Medieval Art & Architecture Events calendar

Dear List Member,

In the week that saw the publication of the Royal Irish Academy’s monumental five-volume ‘Art and Architecture of Ireland’, the medieval volume’s reach across 400–1600CE reminds us that a ‘medieval events list’ like ours must inevitably overlap its margins – Late Antiquity/Iron Age influencing what would follow, and Early Modern/Renaissance integral to what went before.

With best wishes,
Michael Brennan, Laura Cleaver,
Trinity College Dublin.

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CFP/CFS = Call for Papers/Call for Sessions. 

New events appear first, highlighted.

-------November 2014-------

30 November CFP deadline
Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (MANCASS)
Easter Conference 2015
Manhood in Anglo-Saxon England

7–9 April. University of Manchester
Proposals to charles.insley@manchester.ac.uk
http://medievalsociety.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/cfp-manhood-in-anglo-saxon-england.html

-------December-------

5 December

University of York Centre for Medieval Studies
Medieval Autographs, Holographs and Contemporary Copies

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/medieval-autographs-holographs-and-contemporary-copies-tickets-14346259047


5–6 December 

The Courtauld Institute of Art
Conference
Religion, Art and Conflict: disputes, destruction and creation

http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2014/summer/documents/ReligionArtConflict_conferenceposter-prog_5-6dec14_final_3.pdf


11 December

Société Internationale des Médiévistes, Paris
The Evolution of the Cult of St. Ursula

Kristin Hoefener, Universität Würzburg
http://www.ims-paris.org/

-------January 2015-------

7–9 January
Gender and Medieval Studies
Conference
Gender, Dirt and Taboo 

Bangor University, Wales
http://www.medievalgender.co.uk/


19 January–16 February, Mondays only
The Paul Mellon Lecture Series 2015
Sculpture on the Threshold: An enquiry into the underlying forms of sculpture

Penelope Curtis, Director of Tate Britain
http://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/10/


25 JanuaryCFP deadline
Eleventh Annual Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2015, with
Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
Colour

17–18 April. Oxford
Abstracts to:  oxgradconf@gmail.com
http://mediumaevum.modhist.ox.ac.uk/conf_grad.shtml

29 January 

Bangor University School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology
Archaeology Seminar Series
Urban development in Late Iron Age Europe: Oppida and Open Agglomerations

Manuel Fernandez-Götz, University of Edinburgh
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/history/events/2015-01-29


31 January CFP deadline
University of the Highlands and Islands Centre for Nordic Studies, with Uppsala Runic Forum
Ninth full-day runic colloquium (+ day tour)
Rune Rede

21–23 May. Kirkwall, Orkney Islands
Abstracts to:  cns@uhi.ac.uk
http://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-enterprise/cultural/centre-for-nordic-studies/conferences-seminars/orkney-rune-rede


-------February-------

27 February CFP deadline
Early Medieval Archaeology Student Symposium 
EMASS 2015

23–25 April. University of Oxford
http://www.earlymedievalarchaeology.co.uk/images/CallforPapers.pdf


-------March-------

12–14 March 

Medieval Academy of America
Annual Meeting  

Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame
(CFP deadline past). Threads and sessions at:
https://c.ymcdn.com/sites/medievalacademy.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/pdfs/maa2015_cfp_final.pdf


-------April-------

24–26 April 

Lyminge Archaeological Project
Conference
Early Medieval Monasticism in the North Sea Zone: New Research and Fresh Perspectives

University of Kent, Canterbury
https://kenthospitality.kent.ac.uk/Register/Registration/Welcome.aspx?e=BC81E2AEE5ECCBAED7FEDFB4BFDE7B19


-------May-------

19 May
Durham University Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS)
How to do Things with Fur: Medieval Art and the Matter of ‘The Animal’

Robert Mills, University College London
Booking:  admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
https://www.dur.ac.uk/imems/events/seminarseries/?eventno=21341


20–22 May 

Association of Interdisciplinary Research and Diffusion of Medieval Cultures (ARDIT),
2nd ARDIT International Congress of Predoctoral Medievalists
Senses and Sensuality in the Middle Ages

Barcelona
Email: arditcongress2015@gmail.com
http://arditcongress.weebly.com/


22–23 May 

Trinity College Dublin
Conference
History Books in the Anglo-Norman World

https://www.tcd.ie/History_of_Art/research/history-books.php




PREVIOUSLY NOTIFIED


-------November 2014-------

24 November 

Durham University Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Secrets of the Stave Churches: The Archaeology of Sacred Space and the Economy of Salvation in the High Middle Ages

https://www.dur.ac.uk/imems/events/?eventno=22543

25 November
Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford
Centre-periphery in early Islamic art and architecture

Jeremy Johns, Khalili Research Centre
http://krc.orient.ox.ac.uk/krc/index.php/en/lectures

24  November

Cambridge University History of Art Department
Magic and Healing: Images of Charms in Late Medieval English Medical Manuscripts,

Elma Brenner, Wellcome Collection
http://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/images/Art%20and%20Science.jpg

26 November  

Institute of Historical Research
Investigating the chest burial rite in northern England c. A.D.650-900: an archaeological, osteological and historical approach

Elizabeth Craig-Atkins, University of Sheffield
http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/113


26 November
Warburg Institute seminar

From Istanbul to Bologna: Islamic art in Italy in the sixteenth century
Federica Gigante, SOAS, University of London

http://events.sas.ac.uk/support-research/events/view/16856/From+Istanbul+to+Bologna%3A+Islamic+art+in+Italy+in+the+sixteenth+century

26 November  

Institute of Historical Research
Investigating the chest burial rite in northern England c. A.D.650-900: an archaeological, osteological and historical approach

Elizabeth Craig-Atkins, University of Sheffield
http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/113

27 November

Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum
Solve Calceamentum de Pedibus Tuis: Locus Enim, in Quo Stas, Terra Sancta Est’ (exod. 3: 5): Liturgical, Theological, Architectural, and Art Historical Perspectives on the Ethiopian Church

http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2014/autumn/nov27_SacredandArts.shtml


28 November CFP deadline
Monastic Europe Landscape & Settlement project
International Conference

22–25 August 2015, Ennis, Co. Clare.
http://www.discoveryprogramme.ie/research/current-projects/monastic-ireland/264.html

28–30 November 

IMBAS, NUI Galway
East–West and the Middle Ages

http://www.nuigalway.ie/imbas/


29 November
Oxford University Department of Continuing Education

Medieval Christian Iconography for Art Historians
https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/V350-266

-------December ------

1 December 

Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections (AMARC)
Conference on 14th-century illuminated manuscripts, in honour of Lucy Freeman Sandler

Hosted by the British Library.
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2014/10/illuminated-manuscripts-conference-more-places-available.html

1 December  CFP deadline

Mid-America Medieval Association 2015 Annual Conference
Collectivity & Exchange

28 Febuary. The University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City
http://midamericamedievalassociation.org/MAMA-2015-CFP.pdf


3 December

Institute of Art History, University of Glasgow
The Fourteenth-Century Tring Tiles and the Jewishness of Jesus in Late Medieval English Art

Debra Strickland, University of Glasgow
http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/research/instituteofarthistory/#tabs=3


4 December

Cardiff Archaeological Society
Return to Llanbedrgoch - Viking Anglesey reconsidered

Mark Redknap, National Museum Wales
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/share/newsandevents/events/archaeology/cardiff-archaeological-society-lectures-20112012.html

5 December   CFP deadline

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

21st Annual ACMRS Conference:
Trades, Talents, Guilds, and Specialists: Getting Things Done in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
5–7 February 2015. Scottsdale, Arizona

https://acmrs.org/conferences/annual-acmrs-conference

9 December

University College London Institute of Historical Research Early Middle Ages Seminar 

Glass vessels in middle and late Anglo-Saxon England
Rose Broadley, UCL Inst. of Archaeology

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/articles/2014-15-events/20141209

10 December   CFP deadline
Medieval Art Research, Courtauld Institute of Art
Sister Act: Female Monasticism and the Arts across Europe ca. 1250 – 1550 

13–14 March 2015. 
Proposal/Bio deadline: 10 December.
http://medievalartresearch.com/2014/10/08/cfp-sister-act-female-monasticism-and-the-arts-across-europe-ca-1250-1550-london-13-14-march-2015/

https://www.academia.edu/8679349/Call_for_Papers

10 December  CFP deadline

The 47th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies
Whose Mediterranean is it anyway? cross-cultural interaction between Byzantium and the west 1204–1669

28–30 March 2015.  The Open University, Milton Keynes
http://www.byzantium.ac.uk/events/spring-symposium.html


10 December

Warburg Institute, Work in Progress Seminar
The Norman Conquest of Puglia in Southern Italy and its Impact on the Visual Arts

Clare Vernon, Cambridge University, History of Art,
http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/work-in-progress/

11 December
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland

Rethinking Crannogs: the Drumclay Factor
Nora Bermingham, TVAS Ireland

7.30pm, 63 Merrion Sq., Dublin

(website under  construction)

11 December

Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University College London
Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
The first murder: The iconography of Cain and Abel in fifteenth-century Florence and Bologna

Scott Nethersole, Courtauld Institute
http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/128

12–14 December 

Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus,
The Art and Archaeology of Lusignan and Venetian Cyprus (1192-1571)

Nicosia
http://medievalartresearch.com/2014/10/02/conference-programme-the-art-and-archaeology-of-lusignan-and-venetian-cyprus-nicosia-12-15-december-2014/
Email: olympios.michalis@ucy.ac.cy or mparani@ucy.ac.cy

31 December CFP/CFS deadline
Saint Louis University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Third Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies

15–17 June 2015. Saint Louis University
http://smrs.slu.edu/cfp.html


------- January  2015-------

12 January CFP deadline
University of Reading Graduate School for Medieval Studies
On the Edge
21 March 2015. University of Reading
http://events.history.ac.uk/event/show/13394


31 January    CFP deadline

Othello's Island  / UK–USA academic convenor group
3rd Annual Multidisciplinary Conference on Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature
20–22 March 2015. 
http://www.othellosisland.org


------- February 2015-------

7 February

Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum
20th Annual Medieval Postgraduate Student Colloquium
Movement in Medieval Art and Architecture

http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2015/spring/20thMedieval.shtml


9 February

University College Cork evening lecture
Combs in the community: a Viking artefact biography

Steve Ashby, University of York
http://www.ucc.ie/en/archaeology/research/seminarslectures/


10 February 

University College Cork, lunchtime seminar
Antlerworking, towns, and the start of the Viking Age

Steve Ashby, University of York
http://www.ucc.ie/en/archaeology/research/seminarslectures/


10 February

UCL Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar Series
Of Chrismals and Reliquaries: Sacral Matter and Insular House-shaped Shrines

Samuel Gerace, University of Edinburgh
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/articles/2014-15-events/20150210

11–14 February 

New York
College Art Association 103rd Annual Conference

Sessions include:
   * Blurring the Boundaries: Allusion, Evocation, and Imitation in Ancient and Medieval Surface Decoration
   * Biblical Archetypes in the Middle Ages;
   * The Market for Medieval Art in America
   * International Center of Medieval Art: Moving Women, Moving Objects (300–1500)
   * The Material Imagination: Critical Inquiry into Performance and Display of Medieval Art
Full schedule/sessions/papers at: http://conference.collegeart.org/schedule/sessions/

19 February 

University College London, Institute of Historical Research
Seminar
Documents as Art: England, France and Iberia, c.1200-1450 

Jessica Berenbeim, Magdalen College, Oxford
http://www.history.ac.uk/events/browse/16797

19–21 February 

University of Florida
Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference.
Deadline for Papers and for International Travel Grants: 3 November 2014.
www.vagantesconference.org.


20–21 February
University of California Berkeley Program in Medieval Studies
Interdisciplinary graduate student conference
Medieval Ethics and Aesthetics: The Good and the Beautiful?

http://medieval.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/UC%20Berkeley%20Medieval%20Studies%20Graduate%20Conference%202015%20CFP.pdf

20–21 February 

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University
32nd Annual Illinois Medieval Association Conference
Medieval Narratives 

http://medievalartresearch.com/2014/09/09/cfp-medieval-narratives-saint-louis-university-20-21-february-2015/


------- March-------

19–20 March
 Aarhus University
Interdisciplinary Student Symposium on Viking and Medieval Scandinavian Subjects 

http://vikingoldnorse.au.dk/activities-and-events/student-symposium/


20–22 March
University of Pennsylvania
Symposium
Against Gravity: Building Practices in the Pre-Industrial World

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/ancient/announcements.html

24 March 

Cardiff University
Centre for the Study of  Medieval Society and Culture
“A Different Kind of People”? Exploring the Archaeology of the Medieval Small Town

Ben Jervis, Archaeology, Cardiff University
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/medievalsocietyandculture/events/index.html

24–28 March 

3rd Congress of German Art Historians

Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz 

http://www.value-of-art.uni-mainz.de/

-------April -------

8-10 April

Keltologie,  Philipps-Universität Marburg
Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages, c. 900-1500

https://www.uni-marburg.de/fb10/iksl/sprachwissenschaft/fachgebiet/keltologie/crossingborders

10–12 April 

Queens University Belfast
Borderlines XIX
Translating the Past: Appropriating the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds

http://blogs.qub.ac.uk/borderlinesxix/call-for-papers/

15–19 April  

Society of Architectural Historians
SAH 68th Annual Conference

Chicago
http://www.sah.org/conferences-and-programs/2015-conference-chicago


17 April  

GCMS, University of Reading / History Books in the Anglo-Norman World Project, Trinity College Dublin
Reading, Scholarship and the Art of the Book at Reading Abbey, 1121-1539

https://www.tcd.ie/History_of_Art/assets/pdf/Reading%20MSS%20CFP.pdf


20–21 April

Catholic University of Angers (Faculty of Humanities), and University of Lausanne (Department of History of Art)
The Transept and its Upper Levels in the High Medieval Church

University of Lausanne
Proposals for papers, and cv to barbara.franze@unil.ch  and to nathalie.leluel@uco.fr
http://calenda.org/303622?lang=en


25 April 

Centre for the Study of the Viking Age
The eleventh annual Midlands Viking Symposium. 

University of Leicester
Details to follow.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/csva/index.aspx

-------May-------

5 May 

Durham University Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS)
Seminar Series
Mapping the Ends of the Earth in European and Islamic Traditions

Alfred Hiatt, University of London
Booking : contact admin.imems@durham.ac.uk
https://www.dur.ac.uk/imems/events/seminarseries/?eventno=21335

8 May

University of Copenhagen
34. Tværfaglige Vikingesymposium  –  34th Interdisciplinary Viking Symposium:

Vikings in the Baltic 

http://vikingesymposium.dk/
CFP in .docx form available from medart@tcd.ie courtesy of emf-l-bounces@tcnjlists.tcnj.edu


29–31 May

Le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art et le Château de Fontainebleau
5e Festival d’histoire de l’art

Fontainebleau
http://festivaldelhistoiredelart.com/