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• 26 aoû 2019

  Genoa

  Call for papers - Modern

  The postmodern condition. Forty years on

  Après 40 ans de la publication de La Condition postmoderne de Jean-François Lyotard, le colloque entend relancer la réflexion sur un concept qui, depuis près de trois décennies, a guidé l’interprétation de la structure politico-économique de la société occidentale, de ses dynamiques sociales et de sa production artistique et culturelle. Le colloque, ouvert à tous les domaines disciplinaires, a donc l’intention de partir du débat le plus récent afin d’interroger la dynamique et la physionomie de cette fin (ou de ce désir de « faire finir »), ses motivations (crise ? épuisement ?) et ses conséquences, ainsi que ses implications paradoxales : vu que le postmoderne est resté, grâce aux discours sur sa fin, au centre du débat sur le contemporain. 

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• 30 jui 2019

  Monopoli

  Summer School - Language

  Pathos. Forms and fortunes of literary emotions

  The goal of this summer school is to explore the role of emotions in literature, namely with respect to the excess of pathos in different forms and times. Pathos has been a fundamental aspect of literature in every epoch. Great poetry has always foregrounded its ability to represent feelings, evoke intense and vivid moods, and elicit readers’ emotions and empathy. On the other hand, the novel – the genre dominating literary modernity – has been o!en accused of indulging in sentimental excess, giving too much space to melodramatic expression. Indeed, in Western cultures, there is a widespread suspicion towards pathos, which has o!en been identified as a shortcoming of literature. Great books – according to a common implicit assumption – can prompt reflection and laughter, but not tears: pathos only concerns lowbrow production. The summer school is an opportunity to engage in a reflection on issues related to pathos in literature in the last few centuries. Different perspectives will be taken into account: specific literary works, reader response theory, cognitive narratology, transmedia adaptation, and publishing history.

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• 30 sep 2019

  Fiesole

  Call for papers - Europe

  New shape of sharing: networks, expertise, information

  A forum on current issues in European librarianship

  The New Shape of Sharing: Networks, Expertise, Information continues conversations begun at the New Directions Symposium held in Frankfurt in 2017. This multi-day forum of panel presentations, a poster session, and interactive breakout sessions on key issues facing Western European collections and public services will encourage both structured and unstructured debate. We will advance our understanding of the challenges and initiate action in three areas: design new models for collaborative collection development and services; explore a growing range of content and format types and what they mean for libraries and researchers, and highlight the evolving role of libraries and librarians in the research process.

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• 27 nov 2018	13 déc 2018	14 déc 2018
  18 déc 2018	14 fév 2019	...

  Milan

  Seminar - Representation

  Thresholds III – “Avatar”

  Seminar of philosophy of image

  Recent evolutions in the contemporary iconoscape have enabled the production of pictures that elicit in the perceiver a strong feeling of “being there”, namely of being incorporated into new and autonomous environments. Subjects relating to such environments are no longer visual observers in front of images isolated from the real world by a framing device; they are experiencers living in quasi-worlds that offer multisensory stimuli and allow interactive sensorimotor affordances. In relation to such quasi-worlds, a key role is played by the avatar, a digital proxy through which subjects interact with synthetic objects or other avatars. The notion and the uses of the avatar are becoming crucial in a variety of disciplines, ranging from philosophy to visual culture studies, anthropology, sociology, cognitive psychology, and neurosciences. Also, they are raising relevant issues in the fields of ethics and politics.

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• 15 jan 2019

  Messina

  Call for papers - Language

  Linguistic ideologies in the written press - the example of Romance languages

  L'exemple des langues romanes

  Ce colloque fait suite aux trois rencontres scientifiques ILPE qui ont eu lieu à Augsbourg (Allemagne, 2013), à Montréal (Canada, 2015) et à Alicante (Espagne, 2017). Ces rencontres se présentent dorénavant comme un événement incontournable pour l’étude des idéologies linguistiques dans le domaine des langues romanes. Comme c’était le cas des éditions précédentes, la rencontre organisée à Messine aura pour objectif de réunir des chercheurs intéressés par le double rôle de la presse écrite – tant imprimée que numérique – comme lieu de production et de diffusion d’idéologies linguistiques et comme moyen de standardisation de la langue, et ce, dans les différentes communautés de langue romane. Pour cette quatrième édition, la perspective adoptée sera élargie aux médias audiovisuels.

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