To celebrate the re-launch of Revista de História da Arte in 2023, they are inviting submissions for a themed issue on the topic of ‘Re-turns: on future art histories’ (working title). Taking these broad conceptual categories into consideration, re-turn might be a useful strategy to revisit and unlearn in order to understand anew. There is interested in approaching, via art history, different chronologies and spatial organisations in order to repair tangled pasts. In Azoulay’s words (2019: 539), ‘[R]eparation is the right of return and the right to return — return as a reparative modality that rewinds the movement of the forward-thrusting shutter.’ While Azoulay argues for undoings, any contributions that explore returns and reversals, rewritings and renewals, paying attention to how we can learn, analyse, archive, articulate, represent, record and otherwise uncover are welcome.

Collaborative and/or interdisciplinary submissions are particularly welcomed, as well as proposals that address the notions of return and re-turn, not to dwell on the past, but in order to understand how art history, as a practice and a process, might pave the way for more equal, ethical, responsible, and caring communal futures.

Deadline for abstracts: March 1st

See more details here: https://rha.fcsh.unl.pt/index.php/rha/CallforContributions