Friends of the ICMA presents Medieval Coming Attractions 2024-2025

12 September 2024, 12 PM ET

Speakers:

Stephan Wolohojian, John Pope-Hennessy Curator in Charge, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350”, 3 October 2024– 26 January 2025

Sue Brunning, Curator of European Early Medieval and Sutton Hoo Collections, The British Museum, “Silk Roads”, 26 September 2024 – 23 February 2025

Ladan Akbarnia, Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art, San Diego Museum of Art, “Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World”, 7 September 2024–5 January 2025

Moderator:

Leslie Bussis Tait, Educator Emerita, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chair of the Friends of the ICMA


Friends of the ICMA presents Medieval Coming Attractions 2023-2024

11 December 2023, 11 AM ET

Speakers:

Diane Wolfthal, David & Caroline Minter Professor Emerita, Rice University, The Morgan Library & Museum, “Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality”, November 10, 2023 - March 10, 2024

Peter Carpreau, Curator of the Old Masters and Collection, M Leuven, Dieric Bouts: Creator of Images, October 20, 2023 - 10 January 10, 2024

Andrea Myers, Mary and Michael Jaharis Associate Curator of Byzantine Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Africa & Byzantium, November 19, 2023 - March 3, 2024

Moderator:

Leslie Bussis Tait, Chair of the Friends of the ICMA


Medieval Matters: Digital Technologies for Access and Discoverability

20 October 2023, 12 PM ET

Speakers:

Juilee Decker, Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology and director of the Museum Studies/Public History program

Tory Schendel-Vyvoda, Visiting Professor of Art and History and Museum Studies at Harlaxton College, curator of the Evansville African American Museum, and director of the Lamasco Microgallery

Illuminating the Medieval and the Modern through Cultural Heritage Imaging: A Brief History of Innovation and Collaboration is the recipient of the 2022 ICMA-Kress Exhibition Development Grant.


ICMA Viewpoints Book Launch

Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Toward a Critical Historiography, edited by Benjamin Anderson and Mirela Ivanova

Online, 15 September 2023 at 12-1:00 pm ET

with Benjamin Anderson, Mirela Ivanova, Roland Betancourt, Eleanor Goodman, Nicholas S. M. Matheou, Elizabeth Dospěl Williams, and Alexandra Vukovich 


ICMA Book Salon

Writing the Middle Ages & the Renaissance for the Public: A Conversation with the Authors

23 MAY 2023, 5PM ET // 2PM PT

Speakers:

Vanessa Wilkie, William A. Moffett Senior Curator of Medieval Manuscripts & British History and Head of Library Curatorial, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens and author of A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England

Elizabeth Morrison, Senior Curator of Manuscripts, The Getty Museum and author of The Lawless Land

Moderator:

Sonja Drimmer, Associate Professor of Medieval Art, University of Massachusetts Amherst


ICMA Annual IDEA Lecture

“John of Marignolli, the Tribute Horse, and East-West Encounters in the Fourteenth Century,” Nancy Wu, Educator Emerita, The Metropolitian Museum of Art

17 April 2023, 5:30 pm, Columbia University

Convened by the IDEA Committee, the ICMA Annual IDEA Lecture showcases research by ICMA members that engages, in content, method, or disciplinary practice, issues of inclusivity, diversity, equity, and accessibility.


Digital Approaches to Medieval Art featuring Maeve Doyle and Alex Brey, 2 March 2023

An online event organized by the Digital Resources Committee held an exciting event about digital approaches to medieval manuscript studies.

Speakers:

Maeve Doyle, Assistant Professor and Assistant Chair of Art and Art History, Eastern Connecticut State University

Alex Brey, Assistant Professor of Art, Wellesley College

Committee Members:

Lindsay Cook, Assistant Teaching Professor of Architectural History, Penn State University

Paula Mae Carns, Associate Professor and Head of Literature and Languages Library, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Nicholas Herman, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Curator, University of Pennsylvania


Friends of the ICMA presents Medieval Coming Attractions, 15 November 2022

An online event presented by Friends of the ICMA previewing three medieval exhibitions scheduled to open in 2023, each introduced by its curator in charge.

Speakers:

Amanda Luyster, Assistant Professor of Art History at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, Massachusetts), “Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece”, January 26-April 6, 2023

Gerhard Lutz, Robert P. Bergman Curator of Medieval Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, "Tilman Riemenschneider’s Jerome and Late Medieval Alabaster Sculpture", March 26-July 23, 2023

Christine Sciacca, Curator of European Art, 300-1400, Walters Art Museum (Baltimore), "Ethiopia at the Crossroads", December 3, 2023-March 3, 2024

Moderator:

Naomi Speakman, Curator of Late Medieval Europe at the British Museum


ICMA Viewpoints Book Launch

Destroyed-Disappeared-Lost-Never Were edited by Beate Fricke and Aden Kumler

Online, Wednesday, 31 August at 3-4pm ET

with Beate Fricke, Aden Kumler, Roland Betancourt, Eleanor Goodman, Elizabeth Sears, Sonja Drimmer, and Michelle McCoy


Medieval Make Believe: The Middle Ages in Popular Culture, June 1, 2022
An online event organized by Friends of the ICMA

Speakers:
Wolf Burchard, Associate Curator, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Larisa Grollemond, Assistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, the J. Paul Getty Museum

Bryan C. Keene, Assistant Professor of Riverside City College

Moderator:
Matthew M. Reeve
, Associate Professor of Art History at Queen’s University


Digital Approaches to Medieval Art History, May 24, 2022

featuring Nicola Camerlenghi

This event is the first installment in a series of online gatherings which will provide opportunities for critical conversations about digital medieval art history. Nicola Camerlenghi (Dartmouth College) opens with a short presentation, and thereafter the session takes the form of a dialogue among the speaker and two members of the ICMA Digital Resources committee, with time for open discussion with attendees at the end.


Collecting the Medieval Past: What, Why, How? October 28, 2021
An online event presented by Friends of the ICMA

Moderator:
Helen C. Evans, Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator of Byzantine Art Emerita, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Panelists:
Sandra Hindman, President and Founder of Les Enluminures
Marguerite Hoffman, former Chair of the Dallas Museum of Art, and member of the Visiting Committee to the Department of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Morgan Library & Museum
Robert (Bob) McCarthy, whose collection has been loaned to the Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Belvedere in Vienna, and the Hong Kong University Museum and Gallery
Sir Paul Ruddock, former Chair of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the British Museum


Queer Medieval Art: Past, Present, and Future, August 16, 2021

Speakers: Roland Betancourt, Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine; Leah DeVun, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University; Bryan C. Keene, Assistant Professor of Art History at Riverside City College; and Karl Whittington, Associate Professor of History of Art at The Ohio State University.


Curating Becket, Thursday July 29 2021

Speakers: Naomi Speakman, Curator of Late Medieval Europe at the British Museum; Lloyd de Beer, Ferguson Curator of Medieval Britain and Europe at the British Museum; Leonie Seliger, Director of the stained glass studio at Canterbury Cathedral; Rachel Koopmans, Associate Professor of Medieval History at York University in Toronto; John Jenkins, Assistant Director of the Centre for Pilgrimage Studies at the University of York.

Moderator: Elizabeth Morrison, Senior Curator of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum

This event was organized by the ICMA Membership Committee.


The Guelph Treasure, Historic Significance and Legal Implications, Monday June 28, 2021
Speakers: Holger A. Klein, Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Medieval Art History at Columbia University and Leila A. Amineddoleh, Founder, Amineddoleh & Associates LLC.
Moderator: George Spera, retired council at Shearman & Sterling and former legal advisor to the ICMA

This event was organized by the Friends of the ICMA Committee.


Notre Dame of Paris: Past and Present, Wednesday February 3, 2021
Speakers: Dany Sandron, Professor of Art and Archaeology at Sorbonne University and Lindsay Cook, Assistant Teaching Professor of Art History, Ball State University
Moderator: Nancy Wu, Educator Emerita, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This event was organized by the Friends of the ICMA Committee.