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  • Fort-de-France

    Call for papers - Representation

    Statues, memories and representations during the decolonial era

    Nakan journal, no.1. A cultural studies journal

    Nakan aims to impulse innovation in the epistemological field of cultural margins. To this effect, the journal’s first issue will focus on the following theme: “Statuary, Memories, and Representations in the Decolonial Era”. The objective is to elucidate the recent events that saw the degradation of statues representing historical figures linked to slavery or colonialism in multiple parts of the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and the United States. This topical issue fits in a context-based reflection on margins spurred by such social movements as Black Lives Matter, among others. What could be the core motivations leading to such actions? The journal invites scholars to a scientific investigation on statuaries and colonial discourse, heritage, memory, myth, and coterminous questions.

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  • Mexico City

    Study days - Ethnology, anthropology

    Ex-voto: international perspectives

    Des experts internationaux se réunissent pour commenter la particularité de l'objet votif. L'ex-voto peut être défini comme un remerciement que les croyants font à une divinité, mais les pratiques dévotionnelles révèlent une complexité dans l'usage du votif. Des chercheurs travaillant en France, au Japon, au Moyen Orient et au Mexique proposent d'interroger et d'expliquer cette matérialité qu'impose l'ex-voto. Durant ce symposium, seront analysés l'amplitude votive, les modalités de l'écriture du voeu, les créations actuelles qui perpétuent et subvertissent la tradition iconographique et thématique, ainsi que les diverses perspectives pour la conservation et la valorisation de l'ex-voto. 

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  • Bayonne | Donostia

    Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

    The arts of the Basque diaspora (19th-21st centuries)

    Ce colloque entend enrichir la réflexion sur la diaspora basque, sur l’art contemporain et sur les peuples minoritaires en exil, en s’intéressant aussi bien aux arts plastiques traditionnels tels que la peinture, la sculpture et l’architecture, mais aussi aux arts visuels modernes, comme la photographie et le cinéma, et ce, depuis la fin du XVIIIe siècle jusqu’à nos jours.

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  • 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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  • Paris

    Conference, symposium - History

    The Politics of Carnival

    Transnational, Transhistorical Perspectives

    This international conference on carnival will bring together historians, anthropologists, and sociologists to explore the links between carnival and politics as showcased by carnivals in Europe, North America, the Caribbean and Latin America. The purpose of the meeting will be twofold: (1) discuss the evolution of "carnival studies" since the publication of Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World fifty years ago; (2) use case studies covering a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods (from the Renaissance to the 21st century) to produce a coherent synthesis of the relationship between carnival and politics.

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  • Madrid

    Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

    Splendor. Sumptuary Arts in the Hispanic Middle Ages

    Le département d’histoire de l’art I (médiéval) de l’université Complutense à Madrid organise la septième édition de son séminaire international sur l'art du Moyen Âge. Ces septièmes journées mettront l’accent sur les arts somptuaires du Moyen Âge hispanique en considérant plusieurs perspectives : le rôle des productions somptuaires dans la culture médiévale et leur contribution à l’imaginaire symbolique ; l’usage des objets dans le rituel et dans l’expression du pouvoir ; la valeur des matériaux et de la diversité technique dans la création artistique ; la circulation des œuvres et le phénomène du collectionnisme ; la contribution de muséologie à la mise en valeur des objets dans des nouveaux cadres d’exposition et à la création de nouveaux discours.

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