Workshop | Mapping the Legal and Institutional Contexts of Archives in Art History and Archaeology. The Near East, Iranian Worlds, the Caucasus

Invitation only

The workshop aims to bring together, on the one hand, researchers working on archival collections in art history and archaeology, and on the other, legal scholars, in order to create a working space and to propose answers to the legal issues raised by the study of these archives. The starting point of this meeting is a series of questions: what legal rules apply to archival collections? Does the legal framework vary according to geographical area or the nature of the collections under study? What are the legal prerequisites for working with an archival collection?

This first session is intended to inaugurate a series of biannual workshops devoted to the legal status of archives. More broadly, the aim is to foster an epistemological reflection on remote research, on the status of the archive, and on the way in which the nature of the material shapes strategies of scholarly inquiry.

Speakers: Vincent Négri (ISSP), Emilie Terrier (Grenoble University), Élodie Voillot-Blanchard (INP)