CFP: Transnational Collecting: Objects Crossing Borders, Objects Transformed (Online Session at 112th CAA Annual Conference, 14-17 Feb 2024 Chicago)
What happens to objects when they cross borders and enter collections located beyond the cultures or nations in which they were produced? Objects don’t have fixed meanings, and collectors are a vital source of…
CFP: Matter in Motion – Transcultural Material and Symbolic Transformations (Session at the CIHA Conference, Lyon, 23-28 Jun 2024)
Paper proposals are invited for the session “Matter in Motion: Transcultural Material and Symbolic Transformations” at the conference of the International Congress of the History of Art (CIHA), June 23 – 28, 2024,…
CONF: Art beyond Placeness: Narratives of Movement in the Early Modern Period (The Norwegian Institute, Rome, 31 May-1 Jun 2023)
In recent years, the new importance attributed to the biographies of objects and their global circulation has drawn increasing attention to the phenomenon of their physical transportation – in other words, to the…
CFP: Things on the Move – Materiality of Objects in Global and Imperial Trajectories, 1700–1900 (London, German Historical Institute, 8-10 Sept 2022)
An International Conference organized by the German Historical Institute London in Collaboration with the Prize Papers Project The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were defined by increased globalization, the growth of empires outside Europe, the emergence…
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…
CFP: The materialities of belonging: Objects in/of exile across the Mediterranean (Mobile Culture Studies, 2021; deadline 15 Apr 2021)
The call for the upcoming thematic issue 2021 of ›mcsj› (Mobile Cultural Studies Journal) is dedicated to following the trajectories of displaced things and persons, all by being open to the “surprise of…
CFP: New Voices 2017-18: Art and Movement (Birmingham, 11 Jan 18)
Call for Papers Art and Movement University of Birmingham, January 11, 2018 Association for Art History Deadline: September 4, 2017 Keynote speaker: Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll Whether moved by force, trade or…