Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Les quatre parties du monde soutenant la sphère céleste, ca. 1872, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 FR, via Wikimedia Commons.
Gostujuće predavanje Francesce Iorio
U utorak 29.9.2026. u 15 sati dr. sc. Francesca Iorio (Sveučilište Tübingen) održat će na Akademiji likovnih umjetnosti gostujuće predavanje na engleskom jeziku The Turn as Critical Device: Theories, Concepts, and Methods Between the Global and Decolonial Turns in Art History. Predavanje se održava u sklopu NPOO projekta Prostor, krajobraz i teritorij: stvaranje prostora, dekolonizacija javnog prostora i zone marginalnosti (2025-2029.; voditelj: izv. prof. dr. sc. Josip Zanki).
Utorak, 29.09.2026., VELIKA PREDAVAONA, Ilica 85, 15:00-16:30
The Turn as Critical Device: Theories, Concepts, and Methods Between the Global and Decolonial Turns in Art History
Over the past three decades, art history has undergone a series of "turns" that have reshaped its epistemological status: from the pictorial turn to the global turn, and more recently the decolonial turn. Each turn is not merely a shift in object of study, but a theoretical-methodological device that redefines categories, canons, and disciplinary hierarchies. This lecture critically traces this genealogy, asking what it means to "globalize" art history and to what extent this process aligns with, or comes into tension with, decolonial demands. It will address key concepts such as Eurocentrism, canon, alterity, agency, and provincialization, alongside the methods they generate: comparativism, entangled histories, and art history without borders. The aim is to show that these turns are not simple academic trends, but genuine sites of political-epistemological conflict over how art history is written. Finally, the lecture will reflect on the risks of a "domesticated" globalization, one that risks reabsorbing decolonial claims into still-Eurocentric logics.
Francesca Iorio is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tübingen, where she is currently working on a project that examines the entanglements between empire, the Church, and processes of evangelization in Early Modern global Eurasia. Francesca holds a PhD in Art History from FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. In 2022, she was a visiting doctoral researcher at EHESS–CNRS in Paris, where she collaborated with the research group China, Korea, Japan. Her broader research interests lie at the intersection of global history, art history, and the critical study of early modern cross-cultural encounters. Her academic work includes the publication of “Global Turn in Art History and Methodological Constellations on Artistic Circulation: Perspectives, Ideas, and Operational Concepts” in Eikón Imago 13 (2024), as well as participation in numerous international conferences. In April 2025, she was an invited speaker at the Collège de France in Paris, where she presented “Giovanni Gherardini: Quadratura and Cultural Diplomacy in Global Artistic Circulation”; in 2024, she presented “Jesuit Churches in Beijing in the Early Modern Period: Geopolitical Considerations and Global Tensions” at the Sixteenth Century Society Annual Conference in Toronto.
