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HNA Conference | Britain and the Low Countries: Cultural Exchange Past, Present, and Future
London and Cambridge, 10–13 July 2024

Proposals due by 29 September 2023

2024 marks the first time in the forty-year history of the Historians of Netherlandish Art that the biennial conference will be held in the UK. Cultural, political, and economic exchange has been pivotal to the histories of the UK and the Low Countries, and these relationships have taken on new significance and have new potential as the UK renegotiates its relationship with Europe after Brexit. Britain and the Low Countries: Cultural Exchange Past, Present & Future considers the extraordinary depth and breadth of the relationships between the constituent nations of the UK, Belgium, and The Netherlands.

The conference is comprised of workshops in London and Cambridge on 10 and 13 July and 40 paper sessions to be delivered at West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge on 11 and 12 July. Thirteen of the sessions relate to the subject of Britain and the Low Countries. These fall under three broad themes: technology and the natural sciences, key themes in scholarship on British-Netherlandish culture, and medium-based scholarship in the British-Netherlandish context. There are 25 further sessions on a broad range of themes and 2 career-development sessions.

The call for papers is now open for all sessions. Each session is 90-minutes long and, unless otherwise specified, will comprise three 20-minute papers and 30 minutes for discussion. Applicants must be HNA members and are allowed to submit multiple proposals but may not participate in more than one session. We ask that applicants inform the session chairs about the other sessions they are applying to. Unless specified otherwise, please send proposals of about 500 words, clearly stating the goals of the paper, along with a CV (no longer than one page) to the email address(es) ascribed to the session descriptions below.

The deadline for proposals is Friday, 29 September 2023. Applicants will be notified by the programme committee no later than four weeks after the submission deadline.

Please consider contributing to HNA IDEA’s appeal for contributions to an equitable conference.

s e s s i o n s  a t  a  g l a n c e

• Copies and Reproductions in Netherlandish Art, 1400–1800
• Existential In(ter)ventions: Modernity as Makeability in the Dutch Republic
• Infinite Concordances: Elaborating on Visual Typology in Early Modern Netherlandish Art
• The ‘Inventions’ of Early Netherlandish Painting: Thirty Years since Hans Belting and Christiane Kruse’s Die Erfindung des Gemäldes: Das erste Jahrhundert der niederländischen Malerei (1994)
• Embracing the Digital Age: New Prospects for Researching Northern European Art with Computational Methods
• The ‘More-Than-Human World’ in 17th-Century Dutch Visual and Material Culture
• The Multidimensionality of Netherlandish Grotesques
• What is Anglo-Dutchness?
• Netherlandish-isms: Making Nationhood and Art History
• Reading Pendants and Multiples in Dutch and Flemish Art
• Gender and the Home across Cultures
• Remarkable Women Artists, 1500–1700
• Multiple Masculinities in Netherlandish Art
• Sound and Silence: Soundscapes, Noise, Music, and Quiet Pauses in Dutch and Flemish Art
• New Views on Vermeer: Reflections, Opinions, Reconsiderations
• Moving Dutch Knowledge: Collections as Knowledge Repositories and Sites of Transformation and Transfiguration (ANKK sponsored session)
• Museums in Conflict: Lessons Learned, 1930–1950
• Technical Art History: Material Stories – Object Itineraries
• Do We Belong Together? Case Studies into Portrait Pendants
• The Interconnected Nature between Britain and the Low Countries in the Production and Decorating of Glass
• Art and Nature in the Dutch Colonial World
• Worldly Images and Images of the World in Netherlandish Art
• Half the World Away: Cultural Circulations between Isfahan and the Early Modern Low Countries
• Mutual Appreciation and Exchanges between Artists of Northern and Southern Europe, 1590–1725
• Culture and Climate Change
• The Landscapes of Artists from the Netherlands Who Worked in Britain during the Long 17th Century
• ‘Soft Power’: The Material Legacy of William and Mary
• Netherlandish Migrant Artists and the emergence of Creativity in Late 17th-Century London
• Collecting and Exchange between North Sea Neighbours
• Netherlandish Art in Renaissance Florence: Architectural Exchanges from North to South?
• Print Culture between the UK and the Low Countries
• Print Exhibitions in the Making and Related Research
• New Research on Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the UK
• Immigrants and Excellence: Sculptors from the Low Countries at the English and Scottish Courts in the 17th and 18th Centuries
• Connecting Threads: Tapestries and Cultural Exchange in the Low Countries and England
• Material Depiction and (Cut-out) Trompe l’oeils: The Enchantment of Material Depiction by Netherlandish Painters and the Development of British Traditions
• Visual Sovereignty in Dutch and Indigenous Histories
• Visual Cultures of Cartography in the Low Countries, 1500–1800
• Professional Insights and Practical Advice for Early Career Researchers
• Pecha Kucha Workshop for Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers

Session descriptions are available here»