Call for Papers: Tout le monde pour ma patrie: Rubens and the World

Deadline: 31 July 2024
Conference date: 5-6 May 2025
Location: Rubenshuis, Kolveniersstraat 20, Antwerp

The Rubenshuis, in partnership with Antwerp’s Royal Museum of Fine Arts (KMSKA), invites proposals for papers that situate Rubens on a global stage: Rubens as artistic personality and generator of images and ideas but also as foil, historiographical roadblock, and at times incidental character in narratives focused elsewhere and on other matters. In scope and framework, this conference aspires to achieve diversity, in terms of the kinds of objects of study, the sources employed, the methodologies and writing styles deployed, and indeed the extent to which Rubens himself and his oeuvre figure in any given aspect of the project. Participants may choose to address not only particular material but also the complicated historiographical dynamics that Rubens and his oeuvre pose, as viewed from a range of disparate contexts and perspectives. We welcome studies that examine source material from around the world that, in one way or another, touches on Rubens’s oeuvre. The hope is that the conference – while bringing together a broad range of material, methods, and perspectives – will add to the discourse on the early modern global but with a sustained thematic focus on its intersection with one artist’s career and oeuvre.

Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words, along with a CV, to Abigail Newman (Abigail.Newman@antwerpen.be) by July 31, 2024. Further questions also welcome. Speakers will be asked to send full drafts of their talks by March 15, 2025.

 

For more information: Rubens and the World – CFP