CALL FOR PAPERS: Marian Iconography East and West

The Tenth International Conference of Iconographic Studies
to be held in Rijeka (Croatia), June 02 - 04, 2016

Organizers:
Center for Iconographic Studies - University of Rijeka (Croatia) in collaboration with Study of Theology in Rijeka, University of Zagreb (Croatia), University of Thessaly (Greece), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Gregorian Pontifical University Rome (Italy)

The conference seeks to explore and discuss recent development in the dialogue between theology, art history, philosophy and cultural theory concerning the iconography of Mary in Eastern and Western art. We welcome academic papers that will approach this subject in an interdisciplinary and methodologically diverse way.

The themes and subjects can include the following:

• early representations of Mary
• images of intercession and authority
• devotional iconography
• Mary Mother of God
• Virgin as queen
• Mary as Ecclesia
• Mary and Eve
• Life of the Virgin
• post-Tridentine iconography
• hermeneutical and phenomenological aspects of Mary

Paper proposals should be submitted electronically to cis@ffri.hr
Deadline for paper proposals: March 30, 2016

Contact person:
Sanja Jovanović
Center for Iconographic Studies
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Rijeka
Sveucilisna avenija 4
51 000 Rijeka
Croatia
E-mail: cis@ffri.hr


A paper proposal should contain:
1. full name, institution, affiliation, address, phone number(s), e-mail address
2. title
3. abstract (maximum 2 pages – 500 words)

Deadline: March 30, 2016

Invitations to participate will be sent out by email before April 15, 2016
There is NO registration fee
Administration and organizational costs, working materials, lunch and coffee breaks during conference as well as all organized visits are covered by the organizers.
All presented papers will be published in the thematic issue of the IKON journal in May 2017.

Please contact us for any additional information.
web page: http://ikon.ffri.hr
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800

An Interdisciplinary Conference 9-11 July 2015 University of Cambridge

Across faiths and regions and throughout the world, the home was a centre for devotion in the early modern period. Holy books, prayer mats, candlesticks, inscriptions, icons, altars, figurines of saints and deities, paintings, prints and textiles all wove religion into the very fabric of the home. While research into religious practice during this period often focuses on institutions and public ceremonies, it is clear that the home played a profound role in shaping devotional experience, as a place for religious instruction, private prayer and contemplation, communal worship, and the performance of everyday rituals.

The ERC-funded research project Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home will be hosting this three-day international interdisciplinary conference in July 2015. The project team invites proposals for 20-minute papers that explore domestic devotions in the early modern world. Papers may consider this theme from a variety of perspectives, including material culture studies, art and architectural history, gender studies, theology, religious studies, economic and social history, literary studies, musicology, archaeology and anthropology. Topics may include, though are not limited to:

• The use of images, objects or books in private devotion 
• Daily life and life cycles 
• The relationships between collective (e.g. institutional or non-familial) devotion and private devotion 
• The role of the senses in spiritual experience 
• The production and ownership of religious objects found in the home 
• Gender, race or age and devotional life 
• Policing and regulating household religion 
• Encounters between different faiths and traditions in domestic context 
• Domestic devotional spaces 
• Music in domestic devotion 
• Devotional literature

Plenary speakers will be Debra Kaplan (Bar-Ilan University), Andrew Morrall (Bard Graduate Center) and Virginia Reinburg (Boston College).

Please email abstracts of no more than 300 words to Maya Corry at mc878@cam.ac.uk, Marco Faini at mf531@cam.ac.uk, and Alessia Meneghin at am2253@cam.ac.uk by 7th January 2015. Along with your abstract please include your name, institution, paper title and a brief biography. Successful applicants will be notified by 7th February 2015. For further information on Domestic Devotions see our website http://domesticdevotions.lib.cam.ac.uk/

College accommodation will be bookable nearer the time. Registration fees (tbc) will be kept as low as possible and graduate bursaries will be available to help with costs. 

Images provided by the Fitzwilliam Museum MS 336, folio 2r & PD158-1963