CFP: AI: The Death of Culture or Just Another Technology?
2026 Global Cultural Management ForumShanghai Jiao Tong University | Shanghai, China | 22–24 May 2026 OverviewAs artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, and the discourses that legitimise, contest, and govern them, circulate globally, the cultural…
CFP: Who Cares? Collecting, Preserving, and Curating (Krems, 1-3 Jul 26)
DAC (Department for Art and Cultural Studies) Summer School 2026: “Who Cares? Collecting, preserving, and curating in museums, archives, and organizations” at the University for Continuing Education Krems, July 1-3, 2026. Chairs:– Department for…
CFP: Collecting to Shape and Reflect the Nation (London, 22-23 Oct 26)
“Collecting to Shape and Reflect the Nation: Changing Museum Strategies from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century”. The Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) and the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (GNM) are collaborating to organize a…
CFP: Transnational Artistic Relations in the Cold War Era (Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, 25 Nov 2026)
The Cold War was an overriding force that profoundly shaped the conditions under which artists, curators, and cultural institutions could establish and maintain international contacts. While the global landscape was complex, the metaphor…
CFP: Collections et marché de l’art au XIXe siècle (Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris – 26 June 2026)
Le petit mobilier qui circule sur le marché de l’art au XIXe siècle et peuple nombre de collections publiques et privées constitue une catégorie hétérogène : dimensions, matériaux, techniques, usages et provenances sont…
CFP: Material Memory and the Provenances of Medieval Artefacts (TU Berlin, 3-4 September 2026)
Objects record their material pasts: A medieval manuscript’s parchment pages, for instance, retain traces of animal bodies and thus reflect their physical source. Similarly, varying states of silver corrosion and shades of gold…
CFP: Challenges in provenance research and art restitution (Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, 30 Nov-1 Dec 2026)
The signing of the Washington Declaration in 1998 marked the beginning of a new phase in the examination of the Nazi era – in particular, the confiscation of art and cultural assets as…
CFP: transfer – Zeitschrift für Provenienzforschung und Sammlungsgeschichte / Journal for Provenance Research and the History of Collection
The online journal transfer is an academic publication platform in the area of provenance research and the history of collection as well as adjacent fields of investigation, like art market studies, reception history,…
CFP: Annual Conference 2026: (Re)Positioning Provenance Research – Changed Frameworks – New Challenges?
The Annual Conference of the Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V. will will take place in Hanover from 3 to 5 November. The new German „Court of Arbitration for Nazi-Looted Cultural Property“, which began its work…