III MEETING OF MEDIEVAL ART RESEARCH. COSMOVISIONS: MEDIEVAL HERITAGE AND THE CONTEMPORARY ECOCRITICAL DEBATE May 29th and 30th, 2025 Cassiano Nunes Auditorium BCE By Flavia Galli Tatsch and Biagio D'Angelo

https://www.academia.edu/127869159/III_MEETING_OF_MEDIEVAL_ART_RESEARCH_COSMOVISIONS_MEDIEVAL_HERITAGE_AND_THE_CONTEMPORARY_ECOCRITICAL_DEBATE_May_29th_and_30th_2025_Cassiano_Nunes_Auditorium_BCE?nav_from=c381c28c-cb15-4765-9538-19722a440212 The Laboratory of Medieval Studies - LEME/UNIFESP - Art History Center of the School of Philosophy, Languages, and Human Sciences/EFLCH at the Federal University of São Paulo/UNIFESP and Art Institute of the University of Brasília/UNB organize the III Medieval Art Research Meeting: Cosmovisions: Medieval Heritage and the Contemporary Ecocritical Debate, on April 29th and 30th, 2025, in person at the Cassiano Nunes Auditorium, 1st basement – BCE, at the University of Brasília. Presentation “There’s so much we can still learn from the ancients about nature,” argues Serenella Iovino (In: Schliephake: 2017, p. 315). The objective of the III Medieval Art Research Meeting: Cosmovisions: Medieval Heritage and the Contemporary Ecocritical Debate is to contribute to contemporary environmental discussions from the perspective of medieval studies. We are, indeed, living through a clear ecological crisis, an Anthropocene characterized by the strong negative impact of humans on the cosmos and the earth in particular. In an article titled “Revealing Roots,” Iovino proposes that it would be crucial to incorporate “ancient cultures into the contemporary debate on environmental humanities” (op. cit.). Following the Italian researcher’s judgment, we believe that the ecological visions contained in medieval texts and images can be brought to the fore and interact with contemporary environmental concerns. Indeed, this reading allows us to uncover the “historical ecologies” that the Middle Ages, with all its richness, contains. This would also be an anachronistic reading that examines the modernity of the medieval era. Our goal is to reveal the ecological visions expressed in medieval images and texts and illustrate the discursive constructions of the relationships and boundaries between humans, non-humans, and nature that both images and texts propose and incorporate. What are the images and thoughts that shaped the “ecological visions” of medieval artists? From this anthropocentric or ecocentric perspective that informs the general views of nature in the Middle Ages, papers will be accepted on the following themes: 1. Nature as an environmental dimension in its strategies of representation. 2. Medieval cultural and intertextual forms that bring new ideas about Nature, especially in their contemporary and ecocritical approach. 3. The relationships of humans with “others than humans” (animals and plants); 4. What specific "Weltanschauung" during the Middle Ages, in the form of texts and images, helps to clarify the poetic decline of ecological visions. 5. The connection between culture and the physical world in the medieval scope. 6. The study of natural phenomena and the privileged place for “otium”. 7. Animals, plants, monsters, natural harmony, and environmental adversities in texts and images as a metaphor for life. Communication languages: Portuguese, Spanish, and English.