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• 08 avr 2019

  09 avr 2019

  10 avr 2019

  Santiago de Compostela

  Conference, symposium - Geography

  The Epoch of Space. State and new perspectives

  The next 8th, 9th and 10th of April it will take place at the University of Santiago de Compostela the international conference "The Epoch of Space. State and New Perspectives", where researchers from around the world will meet to discuss the spatial turn of humanities. This interdisciplinary event will bring together geographers, philologists, historians, philosophers, and other interested disciplines to review the current state of spatial humanities, share different approaches, research methods and discuss their future.

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• 07 jan 2019

  Pau

  Call for papers - America

  Philosophy in Ibero-America

  Líneas issue 12

  Le numéro 12 de Líneas, « Philosophie en Ibéro-Amérique », s’attachera à la spécificité d’une philosophie développée en Ibéro-Amérique. Existe-t-il une philosophie ibéro-américaine ? Quels en seraient les principaux porte-paroles ? Serait-elle exclusivement centrée sur une histoire culturelle et des idées propre à l’Amérique latine ? Quel accueil a-t-elle reçu et reçoit-elle encore en Amérique et en dehors du territoire américain ?

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• 20 avr 2018

  Call for papers - Thought

  What remains of postmodernity?

  Since the 70s, the word postmodernity has articulated a tendency, a state of mind, and a condition that resists conceptualization or complete definition. Although the intellectual community has agreed to situate J. F. Lyotard and his key work, The Postmodern condition (1979), as the origin of the debate on this phenomenon, the truth is that the literary theorist Ihab Hassan had already used the word systematically in 1971. Since that date, the notion has spread across the fields of Literature, Architecture, Visual Arts, and the Social Sciences. These are two of the problems that one faces when approaching the surface of the postmodern phenomenon: its lack of definition and its ambiguous periodization.

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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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