From: H-ArtHist Redaktion <hah-redakt...@h-net.msu.edu>
Date: Sep 12, 2016
Subject: CFP: Session at ACLA: Comparative Literature (Utrecht, 6-9 jul 17)
ACLA Annual Meeting in Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 6 - 09, 2017
Deadline: Sep 23, 2016
Inviting Papers for the Seminar "Cultural Realities of Real Existing
Socialism (1945-present)"
at ACLA’s 2017 Annual Meeting at Utrecht, the Netherlands, July, 2017
Clara Masnatta (clara.masna...@ici-berlin.org)
Cold War Socialist and Communist cultural production is often studied
according to a top-down model pitting the official regime-endorsed
production against alternative cultural realities bubbling up under the
dictates of socialist realism. Recent scholarship has challenged this
model, yet efforts towards critical comparative approaches are in order
in our age of global history re-writing national narratives.
This panel seeks to interrogate both the official top-down and
nation-driven writing of (art) history and culture on the eastern side
of the Iron Curtain, the former Yugoslavia, and Cuba. We invite
contributions that explore the broken boundaries between official and
underground cultures and artistic exchanges within and beyond the
Socialist realm. In particular, we are looking for interventions that
are wary of fetishizing dissidence and employ an international
perspective into the ways these cultural and political contexts are
characterized and reduced to monolithic oppositional entities. What is
official or "underground" art? How does art cross borders, both national
and doctrinal? Should we remap socialist realism? Can fresh
methodologies reevaluate the international dimension of socialist
culture, if there is one? Papers can include research on a variety of
cultural objects, fine arts, "artistic" and "non-artistic" forms of
photography, film, theatre, and literature. We hope to generate a
cross-medium discussion about how we make scholarship about Cold War
cultures that complicates the received historical models and
methodologies through focused case-studies.
Please submit your paper proposal before the September 23 deadline at
http://acla.org/node/add/paper?seminar=12321
Feel free to contact the Seminar organizers with any questions
Clara Masnatta clara.masna...@ici-berlin.org
Sarah Goodrum segood...@gmail.com
Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Session at ACLA: Comparative Literature (Utrecht, 6-9 jul 17). In:
H-ArtHist, Sep 12, 2016. <http://arthist.net/archive/13567>.
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