Connections Redaktion, Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig
Thursday, 12.05.2022
Time Zone: UTC+1
13:45‒14:00 (Marburg, Germany) | Opening of the Virtual Conference Room
6:45 AM (Texas, USA); 7:45 AM (Toronto, USA), 14:45 (Moscow, Russia)
14:00‒14:30 | Introduction
Vincent Fröhlich (Philipps University Marburg, Germany) & Mary Ikoniadou (UClan, UK)
14:30‒15:40 | Session 1
Chair: Maria Ikoniadou (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Exporting the Polish Village: Zofia Rydet’s Sociological Record in Cold War-Era Publications
Joanna Szupinska (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Necro-aesthetic as tool of propaganda in Polish press between 1945-1948 Karolina Rosiejka (University of The Arts in Poznan, Poland)
Coffee Break
16:00‒17:30 | Session 2
Chair: Vincent Fröhlich (Philipps University Marburg, Germany)
Between Counterculture and Techno-Utopianism: Galaksija magazine as a liminal space in 1970s Yugoslavia
Rujana Rebernjak (University of the Arts London, UK)
Visual exchange and the problem of censorship in the USSR during the Cold War
Ekaterina Vikulina (Russian State University for the Humanities Moscow, Russia)
The Space Race Politics of the Page
Sven Grampp (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Coffee Break
17:50‒19:00 | Session 3
Chair: TBC
Visualizing Women at Work: Idealization and Realism in Japanese Women’s
Magazines in the early Cold War
Jana Aresin (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Same pages, different politics? Reading the Political Alternatives of Cold War Italy Through the Lens of Illustrated Children Magazines, 1950-1960
Guilio Argenio (University of Padova, Venice and Verona, Italy)
19:00‒19:30 | Special Presentation
Presentation of the “Protest in Photobook” collection by Luciano Zuccaccia (Italy)
Friday, 13.05.2022
Time Zone: UTC+1
13:45‒14:00 (Marburg, Germany) | Opening of the Virtual Conference Room
6:45 AM (Texas, USA); 7:45 AM (Toronto, USA), 14:45 (Moscow, Russia)
14:00‒15:00 | Keynote
Vietnam Pictorial and The Colors of Socialist Futurity
Thy Phu (University of Toronto, Canada)
Coffee Break
15:20‒16:30 | Session 4
Chair & Discussant: Olga Shevchenko (Williams College, USA)
Cold War Containment and Postmodern Doubt, Central America and the Printed Page
Erina Duganne (Texas State University, USA)
‘A good slick picture magazine’: US visual diplomacy in the Cold War and the appeal to African audiences
Darren Newbury (University of Brighton, UK)
Coffee Break
17:00‒18:10 | Session 5
Chair: Zeina Maasri (University of Brighton, UK)
Aesthetics of Destruction and Reconstruction in East German and Polish Illustrated Magazines (1965-1980)
Noemi Quagliati (Deutsches Museum München, Germany)
Hungarian sun, Czechoslovak dream, Swiss grid: Graphic design across Cold War borders
Jennifer McHugh (University of Southampton, UK)
Coffee Break
18:20‒19:15 | Closing discussion led by Andrés Mario Zervigón (Rutgers, USA)