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….
ANN: Collecting Neoclassical Tuscan Sculptures in the Early 19th Century America (Society for the History of Collecting/Online, 21 Feb, 2022, 5.30pm GMT)
The Society for the History of Collecting invites you to its online lecture, organised by the Italian Chapter Collecting Neoclassical Tuscan Sculptures in the Early 19th Century AmericaMichele Amedei, Università di Firenze Monday,…
ANN: Seminar – The 5th Earl and Countess of Exeter as late-seventeenth-century collectors of contemporary Italian art, IHR (Online, 7 Feb 2022, 6pm GMT)
On Monday, 7 February, at 6pm London time, Amy Lim will speak to us on The 5th Earl and Countess of Exeter as late-seventeenth-century collectors of contemporary Italian art. Between 1678 and 1700, John Cecil,…
ANN: Summer School: Was ist der Wert der Dinge? Konzepte einer Sammlungsoekonomie (Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, 18–29 Jul 2022)
International Summer School des Forschungsverbunds Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Das Zusammentragen, Aufheben, und mitunter das Entsorgen von Dingen sind grundlegende Momente der Konstitution jeder Sammlung. Die Sammlung wird damit zum Resultat einer Kette von…
CONF: Collecting and archiving in the post-digital age / Sammeln und Archivieren im postdigitalen Zeitalter (online / Donau Universität Krems, 3 Dec 2021; in German)
Alte und neue Archive. Sammeln und Archivieren im postdigitalen Zeitalter Die Digitalisierung hat in Sammlungen, Archiven und Bibliotheken in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu einem weitreichenden Wandel geführt. Das Digitale ist trotz bzw. mit…
CFP: Virtus Special Issue: Collectioneurs Nobles. Continuity and Change in Aristocratic Collecting Practices in Belgium and the Netherlands (1750-1950)
The long nineteenth and early twentieth century is often considered a period of socially widening collecting practices. Besides the boom of public museums, the general understanding of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century collecting is…
TIAMSA Live Book Discussion No. 4 – Georgina Walker: The Private Collector’s Museum. Public Good Versus Private Gain (online 25 Nov 2021, 12 noon CET)
TIAMSA is happy to announce a fourth book discussion, focussing on Georgina Walker’s book “The Private Collector’s Museum“. Following our trusted format, a brief presentation of the book by the author Georgina Walker will be followed…
CONF: Des collections aux musées. Collectionneurs et passeurs culturels au temps de Feliks Jasieński (1861-1929) (online / INHA Paris, 18-19 Nov 2021)
La collection Jasieński représente plus de quinze mille œuvres d’art réunies dans la dernière décennie du XIXe siècle et les deux premières décennies du XXe siècle ; elle comprend des peintures, des sculptures…
CFP: Collection/Seminaire sur le collectionnisme et le marche de l’art (online, 2022)
CALL FOR PAPERS (French version below) The organisers of Collection/Séminaire sur le collectionnisme et le marché de l’art are inviting papers for the monthly sessions of the seminar in 2022. Since its foundation…