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Christie's is delighted to announce the second year of the Christie’s Grant for Nazi-era Provenance Research, supporting the next generation of provenance researchers in this field. The grant will be offered to four recipients (£5,000 each), to fund forward-thinking academic, post-graduate research into subjects related to Nazi-era provenance research and restitution. In addition, and new in 2024, Christie’s will also offer five grants of £1,000 each to undergraduates who are studying Nazi-era and restitution-related topics, and who may be considering a future career or study in this area, with a view to deepening their interest in the subject. Sarah Done, Senior Director, Restitution commented: “The confiscations, forced sales and looting of artworks during the Nazi-era was an unprecedented theft. Research into personal and cultural loss has grown exponentially over the last 25 years. Without the dedication and tenacity of researchers, it would be almost impossible to uncover and record this history, and to advance restitution efforts. But there is much more to do. That is why, for the second consecutive year, Christie’s is delighted to support the next generation of Nazi-era provenance researchers. The exchange of ideas and engagement with last year’s grant applicants was a rewarding part of our ‘Reflecting on Restitution’ programme, honouring the 25th anniversary of the Washington Principles. We look forward to increasing our support this year.” https://lnkd.in/eavnbBK9 #Christies #restitution #provenanceresearch #arthistory #grants

Memory scholars & P/CVE practitioners working on #memory after #terrorism , you are warmly invited to take part in this excellent research by Kostas Arvanitis!

The Challenge Trove is an online platform owned and run by the National Library of Australia. It’s used by more than 30,000 people every day, including members of the humanities, arts and social science (HASS) research community, to access, create and analyse Australia’s cultural data. Trove is an aggregation and shared repository of cultural collections from more than 900 gallery, library, archive and museum (GLAM) partners, including 41 million pages of digitised collection material. Its content is fully searchable, opening new research questions for Australian HASS researchers to explore. The Response Our project, Trove Enhancements, has improved the Trove pages for researchers and updated the public Trove API to provide better support for Australian HASS researchers. Who Will Benefit Enhancing Trove gives HASS researchers in Australia a competitive advantage through data. The Partners The National Library of Australia led this project. The Trove Researcher Consultation Report, written by Independent Advisor Joanne Tompkins, was released following consultation with the research community about Trove and how they use it. Read the report. https://lnkd.in/gHnXW8mH

❓ How does the Natural History Museum, London put "Open by Default" into practice? 👉 Check out the #PolicyBrief openly published in our journal: https://lnkd.in/dEx4TK8K to find the rationale behind the policy at this key DiSSCo | Distributed System of Scientific Collections member and the policy itself. #biodiversity #biodiversitydata #digitisation #digitization #collections #naturalhistory #datamanagement #FAIRdata #scientific #scientificresearch #openscience #openaccess #openresearch #scientists

Are you a researcher interested in colonial arts and preservation? Do you have an interest in objects and collections with a colonial context?Then this is for you 😊 The Dutch Research Council is calling on researchers interested in colonial arts to apply for its research grants. This grant aims to fosters collaboration between researchers from countries of origin and Dutch museums, promoting knowledge development and exchange on objects with a colonial context. Interested parties should apply through this link: https://lnkd.in/dSq-W_8B Applications close on the 19th of March 🇳🇱🇳🇬 #nlinigeria #scholarshipoppurtunity #culturalexchange #solvingglobalchallengestogether

Call for Papers: 'Do We Belong Together? Case Studies into Portrait Pendants', HNA Conference, London and Cambridge (10-13 July 2024) What are the definitive reasons to assert that two portraits were conceived as a pair? In this panel, we wish to open up the discussion into portrait pairs by inviting 10-minute presentations of recent case studies. What methods were used to investigate whether the paintings were companions? What was the role of technical studies, and with what result? Was there a shared provenance, and how was this interpreted in the research? The goal of the discussion is to reach a more nuanced understanding of the complexity of attributions of pairs. Please find more info and the full CFP via this link, and submit your proposal to me and my co-chairs Jørgen Wadum & Lucy Davis (Wallace Collection) by 29 September via jager@rkd.nl https://lnkd.in/eZXWJJM4

How can we ensure that the external evaluations we solicit for our halls and galleries are rigorous and serve our museum goals? How can we be clear about what type of evaluation we need, to make sure they result in findings that can inform our future exhibition design and work with visitors? To help us examine questions about equity and access across programs / educational experiences? To strengthen collaborations with external evaluators--whose good work is so important to our strategic planning--we have found that having a set of guidelines for the process helps ensure the collective work is fruitful. We have also developed a rubric to use to review proposals (especially helpful if we are considering multiple proposals). These guidelines and rubric have helped us identify a set of external evaluation partners who work closely with us and take rigorous and systematic approaches to examining the impact of programs and exhibitions in our spaces! To learn more check out this article authored by Drs Anna MacPherson and Preeti Gupta and me at the American Museum of Natural History. https://lnkd.in/e_RFrrny The guidelines and rubric can be found on our evaluation pages here: https://lnkd.in/eCU6irgR #STEM #equity #evaluation #museums #guidelines #rubrics

📣𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗺𝘀 𝗻𝗼. 𝟭/𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰🏛 🆕The Romanian Journal for Museums, a publication indexed in CEEOL, EBSCO and J-Gate For issue 1/2024 of the Journal, we invite authors to reflect on museums in the context of the educational and creative experiences they offer to the public. The main theme for the articles: 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙪𝙢𝙨 𝙖𝙨 𝙙𝙮𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 is accompanied by numerous 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘀 and sections: ✒️𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀 of other publications or museum exhibitions ✒️𝗢𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀 - authors can present their critical, reasoned and constructive views related to the main theme, recurring themes of the Journal or other museum related topics. ⏳The deadline for submissions is 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟱𝘁𝗵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰, and the best selected submissions will, as usual, be remunerated. 🙌We encourage you to carefully go through the editing guide and follow the writing rules. We look forward to receiving your contributions on revistamuzeelor@culturadata.ro Find the full version of the Call for papers and the Editing Guide here 👇 https://lnkd.in/d_cmXq8d

COP28 UAE presidency is advocating for #actionism - it’s time to implement #netzero and #naturebasedsolutions with urgency and integrity, at unprecedented rates. No room for errors. We need to learn from the huge mistakes of the voluntary #carbonmarket and make sure we have the governance, accountability frameworks, transparency to implement #NbS with integrity: ecologically sound, socially just, economically viable, and net zero aligned, of course! #biodiversity #naturebasedsolutions #naturefinance #cop28uae #actionism #naturepositive #naturerecovery #netzero #climatechange #climateactionnow

Catalogue Co-Ordinator role 📖 I had the opportunity to compose, collect and edit the main body of text for this year’s History of Art and Museum Studies Symposium, titled Humanity: The Response. Jamie Newall did such an amazing job on the layout and colour schemes, and Issy’s cover reflects the vast array of topics appearing throughout the symposium, reflecting the collaborative nature of the event. During the design phases of Humanity: The Response, the emerging themes of resistance, mortality and connection held a defining grasp over the symposium. The research papers being presented will reflect the collective resilience of humanity’s stories in reaction to both anticipated times and unprecedented events, as told through diverse and personal curiosity which drives the research. This research is then, in turn, interwoven with knowledge gained through the students' time earning their degrees, to result in a comprehensive and analytical examination of the artistic products of humanity. The state of being human is arguably the most prevalent and overarching topic covered within art history, and therefore can be applied to this symposium through exploring the different avenues of our past existence and informing potential directions going forward. #symposium #historyofart #historyofartandmuseumstudies. #mortalunderstanding