The National Museum of Lithuania invites proposals for the international conference Scattered, Tracked, Connected: New Approaches to Dispersed Heritage, to be held in Vilnius, 29–30 April 2026.
How do we work with heritage that is no longer whole, no longer here – or perhaps never truly was? The conference seeks to explore the fragmented, displaced, or deliberately dispersed nature of cultural heritage, and how museums and memory institutions reassemble meaning through research, digital tools, and collaboration.
We welcome 20-minute papers on topics including:
- Mapping dispersed heritage through provenance and documentation
- Ethics, restitution, and shared authority
- Digital reconnections and virtual reunification
- Exhibiting loss and absence
- Curatorial and community approaches to scattered collections
Abstracts (250–300 words) and short biographies (up to 100 words) should be submitted by 19 December 2025 via the registration form.
Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2025
Letters of acceptance will come out by 16 January 2026.
Participation is free of charge; travel and accommodation are self-funded.
A peer-reviewed publication will follow the conference.
More information: https://lnm.lt/en/events/international-conference-scattered-tracked-con…;
Contacts: conference2026@lnm.lt