Events

John Blakinger

2018-2019 Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art,

Visiting Fellow of Worcester College

University of Oxford

Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus

165th Anniversary of Establishment of the Royal and Imperial Central Commission

for Preservation and Research of Artistic Heritage (1853 – 2018)

The international scientific conference seeks to commemorate the beginnings of institutional monument protection in Central Europe. On 10 January 1853, the Imperial and Royal Central Commission for Preservation and Research of Artistic Heritage started to operate. Thus began the actual practice of modern monument protection in the Habsburg Monarchy, and its continuity lasts to this day. The Central Commission intervened in all the Crownlands and left traces of its conservation and research work in each of them.

The workshop entitled Visualization of transnational networks in and between the artistic centers of the Habsburg monarchy – using the example of sculpture around 1900 will take place in Vienna on October 5th and 6th 2018. The workshop will be splitted in two sections. For the first one some experts will present their research on sculpture of the 19th century. In the following section the organizers would like to shed light on different models of digitalization, in order to find a platform, which allows them to synthesize our research.

A colleague of our institute, Gábor György Papp will present a lecture entitled The Millennial Monument in Budapest as the carrier of memory, national identity and self consciousness.

Male Bonds is a two-day international conference that will take place in the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium, on Tuesday May 15 and Wednesday May 16, 2018. Our colleague, Éva Bicskei is going to participate in the event with her lecture entitled: An alliance of virtue: Masculinity, self-reformation, and public actors in Hungary in the Reform Age.

The conference is organized by Ghent University and the European Society for Nineteenth-Century Art (ESNA) ; in cooperation with the University of Antwerp and the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent ; and with the support of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), of Radboud University’s Institute for Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies, of the Dutch Postgraduate School for Art History (OSK) and of the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD).

The conference will probe, challenge and expand upon the academic narrative of male homosociality through the lens of art history. It aims to establish an overview of a variety of male bonds that underpinned nineteenth-century art, and to consider the theoretical and methodological implications of the study thereof. In so doing, it seeks to build a bridge between traditional art-historical scholarship and the fields of gender and gay and lesbian studies: an interdisciplinary exchange of which the full potential for scholarship on the nineteenth century remains to be exploited.

The "Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe" (http://ernie.uva.nl) brings to fruition a major collaborative enterprise, involving 350 authors and covering countries and nationalist movements from Iceland to Azerbaijan. CEU has been an important collaborator in this project, which was funded by the Spinoza Award, the premier scientific prize in the Netherlands. CEU functioned as a Central-European hub for the Encyclopedia's transnational macroregional scope and as a collaborator in the developing field of comparative and transnational history.

After the presentation, a Round Table will be held to discuss the project's methodological and historical implications and its topical political relevance in today's Europe. The Round Table, chaired by Balazs Trencsenyi,  brings together panellists from various parts of the Continent: CEU affiliates Zsuzsa Sido, Maciej Janowksi and Francesco La Rocca, and the Italian and Estonian historians Francesca Zantedeschi and Marek Tamm.

It is well known that the South Kensington Museum provided the model for the establishment of museums of design and industry across Austria-Hungary. Yet how closely were its practices emulated, and how did they change once the idea of the design museum encountered local priorities and contexts? This workshop brings together curators and researchers from museums in the former Habsburg territories with researchers from the Leverhulme-funded project Exhibiting National and Imperial Identities at the University of Birmingham to discuss this question. Miklós Székely, research fellow of the insititue will present his recent researches on the Museum of Industry of Kolozsvár/Cluj Napoca (1887-1918). For the program please click here. 

Gábor György Papp, research fellow of our institute is going to present his paper entitled Otto Wagner and the National Architecture in Hungary at the international conference Modern Capitals and Historical Peripheries - Central Europe from the Perspective of Contested Modernities organised by the Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences within the framework of the bilateral research project of the Lithuanian and Hungarian Academies of Sciences on Saturday, October 20th, 2017; 4 Tóth Kálmán Street, 1097 Budapest. For the full programme of the event and abstracts please click here.