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Nov

2026

Florence

Call for papers - History

Time to Play

Playful Participation as an Artistic Methodology: Histories, Curatorial Practices, Museums

The third issue of the new series of Senzacornice Journal. Studies on the Contemporary Art System takes as its point of departure two seminal experiences centered on spontaneous and self-managed play. These are understood both as models for social and communal construction through audience engagement, and as investigations into the mutually productive relationships between human and machine, and human and object: The Model – A Model for a Qualitative Society (Stockholm, Moderna Museet, 1968, curated by Palle Nielsen) and Play Orbit (London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1969, curated by Jasia Reichhardt). In both cases, the curators conceived play as a voluntary activity—mediated or unmediated—capable of restoring to the participant a freedom of action that is increasingly constrained or denied within institutional contexts.

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Jun

2026

Conference, symposium - Epistemology and methodology

Practicing the Archival Commons

Publics, Power and Perspectives

This workshop seeks to examine refigured archiving work currently undertaken in Africa as well as to learn more about the ways in which this refigures scholarship. Introducing the concept of the ‘archival commons’, it particularly aims at studying diverse forms of archiving as common, communal or communing practices that have significant effects on both preservation and critical historical work.

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Call for papers - Geography

Les futurs du patrimoine méditerranéen

Premier Forum des Chaires UNESCO de Méditerranée

Le premier Forum des Chaires UNESCO de Méditerranée, organisé à l’Université de Corse, vise à réunir chercheurs, institutions et acteurs culturels autour des enjeux contemporains du patrimoine méditerranéen. Il ambitionne de structurer un réseau de coopération et de réflexion sur les transformations culturelles, sociales, économiques et environnementales du bassin méditerranéen.

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Sep

2026

Liège

Call for papers - Early modern

The Palace of the Prince-Bishops of Liège in the Sixteenth Century: Power, Culture and Architecture in the Renaissance

This conference offers a fresh perspective on the Palace of the Prince-Bishops of Liège in the 16th century, examining it as a place of power, representation, and artistic creation. Drawing on a critical re-examination of the archives and a material analysis of the monument, the conference will explore the political, cultural, and architectural ambitions that shaped the palace. Structured around three themes—historical and diplomatic context, artistic and intellectual dynamics, and a study of construction sites, materials, and techniques—it aims to convey the full complexity of this iconic site in the history of the Principality of Liège.

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Venice

Summer School - Representation

La fabrique de l’histoire dans les arts à Venise : récits, propagande et contre-récits

XXIXe séminaire d’histoire de l’art vénitien

Qui écrit, dans les arts, l’histoire, selon quelles sélections et omissions, pour qui et à quelle fin ? Comment la production artistique dans l’espace public a-t-elle célébré les grands hommes et les femmes illustres, les génies artistiques, ou bien parfois effacé volontairement les mémoires ? Comment enfin s’élaborent dans les arts les contre-récits à Venise ?

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Brest

Call for papers - Modern

Artificial Intelligence in the service of film archive collections

On the occasion of the 36th INEDITS meetings to be held in Brest from 24 to 27 November 2026, the Cinémathèque de Bretagne is organising a round table on the theme of Artificial Intelligence in the service of film archive collections.

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Perpignan

Call for papers - Information

From the Romanesque Monument to the Digital Medium: Knowledge Production, Cross-Border Mediation, and Heritage Reconfigurations

Le colloque, organisé à l’université Perpignan Via Domitia vise à questionner les reconfigurations contemporaines des savoirs, des récits patrimoniaux et des publics. Il croise histoire de l’art, archéologie, muséologie et sciences de l’information et de la communication. Trois axes structurent la réflexion : apports scientifiques des technologies numériques, enjeux critiques des musées numériques et médiation culturelle, usages des publics et valorisation territoriale.

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Beni Mellal

Call for papers - Economy

Environmental Economics and Dynamics of Fair and Sustainable Development

Challenges, Instruments and Perspectives

Countries such as Morocco and Senegal have embarked on ambitious transitions through their national sustainable development strategies, but they face a funding gap that limits their adaptive capacity. At the same time, the traditional ecological knowledge of indigenous communities—rooted in centuries of experience in ecosystem management—represents a valuable heritage for developing resilience models tailored to local contexts. It is within this framework that an international congress will bring together researchers, experts, and local stakeholders to identify economic and financial tools capable of supporting a just and balanced transition for Africa.

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Call for papers - Modern

Orsay, Forty Years On

L’année 2026 marque le quarantième anniversaire du musée d’Orsay, ouvert au public le 9 décembre 1986. Dans le cadre des célébrations associées à cette date événement, l’établissement public du musée d’Orsay et du musée de l’Orangerie – Valéry Giscard d’Estaing organise, les 2 et 3 décembre 2026, un colloque scientifique international qui rassemblera à Paris des spécialistes de disciplines et de provenances géographiques variées. Il ambitionne de remettre en perspective l’histoire du musée d’Orsay et son rôle clé dans la perception et la mise en récit des développements artistiques de la seconde moitié du XIX^e et du début du XX^e siècle.

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Paris | Giverny | Le Havre

Summer School - Representation

Cultivating one’s own garden, expanding horizons

Mapping the personal and the collective through history of art and the humanities, from Impressionism to the present day

The Seine has shaped the history of the Impressionist movement, which, in turn, left a lasting mark on the land. The research framework of this programme places the focus on this influential geographical backdrop, as part of a broader reflection on our regions. Housing traditions, ways of life, social structures, land uses, and the impact of agricultural and industrial development on the landscape are just some of the lines of research that require further study about Impressionism. This summer school aims to open up new perspectives through cross-disciplinary collaboration while experimenting with scales of analysis, to reflect on the experience of land from the most personal to the most universal.

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May

2026

Call for papers - Representation

The agency of images in the cognitive ecology of artificial intelligence

“ASRI Journal. Art and Society” No. 31

This volume of ASRI Journal. Art and Society invites academics and visual artists, at any stage of their career, to contribute research and practices that explore the epistemic and ontological relationships and differences between the agency of AI-generated images and the agency of art images, as well as the role of artistic practice in critiquing and visualising the socio-technological conditions of visual culture in the age of GenAI.

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Call for papers - History

Spanish and Greek civil wars: multiple memories and commemorations

K@iros Journal

This issue of K@iros seeks to study the Spanish and Greek civil wars from a cultural history perspective, highlighting parallel discourses and practices of remembrance while identifying the specific characteristics of each conflict’s memory, linked to the internal dynamics of the two societies. The aim is to study the registers, temporalities and scales of memory of these two historical sequences, both within the societies and through the memorial heritage in other spaces. The aim will be to retrace the parallel paths taken by these memories and their intersecting destinies in the multiple media (press, cinema, literature, photography, museums).

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Paris

Summer School - Middle Ages

Rereading, (re)emergence, appropriation: What is to be done with the art of the past?

The writings of art historians, like the works of art themselves, are a place of emergence, return, and incessant reinterpretation. This dialogue between periods at the heart of both artistic creation and the narrative of our discipline will be the subject of the 2026 edition of the Ecole de Printemps. Proposals for papers could present case studies, where a work or body of work quotes, repeats, adopts, or readapts earlier images, objects, or monuments. They might analyse historiographical reinterpretations by considering them as transhistorical interventions and reappropriations – whether textual, visual or museum-based.

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Belo Horizonte

Call for papers - Language

Artifices and Artefacts

International Congress of Art, Science, and Technology and Digital Arts Seminar (11th CIACT- SAD 2026)

From May 25th to 27th, 2026, BeloHorizonte/MG - Brazil will once more be the site of the International Congress of Art, Science, and Technology and Digital Arts Seminar (11th CIACT-SAD). It has as its theme for this edition: “Artifices &Artefacts”. It emerges from techniques and poetics, from software and code, from manual and automated actions, but also from cultural and artistic objects—whether physical or not—born from production in the intersection of art, science, and technology. The theme of this edition reveals crossings between the analog and the digital without establishing hierarchies.

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Aubervilliers

Miscellaneous information - Representation

Force cannot defeat imagination – Alternative museology in Gaza

Dans le cadre du programme (UXIL), Universités en Exil, Mohammed Abusal, artiste plasticien originaire de Gaza (programme PAUSE Mucem/Iremam), animera deux masterclass sur le thème : « Alternative Heritage and Museology in Gaza: the Use of Alternative Cartography ».

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Abomey-Calavi

Call for papers - Africa

The rhythm at the crossroads of music, text and dance

Instituant un partenariat régulier entre la France et le Bénin en matière de musicologie, ce colloque se déroule en 2026 pendant deux jours au Bénin autour de la question du rythme en privilégiant une approche transdisciplinaire. Il s’agit d’étudier dans un premier temps la relation intrinsèque du rythme dans les champs musicaux, artistiques, choréologiques, rituéliques, puis de comprendre son fonctionnement extrinsèque avec l’environnement naturel, les rythmes biologiques, physiologiques, sociologiques et cosmiques en interrogeant la question des épistémicides.

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Paris

Call for papers - History

Books and manuscripts in exile since the 19th century

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, books and manuscripts found themselves in forced exile in Europe. Requisitioned during military occupations, such as the books looted by the Nazis during the Second World War, they were also pillaged in the context of colonisation. These cultural objects also went into exile, accompanying exiles fleeing authoritarian, totalitarian regimes or war zones. In this conference, we would like to study the historical phenomenon of books and manuscripts in exile, both from a historiographical perspective and in terms of their heritage value.

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Call for papers - Science studies

Les changements des habitus culinaires au Cameroun

Culinary habits in Cameroon are now deeply influenced by globalization and urbanization, leading to a revision and sometimes a distortion of traditional recipes. The introduction of foreign products and the adoption of faster food practices have changed the habits of Cameroonians. These changes affect the transmission of culinary heritage to younger generations and jeopardize the preservation of traditional cuisine, considered a valuable intangible heritage. This call for papers explores the impact of globalization on food practices, public health, and the local economy. It also raises the question of how Cameroonian cuisine can adapt to modern realities, taking into account the tension between the modernization of recipes and the preservation of culinary cultural identity.

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Call for papers - Representation

Figures of naturalism

Perspective Journal, no. 2027 – 1

At a time when ecology has become a major preoccupation and a key issue in political, economic and social terms alike, art historians have resolutely taken on the questions it raises through a profound renewal of their approach to nature. The term “figures”, in the geometrical and metaphorical sense of forms, singular historical and cultural configurations, calls for identifying, investigating and understanding the different definitions of naturalism that the history of art has produced, depending on their specific intellectual contexts.

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Sousse

Call for papers - Representation

Marble and sculpture

Dialogue Between Matter and Form: Aesthetic Issues in the Arts and Design

This international symposium explores the aesthetic, technical, and cultural dialogue between marble and sculptural form. By examining marble across art history, contemporary sculpture, architecture, and design, the event aims to understand how matter shapes artistic expression and how creators negotiate between material constraints and formal innovation. The symposium seeks to foster interdisciplinary debate, highlight regional and Mediterranean practices, and propose new perspectives for research, creation, and sustainable development in marble-based artistic practices.

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