Culture against Fascism?

The two-hour, online event is open to graduate (PGR and PGT) students and staff from History of Art, ECA, CHSS. It is highly recommended to students working on modern and contemporary art and its contexts at doctoral or Masters level. To participate, please send an email titled ‘expression of interest’ to angela.dimitrakaki@ed.ac.uk. The event link will be sent out via email and cannot be shared to external parties.  

Event structure, June 27 

4 – 5pm: Presentations by Ewa Majewska and Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen. Chaired by Mat Sapija (PhD candidate, History of Art) 

5 – 6pm: Discussion with Ewa and Mikkel, including about student projects that relate to the theme. Chaired by Angela Dimitrakaki (Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art History and Theory, History of Art) 

Speaker biographies 

Dr hab. Ewa Majewska is a Warsaw-based feminist philosopher and activist. She has taught at the UDK Berlin, University of Warsaw and the University in Kraków and has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, ICI Berlin, and IWM Vienna. She is currently a full-time researcher at the SWPS University, Warsaw for the project ‘Public against their will. The production of subjects in the archives of "Hiacynt Action”.’ She is the author of Feminist Antifascism. Counterpublics of the Common (Verso, 2021) and four books in Polish. She has authored fifty essays and articles for e-flux journal, Signs, Third Text, Journal of Utopian Studies, and Jacobin, among others. Her current research is in Hegel's philosophy, focusing on the dialectics and the weak, feminist critical theory and antifascist cultures. Further information at https://ewamajewska.academia.edu  

Prof Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen is an art historian and theorist at the University of Copenhagen working on the politics and history of the avant-garde, the politics of contemporary art and the revolutionary tradition. He is the author of seven books in Danish and five in English: Crisis to Insurrection: Notes on the Ongoing Collapse (Minor Compositions, 2014), Playmates and Playboys at a Higher Level: J.V. Martin and the Situationist International (Sternberg, 2015), Hegel after Occupy (Sternberg Press, 2018), After the Great Refusal: Essays on Contemporary Art, Its Contradictions and Difficulties (Zero Books, 2018), Trump's Counter-Revolution (Zero Books, 2018) and Late Capitalist Fascism (Polity, 2021). His articles have appeared in journals such as e-flux journal, Multitudes, New Formations, Oxford Art Journal, Rethinking Marxism, Texte zur Kunst, Third Text and Variations.