Christian Drobe, Department of Art History, Masaryk University Brno
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
4 FEBRUARY 2021 – KEYNOTE LECTURE
Cynthia Paces (The College of New Jersey, NJ)
Nation-Building: Religious Structures and Politics in Interwar Europe
18 FEBRUARY 2021 – SESSION 1
Matthew Rampley (Masaryk University, Brno) ‘The Gothic cathedral is more of a construction record than an expression of religious fervour’ (Karel Teige): Debates about Modernism and Church Architecture in the 1920s and 1930s
Manuela Klauser (Independent Scholar, München) ‘Building the Faith’: Church Architecture of the 1920s in Germany: How far did the network, the impact and the theoretical background of the famous German ‘Kirchenbaumeister’ reach?
4 MARCH 2021 – SESSION 2
Bruce Berglund (Gustavus Adolphus College, Sankt Peter) Imagining a Modern Religion in Interwar Prague
Janek Wasserman (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa) Catholic Thought and Austrian Politics, 1891–1931
18 MARCH 2021 – SESSION 3
Marcus van der Meulen (RWTH Aachen University) Reaction and Renewal: Religious Buildings and National Resurrections in the Second Polish Republic
Vanessa Parent (Montreal, Biblioteca Hertziana) Expressionist Eschatologies: Envisioning Redemption in the work of Albin Egger-Lienz
1 APRIL 2021 – SESSION 4
Mária Orišková (Trnava University)
‘The Virgin Mary’ or a ‘Woman in Black Hat’? Re-interpretations of Religious Imagery in Modern Art
15 APRIL 2021 – SESSION 5
Erzsébet Urbán (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest) Roman Catholic church-constructing programme of the Saint Stephen Jubilee (1938): Catholic Renaissance and Its Sacral Architecture in the 1930s in Hungary
Eszter Baku (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest) Tradition and Innovation: The Historical Tradition and Modernity in Hungarian Church Architecture in the Interwar Periods
29 APRIL 2021 – KEYNOTE LECTURE
Elizabeth Otto (State University of New York at Buffalo) Bauhaus Occult: Experimental Spirituality in the Home of Rational Modernism
13 MAY 2021 – ROUNDTABLE
Details to follow.
This workshop is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 786314).