Laura Tillery
Laura Tillery is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Art & Media Studies at NTNU, where she researches extraterritorial fifteenth-century carved and painted altarpieces in Norway, Denmark, and Southern Sweden. She holds a Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania (2018).
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An ICMA-sponsored session at International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 8-11 May 2020
The field of medieval studies recently denounced White Nationalism’s misuse and misappropriation of Scandinavian Norse mythology and the Viking era as a constructed ideal of a (white) medieval Europe. Indeed, premodern Scandinavia was a global enterprise dependent on the interactions, transactions, and mobility of many cultures and religions. This panel seeks to examine the cross-regional and -cultural connections of premodern Scandinavian art and architecture in a global context.
Not only is understanding medieval Scandinavian art important for addressing such outstanding misrepresentations today, but extant Scandinavian objects can provide valuable information about the medieval world broadly. For example, there remains a rich corpus of painted altar frontals and sculptures preserved in modern-day Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, despite the fact that such extant objects from medieval Scandinavia remain on the margins of scholarship. In this panel we aim to explore how medieval Scandinavian art and architecture contribute to our wider knowledge of the medieval world. We are especially keen on papers that promote interregional artistic relationships, as well as issues of race and identity in Scandinavia in the Middle Ages.
We conceive of Scandinavia broadly, including Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, as well as the Baltic and North Sea areas, and we define the Middle Ages in Scandinavia from the Viking Age through the sixteenth century. We welcome papers across geographic, temporal, and material contexts that address Scandinavian artistic and visual cultures in the Middle Ages. Materials may include, but are not limited to: architecture, sculpture, maps, manuscripts, woodcuts, and the visual arts of liturgy and pilgrimage.
Participants in ICMA-sponsored sessions must be ICMA members and may also be eligible to receive travel funds, generously provided by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. For more information please see: http://www.medievalart.org/kress-travel-grant.
Please send paper proposals of 300 words to the Chair of the ICMA Programs Committee, Beth Williamson (beth.williamson@bristol.ac.uk), and the co-organizers Ingrid Lunnan Nødseth (Ingrid.nodseth@ntnu.no) and Laura Tillery (laura.tillery@ntnu.no) by 3 September 2019, together with a short C.V., and a completed Participant Information Form, to be found at the following address: https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/submissions#papers.
Please include your name, title, and affiliation on the abstract itself. All abstracts not accepted for the session will be forwarded to the Congress administration for consideration in general sessions, as per Congress regulations.
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Like the Greverade family, Lübeck’s mercantile elite also used altarpieces to self-fashion themselves. Lübeck, as the leading member of the Hanse trade organization, was connected to mercantile ports in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and Estonia. By the end of the fifteenth-century, Lübeck prevailed as a major center of artistic production and exchange in northern Europe; carved and painted altarpieces and wooden sculpture were commissioned, produced, and transported across the Hanse region in and out of Lübeck. This paper examines the corporate patronage of altarpieces by urban associations in fifteenth-century Lübeck. Lübeck’s community was socially organized into mercantile and civic companies, confraternities, and guilds, which performed annual processions, served in the civic government, and commissioned works for private chapels. In my paper, I look at the altarpieces produced for merchant spaces in Lübeck—spaces for the interwoven viewing communities of local merchant and civic leaders—in order to assess how these works trace trade connections and assert civic identity.
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Calling all Grad Students! New Initiatives Competition, due 30 September 2020
September 3, 2020
Calling all Grad Students! New Initiatives Competition!
The ICMA is eager to serve the needs of our expanding community (memberships are at a record high!). To this end, we have created a New Initiatives Working Group (NIWG). The NIWG seeks to progress how the ICMA facilitates professional gatherings, encourages international public engagement with medieval art, and supports scholarly study and outreach strategies in both the real and virtual worlds. We want to hear your ideas about what we can do in the coming months and years to help our members and the field of medieval art history.
Recognizing that graduate students are the future of the field and often have creative approaches to intellectual and professional life, we are holding a competition for the best initiative idea. Dream big!
If you are a graduate student, please submit your suggestion here, where you will find a slot for a 150-word description of your idea. Deadline: September 30, 2020. You must be an ICMA member. Only one entry per person. The NIWG will assess the proposals based on originality, viability, and relevance to the field.
The winner will be notified by November 30, 2020 and will receive 400 USD as an expression of our gratitude. No further involvement is required of the winner beyond the idea submission.
Beyond this competition, we welcome ideas from across the ICMA membership. Please go to “ACTION” on the ICMA website and you will find a link for the New Initiatives Working Group.
Best wishes,
The ICMA New Initiatives Working Group
Debra Strickland (Chair)
Laura Tillery
Francesca dell'Acqua
James Sigman
Kathryn Gerry
Sherry Lindquist
https://www.medievalart.org/icma-news/2020/9/3/calling-all-grad-students-new-initiatives-competition-due-30-september-2020
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An ICMA-sponsored session at International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 8-11 May 2020
The field of medieval studies recently denounced White Nationalism’s misuse and misappropriation of Scandinavian Norse mythology and the Viking era as a constructed ideal of a (white) medieval Europe. Indeed, premodern Scandinavia was a global enterprise dependent on the interactions, transactions, and mobility of many cultures and religions. This panel seeks to examine the cross-regional and -cultural connections of premodern Scandinavian art and architecture in a global context.
Not only is understanding medieval Scandinavian art important for addressing such outstanding misrepresentations today, but extant Scandinavian objects can provide valuable information about the medieval world broadly. For example, there remains a rich corpus of painted altar frontals and sculptures preserved in modern-day Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, despite the fact that such extant objects from medieval Scandinavia remain on the margins of scholarship. In this panel we aim to explore how medieval Scandinavian art and architecture contribute to our wider knowledge of the medieval world. We are especially keen on papers that promote interregional artistic relationships, as well as issues of race and identity in Scandinavia in the Middle Ages.
We conceive of Scandinavia broadly, including Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, as well as the Baltic and North Sea areas, and we define the Middle Ages in Scandinavia from the Viking Age through the sixteenth century. We welcome papers across geographic, temporal, and material contexts that address Scandinavian artistic and visual cultures in the Middle Ages. Materials may include, but are not limited to: architecture, sculpture, maps, manuscripts, woodcuts, and the visual arts of liturgy and pilgrimage.
Participants in ICMA-sponsored sessions must be ICMA members and may also be eligible to receive travel funds, generously provided by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. For more information please see: http://www.medievalart.org/kress-travel-grant.
Please send paper proposals of 300 words to the Chair of the ICMA Programs Committee, Beth Williamson (beth.williamson@bristol.ac.uk), and the co-organizers Ingrid Lunnan Nødseth (Ingrid.nodseth@ntnu.no) and Laura Tillery (laura.tillery@ntnu.no) by 3 September 2019, together with a short C.V., and a completed Participant Information Form, to be found at the following address: https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/submissions#papers.
Please include your name, title, and affiliation on the abstract itself. All abstracts not accepted for the session will be forwarded to the Congress administration for consideration in general sessions, as per Congress regulations.
Like the Greverade family, Lübeck’s mercantile elite also used altarpieces to self-fashion themselves. Lübeck, as the leading member of the Hanse trade organization, was connected to mercantile ports in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and Estonia. By the end of the fifteenth-century, Lübeck prevailed as a major center of artistic production and exchange in northern Europe; carved and painted altarpieces and wooden sculpture were commissioned, produced, and transported across the Hanse region in and out of Lübeck. This paper examines the corporate patronage of altarpieces by urban associations in fifteenth-century Lübeck. Lübeck’s community was socially organized into mercantile and civic companies, confraternities, and guilds, which performed annual processions, served in the civic government, and commissioned works for private chapels. In my paper, I look at the altarpieces produced for merchant spaces in Lübeck—spaces for the interwoven viewing communities of local merchant and civic leaders—in order to assess how these works trace trade connections and assert civic identity.
Calling all Grad Students! New Initiatives Competition, due 30 September 2020
September 3, 2020
Calling all Grad Students! New Initiatives Competition!
The ICMA is eager to serve the needs of our expanding community (memberships are at a record high!). To this end, we have created a New Initiatives Working Group (NIWG). The NIWG seeks to progress how the ICMA facilitates professional gatherings, encourages international public engagement with medieval art, and supports scholarly study and outreach strategies in both the real and virtual worlds. We want to hear your ideas about what we can do in the coming months and years to help our members and the field of medieval art history.
Recognizing that graduate students are the future of the field and often have creative approaches to intellectual and professional life, we are holding a competition for the best initiative idea. Dream big!
If you are a graduate student, please submit your suggestion here, where you will find a slot for a 150-word description of your idea. Deadline: September 30, 2020. You must be an ICMA member. Only one entry per person. The NIWG will assess the proposals based on originality, viability, and relevance to the field.
The winner will be notified by November 30, 2020 and will receive 400 USD as an expression of our gratitude. No further involvement is required of the winner beyond the idea submission.
Beyond this competition, we welcome ideas from across the ICMA membership. Please go to “ACTION” on the ICMA website and you will find a link for the New Initiatives Working Group.
Best wishes,
The ICMA New Initiatives Working Group
Debra Strickland (Chair)
Laura Tillery
Francesca dell'Acqua
James Sigman
Kathryn Gerry
Sherry Lindquist
https://www.medievalart.org/icma-news/2020/9/3/calling-all-grad-students-new-initiatives-competition-due-30-september-2020