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• 14 nov 2020

  Fossaz

  Conference, symposium - Language

  Narrative folklore in becoming: persistance and innovations

  In a comparative perspective on the very long distance, the conference invites specialists in the field of Alpine narrative, western, central and eastern, to discuss with their colleagues who work on the Pyrenees and the Himalayas, via the Corsica, the Apennines or the Balkans. The main aim is to draw up new reflections on the evolution of these narrative practices and to understand their changing, profoundly heterogeneous, but at the same time universal.

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• 03 fév 2020

  Paris

  Call for papers - Asia

  Artistic Activism in India (History, Practice, Paradigm and Circulation)

  “Artivism” encompasses artistic actions, which tackle social and political issues, reviving agitational practises defined in resistance to the planetary ideological hegemony they refer to as neoliberalism. This resurgent awareness of the political nature of artistic creation questions consensual discourses on the neutrality of art and aesthetics, often confined in their "autonomy" and impervious to the disorders of the world. Within artistic activism a dialectic between two entities, traditionally perceived as being of a different nature, is played out: on the one hand the field of art (too often defined as autonomous, with no other functionality than its own) and on the other hand in the field of politics and social activities on the other hand (thought out as a praxis of the exercise of the power in an organized society). The central question posed by artistic activism could be stated in this way: How can we evaluate the capacity of art (visual arts, performing arts, literature, theatre, dance, video art, cinema, etc.) to function as social and political protest?

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• 31 jan 2020

  Paris

  Call for papers - Early modern

  The night in Asian art: perceptions, imagination, representations - "Asie" journal

  Revue « Asie »

  Pour ce numéro thématique de la revue Asie, nous attendons des propositions de communications ayant trait au thème de la nuit dans les arts plastiques asiatiques de toutes époques. À la fois familière et mystérieuse, la nuit exerce sur l’être humain une fascination liées aux émotions qu’elle suscite, de la peur à l’exacerbation des sens. « Quand le monde des objets clairs et articulés se trouve aboli, notre être perceptif amputé de son monde dessine une spatialité sans chose. C’est ce qui arrive dans la nuit », écrit Merleau-Ponty. Dès qu’il est question de la nuit, la frontière entre perception et imaginaire devient ténue. La nuit peut apparaître alternativement comme un moment de libération et de lâcher-prise favorable à l’inspiration, ou comme un intervalle de vacuité, de méditation, voire comme une métaphore de la mort. La lune, si ambivalente, tantôt maléfique, tantôt bienveillante, suscite en Extrême-Orient une contemplation admirative et inspire les lettrés.

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