Congist'26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

Session

Keynote Session 3

KS3

13 May 2026, 13:35

Istanbul University Faculty of Letters

Conveners

Keynote Session 3

• Fatih İkiz (İstanbul University)

Art and Political Emotions in the 20th and 21st Centuries “Ethics-Aesthetics of the Visual” (KS3)

Irma Trattner (University of Arts Linz)

13/05/2026, 13:35

Oral Presentation

Academic science and the university in general are neither in a crisis of principle, nor are they seriously threatened in their position – at the center of a free society determined by the characteristics of liberal democracy. For at least 50 years, however, art history seems to have been in a permanent crisis: As early as 1974, T. J. Clark stated that the discipline was in a "state of gentle...