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Call for Papers: Metals, Minerals, and Material Worlds, Czech Academy of Sciences

October 1, 2026

Eligibility

Open to all scholars. 

Description

The Czech Academy of Sciences is accepting papers for its Metals, Minerals, and Material Worlds: Art, Extraction, and Knowledge in Central Europe and Beyond symposium to be held on May 19-21, 2027. This interdisciplinary symposium will examine the material worlds of metals and minerals—following them from the geological and mineralogical conditions of their formation, through their extraction, smelting, processing, transport, and trade, into the objects, images, and substances they become, and on to their use, consumption, and afterlives.

Apply

To apply, please submit the following to [email protected]:

  • Name
  • Current affiliation
  • Email address
  • Paper title and abstract of no more than 300 words
  • CV of no more than two pages

This symposium is funded by the Getty Foundation's Connecting Art Histories program.