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 Russian
Announcements
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 8 April to 15 April. 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.
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 1 April to 8 April. 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.
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 25 March to 1 April. 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.
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 18 March to 25 March. 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.
Conferences
Dear colleagues!
We invite you to take part in the international scholarly and practical conference “Source Studies and Textual Criticism in Contemporary Art History: Discoveries, Problems, Practice”, which will be held December 4 - 5, 2023 at the State Institute of Art History (Moscow, Kozitsky per., 5).
The Center for European Studies at the University of Florida is pleased to announce the multidisciplinary conference “European Artists in Postwar Exile,” to be held at the University of Florida, March 8–9, 2024. Please visit the website for the full CFP.
The Call for Papers is open and the submission deadline is November 10th, 2023.
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.
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
CFPs
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
For anyone interested in the Ballets Russes, here is a blog post by Paola Maria Rodriguez, a researcher at the Morgan Library and Museum, about materials being prepared for the exhibition Crafting the Ballets Russes: Music, Dance, Design—The Robert Owen Lehman Collection planned for Summer 2024.
CYLAND Media Art Lab, Arizona State University, and Leonardo ISAST, and ASU MIX Center present the CYFEST-14: Ferment, November 14-20. The opening of CYFEST-14: Ferment on Friday, November 18 from 3 PM to 6 PM MST at ASU Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center, 50 North Centennial Way, Mesa, Arizona, USA. The project is on view until November 20, 2022. CYFEST-14: Ferment examines the theme of fermentation through the dual lenses of art and science.
CYFEST-14 is collaborating with Emerge 2022: Eating at the Edges. A Festival of Food Futures, (https://emerge.asu.edu/) and extends its program
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
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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
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
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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