CONF: Material Memory and the Provenances of Medieval Artefacts (TU Berlin – 3/4 Sept 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…
CONF: The Sailing Stones. Stone Trade in Waterscapes: The Adriatic Basin in Comparative Perspective (Pula, Archaeological Museum of Istria / online – 26-27 June 2026)
The conference explores the extraction, trade, and utilization of building stone in the Early Modern Adriatic basin and its interconnected river networks. The forum investigates a dynamic “waterscape” ecosystem where raw blocks, ready-made…
CONF: Journées du réseau des collections d’Antiquités orientales en France (Louvre / INHA, Paris – 29-30 June 2026)
À l’occasion du lancement du Réseau des Antiquités orientales en France (RAoF), le département des Antiquités orientales du musée du Louvre, en sa qualité de grand département patrimonial pour l’art et l’archéologie du…
CONF: The Contemporary Art System and Its Mediators: Women Gallery Owners in Brazil (1947–2000) (5 June 2026)
Online conference by Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni, Full Professor at the University of São Paulo, and fellow for a one-month in writing residency (USP-HERMES/MATRIMOINES) in June 2026 at the Paris IAS as part of…
CONF: Looted Art and the Art Market: Nazi Art Theft in Belgium, Europe, and Its Aftermath (Brussels, 11–12 June 2026)
On 11-12 June 2026, the Royal Museums of Fine Art of Belgium will host an international conference entitled Looted Art and the Art Market: Nazi Art Theft in Belgium, Europe, and Its Aftermath. Bringing…
CONF: Looted Art and the Art Market: Nazi Art Theft in Belgium, Europe, and Its Aftermath (Brussels, 11–12 June 2026)
On 11-12 June 2026, the Royal Museums of Fine Art of Belgium will host an international conference entitled Looted Art and the Art Market: Nazi Art Theft in Belgium, Europe, and Its Aftermath. Bringing…
CONF: Art and Archives between Algeria and France (St Andrews, 24 Apr 26)
Entangled Histories: Art and Archives between Algeria and France, c.1945 to the Present. This Research Seminar Study Day brings together five scholars whose work is at the centre of recent investigations into the…
CONF: Revolutions, Art, and the Market Conference (Sotheby’s Institute of Art, 4-5 June 2026)
A conference exploring how revolutions have affected the consumption of art, and facilitated the emergence of new art market practices Art market trends and practices, whether historical or contemporary, are affected by networks…
CONF: “Hermeneutics of Restitution, Reparation, and Redress: The Case of Cultural Property” (University of Bonn, 9 Apr 2026)
“Hermeneutics of Restitution, Reparation, and Redress: The Case of Cultural Property” This conference aims to explore the – seminal – question of how to react adequately to the damages from dependency relations, in…