Boris Groys events at UFL Second announcement

[Dragan Kujundzic]

Dragan Kujundzic wrote:
> PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY AND ATTEND!
>
> I am pleased to invite you to the following events at the University 
> of Florida, Gainesville, featuring one of the the leading European 
> philosophers, Boris Groys:
>
> Boris Groys//
> /The Post-Communist Condition:  Art and Identity in the New Europe/
> Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History Lecture Series
>  
> Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville
> 6 p.m, Tuesday, January 31, 2006
>  
> /Encounter With Boris Groys/
> Public discussion with Boris Groys on art, politics, post-communism 
> and technology in Russia, Germany and Europe, followed by a reception.
>  
> Keene Faculty Center, University of Florida, Gainesville
> 4-5:30pm, Wednesday, February 1, 2006
>  
> Reception from 5:30-7pm hosted by the Department of Germanic and 
> Slavic Studies.
>  
> Free and open to the public.
>  
> Dr. Boris Groys, one of the leading philosophers and theoreticians of 
> art and media, will give a lecture titled:  /The Post-Communist 
> Condition: Art and Identity in the New Europe./  The lecture will 
> address issues of art and identity in an expanded European Union.  
> Specifically he will examine art in the context of the utopian and 
> ultranationalist aspirations that have influenced the formation of the 
> New Europe and its former communist states.  Dr. Groys will also 
> participate in a public seminar and reception in his honor hosted by 
> the Department of German and Slavic Studies on February 1, 2006 
>  
> Dr. Groys is the professor of Aesthetics, Art History and Media Theory 
> at the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany and 
> was recently named as a Global Distinguished Professor at New York 
> University.  He has taught at Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, the 
> University of Southern California, and in Cinema Studies and Russian 
> and Slavic Studies at New York University.  He has published many 
> books on art and museums including /Vanishing Point Moscow/, /The Art 
> of Installation/, the /Logic of Collection: the End of the Age of 
> Museums/, /Under Suspicion: a Phenomenology of the Media Politics of 
> Immortality/, /Topology of Art/ and /Dream Factory Communism/.  His 
> essays have been published in books and journals produced by MIT, Tate 
> Publishing, The Robert Lehman Lectures of Contemporary Art at the Diaz 
> Art Center, and as part of the prestigious Documenta 11 publications. 
>  
> Sponsors:  The School of Art and Art History, The Harn Museum of Art, 
> Department of German and Slavic Studies, The European Studies Center; 
> at the University of Florida, Gainesville. For further information 
> please contact: Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, phone: 352 
> 392 2101, or email: Dragan Kujundzic, Chair, dragan at ufl.edu 
> <mailto:dragan at ufl.edu>; or Kerry Oliver-Smith, kos at ufl.edu 
> <mailto:kos at ufl.edu>, phone 352 392 9826.
> -- 
> Dragan Kujundzic
> Professor of Germanic and Slavic Studies
> Chair, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
> University of Florida
> 263A Dauer Hall, PO Box 117430
> Gainesville, FL 32611-7430
> Tel: (352) 392-2101 ext. 212 
> Fax: (352) 392-1067


-- 
Dragan Kujundzic
Professor of Germanic and Slavic Studies
Chair, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
University of Florida
263A Dauer Hall, PO Box 117430
Gainesville, FL 32611-7430
Tel: (352) 392-2101 ext. 212 
Fax: (352) 392-1067


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