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ANN: 6th Winter School of the Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts-Tallinn University
ANN: 6th Winter School of the Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts
New Natures, Entangled Cultures: Perspectives in Environmental Humanities
Tallinn University
23 – 27 January 2017For more information see the Winter School website
How do we imagine nature/culture? How do new environments emerge and how do we design them – deliberately or by chance? The 6th Winter School of the Estonian Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts focuses on the notions of “nature” and “culture” as entangled phenomena. Environmental humanities make an effort to overcome the centuries old division between sciences and humanities by stressing that speaking about “nature” and the hybrid forms of naturecultures is of central importance for all disciplines within the humanities.
We invite doctoral and MA students to think beyond the comfortable binaries of nature and culture and to discuss topics like recycling and hybridity, (eco)nationalism and aesthetics, technology and landscape, corporeality and posthumanism, materiality and animality in order to understand the creative power of “nature” as a cultural metaphor and the intimate interconnectedness between environment and culture.
The programme of the Winter School consists of: 1) interdisciplinary lectures and discussions conducted by Estonian and guest lecturers; 2) student seminars and slams where graduate participants present and discuss their own research; 3) student workshops outside the customary classroom environment.
Plenary speakers: Dr. Harriet Hawkins (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Dr. Dolly Jørgensen (Luleå University of Technology)
Dr. Timothy LeCain (Montana State University)
Dr. Jamie Lorimer (University of Oxford)
Prof. Gregg Mitman (University of Wisconsin – Madison / Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society)
Prof. David Moon (University of York)
Prof. Kate Rigby (Bath Spa University)
Dr. Bronislaw Szerszynski (Lancaster University)Hosting institutions:
School of Humanities, Tallinn University
Estonian Centre for Environmental History, Tallinn UniversityProgramme directors:
Prof. Ulrike Plath (Tallinn University / Estonian Academy of Sciences)
Prof. Marek Tamm (Tallinn University)Programme manager:
Doris Feldmann (Tallinn University)Student coordinator:
Tiiu-Triinu Tamm (Tallinn University) -
CFP: EAHN Fifth International Meeting (Tallinn, 13-16 Jun 18)
CFP: EAHN Fifth International Meeting (Tallinn, 13-16 Jun 18)
Tallinn, Estonia, June 13 - 16, 2018
Deadline: Dec 12, 2016EAHN Fifth International Meeting
Call for Sessions and Round-TablesDeadline: December 12, 2016
European Architectural History Network (EAHN) is organising its fifth pan-European meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, from June 13-16, 2018. In accordance with its mission statement, the meeting aims to increase the visibility of the discipline; to foster transcultural, transnational and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the built environment; and to facilitate the exchange of research results in the field. Although the scope of the meeting is European, members of the larger scholarly community are invited to submit proposals related not only to European architecture but also to that of the rest of the world. The main purpose of the meeting is to map the general state of research in disciplines related to the built environment, to promote discussion of current themes and concerns, and to foster new directions for research in the field. Session proposals are intended to cover different periods in the history of architecture and different approaches to the built environment, including landscape and urban history. Parallel sessions will consist of either five papers or four papers and a respondent, with time for dialogue and questions at the end. In addition, there will be a number of round-table debates addressing burning issues in the field. Proposals are sought for round-table debates that re-map, re-define or outline the current state of the discipline. They will consist of a discussion between panel members, but will also encourage debate with the audience. The goal is to create a forum for scholars to present and discuss their ideas, research materials and methodologies.
Scholars wishing to chair a scholarly session or round-table debate at Tallinn 2018 are invited to submit proposals by December 12, 2016 to Dr. Andres Kurg, General Chair of the EAHN Fifth International Meeting, Institute of Art History and Visual Culture, Estonian Academy of Arts, Suur-Kloostri 11, Tallinn 10133, Estonia.
Duties of the chairs of session and of round-tables include: selecting from the proposals submitted for presentation by the agreed deadline; communicating the list of speakers and titles to the conference organisers by the agreed deadline; and submitting material for the proceedings to the conference organisers by the agreed deadline. Chairs will not be eligible for selection as speakers in their own or any other session or round table at the conference.
All chairs and selected presenters and speakers are required to obtain membership of EAHN (available for an annual membership fee at http://www.eahn.org/members-2/) prior to registration at the conference. Chairs are expected to pursue their own institutional or other support for membership, registration, travel and accommodation.
Proposals in English, of no more than 400 words, including a session or round-table title, should summarise the subject and the premise. Please include name, professional affiliation (if applicable), address, telephone, e-mail address and a current CV. Proposals and short CVs should be submitted by e-mail, including the texts in both the body of the mail and as attachments.
Session and round-table proposals will be selected on the basis of merit and the need to organize a well-balanced programme. Please note: preference will be given to proposals from chairs who have not hosted a session in the previous biennial conference (Dublin 2016). The International Scientific Committee may organise additional open sessions, depending on the response to this call.
The complete Call for Sessions and Round-Tables can be downloaded from the Conference website.
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CFP: Art History and Socialism(s): 1940s-1960s (Tallinn; 28-29 October, 2016)
Tallinn, October 28 - 29, 2016 Deadline: Feb 25, 2016
Art History and Socialism(s) after World War II: The 1940s until the 1960s
Location: Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
Hosting institution: Estonian Academy of ArtsAlthough the Soviet and Eastern European socialist regimes of the latter 20th century seem to lie in the distant past now, research on them still has many uncovered areas. This applies not least to the role of “socialist” art historians, their activities and functions in universities, exhibitions and the mass media, and especially their academic text production. Deriving from a complicated socio-cultural set of relations, the common denominator for which was “socialism”, these art historical “acts” shaped the general comprehensions of art, culture and history in the society at large. With the overall historiographical turn in the humanities, scholars from the Baltic to the Balkan region have begun to re-address the various histories of artworks, architecture, artistic styles and whole epochs that these practices constructed. Conferences on this recent art historical past have been held and scholarly publications issued, including in English, today’s lingua franca, but the vast majority of research remains only in native languages, thus circulating mainly at the local level.
Our call for papers originates from the conviction that researchers of socialist art history need a common platform, to introduce and compare art historical practices across the former Soviet Union and the socialist countries of Europe. Paraphrasing the late Piotr Piotrowski, the time is ripe for the project of a “horizontal” reading of socialist art history. As with different “socialisms”, “socialist art history” as an umbrella term covers a variety of ways of writing the history of art and architecture. Moscow’s influence varied greatly depending on the decade, region and particular situation. In addition to ideological pressure and terror, other factors – of which neighbours might not have been or still might not be aware – affected the art historical ideas and practices of different Soviet republics and the satellite states in Eastern and Central Europe. The making of art history and its visual displays by means of exhibitions (as well as contemporary artistic practices) also depended on the international art history discourse, even though the range and accessibility of literature etc. varied from country to country.
The conference addresses these topics primarily via the historiographical and theoretical levels:
- Moscow’s role in developing the theoretical grounds of the Marxist-Leninist art history discourse (one centre?, unity of theoretical approaches?)
- implementing this discourse in the Soviet Union, in its new member republics and in the new “socialist countries” (national socialist schools of art history?)
- interpreting art historical concepts and periodisation; shifts occurring over time; comparison with the Western art history discourse(s);
- the complicated relationship with Modernism during the Stalinist era; its later inclusion in the Marxist-Leninist discourse of art history.
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Conference: Shared Practices (Tallinn; 22-24 October 2015)
Kumu Art Museum, Auditorium, Tallinn, October 22 - 24, 2015
Shared Practices: The Intertwinement of the Arts in the Culture of Socialist Eastern Europe
The Kumu Art Museum’s fall conference 2015
In cooperation with the Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of ArtsConference programme:
Thursday, 22 October
17.30 Registration
18.00–20.00
Opening words
Anu Liivak, Director of the Kumu Art Museum
Sirje Helme, Director-General of the Art Museum of EstoniaIntroduction
Anu Allas, Kumu Art MuseumKEYNOTE LECTURE
Chair Epp Lankots
Romy Golan (City University of New York)
Synthesis UndoneFriday, 23 October
10.00–12.00 Ideologies for the Synthesis of the Arts
Chair Linda KaljundiNikolas Drosos (Columbia University, New York)
Applied and Useful Art: The Discourse on the Synthesis of the Arts in the USSR and Poland during the 1950sVirve Sarapik (Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts)
Visualising World War IIIStella Pelše (Latvian Academy of Art)
The Best of the Past on a New Level: Synthesis of the Arts in the Latvian Art Criticism of the 1970s12.00–12.30 Coffee break
12.30–14.00 Experimentation as Critique
Chair Lolita JablonskieneMaja Fowkes and Reuben Fowkes (Translocal Institute Budapest)
Putting the Social back into the Socialist City: The Critical Urban Practice of the Group TOKMāra Traumane (Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Zurich)
“Doubts on Art” as a Constructive Project: the Case of the “Unfelt Feelings Restoration Workshop”14.00–15.00 Lunch
15.00–17.00 Dynamics of Collaborative Work
Chair Klara Kemp-WelchEleonora Farina (Free University of Berlin)
Ex Oriente Lux: Ion Grigorescu and the Sigma Group in Socialist RomaniaTomasz Załuski (University of Łódz)
From Praxeology to the Artists of Other Arts Association: The Integration of Arts and Transmediality in KwieKulik’s “Activities”Matteo Bertelé (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
From Narcissus to Collective Performances: The Work of Valera and Natasha Cherkashin17.00–17.30 Coffee break
17.30–18.30 EVENING LECTURE
László Beke (Budapest)
Chair Liisa Kaljula
How to Construct a New Theory of East European Art?Saturday, 24 October
10.00–12.00 Monumental, Ritual and Communal Spaces
Chair Ingrid RuudiMarija Martinovic and Mladen Pesic (Belgrad University)
Synthesis of Arts and Architecture: Community Centres in Socialist BelgradeRaino Isto (University of Maryland)
Dynamisms of Time and Space: The Synthesis of Architecture and Monumental Sculpture in Socialist Albania’s Martyrs’ CemeteriesMarija Dremaite (Vilnius University)
Architecture of the Soviet Ritual – Wedding and Funeral Palaces in Soviet Lithuania12.00–12.30 Coffee break
12.30–14.00 Debating All-Encompassing Art
Chair Anu AllasFabiola Bierhoff (Free University of Berlin)
Multimedia Art in the German Democratic Republic: the Art Festival Intermedia (1985)Elnara Taidre (Art Museum of Estonia; Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts)
Synthesis of Visual Art Forms as the Total Work of Art: The Case of Tõnis Vint’s Art Practices in Soviet Estonia14.00–15.00 Lunch
15.00–17.00 Translations and Adaptations
Chair Romy GolanKlara Kemp-Welch (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
Poetry Beyond BordersKsenya Gurshtein (National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Washington, DC)
Conceptual Artists, Cognitive Film: Artists as Film-makers at the Balázs Béla StudioAmy Bryzgel (University of Aberdeen)
The Adoption and Adaptation of Institutional Critique in Eastern Europe17.00–17.30 Coffee break
17.30–19.00 FINAL DISCUSSION
Romy Golan, Klara Kemp-Welch, Anu Allas, Epp LankotsAdditional information:
Anu Allas
Kumu kunstimuuseum / Kumu Art Museum
Weizenbergi 34 / Valge 1
10127 TallinnThe conference is supported by Eesti Kultuurkapital.
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