27.11.2009Eesti Kunstiakadeemia

I Balti kunstiajaloolaste konverents. The Geographies of Art History in the Baltic Region

Eesti Kunstiteadlaste Ühingu ja Eesti Kunstiakadeemia Kunstiteaduse Instituudi ühiskonverents keskendus viimase aja kriitilisetele debattidele ja interdistsiplinaarsetele arengutele kunstiteaduses ja -ajaloos. Konverentsi eesmärk oli projitseerida rahvusvaheliselt levinud metodoloogilised ja historiograafilised küsimused regionaalsesse ja kohalikku konteksti, uurides kunstiteaduse piire ja geograafiaid Eestis, Lätis ja Leedus.
Konverentsi töökeel oli inglise keel.

First conference of Baltic art historians. Geographies of Art History in the Baltic Region

27–28 November 2009

Estonian Academy of Art, Tartu mnt. 1, Tallinn

The conference is co-organised by Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts (www.artun.ee) and the Estonian Association of Art Historians (www.kty.ee).

Programme

Day 1, Friday, 27 Nov

9:00–9:30 Registration

9:30–9:45 Katrin Kivimaa. Opening address

Keynote presentation
9:45–10:30 Stella Pelše. Creating the discipline: Facts, stories and sources of Latvian art history

10:30–11:00 Coffee break

Session I: National Art History and Its Discontents
Moderator: Katrin Kivimaa

11:00–11:30 Jolita Mulevièiûtë. New aims, old means: Rewriting Lithuanian art history of the “National Revival” period
11:30–12:00 Kristiâna Âbele. Fellow-nationals vs. compatriots: The turn of the 20th century period and the mono-ethnic tradition of its interpretation in Latvian art history
12:00–12:30 Jon Blackwood. Writing “national” art history: Estonia and Scotland as case studies
12:30–13:00 Giedrë Jankevièiûtë. Writing art history of the vanished states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the 1940s

13:00–14:00 Lunch

Keynote presentation
14:00–14:45 Linara Dovydaityte. The writing of history in a museum: The case of the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius

Session II: Questioning the Canon
Moderator: Stella Pelše

14:45–15:15 Renja Suominen-Kokkonen. Writing a canon of architectural history in Finland
15:15–15:45 Vytautas Michelkevièius. Producing the canon of Lithuanian photography: Dispositif of art photography since 1969

15:45–16:15 Coffee break

Session III: Interdisciplinary Research
Moderator: Anu Allas

16:15–16:45 Visa Immonen. Medievalisms with a difference: The Finnish and Estonian pre-war traditions of antiquarian art history
16:45–17:15 Epp Lankots. History appropriating contemporary concerns: Leonhard Lapin’s architectural history and mythical thinking
17:15–17:45 Tomas Pabedinskas. Lithuanian photography: Contemporary practice and its definitions

Day 2, Saturday, 28 Nov

9:30–10:15 Keynote presentation
Krista Kodres. Our own Estonian art history: Changing geographies of art historical narrative

Session I: Beyond the Local
Moderator: Linara Dovydaityte

10:15–10:45 Agne Narusyte. Disruptive art histories: Strategies of innovative thinking
10:45–11:15 Alexandra Alisauskas. Friends “is olvais velcome” to Lithuania: International representations of Lithuanian art practices

11:15–11:30 Coffee break

Session II: Rethinking the Soviet Past
Moderator: Epp Lankots

11:30–12:00 Andres Kurg. Taking the Soviet Union seriously
12:00–12:30 Mari Laanemets. On the reconstruction of the art history of Soviet Estonia: The art history of interdisciplinary art
12:30–13:00 Kristina Budrytë. The “Baltic” fine arts exhibitions in Vilnius during the Soviet period: Conventions and innovations

13:00–14:00 Lunch

Session III: Histories of the Built Environments
Moderator: Andres Kurg

14:00–14:30 Laima Lauèkaitë. Writing art history of the city: From nationalism to multiculturalism
14:30–15:00 Anna Ancâne. The concepts of international and vernacular in studies of Latvian architecture in the second half of the 17th century
15:00–15:30 Marija Dremaite. Post-war architecture in the Soviet Baltic republics: National, regional and international research perspectives

15:30–16:00 Coffee break

16:00–17:00 Closing discussion