Call for Applications: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN SPATIAL APPROACHES TO DIGITAL HUMANITIES (TENURE TRACK), VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM, Due By 9 June 2023

Call for Applications

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN SPATIAL APPROACHES TO DIGITAL HUMANITIES (TENURE TRACK)

VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM

Due by 9 June 2023

The Department of Art & Culture, History, and Antiquity at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, is looking for a specialist who combines expertise in the spatial digital methods and techniques with the historical sciences, in particular archaeology, heritage studies, history, or art history. We are interested both in the representation of the past in the present and the use of spatial digital methods and techniques in research into and management of the past. The successful candidate will contribute to the broadening and strengthening of the department’s profile in digital humanities by develop his/her own line of teaching and research in the spatial approaches to the past. 

JOB DESCRIPTION

The appointee will contribute to shaping research and teaching in the field of Digital Archaeology and Heritage. He or she will incorporate digital spatial analysis such as GIS and/or network analysis into teaching within the history, archaeology, heritage studies and/or art history programs. In addition, the appointee is expected to reflect critically on the representations of the past and on the use of spatial digital methods and techniques in the historical sciences and to cooperate with colleagues in teaching and research. He or she will help train a new generation of students competent in digital spatial analysis who can contribute to digital heritage management, co-design, predictive modelling, or digital science communication in the field of historical sciences.

Your duties

  • creating a stimulating learning environment for students of all levels (bachelor’s, master’s, PhD)

  • conducting innovative research and publishing its results in relevant national and international forums

  • strengthening spatial digital humanities within the historical sciences

  • applying for and acquiring external research funding


REQUIREMENTS

  • PhD preferably in archaeology, heritage studies, history, or art or architectural history; integrated use of spatial digital methods is a plus

  • experience with application of spatial digital methods in research within the historical sciences, ability to incorporate these methods into the curriculum, and active understanding of the impact of spatial digital approaches on the humanities

  • research output appropriate to the level of the position, demonstrated by publication record where appropriate

  • relevant teaching experience within one of the aforementioned fields, supported by good evaluations

  • in possession of the Dutch Basic Teaching Qualification (BKO) or equivalent, or willing to obtain this within the foreseeable future

  • excellent command of English (near-native fluency). International candidates are expected to acquire a working knowledge of Dutch within two years and will be supported in doing so

Are you interested in this position? Please apply via the application button and upload your curriculum vitae and cover letter until June 9, 2023. 

Applications received by e-mail will not be processed.

Vacancy questions
If you have any questions regarding this vacancy, you may contact:

Name: Professor Jan Paul Crielaard 
Position: Full Professor
E-mail: j.p.crielaard@vu.nl

Call for expressions of interest: Postdoctoral Fellowships at the British School at Athens, Due 9 June 2023

call for expressions of interest

Postdoctoral Fellowships at the British School at Athens

Deadline: 9 June 2023

The British School at Athens invites expressions of interest from postdoctoral scholars who wish to apply for a range of fellowships schemes:

  • The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships

  • The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships

  • The Leverhulme Trust international Fellowships

The deadline for the submission of expressions of interest to the School is Friday 9 June 2023.

Potential candidates are asked to check the eligibility requirements of the scheme they are interested in. Those interested should send a CV, a list of publications and an outline of the proposed research (no more than 2 pages) to the BSA Assistant Director at assistant.director@bsa.ac.uk. When appropriate, potential candidates are welcome to send a separate statement of any circumstances that may have impacted their research.

Candidates selected by the School will be contacted directly by the Research committee.
For any information please contact assistant.director@bsa.ac.uk

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024
The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships offers outstanding early career researchers the opportunity to pursue an independent research project at a host institution, towards completion of a significant piece of publishable research, for a period of 3 years. More information about the scheme is available on the British Academy website (https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/postdoctoral-fellowships/)

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024
These fellowships are open to excellent researchers of any nationality, who wish to carry out their research activities abroad, acquire new skills and develop their careers undertaking international mobility either to or between EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries or in a non-associated Third Country. The objective is to support researchers’ careers and foster excellence in research. These fellowships can last 1 or 2 years (European fellowship) or 2 or 3 years (Global fellowship).
More information about the scheme is available at https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdoctoral-fellowships

The Leverhulme Trust international Fellowships
The fellowship is open to researchers established in the UK to develop new knowledge, skills and ideas outside the UK. The scheme may be used for developing new lines of research through overseas collaboration, making ‘discipline-hopping excursions’ into new areas of research, developing innovations in teaching, preparing for collaborative grant applications, or observing and sharing ground-breaking techniques or practices. Fellowships are tenable for between 3 and 24 months. More information: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/international_fellowships

For more information, https://www.bsa.ac.uk/2023/05/23/postdoc2024/

Call for Papers & Panels: 48th Annual European Studies Conference, University of Nebraska Omaha (5-6 October 2023 - Hybrid), Submissions Due By 31 May 2023

Call for Papers & Panels

48th Annual European Studies Conference

5-6 October 2023, University of Nebraska Omaha (Hybrid)

Submissions Due By 31 May 2023

The 48th Annual European Studies Conference, which will be held on October 5-6, 2023, welcomes submissions on European topics in all disciplines. This year's event will feature both online programming and in-person presentations.

Founded in 1975, our interdisciplinary conference draws every year participants from colleges and universities in the United States and from abroad. Interdisciplinary panels, workshops, plenaries, and performances bring perspectives and insights that have earned the conference a reputation for high academic quality. Areas of interest include art, anthropology, history, literature, current issues, and prospects in cultural, political, social, economic, or military areas; education, business, international affairs, religion, foreign languages, philosophy, music, geography, theater, and film.

This year we will also offer special panels on the following topics:

  • Ancient Mediterranean & Near Eastern World

  • Black European Studies

  • Human Rights

  • Holocaust and Genocide

  • Medieval Europe

Please direct any questions to the conference coordinators, Dr. Mark Celinscak (mcelinscak@unomaha.edu) and Dr. Martina Saltamacchia (msaltamacchia@unomaha.edu).

Submission of a paper or panel proposal can be done here.

International Conference of the ERC project HornEast: Ethiopians abroad in the Middle Ages, Rome, 23-26 May 2023

International conference of the ERC project HornEast

Ethiopians abroad in the Middle Ages

23-26 May 2023

PONTIFICIO ISTITUTO ORIENTALE (PIAZZA DI SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE 7) &

ÉCOLE FRANÇAISE DE ROME (PIAZZA NAVONA 62)

International conference of the ERC project HornEast (Horn & Crescent. Connections, Mobility and Exchange between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East in the Middle Ages)

This project offers the first comprehensive study of medieval connections between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East in both Christian and Islamic contexts.

Org. Julien Loiseau (Aix-Marseille Université, projet ERC HornEast) and Martina Ambu (LabEx Hastec – EPHE, Paris).

This project has received funding from the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement n° 726206. 

On the occasion of the symposium, a photographic exhibition will be open to the public on 24 may 2023, at 2.00 PM at the École française de Rome gallery (piazza Navona, 62): Islam in Enderta. Two Years of Archaeological Survey and Excavations in Eastern Tigray, Ethiopia. This exhibition presents the work of the European Research Council  (ERC) project HornEast in northern Ethiopia. Photographs and thematic panels explored the remains of the medieval Islamic past in a region regarded as the cradle of Ethiopian Christianity. It will be open until 24 July 2023.

Symposium program 

23 May 2023, Pontificio Istituto Orientale

15.00 Visit of the Pontificio Istituto Orientale

16.45 Key note lecture by Alessandro Bausi

24 May 2023, École française de Rome, piazza Navona 62

9.00 Welcome of the participants

9.30 Introduction of the conference

10.00 Session 1. Slaves and Freed Men and Women

14h Opening of the exhibition Four Campaigns of Archaeological Survey and Excavations in Eastern Tigray, Ethiopia

14.40 Session 2. Cultural Brokers

25 May 2023, École française de Rome, piazza Navona 62

9.00 Session 3. Jerusalem

11.20 Session 4. Networks I. Materiality

14.00 Session 5. Networks II. Monasteries and Tariqas

16.20 Session 6. Networks III. Embassies

26 May 2023, École française de Rome, piazza Navona 62

9.00 Session 7. Ethiopian Cairo

12.40 Conclusions

15.00 Visit of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and of the Church of Santo Stefano dei Mori

 

Partners:

  • École française de Rome

  • Pontificio Istituto Orientale

  • European Research Council

  • Aix-Marseille Université

  • Institut de Recherches et d'Études sur les Mondes Arabes et Musulmans (UMR 7310 IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence)

  • Centre Français des Études Éthiopiennes (CFEE, Addis Abeba, Éthiopie)

Members of the ERC project HornEast:

  • Simon Dorso, Aix-Marseille Université

  • Julien Loiseau, Aix-Marseille Université

  • Shahista Mohamed, Aix-Marseille Université

Speakers:

  • Olivia Adankpo, Université Grenoble Alpes

  • Mathilde Alain, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance (University of Warwick) - Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (Université de Tours)

  • Martina Ambu, LabEx Hastec - EPHE (Paris)

  • Deresse Ayenachew, I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Florence)

  • Alessandro Bausi, Universität Hamburg

  • Iskandar Bcheiry, American Theological Library Association

  • Sobhi Bouderbala, ERC HornEast – Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Tunis

  • Giuseppe Cecere, Università di Bologna - Alma Mater Studiorum

  • Alice Croq, ANR ChrIs-cross

  • Sophia Dege-Müller, Universität Hamburg

  • Alessandro Gori, Københavns Universitet

  • Magdi Guirguis, Kafrelsheikh University et IFAO (Égypte)

  • Bertrand Hirsch, Université Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne

  • Timothy Insoll, University of Exeter

  • Verena Krebs, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

  • Zacharie Mochtari, Université de Liège

  • Mikael Muehlbauer, Columbia University

  • Craig Perry, Emory University

  • Perrine Pilette, CNRS - UMR Orient et Méditerranée (Paris)

  • Zaroui Pogossian, Università degli Studi di Firenze

  • Camille Rouxpetel, Université de Nantes

  • Awet Teklehimanot Araya, University of Exeter

  • Anaïs Wion, CNRS - Institut des Mondes Africains (Paris)

Copies of the program (with the speakers and their papers) and the poster are available.

For more information, https://www.efrome.it/en/research/news-and-events/news/ethiopians-abroad-in-the-middle-ages

Call for Papers: Late medieval stencil painting of the 15th and 16th centuries on wooden supports in Central Europe, Dresden (26-28 October 2023 - Hybrid), Submissions Due By 30 June 2023

Call for Papers

Late medieval stencil painting of the 15th and 16th centuries on wooden supports in Central Europe

Cultural History, Art Technology, Conservation

Interdisciplinary Conference of the Saxon State Office for the Protection of Monuments

26-28 October 2023 Dresden, Ständehaus, Festsaal

Submissions Due By 30 June 2023

Stencil painting was a common and widespread decorative technique in both sacred and profane interior design at the end of the Middle Ages and in the early modern period (until 1550). As far as we know today, its area of distribution extended over the entire Central European region. Of the once extensive and sometimes very elaborately decorated objects, only a few have survived in their entirety. Their design ideas, which are often room-related, can still be experienced today, for example in the wooden church in Dębno Podhalańskie, Poland, which is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

International research has been concerned with this type of stencil painting for about 100 years. In addition to art-technological aspects, cultural-historical questions about the origin and distribution of the decorative style have been raised. Approaches to the derivation and formation of groups of works on the basis of stencil similarities also offer suggestions for dealing with this design technique in a classical comparison of styles, as is common in art history.

The aim of the interdisciplinary conference is to bring together the results of current and past research, to place them in an international context and, if necessary, to re-evaluate them. Questions concerning the origin, development and dissemination of the technique will be discussed, as well as problems of conservation, restoration history and heritage preservation. At the same time, the aim is to compile a catalogue of stencil motifs used on the basis of the objects presented.

Contributions can include aspects of the following thematic sections:

1. Contributions on the cultural-historical background: Aspects of regional, supra-regional and international political, ecclesiastical-political and economic circumstances are to be discussed and the decorative style placed in its contemporary context.

2. Contributions to art history: In addition to individual case studies or discussions of regional and supra-regional object studies, this category includes contributions on the emergence, dissemination and development of the decorative style as well as stylistic-critical and iconographic considerations. Promising comparative approaches to the technique in the reflection of other art genres, such as textile art, are also given equal space here.

3. Contributions to the art technology of stencil painting: This section focuses on the entire process of producing stencil painting in connection with both buildingbound and non-building-bound objects with regard to material properties, material procurement, preparation, processing, scientific analysis procedures or historical tools.

4. Contributions to stencilled furniture of the period: Late medieval stencilled furniture represents a special genre in furniture history. Both profane furniture and sacred furniture will be discussed here with regard to their typology, joining and decoration techniques and functionality.

5. Contributions to stencil painting in the context of interior design: Stencil paintings on furniture and building-related furnishings are today often regarded as a singular objectspecific phenomenon due to their state of preservation. Other examples show that they were conceived at the time of their creation in the context of interior design, especially wall painting. This section explores questions about the complexity of interior design.

6. Contributions to the conservation and care of objects with stencil painting: In addition to individual examples of conservation and restoration, questions of current and historical conservation concepts and conservation problems in the context of cultural heritage preservation will be discussed. Examples of building climate problems in times of climate change and questions of museum conservation and presentation will be discussed.

If your contribution relates to the topic of the conference but is not assigned to one of these sections, your submission or submission is not one of these sections. Your suggestion still welcome.

Organization:

Organizer: Saxon State Office for the Protection of Monuments in Dresden, Schloßplatz 1, 01067 Dresden

Contact: Christine Kelm, LfD Sachsen, christine.kelm@lfd.sachsen.de, Tel.: +49 351 48430 416; Jörg Kestel, LfD, joerg.kestel@lfd.sachsen.de, Tel.: +49 351 48430 405; Gerald Grajcarek M.A., veranstaltung@lfd.sachsen.de, Tel.: +49 173 4060 787

The conference including excursion will take place from 26 until 28 October 2023 in Dresden and will be organised by Saxon State Office for the Protection of Monuments. Details of the programme will be published after the closing date for contributions. The conference programme will be published at the end of July 2023.

Contributions of 20 minutes are requested. To ensure the smooth running of the programme and the mutual consideration of all speakers, please keep to the speaking time. Each contribution will be allowed 5 minutes for discussion.

There is also the possibility of submitting poster contributions. The posters submitted in DIN A1 format will be printed by the Saxon State Office for the Protection of Monuments prepared for the exhibition and included in the planned conference proceedings.

The conference language is English and German.

Proposals for papers with the title of the presentation and an abstract of max. 10 lines in German and English as well as a short CV with complete postal address are requested to be sent by 30 June 2023 to:

Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Sachsen

Schloßplatz 1 01067, Dresden

Stichwort »Schablonenmalerei«

E-Mail: veranstaltung@lfd.sachsen.de

The technical equipment for a digital image presentation (PowerPoint) is available to the speakers. It is planned to stream the lectures online during the conference as a hybrid conference.

All conference contributions will subsequently be published in the series »Arbeitshefte« of the Saxon State Office for the Protection of Monuments. The manuscripts of the contributions should be completed by the time of the event and can be sent to the organisers on site.

For all submissions of stencilled objects, please include the stencil motifs to scale (as a rectified, scaled, digital photo or as a 1:1 tracing) with the papers and posters. The organisers will also accept independent submissions of original stencil motifs to scale, with the aim of publishing all collected stencils in a catalogue. The images should be compiled with the location and, if applicable, dating as well as the contact details of the collector.

PDFs of the Call for Papers and the Save the Date are also available.

For more information, including the Call for Papers and Save the Date in German, https://www.denkmalpflege.sachsen.de/

Call for Applications: MURRAY STUDENTSHIP IN EUROPEAN ART OR ARCHITECTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE, Birbeck, University of London, Applications By 12 June 2023 5 PM BST

Call for Applications

MURRAY STUDENTSHIP IN EUROPEAN ART OR ARCHITECTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE

Birbeck, University of London

Applications Due By Monday 12 June 2023, 5pm BST

Outstanding candidates for part-time postgraduate research in the field of European Art or Architecture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance are invited to apply for The Murray Research Studentship. This PhD studentship, based in the Department of History of Art at Birkbeck and supported by the Murray Bequest, covers part-time home fees and offers a bursary of £5,000 per annum for a period of five years.

For more information, https://www.bbk.ac.uk/student-services/financial-support/phd-funding/murray-research-studentship

Please note: This studentship is not available to full-time/overseas students.

ABOUT THE MURRAY BEQUEST

Peter Murray was Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck from 1967 to 1980. On his death in 1992, his widow, Linda Murray, established a bequest which supports a range of activities in History of Art.


Call for Papers/Panels: 2024 Annual Meeting ofThe Medieval Academy of America, University of Notre Dame (14-16 March 2024), Submissions by 15 June 2023

Updated Call for Papers/Panels

2024 Annual Meeting of
The Medieval Academy of America

Hosted by the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
MARCH 14–16, 2024

Submissions Due By 15 June 2023

The 99th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Indiana).  The meeting is hosted by The Medieval Institute, St. Mary's College, Holy Cross College, and Indiana University, South Bend.  The conference will be entirely in person, though the plenary lectures and some other events will also be live-streamed.

The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. Exceptions can be given to individuals whose specialty would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy.


Location: The Medieval Institute has one of the preeminent library collections for medieval studies in North America. Notre Dame is located about two hours’ drive from Chicago, with commuter train service available. Scholars may wish to extend their visit and take advantage of opportunities for research or sightseeing.

Plenary Speakers:  Robin Fleming (Boston College), Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford), and Jack Tannous (Princeton).

Themes:
Mapping the Middle Ages: Under this theme we invite explorations of how medieval people mapped their world and of how we, as modern scholars, have mapped or might map that world.  For example, sessions or individual presentations could focus on medieval cartography or the distortions of modern maps of the medieval world, but also on other kinds of medieval and modern mappings:  the creation of medieval cosmologies and cosmographies; the construction of boundaries, edges, peripheries, authorities, and jurisdictions; the positioning of marginal groups, of insiders and outsiders, of friends and enemies; the conjuring of frontiers between ‘civilizations’ across Eurasia; the figuring of past, present, and future, of ancient, medieval, and modern; the making of archives and libraries.

Bodies in Motion: This strand thematizes bodies (for example, animate bodies, celestial bodies, or material objects) as they move, whether through displacement or through movement within a space. Papers might consider celestial motion, mathematical models, music, and concepts of time; travel (e.g. for trade, pilgrimage, or war), migration and resettlement (voluntary or forced); the transmission of food, goods, art objects and diseases through patterns of human contact; bodies that transform or transcend categories; textual corpora, their material transmissions, and their transformations through translation and reception; habit, gesture, ritual, and the lived use of domestic, urban, political, or religious architectural spaces.

Communities of Knowledge: We invite papers exploring communities formed around the creation, dissemination, exchange, and preservation of knowledge in the medieval world. Papers might treat centers of learning and their students and teachers, including but not limited to the universities; virtual communities formed by epistolary networks, narrative traditions, dissident theologies, or political ideologies; communities defined in terms of medical knowledge; apocalyptic or prophetic or messianic communities bound by foreknowledge of things to come; the peripheries of knowledge, including the limits of literacy or belief; material supports for the transmission of knowledge, from shipping routes or urban spaces to fresco cycles or manuscript glosses; and the formation of political and legal knowledge in the Middle Ages and their impact on the constitution of authority.

The Medieval Academy welcomes innovative panels that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries or that use various disciplinary approaches to examine an individual topic. We encourage papers on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, or Eastern Europe and the networks and exchanges between East and West.

Proposals: Individuals may propose to offer a paper or propose a full panel of papers and speakers to fit one of the themes above.  Panels usually consist of three 25-minute papers, and proposals should be geared to that length. The Program Committee may choose a different format for some panels after the proposals have been reviewed. Panel organizers may wish to propose different formats for their panels, subject to Program Committee approval.

In order to be considered, proposals must be complete and sent in via the Submittable platform at this link: https://bit.ly/MAA2024-ND-MI

Paper proposals will need to include the proposer’s information (name; a statement of Medieval Academy membership, or statement that the individual’s specialty would not normally involve membership in the Academy; professional status; email address; postal address; home or cell and office telephone numbers) and paper information (title, abstract of no more than 250 words, session theme for which it should be considered, and audio-visual needs).

Session proposals: If a full panel is being proposed, the above information will be required for each paper, as well as for the session as a whole.  Session proposals may also include the name of the chair (with the relevant contact information) or ask that a chair.

If the proposer will be at a different address when decisions are announced in September 2023, that address should be included.

Submissions: Please do not send proposals to the Medieval Academy office or to the conference organizers. Contact MAA2024@TheMedievalAcademy.org with questions.

Selection Procedure: The Committee will review paper and panel proposals for their quality, the significance of their topics, and their relevance to the conference themes. The Program Committee will evaluate proposals during the summer of 2023 and the Committee will inform all successful and unsuccessful proposers and announce the program in September of 2023.

For more information: https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/2024AnnualMeeting

Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Lecture: What the burgess saw: art in the Irish medieval town, Rachel Moss, 25 May 2023, 19:30-21:00 IST/14:30-16:00 EDT (In-Person and Online)

Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland

What the burgess saw: art in the Irish medieval town

Dr. Rachel Moss, TCD

25 May 2023, 19:30-21:00 IST/14:30-16:00 EDT

Helen Roe Theatre, Society House, 63 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 and ZOOM

MURRAY SEMINAR: GILDED SUNS AND PEACOCK ANGELS: THEATRICAL MATERIALITY AND ART IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY FLORENCE, LAURA STEFANESCU, London & Online, 14 June 2023, 17:00-18:30 BST/12:00-13:30 EDT

MURRAY SEMINAR

GILDED SUNS AND PEACOCK ANGELS: THEATRICAL MATERIALITY AND ART IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY FLORENCE

LAURA STEFANESCU

14 June 2023, 17:00-18:30 BST/12:00-13:30 EDT

Birbeck, University of London & Online

In fifteenth-century Florence, the phenomenon of religious theatre and ritual performance, promoted by adult and youth confraternities throughout the city, reached an unparalleled popularity, transitioning from the realm of devotion to that of the spectacular. The highlight of these performances was the materialisation of a multi-sensory heaven on stage and the appearance of its living angels (young Florentine boys) in their dazzling costumes. Painters living in the Santo Spirito quarter, where most of these activities took place, were actively involved in the creation of the apparatus for sacred plays. They were sometimes even members of the confraternities that produced the plays, as was, for example, Neri di Bicci, one of the most successful Florentine painters of the period.

This seminar was previously scheduled for December 2022, then February 2023 but had to be cancelled both times. If you booked for either of these cancelled events, we apologise but you will need to book again as your old tickets will no longer be valid. The seminar will be delivered before an audience and livestreamed. Separate booking links are posted on Eventbrite for each form of attendance.

Booking Link to Eventbrite for Livestreamed Seminar

Booking Link to Eventbrite for In-person Seminar

Contact: Laura Jacobus

For more information, https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=34633

Call for Papers: BAA Biennial International Romanesque Conference, ROMANESQUE AND THE MONASTIC ENVIRONMENT, Valladolid (8-10 April 2024), Proposals Due by 30 June 2023

Call for Papers

British Archaeological Association

BIENNIAL International Romanesque Conference

ROMANESQUE AND THE MONASTIC ENVIRONMENT

VALLADOLID, 8-10 APRIL 2024

Proposals Due BY 30 June 2023

The British Archaeological Association will hold the eighth in its series of biennial International Romanesque conferences in Valladolid from 8-10 April, 2024. The theme of the conference is Romanesque and the Monastic Environment, and the aim is to examine how and why monastic spaces were created, embellished and used in the 11th and 12th centuries. While a particular approach to monastic planning can be observed in Carolingian Benedictine circles in the second quarter of the 9th century – one in which ranges were organized on three sides of a garden with the church on a fourth – the extent to which this type of arrangement was widely adopted before the second half of the 11th century is unclear. Nor was it the only type of monastic plan in circulation. Semi-coenobitic orders, such as the Carthusians, had little use for ranges, even if the adoption of a garden surrounded by covered walks on four sides became more or less de rigeur in Latin monastic planning by c. 1100. When cloisters, chapterhouses, refectories, dormitories and work-rooms were established with clear relationships to each other and to the monastic choir, it becomes possible to speak of a core precinct, but what of other facilities, or precincts; infirmaries, outer courts, cemeteries, secondary cloisters, kitchens and gatehouses?

We welcome proposals for papers concerned with the design and functioning of monastic space in architectural, iconographical and liturgical terms, along with proposals which address choirs, their furnishings (stalls, pavements, altars), definition (screens, pulpita, railings), liturgical provision, and accessibility. Is processional use widely shared or locally specific? How and where is imagery used, or avoided? Should symbolic significance be attached to the appearance of buildings in monasteries beyond the church? Where and how was artistic production arranged? What are the preconditions for change?

Proposals for papers of up to 30 minutes in duration should be sent to Fernando Gutiérrez Baños and John McNeill on romanesque2024@thebaa.org by 30 June, 2023. Papers should be in English. Decisions on acceptance will be made by the end of July. The Conference will be held at Valladolid University’s Palacio de Congresos ‘Conde Ansúrez’ from 8-10 April, with the opportunity to stay on for two days of visits to Romanesque buildings in the surrounding area on 11-12 April.

Index of Medieval Art Conference: Whose East? Defining, Challenging, and Exploring Eastern Christian Art, 11 November 2023

Index of Medieval Art Conference

Whose East? Defining, Challenging, and Exploring Eastern Christian Art

November 11, 2023

More Details Will be Available in September 2023

Personification of Sunrise, State Historical Museum, Moscow, Chludov Psalter, gr. 129, fol. 48v

This conference asks how the concept of “the East” has shaped perceptions of Eastern Christianity generally and Eastern Christian Art more specifically, in Euro-American scholarship as well as in the popular view. Building on or dismantling such historical divisions as Western/Eastern Roman Empire, Latin/Orthodox, or simply East/West, speakers will explore what “East” and “East Christian” mean, how the boundaries of these concepts changed over time, and where exactly are the edges of the geographic, political, and religious “East.” This conference will offer a new understanding of the eastern Christian world by examining its cultural production in its own right and demonstrating that its rich, complex, and significant artistic production was not at the periphery of somewhere else, but rather at the center of an interconnected world.

The conference will focus on the regions of medieval Syria, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe. These territories are often neglected in medieval and early modern scholarship as regions that are merely “East” of somewhere more important. The material culture produced in the regions “east” of Western Europe—such as modern-day Ukraine, Serbia or Romania, to mention only a few—has for a long time been considered of “lesser” value or importance compared to France or Italy; the Caucasus is often considered only in relation to Byzantium; and art produced in Armenia, Georgia and Anatolia has often been discussed in terms of a center/periphery dichotomy. Rarely is the visual production of these areas allowed to speak for itself.

Speakers will include:

Anthi Andronikou (University of St Andrews)

Jelena Bogdanović (Vanderbilt University)

Jana Gajdošová (Sam Fogg)

Christian Raffensperger (Wittenberg University)

Gohar Savary (Université de Fribourg)

Erik Thunø (Rutgers University)

Tolga Uyar (Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University)

Margarita Vulgaropoulou (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Respondents:

Antony Eastmond (Courtauld Institute of Art)

Mirela Ivanova (University of Sheffield)

The conference will be hosted in person as well as live-streamed. The conference schedule, location details, and live stream registration link will be posted in September.

For more information and future details, https://ima.princeton.edu/2023/05/15/save-the-date-for-the-fall-2023-conference-at-the-index-of-medieval-art-whose-east/

Call for Papers EXTENDED: 2023 Australian Early Medieval Association, 'The Natural and the Unnatural in the Early Medieval World,' Sydney & Online (28-29 September 2023), Due By 15 July 2023

Call for Papers

2023 Australian Early Medieval Association

The Natural and the Unnatural in the Early Medieval World

University of Sydney & Online, 28-29 September 2023

Submission Deadline: 15 July 2023

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

• Dr Elizabeth Boyle (Maynooth University)

• Professor Roland Fletcher (The University of Sydney)

In the largely rural and agrarian landscape of the medieval world, fauna and flora were highly regarded, as is evidenced by the importance of agriculture, the popularity of bestiaries, and the legacy of the elder Pliny’s Naturalis historia. The dynamics of the natural environment and social life has become an increasingly important topic in scholarship in recent years as we grapple with the impact of climate change.

For most people in the early Middle Ages, a supernatural world existed alongside the natural one and interacted with it. Indeed, the presence of the unnatural, whether in terms of bizarre creatures or disease and other environmental disasters, was taken as proof of the impact of the supernatural on the natural world and fed into philosophical and religious discourse.

Potential themes include:

• Cosmology and astrology

• Climate and natural disasters

• Disease and medicines

• Technologies and superstitions

• Paganism and Christianity

• Biological cycles and human culture

• The natural and the supernatural

• Wilderness and domestication

• Life and the afterlife

• Daylight and darkness

• Monsters and totems

• Art and the imagination

Papers that focus on the dimensions of any or all of these worlds and their interplay in the early medieval period (c. 400 – 1100 CE), which either confirm or challenge this notion are invited to be presented at our annual conference to be held in September 2023 in hybrid mode.

Submissions may be in the form of individual papers of 20 minutes duration, themed panels of three 20-minute papers, or Round Tables of up to six shorter papers (total of one hour). All sessions will include time for questions and general discussion.

Please send proposals (150–200 words per paper), along with author’s name, paper/panel/RT title, and academic affiliation (if any) to conference@aema.net.au by 15 July 2023. Please also provide a note in your submission as to whether you intend on presenting in person or online.

Current AEMA graduate and ECR members (located outside of Sydney, Australia) are eligible to apply for a travel bursary up to the value of $300 AUD. For more details, or to apply for a bursary, please contact the AEMA committee at conference@aema.net.au.

Conference website: https://aema.org.au/conference/

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

2023 Conference Convenors:

Call for Applications: Census Fellowship in the Reception of Antiquity, Berlin, Rome, and London, Due By 31 May 2023

Call for Applications

Census Fellowship in the Reception of Antiquity

Humboldt-Universität x Bibliotheca Hertziana x Warburg Institute

Application dUE By 31 May 2023

The Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, and the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, are pleased to announce a fellowship in Berlin, Rome, and London, offered at either the predoctoral or postdoctoral level.

These fellowships grow out of the longstanding collaboration between the Humboldt, the Hertziana, and the Warburg in the research project the “Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance” (https://www.census.de).

The fellowships extend the traditional chronological boundaries of the Census and are intended for research and intellectual exchange on topics related to the reception of antiquity in the visual arts between c. 1350 and c. 1900. In the context of the fellowships, the topic of the reception of antiquity is also broadly conceived without geographical restriction. Proposals can optionally include a digital humanities perspective, engage with the database of the Census (https://database.census.de), or make use of the research materials of the Census project available in Berlin, Rome, and London.

The Humboldt, the Hertziana, and the Warburg co-fund a research grant of 6–9 months for students enrolled in a PhD program, or 4–6 months for candidates already in possession of the PhD. Fellows can set their own schedule and choose how to divide their time between the three institutes, but they should plan to spend at least one month in residence at each of the three institutions.

The stipend will be set at c. 1,500 EUR per month at the predoctoral level and c. 2,500 EUR per month at the postdoctoral level, plus a travel stipend. The fellowship does not provide housing.

Candidates can apply via the portal available on the Hertziana website (https://recruitment.biblhertz.it). They should upload the requested PDF documents in English, German, or Italian by 31 May, 2023, with details of their proposed dates for the fellowship during the academic year 2023/24 (July 2023–July 2024).

For more information, click here.

From Simone Martini (briefly) to Donatello: Recreating the Objects of the Goldsmith’s Art, The Courtauld, 17 May 2023 5:00-6:30 PM BST

The Courtauld

From Simone Martini (briefly) to Donatello: Recreating the Objects of the Goldsmith’s Art

Amy Bloch

Wednesday 17th May 2023, 5pm - 6.30pm BST

Vernon Square campus, Lecture Theatre 2, London

Donatello’s St. Louis of Toulouse, Orsanmichele. Photograph by Amy Bloch.

Donatello’s background and apparent training in goldsmithing make it unsurprising that he often represented examples of the goldsmith’s art in his large-scale sculptures. This lecture will consider, in reliefs and statues Donatello fashioned for Florentine, Sienese, and Paduan contexts, his recreation of objects typically produced by goldsmiths, including miters, chalices, processional crosses, parade armor, and framed and unframed medallions worn as personal adornment. It will explore how attention to Donatello’s representations of items crafted by goldsmiths can deepen our understanding of his art. Such items enrich the meaning of his sculptures through their iconography and, this lecture will suggest, because they can be experienced not only as constituent parts of artworks but also as independent objects. In the latter sense, their significance relies on the figures and/or the decoration that embellish them and on knowledge of how they were assembled, of the rich variety of materials employed in their production, and of how and when they were used. This lecture will begin with a brief discussion of several paintings by Simone Martini, who engaged in a variety of ways the art of goldsmithing and, in one conspicuous case, crafted an object that likewise straddles the line between representation and actuality.

Amy Bloch is a scholar of Italian Renaissance art whose current research focuses on the practice and regulation of goldsmithing in early Renaissance Italy. She has published, in addition to essays and a book on Lorenzo Ghiberti and his Gates of Paradise (Cambridge, 2016), articles and chapters on Donatello (including several contributions to the V&A exhibition catalogue), Jacopo della Quercia, Fra Angelico, Michelangelo, and on the decoration of the Florence Baptistery. She has also co-edited, and contributed to, two volumes of essays, the most recent (Cambridge, 2020) a collection of original studies of fifteenth-century Italian sculpture. She is Associate Professor of Art History at the State University of New York in Albany.

Organised by Dr Guido Rebecchini (The Courtauld)

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

For more information, click here.

Call for Applications: Ad Astra Fellows - School of History, University College Dublin, Applications due by 26th May 2023, 17:00 IST/12:00 ET

Call for Applications

Ad Astra Fellows - School of History

University College Dublin

Applications due by 26th May 2023, 17:00 IST/12:00 ET

Applications are welcome from excellent candidates whose expertise expands and strengthens the School’s research and its undergraduate and graduate teaching programmes. The School has identified the history of the Middle Ages as a strategic area of interest in which it would particularly like to receive applications.

UCD School of History is Ireland's pre-eminent centre for historical teaching and research.  The School has been a core part of the University since its foundation, and today it is home to a large and diverse group of historians, who teach and research the people, events and processes of the past.  We are ranked amongst the top 100 history schools in the world (QS, 2020)   

Application Procedure

Applications will consist of a cover letter, in which the applicant will describe how their academic and research profile aligns with one or more of the UCD strategic themes (1. Creating a Sustainable Global Society, 2. Transforming through Digital Technology, 3. Building a Healthy World, 4. Empowering Humanity), a complete CV including all research publications and research grants to date together with any publications submitted for publication but not yet published, and the names and the contact details of three potential referees. Further details on the UCD strategic themes can be found at the following link http://www.ucd.ie/adastrafellows/

95 Lecturer/Assistant Professor (above the bar) Salary Scale:  €58,206 - €92,172 per annum

Appointment will be made on scale and in accordance with the Department of Finance guidelines.

Closing date: 17.00hrs (Local Irish Time) on 26th May 2023.

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 17:00hrs (Irish Local Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications.

For more information and to apply, https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CZE797/ad-astra-fellows-school-of-history

Call for Applications: Residential Fellowship Programmes, 2024-25, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Applications Due By 1 June 2023 23:59 CET/18:00 ET

Call for Applications

Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study

Residential Fellowship Programmes, 2024-25

Deadline for Applications: 1st June, 2023 (23:59 CET/18:00 ET)

The General Fellowship Programme

Programme and Eligibility Criteria
The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) offers a General Residential Fellowship Programme, mainly in the humanities and social sciences, open to scholars from all countries. The programme gives fellows the opportunity to concentrate on their own research interests, free from the teaching and administrative obligations of ordinary university life. Fellows are, however, expected to be active members of the scholarly community of the Collegium and to participate in seminars and other academic events beyond their own fields of specialization. The Collegium encourages scholars from diverse backgrounds,
institutions, and countries to apply.
At the time of application, the candidate must have held a PhD (or equivalent degree) for at least three years. Early career scholars must have a promising track record of independent achievements beyond the postdoctoral level, including significant publications, and be active in international fora.
Senior candidates (those who have held a PhD for at least ten years) must have demonstrated a track record of significant and original research achievements over a sequence of years and be active at the international forefront of their research fields.
As an applicant, you are not required to hold a university position at the time of application. Scholars may apply for a full academic year (September – June) or one semester.

Remuneration
Fellows receive a monthly salary. Applicants may want to consider seeking additional financial support from other sources, such as sabbatical leave. The Collegium will provide and pay for accommodation for fellows who do not live in the Stockholm–Uppsala region.

Application Instructions and Deadline
Final decisions are taken by the Principal of the Collegium in consultation with a selection committee composed of Long-term Fellows. This means that all applications (including personal data) will be downloaded by members of the selection committee, and may also be sent to external referees, outside of the EU/EEA.
The application deadline for the academic year 2024 - 2025 is on 1 June 2023 (23:59 CET). Apply through the Varbi application system by filling in the online form and submitting as PDF-files the following required application documents:

  1. A curriculum vitae (not exceeding 4 pages)

  2. A description of your intended research project (not exceeding 1500 words, excluding bibliography if any)

  3. A list of your major articles (up to ten) in international peer-reviewed journals and/or major research monographs or edited volumes

  4. One article of your choice (or chapter in an edited book, or chapter from a monograph by you), representing your scholarship. The article does not have to be related to your proposed research project. 

  5. An account of why you wish to be at SCAS (not exceeding 100 words)

  6. (Optional) up to 3 letters of reference (Please note that letters of reference must be
    uploaded by the candidate by the application deadline. It is not possible for referees
    to upload references into the online application system or send them to SCAS.)

APPLY HERE (Varbi) >>

Once your application has been submitted, you will receive a confirmation email from the Varbi online application system. Candidates are advised to submit their applications well ahead of the deadline. It may take a few days to receive assistance should you have questions or need technical support.
Applicants will be notified of the results through Varbi no later than 28 February 2024. If you get a new email address, please make sure to update it in your Varbi account.
If you have any questions related to the Varbi online application system, please contact Varbi’s support: varbi@uadm.uu.se
If you have any questions about the General Fellowship Programme, please contact the secretariat: fellowselection@swedishcollegium.se

FAQs >>

The Barbro Klein Fellowship Programme

Programme and Eligibility Criteria
The Barbro Klein Fellowship Programme intends to advance the study of cultural diversity in a global perspective. The fellowship is open to scholars from across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, with an emphasis on research on cultural and social diversity, cultural heritage and creativity, societal structures and public resistance, and varieties of cultural expressions in local and global perspective.
The programme gives fellows the opportunity to concentrate on their own research interests, free from the teaching and administrative obligations of ordinary university life. Fellows are, however, expected to be active members of the scholarly community of the Collegium and to participate in seminars and
other academic events beyond their own fields of specialization.
The fellowship programme encourages, but is not limited to, applications from talented younger scholars in non-Western countries and of underrepresented gender. At the time of application, the candidate must
have held a PhD (or equivalent degree) for at least three years. Applicants must have a promising track record of independent achievements beyond the post-doctoral level, including significant publications, and be active in international fora. As an applicant, you are not required to hold a university position at
the time of application.
Scholars may apply for a full academic year (September – June) or one semester.

Remuneration
Fellows receive a monthly salary. Applicants may want to consider seeking additional financial support from other sources, such as sabbatical leave. The Collegium will provide and pay for accommodation for fellows who do not live in the Stockholm–Uppsala region.

Application Instructions and Deadline

Final decisions are taken by the Principal of the Collegium in consultation with a selection committee composed of Long-term Fellows. This means that all applications (including personal data) will be downloaded by members of the selection committee, and may also be sent to external referees, outside
of the EU/EEA.
The application deadline for the academic year 2024 - 2025 is on 1 June 2023 (23:59 CET).
Apply through the Varbi application system by filling in the online form and submitting as PDF-files the following required application documents:

  1. A curriculum vitae (not exceeding 4 pages)

  2. A description of your intended research project (not exceeding 1500 words, excluding bibliography if any)

  3. A list of your major articles (up to ten) in international peer-reviewed journals and/or major research monographs or edited volumes

  4. One article of your choice (or chapter in an edited book, or chapter from a monograph by you), representing your scholarship. The article does not have to be related to your proposed research project. 

  5. An account of why you wish to be at SCAS (not exceeding 100 words)

  6. (Optional) up to 3 letters of reference (Please note that letters of reference must be uploaded by the candidate by the application deadline. It is not possible for referees to upload references into the online application system or send them to SCAS.)

APPLY HERE (Varbi) >>

Once your application has been submitted, you will receive a confirmation email from the Varbi online application system. Candidates are advised to submit their applications well ahead of the deadline. It may take a few days to receive assistance should you have questions or need technical support.
Applicants will be notified of the results through Varbi no later than 28 February 2024. If you get a new email address, please make sure to update it in your Varbi account.
If you have any questions related to the Varbi online application system, please contact Varbi’s support: varbi@uadm.uu.se
If you have any questions about the Barbro Klein Fellowship Programme, please contact the secretariat: fellowselection@swedishcollegium.se

FAQs >>

The Global Horizons Fellowship Programme

Programme and Eligibility Criteria
The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) offers the Global Horizons Residential Fellowship Programme open to scholars from all countries, engaged in research in the field of global governance. The programme is funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ).
The purpose of the Global Horizons Programme is to advance multidisciplinary frontline research on global future governance issues, focusing on large-scale challenges. The programme aims to attract research fellows pursuing research on contemporary aspects of globalization and to promote a thematic collaboration across faculty lines. The programme revolves around three thematic areas: Global Knowledge Cultures and Regimes; Global Political Predicaments; and Global Futures. The programme is future-oriented in its ambition to contribute to the advancement of knowledge on contemporary forms of governance and
their future implications.
The programme gives fellows the opportunity to concentrate on their own research interests, free from the teaching and administrative obligations of ordinary university life. Fellows are, however, expected to be active members of the scholarly community of the Collegium and to participate in seminars and
other academic events beyond their own fields of specialization.
The Fellowship Programme offers one Advanced Fellowship, and one Young Scholar Fellowship per year during a five-year period. For the Advanced Fellowship, the candidate should, at the time of application, have held a PhD (or equivalent degree) for at least seven years, have a track record of significant and original research achievements, and be active at the international forefront of his/her research field. Early-career scholars applying for the Young Scholar Fellowship should have a promising track record of independent achievements at the post-doctoral level (at the most seven years from PhD degree), including significant publications, and be active in international fora. As an applicant, you are not required to hold a university position at the time of application.
Scholars may apply for a full academic year (September – June) or one semester.

Remuneration
Fellows receive a monthly salary. Applicants may want to consider seeking additional financial support from other sources, such as sabbatical leave. The Collegium will provide and pay for accommodation for fellows who do not live in the Stockholm–Uppsala region.

Application Instructions and Deadline
Final decisions are taken by the Principal of the Collegium in consultation with a selection committee composed of Long-term Fellows. This means that all applications (including personal data) will be downloaded by members of the selection committee, and may also be sent to external referees, outside of the EU/EEA.
The application deadline for the academic year 2024 - 2025 is on 1 June 2023 (23:59 CET). Apply through the Varbi application system by filling in the online form and submitting as PDF-files the following required application documents:

  1. A curriculum vitae (not exceeding 4 pages)

  2. A description of your intended research project (not exceeding 1500 words, excluding bibliography if any)

  3. A list of your major articles (up to ten) in international peer-reviewed journals and/or major research monographs or edited volumes

  4. One article of your choice (or chapter in an edited book, or chapter from a monograph by you), representing your scholarship. The article does not have to be related to your proposed research project. 

  5. An account of why you wish to be at SCAS (not exceeding 100 words)

  6. (Optional) up to 3 letters of reference (Please note that letters of reference must be uploaded by the candidate by the application deadline. It is not possible for referees to upload references into the online application system or send them to SCAS.)

APPLY HERE - Advanced Fellowship (Varbi) >>
APPLY HERE - Young Scholar Fellowship (Varbi) >>

Once your application has been submitted, you will receive a confirmation email from the Varbi online application system. Candidates are advised to submit their applications well ahead of the deadline. It may take a few days to receive assistance should you have questions or need technical support.
Applicants will be notified of the results through Varbi no later than 28 February 2024. If you get a new email address, please make sure to update it in your Varbi account.
If you have any questions related to the Varbi online application system, please contact Varbi’s support:
varbi@uadm.uu.se
If you have any questions about the Global Horizons Fellowship Programme, please contact the secretariat: fellowselection@swedishcollegium.se

FAQs >>

For more information, http://www.swedishcollegium.se/subfolders/Calls.html#

Call for Applications: British Academy/ Leverhulme Small Research Grants, Applications Due By 31 May 2023 17:00 BST/12:00 EST

Call for Applications

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

Applications Due By 31 May 2023 - 17:00 BST/12:00 EST

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provided to cover the cost of the expenses arising from a defined research project.

Career stage: Postdoctoral or equivalent research

Earliest start date: 1 Sep 2023

Scheme opens date: 5 Apr 2023

Deadline date: 31 May 2023 - 17:00 BST

Duration of award: Up to 24 months

Contact details: 020 7969 5217/ grants@thebritishacademy.ac.uk

For more information and to apply: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-leverhulme-small-research-grants/

Workshop: Materializing Transparency, Basel, Switzerland, 26 May 2023, 09:00-18:00

ÖFFENTLICHE VERANSTALTUNG

Materializing Transparency

Workshop organized by Ruth Ezra, NOMIS Fellow and eikones, University of Basel

26 May 2023, 09:00  - 18:00
Forum eikones, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel

The history of transparency can be summed up as a progression in materials from the mined to the man-made: by the early modern period, rock crystal and alabaster — celebrated in the ancient and medieval worlds for their vitreousness and translucency — could no longer compete with the increasingly reliable clarity of factory-produced flint glass, which would in turn cede its primacy as see-through matter to that of manufactured plastics, made fully synthetic by 1907. Tracing but also challenging such a narrative of technological change and obsolescence, this workshop investigates the possibilities and limitations of transparency in all its material instantiations, and from perspectives both transhistorical and theoretical. Case studies include gauze, celluloid, varnish, openwork caskets, optical lenses, polaroid film, mordants, and witch balls. Taking these examples as starting points for wide-ranging discussion, we will think together about how the physical properties of a clear substrate, glaze, or surface might prompt reflection on concepts such as in/visibility, opacity, transcendency, distortion, obstinancy (Eigensinn), racialization, disclosure, and access.

Scheduled to coincide with the release of two important new books on transparency, The Varnish and the Glaze: Painting Splendor with Oil, 1100-1500 (Chicago, 2023), by Marjolijn Bol, and Transparency: The Material History of an Idea (Yale, 2023), by Daniel Jütte, this workshop engages with current scholarship in the history of art, science, architecture, religion, museology, and conservation. 

Confirmed speakers: Manuela Beer, Marjolijn Bol, Jennifer Y. Chuong, Leena Crasemann, Patrick R. Crowley, Kirsty Sinclair Dootson, Arne Leopold, Yanning Ma, Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Aïcha Revellat, Phillip Roberts

Supported by eikones, the NOMIS Foundation, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. 

Program:

From 08:30 - Welcome - coffee in the foyer

09:00 - Ruth Ezra, Introduction

09:20 - Patrick Crowley, ‘The Wrong Side of Things’: Roman Reverse-Engraved Glass

10:00 - Manuela Beer, Difference in Transparency: Rock Crystal in Medieval Artefacts

10:40 - Coffee break

11:00 - Arne Leopold, Veiling the Gaze, Veiling the Material: Openwork Caskets and the Pretence of Transparency in the 13th Century

11:40 - Leena Crasemann, Veiling Space: Textiles’ Anti-matter

12:20 - Lunch break

13:20 - Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Acid, Water, Rust, and Process in Dürer’s Etchings

14:00 - Phillip Roberts, Richard Reeve and Alice Grove: A Night Language

14:40 - Coffee break

15:00 - Jennifer Y. Chuong, Tricky Transparency: Witch Balls in Nineteenth-Century America

15:40 - Yanning Ma, Can a picture be a terrarium? Transparency, vitality, and confinement in Victorian Britain (presenting online)

16:20 - Coffee break

16:40 - Kirsty Sinclair Dootson, Celluloid Skin: Transparency, Sensitivity, and the Racialization of Film

17:20 - Aïcha Revellat, So Transparent, So Opaque: Hannah Villiger’s Early Polaroid Pictures

18:00 - Comfort break

18:15 - Book talk: Marjolijn Bol, The Varnish and the Glaze (Chicago 2023), in conversation

19:00 - Apéro

NB. The workshop is open to all, and no registration is required to join in person. Papers will not be streamed online.

For more information, https://eikones.philhist.unibas.ch/en/news/events/event-details/materializing-transparency/

ICMA AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES 2023

ICMA AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES 2023


For a full listing of the sessions, consult the ICMS program, available here:
https://wmich.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/u385/2023/2023CongressProgram.pdf

Mining the Collection: Kalamazoo Edition

Thursday, May 11, 12:00 p.m.
A behind-the-scenes visit to the Walters Art Museum (Baltimore) with Christine Sciacca and Lynley Herbert.

Friday, May 12, 12:00 p.m.
A behind-the-scenes visit to the Art Institute of Chicago with Jonathan Tavares.


The Medieval Institute and the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) are
teaming up to offer a series of virtual museum visits during the International Congress on Medieval Studies. These visits will be broadcast live on the meeting site, and recordings be made available to all registrants Monday, May 15 through Wednesday, May 31.

Organized by Shirin Fozi (Metropolitan Museum of Art) in collaboration with curators at the participating museums, the events highlight carefully selected medieval objects from the permanent collections, with commentary by museum professionals and other experts. Ample time is allowed for questions from and discussion with attendees.
 

Blurring the Sacred and the Secular in Late Medieval Visual Culture I: Material Mediations

An International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Student Committee Sponsored Session

Friday 12 May 2023
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EDT

Session 212
Fetzer Center 2030

Presider: Nina Gonzalbez, Florida State Univ.
Organizer: Shannah Rose, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ.
Gabriela Chitwood, Univ. of Oregon

St. Agnes’ Roundel: A Site for Sienese Material Translations and Transformations
Brooke Hannah Wrubel, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro
Matan Aviel, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem

The Artist-Saint Joins the Painted Saint? Religious and Art Historical Pietas as
Factors in the Care of a Fra Angelico Altarpiece, ca. 1500
Annika Svendsen Finne, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ.

Blurring the Sacred and the Secular in Late Medieval Visual Culture II: Spatial Mediations

An International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Student Committee Sponsored Session

Friday 12 May 2023
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EDT

Session 261
Fetzer Center 2030

Presider: Nina Gonzalbez, Florida State Univ.
Organizer: Shannah Rose, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ.
Gabriela Chitwood, Univ. of Oregon

The Nest of the Silver-Winged Dove: The Transmutation of Sacred Space at San
Damiano in Assisi and the Early Eucharistic Culture of the Poor Clares
Michael Shane Harless, Rice Univ.

Fitting Concepts: “Secular” and “Sacred” Elements at the Papal Court of Avignon
Tanja Hinterholz, Univ. Wien

Poised for Devotion: The Nave Stone Relief Icons of St. Mark’s Basilica
Sarah F. Cohen, Columbia Univ.

New Critical Terms for “Medieval” Art History (A Roundtable)

Friday 12 May 2023
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EDT

Session 289
Schneider Hall 2345 (hybrid)

Presider: Elizabeth Dospel Williams, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and
Collection
Organizer: Heather A. Badamo, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara

A roundtable discussion
“Visuality,” Diliana Angelova, University of California, Berkeley (VIRTUAL)
“Sensory,” Patricia Blessing, Princeton University (VIRTUAL)
“Sexuality,” Bryan Keene, Riverside Community College
“Labo(u)r,” Christina Normore, Northwestern University (VIRTUAL)
“Eclecticism,” Alice Sullivan, Tufts University (+ Alessia Rossi, VIRTUAL)
“Object-based art histories,” Nancy Wicker, University of Mississippi
 


ICMA STUDENT RECEPTION
FRIDAY 12 MAY 2023
6:00–7:00 P.M. 

FETZER CENTER 1040/1050
DRINK TICKETS PROVIDED



ICMA RECEPTION
FRIDAY 12 MAY 2023
7:00 P.M. - 9:30 P.M. 

FETZER CENTER 1040/1050
CASH BAR

The Visual and Literary Legacy of Hrabanus Maurus: Interdisciplinary Examinations

Saturday 13 May 2023
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. EDT

Session 324
Bernhard Center 212

Presider: Jennifer Awes Freeman, United Theological Seminary of the Twin
Cities
Organizer: Kelin Michael, Emory Univ.

The Pseudo-Hrabanus Tractatus on Acts and the Glossa ordinaria
Bill Schipper, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland

Copying from the “Original”: Emperor Rudolf II, Hrabanus’s Carmina figurata,
and the Power of Legacy
Kelin Michael
 

Medieval California: A Case Study of the Middle Ages in America (A Roundtable)

Saturday 13 May 2023
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EDT

Session 443
Schneider Hall 1340 (hybrid)

Presider: Bryan C. Keene, Riverside City College
Organizer: Bryan C. Keene; Roland Betancourt, Univ. of California–Irvine; Larisa Grollemond, J. Paul Getty Museum; Alison Locke Perchuk, California State Univ.–Channel Islands

A roundtable discussion with Wallace Thomas Cleaves II, Univ. of California–Riverside; Larisa Grollemond; Alison Locke Perchuk; Abby Ang, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington; and Roland Betancourt

Call for Submissions: Eikón / Imago, Vol. 13 2024, The frontiers of art history and visual studies. Thoughts on their object of study, Due 30 June 2023

Call for Submissions

Eikón / Imago, Vol. 13 2024

The frontiers of art history and visual studies. Thoughts on their object of study

Special Guest Editor: Gorka López de Munain (UNED – Vitoria-Gasteiz)

Due 30 June 2023

The journal Eikón / Imago, indexed in Scopus and awarded with the Quality Seal of Scientific Journals by FECYT, is open to receive original contributions for its monographic issue until June 30, 2023. 

In recent decades, reflections on the nature of the object of study of art history and visual studies have intensified in an extraordinary way. Parallel to this, numerous disciplines have undertaken a profound theorization of the status of the image that, with the advent of digital images, has questioned the very essence of many of these branches of knowledge. However, as Mieke Bal has already warned, while the object of study of a given field of knowledge is constantly changing, the way in which it is carried out –the disciplinary methodology– is not being updated at the same pace.

In this dynamic, as agitated as it is stimulating, art history has been shaken and questioned, offering answers in different directions. On the one hand, the impulse of other ways of thinking about images, with pioneering studies such as those of David Freedberg, Margaret Olin, Svetlana Alpers, Michael Camille or Hans Belting, widened the field of interest towards new practices, many of which had hitherto remained relegated to the margins. On the other hand, the impetus with which Visual Studies or the German Bildwissenschaft emerged seemed to threaten the very foundations of art history, offering alternative ways of approaching images. A narrative was thus emerging in which this longed-for opening of the disciplinary field towards new objects of study seemed to be possible only from these innovative proposals. However, other thinkers such as Horst Bredekamp strove to reclaim an "abandoned tradition" of art history as Bildwissenschaft (science of the image), of Warburgian inspiration, in which the newly created media have always had a place. An approach to art history that not only focused on the great masters, but looked with scholarly interest at photography, advertisements, film, video, political iconography and also at the so-called minor arts through a broad chronological framework ranging from the earliest prehistoric productions to the present day.

In all this torrent of conflicting and even contradictory forces scholars are faced with several questions: What is the role of art history? What is its responsibility with respect to the emergence of new digital media? How should it adapt to the demands that seek to interrogate the objects of the past from updated optics and methodologies? What links should it draw with other emerging fields and disciplines such as visual studies or the science of the image? How can we address the rupture of the epistemological differential, as José Luis Brea stated, between the extended field of visual culture and that of artistic practices?

Faithful to the spirit of Bredekamp, this volume aims to reflect on the place of art history in the present, on its boundaries and, ultimately, on the nature of its object of study. The arrival of artificial intelligences such as Dall-E, Midjourney or Stable Diffusion, capable of creating progressively more complex and challenging images, the increasingly solid impulse of immersive experiences with which we relate in totally new ways (virtual, expanded or mixed reality), or the development of new artistic practices such as bio-art, pose an extraordinary challenge that forces Winckelmann's old discipline not only to update itself permanently, but also to establish unavoidable interdisciplinary working guidelines.

But this monographic issue does not only seek to analyze how new media and digital technologies impact art history and the reflection on its object of study. It also seeks to question this problem from a broader chronological perspective, addressing the way in which other images (both past and present), traditionally considered minor or non-artistic and which have been relegated to the margins, should be fully integrated into the discipline’s field of interest, either by posing new questions or by approaching historic debates through new methodologies. This opening of the framework of study is justified not only because these forgotten images can be the pieces that improve our understanding of the visual cultures of the past, but also because their incorporation constitutes the only way to enter the thresholds of an authentic experiential culture.

In addition, our Miscellany section is available for all interested authors who want to submit contributions related to all areas of the journal’s thematic coverage and remains open all year round.

This complete issue will be published on January 2024 and it will be the first in which our journal adopts the continuous publication model, in which articles will be available on our open access platform right as they successfully pass our double-blind peer review evaluation and the editorial process, without waiting for the publication of the full issue.

 

Proposals can concentrate on the following subjects, as well as other related themes:      

- Theoretical reflections on the actuality of Visual Studies, Bildwissenschaft, Bildanthropology or similar fields and their relationship with art history.

- The role of interdisciplinarity in art history studies.

- The relationship between artistic practices, biology and technology (bio-art, immersive images and experiences, images created by artificial intelligences, etc.).

- The development and assessment of new methodologies oriented to the integration of the so-called minor arts or non-artistic works within the fields of interest of art history and visual studies.

- The chronological framework of this monograph does not contemplate closed limits, since it seeks to know and explore the current state of disciplinary reflections on the object of study through the widest possible perspective; from the remote prehistoric artistic manifestation, through classical antiquity and the medieval and modern ages until contemporary productions.

For more information about submitting, https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/EIKO/announcement/view/494