Call for applications and contributions

Call for papers – Italian Sculpture from the 13th to the 18th Centuries: From Dispersal to Preservation as Cultural Heritage (1815–1915)

Rome, École française de Rome and Académie de France à Rome – Villa Medici, June 23 and 24, 2027
Paris, Institut national d’histoire de l’art and École du Louvre, October 11 and 12, 2027

Application deadline: November 15, 2026

Paris–Rome Fellowship in Digital Art History 2026/27

National and International Research Travel Grants – Year 2026

The Institut national d’histoire de l’art offers financial support to young researchers (doctoral and postdoctoral students) for projects related to art history.

Research Travel Grants for Art History Students – Year 2026

The Institut national d’histoire de l’art offers several scholarships to support art history students at the master’s level who need to travel to France for research purposes.

Call for papers: “’Degenerate’ art. A French/German cross-history

In conjunction with the exhibition “'Degenerate' Art. Le procès de l'art moderne sous le nazisme" on view at the Musée national Picasso-Paris from February 18 to May 25, 2025, and the Répertoire des acteurs du marché de l'art en France sous l'Occupation (RAMA) program of the Institut national d'histoire de l'art, the Musée national Picasso-Paris, the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, the Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme, the German Center for Art History (DFK Paris) are organizing an international colloquium on this theme in Paris on March 27 and 28, 2025.

Research Travel Grants for Art History Students for the Year 2025

The Institut national d'histoire de l'art offers several scholarships to support art history students at the master’s level who need to travel to France for research purposes. These scholarships consist of travel expense reimbursements, up to a maximum of 1000 euros for trips in 2025.

Research Travel Grants in Europe for Art Historians for the year 2026

The Institut national d’histoire de l’art offers financial support to established art historians who intend to conduct research in Europe in 2026. This support takes the form of expense reimbursements, up to 800 euros, upon presenting supporting documents, for trips in 2026.

Refinding the Past. Rotondes Congress (Third Edition)

Rotondes is a French congress created by and for young researchers in Art History and Archaeology. It is organised by the PhD students at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA) and targets the young professionals who think, create and contribute to the development of both our research fields.

Excellence postdoctoral contracts

To encourage excellence in postdoctoral projects, the INHA has been awarding postdoctoral contracts since 2022, thanks to a grant from the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR).

Research residency: hosting researchers at INHA

The INHA can host researchers who already have funding in residence.

Research : Mobility Grants for Art Historians

INHA offers several grants to art historians to support their research missions across Europe.

Doctoral Research : Samuel H. Kress Foundation Grant

Under the auspices of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, INHA awards an annual doctoral research grant for a two-year stay in Paris.

Invitation of researchers at INHA in 2026

The Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA), in Paris, is a public research institute and library specifically dedicated to art history. For the year 2026, in order to encourage national and international exchanges, the National Institute of Art History (INHA) will host researchers for a period of between 1 and 3 months. Researchers residing in metropolitan France are not eligible for this call. Priority will be given to senior researchers (having defended their thesis for at least 5 years) or history of art professionals having acquired equivalent professional experience, whether they are affiliated with an institution or independent.

Perspective : actualité en histoire de l’art, no. 2027 – 1 : Figures of naturalism

At a time when ecology has become a major preoccupation and a key issue in political, economic and social terms alike, art historians have resolutely taken on the questions it raises through a profound renewal of their approach to nature. Can we speak of a new naturalism in art history?

Postdoctoral Research in Rome: André Chastel Grants

Since 2010, the National Institute of Art History (INHA) and the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici award two grants annually for research on art from the Renaissance to the present day.

Hosting foreign professionals : profession culture program

In partnership with the Ministry of Culture, the INHA hosts foreign cultural professionals for a continuous period of one to three months.

DFK Paris INHA Research Grant

The German Center for Art History Paris (DFK Paris) and the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) jointly offer a one-year fellowship, effective 1 September 2026. The fellowship is intended for outstanding art historians from France, Germany, or abroad who are at the beginning of their careers (doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers).

Perspective : actualité en histoire de l’art, no. 2027 – 2: Looking Queerly

This call for papers invites contributions from across the field that engage queer in its multiple dimensions: as a term rooted in histories of sexuality and gender; as a reclaimed and politicized identity; and as a verb – a critical practice that unsettles, reorients, and reimagines art history itself. What does it mean to queer art history today?

Research in Florence, Italy: Robert Klein Fellowship

For four consecutive years, between 2019 and 2022, the INHA and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max Planck Institute collaborated to award two post-doctoral research fellowships to researchers, both French and international, who wished to conduct research within the local institutions of Florence.

Yavarhoussen Scholarship for the History of Art in Madagascar

The Yavarhoussen Fund and the INHA are launching the call for the sixth edition of the Yavarhoussen Fellowship. This fellowship is intended to encourage and consolidate academic research on the history of art in Madagascar. This research topic is currently still too underexplored to be widely known.


Deadline : June 30

African Arts during the Second World War: Spoliations, Destructions, Displacements

Invitation of researchers at INHA in 2027

The Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA), in Paris, is a public research institute and library specifically dedicated to art history. For the year 2027, in order to encourage national and international exchanges, the National Institute of Art History (INHA) will host researchers for a period of between 1 and 3 months.

Call for papers: International Symposium on the Bicentennial of Photography (2027)

As part of the Bicentennial of Photography, the Ministry of Culture is organizing an international symposium: “Before our eyes. Two centuries of photographic archives.”