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18 July 2025|Announcement

Finalization of the Panel “Visual Scepticism and an Aesthetics of Doubt” at the 9th MSA Annual Conference in Prague

The ERC team contributed a panel to the 9th Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association, “Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)stability”, which took place from July 14-18, 2025 in Prague, Czech Republic.

Margit Kern chaired the panel entitled “Visual Scepticism and an Aesthetic of Doubt in Reframing Difficult Heritage...

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14 July 2025|Conference

Panel “Visual Scepticism and an Aesthetic of Doubt” accepted to the 9th Annual MSA conference in Prague

We are delighted to announce that our panel “Visual Scepticism and an Aesthetic of Doubt in Reframing Difficult Heritage – Fostering Resilience or Enforcing Instability?” has been accepted to the 9th Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association, "Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)stability", in Prague, Czech Republic...

Reproduction of the painting Saint Dominic Presiding over an Auto-da-fe by Pedro Berruguete, between circa 1493 and circa 1499

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9 July 2025|Announcement

Guest lecture on the "The Iconography of the Inquisition" by Prof. Dr. Francisco Bethencourt (King’s College London)

Prof. Dr. Francisco Bethencourt (King's College London) will give his lecture entitled “The Iconography of the Inquisition” on Wednesday, July 9 from 14:15 to 15:45 in room 120 ESA-W. The lecture will take place as part of Prof. Margit Kern's exam colloquium, but is open for everyone who is interested.

His research deals...

Photography of the Installation Relational Objects for Structuring the Self by Lygia Clark

Photo: Lygia Clark, Relational Objects for Structuring the Self, »The World of Lygia Clark« Cultural Association, Rio de Janeiro (Photo: Mona Schieren)

2 July 2025|Visual Scepticism

Guest lecture „Monument of Unlearning. Lygia Clark’s Artistic Practices“ by Prof. Dr. Mona Schieren (Hochschule für Künste Bremen)

On July 2, 2025, we are pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Mona Schieren (Hochschule für Künste Bremen) for a lecture entitled "Monument of Unlearning. Lygia Clark’s Artistic Practices" in Room 120 (ESA-W). This event is organized by Prof. Dr. Margit Kern and Fabian Röderer.

Abstract:

The talk offers insights how Lygia Clark’s...

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1 July 2025|Visual Scepticism

Guest lecture „Serpents and Rituals at the Crossroads of Contemporary Indigenous Art in Brazil“ by ERC-Fellow Prof. Dr. Claudia Mattos Avolese

On July 1, 2025 at 7 pm, Prof. Dr. Claudia Mattos Avolese will give her lecture entitled »Serpents and Rituals at the Crossroads of Contemporary Indigenous Art in Brazil« at the Warburg-Haus.

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Portrait of art historian Claudia Mattos Avolese

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1 June 2025|Announcement

Guest Scholar joining in June/ July

Fellow at the ERC-project in June/July 2025:

Prof. Dr. Claudia Mattos Avolese
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University (SMFA), Boston, Mass.
https://smfa.tufts.edu/directory/claudia-mattos-avolese

Biography:

A native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Claudia Mattos Avolese obtained her PhD in art history from the Free...

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11 April 2025|Workshop

Workshop "Visuelle Skepsis in der Landschaftsarchitektur? Historische Grüngestaltung als schwieriges Erbe und der heutige Umgang mit diesem"

The workshop "Visuelle Skepsis in der Landschaftsarchitektur? Historische Grüngestaltung als schwieriges Erbe und der heutige Umgang mit diesem" was organized by Margit Kern and Theresa Stankoweit as part of the ERC Advanced Grant Horizon 2020: “Visual Scepticism. Towards an Aesthetic of Doubt“. It will take place on 11...

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9 April 2025|Presentation

"'Invasive Alien Species': Imaginations of Plant Agency and Migration in Iván Argote's Descanso" at the Association for Art History’s Annual Conference

As part of the panel “More-than-human worlds on the move: Reframing and exploring migration from a multispecies perspective in art” Johanna Spanke will present her paper “'Invasive Alien Species': Imaginations of Plant Agency and Migration in Iván Argote's Descanso” at the Association for Art History’s Annual Conference...

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8 March 2025|Presentation

“Talking Images: Photography as a Tool of Decolonization?” at “Postcolonial Hauntologies. Art in the Present – Absence of the Past”

At the workshop “Postcolonial Hauntologies. Art in the Present – Absence of the Past” held by the University of Amsterdam (NL) and the Concordia University, Montreal (CA) Winona Pawelzik will present her paper “Talking Images: Photography as a Tool of Decolonization? Emeka Ogboh’s Work “At the Threshold” (2021)” in the...

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