Organisers
PROGRAMME OF THE CONFERENCE
10:00 –10:30 Registration
10:30–11:00 Opening of the conference
Greetings and introductory speeches
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Zaal Abashidze, PhD, Director of the Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts
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Prof. George Gugushvili, Rector of Tbilisi State Academy of Art
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Prof. Nino Tchogoshvili, PhD, Dean of the Faculty of Restoration, Art History and Theory, Tbilisi State Academy of Art
11:00–11:30 Guest speakers
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Dimitri Tumanishvili, Nino Gaganidze and Ana Kldiashvili: Georgia as a Crossroad
11:30–12:45 Panel 1. Moderator: Marina Vicelja Matijašić
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Stavros Panayiotou (Paphos, Cyprus): Re-examining Hagiographical Sources on the Arabo-Byzantine Intercultural Relations in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean
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Dea Gunia (Tbilisi, Georgia): Symbolic Sculptural Decoration of Georgia Kumurdo Cathedral and Its Connections with Antique Roman or Romanesque Cultures
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Costanza Beltrami (London, UK): Reconsidering the Use of Islamic Decoration in San Juan de los Reyes, Toledo, and in the Oeuvre of Juan Guas (Documented 1453–1496)
Discussion
12:45–14:15 Lunch break*
14:15–15:30 Panel 2. Moderator: Dalibor Prančević
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Katharina Swoboda (Graz, Austria): The Frame that Blinds Us
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Kristian Handberg (Copenhagen, Denmark): Cosmonaut Paintings as Contemporary Art: The Soviet Pavilion at the Venice Biennale as Crossroads of Different Modernities
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Elena Korowin (Karlsruhe, Germany): The Summer of 59 and the Rise of Soviet Nonconformists
Discussion
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–17:15 Panel 3. Moderator: Ana Kldiashvili
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Kristine Darchia (Tbilisi, Georgia): Reflections of Paul Cezanne's Painting in Klara Kvees Creative Art (Georgian Painting of 1920’s)
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J. English Cook (New-York, USA): Reel Living Landscapes: Americanism and the Built Environment in Early Global Cinema
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Sophie-Charlotte Opitz (Frankfurt, Germany): Dynamics and Travels of Cross-Cultural Dialogue Within Conceptual War Photography
Discussion
18:00 Opening of the Exhibition “Art and Cross-Cultural Dialogue: Identity and Cultural Diversity”
Venue: 19 Jan Shardeni Street, Tbilisi
https://goo.gl/maps/uJcDR9drsx22
* Lunch is not provided by the organizers.
Organisers
10:00–11:15 Panel 4. Moderator: Asta Vrečko
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Levent Boz (Ankara, Turkey): Oriental Carpets and Unexpected Encounters
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Špela Grošelj (Istanbul, Turkey): This is My Hammam
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Ieva Kalnača (Riga, Latvia): The Manifestations of Neo-Islamic style in Baltic Architecture and Interior Design as an Example of a Versatile Cross-Cultural Dialogue
Discussion
11:15–11:45 Coffee break
11:45–13:00 Panel 5. Moderator: Nenad Makuljević
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Vuk Dautović (Belgrade, Serbia): Sephardic Jews and Transfer of the Spanish Culture to the Balkan through the Early Modern Period
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Tatia Oboladze (Paris, France): Reception of the City in French and Georgian Symbolist Aesthetics
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Ekaterine Bagdavadze (Tbilisi, Georgia): Art as One of the Main Expressions of Identity: Artefact Hermeneutics and Identity Crisis
Discussion
13:00–14:30 Lunch break*
14:30–15:45 Panel 6. Moderator: Nino Tchogoshvili
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Christin Ruppio (Dortmund, Germany): The Hohenhof in Hagen: Early Modern Architecture as a Gateway to Dialogue
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Tamar Kharatishvili (Evanston Illinois, USA): Crossing Borders and Conflicting Visions: Light and Movement in La Prose du Transsibérien
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Meri Matsaberidze (Tbilisi, Georgia): Androgyne Paradigm in Georgian Modernism (On the example of some works by Petre Otskheli)
Discussion
15:45–16:15 Coffee break
16:15–17:30 Panel 7. Moderator: Nina Unković
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Marija Krnić (Coventry, UK): Adaptation and Resistance: The Genesis of Dalmatian Saints’ Plays in Cross-Cultural Perspective
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Stefanie Proksch-Weilguni (Vienna, Austria): Artists Beyond Borders: Maria Lassnig in New York (1968−1980)
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Sanja Sekelj (Zagreb, Croatia): Shifting Geographies Mutability of Croatia’s Artistic Geography in the 1990s
Final discussion
19:00 Closing dinner**
Kala Café in 'Kalaubani', 8/10 Erekle II St. Tbilisi
* Lunch is not provided by the organizers.
** Conference participants and members of Organizing committee are welcome to the dinner. All costs are provided by the host organizations.
09:00 Free guided tour to Mtskheta
Venue: Rose Revolution Square, Tbilisi
https://goo.gl/maps/g3uR5kYwYbk
13:00–14:00 Free guided tour to The Museum of Fine Arts
Venue: 2/4 Aleksandr Pushkin St, Tbilisi
https://goo.gl/maps/AsNtxm2W6PR2
Contact: conference.phd2017@gmail.com
Saturday, 30th September 2017
Free guided tours
Art and Cross-Cultural Dialogue:
Identity and Cultural Diversity
Organizing committee: Zaal Abashidze, Vedran Barbarić, Jelena Erdeljan, Tine Germ, Nenad Makuljević, Marina Vicelja Matijašić, Dalibor Prančević, Ivana Prijatelj Pavičić, Nino Tchoghoshvili (co-chairs); Ines Babnik, Gašper Cerkovnik, Eter Edisherasvhili, Ana Kldiashvili, Martina Malešič, Katra Meke, Barbara Španjol Pandelo, Ketevan Tsetskhladze, Nino Tsitsishvili, Nina Unković, Asta Vrečko.