International conference
THE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART HISTORY IN THE BALTIC REGION
27–28 November 2009

Estonian Academy of Art
Tartu mnt. 1, Tallinn

Day 1
Friday, 27 Nov

9:00–9:30 Registration

9:30–9:45 Katrin Kivimaa. Opening address

Keynote presentation
9:45–10:30 Stella Pelše. Creating the discipline: Facts, stories and
sources of Latvian art history

10:30–11:00 Coffee break

Session I: National Art History and Its Discontents
Moderator: Katrin Kivimaa

11:00–11:30 Jolita Mulevičiūtė. New aims, old means:
Rewriting Lithuanian art history of the “National Revival” period
11:30–12:00 Kristiāna Ābele. Fellow-nationals vs. compatriots:
The turn of the 20th century period and the mono-ethnic tradition of its
interpretation in Latvian art history
12:00–12:30 Jon Blackwood. Writing “national” art history:
Estonia and
Scotland as case studies
12:30–13:00 Giedrė Jankevičiūtė. Writing art history
of the vanished states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the 1940s

13:00–14:00 Lunch

Keynote presentation
14:00–14:45 Linara Dovydaityte. The writing of history in a museum:
The
case of the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius

Session II: Questioning the Canon
Moderator: Stella Pelše

14:45–15:15 Renja Suominen-Kokkonen. Writing a canon of architectural
history in Finland
15:15–15:45 Vytautas Michelkevičius. Producing the canon of
Lithuanian photography: Dispositif of art photography since 1969

15:45–16:15 Coffee break

Session III: Interdisciplinary Research
Moderator: Anu Allas

16:15–16:45 Visa Immonen. Medievalisms with a difference: The Finnish
and
Estonian pre-war traditions of antiquarian art history
16:45–17:15 Epp Lankots. History appropriating contemporary concerns:
Leonhard Lapin’s architectural history and mythical thinking
17:15–17:45 Tomas Pabedinskas. Lithuanian photography: Contemporary
practice and its definitions

Day 2
Saturday, 28 Nov

9:30–10:15 Keynote presentation
Krista Kodres. Our own Estonian art history: Changing geographies of art
historical narrative

Session I: Beyond the Local
Moderator: Linara Dovydaityte

10:15–10:45 Agne Narusyte. Disruptive art histories: Strategies of
innovative thinking
10:45–11:15 Alexandra Alisauskas. Friends “is olvais velcome” to
Lithuania: International representations of Lithuanian art practices

11:15–11:30 Coffee break

Session II: Rethinking the Soviet Past
Moderator: Epp Lankots

11:30–12:00 Andres Kurg. Taking the Soviet Union seriously
12:00–12:30 Mari Laanemets. On the reconstruction of the art history
of
Soviet Estonia: The art history of interdisciplinary art
12:30–13:00 Kristina Budrytė. The “Baltic” fine arts exhibitions
in
Vilnius during the Soviet period: Conventions and innovations

13:00–14:00 Lunch

Session III: Histories of the Built Environments
Moderator: Andres Kurg

14:00–14:30 Laima Laučkaitė. Writing art history of the city:
From nationalism to multiculturalism
14:30–15:00 Anna Ancāne. The concepts of international and vernacular
in studies of Latvian architecture in the second half of the 17th
century
15:00–15:30 Marija Dremaite. Post-war architecture in the Soviet
Baltic
republics: National, regional and international research perspectives

15:30–16:00 Coffee break

16:00–17:00 Closing discussion

The conference is co-organised by Institute of Art History, Estonian
Academy of Arts (www.artun.ee) and the Estonian Association of Art
Historians (www.kty.ee).

The conference board includes: dr. Linara Dovydaityte (Faculty of
Humanities, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas), dr. Stella Pelše
(Institute of Art History, Latvian Academy of Art, Riga), dr. Katrin
Kivimaa (Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn)
and
Andres Kurg (Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts,
Tallinn).

Further information:
Katrin Kivimaa, katrin.kivimaaartun.ee
Anu Allas, anu.allasartun.ee

Registration until 20 Nov: anu.allasartun.ee