Call for Papers

The Forum Kunst des Mittelalters/Medieval Art will take place in Freiburg-im-Breisgau from September 18-21, 2013.  The call for papers has been posted, and 300-word abstracts are due by August 31, 2012.  Several sessions are of particular interest for architectural historians, including "Visual Media and the Medieval Culture of Architectural Knowledge" and "New Research on Strasbourg Cathedral." 

Upcoming Conferences

Sessions at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo:
13 Constructing Sacred Spaces and Worldly Authority: From Interior Spiritual Refuge
to Empire, Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries
84 The Study of the Art and Architecture of Italy: A Reassessment of the Discipline I
131 The Study of the Art and Architecture of Italy: A Reassessment of the Discipline II
257 The Study of the Art and Architecture of Italy: A Reassessment of the Discipline III
259 Art and Architecture in the Era of the Book of Kells
302 Cistercian Architecture
315 The Study of the Art and Architecture of Italy: A Reassessment of the Discipline IV
417 Glazing and Stained Glass: Collaborations, Analogies, and Investigations involving
Stained Glass and Other Disciplines I
473 Glazing and Stained Glass: Collaborations, Analogies, and Investigations involving
Stained Glass and Other Disciplines II
527 Spatial Practices in Medieval German Culture I
533 Innovative and Participatory Imaginative and Fictive Architecture in the High and
Late Middle Ages (1200–1600)
566 In, Out, Up, Down, and Through: Innovative and Participatory Physical
Architecture in the High and Late Middle Ages (1200–1600)
573 Science and Religious Thought: A Comparative Approach

Last Orders: the Art and Architecture of Religious Orders in England, c.1350-1540, held at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, May 17, 2011

4th International Congress on Construction History, Paris, July 3-July 7 2012

Kalamazoo Programs Are Here

For those attending the International Congress on Medieval Studies this year, sessions of interest for architectural historians include:
Session 55 (Thursday 10:00): "Feminist Approaches to Medieval Art: Islam, Byzantium, and the West"
Session 130 (Thursday 3:30): "The Year 1200"
Session 183 (Thursday 7:30): "Capetians II: Capetians and Saint-Denis"
Session 188 (Thursday 7:30): "Sculpture and the Medieval City"
Session 210 (Friday 10:00): "Medieval Architecture and Glass in Memory of Anne Prache I"
Session 250 (Friday 10:00): "New Directions in European Castle Research"
Session 269 (Friday 1:30): "The Crusades II"
Session 270 (Friday 1:30): "Cistercians in France and Flanders"
Session 271 (Friday 1:30): "Medieval Architecture and Glass in Memory of Anne Prache II"
Session 313 (Friday 1:30): "Burial ad Sanctos in the Early Middle Ages: Architecture as Stagecraft"
Session 338 (Friday 3:30): "Medieval Architecture and Glass in Memory of Anne Prache III"
Session 345 (Friday 3:30): "European Monasticism During and After the Gregorian Reform"
Session 346 (Friday 3:30): "The Archeology of Early Modern Europe II: Early Medieval Hillforts in Central Europe: Strongholds or Central Places?"
Session 377 (Friday 3:30): "Galicia and Santiago between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Material Culture and Pilgrimage in a Period of Transition"
Session 475 (Saturday 1:30): "Painted Architecture and Sculpture: General Problems and Issues"
Session 560 (Sunday 8:30): "York Minster: a Cathedral in Context"
Session 593 (Sunday 10:00): "Thinking Small: Scale and Meaning in Medieval Art II"