Reorienting "Eastern" European Art and Culture

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Description

This roundtable brings together scholars engaged in different capacities across pedagogy, research, publishing and curating to remember together and to take stock of how our various disciplinary methodologies have shifted over the course of the last 10 years, in response to successive waves of theoretical concerns and political urgencies in our shared areas of concern. Returning to the question of what the "Eastern" in Eastern Europe might now mean, we come together to re-evaluate historical assumptions and to challenge the inadequate geopolitical terms within the framework of which we continue to operate for institutional reasons. How have we sought to work around or to rethink our teaching, research, publishing and exhibition projects over the past decade, and to what extent have our attempts to re-orient ourselves in relation to the category of the "Eastern" European proved clear and inclusive? What more needs to be done to terminologically acknowledge the entangled cultural realities of shifting borders, plural identities, imperial and colonial violence, transnationalism and migration, that characterise our field, both historically, and today?

Sub Unit

• Arts I: Visual Culture, Material Culture, Applied and Fine Arts

Chair

• Kamila Kocialkowska, U of Warwick (UK)

Roundtable Speakers

• Klara Kemp-Welch, The Courtauld Institute of Art (UK)

• Maria Mileeva, The Courtauld Inst of Art (UK)

• Jane Ashton Sharp, Rutgers, The State U of New Jersey

• Sven Spieker, UC Santa Barbara