The Conference is held online. Time references are in Central European Time.
Please register for online participation: https://nus-sg.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LsW0fzeYRcKRHx_SRi-FEg
DAY 1 – THURSDAY, 7 MARCH 2024
9:00 Welcome addresses (Mira Kozhanova and Maria Taroutina)
9:30 PANEL 1: MOVING EAST: THE ASIAN ARC OF MIGRATION Chair: Mira Kozhanova
David Low, Singapore
The Russian Connection in Singapore’s Local Art Identity
Olga Isaeva, University of Bonn, Germany
David Davidovich Burliuk and Futurism in Japan: Letting go of painting that is fixed to a single style
Katya Knyazeva, University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli, Italy
The émigré artist Victor Podgoursky and his legacy in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Kazan
11:30 PANEL 2: MOVING WEST: RETHINKING MIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN EASTERN EUROPE Chair: Christian Drobe
Jakub Hauser, Museum of Czech Literature, Prague, Czech Republic
Ukrainian Studio of Plastic Arts in Interwar Prague in the Context of the Exile Community from the Former Russian Empire
Daria Kostina, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Representatives of the Kalmyk Immigrant Community in Portraits of the Immigrant Artist Grigory Musatov in the Interwar Prague
Liudmila Sharaya, Arizona State University, USA
Between alienation and appropriation: Russian émigrés and space of Bulgaria and France during the interwar period
14:00 PANEL 3: NEGOTIATING BELONGING IN CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS Chair: Maria Taroutina
Marija Podzorova-Biret, Laboratory ICT, University Paris Cité, France
Navigating Ideological Crossroads: Georgy K. Loukomski in the mediation of the Soviet art and cultural policy in the West
Jeffrey Taylor, US Fulbright Scholar, European Humanities University Vilnius, Lithuania
From the lost Eva Striker to the survivor Eva Zeisel
Lina Bernstein, Franklin & Marshall College, USA
The Many Lives of Magda Nachman
Roann Barris, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Boris Aronson: An Artist on the Move
16:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Object Travel (Maps of Misreading) by Jane Sharp, Rutgers University, USA
DAY 2 – FRIDAY, 8 MARCH 2024
9:30 PANEL 4: TRANSNATIONAL REALITIES OF GLOBAL ARTISTIC EXCHANGES Chair: Mira Kozhanova
Bronislava Prakhiy, Ekaterina Heath, Ksenia Radchenko, University of Sydney, Australia
Reclaiming Danila Vassilieff: Transnational Hybridity of a Cossack Émigré in Australian Modernism
Dilara Ulu, Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye
From Exile to Citizenship: The Influence of Vladimir Zender’s Network in Istanbul on his Photography
Julieta Pestarino, 4A_Lab / University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Anatole Saderman. A photographer between Moscow and South America
11:30 PANEL 5: GENDER AND ARTISTIC MOBILITY
Chair: Louise Hardiman
Anja Wilhelmi, Northeast-Institute, University of Hamburg, Germany
The significance of gender and marital status in migration and exile for artists, using the example of Eva-Margarete Borchert (1878–1964)
Christa Spreizer, Queens College, The City University of New York, USA
The artist Rahel Szalit-Marcus and “Die Emigrantin als Bardame” (The Female Emigrant as Barmaid)
Pauline Walkiewicz, Europe-Eurasia Research Center (CREE), INALCO, Paris, France
Interactions and network of the Russian artists: the case of Mela Muter (1876–1967) and Zofia Piramowicz (1880–1958), two women artists from Warsaw during the Partition
Priscilla Manfren, University of Padua, Italy
A Young Russian Girl between Africa and Europe: Life and Works of Olga de Goguine
14:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: The (in)visible borders and crossroads of the Russophone artistic emigration (1880-1939) By Vita Susak, Swiss Academic Society for Eastern European Studies, Switzerland
16:30 ROUNDTABLE „UNITY IN DIVERSITY? THE ENTANGLED HISTORIES OF MIGRANT ARTISTS FROM THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE/SOVIET UNION“ Chair: Maria Taroutina
Speakers:
Marina Dmitrieva, Independent art historian, Germany
Krista Kodres, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia
Maria Silina, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada