Challenges in provenance research and art restitution – Vienna 30.11-01.12.26- CfP

The signing of the Washington Declaration in 1998 marked the starting point for the establishment of new, systematic provenance research focusing on the period between 1933 and 1945. In recent years, provenance research has increasingly intersected with other contexts of injustice, including colonialism, Soviet Occupation Zone/GDR, and is subject to public demand. Conference in Vienna.

One of the themes to be dealt with is:

  • What research and action guidelines developed in Nazi-era provenance research can be applied to other contexts of injustice (e.g., colonial or SOZ contexts), and how can this field contribute to history more broadly?

 

Please send proposals for conference contributions (max. 250 words) with a title and a short biographical sketch (max. 100 words) by email with the subject line “CFP Challenges in provenance research and art restitution 2026” to provenienzforschung@bda.gv.at by March 31, 2026.