A Vision for Europe: Academic Responsibility and Action in Times of Crises

该网络研究了危机时期学术责任和行动的关键问题，特别侧重于学术上使用以形象为主导的实践来评论和塑造政治现实。这次调查的核心是与英国艺术和地中海（BAM）的材料档案的独特接触，这是1941年由弗里茨·萨克森和鲁道夫·维特科尔在英格兰策划的摄影展，它断言了英国与欧洲的文化联系。该网络将艺术家、历史学家、媒体理论家、策展人、记者、摄影师和活动家聚集在一起，重新激活这一独特的档案资源，并按照数字人文学科的方法使其易于访问。BAM由华宝学院组织，并通过新媒体，即历史艺术品的摄影复制品，利用欧洲艺术史。它表达了在冲突的关键时期英国和欧洲之间文化连续性的想法。展览由500幅照片组成，代表了通过华宝研究所从德国引进的新的艺术史方法，即以图像为导向的文化传播探索。该展览在伦敦和英国其他20个城市展出，将其教育理念尽可能广泛地传播给观众。因此，由于英国机构（CEMA）和包括艺术史学家、博物馆馆长和播音员肯尼斯·克拉克（Kenneth Clark）在内的关键公众人物的支持，外国学术专家转变为一个非常成功的企业，其标准没有妥协。在今天的欧洲政治气候中，重新评估BAM作为学术参与的典范是至关重要的。策展人在危机、民族主义和民粹主义盛行的时代，根据他们的研究采取了行动。BAM的策展人是英国的难民学者，这一点在今天显得尤为重要，它开启了对知识迁移的探索，将以两种方式进行调查：作为历史研究的对象，以及作为政治如何影响学者流动的晴雨表，尤其是在20世纪。对这些丰富档案的研究为网络提供了一个具体分析学者参与他们时代危机的历史例子的机会，这为讨论和挑战国家历史的叙述以及学术行为和责任的问题开辟了空间。利用未开发的BAM档案（照片、玻片、楼层指南、通信），该网络有四个关键目标：1。讨论学术责任和行动、知识迁移和思想史、复制和传播技术、以形象为主导的实践和学术影响以及冲突档案等主题。2. 使用数字接口（网站、社交媒体、视频流）重新激活和记录历史来源。3 .在会议上对学术行动和责任的未来进行批判性的参与，重点关注学者与公众之间的互动，从而促进与档案材料相关的双向知识交流。在伦敦（WI）、慕尼黑（ZI）和罗马（BSR）以部分展示（展览）、研讨会、学习日和会议的形式呈现三场面向公众的活动。该网络将利用PI、Co-I和项目合作伙伴网络的综合专业知识和经验，这些网络针对不同的学科、兴趣和受众。为了实现其目标，它将通过面向公众的活动和会议，与艺术和人文学科的重要学者和专业人士以及更广泛的公众建立联系。网络和其生命周期内的活动所促成的共同工作将有助于实现一个长期目标：为在英国和欧洲的巡回展览筹集资金，并扩大媒体参与，包括进一步的研究应用。

The network examines the key question of academic responsibility and action in times of crises, focusing its enquiry particularly on the scholarly use of image-led practices to comment and shape political reality. Central to this enquiry is a unique engagement with the little-explored material archive of British Art and the Mediterranean (BAM), a photographic exhibition curated by Fritz Saxl and Rudolf Wittkower in England in 1941, which asserted Britain's cultural connections with Europe. The network brings together artists, historians, media theorists, curators, journalists, photographers and activists to reactivate this unique archival resource and to make it accessible following the methodology of the digital humanities.BAM was organised by the Warburg Institute and leveraged a European history of art through new media, namely photographic reproductions of historical artworks. It expressed ideas of cultural continuities between Britain and Europe at a critical time of conflict. Consisting of 500 photographs, the exhibition was representative of the new art-historical approach imported from Germany via the Warburg Institute, namely an image-driven enquiry about cultural transmission. The exhibition was shown in London and in 20 other cities around Britain, taking its educatory ideas to as wide an audience as possible. Thus, foreign academic expertise converted into a highly successful enterprise with no compromise in its standards, due to the support of British institutions (CEMA) and key public figures, including the art historian, museum director and broadcaster, Kenneth Clark. Re-evaluation of BAM as a paradigm of scholarly engagement is critical in today's European political climate. The curators took action on the basis of their research in a time of crisis, widespread nationalism and populism. That BAM's curators were refugee scholars in Britain is all the more relevant today, opening an exploration of the migration of knowledge which will be investigated in two ways: as an object of historical study and as a barometer of how politics have impacted on the movement of scholars, particularly in the 20th century. What examination of this rich archive offers the network is the opportunity for concrete analysis of an historical example of scholars engaging with the crisis of their time, which opens up space to discuss and challenge narratives of national histories and questions of academic action and responsibility. Using the untapped BAM archive (photographs, glass slides, floor guides, correspondence) the network has four key objectives: 1. To address themes of academic responsibility and action, migration of knowledge and intellectual history, technologies of reproduction and dissemination, image-led practices and academic impact, and archives of conflict. 2. To reactivate and document a historical source using digital interfaces: website, social media, video-streams 3. To enable critical engagement with the future of academic action and responsibility in a conference, focusing on interactions between scholars and a general public, and so facilitate a two-way knowledge exchange that engages with the archive material.4. To present three public-facing events in London (WI), Munich (ZI) and Rome (BSR) in the form of partial displays (exhibitions), workshop, study day and a conference.The network will capitalise on the combined expertise and experience of PI, Co-I and Project Partner networks, which target different disciplines, interests and audiences. To address its objectives, it will network significant academics and professionals from the Arts and Humanities as well as a wider public through its public-facing activities and meetings. The mutual work enabled by the network and its activities during its lifetime will feed into a long-term objective: scoping funding towards a touring exhibition in the UK and Europe, and wider media engagement, involving further research applications.