The 2025 Annual Conference of the Association for Art History will take place on 9-11 April, 2025, at the University of York, UK.
Call for Papers for the session “Who Owns Antiquities?”
Session convenor: Dr Erhan Tamur, University of York, [email protected]
Who owns antiquities? Cultural, legal, economic, and political dimensions of this question continue to inform debates on the restitution and repatriation of antiquities, with immense repercussions for the fields of art history, archaeology and museology. This session invites papers on topics including but not limited to the future of “universal” and “encyclopaedic” museums; restitution-related case studies; the relationship between museology, archaeology and efforts of empire- and nation-building; antiquities and definitions of “decolonisation;” provenance research; indigenous archaeologies; and the antiquities market. We are interested both in critical engagements with the current state of our disciplines as well as informed analyses of future possibilities and challenges. We encourage papers across disciplines, periods, and geographies.
We envision two sessions; each session will include 20-minute research papers, followed by a 20-min-long general discussion/Q&A.
If interested, please email your title and abstract (250 words) to [email protected] by 1 November 2024.
