Venue: Estonian Academy of Sciences main hall (Kohtu 6, Tallinn)
Organiser: Team of Estonian Research Council grant PUT788 Historicizing Art: Knowledge Production in Estonian Art History amidst Changing Ideologies and Disciplinary Developments (principal investigator Krista Kodres)
Host: Institute of Art History and Visual Culture, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
Programme managers:
Krista Kodres, Prof. Dr.;
Michaela Marek, Prof. Dr.;
Kristina Jõekalda, M.A.;
Kädi Talvoja, M.A.
Partners:
Centre for History and Culture of East Central Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig (Dr. Marina Dmitrieva);
Chair of Art History of Eastern and East Central Europe at Humboldt-University of Berlin (Prof. Michaela Marek)
Supporters:
Estonian Research Council;
Estonian Academy of Arts;
Cultural Endowment of Estonia;
Estonian Academy of Sciences
Thursday, 27th October
18.00 KEYNOTE PAPER
Moderator Krista Kodres, Prof. Dr. (Estonian Academy of Arts; Tallinn University)
Branko Mitrović, Prof. Dr. (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim)
Collectivist Historiography and its Methodologies
20.00 Opening reception
Friday, 28th October
09.15 Registration
09.30 INTRODUCTION
Krista Kodres, Prof. Dr. (Estonian Academy of Arts; Tallinn University)
09.45 PANEL 1
Moderator Marina Dmitrieva, Dr. (Centre for History and Culture of East Central Europe, Leipzig)
Almira Ousmanova, Prof. Dr. (European Humanities University, Vilnius)
Not-Ready-Made: Flashback to the Soviet Version of Marxist Art History
Kädi Talvoja, M.A. (Estonian Academy of Arts)
Officially National: Rehabilitating Kristjan Raud as a Symbol of Estonian Modernist National School during the ‘Thaw’
Milena Bartlová, Prof. Dr. (Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague)
New Political Orientation of Czech Art History around 1950
12.00 Lunch
13.30 PANEL 2
Moderator Krista Kodres, Prof. Dr. (Estonian Academy of Arts; Tallinn University)
Nikolas Drosos, Dr. (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)
‘People’s Realismʼ: Interpreting Renaissance Art in 1950s Poland
Elena Khlopina, Dr. (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Research Method of A. A. Fedorov-Davydov and the Teaching of Art History in Lomonosov Moscow State University in the 1950s–1960s
Tereza Johanidesová, M.A. (Charles University; Václav Havel Library, Prague)
Did Marxist Iconology Exist in Czech Art History?
Ivan Gerát, Dr. (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava; University of Trnava)
Marxist Iconology in Czechoslovakia before 1968
16.30 Coffee/tea
17.15 PANEL 3
Moderator Epp Lankots, Prof. Dr. (Estonian Academy of Arts)
Carmen Popescu, Prof. Dr. (National School of Architecture in Brittany, Rennes)
Writing in the Void: Historiography of Modern Architecture in Socialist Romania
Juliana Maxim, Dr. (University of San Diego, California)
Socialist Historiography between Nation and Revolution: Writing the History of Romanian Architecture in the 1960s
Bart Pushaw, M.A. (University of Maryland, College Park) [CANCELLED]
Heroic Modernists of Peasant Blood: The Revolutionary Turn in Baltic Art Histories
Saturday, 29th October
10.00 PANEL 4
Moderator Virve Sarapik, Prof. Dr. (Estonian Academy of Arts)
Nataliya Zlydneva, Prof. Dr. (Russian Academy of Sciences; Lomonosov Moscow State University; State Institute for Art History; Moscow State Conservatorium)
Rereading the 1920s: Alternative Paths of Soviet Art History
Raino Isto, M.A. (University of Maryland, College Park)
‘Modelling Reality’: Writing the History of (Socialist) Albanian Sculpture – the Case of Odhise Paskali
Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus, Dr. (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Modernism on the Secret Service of Superstructure, Marxism-Leninism as a Base of Modern Polish Art History
12.15 Lunch
14.00 PANEL 5
Moderator Antje Kempe, M.A. (Humboldt-University, Berlin)
Piotr Juszkiewicz, Prof. Dr. (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Socialist Modernism, Socialist Structuralism: Mieczysław Porębski’s Socialist Art History
Katja Bernhardt, Dr. (Humboldt-University, Berlin)
‘Socialist Kunstwissenschaftʼ in the GDR
Marina Dmitrieva, Dr. (Centre for History and Culture of East Central Europe, Leipzig)
Riddles of Modernism in the Late Soviet Discourse: Mikhail Lifshits’s Battle against ‘New Barbarism’
16.15 Coffee/tea
16.45 CONCLUSIONS, GENERAL DISCUSSION
Moderator Michaela Marek, Prof. Dr. (Humboldt-University, Berlin)
Discussants: Milena Bartlová, Marina Dmitrieva, Krista Kodres, Branko Mitrović