CONFERENCES

Scroll through to discover the conferences, panels, symposiums and other speaking engagements in which members of our team have taken part.

MACCH Conference 2023 | Provenance, Restitution and Return

This year’s conference by the Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH), held at the end of TEFAF Maastricht, is titled ‘Provenance, Restitution and Return’. Some of the themes that were discussed include provenance research and the restitution and return of looted artworks, as well as the development of legislative principles for looted art.

MACCH Conference 2019 | Bridging the Gap. Theory and Practice in the Conservation of Contemporary Art

Themed ‘Bridging the Gap’ this years MACCH conference, hosted in partnership with the Bonnefanten museum and the EU funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art (NACCA), takes a look at research on conservation and the implementation of research in the practices of conservators as well as how problems faced by conservators are addressed by researchers and research projects. The conference aims at strengthening the exchange between theory and practice in the conservation of contemporary art.

MACCH Conference 2018 | Crossing Borders in Arts and Heritage

MACCH’s annual, transdisciplinary conference, hosted together with Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, was themed ‘Crossing Borders in Arts & Heritage’. The conference aimed to explore the challenges encountered when arts and heritage cross geographical borders today or which persist because of past cross-border movements.

MACCH Conference 2017 | Participatory Practices in Arts and Heritage

The Maastricht Centre of Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH) held its annual conference in March, with this years’ theme being ‘Participatory Practices in Arts and Heritage’. The event was organised in collaboration with the research centre Autonomy and the Public Sphere in the Arts, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, and the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. The conference aimed to offer a critical space to scrutinise participatory practices in arts and heritage and their economic and legal frameworks.

Deloitte Art & Finance Conference | 2016

On Thursday April 24th, 2016, Professor Rachel Pownall was part of the 9th Art & Finance Conference hosted in Amsterdam by Deloitte Luxembourg. This year’s conference was organised together with the Van Gogh museum and focused on Fine Art collectors’ needs and how they can add value to their art collections. Professor Pownall was invited to share her expertise during a panel discussion on the last subject. Together with, amongst others, the CEO of Athena Art Finance Group and the vice president of Falcon Fine Art ltd., she talked about how collectors can turn their fine art collection into a working asset. This is also known as art secured lending, where artworks are used as collateral for a loan. Other topics discussed at the conference ranged from collection visibility, to safe-guarding and transferring.

The complete programme of the conference can be found here

Consortium in Research on Emotional Finance | 2015

This event was organised by Rachel in collaboration with the Financial Management Association (FMA) and was held in New York in May 2015. The event centred around the theme ‘Emotional Finance’. The programme consisted of two sessions, one discussing several papers and the other hosting a panel, and a closing keynote. Three papers around the topic ‘Behavioural Finance’ were discussed, followed by a panel discussion on ‘New Frontiers in Portfolio Management’. The keynote address titled ‘Agency Costs: Imagined and Real’ was given by Martin Fridson of Fridson Advisors.