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 Mulevi?iute. New aims, old means: Rewriting Lithuanian art history of the "National Revival" period
11:30-12:00 Kristiana Abele. 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 Giedre Jankevi?iute. 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 Michelkevi?ius. 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 Budryte. 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 Lau?kaite. Writing art history of the city:From nationalism to multiculturalism
14:30-15:00 Anna Ancane. 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
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).
The conference board includes: dr. Linara Dovydaityte (Faculty of Humanities, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas), dr. Stella Pelše(Institute of Art History, Latvian Academy of Art, Riga), dr. Katrin Kivimaa (Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn)and Andres Kurg (Institute of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts,Tallinn).
Further information:
Katrin Kivimaa, katrin.kivimaa@artun.ee
Anu Allas, anu.allas@artun.ee
Registration until 20 Nov: anu.allas@artun.ee