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Art for Lunch with Grace Chin

CHANGE OF VENUE! Art for lunch with Grace Chin will take place on October 15, in Clark Hall, Room 206 (not in Mather House), 12.30-13.30. Grace Chin serves as executive director at the Sculpture Center, a not-for-profit arts organization supporting emerging sculptors of Ohio and encouraging the preservation of Ohio public outdoor...

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VAGANTES Call for Papers

Please see below a call for papers for the 21st Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies. The conference will take place at the Cleveland Museum of Art and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio from March 24th–26th, 2022. Vagantes is an interdisciplinary community of junior scholars that offers an...

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Mining the Collection: “Nestorian Crosses”: Christians and their Art in China, ca. 1250-1400

Friday, 24 September 2021 at 10am ET, online event. Register HERE The 7th-century arrival of Nestorian Christianity, the Syriac form of Christianity also known as Church of the East, is recorded on the famous Nestorian stele erected in Xian in 781CE. Despite subsequent repressions, the religion continued to be practiced and, by...

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Kalamazoo CFP: “Dead Bodies, Living Souls: Late Medieval Representations of Death and the Afterlife”

Throughout the Middle Ages, the pious Christian was constantly preoccupied with both the death of the earthly body and the subsequent survival of the soul. The fear of dying suddenly without repenting and confessing engendered images of death and the afterlife. Speakers in this session are encouraged to investigate late medieval representations of death as both an earthly and otherworldly matter. We welcome papers that explore the flourishing of these imageries especially in rural and marginal areas, which were extremely receptive to cultural exchanges, but which have not received proper scholarly investigation yet.

Organizer: Angelica Verduci, axv270@case.edu

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