On Friday 13 May 2016, the IAS held a reception at the International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo from 5:15 to 6:45 pm in Room 1005 of the Fetzer Center. More information.

The IAS sponsored two sessions on the theme of New Perspectives on Medieval Rome. See the flyer.

Sessions Sponsored by the Italian Art Society

Session Title: New Perspectives on Medieval Rome I
Fetzer 1010
Friday, May 13, 2016, 1:30-3:00pm
Organizers: Marius B. Hauknes, Johns Hopkins University, and Alison Locke Perchuk, California State University Channel Islands
Presider: Alison Locke Perchuk, California State University Channel Islands
Speakers/Papers:
Catherine Carver, University of Michigan, “Bound By Nolli? Cartography and Mapping Medieval Rome”
Hendrik Dey, Hunter College/CUNY, “Porticoes and Papal Ceremony at Rome: The Via Triumphalis in the Middle Ages”
John Lansdowne, Princeton University, “Image in Fragments: The Mosaic Man of Sorrows at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome”

Session Title: New Perspectives on Medieval Rome II
Fetzer 2020
Friday, May 13, 2016, 3:30-5:00pm
Organizers: Marius B. Hauknes, Johns Hopkins University, and Alison Locke Perchuk, California State University Channel Islands
Presider: Marius B. Hauknes, Johns Hopkins University
Speakers/Papers:
Giuseppa Zanichelli, Università di Salerno, “Female Patronage in Rome in the Eleventh Century”
Angelica Federici, Cambridge University, “Female Religious Patronage in Late Medieval Rome, ca. 1200–1400”
Christiane Elster, Bibliotheca Hertziana, “Papal Textile Gifts in the Late Thirteenth Century—Objects, Actors, Functions”
Erik Inglis, Oberlin College, “Art Historical Experience in Medieval Rome”