The Design Collection Displays Reassessed symposium will discuss collection displays as sites of knowledge exchange and active engagement. From a traditionally linear, encyclopedic display, to today’s more narrative approaches, in the last decades, historical and contemporary displays of decorative arts and design have changed dramatically, in response to a variety of forces, including reassessments of institutional priorities, foregrounding of audiences, and the inclusion of different voices. The symposium will interrogate how design objects and interiors are displayed, discussed and interpreted, and for whom. What does curating these kinds of collection displays represent and mean today? And how might this practice look . . . → En lire plus
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15th Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity: « Early Modern Christian Materiality », Wrocław, May 19-21, 2026. At the time of the Reformation, new ways of perceiving bodiliness and materiality began to reshape Western thought, particularly in relation to the understanding of the Incarnation and the Eucharist. In a sharp critique of medieval Aristotelianism, especially the doctrine of transubstantiation grounded in Aristotelian hylomorphic theory, the Reformers developed new understandings of Christ’s presence, the Holy Spirit, human being, and the material world. While these reinterpretations varied among the different reformers, they commonly marked a departure from medieval theological frameworks and opened the door to (re)configurations in how materiality was understood, experienced, and practiced. The reconfigured understanding of the sacraments had a substantial influence on liturgy and, consequently, also . . . → En lire plus  Les commentaires sont clos  Appels à communication  Cultural Studies, material studies, Théorie et interprétation, XV-XVIIIe 
Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island, USA Friday, February 27— Saturday, February 28, 2026 Vendredi 27 février — Samedi 28 février 2026 Organisatrices : Chanelle Dupuis (Brown University, USA) Jasmine Laraki (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique — Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) Clara May (Université de Neuchâtel, Suisse) . . . → En lire plus Appel à communication : « Rethinking Sacred Images as the “Book of the Illiterate”: An Early Modern, Global, and Auditory Perspective » (Academia Belgica, Rome, 4–5 Juin 2026) Organizers: Marta Battisti (Center for Early Modern Cultural Analysis – UCLouvain / LARHRA) and Ralph Dekoninck (Center for Early Modern Cultural Analysis – UCLouvain) 
Jacopo Ligozzi (designer), Domenico Falcini (engraver), Chapel of the Cross (from Lino Moroni, Descrizione del Sacro Monte della Vernia, 1612) © Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. The idea that sacred images served as the “Book of the illiterate” (Liber . . . → En lire plus
L’histoire du climat et l’archéologie de l’environnement, qui se sont largement développés depuis les travaux d’Emmanuel Leroy-Ladurie, ont démontré l’existence d’un optimum climatique médiéval auquel succède au XIVe siècle le petit âge glaciaire européen. Cette transition survient entre 1303 et 1328 et s’accompagne de phénomènes météorologiques aux conséquences désastreuses : les pluies diluviennes presque ininterrompues entre 1314 et 1316 noient les récoltes sous l’eau, les hivers sont froids et rudes jusqu’en 1320, engendrant des crises alimentaires qui feront perdre à l’Europe, en plus des épidémies, une bonne . . . → En lire plus Les commentaires sont clos Appels à communication art et environnement, Art et science, Iconographie, Moyen-Âge
Colloque « Fortune et infortune des polyptyques. Provenances, reconstructions, restitutions », Lucques, Oct. 7-9 2025, orgs. Ilaria Andreoli, Emanuele Pellegrini, Giulia Puma
Symposium « Polyptychs’ fortune and misfortune. Provenance, reconstruction, restitution », Lucca (Tuscany), Oct. 7-9 2025, orgs. Ilaria Andreoli, Emanuele Pellegrini, Giulia Puma
Convegno « Fortuna e sfortuna dei polittici. Provenienze, ricostituzioni, restituzioni », Lucca, Ott. 7-9 2025, orgg. Ilaria Andreoli, Emanuele Pellegrini, Giulia Puma
FRANCAIS [ENGLISH . . . → En lire plus A History of Textile Cleanliness: Washing and Perfuming Fabrics from the Medieval to the Modern Period. In 2024, the Sleeping Beauties exhibition at the MET (New York) engaged visitors in the museum experience by recreating the displayed dresses’ scents – identified through chromatographic analysis – to illuminate their history and relationship to bodily senses. The analyses and interpretations published in the catalogue reveal not only the presence of perfumes but also traces of cosmetics, sebum, polluted air, and wine, among other aromas. While the poetic resonance of these sensory traces may evoke the ephemeral existence of these garments, their scents have not always been perceived as desirable. On the contrary, the history of textiles and clothing is deeply intertwined with practices of washing, stain removal, . . . → En lire plus Les commentaires sont clos Appels à communication Cultural Studies, Moyen-Âge, Renaissance, Textile, XV-XVIIIe
Two Japanese Women Posing with Laundry, 1870s, silver print photograph from glass negative with applied colour, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.100.505.1 (39b) Appel à communication : « A History of Textile Cleanliness: Washing and Perfuming Fabrics from the Medieval to the Modern Period » – 28-29 May 2026 – Institute of Art History, University of Bern, Switzerland International conference organized by Moïra Dato (University of Bern) and Érika Wicky (Université Grenoble-Alpes / LARHRA). Scientific committee: Olivier David (Institut Lavoisier / Paris Saclay), Aziza Gril-Mariotte (Musée des Tissus, Lyon / . . . → En lire plus Appel à communication : « Iconographie et numérique en histoire de l’art médiéval : Transformations épistémologiques et méthodologiques » (Lille, IRHiS, 19 novembre 2025)
Ce second volet est prévu pour . . . → En lire plus Les commentaires sont clos Appels à communication épistémologie, humanités numériques, Iconographie, Méthode, Moyen-Âge
Session organisée par Ilaria Andreoli, (INHA, Paris), Paris & Kelley Di Dio (University of Vermont) This session aims to create a space for emerging scholars (recent Ph.D.s or Ph.D. candidates) to present their work. The intention is to provide new scholars with a forum to present their work, possibly for the first time at an international conference. Panelists will receive mentorship in preparation for the panel, including receiving constructive feedback from senior scholars in their area of expertise in advance of the . . . → En lire plus
Ces deux journées d’étude sont organisées par Daniele Rivoletti (Université Clermont Auvergne/Institut universitaire de France), Frédéric Tixier (Université de Lorraine, Nancy) et Christine Descatoire (musée de Cluny-musée national du Moyen Âge), et se tiendront à Paris (musée de Cluny et Institut National d’Histoire de l’art) les 8 et 9 décembre 2025. Elles sont en lien avec l’exposition Le Moyen Âge du XIXe siècle. Créations et faux dans les arts précieux, qui aura lieu au musée de Cluny du 7 octobre 2025 au 11 janvier 2026 (commissaires : Christine . . . → En lire plus Les commentaires sont clos Appels à communication collections, Historiographie, Moyen-Âge, XIXe siècle 
La Biennale di Venezia di fronte alla storia, Padiglione Centrale dei Giardini, 29 aout- 8 décembre 2020). Fièvre des archives dans l’exposition : intertextualités critiques, politiques et pratiques de display entre la Guerre froide et la contemporanéité globale (Université Toulouse II – Jean Jaurès, 4-5 décembre 2025) [English version below] En 2020 a eu lieu Le muse inquiete. La Biennale di Venezia di fronte alla storia [Les muses inquiètes. La Biennale de Venise face à l’histoire], une exposition conçue comme un moment de réflexion sur l’histoire plus que centenaire de la Biennale de Venise. . . . → En lire plus
Building Sites in Early Modern Europe (c.1400-1700). The CSCA (Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture) is inviting papers for its forthcoming conference on Building Sites in Early Modern Europe (c. 1400-1700), to be held 4-6 June 2026 at Downing College, Cambridge. This international academic conference explores the building site in early modern Europe and its networks (c. 1400–1700) as a place for production, exchange, and transmission in the history of art and architecture. Far from being mere spaces of construction, building sites functioned as dynamic laboratories where ideas, knowledge, cultures, technologies, skills, and social structures intersected. Building sites, in this way, acted as contact zones for the transfer of both practical and theoretical knowledge. Europe’s ‘builder’ patrons, including the Medici, Pope Julius II, François . . . → En lire plus 
Le muse inquiete. La Biennale di Venezia di fronte alla storia, Padiglione Centrale dei Giardini, 29 aout- 8 décembre 2020). Fièvre des archives dans l’exposition : intertextualités critiques, politiques et pratiques de display entre la Guerre froide et la contemporanéité globale (Université Toulouse II – Jean Jaurès, 4-5 décembre 2025) [English version below] En 2020 a eu lieu Le muse inquiete. La Biennale di Venezia di fronte alla storia [Les muses inquiètes. La Biennale de Venise face à l’histoire], une exposition conçue comme un moment de réflexion sur l’histoire plus que centenaire de la Biennale . . . → En lire plus Les commentaires sont clos Appels à communication, Événements Archives, Art contemporain, Expositions, Guerre froide
After delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are delighted to at last convene on the West Coast of North America in the « City by the Bay. » Because of the rescheduling, please note that this conference will take place on an unusually early weekend for us, February 19–21, 2026. All sessions will be held in the hotel, just two blocks from Union Square and within walking distance of the city’s acclaimed Chinatown. San . . . → En lire plus The Ancient Mediterranean and the British Museum: Pasts and Futures. The Department of Greece and Rome at the British Museum and the Institute of Classical Studies are inviting proposals for contributions to a conference exploring the past impact and future potential of the Museum’s collections from the ancient Mediterranean world, scheduled to take place in-person at Senate House, London, on 25th-27th February 2026. This conference is being organised in the context of the British Museum’s ‘Masterplan’, a once-in-a-century opportunity to redisplay and re-interpret the collections from the ancient Mediterranean, Egypt, Assyria and the Middle East for twenty-first century publics. The Department of Greece and Rome is one of the Museum’s curatorial departments leading this work. To avoid the repetition of old narratives, and to ensure that the redisplay . . . → En lire plus Renaissance Ecologies – 7th Conference of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies. Conference organised by the Early Modern Seminar at the Faculty of Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 8-10 October, 2026 Established in recent decades as a research area in its own right, the study of ecology in the Renaissance has diversified into several distinct but related fields. The conference aims at taking stock of the broad range of meanings, creating conversations between the existing areas and inquiring into possible directions onward. We suggest a range of both literal and more metaphorical conceptions of ‘ecology’ in which nature, broadly defined, may be considered both an object of study and an agent of change or stasis. The relationship between humans on the one hand and climate and the animate world on . . . → En lire plus
In 1960, Franco-American art collectors and philanthropists Jean and Dominique de Ménil initiated the Menil Archive of ‘The Image of the Black in Western Art’ (IBWA). Originally started in Paris and then expanded with an office in Houston, the IBWA research project resulted in two visual archives of photographs. Collected between 1960 and the 1990s, the photographs document paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, decorative arts, and other objects depicting people of African heritage in ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman art, early modern and modern European and American art, as well as art . . . → En lire plus Appel à communication : « Métamorphoses du récit dans la peinture contemporaine » (Bordeaux, 17 octobre 2025) Alors que la Figuration narrative portait volontiers un discours politique, la Figuration libre a plutôt utilisé le récit comme dispositif de mise en abyme du médium pictural, permettant de revendiquer une appartenance contemporaine. Depuis les années 2000, la nouvelle génération de peintres figuratifs assume plus directement le médium et porte plus ouvertement des discours mettant en valeur la pluralité des appartenances et des identités. Ce nouveau retour à la peinture s’accompagne-t-il d’un renouvellement des récits portés par la peinture ou des discours sur la pratique picturale ? Les propositions pourront interroger la notion même de retour, avec en France au moins trois occurrences depuis une quarantaine d’années : au début des années 1980 . . . → En lire plus |
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