A Foreigner Turned Native: the Multifaceted Artistic Vilnius

International scientific conference 26th–27th October 2023

The conference will be held in Lithuanian and English (with simultaneous translation)

 

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS

 

26th October, Thursday

 

  9:00–10:00

Registration

 

Welcome coffee

 

10:00–10:10

Welcome

 

 

SESION I: Foreign Creators who Worked in Vilnius

 

10:10–10:30

Masters at the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in the mid-16th – mid-17th century Vilnius: Stages, Personalities and Idiosyncrasies

Dr Mindaugas Paknys,  Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

 

 

10:30–10:50

How to Hire a Foreigner? The Radziwiłł Patronage in the Times of the Wettins

Dr Aistė Paliušytė-Lugovojienė, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

 

 

10:50–11:10

Artistic Connections Between Vilnius and Königsberg in the First Half of the 18th Century: Wood Carvers

Dr Auksė Kaladžinskaitė-Jocienė, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

 

 

11:10–11:30

The Undiscovered Literary Activity of Vilnius University Rector Krzysztof Łosiewski

Dr Živilė Nedzinskaitė, Lithuanian Literature and Folklore Institute

 

 

11:30–12:00

Discussion (moderated by dr. Rūta Birutė Vitkauskienė)

 

 

12:00–13:30

Lunch

 

 

13:30–13:50

A Local, a Stranger, a Forgotten Talent: Marek Konrad Sokołowski and his Guitar

Artūras Savko, BA, Lithuanian Theatre, Music, and Cinema Museum

 

 

13:50–14:10

Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Ukrainian and American Contributions to Lithuanian Photographic Heritage

PhD candidate Valentyn Odnoviun,  Vilnius Art Academy

 

 

14:10–14:30

Choreographer Krzysztof Pastor’s Creative Work in Vilnius

Professor Dr Helmutas Šabasevičius, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

 

 

14:30–14:40

Discussion (moderated by dr. Margarita Matulytė)

 

 

14:40–15:00

Coffee break

 

 

15:00–16:00

Visiting exhibition A Foreigner Turned Native: the Multifaceted Artistic Vilnius

In Lithuanian and English

 

27th October, Friday

 

10:00–10:20

 

A Woollen Cloak for the Road Back Home:

Vilnius on the Map of Early Modern Jesuit Exchanges

Dr Jolanta Rzegocka, Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow

 

 

SESSION II: Vilnius Residents who Created Abroad

 

10:20–10:40

 

Artist Michał Elwiro Andriolli’s Vilnius

Dr Aušrinė Cemnolonskė, Vytautas Magnus University

 

 

10:40–11:00

 

Coffee break

 

11:00–11:20

 

Jonas Basanavičius and his Bulgarian period (1880–1905)

Dr Aleksandar Zlatanov, Institute for Historical Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

 

 

11:20–11:40

 

Creativity as the Oblivion of Traumatic Experience: the Case of Vilnius Botanist Jakubas Movšovičius

Dr Dovilė Dagienė, Vilnius Academy of Arts

 

 

11:40–12:00

 

Discussion (moderated by dr. Algė Andriulytė)

 

 

12:00–13:30

Lunch

 

 

SESSION III: Own Versus Foreign: Dilemmas of Foreign Legacy and Integration

 

13:30–13:50

 

 

Separation, Adaptation, Integration, Assimilation. Overview of the Attitudes of the Immigrant Artists from the Vilnius Circle of the Pac and the Sapieha Families (ca. 1667–1700)

Dr (hp) Anna Czyz, Institute of Art History, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

 

 

13:50–14:10

 

 

Dilemmas of Foreign Heritage: The History of Icons from the Museum of Atheism

Doctoral student Karolina Bukovskytė, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

 

 

14:10–14:30

 

Coffee break

 

 

14:30–14:50

 

 

Cultural Heritage of Vilnius Abroad: Accepted or Neglected?

Dr Vaidutė Ščiglienė, Julius Markevičius, The State Commission for Cultural Heritage

 

 

14:50–15:10

 

 

Influence of the German-speaking Minorities on the Hungary’s Vernacular Architecture

Dr Melinda Harlov-Csortán, Apor Vilmos Catholic College, Hungary

 

 

15:10–15:30

 

Discussion. Closing remarks (moderated by: dr. Indrė Užuotaitė)

 

 

16:00–17:00

Visiting exhibition Vibrant Old World Profiles in Radvila Palace Museum of Art

In Lithuanian and English

4 Didžioji st, Vilnius, Lithuania
+370 5 261 1685
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