OPENING EVENT
National Archives of Finland
Adress: Rauhankatu 17, Helsinki
16:00–19:00
Registration
Welcome by Markus Lähteenmäki (Conference Chair / University of Helsinki / University College London)
Welcome by Mari Lending (President of EAHN / Oslo School of Architecture and Design)
Greeting of the National Archives by Jan-Erik Engren
Empire in Helsinki
Presentation by Laura Kolbe (University of Helsinki),
Instruments of Occupation: Sounding the Helsinki Archipelago.
Presentation of an installation that consists of newly commissioned art work by Dan Dubowitz (Manchester School of Architecture) and Tuomas Toivonen (Estonian Academy of Arts / New Academy, Helsinki) displayed together with drawings for the monumental reconstruction of Helsinki by C.L. Engel and the 19th century fortifications of Helsinki by the Russian Imperial army.
CONFERENCE SESSIONS
University of Helsinki, Porthania Building
Adress: Yliopistonkatu 3
Room: B674, 6th floor.
9:00–11:00
Session 1: Contested Heritages
Discussant: Christina Crawford (Emory University)
Chair: Mari Lending (Oslo School of Architecture)
Viktoriia Grivina (University of St. Andrews):
Life and Death of a Soviet City in Kharkiv's Palace of Labour
Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper (University of Warsaw):
Social practices on post-imperial Russian built heritage in Warsaw
R. Remus Macovei (University of Wisconsin):
Nation-Building and the Unaltered Image of the Village: The Disassembly, Relocation and Reassembly of Wooden Churches in Eastern Europe During the Interwar Period
Nino Chincharauli (G. Chubinashvili National Research Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation):
In Search of National Identity: the So-Called “Georgian Style” and Georgia’s Soviet Architecture of the 1920s
11:00-11:15: coffee & tea
11:15– 13:00
Session 2: Import-Export
Discussant: Richard Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
Chair: Anna Ripatti (University of Helsinki)
Marta Cyuńczyk (University of Gdansk):
Grigory G. Gagarin's views about the Caucasus region and its influence on the prince's artistic and research activities
Mia Åkerfelt, Anna Wilczynska & Tzafrir Fainholtz (Åbo Akademi University):
Housing export as cultural diplomacy – Finnish prefabricated wooden houses as means for navigating the political relation to the USSR in Post-War Finland and Poland.
Ingrid Dobloug Roede (Oslo School of Architecture and Design):
Sent to and Seen from the Fringes: Exhibitions as Post-war Propaganda Offenses. A Norwegian Prism
13:00–14:00: lunch
14:00–16:00
Session 3: Architectural Strategies of Colonization
Discussant: Michał Murawski (University College London)
Chair: Kirsi Saarikangas (University of Helsinki)
Skender Luarasi (Polis University, Tirana):
Different Faces of Colonialism in Tirana through Architecture.
Nikolay Erofeev (University of Kassel):
Mobile colonial technology: territories in Soviet housing production
Da Hyung Jeong (New York University):
Constructing the Other: The Russian and Soviet Historiography of Buryat Buddhist Architecture
Alla Vronskaya (University of Kassel):
Architecture and Environmental Colonization in the Cold-War Soviet Union
16:00–16:30: coffee & tea
16:30–18:30
Session 4: Systems and Institutions of Colonization
Discussant: Sofia Dyak (Lviv Center for Urban History)
Chair: Andres Kurg (Estonian Academy of Arts)
Makary Górzyński (Calisia University, Poland):
The Empire on Paper: Urban Planning In The Polish Kingdom at The Turn of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Imperial Vs. National Politics
Ingrid Ruudi (Estonian Academy of Arts / Yale University):
Spaces of care as agents in constructing and segregating Soviet subjectivities
Marcela Hanáčkova (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague):
Learning from the Soviet Union. Examining colonial practices in post-war Czechoslovakia
Dmitrij Zadorin (University of Edinburgh):
Central Periphery of the Architectural System: Ukraine
19:00 Evening Reception at the Museum of the City of Helsinki (300 m from the conference venue)
Welcome and presentation of a scale model of Helsinki by Minna Sarantola-Weiss and Mikko Lindqvist
CONFERENCE SESSIONS
University of Helsinki, Porthania Building
Adress: Yliopistonkatu 3
Room: B674, 6th floor.
9:00–11:00
Session 5: In-Betweenness
Discussant: Carmen Popescu (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture, Bretagne)
Laura Kolbe (University of Helsinki)
Ana Miljacki (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
View of the Cracked Center from a Corrugated Blue Rooftop: Toward An Affective History of Hala Pionir in Belgrade
Kaja Schelker (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe):
Under pressure - Building culture of Zakopane between assimilation and resistance
Pekka Korvenmaa (Aalto University, Helsinki):
Periphery as a Strategic Asset: Finland 1900
Vadim Bass:
The Province within the Metropole: the history of Soviet architecture as seen from mid-century Leningrad
11–11:15: coffee & tea
11:15 –13:15
Session 6: Negotiating Borders
Discussant: Andres Kurg (Estonian Academy of Arts)
Chair: Anna Ripatti (University of Helsinki)
Katja Bernhardt (Nordost-Institut (IKGN e. V.) Lüneburg):
The Persistance of Imagination
Claudia Eggart (ZOiS, Berlin/ University of Manchester) & Sandra Parvu (CRH-LAVUE CNRS/ University of Paris):
Waiting at Giurgiulesti Customs. The Architecture of Infrastructure at a Border Triangle
Netta Böök (Aalto University, Helsinki):
The Construction Of A Rural Socialist Society In A Former Finnish Church Village
Eric Nay (OCAD University, Toronto) :
The Evolving Shape of Architecture and Empire: Arctic Spatial Sovereignty
13:15–14:15 lunch
14:15–16:15
Session 7: New Directions
Discussant: Markus Lähteenmäki (University of Helsinki / University College London)
Chair: Laura Kolbe (University of Helsinki)
Ashley Bigham (Ohio State University):
The Public Palace
Anabela Angelovska (Independent, Hamburg) & Alice Detjen(Europa Universität Flensburg):
"Now, war is building homes..." – Urbanism between disneyfication and retreat in North Macedonia
Dan Dubowitz (Manchester School of Architecture):
Instruments of Perpetual Revolution
Miriam Gusevich (Catholic University of America in Washington DC):
On Urban Pentimento: an homage to Ukraine
16:15–16:30 coffee & tea
KEYNOTE LECTURE BY JEAN-LOUIS COHEN
National Library of Finland, Unioninkatu 36
17–18:30
Summative roundtable discussion with Jean-Louis Cohen, Sofia Dyak, Miriam Gusevich, Michał Murawski & Carmen Popescu. Chaired by Markus Lähteenmäki.
Keynote Lecture by Jean-Louis Cohen (New York University)