The Challenge of Historical Distance

An international conference is being held in Florence in honour of the scholarship of Professor Gervase Rosser and to celebrate his retirement from the University of Oxford. Titled The Challenge of Historical Distance: Historicism and Anachronism, the conference will be held at the Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instiuute (NIKI) on November 6 and 7 2025.

Organised by a team that includes Costanza Beltrami, Lia Costiner and Elena Lichmanova, it will feature among its many speakers, papers by Jaś Elsner, Hannah Korda and Nancy Thebaut, all of them with an association with Oxford.

Further details about the conference available here.