CfP: The House of Radziwill

The Museum in Nieborów and Arkadia and the Trzy Trąby Foundation invite proposals for an international interdisciplinary conference on the history of the Radziwiłł family, held on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of collaboration between the two institutions.

For centuries, the Radziwiłłs were among the most influential aristocratic families of Central and Eastern Europe, shaping the political, cultural and economic life of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and leaving a lasting imprint on the residential and artistic landscapes of entire regions. The conference aims to bring together current research on this heritage across disciplines and national scholarly traditions.

We welcome proposals from historians, art historians, archaeologists, cultural scholars, archivists, museum professionals and researchers from related disciplines. Interdisciplinary contributions are particularly encouraged.

 

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THEMATIC PANELS

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- Memory, Heritage and Representation: palaces, castles and gardens; collections and provenance research; portraits, costumes and insignia

- Musical Heritage: patronage, court chapel, religious, ceremonial and salon repertoire

- Court Medicine: health, illness, hygiene, pharmacy and medical personnel

- Funeral Ceremonial: wills, funerary spectacle, burial sites and sepulchral architecture

- Estate Employees and Local Communities: labour organisation, daily life, education and social institutions

- Land Management, Economy and Environment: forests and orchards, water management and hydrotechnical infrastructure, animal husbandry and means of transport

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ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION

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Nieborów (Poland), 10–12 September 2027

Languages: Polish and English

 

Proposals should be submitted as an abstract (maximum 1,000 words) accompanied by a short biographical note (maximum 200 words) in a single file, by e-mail to: [email protected]

Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2026

Notification of acceptance: by 1 October 2026

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PUBLICATION

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The organisers plan to publish the conference proceedings as a scholarly volume. Speakers wishing to contribute a paper will be asked to submit their article together with a peer review prepared by a reviewer competent in the relevant field, by 5 September 2027.

 

Articles should not exceed 18,000 characters including spaces, footnotes and bibliography. An English-language abstract of up to 1,000 characters must be included.

 

Illustrative materials (max. 5 items) should be supplied as digital files of print-quality resolution (minimum 300 dpi; file format: TIFF, PNG or JPG). Files should be sent as separate attachments, distinct from the article text file.

 

The author is responsible for holding the rights to publish and disseminate the submitted illustrative materials and for obtaining all required permissions from copyright holders or institutions holding the originals. Submission of illustrative materials constitutes the author's declaration that they hold the appropriate rights for their use in the conference publication.

A publishing agreement will be signed with authors whose texts meet the above formal requirements. The agreement will also specify the remuneration payable to the author.