South Slavic Architecture

[Wayles Browne]

CON/DE/RECON-struction of South Slavic Architecture Conference

The History of Architecture and Urbanism Program of the College of
Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University will host a two-
day conference in March of 2001 focusing on identity and memory in
South Slavic architecture.  The conference of invited speakers will
bring together leading scholars on the subject from both the United
States and the former Yugoslavia.

The two-day conference will begin with a keynote address by Yale
University Professor Ivo Banac, one of the most prolific and
respected historians of Central and Eastern Europe. The other
thirteen speakers will be organized into three sessions. The first
session will be devoted to understanding the region's broader
cultural framework because of its complexities and the competing
influences on its architecture. The second session will address the
creation of modern civic identities in Yugoslavia's four national
capitals: Ljubljana, Zagreb, Sarajevo and Belgrade.  The third session
will examine specific examples of layered memory in Federal
Yugoslavia and its successor states.

www.architecture.cornell.edu/slavic.htm

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TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2001   (location TBA)

4:30    Slavoj Zizek: Yugoslavia: The Burden of Being the Stuff
Others' Dreams are Made of

FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2001   (A.D. White House)

2:30
Dean Porus Olpadwala: Welcome
Tanja Damljanovic and Emily Gunzburger: Introduction

2:45
Ivo Banac: The Building of Architectural Skadar: Edifices and
Ideology among the South Slavs

3:30
Session I: The Central/South/Eastern European Cultural Framework
(Moderator: Ivo Banac)

Steven Mansbach: Modernist Frameworks and Aesthetic Climates in
Southeastern Europe
Jeremy Howard: Styles, Tastes and Values: the European context of
Southern Slavic art and architecture c.1900
Amir Pasic: The Transition from Islamic to European Architectural
Models
Andrew Wachtel: When & Why did "Yugoslav Culture" Make Sense


SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2001  (A.D. White House)

10:00
SESSION II: Construction of Civic Architectural Identities (Moderator:
Christian F. Otto)

Christopher Long: Joze Plecnik in Ljubljana: The Search for National
Identity
Karin Serman: Zagreb and the Practice of Transcoding: Critical
Reception of Cominant Cultural Paradigms
Tanja Damljanovic: Belgrade Modernism Between the Eternal Return
and Utopia
Carel Bertram: Sarajevo's Identity: A Moving Target  (paper co-
written with Dijana Alic)

12:30
Lunch Break

2:00
Session III: Architecture as Memory/Architecture as Target
(Moderator: Michael Tomlan)

Slobodan Curcic: Balkan Belfries: Destruction, Memory, and
Historiography
Emily Gunzburger: The Old Bridge: Icon, Symbol, Metaphor, and
Memory
Svetlana Popovic: Kosovo Monuments: Cultural Identities and
Historical Contexts
Sultan Barakat: The Challenges of Reconstructing Cultural Heritage
Damaged by War

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For additional information, please contact:

Emily Gunzburger
PhD Candidate, History of Architecture & Urbanism
Department of Architecture
143 E Sibley Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853, U.S.A.

Phone: 607-257-7742
email: eag26 at cornell.edu
       emilygunzburger at hotmail.com





[sent in by: Wayles Browne, Cornell University, ewb2 at cornell.edu]

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