Thursday, 19. 9. 2024
9.00 | Early Coffee

9.30 | Welcome Words: Anna-Marie Kroupová & Noémie Étienne (University of Vienna)

Museum Encounters. Chair: Eva Kernbauer (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
9.45 | Jakub Gawkowski (Central European University, Vienna): Art Museum as a Cold War Space of Encounter. Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź in Dialogue with Mexico, Cuba and Chile in the long 1960s
10.25 | Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez (Saint Louis University, Madrid): Cultural Diplomacy and Revolutionary Art. FNAP’s Travelling Exhibition of Mexican Art
11.05 | Marcin Lewicki (University of Warsaw): From Poland Through the São Paulo Biennial to the International Art World

11.45 | Lunch Break

Representations. Chair: Oksana Sarkisova (Central European University)
13.15 | Domnica Gorovei (University of Bucharest): Romania’s Cultural Relations with Western Francophone African Countries in the 60s and 70s. Case studies: Cote d’Ivoire and Upper Volta (Burkina Faso)
13.55 | Maria Silina (Ruhr University Bochum and Université du Québec à Montréal) & Yi Gu (University of Toronto Scarborough): The East in Moscow. Chinese-Soviet Art Exchanges at the Oriental Museum
14.35 | Christine Varga-Harris (Illinois State University): Cultural Outreach and Soviet Representations of Decolonizing Africa through the Lens of Gender, 1956–1964

15.15 | Coffee Break

Education. Chair: Katalin Cseh-Varga (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
15.45 | Sasha Artamonova (Northwestern University): Photographic Training of African Students at “Schule der Solidarität” in East Berlin
16.25 | Anna-Marie Kroupová (University of Vienna): Art Students from the Decolonized World in Czechoslovakia after 1968

17.05 | Coffee Break

17.30 | Keynote Lecture: Beáta Hock (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe and Humboldt University of Berlin): Vectors and Dynamics of Cold War Cultural Exchanges. A Triangulation

Friday, 20. 9. 2024
9.00 | Early Coffee

Camaraderie. Chair: Christiane Erharter (Belvedere, Vienna)
9.30 | Jovanka Popova (Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje): Collection of Solidarity. The Legacy and Future of the Museum of Contemporary Art – Skopje
10.10 | Olja Triaška Stefanović (Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava): The Elephant in Tito’s Menagerie. Animal Diplomacy and the Non-Aligned Movement
10.50 | Rado Ištok (National Gallery Prague and Charles University, Prague): Modern African Art of the 1960s between Paris, Vienna and Prague

11.30| Lunch Break

Formations. Chair: Noit Banai (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna)
13.00 | Marcelo Mari (University of Brasília): Modern Art Museums in Brazil as Fortresses of Freedom (1948–1951)
13.40 | Maroš Timko (Czech Academy of Sciences): Between Prague and Bogotá. Czechoslovak Cultural Diplomacy and Colombian Communism in the 1960s
14.20 | Louise Thurin (Independent Researcher): Modernist Mosaics in Sub-Saharan Africa

15.00 | Coffee Break

Circulations Chair: Noémie Étienne (University of Vienna)
15.30 | Gaelle Prodhon (National Institute for Art History, Paris): Official and Non-official Photographic Trajectories Between Algeria and the Brother Countries of Eastern Europe. Between Realities and the Imaginary
16.10 | Christopher Williams-Wynn (4A_Lab, Berlin and Florence): Diplomacy of the Cell. The Formal Traces of Solidarity Between Argentina and East Germany, c. 1979

16.50 | Closing Remarks

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Workshop Partners: Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies (University of Vienna); Belvedere, Vienna; FSP Global History (University of Vienna); Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War; New Cold War Studies Research Group (University of Vienna); Vienna Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies