The Society for the History of Collecting invites you to its online lecture: Organised by The West Coast Chapter Understanding the Past, Designing the Future Tal Granovsky Amit, The Rose Fashion and Textile Archive, Shenkar Wednesday 9 February, 2022 at 10:00AM PST // 1:00PM EST // 6:00PM BST // 7:00PM CET The Rose Fashion and … Continue reading Understanding the Past, Designing the Future (9 Feb, 2022)
The Seminar for Collecting and Display: The 5th Earl and Countess of Exeter as late seventeenth century collectors of contemporary Italian art (7 February, at 6 p.m. GMT)
The Seminar for Collecting and Display invites you to its seminar on Monday, 7 February, at 6 p.m. GMT by Zoom Amy Lim will speak on: The 5th Earl and Countess of Exeter as late seventeenth century collectors of contemporary Italian art Between 1678 and 1700, John Cecil, the ‘Travelling Earl’ of Exeter, and his … Continue reading The Seminar for Collecting and Display: The 5th Earl and Countess of Exeter as late seventeenth century collectors of contemporary Italian art (7 February, at 6 p.m. GMT)
‘The long history of the return and restitution of the Benin royal treasures to Nigeria’ (2 Feb, 2022)
The Society for the History of Collecting invites you to its Online Lecture Organised by the French Chapter ‘The long history of the return and restitution of the Benin royal treasures to Nigeria’ Felicity Bodenstein, Sorbonne Université, Paris 2 February 2022, 7.30pm (CET), 6.30pm (GMT) This talk considers the long history of requests for return, … Continue reading ‘The long history of the return and restitution of the Benin royal treasures to Nigeria’ (2 Feb, 2022)
CFP: Things on the Move – Materiality of Objects in Global and Imperial Trajectories, 1700-1900 (8-10 September 2022)
An International Conference organized by the German Historical Institute London in Collaboration with the Prize Papers Project The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were defined by increased globalization, the growth of empires outside Europe, the emergence of global markets, and the establishment of colonial rule in many parts of the world. As recent scholarship has shown, an amplified movement … Continue reading CFP: Things on the Move – Materiality of Objects in Global and Imperial Trajectories, 1700-1900 (8-10 September 2022)
ECR & PhD Workshop: ‘New Perspectives on Hans Sloane’ Part 2 (27 Jan, 2022)
The Society for the History of Collecting Invites you to its Online Lecture ‘New Perspectives on Hans Sloane’ (Part Two) ECR & PhD Workshop Thursday 27th January, 2022 6.30pm (GMT) This two-part workshop provides a platform for new research across the collections of Hans Sloane (1660–1753). Sloane – a physician, naturalist and president of both … Continue reading ECR & PhD Workshop: ‘New Perspectives on Hans Sloane’ Part 2 (27 Jan, 2022)