SUBMISSION DEADLINE APPROACHING (July 31) for the Call for Papers for the Rubenshuis’s conference Tout le monde pour ma patrie: Rubens and the World, Antwerp, May 5–6, 2025
As the CRLB draws to a close and as Antwerp’s Royal Museum of Fine Arts (KMSKA) prepares for a Global Rubens exhibition in 2027, the moment is ripe to convene a group of scholars whose subjects intersect with Rubens’s art and/or career and who engage this material in methodologically diverse and innovative ways. The Rubenshuis, in partnership with the 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 full call for papers, see our previous news posting.