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May 2022, PRAGUE: Opening Symposium and Seminar I
The Opening symposium Divided by the Iron Curtain — Connected through Art Historical Inquiry combines a public event and closed-door internal sessions with the aim to assess the current state of research as reflected in the work of symposium speakers and project participants; forge connections and initiate networking, as well as publicize the broad topic for a wider audience.
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May 13-14, 2022, Location: Prague
Technologické centrum Mikulandská of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design
UMPRUM (Mikulandská 134/5, 110 00 Prague 1 – Nové Město)
Screening Hall
DAY 1: May 13 (Friday): Opening of the symposium
5.30 pm
Coffee, tea & Welcome
6 – 7.30 pm
Roundtable discussion with contributors to the volume
Hot Art, Cold War—Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art
Participants:
Karel Císař (UMPRUM, Prague)
Stefana Djokić (University of Edinburgh)
Filip Lipiński (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Oliver Sukrow (Vienna University of Technology)
Moderator:
John Jay Curley (Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem)
7.30 – 9 pm
Drinks reception
DAY 2: May 14 (Saturday): “Divided by the Iron Curtain…”
12 —1.15 pm
Symposium panel 1
Katalin Székely (Blinken OSA / Central European University, Budapest) — John Cage Behind the Iron Curtain
Magdalena Nieslony (University of Vienna) — The Problem of Language in Polish and American Time-Based Media of the 1970s
Chair: Beáta Hock (GWZO, Leipzig)
1.30—3 pm
Lunch break
1.30—3 pm
Symposium panel 2
Angelina Lucento (Helsinki) — Eastern European Socialism and the Politics of Black Art in the 1960s and 1970s
Radina Vučetić (Belgrade) — Coca-Cola Socialism in Yugoslavia
Chair: Tomáš Pospiszyl (Academy of Fine Arts, Prague)
5—6.30 pm
Keynote talk and Q&A
Filip Lipiński (Poznań): Polish Abstract Painting in the 1950s and 1960s Revisited: The Question of the American “Influence” and Reception