12.45 – 13.15

Registration

13.15 - 15.15

SESSION 1 – WEST-EAST ART ESPIONAGE

Mark Boswell (Filmmaker, San Francisco Art Institute): Gaczyne (or) Deep Inside the KGB Infiltration of Walt Disney’s Brain

László Beke (Institute of Art History, Budapest): Communication and Disinformation: Hungarian Aspects of the Activity of the Oxford Five

Catherine Fraixe (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Bourges): Inventing a European Art: US Involvement in the Struggle for a United Europe

Kädi Talvoja (Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn): Missionary Work of an Pollockian in Moscow in 1957

Discussion

15.15 - 15.30

SHORT BREAK

15.30 - 16.40

SESSION 2 – SECRET POLICE AND ARTISTIC UNDERGROUND

Doina Anghel (National Museum of Art Bucharest) and Raluca Voinea (Curator, E-cart.ro): Surveiller et Partir: Lists, Informers Networks, Espionage, Cultural Censorship During 1945-1989 in Romania

Kata Krasznahorkai (University of Hamburg): Code Name: "Schwitters". The First Hungarian Happening in the Reflection of a Secret Agents Report

Łukasz Ronduda (Center of Contemporary Art, Warsaw): Neo-Avant-Garde Movements in the Polish Secret Services Files

Discussion

16.40 - 17.10

COFFEE/TEA BREAK

17.10 - 19.00

SESSION 3 - CONTEMPORARY ART AND ESPIONAGE

Anthony Downey (Sotheby’s Institute, London): The Lives of Others: Artur Zmijewski’s ‘Repetition’ and the Ethics of Surveillance

Nina Levitt (Artist, York University, Toronto): And She Was: Installations Inspired by Women in WWII

Franciska Zólyom (Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art Dunaújváros):Missing Evidence: an Artistic Attempt to Reconstruct the Story of an American Superspy

Paolo Cirio (Artist, Italy): The Big Plot

Discussion

19.00

RECEPTION and Celebratory launch of the special issue of Third Text (96/2009) on Socialist Eastern Europe.