{"id":2534,"date":"2026-06-09T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/byz\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2026-06-09T20:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:20:07","slug":"cfp-the-art-of-the-choir-in-the-medieval-and-early-modern-mediterranean-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/byz\/cfp-the-art-of-the-choir-in-the-medieval-and-early-modern-mediterranean-world\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"CFP &#8211; The Art of the Choir in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>The Art of the Choir in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean World<\/strong><br \/>\n\ud83d\udccd Nicosia &amp; Online<br \/>\n\ud83d\udcc5 4\u20136 June 2027<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Cyprus invites proposals for an international hybrid conference exploring the display, performance, and experience of art in choir spaces across the Mediterranean between c. 1000 and 1600.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Bringing together scholars of the Latin West and the Byzantine East, the conference encourages comparative perspectives on how liturgy, artistic expression, devotional practice, and cultural exchange shaped the sacred space of the choir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\ud83c\udfa4 Keynote speakers:<br \/>\n\u2022 Prof. Donal Cooper (University of Cambridge)<br \/>\n\u2022 Prof. Sharon Gerstel (UCLA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Topics include:<br \/>\n\u25aa Liturgical and paraliturgical uses of church choirs<br \/>\n\u25aa Choir furnishings and ritual<br \/>\n\u25aa Movement and access within choir precincts<br \/>\n\u25aa Display of relics and images<br \/>\n\u25aa Pilgrimage<br \/>\n\u25aa Digital approaches to the study of sacred space<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\ud83d\udcc4 Submit an abstract of c. 300 words for a 20-minute paper in English by <strong>30 September 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\ud83d\udce7 Send submissions to:<br \/>\nMichalis Olympios \u2013 <a href=\"mailto:olympios.michalis@ucy.ac.cy\">olympios.michalis@ucy.ac.cy<\/a><br \/>\nMaria Parani \u2013 <a href=\"mailto:parani.maria@ucy.ac.cy\">parani.maria@ucy.ac.cy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u2714 Hybrid format<br \/>\n\u2714 No registration fee<\/p>\n<p>For full details, please consult the accompanying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/byz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2026\/06\/Medieval-Early-Modern-Choir_CFP.pdf\">Call for Papers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Art of the Choir in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean World \ud83d\udccd Nicosia &amp; Online \ud83d\udcc5 4\u20136 June 2027 The Department of History and<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":2538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"modified_by":"mparani","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 14:31:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/byz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/byz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/byz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/byz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/byz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/byz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2536,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/byz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions\/2536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/byz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/byz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/byz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/byz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}