Appel à contribution – Transculturality and Medieval Art in Dialogue: Negotiating New Identities

7-8 October 2025 Madrid, Spain

Architecture, objects, and material culture, as structuring agents of human relationships, play a key role in discovering the potential of understanding medieval art through the paradigm of transculturality. This method examines the negotiation of fluid artistic identities shaped by the mobility of people, circulation of objects, and transmission of ideas across diverse social, geographical, and religious contexts. The materiality of transcultural objects has rendered them repositories of memory, bearing witness to historical encounters across cultures. Their various recontextualization, restaging, and differing forms of appreciation have made them subject to manipulation, reuse, and re-signification, even after their integration into private collections or museums. Addressing these themes allows for a broader reflection from educational and museum studies. By examining intersections of gender, class, and ethnicity, the eighteenth edition of the Complutense International Conference on Medieval Art aims to uncover microhistories that offer a more nuanced understanding of otherness in the Middle Ages. Call for Papers Transculturality and Medieval Art in Dialogue: Negotiating New Identities

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