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• 15 jan 2019

  Call for papers - Religion

  Iconotrop

  Symbolic and Material Changes to Cult Images in the Classical and Medieval Ages

  Iconotropy is a Greek word which literally means “image turning.” William J. Hamblin (2007) defines the term as “the accidental or deliberate misinterpretation by one culture of the images or myths of another one, especially so as to bring them into accord with those of the first culture.” In fact, iconotropy is commonly the result of the way cultures have dealt with images from foreign or earlier cultures. Numerous accounts from classical antiquity and the Middle Ages detail how cult images were involved in such processes of misinterpretation, both symbolically and materially. Pagan cultures for example deliberately misrepresented ancient ritual icons and incorporated new meanings to the mythical substratum, thus modifying the myth’s original meanings and bringing about a profound change to existing religious paradigms. Iconotropy is a fundamental concept in religious history, particularly of contexts in which religious changes, often turbulent, took place. At the same time, the iconotropic process of appropriating cult images brought with it changes in the materiality of those images...The conference hopes to generate new research questions and creative synergies by initiating conversation and the exchange of ideas among scholars in the arts and humanities.

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• 15 mai 2016

  Issoire

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Speaking, shouting and singing. The voice of the Roman age

  26th international conference of Roman art

  La voix, composante omniprésente et pourtant si difficile à saisir de la réalité médiévale, a été retenue comme thématique pour la vingt-sixième édition du colloque d’Issoire qui se déroulera les 21 et 22 octobre 2016. Longtemps réservée aux musicologues, l’étude de la voix concerne en réalité tous les champs de la médiévistique. Si elle reste inaccessible dans son expérience, la voix des hommes et des femmes du Moyen Âge résonne encore dans les sources iconographiques, épigraphiques, littéraires et liturgiques, mais aussi dans la documentation diplomatique et les textes narratifs. Il s’agit d’aborder les empreintes de l’oralité dans les productions – textuelles et matérielles, quotidiennes et artistiques – de l’époque romane.

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