Art historian Sanja Horvatinčić, a research associate at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb, Croatia, and former curatorial advisor at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, will speak about the significance of design and art in decolonization and postcolonial nation-building. The lecture will highlight the social purpose of architecture and art and their interdisciplinary intersections. Part of the Department of Architecture’s Public Programs series and supported through the David Lingle Faculty Fellowship in Architecture.

Horvatinčić’s research focuses on the production of monuments and remembrance culture in socialist Yugoslavia, as well as on heritage and memory politics in the post-socialist context. She has participated in research projects dealing with the history of Yugoslav cultural politics and the Non-Aligned Movement, critical heritage studies, and digital art history. She is a part of the “Models and Practices of Global and Cultural Exchange and the Non-Aligned Countries Movement, Research on Spatio-temporal Cultural Dynamics” project (2020-2024), in which she deals with the relationship between the legacy of the Yugoslav anti-fascist struggle and anti-colonial movements in the countries of the Global South through cultural exchange within the Non-Aligned Movement. In 2023, she co-edited the book Shaping Revolutionary Memory: The Production of Monuments in Socialist Yugoslavia (Archive Books Berlin, Igor Zabel Association Ljubljana).