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• 15 fév 2016

  Milan

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  The Predatory Museum

  39th annual International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM) symposium

  Have visitors ever wondered how museums acquire the wonderful things they present to the enquiring public? It is certain that some do, but how many would see the museum as a predator?  Would they ever recognize the museum activity of acquiring the valued collections that are put on display as the result of a predatory undertaking? It is true that museums are discerning but eager recipients of gifts offered by individuals who cross their threshold and who are willing to donate or bequeath their treasured possessions to their local museum. These ongoing acts of charity aside, museums have other avenues of collection-building which they explore and have done so since their inception.

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• 28 oct 2010

  Milan

  Study days - Thought

  Ce nombre infini des passions

  Montaigne and the diversity of affections

  «Un suffisant lecteur» qui voudrait se limiter à feuilleter les premiers chapitres des Essais de Montaigne ne manquera pas d’apercevoir l’ampleur du vocabulaire de l’affect : vengeance, colère, compassion, tristesse, amour, plaisir, joie, honte, crainte, désir, espérance, gloire, haine, désespoir. Cette richesse sémantique annonce la richesse conceptuelle du champ passionnel des Essais. Notre journée d’études s’attachera à interroger cette richesse et à déterminer la place de l’affectivité dans la réflexion montaigniste, pour cerner à quel point elle ouvre, à la fin de la Renaissance, une perspective anthropologique qui sera celle de la pensée moderne, pour laquelle les passions deviendront de composantes essentielles pour toute étude de la nature humaine.

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