Lecture: Thomas Rainer: Moved by Books: Ornament, Movement and Musical Recitation in an Interreligious Perspective on Sacred Scripture (Lyon, 24.06.2024)

36th Congress of the Comité Internationale d’Historie de l’Art, Session The Materiality of Pious Texts: The Qur’an and Devotional Manuscripts, organized by Alya Karame and Umberto Bongianino, June 23-28, 2024, Lyon. For more

Lecture: Thomas Rainer: Purple Writing: The Depiction of Inks for Sacred Scripture in the Carolingian Gospels (Mainz, 18.06.2024)

International Conference Creating Holiness: Books, Scrolls and Icons as Carriers of Sacredness, organized by Annett Martini, June 17-24, 2024, Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz. For more

Lecture: Thomas Rainer: Baselitz avant la Lettre: Orthography turned upside down in an Einsiedeln manuscript of the 10th century (Basel, 12.06.2024)

Primary Source Workshop Breaking Visual Traditions in Pre-Modernity, organized by Masha Goldin, June 12, 2024, University of Basel, eikones. Center for the Theory und History of the Image. For more

Lecture: Thomas Rainer: Under Purple Skies. Dyes and Skies in Ottonian Manuscripts (Paris, 24.05.2024)

Colloque international La Couleur : matière, technique, perception. 23 et 24 Mai 2024, Paris, Institut national d’histoire de l’art et Bibliothèque nationale de France. For more

Lecture: Thomas Rainer: The Gender of Purple Manuscripts and the Makeup of Sacred Scriptures (San Antonio, Texas, 20.11.2023)

SCRIPT session Gender and Sacred Text(ure)s at the annual AAR/SBL conference, November 18-21, San Antonio, Texas, organized by Marianne Schleicher and James Watts. For more

Lecture: Thomas Rainer: Imagining Religious Identity and Difference through Book Formats: Scrolls and Codices in Judaism and Christianity. (Philadelphia, 18.11.2023)

Conference: The Image of the Book. Representing the Codex from Antiquity to the Present. 16th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. November 16-18, Kislak Center Penn Libraries and Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. For more

Lecture: Thomas Rainer: Colores purpurae. Zur Vielfarbigkeit des Purpurschmucks in karolingischen und ottonischen Prachthandschriften (Berlin, 30.06.2022)

Workshop: Leuchtendes Dunkel. Gefärbte Seiten als materielles und zirkulierendes Phänomen, organised by Karin Gludovatz und Marie Hartmann, Research Area 2: “Travelling Matters”, Project “Visual Translations – Material Transformations”, FU Berlin, 30.06.2022. For more

Lecture: Thomas Rainer: Jonas und der Kürbis. Sagt ein Bild mehr als tausend Worte? Zum Verhältnis von Bild, Übersetzung und Deutung Heiliger Schrift (Stuttgart, 24.05.2022)

Wissenschaftliche Begleittagung zur Ausstellung “Bild-fromm? Sehen, Erkennen, Glauben… Die Bibel in Bildern”, Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, 23.-24.05.2022. For more