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Art History beyond Identity? Reflections on Relationality: The Case of Vicente do Rego Monteiro

Research Seminar
In 1925, the Brazilian-born artist Vicente do Rego Monteiro published a remarkable illustrated book of poems about Paris, Quelques visages de Paris (A few faces/views of Paris). The project emerged from the author’s own experience of travelling to the French capital, but in it Rego Monteiro also engaged the topic of translation on a thematic level. [more]

Arts and Regimes in Fascist Italy

Research Seminar
This talk will address the highly charged relationships between the arts and the Italian Fascist regime. After unpacking the notion of State art, the use of digital humanities tools to illustrate offer a comprehensive and systemic view on the arts during the regime will be discussed. [more]

Machine Bildwissenschaft

This full-day conference launches the new Machine Visual Culture research group at the Bibliotheca Hertziana. [more]

Keynote Lecture: "AI and Visual Culture: A Theory of Latent Spaces"

A theory of images and visual culture, today, needs a theory of latent spaces. In a historical phase in which images are more and more generated, modified, circulated, seen and described by or with the help of different kinds of AI models, we need to understand the crucial role played by an abstract, mathematical construct whose cultural and political implications could hardly be overestimated. [more]

"Militarist Realism": Colonialism, Monuments, Museums, and Knowledge

Research Seminar
The research seminar introduces some of the main themes of Professor Hicks’ new book Every Monument Will Fall: a Story of Remembering and Forgetting (2025); it will explore how it might be possible to begin to join the dots between three anti-colonial movements in institutions of art, culture and education. [more]

Boundaries, Passages, and the Movement of Media: The Painted Screen-Walls of Franciscan Observant Churches in the Italian Alps

Research Seminar
Medieval or Renaissance? Germanic or Italian? Inclusive or exclusionary? Painting, sculpture, or architecture? Documentary or visionary? When it comes to the painted screen-walls in churches of the Italian Alps, the answer to all these questions is, if not a resounding yes, then at least, it’s complicated. [more]

Empty Boxes? Modeling the Lost and Ephemeral in Premodern Sacred Spaces

Interdisciplinary Conference
Premodern sacred space was never in stasis. It was moving and active; in flux by definition, it poses many difficulties for historical narrative, conservation, and restoration practices. This two day international conference highlights some of the most recent methodological questions and approaches to modeling unstable materials and activities. [more]
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