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CALL FOR PAPERS: “Sacred Conversations”: The Excha CALL FOR PAPERS: “Sacred Conversations”: The Exchange of Objects between Monastic and Secular Courts in Early Modern Central and Eastern Europe
International Interdisciplinary Conference - Abbey of Ottobeuren, Bavaria, Germany, 7-8 May 2027
Organised by Collecting Central Europe, The Medici Archive Project (Florence), and IAH Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague)

In early modern Central and Eastern Europe, monasteries and courts communicated across confessional, political and social boundaries through the exchange of objects—carrying diplomatic weight, devotional meaning, and artistic prestige. Building on the workshops ‘The Medici and the Princely Courts of Central and Eastern Europe: Art, Diplomacy and Material Culture’ (Florence, February 2025) and ‘Talking Stones: Objects and Materiality in Early Modern Central and Eastern Europe’ (Prague, April 2026), this conference further explores the dynamics of communication through objects in Central and Eastern Europe during the early modern period. It broadens this inquiry to encompass the full communicative range of sacred material culture and materiality—from courtly gift-giving to liturgical practice, from monastic collecting to the contemporary mediation of ecclesiastical heritage.

Ottobeuren—seat of powerful prince abbots and home to the newly reconceived Klostermuseum—offers a site-specific setting to consider Central Europe as a crossroads of diplomacy and communication through the building of collections and knowledge, and to reflect on how monastic collections, architecture and museum practice shape the ongoing life of sacred objects.

We particularly welcome contributions addressing the sacrality of objects and their circulation between princes of the Church and secular courts—from the Italian states to the Holy Roman Empire and beyond—and from the early modern period to the present. Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches are encouraged (e.g., Art History, History of Collecting, History of Science, Ecclesiastical History, Museum/Heritage Studies, Digital Humanities).

For more information, including how to submit an abstract, click the link in our bio.

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This summer, MAP’s Center for Women in Renaissance This summer, MAP’s Center for Women in Renaissance Archives is delving deeper into the manuscript treatise ON THE DIGNITY AND NOBILITY OF WOMEN. Written in Florence by Cristofano Bronzini and largely completed by 1622, this encyclopedic manuscript comprises 13,000 handwritten pages distributed over 36 tomes.

Since 2019, this project has digitized this massive text, which remains the largest written work in the tradition of debates about the nature and virtues of women—the “querelle des femmes”. Its contents include dialogues of pro-women arguments, ethnographic observations of women all over the world, and thousands of pages that have yet to be read by modern scholars. 

Bronzini’s discussions of the roles and accomplishments of women are paramount to this project’s aims, given that so little of his manuscript has been studied. The manuscript has remarkably provided the earliest written biographies for women artists such as Giovanna Garzoni and Artemisia Gentileschi. Bronzini also personally knew several of the artists he wrote about, including Lavinia Fontana and Arcangela Paladini. This summer, the Center for Women in Renaissance Archives will be researching the nature of this treatise’s creation and its contents, with hopes of uncovering as much information from this invaluable source as possible!

#querelledesfemmes #womanquestion #history #arthistory #women #womenshistory #renaissance #earlymodern #artemisiagentileschi #bronzini #cristofanobronzini #digitization #digitalhumanities #humanities #laviniafontana #arcangelapaladini #womenartists #womanartist
CALL FOR PAPERS: Marking Completion: The Status an CALL FOR PAPERS: Marking Completion: The Status and Circulation of Drawings from the 15th Century to Today 
International Workshop - 22-23 September 2026, Florence

Organized with the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects” at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck Institute

When is a drawing complete, independent, or “finished”? Is the concept of completion a conscious decision made by the artist, or something that happens later, in the hands of collectors, dealers, curators, or algorithms? The aim of this workshop is to investigate when and whether drawings were considered “finished” and how that sense of completion is frustrated as drawings move between contexts from the fifteenth century to today. The workshop treats drawings as independent objects that circulate and accrue economic and emotional value, and generate knowledge across art, science, design, and technology.

This two-day workshop will be hosted across three venues: on the first day at the Medici Archive Project (Palazzo Alberti), and on the second day at the Kunsthistorisches Institut (Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai) with a visit to the drawing collection of the Museo Galileo, organized in collaboration with the museum.

We welcome proposals from scholars at all career stages whose work engages with the material, epistemic, or institutional dimensions of drawing.
Submissions are due 10 July 2026.

For more information including how to apply, click the link in our bio.

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CALL FOR PAPERS, Panel at RSA Philadelphia 2027 (M CALL FOR PAPERS, Panel at RSA Philadelphia 2027 (March 11-13, 2027):
The “Last Florentine Republic” at 500

In May 1527, following the sack of Rome, the inhabitants of Florence expelled the Medici family for the last time. This ushered the so-called “Last Republic” and began several years of crisis and transition in the city. For the second time in less than forty years, Florentines experimented with new social and political institutions and attempted to craft an effective, enduring government free from Medici predominance. This session seeks papers that reconsider and reinterpret the causes, experiences, and representations of the events of 1527 (and the years up to surrender of the city in August 1530) from across disciplines. The session will be co-sponsored by the Medici Archive Project and the RSA History discipline representative.

For submission please provide:
• paper title (15-word maximum)
• paper abstract (200-word maximum)
• resume (.pdf or .doc upload, maximum 2 pages)
• full name, current affiliation, and email address

Email submissions or enquiries to Nicholas Baker at nbaker2@richmond.edu and Alessio Assonitis at education@medici.org.

Submit proposals by July 15. Accepted presenters will be notified by July 31 or shortly thereafter.

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