CFP: Avant-Garde and Migration (Stockholm University, 2-4 Sept 2026)
The 2026 conference theme ‘Avant-Garde and Migration’ highlights migration as a key concept of historical as well as current relevance. Migration may be understood in geographical and sociopolitical terms, addressing the migrating actors…
CONF / Book Launch: Metropolitan Crossings: Art, Displacement, and the Making of Modern London, 1930s–1970s (Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, London – 5-6 Nov 25)
This symposium explores how exile, migration, and displacement shaped the artistic and cultural landscape of London between the 1930s and the 1970s. Across two days, the presentations will examine the diverse trajectories of…
CFP: Art on Demand – Objects, Knowledge and Ideas from the Low Countries in Sweden, 1400-1800 (RKD, The Hague, 8 May 2024)
The risks and challenges of migration are of compelling interest today. Over the past thirty years, research on the migration of early modern artists and on cultural exchange between the Low Countries and…
CONF: Motion: Migrations – CIHA World Congress in São Paulo, 17-21 Jan 2022
The 35th World Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA) will take place January 17-21, 2022. Originally planned as an in-person gathering in São Paulo, Brazil, the format has shifted to a hybrid…
CONF: Transcultural Art Histories: Inaugural Chamber of Young Snow Distinguished Scholars Webinar Series (online, 7 Oct-3 Dec 2021)
In 2021 the Chamber of Young Snow Distinguished Scholars Webinar Series invites three international speakers to reflect on the theme of cross-geographic practices from pre-modern era to today. With this theme we seek…
CFP: Poetic Translations: Conversations across the plurality of Arts disciplines in Visual Art Exhibitions (Solent University, Southampton – Online, 16-17 Dec 2020)
We are currently inviting paper proposals for ‘Poetic translations’: Conversations across the plurality of Arts disciplines in Visual Art Exhibitions. Solent University, Southampton Online, 16-17 December 2020 Paper proposal deadline: 15 Oct 2020
CFP: Urban Exile: Theories, Methods, Research Practices
Call for papers for new publication:Urban Exile: Theories, Methods, Research PracticesInstitute of Art History (LMU Munich) Deadline: 15 Jul 2020 Although it is widely accepted that migration shapes cities, until now, exile research…
CONF: Migration of artists and architects (Riga, 26-28 Sep 19)
Riga, Art Academy of Latvia, September 26 – 28, 2019 THE MIGRATION OF ARTISTS AND ARCHITECTS IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN EUROPE. 1560–1900 The aim of the conference is to explore research and interpretative…
STIP: up to 13 PhD Grants at “International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture” (Univ. Giessen)
The International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC) of Justus Liebig University of Giessen, funded by the excellence cluster of the Federal Government and the individual German states, offers a PhD…