CONF: Decolonizing Heritage – The Return of Cultural Objects to Africa : An International Law Perspective (Centre universitaire du droit de l’art, Univ. of Geneva; 23-24 Sept 2021)
Depuis la déclaration faite à Ouagadougou en 2017 par le Président Emmanuel Macron, pour qui les biens culturels doivent être restitués aux Etats africains victimes de la colonisation, les musées européens ont dû réévaluer…
CFP: The Restitution of Looted Artefacts since 1945: Denazification and Decolonization in Entangled Perspective (German Historical Institute in Rome, 16-18 May 2022)
Over the past decades, the restitution of cultural property has come to the forefront of both public and academic debates. Besides the well-established provenance research into Jewish-owned cultural property, postcolonial restitution has increasingly…
JOB: PhD Position, Contemporary Artistic Practices Reflecting on Colonial Heritage (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 01 Sep 2021)
This four-year PhD student position is based at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam’s (VU) Faculty of Humanities (Department of Art & Culture, History, and Antiquity), within the framework of the NWA funded project “Pressing…
CFP: Challenging Orientalism: New questions of perception and reception (Sessions at AAH Annual Conference 2021, Birmingham, 14-17 Apr 2021)
Call for papers for a session at the Association for Art History’s Annual Conference, Birmingham, 14-17 Apr 2021 Challenging Orientalism: New questions of perception and receptionDeadline: 19 Oct 2020 Western visual culture has…
CFP: Imperial Artifacts: History, Law, and the Looting of Cultural Property (Leiden, Jan 2021)
Call for papers for this interdisciplinary conference, which aspires to bring together (post-)colonial historians, legal historians, curators, international lawyers, and others engaged with the field to establish research collaborations by critically investigating stories…
CFP: Imperial Artefacts: History, Law, and the Looting of Cultural Property (Leiden, Jan 2021)
Call for papers for conference:Imperial Artefacts: History, Law, and the Looting of Cultural Property28-29 January 2021, Leiden UniversityDeadline: 31 Aug 2020 This interdisciplinary conference aspires to bring together (post-)colonial historians, legal historians, curators,…
CONF: Co-Constituting the Global (Berlin, 22 Jun 18)
Co-Constituting the Global ICI Berlin Christinenstraße 18-19, Haus 8 June 22, 2018 3:00 -9:00 p.m. Public part of the 2-day working session programme of Global Asia / Pacific Art Exchange (GAX) 2018 in…
STIP: 2 research fellowships ‘The Benin Bronzes’ (01.01.2018, Hamburg)
2 Promotionsstip. “Die Benin-Bronzen. Die Globalisierung des kolonialen Kunstraubs” (Univ. Hamburg) Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, 01.01.2018 Bewerbungsschluss: 01.11.2017 Das Historische Seminar (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zimmerer) in der Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften an der Universität Hamburg vergibt…
CONF: Objects of Exchange: Art and Economic Encounters (Paris, 7-8 Sep 17)
International Symposium Institut National d’Histoire de l’art (INHA) Paris, 07. – 08.09.2017 Org. Alexander Alberro (Columbia University), Sophie Cras (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Exchange is classically described by economists as a phenomenon of equalization of…