Medieval and Byzantine History / Studies

The Textile Museum Journal is currently seeking mauncripts and book reviews for publication consideration. Submissions based on original, scholarly research are accepted on a rolling basis.

For consideration in the upcoming volume 45 (2018) with the theme of Medieval, Byzantine, Middle Eastern & Asian Textiles, book review submissions must be received by July 2nd, 2018.

For consideration in volume 46 (2019), manuscripts are requested to be submitted by August 1st, 2018.

On 08, 09 and 10 November 2018, the 1st International Congress of Young Researchers in Middle Ages (ICYRMA) will take place at the University of Évora. ICYRMA is destinated to students at master, doctoral and postdoctoral level and/or to those who have obtained their academic degrees in the last five years.

International Workshop
November 2-3, 2018
Department of Art History, University of Vienna

Crossing Rivers in Byzantium and Beyond

“It is always dramatic to cross a frontier, even though the frontier is only a brook”
(V. S. Pritchett, Geographical Magazine, December, 1942)

The Center for Middle East Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, presents

Transregional Connections:  Architectural Monuments and the Construction of Early Modern Islamic Empires

Tuesday, April 17th, 4:00pm, HSSB 6020 (IHC McCune Conference Room, University of California, Santa Barbara)

R. Stephen Humphreys Distinguished Visiting Scholar

Gülru Necipoğlu
Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Harvard University

The Medieval Midlands Postgraduate Conference is an event designed to highlight the research into the medieval period currently being undertaken in the UK Midlands. It is open to students from any discipline whose research some way relates to the study of the Middle Ages, c. 500-c. 1500.

Applications being accepted for an advisory board for the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Submissions due by 1 July 2018

The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture seeks to assemble an advisory board to help further our twofold mission of promoting and fostering research and discussion of representations of the medieval in post-medieval popular culture and mass media.

AUTHORITY, GENDER AND SOCIAL RELATIONS

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference

Thursday-Sunday, 4-7 October 2018

Indianapolis, IN

History - Topics can include, but are not limited to aspects of history as they relate to popular culture such as religion, language, environment, population, migration and ethnicity.