[spectre] CFP: Second Methodology Seminar for Art History in Ukraine (Lviv/online, Mar-Oct 26)

[Andreas Broeckmann LEU]

From: Oleksandra Osadcha
Date: Dec 11, 2025
Subject: CFP: Second Methodology Seminar for Art History in Ukraine 
(Lviv/online, Mar-Oct 26)

Max Weber Foundation’s Research Centre Ukraine, Lviv/online
Deadline: Jan 18, 2026

The Methodology Seminars for Art History in Ukraine is a two-year 
scholarly initiative dedicated to rethinking the foundations and future 
directions of art history in Ukraine. The Seminars serve as a platform 
for early-career researchers from Ukraine and international scholars to 
collaborate on critical and practice-oriented reflection on art 
historical methodology. It aims to foster deeper awareness of how 
knowledge is produced, transmitted, and situated – and to explore how 
disciplinary practices might be reconfigured in response to both local 
contexts and global shifts within the humanities.

The second edition, Art History in the Expanded Field, will be dedicated 
to rethinking the established hierarchies and universalities in the 
field and discussing the multivocal, horizontal, and situated 
approaches. Departing from the critical need to overcome the domination 
of homogenizing discourse within the discipline and its epistemological 
implications, we invite the participants to explore together the 
possibilities of art history beyond the established universal rankings, 
categories, or binaries, discovering neglected and unobvious 
decentralised connections and entangled developments.

Structure and time frame:
March-June:
The second edition of The Methodology Seminars  will bring together 10 
early-career scholars working in art history or related fields. The 
initial phase of the second Seminar will take place online from March to 
June 2026. During this period, participants will work together in eight 
biweekly webinars focused on theoretical readings curated by the 
organising team, while concurrently developing their individual research 
projects.
In-between the webinars, there will be 3 theoretical sessions, delivered 
by experts, introducing the main concept and ideas to be further 
explored by the readings.

June-July: In June and July, each participant will receive personalised 
feedback on their work during a one-on-one session with an invited 
international senior expert.

Septemer-October:
The second Seminar will conclude with a week-long residency in Lviv at 
the Research Centre Ukraine — Max Weber Foundation (September 28-October 
2, 2026), where participants will present their work-in-progress 
research, showing its development throughout the Seminar. The 
presentations should clearly demonstrate how they employ the theoretical 
and methodological tools explored during the webinars.

We invite research proposals from Ukrainian and international scholars 
that resonate with a conceptual framework of the seminar and involve 
research on Ukrainian art from a transcultural perspective, aimed at 
exploring the complexity of artistic practices and phenomena beyond the 
national paradigm of art history.

Eligible are students with a master’s degree as well as doctoral and 
postdoctoral researchers in art history and related fields from Ukraine 
and abroad. The working language of the seminars is English. The 
participants of the first edition of The Methodology Seminars are 
eligible to apply.

Possible (but non-exclusive) areas of research:
-regional, transregional, transcultural connections and elective 
affinities in art history
-non-diachronic art history
-paradoxical identities and challenges of national art history narratives
- opacity and invisibility in art history
-cultural transfer beyond center-periphery, invention-imitation dichotomies
-entangled objects and object biographies
  -hybridity, mutation,  and symbiotic life of images
-circulation of images within the networked digital environment - 
shifting dichotomy of art/non-art

Application:
To apply, candidates must submit:
- a CV (PDF)
- a motivation letter (PDF, max. 2 pages)
- a short research proposal (PDF, max. 2 pages)

Applications must be submitted via the following platform: 
https://recruitment.biblhertz.it. Applications are accepted until 
January 18, 2026.
Results of the selection process will be communicated by mid-January.

For more information, please see here. For any inquiries please contact: 
methodologyseminar at gmail.com.

Terms of participation:
Each selected participant will receive an honorarium of 500 EUR, awarded 
upon successful completion of the seminar. Travel, accommodation, and 
per diem expenses for the on-site portion of the program will be fully 
covered. Participation in all the webinars is mandatory. Every other 
week, an assigned moderator from the group will gather written feedback 
of one or two pages from participants and prepare a concise summary and 
questions about the assigned readings. Webinar topics will be biweekly 
in the late afternoon, each lasting two hours. The final schedule will 
be shaped in consultation with the selected participants. We ask all 
applicants to ensure their full commitment to the program and active 
contribution to the group’s collective work.

Throughout both the online and in-person components of the Methodology 
Seminars for Art History in Ukraine, participants will be supported by 
international experts, whose names will be announced at a later date.

The academy is funded by the Connecting Art Histories initiative of the 
Getty Foundation, Los Angeles, supported by the Research Centre Ukraine 
– Max Weber Foundation, Lviv, and the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck 
Institute for Art History, Rome, and organized by Kateryna Filyuk PhD, 
Lesia Kulchynska PhD, and Oleksandra Osadch PhD.


Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Second Methodology Seminar for Art History in Ukraine (Lviv/online, 
Mar-Oct 26). In: ArtHist.net, Dec 11, 2025. 
<https://arthist.net/archive/51318>.