Conference 2022

The 10th International Academic Conference Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art took place on 4–6 October 2022. Moscow was the organising city, while every conference session was held online.

Lomonosov Moscow State University and Saint Petersburg State University organised the conference with the continuing participation of the State Hermitage Museum. Russian and English were the working languages.

Academic programme

The conference maintained its broad chronological and interdisciplinary approach to art and architecture. Discussions addressed the history and theory of visual art, the conservation and interpretation of cultural heritage, museum and conservation studies, and relationships between academic research and museum practice.

Sessions were arranged in three parallel online streams. The programme ranged across ancient art, Byzantium and the medieval Balkans, early and Eastern Christian art, medieval Europe and the Renaissance, medieval Russian art, early modern and modern European art, Russian art of the 18th and 19th centuries, 20th-century and contemporary art, art theory, and interdisciplinary methods in cultural heritage research.

Conference 2022 programme overview

Preparing and joining the conference

The information letter addressed prospective participants as friends and colleagues, reflecting the conference’s open and collegial academic character. Applications were accepted from 1 April to 1 June 2022. Abstracts of 2,000–3,500 characters were submitted in the intended language of presentation and used to form coherent subject sessions.

Speakers and attendees joined the meetings through individually distributed links. This arrangement made it possible to hold the conference entirely online while remaining accessible to researchers in different cities and countries.

Publications following the conference

Work presented at the 10th conference continued in two volumes of Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Volume 13 (2023) and Volume 14 (2024). Both contain articles in Russian and English.