Founded in 1995, the Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA) brings together scholars specializing in the art and architecture of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, from ancient times to the present day. You can join the Society as a dues-paying member or renew your membership here. However, one need not be a dues-paying member to subscribe or post to the H-SHERA network on H-Net. Detailed instructions for making the most of H-SHERA can be found here.
Recent Posts
LaVey, A.M. (2023) Secondary Archive [Review]. ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews, Sept. doi:10.17613/7g2g-sa79.
Secondary Archive is a website-based digital platform that documents information about women artists from central and east Europe, from the 1930s through the present. The 2020 project went online in 2021, showcasing artists from Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. In 2022 it grew to include artists from Belarus and Ukraine, and in 2023, from Albania, Kosovo and Serbia.
More: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:59387/
The Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe
Now Accepting Applications for the 2024
Summer Institute in Bulgaria
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for the Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe (SISECSE) 2023-24 competition. In partnership with the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS), ACLS will convene leading scholars from Eastern Europe and North America for a two-week residency, hosted by the American University in Bulgaria, in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria June 13-29, 2024.
SISECSE will
Dear H-SHERA members,
I am trying to track down the holder of artistic copyright for the work of the Russian artist Vasily Nikolaevich Masyutin (1884-1955). I am currently preparing an article for publication on the image of the Chinese migrant soldier in early Soviet literature, and I would like to include two illustrations that Masyutin did for a story by the writer Boris Pilnyak, published in Berlin in 1922. (Masyutin emigrated to Germany in the 1920s and died in Berlin in 1955.)
The two images can be seen here and here, on the website of the Russian State Library. However, the
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Announcements
Subject Fields
Russian or Soviet History / Studies
With speakers Louise Hardiman, Ekaterina Heath, Allison Leigh and Cynthia Coleman Sparke and sobesednik Ekaterina Pravilova
Subject Fields
Archaeology,
Architecture and Architectural History
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 11 September to 18 September. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the network editors for H-SHERA. See the H-Net job guide web site at https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 AM and 5 PM US Eastern time.
Location
Madrid,
Spain
Subject Fields
Art, Art History & Visual Studies,
Film and Film History,
Fine Arts
1st International Conference on Visual Culture. Periphery and Interdisciplinarity in Visual Studies
LaVey, A.M. (2023) Secondary Archive [Review]. ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews, Sept. doi:10.17613/7g2g-sa79.
Secondary Archive is a website-based digital platform that documents information about women artists from central and east Europe, from the 1930s through the present. The 2020 project went online in 2021, showcasing artists from Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. In 2022 it grew to include artists from Belarus and Ukraine, and in 2023, from Albania, Kosovo and Serbia.
More: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:59387/
Conferences
Location
District of Columbia,
United States
Subject Fields
Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies announces the call for applications for the 2024 Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar on "Jewish Responses to the Holocaust: Dispossession, Restitution, and Reconstructing the Home." This Seminar will explore the Holocaust through the lens of Jewish experiences of dispossession and looting during World War II, as well as processes of restitution, reparations, and rebuilding of private lives in the postwar period.
Location
Florida,
United States
Subject Fields
Art, Art History & Visual Studies,
Cultural History / Studies,
European History / Studies,
Humanities,
Modern European History / Studies
The Center for European Studies at the University of Florida is pleased to announce the conference “European Artists in Postwar Exile,” to be held at the University of Florida, March 8–9, 2024.
Submission Deadline: November 10, 2023
Notification by: December 8, 2023
Conference Dates and Location: March 8–9, 2024 Gainesville, Florida
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Symposium: Translating the Sacred in the Nordic-Baltic Sphere from the Middle Ages to Modernity.
Riga, Art Academy of Latvia, and online.
Thursday 29-Friday 30 June 2023.
The Art Academy of Latvia, in cooperation with the National Museum of Denmark, is pleased to announce the upcoming Marie Skłodowska-Curie Symposium, “Translating the Sacred in the Nordic-Baltic Sphere from the Middle Ages to Modernity,” which will be held 29 and 30 June 2023 at the Art Academy of Latvia in Riga, and online via Zoom. The symposium is made possible thanks to generous support from the
The Graduate Student Travel Award Committee of the Early Slavic Studies Association is seeking applications for a $300 grant to assist with the travel expenses of a graduate student who will be presenting a paper in person in the early Slavic field at the National Convention of the ASEEES in Philadelphia in November/December 2023. Interested graduate students may find the application here and submit it with a c.v. by e-mail to the committee chair, Tomasz Grusiecki, by July 30. The winner will be notified by August 15.
CFPs
Location
Czechia
Subject Fields
Architecture and Architectural History,
Maritime History / Studies
Following the assumption that urbanisation, globalisation and the Anthropocene created new categories and paradigms of borders the panel seeks to shed light on the question how the sea is perceived, narrated, mediated in the build environment of coastal towns and cities since Early Modern Times.
Transdisciplinary workshop at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, organised by Hana Gründler (KHI-MPI) and Magdalena Nieslony (Universität Wien)
28-30 September 2023
The importance of body politics is once again undeniable: the idealization or vilification of bodies on ideological grounds, restrictions on abortion rights, and the continued exploitation of migrant bodies and labor are global phenomena. These are present not only in autocratic regimes but increasingly in democratic forms of government as well. This becomes abundantly clear in East-Central European
This year's deadline to submit a proposal for the SHERA-sponsored panel at CAA is April 15, 2023. Both complete sessions and sessions soliciting contributors are eligible. Sessions dealing with any topic in art and architectural history or visual studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia are welcome. For more information on general CAA guidelines, see CAA guidelines and FAQ.
To submit a SHERA-sponsored session, please email the following items in one .pdf file, with the subject heading “SHERA-sponsored panel at CAA 2024,” to shera.artarchitecture@gmail.com by April 15:
- Title and abstract
Dear Members of SHERA,
The deadline for SHERA Graduate Student / Independent Scholar Research Grant is April 15, 2023. The grant in the amount of $500-1000 will be awarded to one or two members for research and/or study toward the completion of a thesis, dissertation, or publication. The grant could be used toward the cost of research travel or accommodations, the acquisition of image rights for publication, language study, and other related activities. You can find a list of previous grant recipients here.
Applications are limited to graduate students and scholars who do not hold a full-time
Online Lectures
Collecting in Russia - Lecture 2: The Yusupovs in Paris – Building a Collection, by Wilfried Zeisler
In the second of the series of online lectures (webinars) organised jointly by Princeton University and the European University at St Petersburg, Wilfried Zeisler of Hillwood Museum will talk about the Princes Yusupov collecting in Paris in the nineteenth century.
22 October 2020, noon EST = 17.00 London, 18.00 Paris, 19.00 Moscow
Online on Zoom, free to all but registration is obligatory:
http://piirs.princeton.edu/news-events/events/13
Future lectures
(please not that the time remains the same, but this will be 20.00 Moscow time from November)
November 12, 2020
From Rudolf II to Catherine II
Cross-Posted Reviews
Exhibitions
The years following the inception of perestroika policies and encompassing the collapse of the Soviet Union remarkably transformed Kyiv’s art scene, successfully launching Ukrainian contemporary art as a truly global phenomenon. The calm waters of the culturally provincial capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic became radically stirred with new and daring art made publicly visible for the first time since the avant-garde period. This explosion of styles, rediscovered histories, and newly found freedoms blossoming against the background of the collapsing Soviet empire, the Chernobyl nuclear
International Conference
October 15-16, 2021
Berlin (Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Saal, Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Haus Potsdamer Straße)
and online via Zoom
Berlin (Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Saal, Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Haus Potsdamer Straße)
and online via Zoom
Deadline for registration: 10.10.2021
The First Russian Art Exhibition (Erste Russische Kunstausstellung), which opened in the Galerie van Diemen in Berlin on October 15, 1922, caused a remarkable stir in the Western art world. With Russia having been isolated from the West for almost a decade due to the First World War, the exhibition offered a unique opportunity for a broad Western audience to view first-hand the most recent artistic developments in
CAA 2022
The SHERA Board is now accepting proposals for the SHERA-sponsored session at the College Art Association Annual Conference in New York, to be held in February 15-18, 2023. The deadline to send proposals to SHERA is April 15, 2022.
Sessions dealing with any topic in art and architectural history or visual studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia are welcome. Organizers may submit complete sessions or sessions soliciting contributions, which will be circulated during CAA's call for participation period July 21 – August 31, 2022. Organizers of both types of sessions should plan for 90
The SHERA Board is now accepting proposals for the SHERA-sponsored session at the College Art Association Annual Conference in New York, to be held in February 15-18, 2023. The deadline to send proposals to SHERA is April 15, 2022.
Sessions dealing with any topic in art and architectural history or visual studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia are welcome. Organizers may submit complete sessions or sessions soliciting contributions, which will be circulated during CAA's call for participation period July 21 – August 31, 2022. Organizers of both types of sessions should plan for 90
ASEEES 2022
H-Net will be hosting a meet-and-greet at ASEEES in Chicago on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022, at 5:30 p.m. at Miller’s Pub, located around the corner from the Hilton Palmer House. H-Net will provide a selection of appetizers and a limited open bar. We look forward to using this opportunity to meet our editors and subscribers to networks related to East European and Eurasian studies and to talk about how H-Net can support their work. If you are interested in taking on a leadership role with an H-Net program, reviewing books, starting a new network that you think is needed, or sharing a DH project, we
In light of the extension of the ASEEES Annual Convention Proposal Deadline to March 15, 2022, the SHERA Board has also extended the deadline for the society’s sponsored panel at the 2022 ASEEES Annual Conference to March 11, 2022.
As an affiliated society, SHERA may submit one sponsored panel. This session has guaranteed acceptance from ASEEES and will be identified as an Affiliated Society session in all ASEEES conference schedules (printed, online, and in the conference app). Proposed panels must focus on issues of art, architecture, visual culture, or other related fields pertinent to the
SHERA Business
SHERA Graduate Student / Independent Scholar Research Grant (deadline April 15, 2022)
The SHERA Graduate Student / Independent Scholar Research Grant in the amount of $500 - $1000 supports research toward the completion of a thesis, dissertation, or publication. The grant may be used toward the cost of research travel or accommodations, remote archival assistance fees, the acquisition of image rights for publication, language study, and other related activities.
Applications are limited to graduate students and scholars who do not hold a full-time position at an academic institution. Applicants
The SHERA Board is now accepting proposals for the SHERA-sponsored session at the College Art Association Annual Conference in New York, to be held in February 15-18, 2023. The deadline to send proposals to SHERA is April 15, 2022.
Sessions dealing with any topic in art and architectural history or visual studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia are welcome. Organizers may submit complete sessions or sessions soliciting contributions, which will be circulated during CAA's call for participation period July 21 – August 31, 2022. Organizers of both types of sessions should plan for 90
Member publications
Dear All,
I am delighted to share with you news of publication of my article on the under-researched Polish neo-avant-garde artist Marek Konieczy, as per below.
Radek Przedpełski, "Steppe C(ha)osmotechnics: Art as Engineering of Forces in Marek Konieczny and Beyond." In Deleuze, Guattari and the Art of Multiplicity, edited by Radek Przedpełski and S. E. Wilmer, 113–53. Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
The article explores practices of Polish neo-avant-garde artist Marek Konieczny spanning conceptual art, performance, body art and sculptural installations. Focusing on Konieczny's idiosyncratic
Hello,
My essay "Humor as Parody, Eccentrism, and Satire in Soviet Film after World War II" just came out in the catalogue of an exhibition Russian Dada: 1914-1924, edited by Margarita Tupitsyn and published by Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid and The MIT Press in Cambridge, MA. The essay is on pp. 206-223.
Natasha Kurchanova