Art History on the Disciplinary Map in East-Central Europe,
18-19 November 2010, Brno, Czech Republic
The Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute in
Williamstown, Massachusettes, USA, in collaboration with Masaryk
University and the Moravian Gallery in Brno, the Czech Republic, invite
submissions to participate in the seminar, Art History on the
Disciplinary Map in East-Central Europe, 18 -19 November 2010, to be
held in Brno, Czech Republic.
This is the second in a series of seminars taking place in the region
between 2010 and 2011 as part of Research and Academic Program’s
East-Central Europe initiative, Unfolding Narratives: Art Histories in
East-Central Europe after 1989, generously funded by the Andrew. W.
Mellon Foundation with additional support from the Getty Foundation’s
Connecting Art Histories initiative.
The Brno seminar will deal with the following topics:
• Art History in the Humanities: What is the place of art history in the
humanities? What is its status compared to other disciplines for
example, literature, history, or philosophy within the humanities? How
does it relate to other visual disciplines and/or to the challenges of
the expanding boundaries of art history such as, visual studies, for
example?
• Art History and Theory: What is the status of “theory” in art history?
To what extent does it underpin art historical work in the East-Central
European context?
• Art History and its Institutions: How does art history live within the
academy, the museum, and the art market today? What are the pressures
and challenges of art history within these settings? Are there other
serious contexts – exhibitions, biennials, transregional projects,
publications, internet – in which art history is being shaped?
• Art History’s Blind Spots: What is being suppressed or avoided in
research, in teaching, in curricula, in writing, and in exhibitions?
What is the relationship between “local” art histories and a “global”
discipline of art history? How are local art histories being constrained
by the historical traditions of German Kunstwissenschaft, Anglo-American
academic traditions, and the global thrust of the contemporary
discipline? Do local practices and traditions offer some viable
alternatives/challenges to the global discipline?
The format for the seminar is a combination of paper presentations and
roundtable discussions that will take place over 2 days in Brno. Travel,
accommodation, and meals for duration of the seminar will be provided by
the organizers. We invite you to submit a proposal for a paper (of no
more than 10 pages) that speaks to one of the above-mentioned topics.
Submission procedure:
Please submit a 300 word abstract by 15 June 2010 to Dr. Ladislav Kesner
at lkesnercultropa.cz and Natasha Becker at nbeckerclarkart.edu. The
deadline for the submission of the final paper is 30 September 2010.
Dr. Ladislav Kesner
Masaryk University
Faculty of Arts
Department of the History of Art
312 Veveří 470/28, 602 00 Brno
Czech Republic
+420 549 49 4095
Email: lkesnercultropa.cz
Quellennachweis:
CFP: Art History in East-Central Europe (Brno, 18-19 Nov 10). In: ArtHist.net, 19.03.2010. Letzter Zugriff 16.07.2025. <https://arthist.net/archive/32431>.