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From: Erik Thuno <[email protected]>
Date: Mar 21, 2015
Subject: CFP: Convivium, supplementum 2016, theme issue: The South
Caucasus

Deadline: Jun 1, 2015

CFP: Theme issue: The South Caucasus
Supplementum 2016 of the journal Convivium. Exchanges and Interactions
in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean.
Seminarium Kondakovianum Series Nova
Deadline: June 1st, 2015
Convivium, theme issue, June 2016 – Call for Papers
Theme: The South Caucasus

The canon of medieval and Byzantine art and architecture, as currently
shaped by a Euro-American art history, only rarely incorporates any of
the rich artistic achievements of the South Caucasus. While church
architecture and book illumination of medieval Armenia have attracted
some scholarly attention, the monuments of Georgia, not to mention
those of former early Christian Albania (now in the Republic of
Azerbaidjan), remain obscure to even specialists in the field. As a
whole, the South Caucasus continues to be entirely peripheral to the
Euro-American discourse, and when included, the region is typically
relegated to the status of a provincial off-shoot of the Byzantine
Empire. The purpose of the present volume is to call attention to the
medieval art and architecture of the South Caucasus which has for too
long remained inaccessible, skewed by patriotic and racial approaches
and, over the last two centuries, perceived and interpreted as part of
the Russian and Soviet Empires. While addressing these
historiographical issues, we want to propose the South Caucasus, not as
a periphery, but as a region in its own right that is worthy of a
central place in the current discourse. Whereas in recent years the
study of Mediterranean culture has become a leading trend within
medieval art history due to an increased interest in travel, transfer,
and cultural and artistic encounters across borders and religious
traditions, few are aware that, as a historical buffer zone between
Europe and Asia, connecting those continents through the Black Sea and
the Silk Road, Southern Caucasia is well appointed to offer new
materials and directions to such on-going explorations. In contrast to
Carl Schnaase , who in his Geschichte der bildenen Künste im
Mittelalter (1843-61) found the continuous oppression  of the South
Caucasus by foreign powers incompatible with the creation of a proper
artistic culture, it could be precisely this multi-colored history -
blending Christian with Sassanid, Islamic and Mongolian traditions -
that makes the region a promising area for research within a globalized
art history.

We welcome papers on topics that may concentrate on but be not limited
to:
-    Historiography (i.e. the discovery of the region by early European
travelers; the impact of patriotism and politics; the western/Byzantine
perspective: center versus periphery; the Russian perspective).
-    Specific case studies of Albanian, Armenian or Georgian monuments
(architecture, manuscripts, icons, monumental decorations, etc) with
attention to historiography and recent methodologies.
-    South Caucasus and medieval art history today (i.e.
multiculturalism; cultural transfer, travel, and object exchange; canon
and chronology; center versus periphery; South Caucasus as a region in
relation to Asia, Europe and  Russia).
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The theme issue The South Caucasus will be edited and curated by Ivan
Foletti (editor in chief of Convivium), Ass. prof. from the University
of Brno and Maître Assistant of the University of Lausanne, and Prof.
Erik Thunø from Rutgers University.

Convivium is a new high quality peer-reviewed academic journal which
restarts and continues the glorious Seminarium Kondakovianum, the
journal of the institute founded in memory of Nikodim Kondakov in 1927,
which represented the desire to maintain and deepen Kondakov’s
pioneering scholarly work in Byzantine and medieval studies, celebrated
not only in the Russian and Czech worlds but also in western Europe.
Convivium covers an extended chronological range, from the Early
Christian period until the end of the Middle Ages, which in central
Europe lasted well beyond the Renaissance in Italy. Equally vast is the
range of subjects it treats. Whereas its central concern remains art
history, that is, whatever pertains to images, monuments, the forms of
visual and aesthetic experience, it also includes many disciplines tied
to art history in the deepest sense: anthropology, liturgy,
archaeology, historiography and, obviously, history itself. The goal is
to ensure that the journal provides a 360º opening onto the field and
the research methods being deployed in it.
http://www.earlymedievalstudies.com/convivium.html

Submission:
Please submit your abstract (300 words max) before June 1st, 2015.
Deadline for the essay will be January 31, 2016. Abstracts should be
sent to:

Ivan Foletti ([email protected])
Erik Thunø ([email protected])

Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Convivium, supplementum 2016, theme issue: The South Caucasus. In:
H-ArtHist, Mar 21, 2015. <http://arthist.net/archive/9786>.

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