Month: June 2013

The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) invites session and paper proposals for its twentieth annual interdisciplinary conference to be held February 6–8, 2014 in Scottsdale, Arizona. We welcome papers that explore any topic related to the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and especially those that focus on this year’s theme of catastrophes and the apocalyptic. CONFERENCE PUBLICATION: Selected papers related to the conference theme will be considered for publication in the conference volume of Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, a series published by Brepols Publishers (Belgium). KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor…

Date: Saturday, October 5, 2013 Location: The Biblioteca Domenicana in Santa Maria Novella, Florence Co-sponsored by the Medici Archive Project's Jane Fortune Research Program on Women Artists and the Biblioteca Domenicana in Santa Maria Novella, this conference highlights new research on artistic production in female monastic communities since the early Renaissance until the Napoleonic suppression. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: --studies on single artists --overviews of artistic practice in one or more female religious communities --stylistic analysis and attributions of artworks --studies of the visual culture of nun artists --the role of art in the economic and…