[spectre] CFP: Seminar, Cultural Realities of Real Existing Socialism

[ab at mikro.in-berlin.de]

From: H-ArtHist Redaktion <hah-redaktion at h-net.msu.edu>
Date: Sep 12, 2016
Subject: CFP: Session at ACLA: Comparative Literature (Utrecht, 6-9 jul 17)

ACLA Annual Meeting in Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 6 - 09, 2017
Deadline: Sep 23, 2016

Inviting Papers for the Seminar "Cultural Realities of Real Existing 
Socialism (1945-present)"
at ACLA’s 2017 Annual Meeting at Utrecht, the Netherlands, July, 2017

Clara Masnatta (clara.masnatta at ici-berlin.org)

Cold War Socialist and Communist cultural production is often studied 
according to a top-down model pitting the official regime-endorsed 
production against alternative cultural realities bubbling up under the 
dictates of socialist realism. Recent scholarship has challenged this 
model, yet efforts towards critical comparative approaches are in order 
in our age of global history re-writing national narratives.

This panel seeks to interrogate both the official top-down and 
nation-driven writing of (art) history and culture on the eastern side 
of the Iron Curtain, the former Yugoslavia, and Cuba. We invite 
contributions that explore the broken boundaries between official and 
underground cultures and artistic exchanges within and beyond the 
Socialist realm. In particular, we are looking for interventions that 
are wary of fetishizing dissidence and employ an international 
perspective into the ways these cultural and political contexts are 
characterized and reduced to monolithic oppositional entities. What is 
official or "underground" art? How does art cross borders, both national 
and doctrinal? Should we remap socialist realism? Can fresh 
methodologies reevaluate the international dimension of socialist 
culture, if there is one? Papers can include research on a variety of 
cultural objects, fine arts, "artistic" and "non-artistic" forms of 
photography, film, theatre, and literature. We hope to generate a 
cross-medium discussion about how we make scholarship about Cold War 
cultures that complicates the received historical models and 
methodologies through focused case-studies.

Please submit your paper proposal before the September 23 deadline at 
http://acla.org/node/add/paper?seminar=12321

Feel free to contact the Seminar organizers with any questions
Clara Masnatta   clara.masnatta at ici-berlin.org
Sarah Goodrum   segoodrum at gmail.com

Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Session at ACLA: Comparative Literature (Utrecht, 6-9 jul 17). In: 
H-ArtHist, Sep 12, 2016. <http://arthist.net/archive/13567>.