AAH session

Dear Shera coordinator,

I would be very grateful if you could please send out a reminder about the
CFP for our forthcoming AAH session on Nations, Identities and Art
Histories in Central Europe.

With many thanks

Klara Kemp-Welch

Academic Session 2: UEA 2015

AAH2015 41st Annual Conference & Bookfair

Sainsbury Institute for Art, UEA, Norwich 9 – 11 April 2015

*After the Great War / After the Cold War. Nations, identities and art
histories in Central Europe*

Paper proposals, to be sent to the session convenors in accordance
with proposal
guidelines <http://www.aah.org.uk/media/docs/AAH2015%20guidelines.doc>.
Paper proposal deadline: 10 November 2014

Session Convenors:

*Klara Kemp-Welch*, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London,
[email protected]
 <[email protected]>

*Beata Hock*, University of Leipzig, [email protected]

The collapse of Imperial and Soviet empires after the Great War and the
Cold War saw the (re-)formation of individual nation states and the
production of new cultural identities. These changes brought new
opportunities for artists and art historians across Central Europe and
beyond, but also new challenges. This session invites participants to
explore how art, art history, and criticism in Central Europe have engaged
with shifting approaches to nation and identity (embracing considerations
such as class, ethnicity, gender, religion) across the modern and the
contemporary. The session invites papers that consider: the critical
framing of domestic or national artistic developments in relation to local
concerns; Central European art in an international framework; histories of
minority communities; Central European historiography; the construction of
identity through print media and popular culture. What do ‘minor’ art
histories reveal about mainstream ones, and vice-versa? To what extent are
the processes observable in national and international art and art history
between the wars comparable to the tensions between the local and global
that have come to the forefront since the end of the Cold War? In view of
the present violence in the Ukraine, the resurgence of nationalisms across
Europe in the post-Cold War period, and the alarming political polarisation
in many European countries today, this session invites participants to
critically reconsider ideas of nation and identity in the region from a
range of art historical perspectives.

http://www.aah.org.uk/annual-conference/sessions2015/session2

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