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General art history study trip to Romania

A joint History of Foreign Art study trip for art and heritage students visited Romania in April 2024. The aim of the trip was to learn about the region’s rich architectural and cultural heritage and the complexities of its history, and to learn ...

10 May 2024

Cultural Heritage and Conservation Institute of Art History and Visual Culture

Lecture: Nineteenth-century Historicism and Historic Preservation: An Exceptional Case

On 25 March at 16.00, Associate Professor Richard Wittman (University of California, Santa Barbara) will give a public lecture “Nineteenth-century Historicism and Historic Preservation: An Exceptional Case” in room A403. Normative ...

25 March 2024

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture

How to Reframe Monuments (Estonian Ministry of Culture grant, 2024–2026)

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has triggered debates about the Russian and Soviet heritage both globally and in Estonia. This has been accompanied by the toppling of monuments, as well as social conflicts and polarisation. The aim of ...

19 March 2024

Cultural Heritage and Conservation Institute of Art History and Visual Culture Ongoing Research Projects

Research project creates new solutions for reinterpreting monuments

In 2024, the three-year research project How to Reframe Monuments was launched, with the aim of creating new solutions for reinterpreting monuments and other dissonant heritage. The ...

16 February 2024

Cultural Heritage and Conservation Institute of Art History and Visual Culture

Extended deadline for conference “Cultural heterologies and democracy II” (Tallinn, June 26–28, 2024)

Extended deadline February 15, 2024 Cultural Heterologies and Democracy II. Transitions and ...

31 January 2024

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture

CFP: Uncomfortable Heritage in the Baltic Sea Region and Beyond: From Negation to Re-interpretation

EKA co-organizes an international interdisciplinary spring school on 10–15 March 2024 in Kulice, Poland. The understanding of heritage as purely preserving and managing the remains of cultural/national value has been increasingly disputed ...

10 November 2023

Cultural Heritage and Conservation Doctoral School Faculty of Art and Culture

Who Builds Your Architecture? Workshops, film and open lecture 22. – 25. May

Who Builds Your Architecture? Workshops, film and open lecture 22.–25. May 2023 in EKA In the last week of May, exciting international experts will come to EKA to create a discussion on architecture and construction: ...

17 May 2023

Architecture and Urban Design Faculty of Architecture Institute of Art History and Visual Culture

Art Historical Contact Zones (EKA Research Grant, 2023–2024)

The project “Art Historical Contact Zones: Popular and Fictional Mediations of Art History in Estonia” explores the relationship between art history and the public sphere – the non-academic forms that art writing can take: various fiction and ...

12 April 2023

Institute of Art History and Visual Culture Previous Research Projects

Third Estonian art historians’ joint MA seminar in Purdi

On 9th–10th January 2023 a seminar bringing together MA students from Estonian universities who work on art history, visual culture, curating, conservation, museum studies and museum education was held in Purdi manor. This was the third one in ...

11 January 2023

Cultural Heritage and Conservation Institute of Art History and Visual Culture

Literature, Visual Culture and Film Studies (joint programme with Tallinn University)

2019 1. Hanna Maria Aunin 2. Çağrı Çavaş 3. Michael Andrew Keerdo-Dawson 4. Silvia Kurr 5. Hazuki Okemoto 6. Sofya Safargalieva 7. John David Antoni Winslow 2020 8. Sally Anne Hanson 9. Jonna Marika Karvinen 10. Hayrettin Nedim ...

5 November 2022

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