Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce that our Liber Amicorum is launched! You can read it on the Internet Archive, free of charge: https://archive.org/details/2022-ses-liber-amicorum/mode/2up The book comprises over 50 emblems, submitted by members and friends of the Society, as well as 13 studies published in our Emblem of the Month section, on our website….

Dear Colleague, We are pleased to inform you that the registration process for the  12th International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies-Muta Poesis, Pictura loquens is open. The Conference will be held in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra (Portugal), from 25 to 30 July 2022. We received proposals from 33 different countries, spread across the 5…

History will probably remember Margaret M. McGowan primarily as a historian of dance, and her interdisciplinary approach brought new rigour and depth to that area of study. Yet her research interests, while always founded in this same interdisciplinary approach, extended much more widely. She published, both as author and editor, on central areas of French…

We are very sad to announce that Prof. Christine McCall Probes, born on April 16th 1943, passed away on November 14th 2021. In 1975 she joined the University of South Florida, and in 2008 she was promoted to full Professor of French Literature. Christine Probes was decorated Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the…

The SES mourns the loss of a senior scholar in our field, Professor Wolfgang Harms, Munich.  Since 1979 he served as a professor of German literature at the University of Munich, where he continued to teach and conduct research after his retirement in 2004.  With a keen eye for topics that crossed epochs and cultures,…

Cramer’s Emblemata Sacra in Ørum, Denkmark Daniel Cramer’s Emblemata Sacra is the frequently most used emblem book in Protestant churches. His emblems are found in Brandenburg and North German churches. Emblemata Sacra was particularly extensively used in Denmark, as Carsten Bach Nielsen showed.[1] In the area around the town of Skive are, for example, 13 village…

2022 International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 09 – 14, 2022)  – ONLINE  Hosted by the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, the International Congress on Medieval Studies is an annual gathering of thousands of scholars interested in medieval studies. The Congress embraces the study of all aspects of Middle Ages, extending to into late antiquity…

Benedictine stabilitas in the design of the Abbey of Benedictine Nuns in Staniątki There are places on the map of Benedictine abbeys where, due to rich emblematic design, the choice of a single element of this design can cause a considerable headache to researchers and enthusiasts of the topic. The emblem I chose can be…

[English below] Sprache – Bild – Raum. Angewandte Emblematik in der visuellen Kultur Norddeutschlands, Südschwedens und Dänemarks vom 16. bis 18. Jahrhundert (Prof. Dr. Iris Wenderholm, Dr. Christina Kuhli, Universität Hamburg) Das Projekt interessiert sich für die Frage, welchen Stellenwert die angewandte Emblematik im westlichen Ostseeraum zwischen dem 16. und 18. Jh. für die Entstehung…

Dublin, 30 March-2 April 2022 The Discipline of Emblem Studies invites papers and panels for its sessions at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America conference in Dublin, 30 March-2 April 2022. We may submit up to four panels. We invite papers and panels on any subject appropriate to our discipline and especially…