June 2026

Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel is a professor at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), where she holds the Chair in Digital Humanities. She previously taught modern and contemporary art history at the École normale supérieure in Paris (2006–2019). Since 2008, she has led numerous digital projects in art history, notably Artl@s and Visual Contagions, while contributing to the development of a global and socially engaged approach to the discipline.

She is the author of a three-volume transnational history of the avant-gardes (Vol. 1: 1848–1918; Vol. 2: 1918–1945, published in paperback by Gallimard; Vol. 3: 1945–1970, CNRS Éditions; English translation forthcoming with Brill). She also co-edits the journal Artl@s Bulletin. Following Contemporary Art: An Infographic (CNRS Éditions, 2024), she will publish in 2026 a visual atlas of the global circulation of images, developed in collaboration with Austrian designer Fabian Lang.

Closing Conference “A Flood of Images, Technical Mediations and Critical Reconfigurations: What Becomes of the Historian’s Position in the Digital Age?”