Connections Redaktion, Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig
Thursday, March 3
13:15
Welcome
Maren Röger (GWZO, Leipzig)
13:30–14:00
Insights from Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics
Stefan Rohdewald (U Leipzig)
14:00–14:15
Coffee break
14:30–16:00
(Un)Learning Eastern Europe: Transregional Perspectives on Post-Socialist Epistemologies
Elisa Satjukow (U Leipzig)
Women as Co-Producers of the Global (Socialist) Condition
Réka Krizmanics (Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena)
16:00–16:30
Coffee break
16:30–18:00
Black Women Performers and the Making of Space in Interwar Paris: Critical Reflections on Cultural Transfer and the Workings of the Archive
Carmen Dexl (U Regensburg)
Transregional Actors and Dynamics in the North American Entertainment Industries, 1880s to 1920s
Antje Dietze (U Leipzig)
Friday, March 4
10:00–11:30
Trans' as a Methodological Approach towards Ryszard Kapuscinski's Literary Journalism in Latin America
Joanna Moszczynska (U Regensburg)
Bridging Regional and International Histories through Biographies – Connecting Lines and Separations
Katja Castryck-Naumann (GWZO, Leipzig)
11:30–13:00
Lunch break
13:00–14:30
The Translocal Connectivity of Peripheral Groups: Researching International Naturism as Humanistic Idea and Transnational Practice
Jacqueline Nießer (U Regensburg)
Locating the Periphery: A Transregional Approach to Rural Home Industries
Corinne Geering (GWZO, Leipzig)
14:30–15:00
Coffee break
15:00–16:30
The Poetics of Industrial Landscapes: Donbass and Upper Silesia in Literature and Film
Oleksandr Zabirko (U Regensburg)
Doing Gender in Historical Reenactment. Case Studies from the US and Poland
Juliane Tomann (U Regensburg)
16:30–17:00
Coffee break
17:00–19:00
Curatorial and Artistic Research: Exploring Transregional and Gendered Trails in Recent East European Art History
Guests: Przemysław Strożek, Kristóf Nagy and Márton Szarvas, Simone Wille
Moderation: Beáta Hock (GWZO, Leipzig)
As the major focus of the event, three recent research-based exhibition projects will be presented. Left Performance Histories (2018, ngbk Berlin, curated by Hock et al) took a fresh look on performance art in the 1970s/80s in CEE exploring, among other things, the New Left’s connection to the art scenes and forms of gender role transgression. Both thematic strands took issue with prevailing narratives assuming that both leftist politicial criticism and “gender insubordination” were missing from the East-Central European cultural scene of the period. Left Turn, Right Turn (2019, OSA Archives Budapest), co-curated by Kristóf Nagy and Márton Szarvas, also zooms in on artistic and political radicalism in late-socialist Hungary. Przemysław Strożek’s Ahmed Cherkaoui in Warsaw: Polish-Moroccan Artistic Relations, 1955-1980 (2020, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art Warsaw) inserts Polish art from the same period in transnational and transcontinental relations.
The subsequent discussion will be co-moderated by Simone Wille and will create connections between curatorial research and her own scholarly project “Patterns of Trans-regional Trails: The materiality of art works and their place in the modern era. Bombay, Paris, Prague, Lahore, from ca. 1920s to the early 1950s“. Speakers shall address overarching themes, among them the possibility of writing transcultural histories of art and will share their insights on the methodological particularities and underlying challenges of producing and transferring knowledge via the medium of the art exhibition. As one important thematic strand, we want to gauge the absences and presences of female actors in the related dominant narratives and in the concrete empirical material the guest speakers have tapped. What are ways to uncover and appreciate formerly hidden and overlooked material and how will such discoveries be turned into transformative knowledge? The event discussion thus combines aspects of mediating research results for broader audiences, questions of gender and positionality in transregional area studies as well as a conscious reflection on bridging gaps in received knowledge.
19:00
Reception