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Programme
Thursday, 17 September 2015
| 9.30–10.00 | Registration |
| 10.00–11.00 | Plenary I. Edit Sasvári, Kassák Museum: The Kassák Museum in the Central and East European perspective.
Eszter Balázs, Kodolányi János University of Applied Arts: ‘Artist and Public Intellectual, Artist or Public Intellectual’ – Polemics of the Hungarian Avant-Garde on New Art, 1915–1918. |
| 11.00–11.30 | Coffee |
| 11.30-13.30 | Session I.Oliver Botar, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg: Moholy-Nagy: Art as Information / Information as Art.
Jindrich Toman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Moholy Nagy’s idea of a Synthetic Journal. Sonia de Puineuf, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest: “Syntetische Zeitschrift” – Study cases Nová Bratislava and Nový Svet. |
| 13.30–15.00 | Lunch |
| 15.00–17.00 | Session II.Lucie Česálková, Masaryk University, Brno: Artuš Černík between national and media contexts.
Vendula Hnídková, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague: Styles of Styl – Platform for Czech Modern Architecture. Przemysław Strożek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw: Chaplin goes viral – Avant-garde publications and the images of popular culture. |
| 18.00–20.00 | Dinner at the Petőfi Literary Museum. |
Friday, 18 September 2015
| 10.00–11.00 | Plenary II. Gábor Dobó – Klára Rudas – Merse Pál Szeredi, Kassák Museum: Curators’ introduction to the exhibition ‘Signal to the World – War ∩ Avant-Garde ∩ Kassák’
Merse Pál Szeredi, Kassák Museum: The Politics of Artistic Utopia – Lajos Kassák and MA in Vienna (1920–1925). Gábor Dobó, Kassák Museum: “Extraterrestrials in Budapest” – Self-description of Kassák’s avant-garde magazine Dokumentum (1926–1927). |
| 11.00–11.30 | Coffee |
| 11.30-13.30 | Session III.Kinga Siewior, Jagiellonian University, Kraków: From aesthetics to anthropology – The concept of East in Zenit magazine.
Jakub Kornhauser, Jagiellonian University, Kraków: From repulsion to attraction – A long story of surrealism in Romanian avant-garde magazines. Dušan Barok, Monoskop, Bratislava: Body of Thought – Artists’ texts and their contribution to theory. |
| 13.30–15.00 | Lunch |
| 15.00–16.30 | Session IV.Klára Prešnajderová, Slovak Design Museum, Bratislava: Two magazines with two different concepts – Slovenská Grafia and Nová Bratislava.
Michał Burdziński, University of Warsaw, Warsaw: How much did our graphic arts fly aloft? On defining the spirit of avant-garde pretensions in an impecunious world. Hanna Marciniak, Charles University, Prague: The D Programme and the Czech Avant-Garde in the 1940s. |
| 16.30–17.00 | Coffee |
| 17.00–18.30 | Session V.Markéta Theinhardt, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris: L’Art et les Artistes: Revue mensuelle d’art ancien et moderne (1905–1939) – Central European art between modernism and conservatism.
Vojtěch Lahoda, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague: Global Art History “avant la lettre” – The Case of Umělecký měsíčník (1911–1914). Lenka Bydžovská, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague: On the extreme left? The Devětsil monthly ReD in international networks (1927–1931). |
| 20.00–22.00 | Dinner |
Saturday, 19 September 2015
| 10.00–12.00 | Session VI. Piotr Rypson, National Museum in Warsaw: Tadeusz Peiper’s strategy for Zwrotnica magazine.
Michalina Kmiecik, Jagiellonian University, Kraków: The aftermath of Zwrotnica? Kraków avant-garde and its magazines in the 1930s. Michał Wenderski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań: Between Poland and the Low Countries – Mutual relations and cultural exchange between constructivist magazines and avant-garde formations. |
| 12.00–13.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00–14.30 | Roundtable: On the research of Central-European avant-garde magazines. |
My research explores the making of a ‘productivist’ middle-class and their battle for social legitimation, intellectual authority, and middle-class identity in the Habsburg Monarchy between the 1867 Ausgleich and the aftermath of the Great War. In this study I analyze who became engaged in the battle for social recognition, what their motivations (scientific, social, economic) were, and what themes and social issues they considered important in their professional and private endeavors. A special emphasis is put on the relation between the educational system, with its inherent role in the knowledge production of specialized disciplines, and the economic and social modernization of the Dualist Monarchy. Here, my approach focuses on how educational change (e.g. the rise of professional education) could be interpreted from the perspective of its social effects or even in terms of economic causes. My research also includes the analysis of various types of white-collar work in early urban capitalism, especially from the perspective of how the struggles around class, status, and power were represented and negotiated in the public sphere and in related scientific endeavors by our protagonists. In this vein, selected case studies deal with the practices of accounting, banking, insurance business, engineering, and transportation.
The research project seeks to analyse the stakes behind the concept of judgement in the light of Seneca’s tragedies. In such works, judgement stands as a decision-making process within the frame of Stoicism, as a decision of the judicial authority under the Roman Empire and last, as a part of tragedy as genre. Legal procedure formalising the decision making, the new constellation of the judicial field in the imperial era raised new questions about the nature of judgement in general, including that of moral and aesthetical judgement. The aim of this research is to explore how the formalising of assessing and decision making processes, especially in legal procedure, are being questioned–since they are at the origin of European law. This will lead to reflecting upon judicial authority and judgement. Grounded in the study of classics, this survey of the judgement in the works of Seneca should enable to look into the precondition of social sciences topics and the study of law, without being embedded in their methodology.
Filip has gained his PhD in Sociology form the University of Bristol. His doctoral research critically engaged with some leading authors on social time and acceleration in late capitalism (particularly Hartmut Rosa) and examined how and with what consequences acceleration imperative plays out in contemporary academia.