The Department of History and Art History externe link at Utrecht University is looking for a candidate for the PhD-project “The (R)evolution of Reconstruction: an analysis of digital facsimiles”. This project analyses the value of digital facsimiles for researchers, heritage institutions, and museum visitors, in the past, present and future. Deadline: 15 juni.

Fondazione 1563 launched a call for the Summer School of the Turin Humanities Programme, that will take place in Torino from September 6 to September 8 2023. The theme is: Writing global medieval history: comparative and connected approaches. Deadline for applications: June 25.

In de nieuwe uitgave van de Rijmbijbel staan 159 kostbare miniaturen, gecombineerd met beeldcommentaren van Utrechtse masterstudenten. Studenten Nederlands van de universiteiten van Antwerpen en Leiden hebben de bijbehorende tekstpassages vertaald. Verschillende experts, waaronder Martine Meuwese (UU), vertellen bovendien meer over Jacob van Maerlant, het handschrift, de restauratie en illustraties.

Candidates are invited to submit their ‘own proposals for doctoral projects, which can come from the following eleven subjects: Ancient History, Old Testament, Ancient Oriental Studies, Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History, Greek Studies, Historical-Comparative Linguistics, Classical Archaeology, Latin Studies, New Testament, Law with a focus on Roman Law, and Religious Studies/History of Religion with a focus on early Islam.’ Deadline for proposals: June 11.

On Thursday the 8th of June and Friday the 9th of June, the University of Groningen will be organising an interdisciplinary conference called ‘Facets of Feeling’. Through relevant historical case studies, we will analyse the universality of emotions and test the proposed theory. Additionally, we will put the theory in contrast with existing approaches in the history of emotionality. Finally, we will analyse the interplay proposed between society and emotional experiences. RMA Students can obtain 1 ECTS by attending the conference.

Op 27 mei organiseert Stichting Zenobia een publiekscongres in de Openbare Bibliotheek te Amsterdam, getiteld "De Zijderoutes: Netwerk van Ontmoetingen". Tijdens dit congres behandelen zes experts verschillende gebieden van de Zijderoutes, van de Oudheid tot de Vroegmoderne Tijd.

In het kader van de zomerschool "Medieval Religon" geeft prof. Christopher M. Bellitto (Kean University) op 26 juni een keynote lezing getiteld "Politics and Religion in the Middle Ages and Today: Thoughts of an American Medievalist". Deze lezing is ook toegankelijk voor geïnteresseerden die niet deelnemen aan de zomerschool.

In June, the international conference "Practices of Copying and Imitation in Early Modern Architecture (1400-1700)" will take place at Ghent University. This conference seeks to direct attention to verifiable practices and material documentation of copying and imitation in the workshop and on the building site, and how this evidence sheds new light on the production of architecture. Individual conference papers address commonplace processes of copying and imitation, as manifest in techniques of traced drawing, the manipulation of models, the casting of ornaments, writing on architecture, and the reproduction of decorative details.

De Universiteit van Limerick (Ierland) is op zoek naar een postdoctoraal onderzoeker op het gebied van nonconformiteit en afwijkend gedrag in de vroegmoderne tijd. Deadline voor voorstellen: 11 mei.

Between April 24th and June 19th Oxford University organises a weekly online seminar in Byzantine Studies.