From: Ina Mertens <[email protected]>
Date: Apr 17, 2014
Subject: CFP: Research Projects in Eastern Europe (Bern, 10-11 Oct 14)
Bern, 10. - 11.10.2014
Deadline: Jun 6, 2014
Call for Participation: ‘Which Side Are You On?’ Positioning and
Orientation in the Art Histories of Eastern Europe. (Workshop)
University of Bern, Institute of Art History, 10-11 October 2014.
The workshop ‘Which Side Are You On?’ Positioning and Orientation in the
Art Histories of Eastern Europe is designed as a working meeting for
young academics (in history of art and cultural history), curators and
artists engaged on a research project with reference to Eastern Europe.
The goal of the event is to present for discussion specific approaches
to the current art scene and readings of the histories of art in the
formerly socialist Eastern bloc states. In the recent past this topic
has attracted growing research interest and researchers in both East and
West need a more nuanced approach to the transition histories of Eastern
Europe and the changed structures of the art world after the fall of the
‘Iron Curtain’. Even though museums especially have been constituting an
essential intellectual space in East European studies over the past
years, specific local conditions have so far not been thematised,
studied and documented academically.
By exchanging ideas on specific projects and work processes, we aim to
adopt a perspective that is firmly trained on practical research issues.
The precarious situation of archives and collections, which often
accompanies research in Eastern Europe, is just as much part of the
workshop’s scope as the opportunities for getting access to material and
immaterial knowledge and for establishing cooperations between
institutions, researchers and artists. We also wish to articulate the
challenges faced by researchers who try to take a stand within the
existing art and academic worlds or within the – often also changing –
political structures of Eastern Europe. Research that takes account of
transcultural aspects has to react to complex local currents, to
subjective accounts and to the ‘real place’ in all its banality and
economies. The goal of the workshop is to make tangible these ‘soft
aspects’, which are normally excluded from scholarly discourse, and to
discuss them with an eye to the knowledge they may yield. On the one
hand we are interested in learning more about specific transition
processes in their local circumstances, but also, moving beyond this, we
wish to promote a discussion of method in transregional research. Not
least among our aims is to establish contact and discussion among the
participants in the longer term.
We invite researchers in the fields named above to apply as participants
with a project description (max. 2 pages) that provides information
about the research area and progress of their own work, and a short CV.
Travel and accommodation costs will be covered.
Please send your application materials no later than June 6 2014 to
[email protected] and [email protected]
Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Research Projects in Eastern Europe (Bern, 10-11 Oct 14). In:
H-ArtHist, Apr 17, 2014. <http://arthist.net/archive/7481>.
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