Between 1594 and 1602, the Florentine merchant Francesco Carletti (1573-1636) circumnavigated the world... Read more about Carletti’s World: An Early Modern Global Voyage

The Land Between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300-1700 brings together scholars focusing on the strong riverine ties that connect the seas of the Mediterranean system... Read more about The Land Between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300-1700

The 600^th anniversary of the inauguration of the Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence provides an opportunity to re-examine the contexts for foundling care both within and beyond this pioneering institution. ... Read more about Common Children and the Common Good: Locating Foundlings in the Early Modern World (Dai bambini “comuni” al bene comune: i trovatelli nella prima età moderna)

Crossroads Africa is a two-day conference that will bring together art historians and curators, archaeologists, and historians of political institutions, economics, and the slave trade, ... Read more about Crossroads Africa: African Engagement in the Making of Early Modernity. An International Conference

With the rise of global history and art history, there is an ever-more intense interest in the Mongol period as a historiographical watershed.... Read more about The Mongols and Global History: An International Conference

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Robert Klein (1918-2018), this conference will bring together scholars to reconsider the published and unpublished works of one of the most erudite and inventive art historians of the twentieth century. ... Read more about Robert Klein, Art Historian and Philosopher