Objects in Distress, Event organised by the Design History Society.

From the ongoing tensions in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, to the rising peril on women’s rights, contemporary media abounds with political turmoil and conflict. Yet, from an historical point of view, the emancipatory promise of liberal...

Texture in the Medieval World, Interdisciplinary Conference, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York.

Building on the past success of EMICS events, this, the 21st conference of this research series, considers the possible visual and conceptual approaches to Texture in the Medieval World in its widest possible contexts, through examining written,...

Location: University of York; York, United Kingdom

Pose, Power, Practice: New Perspectives on Life Drawing

From the sixteenth century to the present, drawing the human body from life has remained a mainstay of Western institutional art practice. Despite significant shifts in the aesthetics, media, and purpose of art over the last five hundred years, life...

Location: Online/The Courtauld Institute of Art; London, United Kingdom

Dwelling with Class / Wohnen mit Klasse, kritische berichte. Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften 2/2025.

This issue of kritische berichte is guest edited by Amelie Ochs and Rosanna Umbach, Mariann Steegmann Institute. Art & Gender (research unit dwelling+/-exhibiting), Institute for Art History - Film Studies - Art Education, University of Bremen....

Urban China 2030. Past Trajectories, Current Trends, and Future Challenges, Special issue of Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism edited by Raffaele Pernice.

At the turn of the first quarter of the 21 century, powerful political and economic forces have reshaped China through a process of urban restructuring and expansion, which have few equals in human history. This process of transformation has progressed in...

Towards an Automated Art? Learning Machines, Human Creativity and Uncertainty.

Cultural production is becoming progressively controlled by machine-made calculations. Computational tools in the form of algorithms and AI seem to be getting closer to the loop of producing, distributing, selling and validating artworks in a completely...

Location: Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Lisboa, Portugal

Illustration and Heritage: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures, The 14th Annual International Illustration Research Symposium.

On 22 and 23 November 2024, the 14th Annual International Illustration Research Symposium will explore the role illustration plays in cultural heritage. Hosted by the Illustration Programme at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London,...

Location: University of the Arts London; London, United Kingdom

Islands, The 40th Annual SAHANZ Conference, Brisbane. (Convenors: Dr. Ashley Paine (UQ) and Dr. Kirsty Volz (QUT)).

From spaces of isolation and independence, to archipelagos of connection and knowledge exchange, islands occupy a complex and evocative place in our terrestrial and imaginary worlds. At once utopian and dystopian—places of refuge and exile,...

Location: The University of Queensland and The Queensland University of Technology; Brisbane, Australia

Babur’s Legacy: Celebrating Timeless Architectural Traditions in a Changing World, Symposium and Exhibition organised by Laajverd and Tourism Lab, Namangan city, Uzbekistan.

This two-day symposium and exhibition, titled "Babur’s Legacy: Celebrating Timeless Architectural Traditions in a Changing World," focuses on the origins, development and influence of Babur’s architectural legacy. Heir to and...

Location: Ma’rifat Markazi; Namangan city, Uzbekistan

Corner Problems / Corner Solutions | Eckprobleme / Ecklösungen, architectura. Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Baukunst / Journal of the History of Architecture.

The corner of a building is a neuralgic point in terms of construction and design, which is why architects have always paid particular attention to it. Just think of the Doric corner conflict, the merging of vault ribs on the crossing pillar of a Gothic...

Emotions of the Royal Łazienki Gardens - a Multiplicity of Perspectives

The historic residential gardens of the Royal Łazienki are one of the most visited sites in Warsaw. Numerous visitors return over and over to experience moments of respite, pleasure, contact with nature, art and history. It is a place which connects...

Location: The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw; Warsaw, Poland

International Conference on Architecture & Design of Built Environment 2024, A 'fully offline' (sic!) conference organised by Woxsen University, Telengana.

School of Architecture and Planning at Woxsen University, Telengana, has the privilege of instituting a Conference series christened ADoBE with its curtain raiser planned for November 2023. The chain of such events would be a platform for brainstorming,...

Location: Woxsen University; Hyderabad, India

Call for Sessions: SAH Virtual 2024, Conference Chair: Mohammad Gharipour, SAH Vice President, University of Maryland.

The Society of Architectural Historians invites those interested in the history of the built environment to submit a session proposal for its virtual conference—SAH Virtual 2024—that will be held from Thursday, September 19, to Saturday,...

Touched/Retouched: Paper across Time (1400–1800).

The Lise Meitner Group at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History and the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica in Rome invite applications for an intensive one-week, hands-on workshop for early career specialists in the field of...

Location: Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History and the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica; Rome, Italy

Cultural heritage, Territory and Climate resilience is small island states and territories, A special section to appear in: Small States and Territories, 8(1), May 2025, Guest Editors: Stefano Moncada and Pedro Pombo.

Small island states and territories are particularly vulnerable to adverse impacts of climate change. However, insular and small states’ cultural heritages and local knowledge systems, intimately connected with the environment, are often absent in...

BODY MATTERS, the AHRA 2024 International Conference

Body Matters aims to investigate notions of Body in contemporary architectural discourses. Always a fundamental in architecture, the body needs to be reconsidered on its own terms, as a creative, material and philosophical concern. Beyond historical...

Location: University of the Arts; Norwich, United States

Inside Drawings: A Workshop on the Materiality of Unique Works on Paper, A workshop at the Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, funded through Getty’s Paper Project initiative.

The Menil Drawing Institute at the Menil Collection in Houston is dedicated to the study and display of drawing, with a focus on scholarship and raising public appreciation of the medium—from early drawings to modern and contemporary works. ...

Location: The Menil Collection; Houston, United States

Spiritual Landscapes and Photography: An Exploration from the Caucasus to the Mediterranean, Conference organized by the OSCOP project, and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut.

The scope of the OSCOP project is to study and promote the collection of photographs of South Caucasian art and architecture taken by the research group of Adriano Alpago Novello between the 1960s and 1980s, now preserved in the Centre of Study and...

Location: Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut; Florence, Italy

GEOGRAPHIES OF AGE-FRIENDLY CITIES AND COMMUNITIES IN A TRANSITIONING WORLD, Session at the 10th Nordic geographers meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark.

A growing concern for societies globally is population ageing, effecting care needs (increased costs, lack of staff) and older people’s ability to take place in society (ageism, social inclusion, respect, civic participation). Age-friendly cities...

Location: University of Copenhagen; Copenhagen, Denmark

Tales of Timelessness: Understanding the Heritage of Bengal, Conference organised by Panchakot Mahavidyalaya And Centre for Studies in History of Society and Culture in Bengal, Kazi Nazrul University.

Panchakot Mahavidyalaya, Purulia, is organizing a two-day seminar on 'Tales of Timelessness: Understanding the Heritage of West Bengal' from 21st and 22nd March 2024. On this occasion, we are pleased to announce a call for papers, inviting...

Location: Panchakot Mahavidyalaya; Purulia, India

Waste, or the afterlives of repair? Temporality, materiality, politics, Session at the Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies 2024 conference (DASTS-24): Elegies of waste, surplus, and excess.

This panel looks at the interrelationship between waste and repair through a temporal and material lens. It not only asks how waste manifests in a material sense from reparative interventions—broken objects, nonfunctioning components, organic matter...

Location: Technical University of Denmark; Lyngby, Denmark

Staging Climate, Special issue of the international journal, Theatre and Performance Design, Autumn 2024, entitled Staging Climate guest edited by Lawrence Walle.

‘Talking about the weather may well be the only way to sanely continue to talk about the climate without shutting down in understandable despair and inevitable despondency, because weather, in essence, is what happens to us’ (Roelstraete: 2023...

After the Middle Ages (Reception, Remnants, Revival): Architecture and Medievalism

“After the Middle Ages” implies both a temporal horizon, extending from the early modern period to the present day and beyond, and responses to the Middle Ages (medievalism). The conference aims to navigate and shine a spotlight on the...

Location: Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History; Rome, Italy

Fifthteenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment

Founded in 2010, the Constructed Environment Research Network is brought together by a common shared interest in human configurations of the environment and the interactions among the constructed, social and natural environments. As a Research...

Location: Berlin University of Applied Sciences; Berlin, Germany