Category Archives: Appel à contributions

Special Sessions: Nunneries in Medieval Europe: New Historiographical and Methodological Approaches Kalamazoo,Michigan Deadline: Sep 15, 2014 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 14-17, 2015), Kalamazoo, Michigan Although in the last two decades a large amount of research has pointed … Lire la suite →

European Society for Environmental History (ESEH)’s 8th biennial conference “Greening History: Studying the Environment across Disciplines, Past, Present and Future” 30.06.2015–03.07.2015, Versailles Deadline : 20.09.2014 We intend to submit one or two panels on “Monasteries and Environment” for the ESEH … Lire la suite →

Call for Chapter Proposals: Singing Death (edited volume) Deadline: 30 September (submission of abstracts) Chapter proposals are invited for an edited volume entitled ‘Singing Death’. The editors are in preliminary negotiations with Ashgate Press for a collection of essays provisionally … Lire la suite →

The Hungarian Historical Review invites submissions for its second issue in 2015, the theme of which will be “Cultures of War: Experiences, Images, and Memories” in the late medieval and early modern period (1400-1800). The deadline for the submission of … Lire la suite →

Medieval seals were material and visual statements of identity, power, agency, and legitimacy that could operate locally or traverse great geographic expanses to assert individual or corporate authority. The importance of the seal in medieval culture cannot be underestimated. This … Lire la suite →

50th International Medieval Congress Kalamazoo, MI May 15-17, 2015 A number of different scholarly organizations have come together for the 50th Medieval Congress to pose questions about Materiality in the Middle Ages. While each panel represents a different issue and/or … Lire la suite →

Session at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, 14-17 May 2015 Deadline: 15 September 2015 Recent scholarly interest in whiteness, emptiness, and material destruction that pervade medieval visual culture demonstrate a shift in focus: where art historians have … Lire la suite →

Call for Papers for three joint sessions to be submitted for the International Medieval Congress, Institute of Medieval Studies, Leeds 6-9 July 2015 (special thematic strand: Reform & Renewal) The Myth of Origins. The (Re-)Making of Medieval Sacral Space through … Lire la suite →

Following from the symposium to be held at the Warburg Institute (12-13 June 2015), these sessions seek to address how both Western pilgrims, and the indigenous Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Levantine populations perceived the sharing of religious shrines with other … Lire la suite →

Fluctuating Networks: The Constructive Role of Broken Bonds in the Medieval Mediterranean and Beyond Kalamazoo, MI, 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 14-17 May 2015 Deadline: September 15, 2014 The Medieval Studies Research Group at the University of Lincoln (UK), … Lire la suite →