Insular Art at the crossroads:
Ninth International Insular Art Conference
Durham University
April 5th-7th 2022
The International Insular Art Conference is the established forum for international scholars of the visual and material culture (e.g. manuscript illumination, sculpture, metalwork, textiles, etc.) of early medieval Ireland and Britain.
The theme of the 9th IIAC (Insular Art at the Crossroads) recognises that Durham and its antecedent at Lindisfarne stood at a social, cultural and artistic crossroads - looking north and west to Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, southwards towards the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of Mercia, Wessex and East Anglia, and across the North Sea to Scandinavia and north-west Europe. It is anticipated that papers will engage with this local, regional, national and international flow and exchange of art and design that so characterises the creative output of the Insular World.
Conference organiser: Dr David Petts, Department of Archaeology, Durham University
The theme of the 9th IIAC (Insular Art at the Crossroads) recognises that Durham and its antecedent at Lindisfarne stood at a social, cultural and artistic crossroads - looking north and west to Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, southwards towards the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of Mercia, Wessex and East Anglia, and across the North Sea to Scandinavia and north-west Europe. It is anticipated that papers will engage with this local, regional, national and international flow and exchange of art and design that so characterises the creative output of the Insular World.
Conference organiser: Dr David Petts, Department of Archaeology, Durham University