The 39th annual Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians will be hosted by The School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University (Ottawa), on March 16-17, 2018. Students and faculty in Ottawa are extended an especial invitation to attend the talks taking place in Room 2017, Dunton Tower on Carleton’s campus.
CCMAH 2018 Schedule
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FRIDAY |
March 16th, 2018 |
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8:45-9:00 |
Welcome |
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9:00-10:30 |
John Osborne, “The Pantheon in the Middle Ages: constructing a Christian history for an Imperial Building” James Bugslag, “Why Was the Church of S. Maria Maggiore in Rome Built?” Robert Marcoux, “Le tombeau de Lazare et son sens exégétique” |
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10:30-10:45 |
Break |
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10:45-12:15 |
Deborah Alcide, “The Pagan Iconography of Romanesque Burgundy/Franche-Comté” Lindsay Corbett, “Liturgical Polyvalence and the Potential of Performance: Reassessing the London-Berlin Cross” James Addiss, “Romanesque village churches, type and innovation” |
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12:15-1:30 |
Lunch |
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1:30-3:00 |
Cathleen Hoeniger, “Interpreting the Camposanto Frescoes in the Aftermath of WW2” Catherine Harding, “Blood’s Past: Beholding Violence in Giovanni Villani’s Nuova cronica (Ms. Chigiano L VIII 296)” Lili Caron, “An Autobiographical Ruse: Some XIVTH Century Portraits of Francis Petrarch (1304-1374)” |
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3:00-3:15 |
Break |
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3:15-4:45 |
Alana Duggan, “Symbiotic Structures and Liminal Spaces: The Architecture of Early Anchorholds in England” Malcolm Thurlby, “English Romanesque Sculpture in its Architectural Context” Matthew Reeve, “The ex-situ sculpture of the Lady Chapel Juxta Claustrum at Wells Cathedral” |
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5:00-6:00 |
Keynote: Dr. John Goodall, Architectural Editor, Country Life University building and the invention of English academic architecture |
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SATURDAY |
March 17th, 2018 |
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9:00-11:00 |
Jack McCart, “Rabbit-Keeping in Late-Medieval England: Its Social History and Iconography” Samantha Chang, Bunnies at Play: Music in the Marginalia” Vittoria Lion, “Across the Skins of Monsters: Imaginary Pilgrimage and Communion with Beasts in the Hereford Mappa Mundi” Peter Boudreau, “Mapping Memory in a Drawing of Opicinus de Canistris” |
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11:00-11:15 |
Break |
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11:15-12:45 |
Mehreen Zarah Jiwan, “Unconstructed Materiality in the Context of Uncertainty: An Analysis of the Ziyāra (Visitation) to the grave of Imām Ḥusayn b. Alī (d. 680) in a 10th Century Shī’ī Pilgrimage Manual” Candace Iron, “From Bell Tower to Minaret: converting churches to mosques in Ontario” Jessica Basciano, “Marie-Alain Couturier and Medieval Architecture” |
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12:45-2:00 |
Lunch |
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2:00-3:30 |
Zinaida Uzdenskaya, “The Domestication of an Itinerant Object: The True Cross Reliquary from the Louvre Museum” Steven Stowell, “The Agency and Origins of Miracle-Working Images in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy” Sasha Gorjeltchan, “The Materials of Memory: The Mass of Saint-Giles as a Visual Inventory” |
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3:30-3:45 |
Break |
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3:45-5:15 |
Ronald Lvovski, “The Best View in the House: Locating San Julian de los Prados’ Royal Tribune” Katherine Brush, ““Monumental Styles” in Scholarship on Medieval Sculpture: Wilhelm Vöge and Arthur Kingsley Porter” Richard Schneider, “What makes a thing “an Icon?” – the problem of “sacred objects” |
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6:30 |
Banquet Reception, followed by dinner La Roma, 430 Preston Street www.laromaottawa.com |