Call for Papers: Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture Sponsored Session, 7th Forum Medieval Art/Forum Kunst des Mittelalters, Proposals Due 29 May 2023

Call For Papers

Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture Sponsored Session

7th Forum Medieval Art/Forum Kunst des Mittelalters, Jena, September 25–28, 2024

Proposals Due 29 May 2023

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 7th Forum Medieval Art/Forum Kunst des Mittelalters, Jena, September 25–28, 2024. The biannual colloquium is organized by the Deutsche Verein für Kunstwissenschaft e.V.

The theme for the 7th Forum Medieval Art is Light: Art, Metaphysics and Science in the Middle Ages.

The Mary Jaharis Center invites session proposals that fit within the Light theme and are relevant to Byzantine studies.

Session proposals must be submitted through the Mary Jaharis Center website. The deadline for submission is May 29, 2023.

If the proposed session is approved, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse a maximum of 4 session participants (presenters and session chair) up to $500 maximum for participants traveling from locations in Germany, up to $800 maximum for participants traveling from the EU, and up to $1400 maximum for participants traveling from outside Europe. 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. The Mary Jaharis Center regrets that it cannot reimburse participants who have last-minute cancellations and are unable to attend the conference.

For a complete description of the theme, further details, and submission instructions, please visit https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/7th-forum-medieval-art.

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

Postgraduate Medieval Symposium 2023, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 22 May 2023 9:00-18:30 BST

Postgraduate Medieval Symposium 2023

Monday 22nd May 2023, 09:00am -18:30pm BST

The Courtauld Institute of Art, London

Lecture Theatre 2, Vernon Square Campus

Flemish, Southern Netherlands The Holy Family, ca. 1500 Flemish, Southern Netherlands, Wool, silk, and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk in slit, dovetailed, and interlocking tapestry weave with supplementary brocading wefts (in sewing basket, Joseph’s coat, and hem of Mary’s cloak); 40 9/16 x 46 15/16 in. (103.1 x 119.2 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (1975.1.1913) http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/459954

During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, textiles wrapped up and coated walls, people, furniture, and objects. They provided omnipresent, and often complex, symbolic and visual demarcations of spaces. Diplicare, the root of display, is in unfolding: so much of the frameworks of how we surround ourselves are rooted in practices using cloth. The value of these textiles, both in their materiality and craftsmanship, exceeded that of many other artforms which have been privileged by scholars. Textiles were often disregarded in art historical study, considered to be visually unappealing or discredited in previous centuries as part of the decorative arts. In addition, only a fraction of the textiles that functioned in these spaces survive, many of which are in a fragmented state.

In recent years, textiles have received more attention in art historical studies, and block buster exhibitions on tapestries have made the importance of textiles clear to a wider public. There are, however, still many new angles from which we can interrogate and discuss textiles which can enrich, connect, and reframe not only textile history but wider research subjects in Medieval and Renaissance studies.

In this symposium we would like to draw together varying angles of research through their intersections with textiles, in whatever capacity. The theme of this symposium centres on how Medieval and Renaissance textiles, real and depicted, combine, overlap or intersect in different ways. In short, it aims to interrogate how textiles get entangled with other people, arts, materials, objects and functions.

Free, booking essential.

Organised by Jessica Gasson (The Courtauld) and Julia van Zandvoort (The Courtauld). Generously supported by Sam Fogg.

Programme

9.00 – Opening remarks

Secular Textiles
9.15 – 10:40 Panel 1 – Networks and trade /collecting of textiles

Key Note Samuel Cohn
Textiles, Piety, and Memory in Late Medieval Tuscany

Julia van Zandvoort
‘Per la gran furia di compratori’: Obtaining Flemish Tapestries in Sixteenth-century Italy, the case of the Van der Molen firm (1538-1544)

Nina Reiss – Trojan War tapestries (production / trade)
The ‘intersecting geographies’ of the tapestries of the Trojan War – tapestry
production between Paris and Tournai

10.40-11.00 Panel discussion

11.00-11.30 Tea Break

11:35 – 13:00 Panel 2 – Textiles in secular settings

Chiara Stombellini
(Re-)Weaving Ritual Paths: Silk Textiles as Markers of Ceremonial Space in Late Medieval Venice

Pauline Devriese
The stink of the cities – secondary scenting of domestic textiles in Europe

Karina Pawlow
Textile and glass interweaved. Entanglements of two arts in Renaissance Venice

13.00-13.20 Panel discussion

13.20-14.20 Lunch break

Religious Textiles
14:25 – 15:50 Panel 3 – Textiles and ritual function / iconography

Jessica Gasson
Tapestries on the altar: exploring the design and use of the Louvre Virign of the Living Water and the Sens Three Coronation tapestries

Julie Glodt
Overlapping Incarnation and Consecration Textiles, Images and Gestures around the Cluny Museum’s Corporal Case (13th century)

Aimee Clark
“The Garden of the Incarnation and the Conversion of the Heart: The Mass of Saint Gregory”

15.50-16.10 Panel discussion

16.10-16.30 Coffee break

16:35 – 17:55 Panel 4 – Reassembling Religious Textiles

Mireia Castano Martine
Fragmentation and reconstruction of an embroidered altar frontal

Jeroen Reyniers
Many layers of textiles. The relic treasure of Herkenrode in Hasselt (Belgium) revealed through material technical research

Jordan Quill
At the Intersection of Political and Ritual functions of textiles: Sensory Experiences of Textiles in the Sumtsek at Alchi, Ladakh

17.55-18.15 Panel discussion

18.15-18.25 Closing remarks

18.30 Wine reception

Fabulous Adventurer and Magnanimous King: The Reception of Alexander the Great in Renaissance Italian Art, Claudia Daniotti, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 4 May 2023, 5:00-6:30 PM GMT

Italian Renaissance Seminar

Fabulous Adventurer and Magnanimous King: The Reception of Alexander the Great in Renaissance Italian Art

Dr Claudia Daniotti

Thursday 4th May 2023, 5:00-6:30pm GMT

Lecture Theatre 1, Vernon Square, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London

Alexander as King of Swords, from the Sola-Busca Tarocchi, c. 1470-1491, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera

Very few figures in history have produced such fascination over the centuries as Alexander the Great. His name, it has been rightly said, “had the spell of youth and glory”, and his captivating figure was re-shaped again and again for two thousand years, with each age creating its own Alexander. In medieval Europe, the ancient commander was turned into a god-like creature, a fearless explorer, a chivalrous knight. The Italian tradition is no exception to this widespread imagery: illuminated manuscripts, mosaics and sculpted reliefs bear witness to the huge popularity of Alexander’s legendary adventures from the Alps to Sicily. And yet, a moment came in Renaissance Italy when the fabulous aura that had surrounded Alexander for centuries evaporated: the Macedonian conqueror was recast as an exemplum of moral virtue and military prowess, the protagonist of iconic paintings by Sodoma, Perin del Vaga, and Paolo Veronese. This talk will discuss precisely this turning point in the tradition that happened in Renaissance Italy, from the Sala Baronale in the Castle of La Manta to the Sala di Alessandro in the Castle of Bracciano, with the aim of shedding new light into the Renaissance reinvention of Alexander.

Claudia Daniotti is a specialist of Italian Renaissance art with an emphasis on iconography and the reception of classical antiquity. Currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick, she holds a PhD from the Warburg Institute and has lectured for years both in academia and museums, including the Universities of Buckingham and Bath Spa, and the Center for Italian Modern Art in New York. Claudia has long been working to the posthumous life of Alexander the Great, and her monograph Reinventing Alexander: Myth, Legend, History in Renaissance Italian Art was published by Brepols in December 2022.

Organised by Dr Guido Rebecchini (The Courtauld) 

This is an in-person and free event at the Vernon Square campus. Booking will close 30 minutes before the event begins.

Exposition: Les instruments de musique au Moyen Âge, Poitiers, Du 04 avril 2023 au 09 mai 2023

Exposition

Les instruments de musique au Moyen Âge

Du 04 avril 2023 au 09 mai 2023

Hall de la BU Foucault, Poitiers, UFR Sciences Humaines et Arts et BU Michel Foucault
8 rue René Descartes  I  bâtiment E18  I  niveau 4

Une exposition réalisée par le CESCM - UMR 7302, et proposée par l’UFR Sciences Humaines et Arts et la Bibliothèque Universitaire Michel Foucault

Cette exposition illustre la variété d’instruments de musique à travers l’iconographie de l’art médiéval : instruments à cordes, frottés ou pincés, instruments à vent et instruments à percussion… Elle présente des photographies issues des fonds du CESCM, de Musiconis et d’Apenutam.

Les arts visuels médiévaux et plus particulièrement la sculpture monumentale et les manuscrits sont les sources principales de documentation concernant les instruments de musique, telle la vièle ou la rote fréquemment représentées. Dans le cadre du projet ANR Musiconis, mené entre 2011 et 2015, des photographies représentant des instruments de musique à l’époque médiévale, réalisées par Lionel Dieu et données à l’association Apemutam, ont fait l’objet d’une numérisation et d’une indexation dans les bases de données du CESCM (ROMANE) et de Musiconis.
Cette sélection est complétée par des photographies argentiques issues du fonds photographique du CESCM, présentées à la BU Michel Foucault.

Cette exposition a été réalisée par Stéphanie Thomas et Lisa-Oriane Crosland et l’équipe du pôle documentaire du CESCM, avec la participation de Vanessa Ernst-Maillet, Isabelle Fortuné et Pablo Rousseau.

Entrée libre. Exposition accessible aux horaires d’ouverture de la BU Michel Foucault.

https://cescm.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/exposition-les-instruments-de-musique-au-moyen-age-2/

Journée d'études: Dévotion et émotions. Pour une approche croisée des images et des textes, Université de Poitiers, 16 mai 2023 (Online)

Dévotion et émotions. Pour une approche croisée des images et des textes

Journée d'études organisée par Marcello Angheben (CESCM)

Université de Poitiers (Online)

16 mai 2023

Intervenants

• Marcello Angheben, Université de Poitiers, CESCM
• Nicolas Balzamo, Université de Neuchâtel
• Mathieu Beaud, Université de Lille
• Damien Boquet, Université d’Aix-en-Provence
• Bertrand Cosnet, Université de Lille, IRHiS
• Julia Maria García Morales, Universidad de Murcia
• Anne-Laure Imbert, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
• Marielle Lamy, Sorbonne Université Lettres
• Catherine Nicolas, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III

Informations complémentaires

Contact :  marcello.angheben@univ-poitiers.fr

Visioconférence

• Inscription préalable requise, par mail auprès de: marcello.angheben@univ-poitiers.fr

• Lien de connexion: https://univ-poitiers.webex.com/meet/marcello.angheben

For more information, https://cescm.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/devotion-et-emotions-pour-une-approche-croisee-des-images-et-des-textes/

Painting Pairs 2022-23: Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 4 May 2023 2-4PM BST

Painting Pairs 2022-23: Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History

The Courtauld Institute of Art, London

Thursday 4th May 2023, 2pm - 4pm BST

Circle of Marco d' Oggiono (ca. 1467-1524), Salvator Mundi, circa 1510-25. Tempera on panel. © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London

Painting Pairs presents collaborative research undertaken by graduates in conservation and art history focussing on paintings currently in the conservation studios at the Courtauld. The paintings that form the focus for investigation by each a pair of graduates are from different periods and pose a range of questions related to their history, conservation and display.

In this second presentation, the pairs will each report on their technical and art historical examination in a 15-20 minute presentation, with time for questions.

Organised by Professor Aviva Burnstock (The Courtauld), Pippa Balch (The Courtauld) and Dr Karen Serres (The Courtauld).

2022 – 23 Painting Pairs Collaborative Research Partners:

Abby Li working with Sophia Boosalis on S. Jerome, after Joos van Cleve

Kaira Mediratta working with Alexandra Earl on Barred Gate by Evelyn De Morgan

Emma Wright working with Elisabeth Subal on Girl Reading “The Task”

Jean -Michael Maugue with Talia Ratnavale working on St Anthony Abbot and St Sebastian, oil on panel

Chloe Glass working with Catherine Dussault on Miss Coope by Katherine Clausen

Nandipa Mabere working with Megan Buchanan-Smith on Salvador Mundi, Courtauld Gallery

This is an in-person only event at the Vernon Square campus. Booking is free and will close 30 minutes before the event begins.

For more information and booking, https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/painting-pairs-2022-23-collaborative-research-in-conservation-and-art-history-2/

Giotto’s Ugliness: Art, Literature, and Pictorial Naturalism, Marco Ruffini, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 3 May 2023, 5:00-6:30 PM

Giotto’s Ugliness: Art, Literature, and Pictorial Naturalism

Marco Ruffini

3 May 2023, 5:00-6:30 PM BST

Vernon Square campus, Lecture Theatre 1

The Courtauld Institute of Art, London

That Giotto was ugly – indeed of proverbial ugliness – Boccaccio tells us in the Decameron. But was this really Giotto’s physical appearance? This paper will explain that the painter’s ugliness is a symbolic attribute of Giotto’s pictorial naturalism focused on the faithful imitation of the natural world, at the time juxtaposed to ideal beauty. Giotto’s ugliness, therefore, has more to do with Giotto’s art rather than with his own physical features. As a matter of fact, depicting an artist as an ugly individual is a recurring trope in the history of pictorial naturalism and art literature from the classical to the modern age.

Marco Ruffini is Professor of History of Art Criticism and Artistic Literature at Sapienza, University of Rome. He studied at Sapienza and the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at Dartmouth College and Northwestern University. His studies focus on theoretical and methodological issues in thinking about the arts and the history of art history.

Organised by Dr Guido Rebecchini (The Courtauld)

This is an in-person, free event at the Vernon Square campus. Booking will close 30 minutes before the event begins.

To book and for more information, https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/giottos-ugliness-art-literature-and-pictorial-naturalism/

Call for Applications: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Smarthistory, Remote Position, DUE BY 26 MAY 2023

Call for Applications

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship

Remote Position

Application Due By 26 MAy 2023

Smarthistory is seeking applications for an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow to develop public art history content. This is a one-year full-time position, beginning September 2023. Applicants will have a Ph.D. in art history (within the last two years) as well as teaching experience. Applicants with diverse backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply. 

The successful applicant will have a commitment to public scholarship and teaching. The successful candidate will be self-motivated and comfortable working remotely for a small organization. Ideally, the candidate will have some facility with content management systems, audio and video editing, or an interest in learning these tools. The candidate will work closely with Smarthistory founders and Executive Directors Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker on a range of activities including editing, producing, and publishing essays and video content for Smarthistory, working with contributors and content editors, seeking new contributors, reorganizing content as new material is added, and working to create consistency across the site. The candidate will contribute essays in their area of expertise.

The Fellow will receive professional development mentoring, periodic performance evaluations, and will be supported in developing professional relationships with academic contributors over the course of the year. This is a temporary full-time position with an annual salary of $55,000 (plus a generous health insurance option and a retirement match). The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow can work remotely. 

Smarthistory is a not-for-proft organization dedicated to making engaging yet rigorous art history accessible to learners around the world for free. Learn more about the organization and our mission here: https://smarthistory.org/about/. We encourage applications from those who contribute to our diversity.

 For more information and to apply, click here.

Call for Papers: Historiography of the Cities, Lisbon (20-21 September 2023), Abstracts Due By 30 April 2023

Call for Papers

Historiography of the Cities

Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
20-21 september 2023

Abstracts Due By 30 April 2023

The International Congress Historiography of the Cities is part of the Olisipógrafos. Os Cronistas de Lisboa project, a partnership between the Art History Institute of FCSH-NOVA and the Lisbon City Council with the support of the National Library of Portugal and the National Archive of Torre do Tombo.
In 1879, Júlio de Castilho (1840-1919) published Lisboa Antiga, a study entirely dedicated to the history of one of Lisbon historical neighborhoods . This innovative study gave its author the epithet of “father of olisipography” (Lisbon’s historical studies), his merit being fully recognized by researchers who dedicated their work to the study of the history of Lisbon in its multiple aspects and readings (historical, urbanistic, architectural, among others).
From 1933 onwards, the municipality of Lisbon, aware of the potential of history in the city's cultural and ideological affirmation, developed a concerted program for the dissemination of documentation from its archives and historical investigations. Through the enormous dynamism of the Chamber's Cultural Services, a program was then implemented that included the editing of a vast number of publications and the holding of lectures and exhibitions.
The present congress intends to extend the current investigation to the history of other cities, in the national and international context, focusing around the main challenges and issues, from scientific methodology and best strategies.
​
​Thematic lines:

1. History and myth in the origin of the cities

2. City Chroniclers/Historians and their works

3. The role of the cultural public policies for the development of the historiography of cities

4. Futures of the historiography of the cities

Instructions for submission 
Proposals for a 20-minute presentation (up to 350 words, including the title and 4 keywords) are welcome.

A brief biographical note (up to 150 words, including affiliation and contact information) needs to be sent in a separet file.
​
After the conferences are over some of the presented articles will be selected for publication in digital format.

​Proposals may be submitted to: olisipografos@cm-lisboa.pt

Accepted languages: Portuguese, Spanish and English

Important dates​
​Abstracts
​Deadline for abstracts: April 30, 2023
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2023

Congress
Congress: September 20-21, 2023
Deadline for application (free): September 15, 2023

Articles
Deadline for articles: December 31, 2023
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2024

For more information, https://historiography-cities.weebly.com/

Call for Papers: Building Services and Living Comfort, Thematic Session at 8th International Congress on Construction History Zurich 2024, Abstracts DUE BY 30 April 2023

Call for PApers

Building Services and Living Comfort in Medieval Residences and Places of Leisure in the Mediterranean Region

Thematic Session TS1 at the 8th International Congress on Construction History Zurich 2024.

Zurich, 24-28 Jun 2024

ABSTRACTS DUE BY 30 April 2023

Questions of residential culture, the use of representative and private rooms and their furnishings have traditionally played a central role in research on residences. Until now, however, the focus has tended to be on the floor plan and the artistic furnishings; technical building installations such as baths, sinks for manual cleaning and toilets, as well as the water pipes and ventilation shafts required for them, which were often integrated into the masonry, have long been ignored, as have questions about their origins, origins and development. The related questions of the relationship between residence and garden as well as the intended relationship of the buildings to the landscape can only be mentioned here.
Particularly in southern Italy and Sicily, there are numerous medieval buildings that exhibit an extraordinarily high degree of living comfort. The Norman palaces in Palermo, the Hohenstaufen Castel del Monte or the Domus in Lagopesole are representative examples. All these buildings are an expression of processes of hybridisation or amalgmation that already characterised the Norman kingdom of Sicily in the 12th century and can be traced back in architectural history both to Roman antiquity or to Byzantium as the preserver of Roman culture and to Islamic architecture such as the Umayyad so-called desert castles.
The section will discuss the building services relevant to the living comfort of medieval residences in the Mediterranean region and pursue the question of their origin against the background of transcultural processes of exchange and interconnectedness in the Mediterranean region.

Session Chairs: Kai Kappel, Klaus Tragbar

Abstracts must be submitted in English and must not exceed 400 words. All abstracts will be reviewed and selected for presentation by at least two members of the 8ICCH Scientific Committee. All papers will be published in an edited open access proceedings volume and will be available at the congress and as print-on-demand hardcopies.

Abstracts must be submitted exclusively via the website www.8icch.ethz.ch. Abstract submission will open on March 15, 2023. Abstracts submitted by other ways of communication (paper, e-mail, etc.) cannot be considered. When submitting your abstract, please indicate the relevant thematic sessions, here: Thematic Session TS 1.

Abstracts have to be submitted until April 30, 2023 (midnight CET). Delayed submissions cannot be considered. The decision of the scientific committee will be announced by August 1, 2023. Full papers are expected to be submitted by November 2023. Full papers will again be reviewed by members of the scientific committee. Only papers fully meeting the scientific and language quality criteria will be accepted. Please note that only papers presented in person at the conference will be included in the proceedings.

Conference: Hagio-Scape! How mobility and materiality shaped pre-modern geographies of devotion (400-1700), The Norwegian Institute in Rome, 24-26 May 2023, Register By 19 May 2023

Conference

Hagio-Scape! How mobility and materiality shaped pre-modern geographies of devotion (400-1700)

The Norwegian Institute in Rome

May 24, 2023 –May 26, 2023

Register BY 19 May 2023

Image of Rome in Matthew Paris' Chronica Majora, detail from British Library Royal MS 14CVII, fol. 4r. Source: https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/

An international conference at the Norwegian Institute in Rome 24 - 26 May 2023, organized by Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck and Kaja Merete Hagen.

Ever since fourth century CE, iconic objects and places have played a formative role in articulating Christian sacred space. This conference investigates the specific role of mobility and materiality in the creation of (trans)regional sacred landscapes and cityscapes, taking a longue durée perspective. 

In particular, our aim is to address the role of mobility of objects, texts, and persons in the creation of sacred topographies. This explicitly includes objects and materials with the potential to reference or invoke sacred topographies further afield, as well as translated sacred topographies, and sites with a multi-scalar sense of place.

Moreover, this conference aims to address to the interplay between narrative/documentary sources and material culture: what role did cross-fertilization between narratives, and iconic objects and locations play in the creations of pre-modern hagioscapes?

The conference brings together scholars specialized in different geographical areas, in order to confront and connect the process of hagio-scaping along the axes of the North and South, old and new. Ultimately, the aim is to put into dialogue practices from North Sea and Baltic area and with the Mediterranean basin, as well as Old and New World contexts.

The exact conference programme will be announced closer to the conference dates. In case you are interested in attending (in person only) please write to events@roma.uio.no no later than 19 May 2023.

Preliminary Program

Wednesday 24 May

Session I

9:30 – 10.00 Welcome by director DNIR Kristing B. Aavitsland & opening address organizers.

10:00 -10:30 Achim Timmermann (University of Michigan): A Sacred Landscape in the  Making: The Case of Late Medieval Franconia.

10:30-11:00 Tiffany N. White (University of California, Berkeley): Christian Topographies of Pre-Christian Temples in Medieval Iceland.

11:00 -11:30 Coffee break

Session II

11:30 – 12:00 Veronika Poláková (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Marian Topographies: Shaping a Sacred Space in Seventeenth-century Bohemia and New Spain (Mexico).

12:00-12:30 András Handl (University of Leuven), Migrating Materiality and the (De)Construction of Hagioscapes: Transregional Relic Translations in Late Antiquity.

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

Session III

13:30-14:00 Simon Ditchfield (University of York), The challenges of stereoscopic vision: Seeing History with both eyes in an age of expanding horizons.

14:00-14:30 Marianne C.E. Gillion (Uppsala University), Resounding Hagioscapes in the Reformation.

14:30-15:00 Tea break

Session IV

15:00-15:30 Jan Willem Drijvers (University of Groningen), The mobility of Cross relics in Late Antiquity.

15:30-16:00 Stephanie Wisowaty (Yale University/ Hertziana), Movable Devotional Landscapes: Painted Processional Crosses in Late Medieval Italy.

16:30  Aperitivo

19:00 Conference dinner (for speakers)

Thursday 25 May

Session V

9:30-10:00 Margaret Cormack (University of Iceland), Hagioscapes in Iceland: Churchscapes and Landscapes.

10:00-10:30 Martin F. Lešák (Universität Regensburg), Charles IV’s Roman Inspiration. Relics, Liturgy, and the Sacred Topography of Imperial Prague.

10:30-11:00 Lucia Querejazu Escobari (Universität Zürich), Saints as ancestors: spatiality and cosmovivencia in the colonial Andean space. 1550-1650.

11:00 -11:30 Coffee break

Session VI

11:30 – 12:00 Aleksandar Savić (University of Belgrade), Into the (New) Promised Land: The Curious Voyage of a Medieval Serbian Pilgrim-Turned-Relic.

12:00-12:30 Linda Nolan (Iowa State University, Rome Program), The mobile and material history of votives at S. Maria del Popolo in Rome.

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

Session VI continued

13:30-14:00

Noria Litaker (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Tracing Global Sanctity: Roman Catacoms Relics around the World (16th-19th c.).

14:00-14:30 Steffen Birkeland Hope (University of Oslo) & Grzegorz Pac (University of Warsaw), Tracing a holy landscape on the peripheries of Latin Christendom – translation of saints in Norway and Poland in the twelfth century.

14:30-15:00 Tea break

Session VII

15:00-15:30 Brendan C. McMahon (University of Michigan), The Long Memory of Elephants: Ivory and Placemaking in Colonial Latin America.

15:30-16:00 Matan Aviel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), The Material Path to the Celestial City of Federico da Montefeltro's Urbino Studiolo.

16:00-16:30 Minou Schraven (Amsterdam University College), The Blessed Beads of failed saint and mystic Juana de la Cruz (d. 1534).

16:30 Aperitivo 

Friday 26 May

Session VIII

9:30-10:00 Raphaèle Preisinger (University of Zürich), The Incipient Cult of the Japan Martyrs in Asia and the Americas: Processions Modeled on the Via Crucis Centering on Images and Relics.

10:00 -10:30 Florian Abe (Tucher’sche Kulturstiftung in Nuremberg), Die geystlich Straß (1521): Between Construction Manual and Devotional Guide to the Stations of the Cross.

10:30-11:00 Sergio Carro Martín (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), So Close, So Far: Faith, Mobility and Materiality Around the Islamic Rituals.

11:00 -11:30 Coffee break

Session IX

11:30 – 12:00 Sandra Toffolo (Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento), Sanctity, materiality, and mobility in the Renaissance: Venice’s role in the circulation of material culture during pilgrimages to the Holy Land.

12:00-12:30 Megan Cassidy-Welch (Australian Catholic University), Liquidity, mobility and sacred space: Thietmar’s account of the cult of Mary at Saydnaya in the early thirteenth century.

12:30-12:45 Conclusion by organisers.    

12:45–13.30 Lunch

Afternoon: Excursion t.b.a.

For more information, https://www.hf.uio.no/dnir/english/research/news-and-events/events/2023/hagio.html

Digital History Tagung 2023: Digitale Methoden in der geschichtswissenschaftlichen Praxis. Fachliche Transformationen und ihre epistemologischen Konsequenzen, Berlin, 24 MAY 2023 to 26 MAY 2023

ConFerence

Digital History Tagung 2023: Digitale Methoden in der geschichtswissenschaftlichen Praxis. Fachliche Transformationen und ihre epistemologischen Konsequenzen

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

24 MAY 2023 to 26 MAY 2023 

Dies ist die zweite Tagung einer Konferenzreihe, die künftig alle zwei Jahre von der AG Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft im VHD mit wechselnden Veranstaltungsorten ausgerichtet wird. Die erste Tagung fand 2021 virtuell in Göttingen statt und legte den Fokus allgemein auf einen Überblick über die Konzepte, Methoden und Kritiken digitaler Geschichtswissenschaft. Die Ergebnisse der Tagung sind im Tagungsband “Digital History” nachzulesen.

In dieser zweiten Ausgabe, die von der Professur für Digital History an der HU Berlin organisiert wird, soll es nun konkret um digitale Methoden in den Geschichstswissenschaften und deren Konsequenzen gehen. An konkreten Beispielen aus der Praxis soll dabei danach gefragt werden, wie diese die Prozesse der historischen Wissensproduktion und damit letztlich auch unser Fach selbst verändern. Die Tagung soll aber zugleich auch für alle Digitalhistoriker:innen und Interessierten einen Ort bereitstellen, um sich zu treffen, sich auszutauschen und gemeinsam zu diskutieren und zu lernen – und somit die Digital History ein Stück weiterzuentwickeln.

Das lokale Organisationsteam, bestehend aus Torsten Hiltmann, Melanie Althage, Martin Dröge und Claudia Prinz, freut sich auf vielfältige Beiträge und spannende Diskussionen und steht für etwaige Fragen zur Tagung unter der Email digitalhistory.2023[at]hu-berlin.de gern zur Verfügung.

Die Tagung beginnt am Mittwoch, 24.5.2023 am frühen Nachmittag und endet am Freitag, 26.5.2023. Für Mittwochabend ist eine Keynote geplant.

Im Vorfeld finden ab Dienstag, 23.5.2023, Pre-Conference-Workshops statt, die jeweils für einen halben Tag angesetzt sind und sich mit dem Einsatz digitaler Methoden in der Praxis befassen. Eine Studierendenkonferenz ist für Mittwochvormittag, 24.5.2023, vorgesehen.

Statt eines Konferenzdinners gibt es am Donnerstagabend eine gemeinsame Bootstour auf der Spree.

Programm

Dienstag, 23.05.2023
VORPROGRAMM
9:00 – 13:00
Workshop 1: Workflows in Digital Research. Reflecting Critically
Caitlin Burge, Helena Jaskov, Sean Takats, Lorella Viola, Markus Binsteiner

Workshop 2: Growing and pruning the Republic of Letters. Learning to simulate the past with agent-based modeling using the ‘mesa’ package
Malte Vogl, Bernardo Sousa Buarque, Jascha Merijn Schmitz

13:00 – 14:00
Mittagspause

14:00 – 18:00
Workshop 3: LastSeen. Innovative Digitale Quellenedition und Game
Alina Bothe, Christoph Kreutzmüller

Workshop 4: Hands-on-Workshop zur Erstellung und Pflege lemmabasierter Publikationen mit dem Open Encyclopedia System
Brigitte Grote, Bart Soethaert, Maren Strobl

Workshop 5: Archivierte Webseiten verstehen. Arbeiten mit WARC-Files mit warcio CLI und SolrWayback
Annabel Walz

Mittwochvormittag, 24.05.2023
VORPROGRAMM

9:00 – 13:00
Workshop 6: ediarum Workshop
Nadine Arndt, Stefan Dumont, Martin Fechner, Jan Wierzoch

Workshop 7: Machine Learning to Read Yesterday’s News. How semantic enrichments enhance the study of digitised historical newspapers
Marten Düring, Estelle Bunout

Mittwoch, 24.05.2023
1. KONFERENZTAG

14:00
Offizielle Tagungseröffnung - Torsten Hiltmann

14:20
Session 1: Erfassung und Erschließung historischer Quellen
Roman Bleier, Florian Zeilinger, Eva Ortlieb, Gabriele Haug-Moritz, Georg Vogeler: Archivdatenerschließung und -auswertung: Der Mehrwert der „Archivdokumentation“ als Teil einer digitalen Reichstagsaktenedition

Johanna Sophia Störiko: Vom Scan zur Datenbank. Digitale Erfassung und Untersuchung von Werbeanzeigen aus der Jahrhundertwende

15:20
Pause

15:40
Session 2: Methoden zur Autorschaftserschließung
Monica Berti: Ancient Greek Historians in the Digital Age

Till Grallert: Looking at the iceberg from below the waterline. Stylometric authorship attribution for anonymous articles in Arabic periodicals from the early twentieth century

16:40
Pause

17:00
Session 3: Methoden zur Inhaltserschließung
Felix Selgert, Ermakov Alexander: Der Verwaltungsdiskurs in der preußischen Regionalverwaltung im frühen 19. Jahrhundert. Das Beispiel der preußischen Rheinprovinz, 1816-1822

Ina Serif, Anna Reimann: Es wird zum Verkauff angetragen: Digitale Zugriffe auf (lokale) Konsum- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert

18:00
Pause

18:30
Keynote - Hendrik Lehmann (Tagesspiegel Innovation Lab)

Donnerstag, 25.05.2023
2. KONFERENZTAG

9:00
Session 4: Statistische Daten und ihre Auswertung
Werner Scheltjens: Genetische Kritik gedruckter historischer Datensammlungen am Beispiel der dänischen Sundzolltabellen (1906-1953)

Friederike Schmidt: Das quantitative Ausmaß europäischer Aneignungspraktiken indigener Kulturgüter Australiens
Zu den Abstracts dieser Session

10:00
Pause

10:20
Session 5: Citizen Sciences und deren Daten
Ian Kisil Marino: Crowdsourcing digital archives: critical approaches from the COVID-19 digital memory experience

Katrin Moeller, Georg Fertig: Daten der Citizien Science für die Wissenschaft? Kontrollierte Vokabulare als Herausforderung und Chancen der Auswertung von Massendaten am Beispiel von Adressbuchsammlungen des Vereins für Computergenealogie

11:20
Pause

11:40
Session 6: Right from the start. Daten und Methoden
Christian Wachter: Democracy and Uncertainty: Approaching a heuristic framework for studying political discourses in the Weimar Republic

Paul Ramisch: Open Discourse – eine digitale Quellenkritik: Goldstandardkorpus-Evaluation als Methode und epistemologische Konsequenzen

12:40 – 14:00
Mittagspause

14:00
Postersession im Rahmen des Peter Haber Preis für Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft

Mitgliederservice: Infopoint der AG Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft

15:00
Pause

15:20
Session 7: KI in den Geschichtswissenschaften I – Verfahren des maschinelles Lernens
Michela Vignoli, Doris Gruber, Rainer Simon, Axel Weißenfeld: Impact of AI: Gamechanger for Image Classification in Historical Research?

Anselm Küsters: Technological change and sentiment in German parliamentary speeches (1867-1932)

16:20
Pause

16:40
Session 8: KI in den Geschichtswissenschaften II – Hybride KI und Semantic Web
Philipp Schneider: ‘Hybride KI’ als Interpretationshilfe für visuelle Quellen? Der Einsatz von Semantic Web Technologien und Machine Learning zur Analyse heraldischer Kommunikation in vormodernen Handschriften

Sofia Baroncini, Marilena Daquino, Francesca Tomasi: Are domain-specific theoretical approaches valuable for the application of new computational methods? The case study of Erwin Panofsky’s artworks interpretations and the semantic web

18:30
Social Event: Bootsfahrt auf der Spree
Anleger: Friedrichstraße/Am Weidendamm

Freitag, 26.05.2023
3. KONFERENZTAG

9:00
Session 9: GIS
Igor Sosa Mayor: Von Dschungeln, Flüssen und Eseln. GIS und religiöse Globalisierung in der Frühen Neuzeit

Bart Holterman, Angela Huang: Transaktionskosten kartieren: Historische Geodaten als Grundlage für die Erforschung der vormodernen ökonomischen Landschaft Nordeuropas

10:00
Pause
10:20

Session 10: Reverse Engineering und Gamification
Daniel Gammenthaler: Reverse Engineering von digitalen Medien Artefakten

Malte Grünkorn: #lastseen. Mit Fotos von NS-Deportationen spielen und dabei historisch lernen?

11:20
Pause

11:40
Session 11: Doch alles ungewiss? Zum notwendigen Umgang mit Unsicherheit
Silke Schwandt: Navigating Uncertainty: Modelling Practices in Digital History

Michael Piotrowski: Uncertainty as an Unavoidable Good

12:40 – 13:00
Offizieller Tagungsabschluss

Organised by: AG Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft im VHD / Professur für Digital History an der HU Berlin

Venue: Auditorium des Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrums, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 1/3, 10117 Berlin

Additional event information: Digital History Tagung 2023

Cost information: 0.00 CHF

Registration information: Online-Anmeldung

Lecture Series: New Perspectives in Medieval Art History Research, University of Stuttgart, 20 April 2023 - 13 July 2023

Lecture Series: New Perspectives in Medieval Art History Research

University of Stuttgart

20 April 2023 - 13 July 2023

The Institute of Art History of the University of Stuttgart will be hosting renowned medieval scholars during the summer semester. The institute has invited professors from Germany, Switzerland and the international Max Planck Institutes who have been appointed in the last ten years. The aim is to explore together the current perspectives, issues, and topics in medieval art history. All lectures are in-person.

20 April 2023

“Die Kathedrale als „Zeitenraum“. Architektur-Bild-Beziehungen ohne Holismus?” Ute Engel (Halle)

27 April 2023, 11:30 am (CEST)

“Textile research and global medievalism,” Prof. Juliane von Fircks (Jena)

https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/universitaet/aktuelles/veranstaltung/Textile-research-and-global-medievalism/

4 May 2023, 11:30 am (CEST)

“Objects as a burning mirror for different cultures. The Imbalance of Archives,” Prof. Beate Fricke (Bern)

https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/university/news/event/Objects-as-a-burning-mirror-for-different-cultures.-The-Imbalance-of-Archives/

11 May 2023, 11:30 a.m. (CEST)

“Visual concepts of history in the Middle Ages,” Prof. Andrea Worm (Tübingen)

https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/university/news/event/Visual-concepts-of-history-in-the-Middle-Ages/

25 May 2023, 11:30 am (CEST)

“The art of reproduction in the Middle Ages,” Prof. Markus Späth (Gießen)

https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/university/news/event/The-art-of-reproduction-in-the-Middle-Ages/

7 June 2023, 6:00 pm (CEST)

“Space researchers as crash-happy pilots: The problems of determining positions on voyages of discovery into the architectural,” Prof. Markus Späth (Gießen)

https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/university/news/event/Space-researchers-as-crash-happy-pilots/

15 June 2023, 11:30 am (CEST)

“Arising from the water The mosaics of San Marco and the ecosystem of the lagoon,” Prof. David Ganz (Zurich)

https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/university/news/event/Arising-from-the-water-The-mosaics-of-San-Marco-and-the-ecosystem-of-the-lagoon/

22 June 2023, 11:30 am (CEST)

“New forms of traditional thinking: Liturgical devices of the 12th Century and their pictorial programs,” Prof. Kathrin Müller (Berlin)

https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/university/news/event/New-forms-of-traditional-thinking/

29 June 2023, 11:30 am (CEST)

“Naples in the Middle Ages. Art historical models for understanding a cityscape,”
Prof. Tanja Michalsky (Rom)

https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/university/news/event/Naples-in-the-Middle-Ages.-Art-historical-models-for-understanding-a-cityscape/

6 July 2023, 11:30 am (CEST)

“A matter of opinion. Different perspectives in Early and High Medieval Art,” Prof. Kristin Böse (Frankfurt)

https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/university/news/event/A-matter-of-opinion.-Different-perspectives-in-Early-and-High-Medieval-Art/

13 July 2023, 11:30 am (CEST)

“Medieval artists' concepts between anonymity, topicality, and individuality,” Prof. Rebecca Müller (Heidelberg)

https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/university/news/event/Medieval-artists-concepts-between-anonymity-topicality-and-individuality/

For more information, https://www.f09.uni-stuttgart.de/fakultaet/aktuelles/Ringvorlesung-Neue-Perspektiven-in-der-kunsthistorischen-Mittelalterforschung/ and https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/university/news/event/

Conference: Encountering Other People. Material Religion and Cultural Exchanges in Medieval Accounts of Asia, Fribourg, 3 May 2023

International Conference

Encountering Other People. Material Religion and Cultural Exchanges in Medieval Accounts of Asia

3 May 2023 09:00-18:30

Université de Fribourg/Universität Freiburg
MIS 04 Salle 4112 (Jäggi), Avenue de l'Europe 20, 1700 Fribourg

Image : BnF, ms. fr. 2810, f. 184r; https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52000858n/f371.item

Programme

09:00 Greetings and introduction (Michele Bacci)

FIRST SESSION, CHAIR: MICHELE BACCI

09:15 Jana Valtrová (Masaryk University) ‘In istis partibus sunt multe septe ydolatrarum diversa credentium…’ Conceptualization of religious plurality in the medieval Latin travel accounts of Asia

09:45 Jennifer Purtle (University of Toronto) Spaces of Enunciation: Franciscan Narratives of the Sino-Mongol City

10:15 Coffee break

10:30 李文丹 Li Wendan (Peking University) Encounters of European travellers with Buddhists in the Far East in the 13th and 14th century *[online]

11:00 马晓林 Ma Xiaolin (Nankai University) Marco Polo and Yuan China: rituals and religions *[online]

11:30 Discussion

12:00 Lunch

SECOND SESSION, CHAIR: ELEONORA TIOLI

13:30 Partha Mitter (University of Sussex) Early Representations of Hinduism in the West (13th to 17th centuries)

14:00 Pier Giorgio Borbone (Università di Pisa) Rabban Sauma in the Land of the Franks *[online]

14:30 Agnes Birtalan (Eötvös Loránd University) The Mongols’ Pre-Buddhist Religious Views. The Etic Understanding (Some Examples from the 13th – 14th century sources)

15:00 Discussion

15:30 Coffee break

THIRD SESSION, CHAIR: VESNA SCEPANOVIC

16:00 Michele Bacci (University of Fribourg) Image Worship in Medieval Eurasia. Comparative Perspectives

16:30 Alexandre Varela (University of Fribourg) “Ele lhe disse que yão buscar Christãos e especearia”. Encountering Christians in India: Cheryia Pally (Kottayam) wall paintings as a study case

17:00 Anne Dunlop (University of Melbourne) From martyrdom to mirabilia. The Franciscans, Odoric, and the deaths at Thane

17:30 Eleonora Tioli (University of Fribourg, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) The Perception of Religious Otherness in Medieval Texts and Images

18:00 Conclusion and final discussion

18:30 End of the conference

Organisaiton: Prof. Dr. Michele Bacci, Eleonora Tioli, and Dr. Vesa Scepanovic

Contact: vesna.scepanovic@unifr.ch ; eleonora.tioli@unifr.ch

For more information, go to https://www.unifr.ch/philosophie/fr/actualites-et-evenements/agenda/?eventid=13073

Symposium: Medieval Matters: A Symposium in honour of Professor Miri Rubin, London, 29-30 June 2023

SymPosium

Medieval Matters: A Symposium in honour of Professor Miri Rubin

29-30 June 2023

QMUL School of History

ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre 335 Mile End Road London E1 4FQ United Kingdom

A symposium on the future of medieval studies in honour of Prof. Miri Rubin.

Please see the full agenda for both days below. You are welcome to attend one of the days, or both - please book your tickets accordingly.

Organising committee: Matthew Champion (Melbourne), Kati Ihnat (Nijmegen), Eyal Poleg (QMUL), Milan Žonca (Prague)

Thursday 29 June 2023

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM - Registration and Coffee

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM - Opening Remarks

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM - The City (chair: Ian Wei, Bristol)

Katalin Szende (CEU) Mario Ascheri (Rome) Jan Dumolyn (Ghent) Étienne Anheim (EHESS)

11:30 AM – 11:45 AM - Coffee break

11:45 AM – 1:15 PM - Women, Gender and the Body (chair: Bronach Kane, Cardiff)

Ruth Mazo Karras (Trinity College, Dublin) Walter Simons (Dartmouth) Delfi Nieto Isabel (QMUL)

1:15 PM – 2:30 PM - Lunch

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM - Jews and Christians (chair: Rosa Vidal, QMUL)

Deeana Klepper (Boston) Ephraim Shoham-Steiner (Ben Gurion) Elisheva Baumgarten (Jerusalem)

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM - Coffee break

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM - Visual and Material Culture (chair: Paul Binski, Cambridge)

Sara Lipton (Stony Brook) Anne E. Lester (Johns Hopkins) Verena Krebs (Bochum)

Friday 30 June 2023

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM - Music, Ritual and Liturgy (chair: Emma Dillon, KCL)

Iris Shagrir (Open University, Israel) Susan Boynton (Columbia) Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth) Nils Holger Petersen (Copenhagen)

11:30 AM – 11:45 AM - Coffee break

11:45 AM – 1:15 PM - Literature (chair: Julia Boffey, QMUL)

David Wallace (UPenn) Rita Copeland (UPenn) Paul Strohm (Columbia)

1:15 PM – 2:30 PM - Lunch

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM - Reform and Resistance (chair: Mishtooni Bose, Oxford)

Tamar Herzig (Tel Aviv) Sylvain Piron (EHESS) Gabor Klaniczay (CEU) Lyndal Roper (Oxford)

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM - Coffee break

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM - Reflections and final discussion (chair: John Arnold, Cambridge)

Marek Tamm (Tallinn) Ora Limor (Open University, Israel) Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard) Virginia Reinburg (Boston)

Seminar Series Trinity Term 2023: The Smiling Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts, Oxford, May 4-June 15 2023 (Thursdays 17:15)

Seminar Series Trinity Term 2023

The Smiling Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts

Arumugam Building, St Catherine’s College, Oxford

Thursdays 17:15, Weeks 2, 4, 6 & 8

‘Brother, he said, the pages painted by the brush of Franco Bolognese smile more brightly’
Dante, Purgatorio, XI 82-84

Seminars will take place in the Arumugam Building, St Catherine’s College, and are usually followed by a drinks reception. Prior booking not required.

Series organisers: Gervase Rosser , Elena Lichmanova (Merton)

Thursday 4 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - British Medieval Illuminators’ Blues
  Richard Gameson (Durham University)

Thursday 18 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Ruled Lines and the Making of Manuscript Images
  Hanna Vorholt (University of York)

Thursday 1 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Visual Exegesis and its Deployment in Insular Illumination
  Michelle Brown (University of London)

Thursday 15 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Blood Piety and Anti-Judaism in an Early Fourteenth-century Illuminated Prayer Book from Liège
  Sara Lipton (Stony Brook University)

For more information, https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series/id/3e4694e9-409f-4a80-aed3-e8b8185cff67

Job Opportunity: Special Projects Assistant, Medieval Academy of America, Applications Due By 15 May 2023

Call for Applications

Special Projects Assistant

Medieval Academy of America

15 hours/wk (hybrid)
$30/hr (no benefits)

Applications Due By 15 May 2023

The Medieval Academy of America, an educational non-profit organization incorporated as a 501(c)3 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, seeks a Special Projects Assistant to work with the Executive Director, the Editor of Speculum, and other administrative and Speculum staff on various projects, both in the Boston office and remotely. The position is offered for 15 hours per week at $30 per hour, without medical or retirement benefits. Interest in and knowledge about the Middle Ages is ideal, but there are no degree or foreign-language requirements. While many of the position’s responsibilities can be accomplished remotely, easy access to the MAA’s downtown Boston office is necessary as the job will often entail working onsite in collaboration with other staff members.

Responsibilities will include (but will not be limited to):

Remote:

• processing and assembling grant application dossiers (throughout the year) using the MAA’s backend content management system (YourMembership) as well as Adobe, Excel, and Word;

• assisting with logistical support for the Annual Meeting and the International Congress on Medieval Studies (as necessary);

• other administrative tasks as assigned by the Executive

Onsite:

• processing and shipping books submitted for prize consideration (annually in November);

• managing mass mailings (approximately four times per year);

• Digitizing MAA archival material (on an ad hoc basis);

• Assisting the Speculum mailing operation by recording and organizing incoming books submitted for review and mailing copies to reviewers (approx. 1.5 hours/wk).

To apply, please forward a CV and cover letter stating experience, qualifications, and interest to Executive Director Lisa Fagin Davis LFD@TheMedievalAcademy.org by MAY 15. Position to begin on or around June 15.

Call for Papers: Arabic Pasts: Histories & Historiographies, London & Possibly Online (6-7 October 2023), Abstracts Due By 12 May 2023

Call for Papers

Arabic Pasts: Histories & Historiographies

6-7 October 2023, Aga Khan Centre, London & Possibly Online

Abstracts Due BY 12 May 2023

Co-hosted by the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and SOAS, University of London

This annual exploratory and informal workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies for investigating history writing in Arabic in the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond in any period from the seventh century to the present.

We are interested in papers that consider the practical and conceptual challenges of working on history writing in Arabic. Papers might elucidate the following sorts of questions:

• How did adherents of different confessional or juristic traditions, men and women, and members of different social classes within societies that became “Islamic” imagine the shape and meaning of their specific societies’ own pasts, and their relation to the universal history of the Islamic community? Which ways of writing, remembering, or commemorating did they develop?

• How can we broaden our scope beyond just textual historiography?

• How can marginalised communities and varieties of Arabic be given due attention?

• How can works of fiction contribute to our understanding of the past?

• How can we explore the past algorithmically? Can digital methods enhance our understanding of the past? Can they also limit or even alter it? Which new digital tools are being developed? What seem to be particularly promising approaches? What is lacking?

• In what ways do educational institutions, museums, media organisations and proponents of heritage use history writing to shape loyalties and senses of belonging in society?

• How is the past used in creative arts, re-enactment, games, and augmented reality?

Contributions are invited from scholars at all career levels, addressing any period and any part of the Middle East and North Africa, broadly defined. This year we anticipate running the workshop from the Aga Khan Centre in London, with the possibility to have an online component featuring participants who are unable to travel to the UK. As in past years, there is a small budget to provide some travel assistance for scholars outside of London.

Arabic Pasts is co-organized by Hugh Kennedy (SOAS), James McDougall (Oxford), Lorenz Nigst (AKU-ISMC), and Sarah Bowen Savant (AKU-ISMC).

Please submit an abstract of 300 words or less in word document by Friday, 12 May 2023 to ArabicPastsConf@aku.edu.

For more information, https://www.aku.edu/ismc/events/pages/event-detail.aspx?EventID=2321&Title=Arabic%20Pasts:%20Histories%20and%20Historiographies6-7%20October%202023.

SNSF PRIMA Project LEFem Launch: Portraying Medieval Women, Hybrid Event (University of Fribourg), 25 April 2023

SNSF PRIMA Project LEFem Launch

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

25 April 2023

Online & In-Person (Auditorium MIS 03 3119, University of Fribourg)

For online participation, please follow this link: tinyurl.com/yc7kdadf

14.00–14:15 Greetings

MICHELE BACCI (University of Fribourg)

14:15–15:15 SNSF PRIMA Project LEFem Launch Chair: MICHELE BACCI

SNSF PRIMA Project LEFem: Exploring Female Representation in the Latin East
RAFCA NASR (University of Fribourg)

Female Presence and Agency in the Middle Ages: Historiographical Considerations VESNA SCEPANOVIC (University of Fribourg)

SNSF PRIMA Project LEFem Database SOFIA ZOITOU (University of Fribourg)

15:15–15:45 Break

15:45–16:45 Keynote Lecture I Chair: VESNA SCEPANOVIC

Leading a Major Project: High Points and Hurdles

THERESE MARTIN (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid)

16:45–17:00 Break

17:00–18:00 Keynote Lecture II Chair: SOFIA ZOITOU

Epigraphic Portraits of Women in the Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus
ESTELLE INGRAND-VARENNE (CESCM - Université de Poitiers)

18:00–18:30 Final Discussion Chair: RAFCA NASR

For a PDF of the programme, click here.

Symposium: Sensory Experiences Across Medieval Communities, Fordham University (In-Person & Online), 6 May 2023

Sensory Experiences Across Medieval Communities

Hosted by the Consortium Medievalists

Saturday, May 6, 2023

Hyybrid in-person and Zoom event - RSVP

Fordham University | Lincoln Center Campus | Leon Lowenstein Center | 113 W 60th St, 12th floor | New York, NY 10023

12:00 - 12:15 p.m. | Introduction - Welcome from the Consortium Medievalists

12:15 - 1:30 p.m. | Diagnosis, Community, and Embodied Knowledge

Yea Jung Park, *Gestures, Symptoms, Excess

Robin Reich, *Color, Transmission, Material Sources

Sponsored by NYU

Moderator: Sarah Ganzel

1:45 - 3:00 p.m. | Hildegard's Verdant Medicine: Creating an Intersensory Concert Experience

Sponsored by NYU and Princeton

Presented by Alkemie

Moderator: Alice Grissom

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Coffee

3:30 - 4:45 p.m. | Graduate Student Lightning Round

Speakers: Sophie Durbin, Maria Shevelkina, Agnes Viragh, Anushka Hosain, Kris Racaniello

Moderators: Alice Grissom and Ariela Algaze

5:00 - 6:30 p.m. | Keynote Lecture

Avinoam Shalem, "Histories Objectified: The Material Turn and Artifacts in the Post-Semiotic Era"

Sponsored by NYU

Moderators: Alina Shubina and Grant Miner

6:45 - 9:00 p.m. | Reception

all & sundry, 312 W 58th St, New York, NY 10019

Sponsored by Fordham and Columbia

For the flyer, click here.