What is to be Done? Methodological Challenges to Art Historical Research in Central and Eastern Europe is an international conference organized by The Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Art from Iași, in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts from Prague, with KEMKI – Central European Research Institute for Art History from Budapest, and with the University of Lodz, on October 12 and 13, 2023, at the “George Enescu” National University of Arts from Iași, Romania.

Introduction

Panel 1 • Revisiting socialist art: state-supported institutions, exhibitions, and cultural diplomacy

Panel 2 • Revisiting socialist art: artists’ networks and exhibition histories

Keynote Lecture I

Keynote Lecture II

Panel 3 • Social art history and Marxism in a socialist and post-socialist context

Panel 4 • Critical art history in Eastern Europe: race and visual culture

Panel 5 • Critical art history in Eastern Europe: gender, labor, and decoloniality

Scientific Committee:

• Professor Cristian Nae
  George Enescu National University of Arts from Iași
• Lecturer Thomas Zaluski
  University of Lodz
• Professor Pavlina Morganova
  Academy of Fine Arts from Prague
• Scientific Researcher Zsuzsa Laszlo
  KEMKI – Central European Research Institute for Art History from Budapest

Conference coordinated by PhD. Prof. Cristian Nae and funded by The National Council for Financing Higher Education in Romania through the Institutional Development Fund CNFIS-FDI-2023-F-0142.