CFP: Collecting Latin America: Actors, Networks, and Approaches in the 20th century (Leiden University, 28-29 Jun 2022)
Museums across Europe and the United States hold innumerable Latin American objects in their collections. A small percentage of these were collected in the Early Modern Era, most, however, were brought together in…
ANN: Non-dits et mouvements des collections (Munich, Institut français / LMU, 26 Apr-12 Jul 2022)
Kaulbachstr. 13, 80539 München, 26.04.–12.07.2022 Veranstaltungsreihe:Was hinter der Kunst steht? Non-dits et mouvements des collections. Alors que les questions liées à l’origine et la provenance des objets incitent à penser les collections et…
CFP: “COLLECTIONS” – 13th triennial NORDIK Conference of Art History in the Nordic Countries (Online, 24-28 Oct 2022)
The NORDIK Association for Art Historians is hereby announcing a call for papers for the upcoming conference taking place 24.-28.10. 2022 under the heading “Collections”. Confirmed keynote speakers: Steven ten Thije, Head of collections,…
CFP: Art archives in Latin America: critical approaches (Anuario TAREA, Número 9, 2022)
[Spanish version below] Deadline: 15 Jun 2022 In the last decades of the 20th century, a radical transformation took place in the Latin American artistic field in terms of the role and value…
CONF: The Medici Beyond Florence. Art and Politics (Florence/online, 16-17 Mar 2022)
The conference investigates the history and culture of the Medici family through art collecting and patronage practices, from the beginning of the ducal era (1530) to the end of the Thirty Year’s War (1648)….
CONF: Sammler:innen, Sammlung, Netz. Tagung zu Netzimplikationen von Sammlungspraxis und Sammlungsforschung (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…
CFP: Stedelijk Studies, Issue 12: Diaspora and Collections
The “Diaspora” has come to describe mass movements of displaced peoples, or the scattering of a people away from their geographical “origin”. Yet diasporic movements are not sequestered within the flow of people:…
CFP: Collections in the Early Modern Era – International Workshop on Spaces for Collections, Collecting and Collectors (University Olomouc, 13-17 Jun 2022)
The history of collecting is one of the most interesting fields of art history, offering opportunities for interdisciplinary research. Research on the origins and development of art collections, on how works were acquired…
CFP: Thinking About the Archive & Provenance Research (DCNtR Blog)
In the debate about the colonial past of ethnological museums in Western Europe, provenance research has emerged in recent years as the main method for researching colonial legacies and addressing museums’ need for decolonisation….