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• 28 nov 2014

  29 nov 2014

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - America

  Rires de jazz

  Esthétique(s) jazz : la scène et les images

  À l’origine du jazz, il y a les spectacles musicaux et satiriques des esclaves sur les plantations, ces spectacles que les Blancs qualifiaient d’éthiopiens et qui inspirèrent les Minstrels Shows et la tradition du Blackface. Dans cette pratique musicale née au temps de l’esclavage, il y a une dimension ludique, un rire salvateur, subversif et libérateur, un fracas de rires pour saper l’ordre esclavagiste, au nez et à la barbe du maître. C’est ce rire ontologique qui travaille en profondeur l’esthétique jazz que nous souhaitons interroger, du geste comique et ludique du jazzman au corps musical de l’acteur comique. En quoi ces corps-jazz vibrant en rythme, au risque de la danse, sont-ils capables de produire une mécanique humoristique ou burlesque ? Et dans quelle mesure ces corps-jazz qui provoquent les rires jouent-ils à déconstruire les normes ?

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• 01 déc 2014

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - America

  The Charles C. Eldredge Book Prize in American Art

  The Smithsonian American Art Museum invites nominations for the 2015 Charles C. Eldredge Prize, an annual award for outstanding scholarship in American art history. Single-author books devoted to any aspect of the visual arts of the United States and published in the three previous calendar years are eligible. 

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• 01 déc 2014

  Washington

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation

  Terra Foundation Fellowships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

  The Terra Foundation Fellowships in American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum seek to foster a cross-cultural dialogue about the history of art of the United States up to 1980. They support work by scholars from abroad who are researching American art or by U.S. scholars who are investigating international contexts for American art. Fellowships are residential and support full-time independent and dissertation research.

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• 15 déc 2014

  Nantes

  Call for papers - Modern

  Representations of Power and Power of the Image in British and American Contemporary Photography

  Représentations du pouvoir et pouvoir de l’image dans la photographie contemporaine américaine et britannique

  From the power of images to images of power, this workshop will explore the representations of power and the power of representation in contemporary American and British photography. What is photography capable of doing? Whether in the form of a public person, the environment of power (emblematic places and explicit or underlying forms) or its symbolism, what is photography capable of revealing about power itself? Political, institutional, economic or social power all depend upon a system of relations or tensions between groups or individuals (accepted, rejected, questioned, expressed visually or internalized) participating in the construction of the identity, myths or memories of the American or British nations. In what manner does photography enhance or contribute to this construction or deconstruction of the notion of identity and nation?

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• 12 mar 2014

  Sherbrooke

  Study days - History

  Cultural spaces and issues in Louisiana, from its foundation to the present day

  Depuis le XVIII^e siècle, la Louisiane a occupé et investi des espaces variés ; espaces géographiques, certes, mais également symboliques. La diversité et la complexité des espaces et des expériences en Louisiane ont soulevé et soulèvent encore aujourd’hui bien des enjeux en histoire culturelle. Cette journée d’étude vise à présenter une mise au point des avancées historiographiques. L’événement viendra également inaugurer le volet recherche du Centre interordre d’études louisianaises de l’université de Sherbrooke et du Cégep de Sherbrooke.

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• 08 jan 2014

  Call for papers - Representation

  The American and British Nations in Contemporary Landscape Photography

  This second workshop in a series devoted to photography and national identity will question the way in which landscape as represented through the specificities of the photographic medium may participate in the construction of contemporary American and British national identities.

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• 15 jan 2014

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - America

  Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize 2014

  The Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize recognizes excellent scholarship by a non-U.S. scholar in the field of historical American art. Manuscripts should advance the understanding of American art, demonstrating new findings and original perspectives. The prize-winning essay will be translated and published in American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s scholarly journal.

   

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