Symposia
Transit point: Mitteleuropa
The symposium Transit point: Mitteleuropa is convened to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Oskar Hansen, Open Form featuring the career of the prolific postwar Polish architect, artist and educator by placing him in the context of Mitteleuropa with its strong multi-cultural, intellectual artistic legacy. The symposium highlights that the region has historically served as a transit point for people of different cultural backgrounds and nationalities, providing a fertile ground for the convergence of different artistic mediums as well as intellectual and interdisciplinary exchanges.
Symposium program
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Gallery Talk Aleksandra Kędziorek, Warsaw Museum of Modern Art “Oskar Hansen, Open Form” Yale Architecture Gallery, 12:30 p.m.
Keynote address Łukasz Stanek, University of Manchester “Socialist architecture goes global” Hastings Hall, 6:30 p.m.
Friday, September 10, 2016
Morning session Hastings Hall, 9:30 a.m.
Marci Shore, Yale University Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Yale University David Crowley, Royal College of Art, London
Afternoon session Hastings Hall, 11:00 a.m.
Gabriela Świtek, University of Warsaw Vladimir Kulić, Florida Atlantic University Alina Șerban, Curator
This symposium is supported in part by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, and the Brendan Gill Lectureship Fund.
