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Conveners:
Richard Bodek, Program in Jewish
Studies, College of Charleston
Simon Lewis, Carolina Lowcountry and
Atlantic World Program, College of Charleston
The 1930s saw
the mass exodus of European artists, social scientists, and humanists
to the United States. Their arrival heralded a fundamental change, both
academic and artistic, in American culture and the Atlantic world. In
1975 H. Stuart Hughes published The Sea Change, the classic account
of the arrival of émigré European theorists and European social thought
in the 1930s. In the intervening years, much specialized literature has
appeared on the subject, even as the émigrés themselves have passed from
the scene. On November 11-13, 2004, for the thirtieth anniversary of the
publication of Hughes’ work, the Jewish Studies Program and the Carolina
Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program of the College of Charleston will
co-sponsor an interdisciplinary conference on exiled culture in the 1930s
and 1940s. The program will feature experts in music, art, philosophy,
history, film, theater, science, economics, and literature. In conjunction
with the conference, there will be a film showing, exhibition of prints
by Josef Albers, and a dramatic reading of Michael Frayn's Copenhagen.
Our conference participants--artists, historians, humanists, scientists,
and social scientists--will explore the impact that these émigrés had
on American culture. Completed drafts of papers of between 5,000 and 8,000
words will be submitted to the conveners by October 8th and will be made
available to conference participants on the web no later than October
11th. Conference presenters will use their ten-minute presentations at
the conference to discuss the main points of their work, which will then
be elaborated on in open discussion.
Please send
completed drafts to Professor Rich Bodek at: Bodekr@cofc.edu.
To register
for the conference please click on the Conference
Registration link.
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About the conference
poster:
The conference poster features a print from Josef Albers's 1972 portfolio
of prints published as Formulation: Articulation (New York: H.N.
Abrams), a copy of which was recently given to the College of Charleston.
Born in 1888 in the industrial Ruhr region of Germany, Albers is pertinent
to the conference in that he was closely associated with the Bauhaus Movement
and School, where he taught metalwork, glass, furniture, typography, and
design. Albers went into exile in the US in 1933, and later became a naturalized
citizen. While in the US, he helped transform painting and printmaking
through his innovative theories of colors and their interactions. On first
arrival in the US, Albers was one of a number of exiles who made Black
Mountain College in North Carolina one of the most influential centers
of artistic and educational innovation in the mid-twentieth century. Following
his stint at Black Mountain Albers and his wife, the weaver Anni Albers,
moved to New Haven where he had been appointed head of the department
of design at Yale University. For more on Albers, click here for a link
to the Guggenheim
Museum web-site, or visit the Black
Mountain College Museum & Arts Center web-site.
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Program Committee Members:
Richard Bodek,
College of Charleston
Simon Lewis, College of Charleston
Participants May Contact Dr. Bodek
at:
Department of History
College of Charleston
66
George Street
Charleston, SC 29424-0001
843-953-8030
843-953-6349
fax
bodekr@cofc.edu
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