22.05.25

10.00–10.30 opening of the conference by the Ambassador of Mexico, Juan Sandoval Mendiolea in the presence of the university authorities; Speeches by Professor Jerzy Malinowski (Polish Institute of World Art Studies) and Dr. Łukasz Kamiński, Director of the Ossolineum

10.30-11.30 Prof. Anna Markowska (Uniwersytet Wrocławski), Why Did a Wistful Polish Artist Turn to Revolutionary Mexican Prints? [keynote speech]

I Frente Nacional de Artes Plásticas (FNAP)

11.30-11.50 Katarina Lopatkina, PhD (Finland, Finnish Labour Museum Werstas, Tampere), Diego Rivera and Soviet Comrades: from Beloved Hero to Pariah and Back

11.50–12.10 Guillermina Guadarrama Peña (CENIDIAP-INBAL, Ciudad de México), Frente Nacional de Artes Plásticas (National Front of Plastic Arts), a collective in resistance online

12.10–12.30 Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez, PhD (Saint Louis University Madrid), Proletarians, Peasants and Revolutionaries: the Enduring Legacies of FNAP’s Touring Exhibition of Mexican Art

12.30 – 14.00 discussion followed by a lunch break

II Mexican Art Exhibitions in Eastern Europe in the 1950s

14.00–14.20 Magdalena Nowak, PhD, Hanna Doroszuk (National Museum in Warsaw), The People as the Source of Power! Mexican Art in the Contemporary Art Collection of the National Museum in Warsaw

14.20–14.40 Katarzyna Szydłowska-Schiller (National Museum in Warsaw), How Revolutionary Graphic Art from Mexico Found Its Way to the National Museum in Stalinist Warsaw?

14.40–15.00 Rado Ištok, PhD Candidate (National Gallery, Prague), Mexican Art in Czechoslovakia During the Cold War

15.00–15.30 Discussion followed by a coffee break

15.30–15.50 Irina Cărăbaș, PhD (National University of Arts in Bucharest), Mexican Art in Cold War Europe during the 1950s 

15.50–16.10 Laura Rosengarten, PhD Candidate (Leipzig University), Mexican Art and the GDR in Late Stalinism

16.10–17.10 prof. Matthew Rampley (Masaryk University, Brno), Mexico in Brno: Querying the Case Study Paradigm [keynote speech]

17.10 discussion

23.05.25

III Mexican Art in Asia during the Cold War Period

10.00–10.20 Marisol Villela Balderrama, PhD (Northwestern State University of Louisiana), Go East: The World Peace Council and Mexican Art in Eastern Europe and Asia online

10.20–10.40 Jinyoung Anna Jin, PhD (Stony Brook University, New York), Beyond Borders: Lee Qoede’s Post-Defection Journey in Mural Art and Transnational Influence 

10.40–11.10 Discussion followed by a coffee break

IV Mexican Art in Eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s

11.10–11.30 Rada Georgieva, PhD candidate (Courtauld Institute of Art, London), Symbolic Gifts, Global Strategies: Mexican Art in Bulgaria’s Cold War Diplomacy

11.30–11.50 Dorota Jarecka, PhD (Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), The Cult of Death on Saturday off. Mexican Presence in Warsaw in 1976

11.50–12.10 Jorge Sanguino, PhD candidate (University of Cologne), Contemporary Mexican Art After the Wall: the Broken Link with Eastern Europe

12.10–13.10 Prof. Agata Jakubowska (Uniwersytet Warszawski)‘The Art of Mexican Women’ in State-Socialist Poland. U.S. Feminism versus Global Socialism [keynote speech]

13.10 – 14.40 discussion followed by a lunch break

V Cultural transfers

14.40–15.10 Katarzyna Cytlak, PhD (University Nicolaus Copernicus, Toruń), Mestizo consciousness: Marcos Kurtycz’s bicultural Polish-Mexican identity

15.10-15.30 Małgorzata Reinhard-Chlanda, PhD Diana Dyjak Montes de Oca – Manifestation of Presence at the Crossroads of Cultures

VI Mexican Literature and Art in the Context of the Cold War

15.30-15.50 Lukas Pawelek, PhD (University of South Carolina Beaufort), From Literature to Walls: Nostalgia, Rebellion, and Memory in Mexican and Polish Urban Art

15.50-16.10 Jonas Hernegger (independent researcher, Germany), Magically Global. Mexico in a Painterly Correspondence with Central and Eastern Europe

16.10-16.30 Anielka Mroczek (independent researcher, Lublin), Elena Poniatowska, Ana Mendieta and the Cold War

16.30 discussion