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• 16 oct 2015

  17 oct 2015

  Washington

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Shifting Terrain: Mapping a Transnational American Art History

  A Terra Symposium on American Art in a Global Context

  The increasing internationalization of the study of American art has altered the topography of the discipline in ways that are widely acknowledged but not yet clearly defined. This two-day event will map out the changes that are occurring in the field of American art as it becomes enmeshed in a global art history. Sessions will examine current trends of inquiry and suggest new directions for scholarship. 

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• 01 déc 2015

  Paris

  Call for papers - Modern

  Music criticism in the twentieth century in America and the english-speaking world

  Cette journée d’étude viendra clôturer un ensemble de rencontres initiées depuis 2013 sur divers aspects de la critique musicale au vingtième siècle, envisagée d’un point de vue théorique (théories et conceptions de la critique musicale), thématique (figures, genres et formes de la critique), ou par aires linguistiques et culturelles (Allemagne, Italie, monde hispanophone). Il s’agira d’examiner comment certaines des questions générales abordées au cours des précédentes journées d’études se posent aux États-Unis ainsi qu’au Royaume-Uni et éventuellement dans le reste du monde anglophone.

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• 01 déc 2015

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - America

  Charles C. Eldredge Prize 2016

  The Smithsonian American Art Museum is now accepting nominations for the 2016 Charles C. Eldredge Prize. 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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• 05 jui 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  La technologie entre l’Europe et les États-Unis aux XIXe et XXe siècles

  Rencontre et ignorance

  La technologie, entendue au sens étymologique de discours sur les arts et métiers, c’est-à-dire comme science des opérations, a suscité un vif intérêt au début du XIX^e siècle. Alors que l’intensification du travail marque tous les modes de production – artisanat, industrie rurale, manufactures – de nombreux acteurs des techniques (artisans, ingénieurs, savants, caméralistes, etc.) proposent une théorisation de l’action productive, formulant de façon plus ou moins aboutie leur compréhension du travail en termes opératoires et plaçant de grands espoirs dans une science humaine capable d’améliorer l’activité.

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• 30 avr 2015

  Abidjan

  Call for papers - Africa

  African popular music: the veritable voices of the people?

  Perhaps for reasons related to intellectual elitism or simply because of the lack of an effective means of analysis, African popular arts (Modern African music in particular) keep on being pushed to the margins of academic discourse on postcolonial cultural identities. To this day and more than not, in classroom discussions on African culture(s), a place of pride is ascribed to literature (at films at times) despite the high rate of illiteracy and difficulty distributing them, which makes these products utterly inaccessible to the masses. That African writers like Ngugi (Kenya) and Boubacar Boris Diop (Senegal) decide to take their leave from colonial languages on behalf on “penning” their stories in African languages is sometimes hailed as an exceptional way towards cultural affirmation and identity recalibration. In terms of their production and consumption, however, popular musical forms have an absolute impact on African populations. These forms are transfigurations of the people’s daily life experience in that they bring together and crystallize the identities of the musical forms in question more than any other artistic expression.

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