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• 18 mai 2017

  19 mai 2017

  Rabat

  Conference, symposium - Religion

  Thinking Africa with Bergson

  Outre le fait que l’œuvre de Bergson a exercé une profonde influence sur certains des penseurs d’Afrique et d’Asie, comme l’a rappelé Souleymane Bachir Diagne, dans son Bergson postcolonial, ce philosophe, délaissé des sciences sociales du politique, leur offre pourtant des concepts et des problématisations à bien des titres très utiles : en particulier, la durée, en ce qu’elle est distinguée du temps ; la fausse reconnaissance ou le souvenir du présent ; l’élan vital, l’évolution créatrice et l’énergie spirituelle ; les deux sources de la morale et de la religion. 

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• 15 mar 2017

  Havana

  Call for papers - History

  The politics and poetics of museology

  40th annual ICOFOM symposium

  It has become rather banal to speak of the museum as a place of power. Whether one refers to it as media, as medium, or as device, we must understand that this institution, emblematic of occidental civilization, has always aroused the interests of local political régimes, whatever they may be. The creation of the British Museum and the birth of the Louvre illustrate the many different ways the public has of seeing the links between knowledge and collections. Furthermore the advent of each new political régime (from democracy in America to the Marxist-Leninist system in the Soviet Union, passing by fascist Italy and national-socialist Germany) marks museums with its imprint, as well as its system of communication, preservation and research.

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