CFP: The Bourgeois Public Discusses Art II – Arts and their Publics in Central Europe Between Regional and European Centres (Prague, Institute of Czech Literature – 17-18 Oct 2024)
Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences cordially invite you to the workshop organized as part of the Strategie…
CONF: Bridge-Building through Art Exhibitions during the Cold War Divide, the Fall of the Wall, and Beyond (Södertörn University, 21-22 Mar 24)
The focus for this workshop is to discuss and problematize two contrary perspectives on art: as a pivotal force in societal change, or as a tool for political regimes. Research on processes of…
CFP: Infrastructures of Trading and Transferring Art since 1900 (Workshop, KEMKI- Central European Research Institute for Art History, Budapest, 26-28 June 2024)
Although art market studies as an academic field has become increasingly popular in the lastdecade, there has been little research that critically examines the actors, places, rules, andstructures of this system. This workshop…
CONF: Forensics of Provenance: Colonial Translocations through the Lenses of Legal Pluralism (Universtität Münster, 8-9 Feb 2024)
There is a broad public debate on the restitution of objects with colonial or imperial provenance. However, political and legal debates often disregard the normative understanding and the legal imagination of communities of…
CFP: Collecting, Growing, and Exploring in Early Modernity (Paris, Sorbonne, 11 June 2024)
The last few decades have produced a number of studies devoted to the relationship between collecting and science, highlighting the relationship between a growing interest in botany and the fascination with the collection…
CONF: From Cabinets to Museums – Exploring the Histories of Chinese Collections in Europe (University of Erfurt, 10-11 Jan 2024)
Chinese objects were acquired by European collectors for a variety of reasons: ranging from the aesthetic decoration of their residences, to using objects as a source of knowledge about foreign cultures. The workshop…
CONF: Across the Seas: Denmark and the World in Art and Visual Culture in the Early Modern Period (University of Kiel / Maritime Museum of Denmark, 9-10 June 2023)
The workshop ‘Across the Seas: Denmark and the World in Art and Visual Culture in the Early Modern Period’ takes an interdisciplinary perspective combining art historical questions with those of the histories of…
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: Denmark and the world in art and visual culture (University of Kiel, 9-10 Jun 2023)
Within the scope of European ‘art landscapes’, the Scandinavian countries are located in a periphery. There is a comparatively small number of publications on Scandinavian art in the canon of art historical literature….