Category Archives: Announcements

STUDIES IN ICONOGRAPHY We are pleased to announce a new editorial team and board for the journal Studies in Iconography. The new co-editors are Richard Emmerson (Florida State, emeritus), Pamela Patton (Index of Christian Art, Princeton University), and Kathryn A. … Continue reading →

The 2016 Rome Prize online application is available on the American Academy in Rome website at www.aarom.org. The American Academy in Rome invites applications for the 2016 Rome Prize. For over a century, the Academy has awarded the Rome Prize to … Continue reading →

Katrin Kogman-Appel, Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (http://www.humboldt-professur.de/en/). Kogman-Appel’s research discusses illumination and decoration in Hebrew manuscripts and Jewish book culture. She will assume the Professorship in November 2016 … Continue reading →

The Berlin Prize Call for Applications 2016/2017 The American Academy in Berlin invites applications for its residential fellowships for the academic year 2016/2017. The deadline is Wednesday, September 30, 2015 (12 noon EST or 6 pm CET). Applications may be submitted online … Continue reading →

To the Members of the Medieval Academy, This morning, the letter copied below was sent on behalf of the Officers and Council of the Medieval Academy to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents and the State Legislature’s Joint Committee on … Continue reading →

The Courtauld Institute of Art CALL FOR APPLICANTS Research Project for Early Career Researchers: Crossing Frontiers: Christians, Muslims and their art in Eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus We are delighted to announce the launch of a new travelling research seminar … Continue reading →

INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, School of Historical Studies, Opportunities for Scholars 2016-2017.  The Institute is an independent private institution founded in 1930 to create a community of scholars focused on intellectual inquiry, free from teaching and other university obligations.  Scholars … Continue reading →

Manuscripts and Digital Humanities: A Colloquium This mini-colloquium, the last one organized by the NWO-sponsored project “Turning Over a New Leaf”, focuses on current research that studies manuscript books and handwritten text from a digital point of view. Time: 22 … Continue reading →

On 12 March, the Council of the Medieval Academy of America approved a 5-year-contract with the University of Chicago Press to serve as publisher of Speculum from 2016 – 2020 (Volumes 91 – 95). This decision was made after much due … Continue reading →

Thursday, March 26, 6:00 pm Public Lecture and Reception The Allure of Collecting Arms and Armor Donald J. LaRocca, Curator, Department of Arms and Armor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art From dynastic armories and curiosity cabinets to Gothic Revival castles, … Continue reading →