Dear Participants,

We are pleased to share the official program for the upcoming 9th Conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies. The program can be accessed on our website: https://eam9.confer.uj.edu.pl/programme. If you have any concerns regarding the panel arrangements, please let us know as soon as possible.

Each room will be equipped with a computer and presentation display equipment. However, please ensure that you bring your multimedia presentations saved on a flash drive. If this presents any issues for you, kindly send us your presentations via email in advance.

If you have not yet submitted an abstract of your speech or a bio, please do so within the next week.
Panel organizers, please ensure that this message is shared with all your registered panelists.

We have designated the panel submitters as the moderators. If you would like to make any changes to this, please inform us promptly.

We are also seeking volunteers to moderate discussions in panels that are comprised of individual submissions. This applies to all the listed panels. If you are interested in moderating the discussions, please contact us.

EUROPEAN SURREALISM
WAR AND POST-WAR POETRY I
 ANATOMY OF THE CIVIL WAR
SOVIET EMPIRE AND ITS PERIPHERIES I
AVANT-GARDE IN THE SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET WORLD
WAR AND THE ART WORLD II
L'ART CONTRE LA GUERRE - ART VERSUS WAR (FRA/ENG)
BODIES AND DISEASES
WAR AND THE ART WORLD I
THE (UN)WOMANLY FACE OF WAR
BALKAN AVANT-GARDES
BALTIC AVANT-GARDES
TRAUMA OF THE GREAT WAR
AVANT-GARDES OF THE NEW WORLD
SOVIET EMPIRE AND ITS PERIPHERIES II
WAR, NATIONALISM AND IMPERIALISM I
IMAGES OF WAR I
WAR AND POST-WAR POETRY II
WAR, NATIONALISM AND IMPERIALISM II
THE SHOA AND JEWISH AVANT-GARDE I
IMAGES OF WAR II
DADAIST WAR GAMES
THE WAR CONTINUES I
PERMANENT WAR
NORTHERN AVANT-GARDES: FINLAND
WAR AND REBIRTH OF POLAND I
THE WAR CONTINUES II
AVANT-GARDE AND LOCAL IDENTITIES
WELTKRIEG UND REVOLUTION (DE)
FACES OF PACIFISM
WAR AND REBIRTH OF POLAND II
THE WAR CONTINUES III

If you have any questions we remain at your disposal.

We look forward to your participation in the conference.   

 
Best regards,

Organizing Commitee:
Jerzy Franczak 
Jarosław Fazan 
Mateusz Michalski 
Aleksandra Prokopek 
Michał Zając

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Cracow, Jagiellonian University , 17-19 September 2024

The term avant-garde – ‘advance guard’ or ‘vanguard’ – suggests military language and contexts related to violence, destruction, demolition, rebellion, and revolution. Descriptions of the historical avant-gardes as artistic and ideological formations accordingly often emphasize the turn against tradition, the rebellion against stagnant categories, the destructive potential of certain ideas, and the constant attempts to violently transgress boundaries in art. The substrate of the avant-gardes, also in the later 20th century and in our own, is conflict and destruction one of the guiding principles of avant-garde and modernist thought and practice being to build and create on the ruins of the past. War indeed is rarely absent from the avant-garde community of experience – whether as world wars, civil wars, terror, revolutions, totalitarianism, occupation, liberation struggles – so much so that some scholars see these events, especially the destructive power of the war machine, as the ‘tragic defeat of modernity’. However, our models of avant-garde and modernist practices across all of the arts up until the present day should not be limited to the self-image of the avant-gardes as revolutionaries, rebels and demolitionists.  Wars have also ushered in new beginnings, offering opportunities for avant-gardes to further their missions, or causing them to re-appraise and adapt to changed circumstances.