Upcoming Conference

The Digital World of Art History 2013
From Theory to Practice

A one day conference organized by The Index of Christian Art and the Visual Resources Collection, Department of Art and Archaeology

Wednesday, June 26, 2013
East Pyne 10 (room subject to change)
Princeton University

9.30-9.45

Welcome

9.45-10.20

Art History in and for a Digital Age
Barbara Rockenbach, Director of Humanities And History Libraries, Columbia University

10.20-10.55

The William Randolph Hearst Archive: An Emerging Opportunity for Digital Art Research and Scholarship
Catherine Larkin, Departmental Head, Digital Initiatives and the Art Image Library, Long Island University, C. W. Post Campus

10.55-11.10

Coffee

11.10-11.45

Images for Academic Publishing: community-wide support for academic publishing
James Shulman, President, ARTstor

11.45-12.20

Kornbluth Photography: from private research to public archive
Genevra Kornbluth, Kornbluth Photography

12.20-12.45

Questions

12.45-2.00

Lunch

2.00-2.35

Exploring Oxford Art Online, Home of Grove Art Online and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists
Kandice Rawlings, Associate Editor, Oxford Art Online

2.35-3.10

Wikipedia as Art Archive
Richard Knipel, President, Wikimedia New York City, Wikipedian in Residence (2011), Museum of Modern Art, New York

3.10-3.25

Break

3.25-4.00

Bringing Digital Literacy into the Classroom: New Ways of Teaching with Images
Virginia M. G. Hall, Senior Instructional Designer, Center for Educational Resources, Johns Hopkins University

4.00-4.35

Activating the "digital humanities": visiting the Walters' Chamber of Wonders online
Joaneath Spicer, The James A. Murnaghan Curator of Renaissance and Baroque Art, The Walters Art Museum
Recent Initiatives in the Index of Christian Art
Judith Golden and Jessica Savage, Research Scholars, Index of Christian Art

4.35-5.10

The 'Art' of Digital Art History
Diane Zorich, Cultural Heritage Consultant, Princeton

5.10-

Questions

There is no charge to attend and all are welcome but pre-registration is necessary as spaces are limited. To register, please contact Fiona Barrett (fionab@princeton.edu) before June 17.

The next conference organized by the Index of Christian Art will celebrate the publication of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library (Two-Volume Set) by Don C. Skemer.

Contributions by Adelaide Bennett, Jean F. Preston, William P. Stoneman, and the Index of Christian Art.

Manuscripta Illuminata
Approaches to Understanding Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

It will be held on October 25th and 26th and will include the following speakers–

Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Emeritus

Walter Cahn, Yale University, Emeritus

Marc Michael Epstein, Vassar College

Lucy Freeman Sandler, New York University, Emerita

Anthony Grafton, Princeton University

Henry Mayr-Harting, University of Oxford, Emeritus

Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, Princeton, NJ

Michael Michael, Christie’s education, London

James Marrow, Princeton University, Emeritus (TBC)

Elizabeth Moodey, Vanderbilt University

Stella Panayatova, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Virginia Reinburg, Boston College

Richard and Mary Rouse, University of California, Los Angeles, Emeritus

Don C Skemer, Princeton University

Anne Rudloff Stanton, University of Missouri

Patricia Stirnemann, Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, Paris

Spaces are limited and registration is required. Admission is strictly upon numbers provided at registration. There is no charge for the conference. To register please contact Fiona Barrett (fionab@princeton.edu) before September 30th 2013.

Past Conferences and Events

March 15th and 16th, 2013
Medieval Patronage: Patronage, Power and Agency in Medieval Art

October 5th and 6th, 2012
Medieval Patronage: Patronage, Power and Agency in Medieval Art

July 12th, 2012
The Digital World of Art History

May 7th, 2012
Ethiopians and Ambiguity in Late Medieval Art

October 14th and 15th, 2011
Re-Defining Byzantium: Art and Thought in the Byzantine World

March 17th and 18th, 2011
From Minor to Major: The Minor Arts and Their Current Status in Art History

November 11th, 2010
Weaving the memory of a Celtic past: tales of Ireland in a treasured archive

March 16th and 17th, 2010
Insular and Anglo-Saxon, Art and Thought in the Early Medieval Period

October 30th, 2009
Liminal Spaces - A Symposium in Honor of Pamela Sheingorn

March 19th and 20th, 2009
Gothic-Art & Thought in the Middle Ages: A Conference in Honor of Willibald Sauerländer

October 16th, 2008
Arts of the East ~ Byzantine Studies in Princeton

March 14th and 15th, 2008
LOOKING BEYOND... Visions, Dreams and Insights in Medieval Art and History

June 12th, 2007
Databases and Medieval Scholarship

May 8th, 2007
The Cross in Image and Text: A Celebration of the Ninetieth Anniversary of the Foundation of the Index of Christian Art

April 20th, 2007
Matters Iconographical – Celebrating Ninety Years of the Index of Christian Art

February 2nd, 2007
The Medieval Arts of North Africa and the Near East

October 26th and 27th, 2006
Romanesque Art and Thought in the Twelfth Century

April 29th, 2006
Spanish Medieval Art: New Approaches and Studies

April 8th and 9th, 2005
Interactions: Artistic Interchange between the Eastern and Western Worlds in the Medieval Period

October 1, 2004
The Index of Christian Art – An Afternoon of Medieval Art at Princeton University

March 27, 2004
Between the Picture and the Word: The Book of Kings (Morgan 638) in Focus: A Colloquium in Honor of John Plummer

October 24th, 2003
St. Denis Revisited: The Man, The Art and the Architecture

March 23rd and 24th, 2001
Objects, Images and the Word: Art in the Service of Liturgy

March 5th and 6th, 1999
From Ireland Coming: Irish Art from the Early Christian to the Late Gothic Periods and its Context within Europe

October 28th and 29th, 1997
Iconography at the Index – Celebrating Eighty Years of the Index of Christian Art

February 16, 1996
Devotions for Women: Books of Hours from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Centuries

April 22, 1995
Art and Ritual at the Threshold: The Imagery of Portals in Medieval Europe

March 23rd and 24th, 1990
Iconography at the Crossroads