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SUMMARY:2011 International Congress on Medieval Studies
DESCRIPTION:Business Meeting\nThe IAS held its annual Kalamazoo business
  meeting at 12 noon on Friday\, May 13\, 2011\; minutes are available he
 re.\n\nThe Study of the Art and Architecture of Italy: A Reassessment of
  the Discipline: I-IV\n\n\nThese four linked sessions reconsidered funda
 mental assumptions underlying the current practice of medieval art histo
 ry\, including the temporal and geographic parameters bounding the study
  of “Italian medieval art\,” the methodological structures of the fi
 eld\, the influences of key figures on the development of the discipline
 \, and the privileged role of the urban environment in studies of the It
 alian peninsula. These sessions dovetailed with broader concerns current
  within the humanities\, including a shift toward new geographical divis
 ions\, investigations of formerly neglected time periods\, and a renewed
  engagement with the works of such pioneering scholars of medieval Itali
 an art as Bernard Berenson\, Arthur Kingsley Porter\, Josef Strzygowski\
 , Pietro Toesca\, and Aby Warburg\, and their successors\, including Ott
 o Demus\, Ernst Kitzinger\, Richard Krautheimer\, and Mario Salmi.\n\nFr
 om classical antiquity to the fifteenth century and beyond\, the study o
 f Italian art and architecture is locked into a narrative of continuity 
 and tradition\, disjunction and rupture. On a surface level\, a geograph
 ic association with the peninsula and islands governed by the modern Ita
 lian state unifies scholars of Italian art. Although defined at the base
  level by contemporary geopolitics\, this unity has historical depth in 
 that it responds to the centrifugal role played by the art of Italy in t
 he development of art history as a discipline and\, more recently\, to t
 he questioning of the privilege given to specific moments in Italian art
  within the formation of our discipline. These sessions arise from the c
 onviction that it is time to step back and examine critically the struct
 ures and methodologies of our field. What common elements of intellectua
 l inquiry may bind the scholar of Early Christian Rome with the scholar 
 of late medieval Florence? What points of intersection might exist betwe
 en studies of a medieval town in the Val d’Aosta\, Umbrian altarpieces
 \, and the Islamic presence in South Italy\, Corsica\, and Sicily? These
  sessions sought to address such broad thematic issues as spatial\, geog
 raphic\, and temporal assumptions\, historiography\, and methodology\, a
 s we asked\, What does it mean to be a historian of medieval Italian art
 ?\n\nOur four linked sessions proposed to address this question from fou
 r different thematic angles.\n\nReturn to IAS at Kalamazoo
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110512
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LOCATION:Michigan\, MI
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