Invitation only 📅 17 septembre 2026 📍 INHA, Paris 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…

Invitation only training 📅 1-5 June 2026 📍 INHA and BnF Richelieu, Paris Wijad Academy is a two-year, 80-hour program for MA and PhD students/candidates in disciplines that work with manuscripts produced in the Arabic script. The program of the academy covers different scientific, historical, material, aesthetic, legal, and technological aspects associated with the study of manuscripts. Wijad has a particular focus on Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscripts. Proposed by the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) in 2024 and supported by a consortium of eight academic and cultural institutions in France, Lebanon and Turkey. INHA will host a session on iconography in Arab manuscript on 3 June 2026. The event…