The Institute of Art History – The Cvito Fiskovic Centre in Split announced a call for papers for an international scientific meeting / round table organized as part of a week of events in scholarship and research DISCOVERING DALMATIA IX on October 20–21, 2023.

How to explore a specifically female view of the artistic heritage of Dalmatia through books, documents (letters, manuscripts, diaries, drawings) and works of art from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries? The beginning of the answer to this question was made in the creation of a chronogeographic database of “grand tourism” in Dalmatia (http://grandtourdalmatia.org/chrono-geographical-database/mapping-history/), as part of the CSF Grand Tour Dalmatia project (UIP-2013-11-7091, 2014-17), through which numerous travelogues of Dalmatia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were collected and classified.

Focusing on trips to Dalmatia (but not exclusively so), this gathering will consider the specificity of women’s views of the artistic heritage of Dalmatia through collected case studies. But the organisers are also interested in how travel served women: the ways in which women established themselves as experienced travellers, respected authors, and disciplinary experts from the eighteenth century, during a period when their rights were seriously challenged.

Scientific Committee:
Josko Belamaric (Institute of Art History – Cvito Fiskovic Centre Split)
Mateo Bratanic (University of Zadar, Department of History)
Katrina O’Loughlin (Brunel University London)
Cvijeta Pavlovic (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)
Marko Spikic (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)
Ana Sverko (Institute of Art History – Cvito Fiskovic Centre Split)
Elke Katharina Wittich (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

Organizing Committee:
Josko Belamaric (Institute of Art History – Cvito Fiskovic Centre Split)
Tomislav Bosnic (Institute of Art History – Cvito Fiskovic Centre Split)
Ana Curic (Institute of Art History)
Ana Sverko (Institute of Art History – Cvito Fiskovic Centre Split)

They welcome proposals for 20-minute papers. Proposals consisting of a 250-word abstract and a short CV in Croatian or English should be sent via email as a pdf attachment to discoveringdalmatia@gmail.com by 06/08/2023.

No participation fee will be charged for this conference. The organisers do not cover travel and accommodation costs.
Papers and discussion will be conducted in Croatian or in English.
The organisers propose to publish a collection of papers from the conference.

More information: https://www.ipu.hr/article/en/1434/discovering-dalmatia-ix