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The Centre offers a vibrant and stimulating research environment with an extensive list of seminars, performances, panel discussions and other events.
Forthcoming Events
Previous Events
SAVA Research Week V: Geotransformación / Panel on the Cuban Anthropocene
Panel discussion on the Cuban Anthropocene organized within the framework of the SAVA Research Week V on Geotransformación: Southerning the Socialist Anthropocene with Reinaldo Funes Monzote (University of Havana) and Sorcha Thomson (SAVA UCL), respondents Polly Savage (SOAS) and Jan Burek (SAVA UCL)
20 March 2025, 5pm-6:30pm
SAVA Research Week V: Geotransformación / Panel on Revolutionary Agrarianism
Panel discussion organized within the framework of the SAVA Research Week V on Geotransformación: Southerning the Socialist Anthropocene with Massinissa Selmani (artist, Tours / Tizi-Ouzou) and Ângela Ferreira (artist, Lisbon), responses from Jonathan Cane (University of Warwick) and Alex Petrusek (SAVA UCL)
19 March 2025, 6pm-7:30pm
SAVA Research Week V: Geotransformación / Panel on Arboreal Politics
Panel discussion organized within the framework of the SAVA Research Week V on Geotransformación: Southerning the Socialist Anthropocene with Oto Hudec (artist, Košice), Lucie Česálková (Charles University, Prague), and responses from Jakub Beneš (SSEES UCL) and Makar Tereshin (SAVA UCL)
19 March 2025, 4pm-5:30pm
SAVA Research Week / Greening Socialism: Women Eco-Activisms II
Screening of the film Melted into the Sun (2024) by SAVA Creative Fellow, Saodat Ismailova (Paris and Tashkent) followed by a conversation with the artist
28 November 2024, 6pm-7:30pm
SAVA Research Week / Greening Socialism: Women Eco-Activisms I
Panel on Greening Socialism with Doubravka Olšáková (Czech Academy of Sciences), Aigerim Kapar (artist, Almaty) and Alex Petrusek (SAVA UCL)
28 November 2024, 4pm–5:30pm
SAVA Research Week / Holistic Socialisms II: Holistic Cultures
A presentation by Ulaanbaatar based artist Nomin Zezegmaa titled “Aren’t We Looking at the Same Moon?” followed by a conversation with anthropologist Jenny Tang (University of Cambridge)
27 November 2024, 6pm-7:30pm
SAVA Conference: The Great Transformation of Nature
The SAVA Conference on the Great Transformation of Nature examines the multiscalar processes that shaped socialist paths through the Anthropocene as figured in visions of extractivism, developmentalism, terraforming and monoculturalization16 May 2024–17 May 2024, 10:00 am–7:00 pm
16 - 17 May 2024, 10am-7pm
SAVA: Infrastructural Internationalism
A SAVA panel discussion with Monika Motylińska (Leibniz Institute Berlin), Alessandro Iandolo (SSEES UCL), Dubravka Sekulić (Royal College of Art), Eszter Szakács (University of Amsterdam)
14 March 2024, 5pm-7pm
SAVA: From Energetic Colonialism to Nuclear Terrorism
Svitlana Matviyenko (Simon Fraser University) and Oleksiy Radynski (SAVA UCL) in conversation on the militarization of nuclear infrastructures
14 March 2024, 4pm-5pm
SAVA: Screening of Tekla Aslanishvili’s A State in A State
A screening of Tekla Aslanishvili’s A State in A State (2022) introduced by scriptwriter Evelina Gambino (University of Cambridge) in the framework of SAVA Research Week III on Infrastructures of Progress
13 March 2024, 6:30pm-8pm
SAVA: Petro-Socialism
A panel discussion with Leyla Sayfutdinova (University of Glasgow), Maja and Reuben Fowkes (SAVA UCL), Jan Burek (SAVA UCL), Rado Ištok (National Gallery Prague) in SAVA Research Week III on the Infrastructures of Progress
13 March 2024, 4pm-6:15pm
SAVA: Screening of Oleksiy Radynski’s Infinity According to Florian
A special screening of SAVA Creative Fellow Oleksiy Radynski’s film Infinity According to Florian (2022) with a Q&A with the filmmaker to launch the SAVA Research Week III on Infrastructures of Progress
12 March 2024, 6pm-8pm
SAVA: Ecosocialist Epistemologies
A panel discussion on Ecosocialist Epistemologies with Weronika Parfianowicz (Institute of Polish Culture in Warsaw), Alex Petrusek (SAVA Research Fellow) and Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu (philosopher, translator and culture theorist), as part of SAVA Research Week
18 October 2023, 5pm-7pm
SAVA: The Vital Breath from the Broken Earth - Sensing and Healing on China’s Fossil Fuel Frontier
A performative lecture by Beijing based curator and art historian Mia Yu as part of the programme of the SAVA Research Week, introduced by Maja and Reuben Fowkes (UCL Postsocialist Art Centre)
16 October 2023, 6pm-7:30pm
Merging the Unmergeable: Environmentalism in the Late Socialist Industrial Landscape
Maja and Reuben Fowkes presented 'Merging the Unmergeable: Environmentalism in the Late Socialist Industrial Landscape' at the Institute of Polish Culture in the University of Warsaw, as a part of seminar ‘Nature and Socialist States’.
13 June 2023
SAVA at the 49th Annual Association for Art History Conference
Maja and Reuben Fowkes presented ‘For the Rights of the Soil not to be Exhausted: Ecocentric Practices for Land Restoration’ as part of the ‘Matter Matters: The Aesthetics and Politics of Soil’ panel at the 49th Annual Association for Art History Conference
12 April 2023
Socialist Anthropocene: Artistic Perspectives on the Great Transformation of Nature
Co-Directors of the Postsocialist Art Centre (PACT) Maja and Reuben Fowkes to give a guest lecture on the Socialist Anthropocene at the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL), University of Applied Arts in Vienna
23 March 2023, 6pm
SAVA: Epistemologies of the Socialist Anthropocene
A panel discussion with Jonathan Oldfield (University of Birmingham), Eglė Rindzevičiūtė (Kingston University) and artists Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan (SAVA Creative Fellows UCL). Moderated by Maja and Reuben Fowkes (Postsocialist Art Centre
14 March 2023, 5pm-7pm
Jonas Staal: 94 Million Years of Collectivism
A guest lecture and screening of 94 Million Years of Collectivism by artist Jonas Staal for the first Research Week of the Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts (SAVA), with responses by John Sabapathy (UCL History / UCL Anthropocene) and Anna
13 March 2023, 6pm-7:30pm
Book Launch: Horizontal Art History and Beyond
A Postsocialist Art Centre (PACT) panel discussion on horizontality in global art history with Agata Jakubowska (Institute of Art History Warsaw), Magdalena Radomska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Jelena Stojković (Oxford Brookes
3 February 2023, 6pm-8pm
OCCUPY PPV #04 x Postsocialist Art Centre: Political Gardening
A panel discussion co-organised by the OCCUPY PPV: Politics and Aesthetics at UCL SSEES and UCL Postsocialist Art Centre at Institute of Advanced Studies
20 January 2023, 6pm-8pm
SAVA: System Change not Climate Change
IAS Researchers Maja and Reuben Fowkes will give a guest lecture on “System Change not Climate Change (Lessons of the Socialist Anthropocene)” for the public programme of the exhibition Decolonial Ecologies at Riga Art Space, Latvia.
10 January 2023, 3:30pm-5:30pm
SAVA Online Lecture on the Socialist Anthropocene at Yale
IAS Researchers Maja and Reuben Fowkes will give an online lecture on 'Sweet Ruins: Infrastructures of the Socialist Anthropocene' in the Yale University VISIONS OF ECOLOGY lecture series on Art and the Environment in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
8 December 2022, 5pm-6pm
SAVA: Art and Climate Change
Join us for an evening of discursive, sonic, visual and sensory interventions at the Showroom with authors Maja and Reuben Fowkes, featured artists Tuur van Balen, Sonia Levy and Himali Singh Soin, as well as Katarzyna Depta-Garapich from the Slade.
8 November 2022, 6:30pm-7:30pm
Confrontations Panel on East European Art in the UK
The Post Socialist Art Centre invites Lina Džuverović, curator and lecturer at Birkbeck College, Alicja Kaczmarek, founding director of Centrala Space and Polish Expats Association, and Vlad Morariu, lecturer at Middlesex University and founding
20 May 2022, 6pm-7:30pm
Confrontations: Lecture by Christine Macel on 'The Reception of East European Art in France'
The Postsocialist Art Centre (PACT) and Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art (CSCA) are delighted to welcome Christine Macel, chief curator at the Centre Pompidou, to give a guest lecture on “The Reception of Art from Former Eastern Europe in
19 May 2022, 6pm-7:30pm
VIRTUAL IAS Book Launch: Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe
The Postsocialist Art Centre presents the launch of Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius’s Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe with responses by Wendy Bracewell (SSEES UCL), Paweł Leszkowicz, (Adam Mickiewicz University) and Maja and Reuben Fowkes (IAS UCL
21 October 2021, 6pm-8pm
VIRTUAL: Potential Agrarianisms
A discussion streamed from the exhibition Potential Agrarianisms at Kunsthalle Bratislava, with artists Anetta Mona Chişa, Annalee Davis, Oto Hudec and Ferenc Grof in conversation with curators Maja and Reuben Fowkes (PACT, IAS).
11 October 2021, 2pm-3:30pm
VIRTUAL IAS Festival: Floral Collectivism: Postsocialist Eco-Epistemologies
A panel discussion with artist Alexandra Pirici and members of Woods - Community for Cultivation, Theory and Art, Edith Jeřábková and Tereza Porybná, with responses by Ashley Dawson (Professor of Postcolonial Studies CUNY Graduate Center) and
6 May 2021, 2:30pm-4pm
VIRTUAL EVENT: Conference Diplomacy: Points East in Postsocialist Art History
An online seminar with Henry Meyric Hughes, Tracy Mackenna, Andrew Nairne, Marjetica Potrč and Nedko Solakov to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Points East conference on East European art. Introduced and moderated by Maja and Reuben Fowkes.
10 December 2020, 6pm-7:30pm
IAS Waste: Biopolitics of the Plasticene
Panel discussion exploring artistic interventions in a plasticised world, with presentations by art historian Amanda Boetzkes (University of Guelph, Canada), author of Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste (MIT Press, 2019) and
24 January 2020, 6pm-8pm
IAS Book Launch: Another Artworld Was Possible - the Socialist Art System Revisited
This panel discussion brings together contributors to the special issue of Third Text on Actually Existing Artworlds of Socialism and guest respondents to debate the legacy of the socialist system for contemporary art and politics.
13 June 2019, 6pm-8pm
IAS Turbulence: Ilona Németh on the Turbulent Geohistories of Sugar
A presentation by artist Ilona Németh of Eastern Sugar, her acclaimed work on the post-communist decline of the Slovak sugar beet industry, with interventions by spatial practitioners Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual & Alon Schwabe) and
13 March 2019, 6pm-8pm
PACT IAS Launch: East European Art Confrontations
Panel discussion to launch Confrontations: Sessions in East European Art History at the Post-socialist Art Centre (PACT), with Maja and Reuben Fowkes plus guests.
12 November 2018, 6pm-8pm