International Conference "A Geography of (Art) Historians: International Historical Organizations during the Cold War (CIHA and CISH)".
Organizers: José M. Faraldo, Patricia García-Montón.
Free entrance.
PROGRAM
Thursday, 14.11.2024
Venue: Casa de Velázquez
16:30 h: Welcome words
Nancy Berthier (Director of the Casa de Velázquez)
José Manuel Nieto Soria (President of the Spanish Committee of Historical Sciences, CECH)
José M. Faraldo and Patricia García-Montón (Complutense University of Madrid)
16:45 h: Keynote Speaker
Thierry Dufrêne (Université Paris Nanterre, and former CIHA Scientific Secretary):
The decisive years (1961-1979). From Goldfish Bowl to Oceanic Feeling. A geopolitics of the CIHA
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Friday, 15.11.2024
Venue: Room B 18, Faculty of Geography and History, Complutense University of Madrid
10:00-12:00 h
Session 1: Globalizing the Local, and Transnational Agency
| Chair: Javier Pérez Segura (Complutense University of Madrid)
Eva Renzulli (École Pratique des Hauts Etudes - PSL Sorbonne):
André Chastel’s perspective on “world art history” and his international relations
Tereza Johanidesová (Czech Academy of Sciences / National Heritage Institute):
Josef Cibulka's membership and activities in CIHA in the 1950s and 1960s: between agency in transnational networks and isolation within Czech art history
Maria Giulia Aurigemma (Università di Chieti):
The Role of Italian Scholars in CIHA during the Cold War Years
12:00-12:30 h: Coffee break
12:30-13:30 h
Session 2: Decentering the narrative
| Chair: Sarah Lemmen (Complutense University of Madrid)
Robert Born (BKGE Oldenburg):
“Turning East” and the CIHA Congresses in Bonn and Budapest
Márton Orosz (Vasarely Museum, Budapest):
Satellite Exhibitions in a Satellite State: How Avant-Garde Was Silenced at the 1969 CIHA Congress?
13:30-15:00 h: Lunch break
15:00-16:30 h
Session 3: Politics
| Chair: Juliane Debeusscher (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Michał Wenderski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań):
Citizen Diplomacy and the CIHA: the 1952 Congress in Amsterdam and the Issue of Polish National Treasures
Petra Skarupsky (University of Warsaw):
The Ambiguity of “National Art”: The Impact of the 1933 CIHA Congress in Stockholm on the Postwar Art Debate in Poland and Czechoslovakia
Patricia García-Montón (Complutense University of Madrid):
On the Sidelines of Politics? CIHA Meetings and Southern European Dictatorships in the early 1970s: Portugal and Spain
17:00 h: Final remarks
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This conference is supported by the project “A Global Campus: Universities, cultural transfers, and experiences in the 20th century” Ref. PID2020-113106GB-I00, and HISTGLOBAL - Global and Transnational History Research Group (UCM)
Honorary Patronage:
Comité International d'Histoire de I'Art
Comité International des Sciences Historiques
contact: coldwar.ciha.cishgmail.com
Reference:
CONF: A Geography of (Art) Historians (Madrid, 14.-15. Nov 24). In: ArtHist.net, Oct 5, 2024 (accessed Dec 6, 2024), <https://arthist.net/archive/42840>.