinary international conference „Echoes of Antiquity” which will take place at The University of Warsaw and The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw, the 15–16th of June 2023. We invite scholars whose research concerns the tradition of ancient art, and the reception of Antiquity in disciplines such as archaeology, history, history of art, cultural studies, literary studies and other related disciplines.

Areas of interest for the 2023 edition include but are not limited to:

• Collections of plaster casts

• Reception of Antiquity in applied arts

• Architecture and urbanism

• Antiquity in modern culture

We are also happy to announce that the proceedings in every panel will be opened by the keynote speeches delivered by recognized specialists from various institutions: prof. Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford), prof. Maria Fabricius Hansen (University of Copenhagen) and Astrid Nielsen (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden). Workshops and a tour of the uncovered historic foundations of the Saxon Palace, which will soon undergo the process of rebuilding, will also be organised for participants of the conference during the two days of the meeting.

The language of the conference is English. Proposals of maximum 300 words must be written in English and submitted via email to echoes@uw.edu.pl no later than 16th of April 2023. The list of accepted presentations will be announced by the end of April.

The conference is organised by The Faculty of Archaeology of the Warsaw University, The Royal Łazienki Museum, Pałac Saski Sp. z o.o. (the company tasked with rebuilding the Saxon Palace in Warsaw), and The University of Warsaw Museum.

Participation in the conference is free, and there is no registration fee.

The organising committee will be happy to answer all your questions at echoes@uw.edu.pl.

For more information, https://muzeum.uw.edu.pl/en/2023/03/21/echoes-of-antiquity-international-interdisciplinary-conference-2/

Call for Papers: 2023 Summer Salon Virtual Conference, PROPOSALS Due April 15, 2023

Call for Papers

2023 Summer Salon Virtual Conference

PROPOSALS Due April 15, 2023

Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the SWPACA Summer Salon conference to take place June 8-9, 2023, virtually! One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. New this year is the Medievalisms area (see below)!

Registration information for the conference is available at on the Registration Page.

How to Get Started:

1. Look through the SWPACA Subject Area List for where your research ideas will fit best. One proposal (to one Area) per year, per person.

2. Head over to our Conference Management System to create an account and submit your proposal. Choose the Subject Area under the “Topic” drop down menu.

3. After submitting a proposal, you’ll receive an automated confirmation of the system’s receipt (not the same as a conference acceptance!).

4. By the end of April, you should receive another email with the status of your proposal.

5. If accepted, return to the Conference Management System and register for the conference. The official conference schedule will be published by mid-May.

6. For more information about submitting proposals, visit our FAQ page.

In addition, please check out the organization’s peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, at http://journaldialogue.org.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Medievalisms

Amber Dunai, PhD, Texas A&M University – Central Texas, adunai@tamuct.edu

The Medievalisms area invites paper and session proposals on any and all topics relevant to medievalism, which is described by Tison Pugh and Angela Jane Weisl in Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present (2013) as “the art, literature, scholarship, avocational pastimes, and sundry forms of entertainment and culture that turn to the Middle Ages for their subject matter or inspiration, and in doing so…comment on the artist’s contemporary sociocultural milieu” (1). Medievalism can be approached in many ways, including in terms of media (e.g., literature, architecture, cinema, music, games), chronology (e.g., Early Modern, Romantic, Victorian), geography, and from any number of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives (e.g., cultural studies, media studies, race and ethnic studies, gender and queer studies). Presentations that engage with current conversations in the field are particularly welcome.

Examples of topics relevant to the Medievalisms area include (but are not limited to): 

• Literary Medievalisms

• Cinematic Medievalisms

• Medievalisms in Art, Architecture, Music, and Performance

• Medievalisms in Gaming, LARPing, and Role-Playing

• Medievalisms of Place and Space

• Gender, Sexuality, Race, Ethnicity, Class, etc. in Medievalisms

• Global Medievalisms

• Queer Medievalisms

• Political Medievalisms

• Medievalisms in the Classroom

To Submit, a proposal to the Medievalisms area: https://register.southwestpca.org/southwestpca

For more information, http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/?fbclid=IwAR2k3rDuBnb9bW9Jm5S--S0y2rUdzGf_Vlz2XNXvoR00bvrGRixLoEBUiRk

Call for Papers: Afterlives: Reinvention, Reception, and Reproduction, CSU Long Beach & Forest Lawn Museum (4 November 2023), Abstracts Due 1 June 2023

Call for Papers

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at CSU Long Beach and Forest Lawn Museum

Afterlives: Reinvention, Reception, and Reproduction

November 4, 2023

Forest Lawn Museum, 1712 S. Glendale Ave, Glendale, CA 91205

ABSTRACTS DUE 1 JUNE 2023

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at California State University, Long Beach, in collaboration with Forest Lawn Museum, invites submissions for the biennial conference, Afterlives: Reinvention, Reproduction, and Reception. We invite scholars from any discipline to approach the ways in which texts, objects, and images of the ancient, medieval, and Renaissance past have been reimagined, repurposed, reconstructed, and reproduced in later periods.

Recent scholarship illuminates the ways in which narratives of the past are constructed according to the interests of later periods. This conference seeks to further these investigations. Forest Lawn Museum is an ideal site for exploring the afterlives of the past as constructed or reconstructed in the present. Founded in 1906, Forest Lawn is home to dozens of reproductions of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance works of art and architecture. It was created with the goal of bringing the Grand Tour to Southern California when travel to Europe was not accessible to the vast majority of American society. From full-scale replicas of Michelangelo’s sculpture to buildings that freely combine classical, Romanesque, and Gothic elements in novel and imaginative ways, this version of the Grand Tour was both influenced by and influential upon the culture of twentieth-century California. Rather than simply replicating existing works of art and architecture, entirely new monuments were created, which simultaneously call upon the past while proliferating new experiences, meanings, and identities.

This conference invites investigation of such uses of the past with the broadest possible scope. We ask scholars to consider engagements with the past in terms of ongoing processes of reinvention, reproduction, and reception. Papers that address popular culture, such as contemporary fantasy literature, film, and television, gaming, popular and folk music, theme parks and other immersive amusement sites, AI generated reconstructions, historical reenactments, costume design, and cultural or folkloric festivals, are welcome. Studies on medievalisms and scholarship on reproductions of antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance are also encouraged, including investigations of architectural reconstructions, medieval and Renaissance narratives of antiquity, the role of medievalism in museums, and non-European perspectives on reinventions of the past.

We welcome proposals for twenty-minute papers as well as planned panels of three papers pertinent to the conference themes and their manifestations anywhere in the world.

Individual paper submissions should include:

● abstract of approximately 150 words

● contact information and one-page CV

Panel Submissions should include:

● contact information and one-page CV for organizer / chair

● names and abstracts (c. 150 words) for all presenters

● one-page CVs of all presenters

● short (c. 150 word) description of the panel itself

Please send all application materials to: heather.graham@csulb.edu, Ilan.MitchellSmith@csulb.edu, and jfishburne@forestlawn.com. The deadline for all abstracts and panel submissions is June 1, 2023.

Afterlives: Reinvention, Reproduction, and Reception will be an in-person conference held in accordance with LA County Covid-19 protocols. Participants should be prepared to meet at Forest Lawn Museum on November 4. After a lunch provided on the patio overlooking the Verdugo mountains, Museum Director James Fishburne will lead conference participants on a behind-the-scenes tour of Forest Lawn Museum and its holdings. A reception will follow the event.

For more information about the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at CSU Long Beach and Forest Lawn Museum, please visit: https://cla.csulb.edu/centers/med-ren/ and https://forestlawn.com/museum

Call for PhD Applications: “From Antiquity to Community: Rethinking Classical Heritage through Citizen Humanities,” AntCom, Due 24 April 2023

Call for Applications

10 PhD Fellowships

within Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral networK

“From Antiquity to Community: Rethinking Classical Heritage through Citizen Humanities”

Applications Due 24 April 2023

Are you interested in cultural heritage, reception studies and/or the new frontiers of classics? Are you passionate about cutting-edge research but you also want to boost your skills by learning about new approaches and technologies? We might have something for you.

AntCom network publishes a call for 10 PhD fellowships within the training program “From Antiquity to Community: Rethinking Classical Heritage through Citizen Humanities”. The positions are funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, Grant Agreement 101073543.

By building on a high-level, integrated cooperation between the humanities and STEM, AntCom offers the first formal training program in Citizen Science for the humanities (Citizen Humanities). It prioritises both open science and innovative curatorial techniques (Multi- and Hyperspectral Imaging) to encourage cooperation between researchers and communities.

AntCom welcomes highly motivated applicants from various backgrounds. These backgrounds may include but are not limited to: Classics, Manuscripts Studies, Linguistics, History, Art History, Engineering Physics, and other related subjects. Depending on the position, applicants will be employed at the University of Southern Denmark, University of Verona, University of Salento, University of Santiago de Compostela.

The call is open to applicants of any age and nationality who meet the following requirements at the recruitment date:

1. Prior to the starting date of the PhD programme they must hold or be due to hold a Master’s Degree (e.g., Master of Science or Master of Arts).

2. Must not already hold a doctoral title.

3. Must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the recruiting organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the recruitment date (mobility Rule).

Additional requirements can apply for specific positions. For further information, please consult the detailed information for each position.

Applications will be accepted from 24/02/2023 until 24/04/2023 at 12:00 pm (Central European Time).

For forms and more information: https://antcom.eu/call-for-applications/

Online Conference: Medievalisms on the Screen III: Digital Medievalisms and the Teaching of History, 13-15 April 2023

Online Conference

Medievalisms on the Screen III: Digital Medievalisms and the Teaching of History

Organized by Department of Medieval Studies Central European University

April 13-15, 2023

An online conference exploring the characteristics, opportunities and challenges brought by the use of digital media, digital humanities, public discourse and medievalisms in the contemporary communication of historical knowledge both inside and outside the classroom.

You can pre-register for free at: https://forms.gle/EDfpchLt6BFnXvvC8

Schedule

April 13, 2023

3:00-4:30 ET/9:00-10:30 CET - Keynote Lecture

Prof. Katherine J. Lewis (University of Huddersfield). There is no fiction in our song: Medievalism and the (re)writing of medieval history

5:00-6:30 ET/11:00-12:30 CET - Teaching the Middle Ages: Curricula and Political Ideology

Olga Kalashnikova. History serves the motherland: Miseducating medievalisms in contemporary public discourse in Russia

Brian Egede-Pedersen. "Wait. . . some people actually believe this?!": Using extremist content in the Danish upper secondary sector

Anna Adashinskaya. Digital textbooks on Russian history after Russia's 2014 invasion of Ukraine

7:30-9:00 ET/13:30-15:00 CET - Medieval Gaming and Pedagogy

Daniel Atwood. Fantasy video games and medieval minstrels in the music history classroom

Robert Houghton. Investiture Contest Online: Digitising medieval learning boardgames

Juan Manuel Rubio Arevalo. Learning about medieval history and the crusades through video games

9:30-11:00 ET/15:30-17:00 CET - The Middle Ages in Popular and Digital Media: Politics and Representation

Jan Kremer. Playing religion and spirituality in Kingdom Come: Deliverance - Dialogue with Czech historical culture

Debojyoti Dan. Medieval political histories and their (un)conscious implications in A Song of Ice and Fire

Cullan Bendig. Hussite video games and Czech digital nationalism

April 14, 2023 

3:00-4:30 ET/9:00-10:30 CET - Keynote Lecture

Dr. Helen Young (Deakin University). Learning about the Middle Ages: Videogames as Public History

5:00-6:30 ET/11:00-12:30 CET - Medieval Digital Preservation and Research

Shiv Kumar. Digitization and preservation of epigraphy and inscriptions through the archeological survey of India

Jon Burke. Learning to love fakes: How to overcome the inauthenticity of digital artifacts

Progoti Bakshi. Digitalization and preservation of medieval Bengali manuscripts

7:30-9:00 ET/13:30-15:00 CET - Divulgating the Middle Ages through Social Media

Igor Stamenovic. Information and disinformation about the Middle Ages on popular Serbian history social media pages

Jaime Tortosa Quirós. The Middle Ages and social divulgation in the internet era: The case of @Res_Historica

Paula Stiles. Fictional fascists: Combating racist images of the Knights Templar in visual and social media

9:30-10:20 ET/15:30-16:30 CET - Digital Tools and the Teaching of the Middle Ages

Petra Plantosar. The Middle Ages and artificial intelligence: Possibilities of use in the Teaching of History

Sára Bíbor Sziklai. From Gregorian chant to music printing - four parts of the permanent exhibition in the House of Music, Hungary

 
April 15, 2023

3:00-4:30 ET/9:00-10:30 CET - Teaching the Middle Ages: Strategies and Approaches

Zohrab Gevorgyan. The use of miniatures in Cilician Armenia in history teaching: Strategies and approaches

Shivender Rahul et.al. Diversity in the teaching of the Middle Ages: Exploring the complexity of gender and race

Heather Blatt. Inviting students to address their biases in Medievalisms Studies

5:00-6:30 ET/11:00-12:30 CET - Digital Reconstructions of Medieval Spaces CET

Mariana Barreira. The Timelink information system in medieval historical research: The case of São Bartolomeu of Coimbra

Lorenzo Mercuri. Representative strategies and misleading attempts for a digital reconstruction of the Knights Templar headquarters in Paris

James Baillie. The Uncreativity Engine: AI tools in popular medievalist worldbuilding

7:30-9:00 ET/13:30-15:00 CET - The Middle Ages in Popular and Digital Media: Approaches to Gender

Amy Bucher. "Radiant as the Tresses of Aurora": The pre-Raphaelite impact on popular depictions of medieval women's hair and gender 

Irina Manea. The Northman - another berserk on screen?

Máté Vas. "This is how silly men perish": Imagined medieval masculinities in The Green Knight

For more information, https://medievalstudies.ceu.edu/medievalisms-screen-iii-digital-medievalisms-and-teaching-history

Follow the department at @yoursmedievally.

See our previous iterations on our Channel: Medievalisms on the Screen.

Call for Applications: Dumbarton Oaks, Research Grants (Due 31 March 2023) & Remote Mentorship Program (Due 30 April 2023) for Scholars affected by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine

Call for Applications

Dumbarton Oaks

Research GrantS

Applications Due 31 March 2023

Mentorship Program

Applications Due 30 April 2023

In response to the current conflict in Ukraine, Dumbarton Oaks is offering two initiatives to support scholars at risk. The newest initiative—a four-session remote mentorship program co-organized with scholars at Boise State University, University of Kent, Princeton University, and Tufts University—will offer professional development and workshop opportunities around a variety of topics. The second initiative is a limited number of research grants, open to scholars active in any of the three areas of studies supported by Dumbarton Oaks, namely Byzantine Studies, Pre-Colombian Studies, and Garden and Landscape Studies.

Research Grants

Dumbarton Oaks is committed to the support of scholarship around the world. We are offering for the year 2023 a limited number of research grants of 5,000 USD each (minus any applicable taxes) available to those affected by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The grants are open to scholars active in any of the three areas of studies supported by Dumbarton Oaks: Byzantine Studies, Pre-Columbian Studies, and Garden and Landscape Studies. The deadline for applications is March 31, 2023.

Eligibility: The research grant is open to all those who hold a PhD and who are or were affiliated to a research or higher education institution in Ukraine. If they are no longer residing in Ukraine, the applicant will need to provide evidence of active academic affiliation in the last three years. Displaced scholars affiliated with Russian research or higher education institutions can apply if they reside outside Russia and have an active academic affiliation in the last three years within or outside Russia.

Scope and Conditions: The grant may be used to support research in any of the three areas of study supported by Dumbarton Oaks (Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, and Garden and Landscape Studies), whether by an individual or as part of a joint project. The grants are awarded to individual scholars on the basis of their abilities and qualifications, as well as the significance and value of the project to the field for the specific area of study. Funding is immediately available to the researchers at their current location, provided this is permitted by current legal restrictions, and should be used for within one year of the announcement of the grant award.

Applications: Applicants must submit through the Embark application system, which will remain open until March 31, 2023. Each applicant will be asked to submit:

• A research statement of up to 1,000 words in length outlining the project, its significance to the field, and the applicant’s relevant needs, resources, and skills

• A CV that demonstrates teaching and research in one of the three areas of study supported by Dumbarton Oaks

• Proof of academic affiliation

• Three names of referees that may be contacted to provide support letters if needed

Mentorship Program - North of Byzantium | Connected Central European Worlds, 1500-1700

Co-organizers: Tomasz Grusiecki (Boise State University), Suzanna Ivanič (University of Kent), Nikos D. Kontogiannis (Dumbarton Oaks), Maria Alessia Rossi (Princeton University), Alice Isabella Sullivan (Tufts University)

We invite applications for a remote four-session mentorship program tailored to early-career scholars affected by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. This program is meant to offer professional development and workshop opportunities around the following topics:

• Publishing in top academic journals and books

• Writing successful grant applications

• Preparing successful job documents

• Disseminating research in different contexts

Each professional development event will include presentations from experts and opportunities for Q&A and feedback. These events will be followed by one-on-one mentoring sessions, which are intended to expand on the feedback received, while offering additional tailored guidance for each participant. There might be the possibility for an in-person gathering of all participants upon the completion of the program.

The four sessions will take place in June, July, September, and October 2023. All participants will need to attend all workshops and mentoring sessions to complete the program successfully. Upon completion, each participant will receive a certificate, and may receive an honorarium of $500 (minus any applicable taxes). It is the responsibility of foreign national participants to verify their ability to receive an honorarium.

Eligibility: The successful applicants should be advanced PhD candidates (within 1 year of completion of their degrees) or junior-level scholars (up to 5 years since graduation with a doctoral degree). We encourage historians and art historians with a specialty in the medieval or early modern visual culture of Eastern Europe to apply to this program. This opportunity is open to all, but preference will be given to scholars whose work has been disrupted by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. We anticipate selecting 6-8 participants for this program.

Applications: To apply, please use the online Embark portal to upload a one-page letter of interest with details about your research, skills, and reasons for participating; a CV; and the names and contact details of two referees who may be contacted to provide support letters, if needed, by April 30, 2023.

For more information, https://www.doaks.org/research/fellowships-and-awards/opportunities-ukraine-scholars

CALL FOR PAPERS: THIRTY-SIXTH IRISH CONFERENCE OF MEDIEVALISTS, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY (22-23 JUNE 2023), ABSTRACTS DUE 30 APRIL 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

THIRTY-SIXTH IRISH CONFERENCE OF MEDIEVALISTS

#ICM36

TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY

THURSDAY 22 AND FRIDAY 23 JUNE 2023

ABSTRACTS DUE 30 APRIL 2023

Registration: €40 (students €20). Due when invited to register one month before conference.

Venue: The Banking Hall, 3/4 Foster Place, Dublin 2. Please note that this year it is intended that the conference will be in person.

ICM welcomes speakers from Ireland and abroad on all aspects of the Middle Ages. We now invite proposals for papers on any aspect of medieval studies, including but not limited to:

• History

• Art History

• Literature

• Linguistics

• Archaeology

• Theology

• Philosophy

• Palaeography

Papers should last no more than 20 minutes (+10 minutes for discussion). Proposals should be sent by email to Dr Sparky Booker (sparky. booken@dauie) no later than 30th of April 2023.

Each submission should include the following details:

• Name

• Institutional Affiliation (if any)

• Email Address

• Paper Title

• Abstract (c100 Words)

Themed Sessions: Themed sessions are comprised of three speakers. Please provide a proposal for each paper. You are welcome to nominate your own session chair.

Roundtable Sessions: Proposals are also invited for roundtable sessions of 50 minutes addressing major issues in a field. The proposal should include a short description of the purpose of the roundtable, the name of the chair and a list of agreed participants.

Cuirfear fäilte roimh phaipeir as Gaeilge

Conference Organizers: Sparky Booker, Peter Crooks, Seán Duffy. Immo Warntjes.

Revisiting the Cloisters Cross A One-day Colloquium on the Cloisters Cross, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 12 May 2023

Revisiting the Cloisters Cross A One-day Colloquium on the Cloisters Cross

Courtauld Institute of Art, London

12 May 2023

The Cloisters Cross is widely recognised as a masterpiece of late Romanesque art. Carved of walrus ivory, it appeared after World War II in a private collection and was subsequently acquired by the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The earliest scholarly publications identified it as English, and that probably remains the majority opinion. However, over the years, other attributions have been suggested. What has become clear in the process is that the Cross merits study in the broad intellectual and artistic context of northern Europe, from the Ile de France up to Scandinavia, and England across to Germany.

This one-day colloquium, jointly held by the British Archaeological Association and the Courtauld Institute, will review and extend the debates about the origins and history of the Cloisters Cross. Speakers include Charles T. Little, Sabrina Harcourt-Smith, Robyn Barrow, Miri Rubin, Neil Stratford, Cecily Hennessy and Sandy Heslop.

Date: Friday 12 May 2023, 10.30am - 6.30pm
Location: Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, Penton Rise, London WC1X 9EW
Organisers: Sandy Heslop (taheslop@gmail.com) and Cecily Hennessy (cecilyjane@hotmail.co.uk)

Tickets are £25 full price and £15 for students. Booking is through Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/revisiting-the-cloisters-cross-a-one-day-colloquium-tickets-510587931247.

This is an in-person event at our Vernon Square campus. Booking will close 30 minutes before the event begins. Registration cost includes lunch and refreshments.

For more information, https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/revisiting-the-cloisters-cross-a-one-day-colloquium/

Call for Applications: Full Professor of History of Art and Architecture (500-1500), Radboud Universiteit, Due 2 May 2023

Vacancy

Full Professor of History of Art and Architecture (500-1500)

Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Applications Due 2 May 2023

Are you an innovative, experienced and inspiring scholar in the field of the history of art and architecture between 500-1500? Do your research and teaching explore cross-cultural connections and expand or complicate the geographical and cultural boundaries of the 'medieval'? As a full professor at Radboud University, you will join and lead a diverse group of dedicated scholars, shape the field of art and architectural history, and flourish in a friendly and vibrant academic community.

We warmly invite you to browse our vacancy and apply! You would preferably begin employment between 1 September 2023 and 1 January 2024.

The History of Art section at Radboud University is looking for a Full Professor of History of Art and Architecture between 500-1500 CE (1,0 FTE). The position builds on the section's existing strengths, which includes visual and material culture of Europe after 1500 CE, architecture, and global modern and contemporary art.

You are an art historian whose research explores cross-cultural connections and links historical research to contemporary issues and practices, such as cultural heritage. Our section is especially interested in scholars whose research and teaching expand or complicate the geographical and cultural boundaries of the 'medieval', who incorporate new methodologies, and whose interests include Islamic Art and Architecture, materiality and craft (including modern material-technical research), or the social uses and sensory experiences of works of art.

As a Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Radboud University, you will build on your robust and innovative research agenda, track record of outstanding scholarly publications, and other academic achievements on an international level. You will develop cross-disciplinary collaborations through innovative teaching and research, mentoring, and forging links with students and faculty across the university and beyond. You will contribute to the development of courses on all levels, teach both introductory and specialised courses, and take part in study trips, which are integral to the curriculum. You will also participate in teaching in Faculty-wide minor programmes, such as Cultural Heritage and the Public, or Conflict and Cooperation in the Mediterranean World.

At Radboud University, you will take on a leadership role in your field of expertise and present a strong vision of its future development. You will play a dynamic and proactive role in the Radboud Institute for Culture and History (RICH), one of the Faculty's research institutes, contributing to its mission and research programme by participating in and further stimulating its research activities, publishing in high-impact journals and other research outlets, recruiting and supervising PhD candidates, mentoring junior faculty members, and applying for grants.
The professorship is part of the Department of History, Art History and Classics, one of three departments comprising the Faculty of Arts. You will represent the Art History section within the university and beyond, serve as its head in a rotating fashion with one other full professor, and work in close connection with its staff members and with the Department as a whole. You will be joining a university with expertise in Mediterranean Studies (both in the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies). You will be expected to serve as a standard bearer for student recruitment, and take on a crucial role in the promotion and visibility of medieval visual and material cultures, both nationally and internationally.

For more information, https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/full-professor-of-history-of-art-and-architecture

NEW Video: Digital Approaches to Medieval Art featuring Maeve Doyle and Alex Brey, 2 March 2023

Digital Resources Committee

Presents

Digital Approaches to Medieval Art featuring Maeve Doyle and Alex Brey

2 March 2023

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)

On 2 March 2023 at 12:00 pm, the Digital Resources Committee held an exciting event with invited speakers, Maeve Doyle (ECSU) and Alex Brey (Wellesley College), that was introduced by Lindsay Cook (Penn State). Following their presentation, committee members, Paula Mae Carns (UIUC), Nicholas Herman (SIMS), and Lindsay Cook, led a dialogue about digital approaches to medieval manuscript studies, and the event ended with a broader discussion with the virtual audience.

The event can now be viewed on the Special Online Lectures page of the ICMA website: https://www.medievalart.org/special-online-lectures.

Call for Papers: Place and Space: Modifications and Adaptations of the Sacred in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras, Online Symposium (8 June 2023), Abstracts DUE BY 24 April 2023

Call for Papers

Place and Space: Modifications and Adaptations of the Sacred in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras

8 June 2023 (Online Symposium)

Abstracts Due By 24 April 2023

Exeter Cathedral

The relationship between sacred practices and space in the medieval and early modern periods is intricate and varies from place to place in medieval communities. The use of charms, graffiti, personal pieces of artwork, and depositions of everyday materials customised and determined the use and behaviour within sacred spaces. This symposium seeks to explore how communities adapted different spaces for spiritual and religious purposes.

Suggested themes for papers include (but are not limited to):

• Use of material culture in elite or non-elite domestic spaces

• Engagement with the sacred through materiality in rural or urban settings

• Use of visual culture in differing spaces

• Changes or continuity in the significance of spatial contexts for spiritual practices

• The materiality of belief in popular religion

• Regionality of spatial engagement with sacred material culture

• Interdisciplinary approaches combining written and material sources

• The role of architecture in medieval spiritual phenomenology

This symposium will be held in an online format and is hosted by the University of Leicester and the University of Exeter. Papers should be kept to a 20 minute time limiti. Please submit abstracts of 250 words, and a short biography (and any questions) to Crystal Hollis at ch844@exeter.ac.uk or Abigail Ford at af356@le.ac.uk by April 24, 2023.

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

Call for Papers in Digital Workshop: Animal Performances (500-1500). A global perspective (21 July 2023 via Zoom), Abstracts due 30 April 2023

Call for Papers

Digital Workshop

Animal Performances (500-1500). A global perspective

July 21, 2023 (via Zoom)

by Prof. Dr. Przemysław Marciniak

Abstracts Due April 30, 2023

Animals performed (and still perform) a wide range of roles in human society. One of them was entertainment: from bloody venationes of the Romans to less bloody but nonetheless cruel, displays of dancing bears and dogs.

By "animal performances" we understand all forms of public displays of animals, including ceremonial hunts, parades of exotic animals, and animal trials. We invite twenty minutes contributions that would tackle these and related subjects. We especially invite papers approaching this topic from modern methodological perspective and discussing animal performances outside the European/Euromediterrenean area.

This workshop is planned as the initial stage of possible further cooperation.

Please send abstracts, no longer than 150 words, until April 30, 2023 to przemyslaw.marciniak@mzaw.lmu.de

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

Call for Papers: INSECTS IN THE PREMODERN WORLD, Munich (6-7 July 2023), Abstracts Due 30 April 2023

MZAW-Gastprofessur für Kulturgeschichte des Altertums 2022/23

CALL FOR PAPERS

INSECTS IN THE PREMODERN WORLD

July 6-7, 2023, Munich, Germany

Conference by Prof. Dr. Przemystaw Marciniak (LMU)

Abstracts Due 30 April 2023

Edward Wilson, an American biologist, and Pulitzer Prize winner estimated that there are nearly ten quintillion insects worldwide. Throughout centuries they provoked fundamentally different emotions and reactions in various cultures: from disgust to fascination. They were used and are still being used as food and medicine.

Insects have also played an important part in human culture throughout centuries.

They were used in art and literature as vehicles for symbolic meanings. During the conference at the Münchner Zentrum für Antike Welten, we propose to look at the global history of insects from the point of view of cultural entomology, that is, how insects were integrated into the cultural fabric of a given premodern society.

The list of possible topics includes but is not limited to the following subjects:

• Insects in literature;
  Insects in art;

• Insects as animal companions;

• literary Insects as invectives and praises;

• Insects as a source of food;
  Insects in ethnopharmacology;

• archeoentomology

The chronological scope of the conference is from antiquity to ca. 1500, and the geographical perspective is global.

We invite submissions from scholars working on or interested in cultural entomology across the globe.

Date & Location: The conference will take place in Munich (LMU) on July 6-7 in a hybrid format. Please specify in your submission whether you would like to participate in person or online. Selected participants will be offered accommodation and reimbursement of travel expenses.

Abstracts: Abstracts of no more than 150 words should be sent no later than April 30 to: przemyslaw.marciniak@mzaw.Imu.de and mzaw@mzaw.Imu.de

For more information, go to https://www.mzaw.uni-muenchen.de/index.html.

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

Workshop on Medieval Wall Paintings, The Courtauld, Vernon Square Campus, London (17 May 2023), Register by 14 April 2023

Workshop on Medieval Wall Paintings

17th May 2023, 10am – 4pm

The Courtauld, Vernon Square Campus, London (In-Person) 

Register By 14th April 2023

14th-century Wall Painting at Longthorpe Tower, Peterborough, https://courtauld.ac.uk/research/research-areas/wall-painting-conservation/

Wall paintings, as one of the only forms of public art surviving from the Middle Ages, are an invaluable resource for art-historians, historians, and literary specialists, among others. However, there are also many challenges to wall painting research: it can be difficult to ‘read’ their imagery, they are often highly degraded, and crucial archival material is often dispersed and difficult to interpret.

This interdisciplinary research workshop invites participation from PhD and Early Career Researchers in art-history, history, literature, conservation, and other disciplines whose research projects involve medieval wall paintings. As well as establishing a network of researchers working on related material, we will discuss practicalities and methods of research into wall paintings. You will have the opportunity to see the National Wall Painting Survey held at The Courtauld, which contains a vast archive of material covering almost 8,000 wall paintings in the British Isles. We will also hear from wall paintings conservator Emily Howe (who has worked on the mural schemes at Eton and Westminster) about using conservation reports as part of the study of historic wall paintings.

This workshop offers the opportunity to:

• Examine different methods of researching wall paintings.

• Analyse the uses and interpretation of conservation reports for scholars working in other disciplines. 

• Assess the different types of sources for researching wall paintings.Discuss the issues surrounding the dating of wall paintings, and the various methods for doing so.

• Consider the distinctive iconographies found in wall painting and their potential relevance to broader historical enquiries. 

As part of the workshop, all participants will be invited to give a ten-minute lightening talk on the role of wall paintings in their research. 

Whilst this workshop places emphasis on English wall painting due to the connection with the National Wall Painting Survey at The Courtauld, we are keen to consider wall paintings as a global phenomenon. Therefore, we encourage submissions from a broad geographical scope pre-1550.

This workshop is supported by the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE), AHRC.

Travel bursaries available for travel within England, capped at £100 per person.
To apply, please send a CV and a short statement (300 words) on the role of wall paintings within your research to florence.eccleston@courtauld.ac.uk by Friday 14th April 2023.

Mary Jaharis Center Lecture Series: Chôra and the Creation of Sacred Space in Byzantine Architecture, Jelena Bogdanović, 30 March 2023 12:00 PM ET (Virtual)

Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture Lecture Series

Chôra and the Creation of Sacred Space in Byzantine Architecture

Jelena Bogdanović, Vanderbilt University

Thursday, March 30, 2023 | 12:00 PM EDT | Zoom

North dome, c. 1316–1321, inner narthex, Chora church, Constantinople (Istanbul). Photo: Jelena Bogdanović 

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

Can we talk about Byzantine architecture beyond buildings? What is at stake?
This presentation engages with the scholarly opportunities for theoretical considerations of sacred architecture in light of Byzantine intellectual and creative practices. Primarily focusing on principles of architectural design, sacred space is highlighted here not as an abstract category nor as a specific sacred place or location but rather as a combination of the two. As such, sacred space points to a historical and evocative locale and associated events; yet it remains inseparable from its essential qualities. By revisiting the architectural design of Byzantine churches, this talk will demonstrate the meaningful relations between created sacred space and the faithful, between physical objects in space, and the significance of non-material aspects of built structures in communicating the vitality of architectural form as a kind of participatory icon of space. Especially important is the philosophically and architecturally suggestive concept of chôra (χώρα) and its cognate hypodochē (υποδοχή), originally introduced by Plato in his instrumental text Timaeus. This presentation will analyze the relevance of chôra and hypodochē for understanding the modes of creation of sacred space and religious architecture in the late antique and Byzantine Mediterranean.

Jelena Bogdanović (Ph.D. Princeton University) is an Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Classical and Mediterranean Studies at Vanderbilt University. She studies cross-cultural and religious themes in the architecture of the Balkans and Mediterranean.

Advance registration required at https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/chora-and-the-creation-of-sacred-space

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

Call for Papers: THE EARLY DISCOVERY OF MEDIEVAL ART BY TRAVELLERS LOOKING FOR CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY IN SOUTHERN EUROPE, UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II (20-21 Nov. 2023), Due 15 Mar. 2023

Call for Papers

THE EARLY DISCOVERY OF MEDIEVAL ART BY TRAVELLERS LOOKING FOR CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY IN SOUTHERN EUROPE

(FROM THE 17TH CENTURY TO THE BEGINNING OF THE 19TH CENTURY)

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II

20-21 NOVEMBER 2023

Materials Due 15 March 2023

Organizers: Vinni Lucherini and Stefano D’Ovidio
Scientific committee: Xavier Barral i Altet, Paola D’Alconzo, Tanja Michalsky, Alessandro Taddei, Arnaud Timbert

The conference is part of the international research project DIOMEDA – The Discovery of Medieval Art while Looking for Antiquities (P.I. Vinni Lucherini), sponsored by the University of Naples Federico II and the Compagnia di San Paolo within the STAR Plus program that supports advanced and competitive research at European level. The project is elaborated in cooperation with Sapienza Università di Roma and Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck Institute for Art History, Rome.

Since at least the 17th century and throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries, travel played an essential role in the rediscovery of medieval art. Cultured men from all over Europe visited Mediterranean countries, not only Italy and Greece, but also modern-day Croatia, Turkey, as well as the Iberian Peninsula and Southern France, to see Greek and Roman monuments, but they were often confronted with artefacts and buildings from later centuries. How did they describe medieval monuments that fell before their eyes while they were in search of Classical Antiquity, and sometimes were confused with ancient monuments? What kind of language did they employ to describe them? What interpretative categories did they adopt to define them? What aesthetic or historical opinions did they have on the Middle Ages in comparison with Antiquity, which was the main goal of their journey?

The purpose of the present conference is to evaluate the attitudes towards medieval heritage by authors prepared to study Antiquity and to verify their impact on the development of a new discipline specifically dedicated to the History of Medieval Art, as it appeared in Europe from 1820’s onward.

We invite papers with a multidisciplinary perspective from experts in history, art history, archaeology, linguistics, literature, anthropology, and any other disciplines dealing with the history of travel and art historiography, both on single case studies and more general overviews. Areas of interest may include:

- The perception of medieval art and architecture by European antiquarian travellers to Mediterranean countries from the 17th century to the early 19th century.
- The language adopted to describe medieval monuments, as well as the formulation of a specific vocabulary (definitions, lemmas, technicalities), especially when borrowed from other disciplines.

- The elaboration of interpretative categories to define medieval art and architecture, especially in comparison with that from Antiquity and the Renaissance.
- The visual sources on medieval monuments featuring in travel accounts and descriptions, historical treatises, and pamphlets, especially if analysed in relation with their textual counterpart.

- The social, ideological, aesthetic, and political framework that supported the historical interpretation of medieval art and architecture.

The conference will be held at the University of Naples Federico II on 20-21 November 2023. The deadline for proposals is 15 March 2023. Applicants are kindly requested to send a title and an abstract (max 300 words), together with a short curriculum vitæ, to the e-mail address: diomedaconference2023@gmail.com. Proposals will be evaluated, and the applicants will receive an answer by mid-April 2023. The organization will cover coffee/lunch breaks. Travel and accommodation will be at the charge of the participants.

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

EAST OF BYZANTIUM LECTURE SERIES: THE ÖNGÜT CONNECTION: CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE TURKS OF MEDIEVAL EURASIA, JOEL WALKER, 25 APRIL 2023 12:00 PM ET (ZOOM)

EAST OF BYZANTIUM LECTURE SERIES

THE ÖNGÜT CONNECTION: CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE TURKS OF MEDIEVAL EURASIA

JOEL WALKER |UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE

Tuesday, April 25, 2023 | 12:00 PM EDT | ZOOM

East of Byzantium is pleased to announce another lecture in its 2022–2023 lecture series.

Early and influential allies of Chinggis Khan, the Öngüt Turks of Inner Mongolia played a pivotal role in the rise of the Mongol Empire (1206–1368). Their adoption of “Nestorian” Christianity represents the culmination of a broad stream of Turkic Christian tradition in medieval Eurasia. The careers of the ascetic Marqos of Koshang, who became the East-Syrian patriarch Yahballaha III (1281–1317), and the ruler Giwargis, the Mongol-appointed “Prince of Gaotang” (d. 1298 or 1299), help reveal the distinctive contours of the Öngüt Christian tradition.

Joel Walker is the Lawrence J. Roseman Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington, Seattle. Trained as a historian of Late Antiquity, his publications include: The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq (2006); “From Nisibis to Xi’an: The Church of the East in Late Antique Eurasia” (2012); and “Luminous Markers: Pearls and Royal Authority in Late Antique Iran and Eurasia” (2018). Current projects include Witness to the Mongols: A Global History Sourcebook (co-authored with Stefan Kamola) and a history of cattle in the Ancient World.

Advance registration required. Register: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/

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

An East of Byzantium lecture. EAST OF BYZANTIUM is a partnership between the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University and the Mary Jaharis Center that explores the cultures of the eastern frontier of the Byzantine empire in the late antique and medieval periods.

East of Byzantium Lecture Series: Divine King or Sacrilegious Upstart? The Portrait of Emperor Yǝkunno Amlak in Gännätä Maryam, Jacopo Gnisci, 21 March 2023 12:00 PM ET (Zoom)

East of Byzantium Lecture Series

Divine King or Sacrilegious Upstart? The Portrait of Emperor Yǝkunno Amlak in Gännätä Maryam

Jacopo Gnisci | University College London

Tuesday, March 21, 2023 | 12:00 PM EDT | Zoom

East of Byzantium is pleased to announce the next lecture in its 2022–2023 lecture series.

In the third quarter of the thirteenth century Yǝkunno Amlak led a rebellion against the Zagwes – a line of Christian rulers who had been in control of most of the Empire of Ethiopia since at least the first half of the twelfth century. He initiated a line that would rule the country until the twentieth century: the Solomonic dynasty. Apart from these general facts, we know relatively little about the life of the first emperor of this dynasty. In this paper I hope to further our understanding of Yǝkunno Amlak’s reign and visual strategies by focusing on his only known contemporary portrait in the church of Gännätä Maryam. By analysing this image in its wider setting, I aim to shed some light on its socio-political background and reflect on the reactions it might have triggered.

Jacopo Gnisci is a Lecturer in the Art and Visual Cultures of the Global South at University College London and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Africa, Oceania, and the America at the British Museum. He is the co-Principal Investigator of the projects Demarginalizing medieval Africa: Images, texts, and identity in early Solomonic Ethiopia (1270-1527) (AHRC Grant Ref. no. AH/V002910/1; DFG Projektnummer 448410109) and Material Migrations: Mamluk Metalwork across Afro-Eurasia (Gerda Henkel Stiftung).

Advance registration required. Register: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/

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

An East of Byzantium lecture. EAST OF BYZANTIUM is a partnership between the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University and the Mary Jaharis Center that explores the cultures of the eastern frontier of the Byzantine empire in the late antique and medieval periods.

Exhibition Symposium: Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece, College of the Holy Cross, 25 March 2023

SYMPOSIUM

BRINGING THE HOLY LAND HOME

The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece

Saturday, March 25, 2023

College of the Holy Cross
1 College Street, Worcester MA 01610

Registration

Program

8:30 - 9 a.m.: Check-in, coffee & pastries

9 - 10:30 a.m.: Welcome and Introduction | Bringing the Holy Land Home 

· "Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece" | Guest Curator Amanda Luyster, College of the Holy Cross

· "Paving Over Paradise: The Aristocratic Landscape and the Crusading Experience, 1187-1291" | Nicholas Paul, Fordham University

· Moderator: Cecilia Gaposchkin, Dartmouth College

10:45 a.m. - Noon: Chertsey Abbey and England

· "The Middle Ages and the British Museum: Past, Present and Future" | Lloyd de Beer, British Museum

· "'So Much National Magnificence and National History': The Medieval Abbey at Chertsey, Then and Now" | Euan Roger, National Archives, Kew

· "The Chertsey Tiles and 'Art and Crusade' in England: Historical and Historiographical Contexts" | Matthew Reeve, Queen’s University

· Moderator: Sonja Drimmer, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Noon - 1 p.m.: Lunch

1 - 2 p.m.: Sites

· "The Place of Relics in the Crusades" | Cynthia Hahn, Hunter College & Graduate Center of the City University of New York

· "The Visual Arts and the Shaping of the Frankish Experience of the Holy Land" | Eva Hoffman, Tufts University

· "The Galley as Display Space in the Fourth Crusade" | Paroma Chatterjee, University of Michigan

· Moderator: Anne Lester, Johns Hopkins University

2:15 - 3:30 p.m.: Objects

· "How to Move a Mountain: Visual Representations of the Pas Saladin" | Richard Leson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

· "Fragments and Wholes: Medieval Textiles across the Indian Ocean" | Elizabeth Williams, Dumbarton Oaks

· "Material Connections: The St. Eustace Head Relic Wrappings" | Naomi Speakman, British Museum

· "Ivories Come to England" | Sarah Guerin, University of Pennsylvania

· Moderator: Alicia Walker, Bryn Mawr College

4 - 5:30 p.m.: Crusades, Then and Now

· "A Clash of Civilizations? A Revisionist Reading of the History of Muslim-Frankish Encounters in the Crusader Period" | Suleiman Mourad, Smith College

· “A Clash of (Academic) Civilizations: The Politics of Studying the Crusades after 9/11” | Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Tech

· Closing Remarks | Paul Cobb, University of Pennsylvania

· Moderator: Sahar Bazzaz, College of the Holy Cross

5:30 - 7 p.m.: Exhibition Viewing & Reception | Cantor Art Gallery

Registration

Registration for the Symposium is $40 (plus processing) and includes all sessions, lunch, exhibition viewing and reception. Symposium sessions (excluding lunch) are free to Holy Cross faculty, staff and students. Register here by March 9.

Directions

Symposium sessions will be held in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. Free parking is available in the lots adjacent to the Hogan Campus Center and Prior Performing Arts Center. Directions to campus.

Accommodations

A limited number of hotel rooms have been set aside for symposium attendees at the AC Hotel Worcester Marriott, 125 Front St., Worcester, MA 01608. Reserve by February 22 to receive a special conference rate of $179 per night.
Review a list of other nearby hotels.
 

Exhibition website https://chertseytiles.holycross.edu

Conference registration https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-bringing-the-holy-land-home-registration-511802253317 

Call for Proposals: Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture Sponsored Session at 49th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference (26-29 October 2023), Abstracts Due 3 April 2023

Call for Proposals

Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture Sponsored Session

49th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, 26-29 October 2023

Abstracts Due 3 April 2023

As part of its ongoing commitment to Byzantine studies, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 49th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference to be held at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, October 26–29, 2023. We invite session proposals on any topic relevant to Byzantine studies.

The conference will be in-person only.

Session proposals must be submitted through the Mary Jaharis Center website. The deadline for submission is April 3, 2023.

If the proposed session is accepted, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse a maximum of 5 session participants (presenters and chair) up to $800 maximum for scholars based in North America and up to $1400 maximum for those coming from outside North America. Funding is through reimbursement only; advance funding cannot be provided. Eligible expenses include conference registration, transportation, and food and lodging. Receipts are required for reimbursement. Participants must participant in the conference in-person to receive funding. The Mary Jaharis Center regrets that it cannot reimburse participants who have last-minute cancellations and are unable to attend the conference.

For further details and submission instructions, please visit https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/49th-bsc.

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