Thursday, 23 November
3.30 pm Welcome
Christian Lübke, Direktor (GWZO)
Frank Hadler, Head of Department "Entanglements and Globalization" (GWZO)
Arnold Bartetzky, Head of Department „Culture and Imagination“ (GWZO)
Introduction
Marina Dmitrieva (GWZO), Antje Kempe (Greifswald)
4.00–6.00 pm
PANEL 1 TOWARDS A SOCIALIST WORLD ART HISTORY?
Chair/Moderator: Beáta Hock (GWZO)
Corinne Geering (Gießen): Pluralism within regions: Soviet world art history in the context of international cultural policy
Michaela Marek (Berlin): Internationality as required. Italy vs. neighboring countries in Czech art historiography
Nikolas Drosos (Toronto): Realist International: Twentieth-century global Realism according to the Soviet Universal History of Art (1956–66)
6.00–6.30 pm Coffee break
6.30–8.00 pm Keynote address
Anthony Gardner (Oxford): 1955: A Year of fragile legacies and possible directions
8.00–9.00 pm Reception
Friday, 24 November
9.00 am –1.00 pm
PANEL 2 FROM WORLDWIDE CULTURAL INTEGRATION TO ARTISTIC PLURALISM
Chair/Moderator: Marina Dmitrieva (GWZO)
Elena Sharnova (Moscow): The concept of “Russian painting among European Schools” in Soviet-Russian art history, 1970-1990s
Maja and Reuben Fowkes (London/Budapest): Art history in a suitcase: The itinerary of art trends in socialist art criticism
Igor Dukhan (Minsk): “Il faut être absolument moderne”: The idea of contemporaneity in the Soviet Bloc’s art and architecture, 1955–80
11.00-11.30 am Coffee Break
11.30 am-1.00 pm
Chair/Moderator: Sandra Frimmel (Zürich)
Piotr Juszkiewicz (Poznan): Modern, primitive, folk and socialist. Mexican art in Polish art history and art criticism 1949–1972
Nadine Siegert (Bayreuth): “Socialist Angolanidade”: What did art history writing mean in the Angolan Socialist period?
1.00–2.30 pm Lunch Break
2.30–4.00 pm
PANEL 3 IDEOLOGICAL PROJECTIONS AND THE PAST
Chair/Moderator: Tanja Zimmermann (Leipzig)
Ivan Gerát (Bratislava/Trnava): Military saints between universal archetypes and historical functions
Olga Etinhof (Moscow): The study of Byzantine art in the USSR in the second half of the 20th century
4.00-4.30 pm Coffee Break
4.30-6.30 pm
PANEL 4 SOCIALIST INTERNATIONALISM AS HEURISTIC TOOL
Chair/Moderator: Arnold Bartetzky (GWZO)
Matteo Bertelé (Venice/Leipzig): Showcasing international Socialism: The Exhibition of Socialist Countries (1958)
Douglas Gabriel & Adri Kácsor (Chicago): Knowledge in fraternity: Socialist art and architecture between Budapest and Pyongyang in the 1950s
Adam Mayer (Hewler): Naija Marxism before and after 1989: Revolutionary thought and art in a comparative perspective
Saturday, 25 November
10.00 am –2.15 pm
PANEL 5 NETWORKS OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Chair/Moderator: Katja Bernhardt (Berlin) and Robert Born (GWZO)
Éva Forgács (Pasadena): Efforts for a European integration of the arts and the art discourse, 1945–48
Krista Kodres (Tallinn): Translations: Disseminating Socialist art history in the 1960s
Mari Laanemets (Tallinn): World art history from an Eastern perspective: Eastern European contributions to the debates within AICA in the 1970s
12.00 am–1.00 pm Lunch Break
1.00–2.15 pm
Olga Olkheft (Leipzig): Re-evaluation: Moscow–Paris: 1900–1930 as a turning point in Soviet art history
Virve Sarapik (Tallinn): CIHA congresses and Soviet internationalism
2.15 pm
FINAL DISCUSSION & CONCLUSION
Moderators: Michaela Marek (Berlin), Krista Kodres (Tallinn)