CFP: Collections and Impermanence: Transfer, Exchange and Disposal, Society for the History of Collecting (London/Online 17 Nov 2022)
The history of collecting is the history of objects on the move. Objects collected travel through space – sold, transferred, exchanged, loaned, gifted and stolen throughout the world. They also travel through time…
CFP: Spectacular Devices: Visual, Literary and Material Cultures of Wonder in the Long 19th Century (Univ. of Lausanne, 1-2 Dec 2022)
This conference aims at investigating, through the prism of interdisciplinarity, values, criteria and modalities governing the representations of wonder, astonishment, and spectacular approaches in the visual culture of the long 19th century. Particular…
CFP: Presences and Processes in Latin American Sculpture (College Park, 26-27 Oct 2022)
Re·cast / Re·fundiciones: Presences and Processes in Latin American Sculpture College Park, Maryland, 26–27 Oct 2022Deadline: 15 Aug 2022
CFP: Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Spring issue 2023
Founded in 2002, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (NCAW) is a scholarly, refereed, open-access journal devoted to studying the art of the long nineteenth-century, from the American and French Revolutions to the outbreak of World…
CFP: Rubens in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Antwerp, 9-10 Feb 2023)
Rubens was one of the first Flemish masters who engaged with reproducibility to distribute his oeuvre to a broader audience. After his death, reproductions of his work gradually multiplied, as did the (private)…
CFP: Vilhelms Purvītis in the Landscape of European Art, Time and Legacy (Art Academy of Latvia, Riga / online, 16 Sep 2022)
In the series of 150th anniversary events since the birth of Latvian painter Vilhelms Purvītis (1872–1945), the Art Academy of Latvia (AAL) in collaboration with the Latvian National Museum of Art (LNMA) will…
CFP: Signs with Symbolic Character. Collections as a Mirror of Social Values (Munich, 4 Nov 2022)
The Art History Department of the University of Munich (LMU) is organising a one-day workshop during the first network meeting of the Transuniversity Doctoral Forum of Provenance Research (TPP) in Munich. This workshop…
CFP: Variety, Variation, Multiplication in Premodern Art (TU Berlin, 13-15 Apr 2023)
Printed images and moulded artworks have one thing in common: they refer to an “original form” to which they stand in a complex relationship. Produced in a mechanical process with the help of…
CFP: What’s a Collection Nowadays? / Qu’est-ce qu’une collection aujourd’hui ? (Univ. de Montréal / Ecole du Louvre, Paris/online, 17-21 Oct 22)
Le groupe de recherche CIÉCO et l’École du Louvre s’associent pour l’organisation du colloque inaugural du Partenariat (CRSH 2021-2028) sur « les nouveaux usages des collections dans les musées d’art ». Le colloque réunira…