REPRESENTING ART HISTORY IN THE BALTIC COUNTRIES: EXPERIENCES AND PROSPECTS
Riga, 6–8 October 2016
The Art History Department of the Art Academy of Latvia in collaboration with the Institute of Art History of the same institution and the Latvian National Museum of Art restarts the series of conferences of Baltic art historians, initiated by two meetings of the previous years – “The Geographies of Art History in the Baltic Region” in 2009, hosted by the Estonian Academy of Art together with the Estonian Association of Art Historians in Tallinn, and “(Un)blocked Memory: Writing Art History in Baltic Countries” in 2011, co-organised by the Vytautas Magnus University and the Vilnius Academy of Arts in Kaunas. The programme of the new conference “Representing Art History in the Baltic Countries: Experiences and Prospects” offers 30 presentations by researchers from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Great Britain and the United States.
Language of the conference: English.
All sessions can be attended without preliminary registration.
Locations:
6 October: Art Academy of Latvia, 13 Kalpaka Blvd
7–8 October: Latvian National Museum of Art, 10 Krišjāņa Valdemāra Street.
Organising Committee
Silvija Grosa (Art History Department of the Art Academy of Latvia),
Kristiāna Ābele (Institute of Art History of the Art Academy of Latvia),
Ginta Gerharde-Upeniece (Latvian National Museum of Art)
Krista Kodres (Institute of Art History of the Estonian Academy of Arts)
Tiina-Mall Kreem (Art Museum of Estonia)
Giedrė Jankevičiūtė (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute)
Dalia Klajumienė (Vilnius Academy of Arts)
Co-ordinators: Silvija Grosa (silvija.grosa@lma.lv), Kristiāna Ābele (kristiana_abele@hotmail.c
