CFP: Contesting Objects: Sites, Narratives, Contexts – 5th Transregional Academy on Latin American Art (Lima, 4-12 May 2024)
The German Center for Art History (DFK Paris, Max Weber Foundation), the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome (BHMPI), and the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) invite…
ANN: Wie kamen die Objekte ins Museum? Eine Spurensuche. (Berlin, 25 May-5 Oct 2023)
Die neue Gesprächsreihe in den Ausstellungen der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin fragt nach der Herkunft und der Bedeutung der Objekte: Wem haben sie einst gehört und wer hat sie hergebracht? Die Gespräche geben…
CFP: Promoting the Made in Italy Brand: 1948-1960. Histories of Italian craft and design for the 21st century (Politecnico di Milano, 16-18 May 2023)
This 3-day international conference is organized as part of the VO Project – Voices of Objects. Italian Design from Museum to Home, a FARB 2021 project funded by the Department of Design at…
CONF: Conservations divergentes. Préservation et transmission des collections de provenance coloniale en débat (INHA Paris, 12 Dec 2022)
La conservation muséale en Occident s’est longtemps concentrée sur la préservation physique des objets. Pour stabiliser les artefacts dans le temps, il s’agissait de les soustraire aux influences environnementales changeantes. Aujourd’hui, le régime…
STIP: Center for Netherlandish Art Fellowships 2023 / 2024 (Center for Netherlandish Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
The Center for Netherlandish Art (CNA) seeks applicants for the CNA Fellowship Program for object-based research into Netherlandish art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. These Fellowships are full-time appointments for a…
ANN: Collections and Impermanence: Transfer, Exchange and Disposal (Online/Society for the History of Collecting, 10 & 17 Nov 2022)
The Society for the History of Collecting is pleased to invite you to its PhD and Early Career Researcher Workshop – open to all. Online, Thursday 10th November (5.30-7.45pm GMT; 6.30-8.45pm CET; 12:45-2:45pm EDT;…
CFP: The Mutability of Collections: Transformation, Contextualisation and Re-Interpretation (Seminar on Collecting & Display, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 7-8 July 2023)
We invite proposals for papers reflecting on the ways in which the contents of collections are not permanent but may be subject to numerous mutations. Objects in collections are added, exchanged or disposed of, translated and…
CFP: Significant Findings: Object- And Archives-Based Assessments of US Art (Colonial-1945) (CAA Conference, NYC, 15-18 Feb 2023)
Today scholars on art created in the US from the colonial era through 1945, grapple with new theoretical and ontological inquiries—especially as we reckon anew with the nation’s history of imperialism, racism, colonization, and societal and…
CFP: Interdisciplinary dialogues. Non-ferrous Metal Objects in Western Europe (Art & History Museums Brussels, Oct 2022)
The Center of Excellence for Decorative Arts of the Royal Museums of Art and History of Brussels, in collaboration with the Archeology Center of the University of Liège, invites proposals for a seminar,…