Events

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Art, Mobility and Border Politics between Italy and North Africa: 1869 – 1993

Workshop
This workshop explores the entanglement of artistic production, human mobility and border politics between Italy and North Africa from the mid-nineteenth through the twentieth century. Its main objective is to challenge the hegemony of European and North American models in studies of modern Italian art, shedding light on the interconnectedness of culture, history and politics across the Mediterranean. [mehr]

Art and Labour in the Age of AI

Workshop
From the nineteenth century onwards, progressive historians emphasized labour as central to social history, and to artistic practice itself: the artist as worker. But what becomes of this view when labour—artistic as well as non-artistic—is fundamentally reframed by artificial intelligence? This question connects directly to the work of Hans Hess, the German Jewish émigré art historian who introduced museology to the UK and played a decisive role in the postwar reception of German Expressionism. Hess placed labour at the centre of art history, and his many unpublished writings are now coming to light through an ongoing archival project. [mehr]

Metamorphosis and the Digital

Workshop
Following the conference Metamorfosi nelle/delle immagini (Rome, September 2024), this second edition, Metamorphosis and the Digital, explores the intersections of iconology, intermediality, and digital humanities at a moment when multimodal AI is reshaping the study of images and texts. [mehr]
The image is a composition of a page digitization and code to illustrate the topic of the conference
The digital publishing landscape in the humanities, particularly in art history, is evolving at an unprecedented pace. As new infrastructures, workflows, and technologies emerge, the exchange of ideas and experiences becomes essential for those at the forefront of this transformation [mehr]
The Methodology Seminars for Art History in Ukraine: Epistemologies, Agencies, and Margins is a first edition of a two-year scholarly initiative committed to rethinking methodological approaches and future directions of art history within Ukraine. [mehr]
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