Journal of Avant-Garde Studies (JAGS, Brill), Open Issue; Éva Forgács, Benedikt Hjartarson, Cecilia Novero, and Sami Sjöberg (Web)

Proposals by: 31.08.2026

The Journal of Avant-Garde Studies is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the critical exploration of the experimental, the provocative, and the unclassifiable in the arts and literature. With a global outlook and a wide range of theoretical approaches, the journal examines avant-garde practices from the historical avant-gardes through the neo-avant-gardes and into the present, engaging both canonical figures and those marginalized or overlooked by existing histories. The journal seeks to broaden and enrich our understanding of the vanguard by fostering dialogue across disciplines, geographies, and methodologies.
For this open issue, the editors invite finished, original research articles on any avant-garde artist, movement, theory or practice, from any geographical or cultural context. Contributions are not limited to Europe and are especially welcome if from underrepresented regions, traditions, and perspectives. The journal approaches the avant-garde not as a loose label, but as a historically and conceptually defined field shaped by practices, discourses, and institutions committed to rupture, experimentation, antagonism, and the rethinking of art’s social, political, and epistemic roles. Within this framework, the scope of the issue includes:

– Historical avant-garde movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
– Neo-avant-garde formations of the 1960s-1980s
– Post-1970s and contemporary practices that explicitly engage with, reactivate, critique or transform avant-garde paradigms.

Possible Topics (Indicative, not Exhaustive):
– Reconsiderations of avant-garde movements, groups, manifestos, and networks
– Global, transnational, and decolonial perspectives on the avant-garde
– Avant-garde practices beyond the visual arts and literature (performance, sound, film, media, architecture, design, fashion, etc.)
– Theories and philosophies of the avant-garde
– Gender, sexuality, race, class, and the avant-garde Continue reading →

Department of Romani Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles Univ., Prague; Romani Studies Program, Central European Univ., Vienna; Prague Center for Romani Histories, Faculty of Arts, Charles Univ., Prague

Time: 29.-30.10.2026
Venue: Praha
Proposals by: 21.06.2026

The aftermath of the Holocaust brought about a new phase in Romani civil rights activism in both the Western and Eastern parts of a newly divided Europe. In the West activist/intellectuals were often confronted with the fact that while their governments acknowledged the crimes committed during National Socialism, the suffering of Roma remained unaddressed and legislation and institutional structures leading to the social exclusion of Roma remained for a long time unchanged. In Eastern Europe, the new People’s Republics established in the late 1940s, officially committed to antiracism and class and gender equality, and placed the enhancement of the situation of the Roma on their national agendas. Their central policy documents often called specifically for the inclusion of Roma in the process of “building socialism” and “solving the Gypsy question”. Still, anti-Roma racism continued to influence both state politics and authorities’ action as well as local sentiments.
The workshop traces how Romani women in Eastern Europe, committed to the improvement of the living and working conditions of their communities, engaged with the new state-provided opportunities for participation and social mobility as both Roma and women and how they maneuvered hindrances in their local and national contexts. On a transnational scale, the project follows Eastern European Romani women’s engagement with the international Romani civil rights movement in Western Europe on the rise from the 1970s. It aims to address Romani women’s diverse engagements from a long-term, comparative, transnational perspective and from an intersectional approach, paying attention to how gender-, sexuality-, class-, and race/ethnicity-based difference shaped the positionality of Romani women actors and their agendas and repertoires.
The workshop aims to contribute to the global histories of social movements, including the histories of gender and women’s activisms, by placing the so far under-researched endeavors of Romani women at the center of attention. By exploring their diverse public and community roles, it will contribute substantially to the current research on post-war Romani movements that has often overlooked especially the issues of gender and intersectionality. Read more and source … (Web)

Source: HSozKult (Web)