We are looking for highly motivated, competent and organised people to join our team! The Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture (IMAREAL) in Krems an der Donau has a vacancy for a research and teaching position. The position on offer is for a Senior Scientist [link] specialising in the archaeology of the Middle
Two lecture series in the summer semester of 2026 offered insights into IMAREAL’s research perspective on intermateriality: In the series “Hülle. Materialität | Medialität | Wirkung. Organische Oberflächen in der Vormoderne,” organized by the Division of Older German Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt, Isabella Nicka spoke on “Holzoberflächen im Blick – Intermateriale Aushandlungen im Bild”
Within the research perspective “Intermateriality,” the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture (IMAREAL), a research institute of the University of Salzburg based in Krems an der Donau, Austria, invites applications for a six-week research fellowship to be held between October 2026 and January 2027.
At this year’s International Medieval Congress in Leeds (UK) taking place from July 6 to 9, 2026, IMAREAL will be represented with two sessions and a reception: Starting in September 2026, Elisabeth Gruber will take over as coordinator of the “Daily Life” strand, joining the IMC Leeds Programming Committee. She will succeed Gerhard Jaritz in this role, a well-established
The international conference “When Materials Meet. Intermateriality in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period” took place from 2–4 March 2026 at the Haus der Regionen in Krems an der Donau, Austria. Bringing together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and countries, the conference explored current approaches to intermateriality and fostered stimulating discussions
The bronze doors that survive to this day are the only complex of monumental bronzes from the European Middle Ages that has survived intact. Most of them date from the 11th and 12th centuries and are located in Italy. The doors were crafted from a variety of copper alloys using the lost wax process.
Bei einem internationalen Workshop in Krems/Stein am 24. März 2025 lud das IMAREAL Expert*innen im Bereich von Linked Open Data zur Diskussion ein. Im Zentrum stand die Frage, wie Datenbestände zu historischen Quellen in unterschiedlichen Medien für übergreifende Fragen verknüpft und damit unterschiedliche Wissensdomänen für ein umfassenderes Reasoning zusammengeschlossen werden können.
Together with Martin Knoll (European Regional History, University of Salzburg), Thomas Kühtreiber and Sabine Miesgang (IMAREAL, first-FV Regionalitäten) have organised a lecture series that will take place on Thursdays from 17:15 to 18:45 in HS 380 (Erika Weinzierl) at the University of Salzburg in the summer semester 2025. The invited speakers will look at ‘regions’ and ‘regionality’ in the context of mediality and social action.
Although the term ‘region’ implies exactly that, regions are not static entities that are sharply demarcated from their surroundings and exist autonomously. Rather, regions can be seen as spaces of condensed communication that enable the attribution of identities, as well as spaces of political and economic interests that are constituted through social action and represented and (re-)produced by the media.
Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage. Perspectives and Challenges International Conference Time: 19.–20. September 2024Place: Claudiana, Herzog Friedrich Straße, InnsbruckOrganized by: Christina Antenhofer, Elisabeth Gruber-Tokić, Gerald Hiebel, Ingrid Matschinegg, Claudia Posch, Gerhard Rampl, Elisabeth Tangerner Based on the ongoing work in two digital cultural heritage projects dealing with castle inventories (14th-18th century), the participants of
Registration for the conference by 8 September 2023 at: sekretariat.imareal@plus.ac.at The IZMF/IMAREAL conference 2023 is dedicated to the relationship between materiality and virtuality in the pre-modern era. Materiality and virtuality do not form an irreconcilable binary opposition, it is, in our view, their productive interaction that in fact gives rise to the fabrics of
