HISTORIANS OF GERMAN, SCANDINAVIAN & CENTRAL EUROPEAN ART & ARCHITECTURE
An Affiliated Society of the College Art Association
Membership is open to anyone interested in German, Central European, and Scandinavian culture.
Historians of German, Scandinavian and Central European Art
HISTORIANS OF GERMAN, SCANDINAVIAN & CENTRAL EUROPEAN ART & ARCHITECTURE
An Affiliated Society of the College Art Association
Membership is open to anyone interested in German, Central European, and Scandinavian culture.
President: Rose-Carol Washton Long
Treasurer: Charles Haxthausen
Secretary: Reinhold Heller
Newsletter Editor: Peter Chametzky
Board: Rosemarie Bletter, Walter Cahn, Steven Mansbach, Joan Weinstei
President: Rose-Carol Washton Long
Treasurer: Reinhold Heller
Secretary: Charles Haxthausen
Newsletter Editor: Peter Chametzky
Board: Walter Cahn, François Forster-Hahn, Maria Makela, Steven Mansbach
President: Steven Mansbach
Treasurer: Rose-Carol Washton Long
Secretary: Maria Makela
Newsletter Editor: Peter Chametzky
Board: Tim Benson, Françoise Forster-Hahn, Reinhold Heller, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
President: Peter Chametzky
Treasurer: Rose-Carol Washton Long
Secretary: Marsha Morton
Newsletter/Website Editor: Anna Brzyski
Board: Stephanie D’Alessandro, Tim Benson, Éva Forgács, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
President: Peter Chametzky
Treasurer: Rose-Carol Washton Long
Secretary: Marsha Morton
Newsletter/Website Editor: Anna Brzyski
Board: Tim Benson, Éva Forgács, Barbara McCloskey, Mitchell Merback
President: Marsha Morton
Treasurer: Rose-Carol Washton Long
Secretary: Éva Forgács
Webmaster: Emily Pugh
Board: Jay Clarke, James van Dyke, Keith Holz, Juliet Koss
President: Marsha Morton
Treasurer: James van Dyke
Secretary: Jay Clarke
Website Manager: Elizabeth Cronin
Board: Keith Holz, Karla Huebner, Juliet Koss, Libby Otto
President: James van Dyke
Treasurer: Marsha Morton
Secretary: Juliet Koss
Webmaster: Morgan Ridler
Board: Kathleen Chapman, Karla Huebner, Jeffrey Saletnik, Adrian Sudhalter
President: James A. van Dyke,
Treasurer: Adrian Sudhalter,
Secretary: Jenny Anger,
Website Manager: Morgan Ridler,
Board: Nina Amstutz, Thor Mednick, Jeffrey Saletnik, Nicholas Sawicki
SPECIAL THANKS TO
HGSCEA Sustaining and Contributing Members 2023
Sustaining: ($100)
Barbara Buenger
Francoise Forster-Hahn
Charles Haxthausen
Rose-Carol (Ricki) Washton Long
Maria Makela
Jeannette Redensek
Morgan Ridler
Jeffrey Saletnik
Margaret Schwartz
Sherwin Simmons
Adrian Sudhalter
James (Jim) A. Van Dyke
Contributing: ($50)
Jenny Anger
James Arthur
Rosemarie Haag Bletter
Kathleen Chapman
Jay A. Clarke
Rebecca Houze
Jacqueline (Jackie) Jung
Daniel H. Magilow
Steven Mansbach
Erin Sullivan Maynes
Allison Morehead
Marsha Morton
Elizabeth (Libby) Otto
Laura Tillery
Lynnette Widder
Andres Mario Zervigon
Contributing memberships at $50 and Sustaining Memberships at $100 help cover HGSCEA’s annual costs, which include a dinner reception at the College Art Association Annual Conference, the annual Emerging Scholars Essay Prize, and travel grants to CAA for adjuncts and junior scholars.
4 February 2022
Dear members,
It’s high time for an update.
We had another strong pool of submissions to the Emerging Scholars Publication Prize this year, spanning the entire chronological and geographical spectrum represented by our association. As always, the remarkable quality of the work done by members of HGSCEA made for a difficult decision, but after its deliberations the Board awards the 2021 prize to Sara Blaylock for her article “Being the Woman They Wanted Her to Be: Cornelia Schleime Performs Her Stasi File,” which appeared last year in Third Text. An Honorable Mention goes to Briana J. Smith for “Grassroots Glasnost: Experimental Art, Participation, and Civic Life in 1980s East Berlin,” which appeared in the American Historical Review. Very different in conception and approach, these two articles attest to the methodological range and outstanding quality of the scholarship currently being produced about art and visual culture in the DDR. Sara’s article, driven by scholarship on the secret police in East Germany and by feminist criticism, is an acute close analysis of a single artist’s retrospective performative engagement with the archival traces of her status as an object of surveillance. Briana’s article offers a nuanced account of the varied relationships in the last decade of the DDR between the state and experimental artists, the institutions that supported them, and the urban spaces in which they worked. On behalf of the Board, I want to congratulate both Sara and Briana! We look forward to reading more of their work in the years to come.
It was disheartening to receive CAA’s announcement that the in-person component of this year’s conference has been transformed into another remote event in the face of the latest public health developments. That news forced me to cancel the reservation I had made for our annual dinner and reception for members, which was to have taken place once again at Bistronomic in Chicago. The rest of the show, however, will go on! Most importantly, Jackie Jung is chairing HGSCEA’s sponsored session this year, “Sculpture, Site, and Space: Objects and Environments in Germany, Scandinavia, and Central Europe.” The session, with papers by Luke Fidler, Oeystein Sjaastad, Megan Luke, and Ewa Matyczyk on, respectively, the Braunschweiger Lion, Leif Erikson’s ‘Cult’, Site Specific Sculpture around 1930, and the Brodno Sculpture Park, will take place on Thursday, February 17, from 4:30 to 6 pm CST. (See https://caa.confex.com/caa/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Session/9776) In addition, the Board’s annual business meeting will take place on Friday, February 18, at noon CST. All members are welcome to attend; if you are interested in doing so, email me and I will send you a zoom link.
I would like to end by making everyone aware of two things. First, the Board is soliciting proposals for HGSCEA’s sponsored session for CAA’s conference in 2023. As the separate announcement which just was sent out indicates, the deadline for submissions is February 17. Second, the Board is planning a number of remote events for members over the course of the year. The first, about which we are very excited, will be a special curator’s tour through MoMA’s “Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction.” More details will be forthcoming soon, but the tentative date and time for this event, is Friday, February 25, at 9 a.m. EST, which we hope will make the remote tour through the show accessible to as many of our North American and European members as possible. Mark your calendars, and be looking for a separate announcement very soon!
Wishing you all the best,
Jim van Dyke
HGSCEA President
HGSCEA membership is open to anyone interested in German, Central European and Scandinavian culture. A membership year is based on the calendar year. It begins on January 1 and ends on December 31.
Membership benefits:
listing in the HGSCEA on-line member directory
subscription to the HGSCEA listserv
right to submit items for the HGSCEA website
right to submit paper proposals for HGSCEA sponsored symposia
right to submit proposals for the HGSCEA Session at the CAA Annual Conference
Current HGSCEA members presen
Membership levels:
regular: $30
student: $15
contributing: $50
sustaining: $100
Contributing memberships at $50 and Sustaining Memberships at $100 help cover HGSCEA’s annual costs, which include a dinner reception at the College Art Association Annual Conference, the annual Emerging Scholars Essay Prize, and travel grants to CAA for junior scholars.
To Pay Dues:
Questions: contact the HGSCEA Treasurer at treasurer@hgscea.org
how to join
President:
James A. van Dyke, vandykej@missouri.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Art History
University of Missouri-Columbia
Treasurer:
Nicholas Sawicki, nis408@lehigh.edu
Associate Professor of Art History
Lehigh University
Secretary:
Jenny Anger, ANGER@grinnell.edu
Professor and Chair of Art History
Grinnell College
Website Manager:
Morgan Ridler, morgan.ridler@gmail.com
Independent Scholar, New York
Board Members:
Sara Blaylock blaylock@d.umn.edu
Associate Professor of Art History
University of Minnesota Duluth
Jacqueline Jung jacqueline.jung@yale.edu
Associate Professor
Yale University
Megan Luke mluke@usc.edu
Associate Professor
University of Southern California
Allison Morehead morehead@queensu.ca
Associate Professor
Queen’s University
As a membership organization dedicated to encouraging communication and fostering partnerships, HGSCEA solicits all comments, suggestions, and criticism regarding its various activities.
Questions regarding HGSCEA membership should be directed to: Adrian Sudhalter, treasurer@hgscea.org
Submissions as well as all questions, suggestions, and comments regarding the HGSCEA website and email list should be directed to: Morgan Ridler, webmanager@hgscea.org
All other questions, suggestions, and comments should be directed to the current HGSCEA President: James A. van Dyke, vandykej@missouri.edu