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Curatorial Conversations
The Civic Museum in Today’s Society: The Milwaukee Art Museum Join the Warburg Institute and the Association for Art History in a conversation with Kim Sajet, the Director of the Milwaukee Art Museum, one of the US’s major art galleries...
Home and Heart: Arts & Health From Around the World
Join us for our spring family fun event themed around home. Visit the Moved to Care exhibition and enjoy hands-on activities to help explore nursing’s global roots through the idea of leaving and going home. Activities are aimed at ages...
Senses Matter: The value of sensory approaches to the domestic sphere
Location: KLC School of Design, London Organised by Vanessa Vanden Berghe (UAL) & Rosamund Lily West (KLC School of Design) Senses Matter examines the domestic sphere through sensory-led approaches in art, architectural, and design history. Addressing the senses, the conference seeks...
Senses Matter: The Value of Sensory Approaches to the Domestic Sphere
Senses Matter examines the domestic sphere through sensory-led approaches in art, architectural, and design history. Addressing the senses, the conference seeks to explore methods for accessing domestic experiences, interpreting diverse sources, and challenging visually dominant narratives through interdisciplinary perspectives. Programme and...
Art Decades – I’ll Be Your Mirror
Taking inspiration from your forebears in any art form is inescapable but there are shameless copyists out there in many disciplines. The ethics may at first seem clear-cut: deliberately imitating another artist’s work could be classed sacrilegious, but Michelangelo blithely copied fellow masters and...
DHS Student Conference, 12-13 June 2026: EPHEMERAL ENCOUNTERS
Call for Papers DHS Student Conference 12–13 June 2026 (online) EPHEMERAL ENCOUNTERS SUMMARY The word ephemeral is used to refer to things or states that only last for a short time. In times of upheaval and uncertainty, the ephemeral nature...
SALON Conference 2026 – Unreliable Lives: Rethinking the Artist’s Biography in the Nineteenth Century
How are artists’ biographies constructed, and how do these narratives shape or distort our understanding of their work? This one-day international conference examines biography not as a stable source of meaning, but as a constructed and sometimes unreliable framework that...
Curatorial prize ceremony and panel discussion
Join us for an evening of lively discussion and celebration, bringing together leading curators for a panel on peer-to-peer partnerships, the AAH Curatorial Prizes 2026, and a drinks reception. The Gallery, 70 Cowcross St, London, EC1M 6EJ Tuesday 23 June 6:00...
Wednesday Walkthrough of Physical Culture by Augustas Serapinas with Marta Marsicka
This Summer we are presenting the first institutional solo exhibition in England by Lithuanian artist Augustas Serapinas featuring his large-scale sculptural installation, Physical Culture. Join Marta Marsicka, a curator, researcher, and art historian for a walkthrough of the exhibition. Drawing on visual...
CFP 19-20 SEP ’26: Rethinking Europe Japan Relations 1868 1913 An Interdisciplinary Unconference
Rethinking Europe–Japan Relations, 1868–1913: An Interdisciplinary Unconference Organized by the Europe-Japan Bilaterology Research Hub Date: 19–20 September (Saturday–Sunday) 2026 Venue: Székesfehérvár (near Budapest), Hungary About EJBR The Europe–Japan Bilaterology Research Hub (EJBR) is a dedicated interdisciplinary initiative focused on investigating...
CALL FOR PAPERS In Her Words: Women Artists and Life Writing before 1920
Pigott Theatre, The National Gallery, London, 2 October 2026 Organisers: Dr Susanna Avery-Quash, Senior Research Lead: Partnerships, Networks and Initiatives, National Gallery; Dr Rebecca Birrell, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, University of St Andrews, and Bye Fellow, Murray Edwards College,...
CFP – Right to Housing: Projects, Policies, and Knowledge Exchange after the Second World War
In recent years, housing has re-emerged as one of the most pressing social and political issues, driven by rising real estate prices, declining affordability, shrinking dwelling sizes, and the deterioration of residential environments. As new models of affordable and public...
International Conference: Vassals & Lords. Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Western Mediterranean (13th-15th Centuries).
CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VASSALS AND LORDS. CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS, AND JEWS IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN (13TH-15TH CENTURIES) Madrid, October 26-28, 2026 Faculty of Geography and History, UNED. Medieval history has been traditionally dominated by a monarchical and State-centric perspective....
A Focus on Pedagogy 2026: ACROSS TEACHING, THEORY, TECHNOLOGIES & TIMES
Event Summary: A virtual conference on the past, present and future of teaching and learning in the arts and humanities. A collaboration across six universities in six countries. Event Details: VIRTUAL Conference: 18-20 November, 2026 Glasgow School of Art ...
