"Art History on the Disciplinary Map in East-Central Europe"
18 -19 November 2010, Brno, Czech Republic.

This is the second seminar in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Institute's East-Central Europe Seminar Series, Unfolding Narratives: Art
Histories in East-Central Europe after 1989, taking place in the region
between 2010 and 2011. The series is an international initiative of the
Research and Academic Program at The Clark, and is made possible by a
generous grant from the Andrew. W. Mellon Foundation, with additional
support from the Getty Foundation's Connecting Art Histories initiative.
The first seminar was organized with the Estonian Academy of Arts and took
place in Tallinn, Estonia, 14-15 May 2010. The third and last seminar is
in collaboration with New Europe College and will take place in Bucharest,
Romania, 20-21 May 2011. Regional partners for the current seminar are
Masaryk University and the Moravian Gallery, Brno.

PROGRAM:

Thursday, 18th November 2010
Location: Moravian Gallery, Husova 14, Brno, ground floor lecture room

9.00am Welcome and Introduction
Ladislav Kesner, Department of Art History, Masaryk University
Marek Pokorný, Director, Moravian Gallery of Art
Michael Ann Holly, Starr Director, Research and Academic Program, Clark
Art Institute
Natasha Becker, Mellon Assistant Director, Research and Academic Program,
Clark Art Institute

9.30 - 12.30am Panel I: Localized vs. Globalized Narratives of Art
Moderator: Ladislav Kesner, Masaryk University Brno

David Bares, City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Piotrowski´s "horizontal" art history: problems and perspectives

Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Translocal, London, UK
The Challenge of the Post-National in East European Art History

Anna Brzyski, University of Kentucky, USA
Kunstwissenschaft, World Art History, and Global Art Historic Discourse

Responses from "core group" participants
Discussants: To be determined

12.30 - 1.45.pm Lunch

2.00 - 5.00pm Panel II: Exhibitions as Art History
Moderator: Karel Císar, Academy of Art, Architecture and Design, Prague

Louisa Avgita, City University London, UK
The Rewriting of Art History as Art

Kelly Presutti, J. Paul Getty Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
The Promises of Conducting Art History within the Exhibition Setting

Christopher Nae, George Enescu University of Arts, Laşi, Romania
Retrospective Exhibitions and Identity Politics:The Capitalization of
Criticality in Curatorial Accounts of Eastern European Art After 1989

Discussants: TBD

Friday, 19th November 2010
Location: Moravian Gallery, Husova 14, ground floor lecture room

9.30 - 12.30am Panel III: Disciplinary and Institutional Frameworks
Moderator: Keith Moxey, Professor and Chair of Art History at Barnard
College, Columbia University, New York

Anna Manicka, Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, Poland
The Dialogue among the Institutions of Art and its Impact on History of
Art

Pavlína Morganová, Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
The Transformation of Art and Art Historical Institutions Following 1989

Mária Orisková, University of Trnava, Slovakia
Welcome to Capitalism: Institutional Dimensions of Art History in Slovakia

Discussants: TBD

12.30 - 1.45pm Lunch

2.00 - 5.00pm Panel IV: Blind Spots of Art History in Central/Eastern
Europe
Moderator: Michael Ann Holly, Starr Director, Clark Art Institute

Eva Forgacs, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, USA
Art History´s One Blind Spot in East-Central Europe: Terminology

Martin Horácek, University of Technology, Brno
Architectural History With(out) Theory: The Czech Professional Debate on
Architecture After 1989

Juliana Maxim, University of San Diego, San Diego, USA
Writing the Art History of Totalitarianism: Socialist Realist Painting in
Romania, 1950s-60s

Discussants: TBD

Core Group Participants
Edit Andras, Independent art critic, Hungary-USA
andrasearthist.mta.huZdenka Badovinac, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana,
Slovenia
Natasha Becker, Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute
Karel Císar, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague, Czech
Republic
Aruna D'Souza, Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Insitute
Michael Ann Holly, Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute
Ladislav Kesner, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
Kristra Kodres, Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts,
Tallinn, Estonia
Magdalena Moskalewicz Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, , Poland
Keith Moxey, Columbia University, New York, USA
Anca Oroveanu, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania
Almira Ousmanova, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Piotr Piotrowski, Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, Poland
Sven Spieker, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Matthew Witkovsky, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,
USA
Beat Wyss, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe,
Germany