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Julia Mattes deposited Pandemic Pictures The Justinian Plague and the Black Death in Art in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThe Plague of Justinian began in 541 and quickly spread over the area of the late antique Mediterranean. There it continued in more than a dozen plague waves until the middle of the 8th century, causing much suffering and a great number of deaths. Academia traditionally debates it as the end of Antiquity. Isochronal, the effect of climate change…[Read more]
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Fotini Kondyli started the topic Call for papers: Archaeological Approaches to the Byzantine House 2022 AIA in the discussion
Byzantine Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCall for papers: Archaeological Approaches to the Byzantine House Proposed Colloquium Session for the 2022 AIA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, January 5-9, 2022
Co-organizers: Fotini Kondyli – Katerina Ragkou
Household archaeology has long been recognized as a fruitful avenue for peopling ancient living spaces, exploring the socioeconomic…[Read more]
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Fotini Kondyli started the topic Call for papers: Archaeological Approaches to the Byzantine House 2022 AIA in the discussion
Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology in Greece Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCall for papers: Archaeological Approaches to the Byzantine House Proposed Colloquium Session for the 2022 AIA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, January 7-10, 2022
Co-organizers: Fotini Kondyli – Katerina Ragkou
Household archaeology has long been recognized as a fruitful avenue for peopling ancient living spaces, exploring the socioeconomic…[Read more]
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Michael Anthony Fowler started the topic CFP – SECAC 2021 Art History Session, The Nature of the Beast: Monsters and Mons in the discussion
Art History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoTHE NATURE OF THE BEAST: MONSTERS AND MONSTROSITY IN ART
77th Annual Meeting of SECAC
University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY)
10–13 November 2021
Co-chairs:
Michael Anthony Fowler, Ph.D. (East Tennessee State University)
Matthew Peebles, Ph.D. (Columbia University)
The global history of art is replete with all manner of monstrous creatu…[Read more]
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Paul W. Nash deposited A note on Peter Schoeffer’s book-list of ‘1470’ in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoPeter Shoeffer’s book-list is usually dated to the year 1470. The author challenges this dating, however, supplying a detailed analysis of the content of the list and suggested when it was printed and under what circumstances.
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Maya Maskarinec deposited Nuns as ‘Sponsae Christi’: The Legal Status of the Medieval Oblates of Tor de’ Specchi in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFrancesca Romana
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Michael Lyons deposited Excavating ‘Excavating AI’: The Elephant in the Gallery in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoTwo art exhibitions, “Training Humans” and “Making Faces,” and the accompanying essay “Excavating AI: The politics of images in machine learning training sets” by Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen, are making substantial impact on discourse taking place in the social and mass media networks, and some scholarly circles. Critical scrutiny reveals,…[Read more]
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Ben Newbound deposited Heinrich Schliemann and the walls of Troy in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoArt forms in Troy’s city walls, and Schliemann’s awareness thereof.
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Thomas Barrows started the topic New Perspectives in Castle Studies in the discussion
Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology in Greece Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoPlease see the CfP for a new virtual conference this Spring:
New Perspective in Castle StudiesSpring 2021 Call For Papers Of the surviving examples of medieval monumental architecture, castles remain among the most iconic. However the structures are defined – architecturally, geographically, or sociologically – much scholarship has examined the…[Read more]
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Thomas Barrows started the topic New Perspectives in Castle Studies in the discussion
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoPlease see the CfP for a new virtual conference this Spring:
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María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited James Valentine. Fotografías españolas in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoLa gran empresa británica, James Valentine, productora y editora de imágenes, atesoró un inmenso fondo a lo largo de sus casi ciento cincuenta años de vida (1855-1995), entre las que destacan por su especial belleza algunas fotografías de las ciudades de Málaga y Granada.
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Marco Heiles deposited Unterseeboot in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoMarco Heiles, Unterseeboot, in: Peter Glasner, Sebastian Winkelsträter und Birgit Zacke (Hg.), Abecedarium. Erzählte Dinge im Mittelalter, Berlin 2019, S. 244–254.
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Jon Frey replied to the topic MAPMA(G?) Name change in the discussion
Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology in Greece Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThat’s a good point to make. I’ll include it in the letter to Tom, which I’ll post somewhere here for comment / edits before sending it along.
As you say, it would be interesting to drill down more into the places that MAPMA speakers / panels have covered. Might be neat to see that displayed geospatially.
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Rebecca Seifried replied to the topic MAPMA(G?) Name change in the discussion
Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology in Greece Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThanks for getting the ball rolling on this, Jon! It might be worth noting that the last few programs have listed the colloquium sponsor as “the Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology Interest Group” but the interest group meeting itself has the “in Greece” added to the end.
If more justification is needed, we could also point to all the papers…[Read more]
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Jon Frey started the topic MAPMA(G?) Name change in the discussion
Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology in Greece Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years agoAt the most recent meeting of the IG at the 2021 AIAs, the issue was raised concerning a name change for the group. The suggestion is to remove “in Greece” from the name of the group in order to make it a more inclusive of medieval and post-medieval scholars outside of the geographic limits of Greece (however that is defined, of course). This m…[Read more]
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Jon Frey uploaded the file: Minutes from 2005 Meeting to
Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years agoMinutes from the 2005 meeting of the MAPMA interest group.
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Jon Frey uploaded the file: Minutes from 2007 Meeting to
Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology Interest Group on Humanities Commons 5 years agoMinutes from the 2007 meeting of the MAPMA interest group.
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