In this lecture, Evan Freeman, Simon Fraser University, will consider the use of ivory pyxides for receiving Communion in church. A large body of these round ivory boxes survive from late antiquity. Several boxes display motifs associated with the Eucharist. 📆 17 Nov 2025, 12–1:30 pm (EST, UTC-5)

In this lecture, Dr Nancy Thebaut will discuss their co-curated exhibition "Spectrum of Desire" at The Met Cloisters, which explores medieval perspectives on love, sex, and gender, with a focus on a tapestry of the Queen of Sheba and Solomon. 📆 17 Dec 2025, 17:30-19:00 (GMT) 📍Courtauld Institute

The Courtauld Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium invites PhD candidates to submit proposals exploring the intricate relationship between memory and medieval material culture, with a focus on artworks, buildings, and the socio-political agendas surrounding them, by December 14, 2025.

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtot Chair of Armenian Studies at Harvard University are pleased to announce the first lecture in the 2025–2026 East of Byzantium lecture series.

To celebrate its opening in 2025, BRON Research Centre (Musea Brugge), in collaboration with the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA, Brussels), is organising a two-day conference on new and ongoing research on the oeuvre of Early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling. 📆 20-21 Nov 2025

"The Social Lives of Medieval Rings," edited by Jitske Jasperse, explores the intricate roles of medieval rings as social artifacts that connect people, places, and cultural practices from 1100 to 1500 across Europe, revealing their significance in historical and contemporary contexts.

Join the international conference "The Challenge of Historical Distance: Historicism and Anachronism in the Study of Art" to honour Prof. Gervase Rosser. 📆 6-7 November 2025 📍 Online & Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut (NIKI), Florence, Italy

Join PRAYTICIPYTE for this lecture series on prayer in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World, which takes place online. 📆 21 October 2025 - 10 February 2026, Tuesdays ⏰ 4–6 pm (CET)

Check out the upcoming Oxford Medieval Visual Culture Seminar series. Please note all lectures take place in person.

The University of Padua is hosting the 4th International Multidisciplinary Conference on "Materialising the Holy," exploring the interplay of materiality, sensory experience, and spiritual practices in the Middle Ages from 6-8 May 2026, with proposals due by 31 October 2025.

The international conference seeks paper proposals by October 31, 2025, focusing on the acoustic and architectural dimensions of the Bimah, Ambo, and Minbar.

This session at the AAH 2026 Annual Conference invites papers exploring how portable objects function as means of translation across cultural and temporal boundaries. Deadline for submissions is 2 November 2025.

The edited volume "The Medieval in Museums" seeks short abstracts for contributions that explore the presentation and interpretation of medieval objects, texts, and histories in museums and related institutions, emphasising global perspectives and the cultural implications of these representations.

Please join Birkbeck for the first Murray Seminar of this academic year. Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius will share her research on 'The artist’s new body, burle, and the praise of caricature in early modern Italy'. 📆 20 October 2025, 17:00-18:30 (GMT) 📍Online & Birkbeck University, London

In memory of our much-missed friend and inspiration, the British Archaeological Association will be holding a conference to celebrate our former secretary, John McNeill, on 12-14 December 2025.

Join Dr Sophie Kelly for a lecture that explores the evolving design and significance of croziers in the context of ecclesiastical authority and political change in England during the 11th century. 📆 22 Oct 2025, 17:30-19:00 (BST) 📍 Courtauld Institute of Art

The conference titled "Communication – Cooperation – Confrontation: Queens, Noblewomen and Burgher Women in the Middle Ages" will be held in Prague on 16-17 October 2025, focusing on the influence and roles of medieval women within various societal networks. 📆 16-17 October 2025

Join the University of York's Centre for Medieval Studies for this lecture on medieval art and video games with Dr Glaire Anderson (The University of Edinburgh). 📆 12 Nov 2025, 5.30-7pm (GMT) 📍 University of York

Abstracts are invited for the session ‘Animal Representation in the Global Middle Ages: Bridging the Natural and Social Worlds’, which will take place at the next Association for Art History Conference. Deadline for submissions is 2 November 2025

Gregory Bryda will present an online lecture on October 8, 2025, examining how Matthias Grünewald utilised wood's dual nature in his altarpieces to intertwine the medicinal properties of Christ and saints with those of trees and plants. 📆 8 October 2025, 5pm (CEST) 📍Online

This new book explores the digital medieval manuscript as a unique cultural artifact, not just a copy of its physical counterpart.

Submissions are invited for the session ‘Confounding Images: Frustration as Art Historical Method’, which will take place at the Association for Art History 2026 Annual Conference. Deadline for submissions is 2 November 2025.

This year’s conference International Complutense Conference on Medieval Art, titled Transculturality and Medieval Art in Dialogue: Negotiating New Identities, will once again offer a specialised forum for scholarly exchange. 📆 7–8 October 2025 📍Universidad Complutense de Madrid

AVISTA are excited to announce the publication of the 18th volume in our Brill series, AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art, with American Gothic: Reflections on Gothic Scholarship in America 1925–2025, edited by Robert Bork.

Papers are invited for submission for this year's Forum Kunst des Mittelalters, on the theme: ‘WORK: Traces, Constallations, Valuations.’ Deadline 15 October 2025

The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies is pleased to announce a John W. Baldwin Post-Doctoral Fellowship for a recent Ph.D. whose work focuses on European medieval studies within the global comparative context. Deadline for applications is 3 November 2025.

This event marks the launch of Jon Cannon’s final book, The Stones of Britain — a profound exploration of how geology has shaped the landscapes and history of our island. Interwoven with reflections on place, home and belonging, it is Jon’s definitive work and a moving legacy.

The British Archaeological Association are excited to present a diverse conference which includes postgraduates and early career researchers in the fields of medieval history of art, architecture, and archaeology.

Lecture Series: British Archaeological Association Programme of Meetings 2025-2026 The British Archaeological Association holds regular monthly lectures on the first Wednesday of each month between October and May in the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House and online.

Submissions are invited for the edited volume ‘The Senses and the Elements. Water, Fire, Air and Earth as Sensorial Triggers in Medieval Religious Contexts’. Deadline is 15 October 2025.

Applications are invited for the conference 'Instrumenta altaris'. Ritual Artefacts and Their Images for Medieval Liturgy, which takes place in Madrid next year. Deadline for papers is 1 October 2025.

Papers are invited for this session at next year's European Architectural History Network (EAHN) conference in Aarhus. Deadline for submissions is 19 September 2025.

Across two days, this online conference explores Islamic Medieval Wall Paintings. 📆 4-5 September 2025

Papers are invited to this panel session, which will take place at Kalamazoo’s International Congress on Medieval Studies in 2026. Deadline for submissions is 15 September 2026.

Papers are invited for this panel session at next year’s Leeds International Medieval Congress. Deadline for submissions is 19 September 2025.

Papers are invited to this panel session, which will take place at Kalamazoo’s International Congress on Medieval Studies in 2026. Deadline for submissions is 15 September 2025.

Abstracts are invited for this panel session that will take place at Leeds International Medieval Congress in 2026. Deadline is 19 September 2025.

Abstracts are invited for this panel session that will take place at Leeds International Medieval Congress in 2026. Deadline is 19 September 2025.

This panel invites papers on Christian devotional practices in the late medieval Mediterranean that foreground the senses. This session will be part of the 2026 International Congress on Medieval Studies. Deadline for applications is 15 September 2025.

Papers are invivted for the session ‘Across Seas, Across Cultures: The Transmission of Female Saint Cults from East to West’ which will be at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in San Francisco, 19-21 February 2026. Deadline: 10 August 2025

CFP: ‘Troubling Desires: Queer and Trans Approaches to Medieval Art’, Congress of the Swiss Association of Art Historians, deadline 12 September 2025. Submissions are invited for the session ‘Troubling Desires: Queer and Trans Approaches to Medieval Art’ for the 2026 Swiss Congress for Art History.

Papers are invited for this panel that focuses on the roofing systems of medieval architecture. Deadline for applications is 14 September 2025.

Applications are invited for this panel at the 2026 ICMS in Kalamazoo. Deadline for submissions is 15 September 2025.

Join the Royal Library of Brussels to discuss and explore how the built environment of late medieval cities was conceptualized and physically shaped in relation to ideals of good governance. 📆 3-5th September 2025 📍 Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels (‪@kbrbe.bsky.social‬)

This conference explores the themes of dispersion and unity in the context of artistic production, encompassing both the materiality of works and their contextual significance and reception. Deadline for submissions is 15 July 2025.

In this volume, thirteen international scholars explore various aspects of pan-Mediterranean Christian-Islamic encounters in material culture and art, from textiles to precious oils, and from metalwork to ceramics, covering most of the Mediterranean, as well as parts of its extended hinterland, from

This study day, both at the Musée du Louvre and Université de Toulouse, focuses on how medieval sculpture is exhibited. 📆 30 June-1 July 2025; and 2-3 October 2025 📍Musée du Louvre and Université de Toulouse

The Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Metropolitan Museum Journal invites submissions of original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Deadline is 15 September 2025.

1,213 / 5,000 Conceived in conjunction with the Mamluks 1250-1517 exhibition, this study day offers a reinterpretation of Mamluk art through an interdisciplinary and transregional approach, drawing on art history, archaeology, and technical analysis. 📆 23 June 2025 📍 Musée du Louvre

The London Society for Medieval Studies (LSMS) is seeking new members to join its steering committee for the 2025/26 academic year. Deadline for applications is 21 June 2025.