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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…
CFP: Museums and AI Cultural Heritage
Location: Loughborough University, UKDates: 26–27 November 2026Organizer: Dr Kathryn Brown (k.j.brown@lboro.ac.uk)Deadline for proposals: 24 July, 2026
ANN: Module I – Collections related to colonial contexts (Institute of Art History and Museology, University of Neuchâtel)
Dates 2026 August 28 and 29 – September 4, 5, 25 and 26 – October 2 and 3 2026 REGISTRATIONS OPEN Teaching languages: French and English Presentation
CFP: Collections of the Governors of the Habsburg Netherlands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Kyoto University of Arts – 22 Nov 26)
The main aim of this conference is to gain deeper insight into and develop a clearer understanding of the collections assembled by the governors of the Habsburg Netherlands, from Margaret of Austria to…
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…
ANN: “Who Cares: Collecting, preserving, and curating in museums, archives, and organizations” (DAC-Summer School 2026, Krems University – 1-3 July 2026)
We invite participants to explore discourses, practices, ethics, and politics of care in contexts of collecting, preserving, restoring, curating, interpreting, and managing or organizing, by asking:
CFA: François Daulte-Scholarship (Musée Fabre, Montpellier)
Since 2017, the Fabre Museum has housed the “François Daulte” collection, comprising the archives of the art historian, author of, among other works, the first catalogue raisonné of Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870). This collection…
CFA: Alma Rosé-Preis für die Erforschung der Geschichte der Verfolgten des Nationalsozialismus und der Geschichte ihrer materiellen Verluste und Entziehungen (Vienna University)
Ausgeschrieben von der Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien, suchen wir Abschlussarbeiten zur Provenienzforschung bzw. der Verfolgten des Nationalsozialismus und der Geschichte ihrer materiellen Verluste und Entziehungen. Der Alma Rosé-Preis ist mit 1000 Euro…
ANN: Art, Diplomacy and Intrigue: Peter Paul Rubens and Balthazar Gerbier – Lecture by Lucy Whittaker (Collecting & Display – online / Inst. of Historical Research, London – 29 June, 6pm)
The successful collaboration of Peter Paul Rubens and Balthazar Gerbier, seemingly artists but also political agents, culminated in an Anglo-Spanish peace treaty signed on 15 November 1630. The treaty was the high point…