What is to be Done? Methodological Challenges to Art Historical Research in Central and Eastern Europe (International Conference, Iasi, RO)

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 12 and 13 October 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

The conference was coordinated by Prof. PhD Cristian Nae, and it was funded by CNFIS (The National Council for Financing Higher Education in Romania) through a Fund for Institutional Development, CNFIS-FDI-2023-F-0142.