Registration is now open for the 2022 Panizzi Lecture series organized by the British Library: Drawing Conclusions: Diagrams in Medieval Art and Thought. The lectures will be given by Jeffrey Hamburger. They will be held in person at the British Library and also live streamed. Booking is free but required for both in person and online attendance. Lecture 1 : 24th October 2022. Maps of the Mind: Diagrams Medieval and Modern Lecture 2 : 27th October 2022. The Codex in the Classroom: Practical Dimensions of Medieval Diagrams Lecture 3: 1st November 2022. Poetry, Play, Persuasion: The Diagrammatic Imagination in Medieval Art and Thought […]
As a result of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the country’s libraries, archives, museums and monuments are endangered too. Several assistance programmes have been set up in Poland to support the authorities and staff in their efforts to protect the collections. The Institute of History at the Jagiellonian University was the first to initiate fundraising events and organize aid for the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv: https://historia.uj.edu.pl/aktualnosci/-/journal_content/56_INSTANCE_3rfgiHChJ2me/11050764/150121156 A Committee on the Aid for the Museums of Ukraine was established simultaneously: https://www.facebook.com/MuzealnicyDlaUkrainy/ and https://twitter.com/MuzeaUkrainie. The aim of the Committee is to help secure, inventory, and digitize the collections, […]