THURSDAY, 7 March 2024
9:00–9:30 Welcome addresses
9:30–11:00 PANEL 1: Moving East: The Asian Arc of Migration
David Low (Singapore): The Russian Connection in Singapore’s Local Art Identity
Olga Isaeva (University of Bonn, Germany): David Davidovich Burliuk and Futurism in Japan: Letting go of painting that is fixed to a single style
Katya Knyazeva (University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli, Italy): The émigré artist Victor Podgoursky and his legacy in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Kazan
11:00–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–13:00 PANEL 2: Moving West: Rethinking Migrant Communities in Eastern Europe
Jakub Hauser (Museum of Czech Literature, Prague, Czech Republic): Ukrainian Studio of Plastic Arts in Interwar Prague in the Context of the Exile Community from the Former Russian Empire
Daria Kostina (Almaty, Kazakhstan): Representatives of the Kalmyk Immigrant Community in Portraits of the Immigrant Artist Grigory Musatov in the Interwar Prague
Liudmila Sharaya (Arizona State University, USA): Between alienation and appropriation: Russian émigrés and space of Bulgaria and France during the interwar period
13:00–14:00 Lunch break
14:00–16:00 PANEL 3: Negotiating Belonging in Changing Environments
Marija Podzorova-Biret (Laboratory ICT, University Paris Cité, France): Navigating Ideological Crossroads: Georgy K. Loukomski in the mediation of the Soviet art and cultural policy in the West
Jeffrey Taylor (US Fulbright Scholar, European Humanities University Vilnius, Lithuania): From the lost Eva Striker to the survivor Eva Zeisel
Lina Bernstein (Franklin & Marshall College, USA): The Many Lives of Magda Nachman
Roann Barris (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA): Boris Aronson: An Artist on the Move
16:00–16:30 Coffee break
16:30–18:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Jane Sharp (Rutgers University, USA): Object Travel (Maps of Misreading)
FRIDAY, 8 March 2024
9:30–11:00 PANEL 4: Transnational Realities of Global Artistic Exchanges
Bronislava Prakhiy, Ekaterina Heath, Ksenia Radchenko (University of Sydney, Australia): Reclaiming Danila Vassilieff: Transnational Hybridity of a Cossack Émigré in Australian Modernism
Dilara Ulu (Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye): From Exile to Citizenship: The Influence of Vladimir Zender’s Network in Istanbul on his Photography
Julieta Pestarino (4A_Lab / University of Buenos Aires, Argentina): Anatole Saderman. A photographer between Moscow and South America
11:00–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–13:30 PANEL 5: Gender and Artistic Mobility
Anja Wilhelmi (Northeast-Institute, University of Hamburg, Germany): The significance of gender and marital status in migration and exile for artists, using the example of Eva-Margarete Borchert (1878–1964)
Christa Spreizer (Queens College, The City University of New York, USA): The artist Rahel Szalit-Marcus and “Die Emigrantin als Bardame” (The Female Emigrant as Barmaid)
Pauline Walkiewicz (Europe-Eurasia Research Center (CREE), INALCO, Paris, France): Interactions and network of the Russian artists: the case of Mela Muter (1876–1967) and Zofia Piramowicz (1880–1958), two women artists from Warsaw during the Partition
Priscilla Manfren (University of Padua, Italy): A Young Russian Girl between Africa and Europe: Life and Works of Olga de Goguine
13:30–14:30 Lunch break
14:30–16:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Vita Susak (Swiss Academic Society for Eastern European Studies, Switzerland): The (in)visible borders and crossroads of the Russophone artistic emigration (1880–1939)
16:00–16:30 Coffee break
16:30–18:00 ROUNDTABLE „Unity in Diversity? The Entangled Histories of Migrant Artists from the Russian Empire/Soviet Union“
Speakers: Marina Dmitrieva (Independent art historian, Germany), Krista Kodres (Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia) and Maria Silina (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
18:00 Closing remarks