ICMA Fall Conference in Pittsburgh October 2-3, 2009
A collaborative conference between the International Center of Medieval Art and The Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh with sponsorship from The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh
Venue:
Henry Clay Frick Department of History of Art and Architecture
Frick Fine Arts Building
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone: 412-648-2400
Fax: 412-648-2792
Friday October 2
Room 202
3.00-3.20
The Early Medieval Cathedral of Florence, Decades from Digging to Print
Franklin Toker, University of Pittsburgh
3.30-3.50
Tracing Workshop Traditions: Scandinavian Migration Period Bracteates under the Microscope
Nancy L. Wicker, University of Mississippi
4.00-4.20
Seats of Judgment: An Iconographic Investigation into the Roles of the Sanhedrin Judges Portrayed in the Zaragoza Passion Tapestries
Kate Dimitrova, Wells College
4.30-4.50
The Interpolation of Judith at Vézelay
Kirk Ambrose, University of Colorado
5.00-5.20
Devotion and Commodity: An English Alabaster Virgin at the Carnegie Museum
Susan Ward, Rhode Island School of Design
5.30-5.50
Accommodating an Apostolic Tomb: the Case of Santiago
John Williams, University of Pittsburgh
6.00 Reception Frick Fine Arts Cloister
Saturday October 3
Room 202
9.00-12.00 ICMA Board Meeting (closed) Henry Clay Frick Department of History of Art and Architecture, Frick Fine Arts Building
Optional tour of the Carnegie Museum of Art, The Cathedral of Learning, and the Heinz Memorial Chapel for those delegates not attending the board meeting
1.00-1.20
Scrolls and Rolls: The Iconography of Speech in Twelfth-Century Manuscript Illumination
Michael Curschmann , Princeton University
1.30-1.50
Multitasking Demons in the Visions of Ermine de Reims (d. 1396)
Renata Blumenfeld-Kosinski, University of Pittsburgh
2.00-2.20
The Pitt Art-History Websites
Alison Stones –The Medart Website & Ken Sochat –The Lancelot-Grail Project
2.30-2.50
Honorary Males: Visualizing Masculine Qualities in Educated Medieval Women
Julia Finch, University of Pittsburgh
3.00-3.20
The Fifteenth-Century Reception of Nicholas of Lyra's Postilla litteralis super totam bibliam
Sarah Bromberg , University of Pittsburgh
3.30-3.50
For the Birds: Musings on Late Antique Avian Iconography
Lawrence Nees, University of Delaware
4.00-4.20
New (and old) Perspectives on the Unicorn Tapestries
Danielle Oteri, International Center of Medieval Art, The Cloisters
4.30-4.50
Good and Bad at the Crucifixion
Colum Hourihane. Princeton University
5.00 Reception Frick Fine Arts Cloister