Saturday 4th - Sunday 5th September 2004
Oxford Brookes University, UK

Convened by Dr. Nancy Jachec
and Dr. Reuben Fowkes

Marked by the Twentieth Party Congress, which sanctioned the dismantling of the cult of Stalin and the relaxation of ideological constraints on art and culture in the Eastern Bloc, the entanglement of former colonial powers Britain and France over Suez, the escalation of armed conflict in the French colony of Algeria, and the defeat of the Hungarian Uprising after Soviet military intervention, 1956 was a complex moment in the Cold War, and one which had lasting implications for politically engaged artists.
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