Symposium on Russian Modernism, Washington, D.C. April 9-10

[Karen L. Kettering]

 Russian Modernism:  Methods and Meanings in the Post-Soviet
Era,  April 9-10,
1999, is the first in a series of symposia planned by the Society
of Historians
of East European and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA), and is

co-sponsored by the Kennan Institute for the Advanced Russian
Studies
of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the
Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of
Maryland,
College Park.

GOAL: The event s aim is to assess the critical issues and the
state of
current research in the field.  It is organized around questions
of methodology
in response to shifts in the study of Russian modernism in the
visual arts
and design practices that have followed the recent political
changes in the
former USSR.  The themes proposed by the speakers reconsider the
debates and practices of Russian modernism through the prism of
its historiography.

Speakers will include Catherine Cooke, Grigorii Sternin, Jane
Sharp,
Blair Ruble, Lauren O Connell, Pamela Kachurin, Elizabeth
English,
Anna Sokolina, Greg Castillo, Christina Kiaer, Alla Efimova,
Roann Barris, Konstantin Akinsha, Aleksandra Shatskikh, Charlotte

Douglas, Erika Wolf, and Jennifer Cahn.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, AGENDA, MAPS, etc.:  Please see

http://wwics.si.edu/FORTHCOM/rusmod.htm

and

http://www.inform.umd.edu/arth/events/symposium.html

You may also contact Allison Abrams of the Kennan Institute at
202/691-4236 or ABRAMSAL at wwic.si.edu

--
Karen L. Kettering
Associate Curator of Russian Art
Hillwood Museum
4155 Linnean Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.  20008 USA
TEL: 202/686-8500 x8533
FAX: 202/966-7846
E-mail: hwdkettering at erols.com
http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org