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“A Dark Age for Medievalists”: My Two Cents

Posted in Conferences on June 2nd, 2008 by admin

Although I usually stick to my objects and monuments, I must express solidarity with my fellow medievalists in the face of an attack on our field.

Medieval blogs are aflame – Richard Nokes at Unlocked Wordhoard began the rally, followed by Dr. Virago at Quod She, Another Damned Medievalist at Blogenspiel, a long rebuttal from Larry Swain at the Ruminate, and surely many, many more.

The article amuses, and I must confess that I would not make the pilgrimage to the International Congress of Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo unless I really had to.  But, if she is really writing a dissertation on a medieval topic, why does she wish to alienate all of her present and future colleagues?  One makes this sort of scathing attack out of bitterness, after rejection.  We should all pity her.

Nevertheless, I cannot resist making two small points:

First, I find appalling the condescension that she shows toward Susan Morrison, who found inspiration in her son’s toilet training for her own research into human excrement.  True, waste-studies sound ridiculous, and Professor Morrison brought her son’s toilet training into the conversation, but by mentioning the potty training before her comment, “And so a new scholarly industry was born” slyly denigrates the viewpoint that this mother brings to her research and in turn mocks the role of mothers in academia.  This I found personally offensive. 

I also found personally offensive her constant put-downs of the “vast army of poorly paid, overworked lower-echelon professors at not-so-big-name universities”.  She should be using her name as a writer (with an agent!) to promote the cause of these ”underpaid and underemployed” academics, rather than making them look so pathetic.  The plight of the adjunct or even the assistant professor teaching a 4/4 courseload deserves the might of her pen.  The future of the Humanities depends in no small part on scholars such as them.

It is safe to say that Charlotte Allen will not likely show her face at any more medieval conferences.

 

Early Medieval Art at Kalamazoo

Posted in Conferences on April 1st, 2008 by Kirsten Ataoguz

Program for Kalamazoo

Although early medieval art historians could find many talks of interest, I will limit my selection to those that directly and obviously address an early medieval monument or object.  I have, however, also included talks on slightly later material that has bearing on early medieval and some that I can only guess have something to do with early medieval material.

Can we identify trends?  Perhaps not without hearing the talks.  But we can make some observations on popularity- 3 on Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture, 2+ talks on the Book of Kells, 2 on Theodulf, and 2 on Aosta.

Thursday 10 am

Session 26

Eliza Garrison, “The Lothar Cross and the Stuff of History”

Anne Heath, “The Politics of Architecture: The Building of the Abbey Church of Saint-Germain of Auxerre”

Thursday 1.30 pm

Session 67

Heather Pulliam, “Tasting, Seeing, and Knowing: Openings, Absence, and Surface in Insular Art”

Herbert L. Kessler, “‘Where there is Christ, there is an abundance of water’: Icons and Thirst”

Session 71

Jamie Erenstoft, “Early Christian and Medieval Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Rome”

Thursday 3.30 pm

Session 117

Bissera V. Pentcheva, “Incense Visions and the Miraculous Icons”

Session 124

Karen Blough, “Fit for a King: Carolingian and Ottonian Display Strategies”

Gabriella R. Miyamoto, “The Ambo of Henry II in the Aachen Palatine Chapel: The Use of Multivalent Imagery to Express Divine and Temporal Legitimization”

Thursday 7.30 pm

Session 163

Julie A. Van Voorhis, “The Reuse of Sculpted Portraits in the Late Roman Period”

Session 169

Hilde Romanazzi, “Domed Medieval Churches in Armenia: Form and Construction”

Friday 10 am 

Session 205

Cristiana Filippini, “Revival or Continuity? Modes of Production in Medieval Roman Wall Painting” 

Alison Locke Perchuk, “Recuperated or Still in Style? Logics of Reuse in the Basilica at Castel S. Elia (VT)”

Session 210

Bryan Ward-Perkins, “The Last Statues of Antiquity”

Session 217

Catherine E. Karkov, “Anglo-Saxon Sculpture and the Limits of Iconographic Analysis”

Richard N. Bailey, “Anglo-Saxon Sculpture and the Limits of Liturgical and Patristic Analysis”

Session 236

Flora Ward, “Inventing the Asturian Monarchy: The Twelfth-Century Reconstruction of the Camara Santa of Oviedo”

Friday 1.30 pm

Session 260

Monika E. Mueller, “Apostles, Popes, Saints, and Sinners: Sacred Concepts of Spiritual and Political Power in a New Guise at San Pietro al Monte di Civate (Italy)?

Stefano Riccioni, “The Novelty of Tradition: Reforming Antiquity in Eleventh- to Twelfth-Century Rome”

Session 264

Lawrence Nees, “Theodulf’s Mosaic at Germigny, the Sancta Sanctorum in Rome, and Jerusalem”

Thomas F. X. Noble, “The Reception of Visitors in Early Medieval Rome”

Session 297

Carol Farr, “The Passion according to Matthew in Irish Gospel Books and Folio 114r, Book of Kells”

Maggie M. Williams, “Irish High Crosses as Signs of Power and Influence”

Friday 3.30 pm

Session 313

Kirstin Noreen, “Contemplating Divinity: The Materiality of Christ’s Image” 

Nicola Camerlenghi, “Interpreting Medieval Architecture through Renovations: A Case Study of the Roofs of the Basilica of San Paolo in Rome”

Session 319

Walter Roberts, “Imperial Patronage and Religion in the Fourth-Century Roman Empire”

Saturday 10 am

Session 375

Leanne Good, “The Digital Saint Gall Plan”

Session 393

Jane Hawkes, “The Early Anglo-Saxon Church: Sculptural Identities”

Session 398

Luisa Derosa, “Female Saints in Rupestrian Paintings in Apulia and Basilicata: Tradition or Fashion?”

Session 402

Judson J. Emerick, “The ‘Private’ Mass and Relics: The Invention of the Early Medieval ‘Memorialkirchenfamilie’”

Saturday 3.30 pm

Session 480

Amy R. Miller, “Uncovered! Reexamining the Theodelinda Gospel Covers”

Isabelle Lachat, “‘On Earth as it is in Heaven’: Charlemagne Reflecting Christ in the Gospels of Santa Maria ad Martyres”

Nino Zchomelidse, “Likeness, Relics, and Concepts of Authenticity in Medieval Art”

Session 501

Charyl Kaufman, “Material Culture and the Negotiation of Space in Medieval Aosta, Italy”

Session 506

Elizabeth Coatsworth, “Inscriptions on Embroidered and Woven Textiles in Early Medieval Europe: Who Commissioned Them, and Who Saw Them?”

Sunday 8.30 am

Session 525

Vasileios Marinis, “Old Wine in New Bottles: The Interrelation of Ritual and Architecture in Byzantium”

Session 526

Evan A. Gatti, “In a Space Between: Fragmentary Frescoes at Aosta and the Problem of the Middle Ages”

Dana Polanichka, “Envisioning the Holy: Ecclesia in the Minds of Theodulf of Orleans and Einhard”

Sunday 10.30 am

Session 578

Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis, “Saintly Bishops and Architectural Patronage in the Early Middle Ages”

Session 585

Benjamin Tilghman, “The ‘Unfinished’ Book of Kells”

CAA 2009: Call for Papers, Options for Early Medievalists

Posted in Conferences on March 31st, 2008 by Kirsten Ataoguz

I don’t intend to make this website a forum for conference information.  Other sites fulfill this need.  I prefer that the material on this site not have an expiration date for its usefulness.  On the other hand, I wish to document trends in early medieval art.

Medieval Spatiality (page 10 in the Call for Papers)

Byzantine Art as Medieval Lingua Franca, International Center for Medieval Art Session (page 11)

On the Erotic and the Sensuous in Islamic Art, Historians of Islamic Art Association (page 14)

Interpreting Spolia in Medieval Architecture and Art (page 23)

The Art and Archeology of Ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria, Art History Open Session (page 25)

http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/CallforParticipation2009.pdf