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:…
ANN: Amber Collections Workshop with Ruth Sargent Noyes, Tomasz Grusiecki and Rachel King (online / Collecting Central Europe, 22 Feb, 7pm CET)
The workshop features three ten-minute presentations followed by discussion: – Ruth Sargent Noyes (National Museum of Denmark): Amber materialities of Sanctity between the seventeenth-century Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Grand Duchy of Florence–…
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…
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…
CFP: Plunder: An Alternative History of Art – Session at AAH (London, Goldsmiths, University of London, 6-8 Apr 2022)
‘I place looting at the heart of the modern formation of what is called art, analyzing how it was obscured and transformed into the history of collecting.’ This session at The Association for…
CFP: Colnaghi Studies Journal
Colnaghi Studies Journal is published biannually by the Colnaghi Foundation, and produced by the Athena Art Foundation. Its purpose is to publish texts on significant pre-twentieth-century artworks that have recently come to light…
CFP: 2021 Cleveland Symposium (Cleveland, 12 Nov 2021)
47th Annual Cleveland Symposium – Aura: Authenticity, Experience, And Art Case Western Reserve University And The Cleveland Museum Of Art, Cleveland, Ohio12 Nov 2021 The deadline to submit an abstract for the 2021 Cleveland Symposium has…