The Symposium is organised collaboratively between:
The general concept of this event was conceived within the framework of the project Residua of pre-modern relations with art in selected contemporary convents in Lesser Poland and Lower Silesia, financed by the National Centre of Science (nr 2021/41/B/HS2/03148). |
Scientific Committee
Agnieszka Patała
Assistant Professor in the Institute of Art History at the University of Wrocław. Her main research areas are medieval painting and sculpture with particular emphasis on their (im)movable forms, agency, functioning in the sacral spaces, reuse, musealisation, conservation, exhibiting and afterlife in the 21st c. She is currently member of two projects: 1) Residua of pre-modern relations with art in selected contemporary convents in Lesser Poland and Lower Silesia and 2) Medieval art collection of the Archbischopric Museum in Wrocław.
Anna Markowska
Polish art historian, curator, and critic. She is a professor at the University of Wroclaw and holds the position of Vice-President of the Board at the Polish Institute of World Art Studies in Warsaw. Between 2020 and 2023, she was a member of the Polish Board of AICA (The International Association of Art Critics) Her recent publications center around the relationship between art and power, social exclusions, women's oral counter-histories, unlearning and failures.
Basia Sliwinska
Researcher at the Art History Institute (Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), and Editor-in-chief of Revista de História da Arte. Her work is situated within feminist art history, theory and practice, focusing on visual activism and artivism within transnational global frameworks. Basia is on the Editorial Board of Third Text. In 2023 she joined the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University as a Visiting Fellow. She is currently working on a solo-edited book My body, my choice: transnational visual activism for women’s reproductive rights (Routledge 2024).
Janis Taurens
Dr. Jānis Taurens has significant experience in interdisciplinary research using methods of linguistic philosophy and critical theory. His various publications and conference papers relate to urgent topics and problems in contemporary art, architecture, literature and philosophy. He holds the position of Professor and is Head of the Department of Humanities at the Art Academy of Latvia.
Jana Kukaine (Member of the Scientific Commitee for the event in Lisbon)
PhD, feminist scholar, lecturer at Riga Stradins University, and freelance art curator. Her research interests include posthumanism, postsocialism, and postcritique. Jana Kukaine is also a guest lecturer at the Art Academy of Latvia and a member of the interdisciplinary feminist art collective Laukku. She is based in Riga and in her leisure time enjoys gardening, yoga, and Nordic walking.
Margarida Brito Alves
Margarida Brito Alves is an Associate Professor at the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She is an integrated researcher at IHA – Art History Institute, where she coordinates the “Spatial Practices in Contemporary Art” research line. She is the author of different publications in scientific journals, edited books and exhibition catalogues, and of the books A Revista Colóquio / Artes (Lisbon: Colibri, 2007) and O Espaço na Criação Artística do Século XX. Heterogeneidade. Tridimensionalidade. Performatividade. (Lisbon: Colibri, 2012). She co-curated several exhibitions, including Salette Tavares: Visual Poetry (Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2014), Co-Habitar (Casa das Galeotas, Lisbon, 2016) and As Leis próprias do Mar (Convento dos Capuchos, Lisbon, 2021).
Assistant Professor in the Institute of Art History at the University of Wrocław. Her main research areas are medieval painting and sculpture with particular emphasis on their (im)movable forms, agency, functioning in the sacral spaces, reuse, musealisation, conservation, exhibiting and afterlife in the 21st c. She is currently member of two projects: 1) Residua of pre-modern relations with art in selected contemporary convents in Lesser Poland and Lower Silesia and 2) Medieval art collection of the Archbischopric Museum in Wrocław.
Anna Markowska
Polish art historian, curator, and critic. She is a professor at the University of Wroclaw and holds the position of Vice-President of the Board at the Polish Institute of World Art Studies in Warsaw. Between 2020 and 2023, she was a member of the Polish Board of AICA (The International Association of Art Critics) Her recent publications center around the relationship between art and power, social exclusions, women's oral counter-histories, unlearning and failures.
Basia Sliwinska
Researcher at the Art History Institute (Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), and Editor-in-chief of Revista de História da Arte. Her work is situated within feminist art history, theory and practice, focusing on visual activism and artivism within transnational global frameworks. Basia is on the Editorial Board of Third Text. In 2023 she joined the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University as a Visiting Fellow. She is currently working on a solo-edited book My body, my choice: transnational visual activism for women’s reproductive rights (Routledge 2024).
Janis Taurens
Dr. Jānis Taurens has significant experience in interdisciplinary research using methods of linguistic philosophy and critical theory. His various publications and conference papers relate to urgent topics and problems in contemporary art, architecture, literature and philosophy. He holds the position of Professor and is Head of the Department of Humanities at the Art Academy of Latvia.
Jana Kukaine (Member of the Scientific Commitee for the event in Lisbon)
PhD, feminist scholar, lecturer at Riga Stradins University, and freelance art curator. Her research interests include posthumanism, postsocialism, and postcritique. Jana Kukaine is also a guest lecturer at the Art Academy of Latvia and a member of the interdisciplinary feminist art collective Laukku. She is based in Riga and in her leisure time enjoys gardening, yoga, and Nordic walking.
Margarida Brito Alves
Margarida Brito Alves is an Associate Professor at the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She is an integrated researcher at IHA – Art History Institute, where she coordinates the “Spatial Practices in Contemporary Art” research line. She is the author of different publications in scientific journals, edited books and exhibition catalogues, and of the books A Revista Colóquio / Artes (Lisbon: Colibri, 2007) and O Espaço na Criação Artística do Século XX. Heterogeneidade. Tridimensionalidade. Performatividade. (Lisbon: Colibri, 2012). She co-curated several exhibitions, including Salette Tavares: Visual Poetry (Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2014), Co-Habitar (Casa das Galeotas, Lisbon, 2016) and As Leis próprias do Mar (Convento dos Capuchos, Lisbon, 2021).
Organizational and Logistical Support
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Frederico L. Duarte
IHA Communication and Research Management |
Joana Semedo
Logistics Assistant |
Sofia Guiomar
IHA Research Management |
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IHA is funded by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the projects UIDB/00417/2020 and UIDP/00417/2020.