CFP / JOB: 70 Years of Holocaust Compensation and Restitution / Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowships (Tel Aviv University, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, and Yad Vashem)
On September 10, 1952, historical agreements were signed in Luxembourg between the government of Israel, the Conference on Jewish Materials Claims Against Germany, and the government of West Germany regarding the provision of…
CONF: Infrastructures of Producing, Transporting and Logistics in Transnational Perspective (online, 27-28 Oct 2021)
This workshop is part of the ongoing research project “(Un)Mapping Infrastructures. Transnational Perspectives in Modern and Contemporary Art”. The original meaning of “infrastructure” (from the Latin infra, and structura) refers to a substructure…
CONF: Digital Methods in History and Economics (University of Hamburg / zoom; 14-15 Oct 2021)
The application of digital methods is a fast-growing field in humanities, social sciences, and economics, influencing research practices within the different disciplines. This workshop, an integral part of DFG priority programme 1859 “Experience & Expectation: Historical…
CFP: Sammler*innen, Sammlung, Netz – Eine Tagung zu den Netzimplikationen von Sammlungspraxis und Sammlungsforschung (Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel; 30 Mar-1 Apr 2022)
Eine Sammlung trägt Objekte zusammen, verknüpft sie und spiegelt strukturell und funktional die Grundeigenschaft des Netzes. Mit Blick auf die Sammlungspraxis sind allenthalben Vernetzungsgeschehen zu beobachten. Gegenwärtig werden Objekte mit Hilfe moderner Technologien in…
CONF: Papers on Women Art Dealers at the 2021 Conference of the Association of Austrian Art Historians: “Great Female Art Historians” (online / Vienna 4-7 Nov 2021; in German)
Long before universities were open to them and long before their intellectual work was paid, they existed: Women who engage with art, participate in discourses about art, and play an important role as actors…
CONF: Provenance Research – Max Liebermann and His Network (Villa Liebermann / TU Berlin, online; 5 Nov 2021, 10:00-17:00 CET; in German)
Das durch das Deutsche Zentrum Kulturgutverluste geförderte Forschungsprojekt der Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee untersucht seit Dezember 2020 systematisch die Kunstsammlung der Max-Liebermann-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V. im Hinblick auf NS-verfolgungsbedingt entzogenes Kulturgut. Seit ihrer Gründung 1995 hat die Max-Liebermann-Gesellschaft eine Sammlung für…
CFP: Plunder: An Alternative History of Art – Session at AAH (London, Goldsmiths, University of London, 6-8 Apr 2022)
‘I place looting at the heart of the modern formation of what is called art, analyzing how it was obscured and transformed into the history of collecting.’ This session at The Association for…
CONF: The Long History of Claims for the Return of Cultural Heritage from Colonial Contexts (German Lost Art Foundation / online, 17-19 Nov 2021)
This year’s online conference of the German Lost Art Foundation (kulturgutverluste.de) – organized in cooperation with the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Research Center for Material Culture of the National Museum of World…
CONF: 100 Years of German-Russian Cultural Exchange: The First Russian Art Exhibition at the Galerie van Diemen Berlin in 1922 (Staatsbibliothek Berlin / Zoom; 15-16 Oct 2021)
The Russian Art & Culture Group would like to draw your attention to a forthcoming international conference on the First Russian Art Exhibition (Erste Russische Kunstausstellung) of 1922 in Berlin. The international conference,…